NVIDIA today released the GeForce 497.09 Game Ready drivers. These introduce launch-day optimization for "Icarus," including support for NVIDIA DLSS, and RTX ray-traced global illumination (RTX-GI). The drivers also add optimization for "Chorus," including DLSS support; and "Halo Infinite." Six new displays receive NVIDIA G-SYNC support. Among the fixes released with these drivers are TDR or system crashes with "DOOM Eternal" and RDR2, a display corruption with ye olde "DOOM 3 BFG Edition," extreme gamma/contrast issues with YouTube on hardware-accelerated web-browsers; NVIDIA Image Scaling resolutions not correctly appearing in-game after a driver update; and incompatibilities between Adaptive Sync and G-SYNC. A curious addition with these drivers is support for the GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB graphics card. We've been hearing reports of NVIDIA resurrecting the RTX 2060 "Turing" with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory to target the 1080p gaming crowd; and these drivers confirm it. The 12 GB SKU could be achieved by pairing the "TU106" GPU with 12 GB of memory across its 192-bit wide memory interface.

Game Ready

• Icarus
• Halo Infinite
• Chorus

Hardware

• Added support for the GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

G-Sync Monitor Support

• ASUS XG27UQR
• Dell G2722HS
• Dell G3223D
• Dell G2422HS
• LG 32PG750
• MSI G273

Fixed Issues

• [Red Dead Redemption 2/Doom Eternal]: The game crashes with TDR or the system crashes while running the game. [200766423]
• [Doom 3 BFG Edition]: The games shows corruption upon launch. [3407653]
• [YouTube]: The YouTube web site randomly displays extreme contrast/gamma while idle or during video playback. [3420164]
• [NVIDIA Image Scaling]: After performing a clean install or over install over version 496.49, NVIDIA Image Scaling resolutions do not appear in the game. [3434708]
• Games do not launch correctly on GeForce GTX 750 Ti when NVIDIA Image Scaling is enabled. [3442778]
• [Notebook]: Black screen may be observed on some Optimus notebooks with 1440p/165hz panels when in discrete GPU mode. [3426730]
• [Notebook]: eDP panel cannot be lit when booting to the desktop after switching to discrete mode. [3423400]
• Using Adaptive Vertical Sync while G-SYNC is enabled may result in random black screen. [3437003]