NVIDIA today released the latest version of its GeForce Game Ready drivers. Version 560.81 WHQL comes with optimization for "Hunt: Showdown 1896." The drivers also add optimal settings for games such as "Chained Together," "Dungeonborne," "Once Human," and "Stormgate." A game bug with "Farming Simulator 22" that caused the game to crash during the loading screen with certain RTX 30-series and RTX 40-series GPUs on the older 560.70 series drivers, has been fixed. Also fixed is a bug that causes games to stutter if the overlay GPU metrics are stuck at 0%; the full range of available display refresh-rates not being exposed on some monitors; and NVIDIA container service exhibiting unusually high CPU utilization.

It is also worth noting that owners of still-supported Nvidia graphics cards and some very old processors should stay away from Nvidia's recent updates. The company recently stopped supporting chips without certain instructions, so installing R555+ drivers on systems, say, with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and the RTX 750 Ti, will result in the entire system crashing to the blue screen of death.