NVIDIA Driver 581.42 Arrives with Battlefield 6 Optimizations and a Slew of Fixes, But Some Issues Persist
Arkadiy Andrienko
NVIDIA has rolled out its latest GeForce Game Ready driver (version 581.42 WHQL), focused on optimizing for new games and addressing a long list of previous bugs.This update prepares your GPU for two highly anticipated titles: Battlefield 6 and the cooperative action game FBC: Firebreak. For the latter, the driver also enables support for the new DLSS 4 technology.
A significant part of this release is dedicated to bug fixes that have been troubling users for months, including:
- Fixed an issue that caused Battlefield 2042 to randomly crash to the desktop.
- Resolved flickering lighting in Forza Horizon 4 for owners of GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards.
- Addressed stability issues in Planet Coaster 2 that occurred after the previous driver update.
- Fixed an incompatibility that caused a performance drop when the Smooth Motion feature and a frame rate limiter were enabled simultaneously.
- For indie games built on the GODOT engine, the patch resolves stuttering that was introduced recently.
The driver also tackles issues in creative applications, particularly the Adobe suite. After installing version 581.42, Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro should no longer crash with an error when the global Smooth Motion option is enabled. A problem causing Premiere Pro to temporarily hang during hardware-accelerated video exports has also been resolved. Additionally, a bug that caused the video noise suppression feature to make the image's chroma monochrome has been fixed.
Despite this extensive list of fixes, some known issues remain. These include text distortion in Counter-Strike 2 when using non-native resolutions and intermittent light flickering in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. Notably, these particular issues have now survived through the last five consecutive driver updates. You can download the GeForce Game Ready 581.42 WHQL driver directly from NVIDIA's website or via the NVIDIA App, which will automatically prompt you to update.
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