NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver 596.36 (WHQL)

NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver 596.36 (WHQL)
Released April 28, 2026

Game Ready Driver Release Notes (PDF): us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/596.36/59...10-release-notes.pdf
Control Panel User's Guide (PDF): us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/596.36/59...uick-start-guide.pdf

Game Ready
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4.5 technology including Conan Exiles Enhanced.

Note: The driver support for the Geforce 10 series, Geforce 900 series, Geforce 700 series is discontinued. Last supported driver for this series is v581.80

Gaming Technology:

• Adds support for the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU (12GB)

Fixed Issues in Version 59636 WHQL
Fixed Gaming Bugs:

• God of War: Ragnarok: Certain textures may intermittently flash white during gameplay.
• Assassins Creed Shadows: Flickering on character model clothing
• The Crew Motorfest: Grass and vegetation flickering

Fixed General Bugs

• Blocky artifacts when playing back H.264 content with DXVA 2.0
• Blender 5.0.1 EEVEE: Non-shader nodes connected to the material output rendered as black (zero value)

Known Issues in Version 596.36 WHQL

• N/A

Download:
Windows 10/11 Desktop: us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/596.36/59...ational-dch-whql.exe
Windows 10/11 Notebook: us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/596.36/59...ational-dch-whql.exe

Cheers
Tom