Geforce Hotfix driver 516.79: e.g. for Apex Legends and Red Dead Redemption 2

At the end of June, the most recent game-ready driver WHQL 516.59 was released, which provided support for several games and for Nvidia’s latest graphics card, the Geforce GTX 1630. Optimized Geforce Experience settings for other titles were also included. Based on this, the next Geforce hotfix driver 516.79 follows. This should take care of problems that have spread in six games. The sites addressed by the Geforce hotfix driver look like this:

• Apex Legends: Improves gameplay stability.
• Overwatch: The game may freeze when starting a match.
• Dungeons 3: The game crashes on launch.
• Red Dead Redemption 2: The improvement in performance is less when using DLSS compared to older drivers.
• Destiny 2: The game may randomly freeze after game launch or during gameplay.
• Halo Infinite: Increased stability during gameplay.

If you want to download Geforce hotfix driver 516.79 for Windows 10 x64 or Windows 11 x64, you will via this link forwarded there.

Game-ready driver for F1 22 with doubled performance

The Game Ready driver 516.59, which as mentioned is the basis for the current hotfix driver, provided support for F1 22, the official game for the current Formula 1 season, which comes up with several ray tracing effects and DLSS. The latter doubles the performance of F1 22 according to Nvidia.

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Gamers using a Geforce RTX 3060 Ti or higher should be able to achieve frame rates of more than 60 fps at 4K resolution and maximum settings with any ray tracing effect activated. Raytracing effects mentioned include: opaque reflections, transparent reflections, ambient occlusion, and shadows. If you have not yet read the PCGH technology test for F1 22, but are now thinking about doing so, you can do so at this link.

Source: Nvidia