**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

[Neil79]

AFAIK the profiles are in the driver and the driver itself can get "over the air" profile updates from Nvidia.

Cheers

 

[Locky]

AFAIK the profiles are in the driver and the driver itself can get "over the air" profile updates from Nvidia.

profiles at the driver level and not OTA.

looking at the massive reddit post, I might be wrong..

 

[Neil79]

So far so good on the new drivers, performing about the same as the 581.89's I had before. ( unlike the latest ones I've tested prior )

Must be the new BF6 profile! Even had a very decent game.

 

[Dicehunter]

Performance seems really smooth so far.

 

[Neil79]

Performance seems really smooth so far.

Yep, something that was lacking in many of the recent drivers

 

[heatonpkmassive]

Yep, something that was lacking in many of the recent drivers

Can we get excited about these ones Neil? I'm on the edge of my cliff here thinking Nvidia's AI has finally hit the mark.

 

[Neil79]

Can we get excited about these ones Neil? I'm on the edge of my cliff here thinking Nvidia's AI has finally hit the mark.

Not yet! A few rounds of Battlefield 6 does not make a great driver

Ask me in a week or so, if it passes my anger and frustration at Nvidia's **** ups without any posts on OCUK, they are good

Don't tell @TNA just yet!

Still need to see if @mrk converts to these as well

 

[Neil79]

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Battlefield 6
Setting ID_0x10308298 = 0x00000000 (removed)

0x10308298 Frame Generation Mode - Forced (Default, Fixed, Dynamic)

 

[mrk]

N/A for open issues, does that mean the audio latency thing is finally sorted?????????



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[Kelt]

What about the power useage not showing intermittently in Afterburner...that fixed yet?

 

[scubes]

Im using my son 4070 super with the latest driver and my power draw has stayed 4070 super been rock solid had to rma my 5090..

 

[mrk]

Installed and running all fine.

 

[Neil79]

Installed and running all fine.

Seems Nvidia are on the right track finally!

Wonder if their game profiles was screwing things up?

 

[gpuerrilla]

Let's not get carried away just yet.. its only been 1 day!

 

[opethdisciple]

Wait for the hotfix.

 

[mrk]

I am gonna pre-vouch for these ones

 

[heatonpkmassive]

I am gonna pre-vouch for these ones

Bold move!

 

[Neil79]

Vulkan 1.4 General Release Driver Downloads

Vulkan 1.4, including support for the Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions, is available for Windows and Linux in our general release drivers. These drivers are best suited for non-developers that need the latest features with the highest quality. General release drivers can be found here:

Download at

Vulkan Driver Support

Get the latest Vulkan 1.4 general release drivers and developer beta drivers.

developer.nvidia.com

Vulkan Developer Beta Driver Release Updates

May 1st, 2026 - Windows 596.46, Linux 595.44.06


New:
VK_KHR_maintenance11
Fixes:
Fixes and performance improvements for VK_EXT_descriptor_heap
Performance improvement for some shader operations on BDA data
Allow external buffers and images to be bound to host-visible device-local memory
Fix compute shader timestamps to no longer implicitly block subsequent dispatches from starting
Fix invalid VkResult values returned from vkEndCommandBuffer with invalid Vulkan video data or API usage

 

[Neil79]

Still no issues with the latest drivers...

New record?

 

[Kelt]

Still no issues with the latest drivers...

New record?

Given it a few days, and one of the AI bots has finally fixed the "not showing power useage in Afterburner" bug.

Woo ******* hoo