NVIDIA GeForce 526.86 WHQL Game Ready Drivers Released

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NVIDIA today released the GeForce 526.86 WHQL drivers. These provide a more stable gaming experience with “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II” than the previous Game Ready drivers did, solving several image corruption issues and bugs with DLSS and Reflex. The drivers also fix random crashes with “Call of Duty: Vanguard,” and a BSOD with VTube Studio. The GPU getting stuck in the P0 power-state after exiting certain games, has been fixed. A drop in 8K60 video decode performance in RTX 4090 has been fixed. Rainbow-like artifacts in “Forza Horizon 5” in some PC configurations after extended gameplay have been fixed. Grab the drivers from the link below.

DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 526.86 WHQL

Game Ready
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. Specifically, this new Game Ready Driver offers improved stability, solves image corruption issues, and supports NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution and NVIDIA Reflex.

Fixed Issues in Version 526.86 WHQL

  • [Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II] Flashing corruption can be seen randomly while playing the game.
  • [Call of Duty: Vanguard] Game may randomly crash after extended gameplay
  • VTube Studio crashes to black screen after driver update
  • GPU may get stuck in P0 state after exiting certain games
  • [Anvil Engine Games] Environment flickering
  • Drop in 8K60 AV1 decoding performance on RTX 4090
  • [Forza Horizon 5] Some PC configurations may see rainbow-like artifacts in game after extended gameplay

Open Issues in Version 526.86 WHQL

  • Toggling HDR on and off in-game causes game stability issues when non-native resolution is used. [3624030]
  • [DirectX 12] Shadowplay recordings may appear over exposed when Use HDR is enabled from the Windows display settings. [200742937]
  • Monitor may briefly flicker on waking from display sleep if DSR/DLDSR is enabled. [3592260]
  • Maxon – Cinema4D + Redshift3D vidmemory allocations cause TDR or Driver Crash [3659104]
  • RedCine-X Pro potential crash while working with effects during video playback [3809401]
  • Desktop Window Manager (dwm.exe) service may report higher GPU usage on some RTX 30-series configurations [3830387]. Workaround: disable Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling from the Windows Settings
  • [Daz Studio] Application crashes after updating to latest driver when trying to run simulation [3838022]