NVIDIA GeForce 516.40 WHQL driver download & Discussion

Release 515 Driver for Windows
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best day-0 gaming experience for Fall Guy: Free for All. In addition, this new Game Ready Driver offers support for the latest releases and updates including the addition of NVIDIA Reflex in ICARUS and the introduction of ray tracing to Jurassic World Evolution 2, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, and Resident Evil 7.

What’s New in Release 515
Added support for Windows 11 22H2.
Added support for CUDA 11.7.

Fixed Issues in Version
- [Enscape] Shadows may not be rendered correctly.
- [Advanced Optimus] Brightness settings are not getting applied correctly on certain Lenovo notebooks.
- Club 3D CAC-1085 dongle limited to maximum resolution of 4K at 60Hz.

Open Issues in Version
- Toggling HDR on and off in-game causes game stability issues when non-native resolution is used.
- [GeForce RTX 3090 Ti] HP Reverb G2/Oculus Rift S/Pimax 8Kx is not detected.
- Videos played back in Microsoft Edge may appear green if NVIDIA Image Scaling is enabled upon resuming from hibernate or booting with fastboot.
- [DirectX 12] Shadowplay recordings may appear over exposed when Use HDR is enabled from the Windows display settings.
- [Assassin's Creed Origins] Game displays flicker when character is under water near a boat.
- Monitor may briefly flicker on waking from display sleep if DSR/DLDSR is enabled.

In the list of new issues opened by Nvidia.

• [Jurassic World Evolution 2] Artifacts may appear in game [3682201]
• Minecraft displays artifacts when using Optifine shaders [3682262]
• Artifacts in Second Life/Firestorm viewer when Advanced Lightning Model is enabled [3682537]
• [Vulkan] Path of Exile displays flashing black textures [3682952]
• [Neverwinter Nights] Light sources not rendering correctly [3682841]
• [Prepar3D] Light sources display flashing black boxes [3684206]

Release Notes https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/516.40/516.40-win11-win10-release-notes.pdf

Download https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/geforce-516-40-whql-driver-download.html

 

Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for all major new releases. Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix is included for the best gameplay on day-1.

Game Ready for Fall Guys: Free for All

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best day-0 gaming experience for Fall Guy: Free for All. In addition, this new Game Ready Driver offers support for the latest releases and updates including the addition of NVIDIA Reflex in ICARUS and the introduction of ray tracing to Jurassic World Evolution 2, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, and Resident Evil 7.

 

There is a typo in the title 516.940 should be 516.40

 

Additional information from release notes (not currently in original post)

Game Ready

• Fall Guys: Free for All
• ICARUS (NVIDIA Reflex)
• Jurassic Wold Evoluion 2 (RTX)
• Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, and Resident Evil 7 (RTX)

Fixed

• [Enscape] Shadows may not be rendered correctly. [3530584]
• [Advanced Optimus] Brightness settings are not getting applied correctly on certain Lenovo notebooks. [3497181]
• Club 3D CAC-1085 dongle limited to maximum resolution of 4K at 60 Hz. [3542678]

Known Issues

• Toggling HDR on and off in-game causes game stability issues when non-native resolution is used. [3624030]
• [GeForce RTX 3090 Ti] HP Reverb G2/Oculus Rift S/Pimax 8Kx is not detected. [3623293][3632289][3626116]
• Videos played back in Microsoft Edge may appear green if NVIDIA Image Scaling is enabled upon resuming from hibernate or booting with fastboot. [3624218]
• [DirectX 12] Shadowplay recordings may appear over exposed when Use HDR is enabled from the Windows display settings. [200742937]
• [Assassin's Creed Origins] Game displays flicker when character is under water near a boat. [3642655]
• Monitor may briefly flicker on waking from display sleep if DSR/DLDSR is enabled. [3592260]

Official release notes at https://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windows/516.40/516.40-win11-win10-release-notes.pdf

 

New Games Supported By GeForce Experience’s Optimal Settings

GeForce Experience’s one-click optimal settings enable you to instantly configure game options for your system’s hardware, giving you smooth, optimized gameplay. Over 1000 titles are supported, and since our last driver release we’ve added support for 9 more:

• Dolmen
• Evil Dead: The Game
• Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach
• My Time At Sandrock
• Paradise Killer
• Sniper Elite 5
• V Rising
• Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong
• Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters

 

The Cycle Frontier is Crashing almost on startup, when im trying to deply on the map!

Known game bug ?

The last update of the game must be very bad.

Fixed after Veryfing all the files from steam!

Running all good now.

 

I'm glad they support Win11 22H2

 

R516_10-14 - these
R516_10-11 - 516.31 for Tesla
R516_10-9 - 516.25 for Quadro

 

Everything is fine

Driver is resetting cache -> needs rebuilding.

UPD.1
BF2042 working great with this one.

Note:
For users like me with Upgrade path (preseve settings) in Manage 3D settings please use Restore Defaults feature and set again.
It really helps a lot, and performs better.

 

I used that Quadro moded driver a little, it was good at first few days, but then the game started crashing - desitny2 with brocolli error (TDR), had 4-5 in total and in event viewer it said nvdkwl or whats this bs name said it was missing, then returned to official 512.95 and all was good..

Will see how this one behaves.

 

Very interesting - with the same driver I noticed similar behavior in other games, and also with the same error in event viewer.

 

I was using the previous drivers with it just fine, but whatever smooths your wrinkles, I guess.

 

I loved 516.25/31. I did have one game crash with 516.31, but we'll see how these go. Pretty sure performance is gonna be the same if not slightly better.

Link to the further compressed drivers if anyone is interested (580 MB): https://mega.nz/file/6h0klBQL#dGtOjNd2mJqLWckaotqbkwciILD9iTMmihroMiy3FSs

 

516.40 installed over 512.95... no issues on my end. Done dirty.

Cheers!

 

Do we still not know what is new with WDDM 3.1?

 

This driver and the latest insider driver, causes issues with my Sony 77a80j , setting the TV to use VRR is the only way to not get artifacts ... this is bad... it means it will be like that for a long time till NVIDIA fixes what it broke since previous driver version (which also had issues and I had to set my TV input to DolbyVision and then back to Enhanced to get rid of the stupid driver artifacts|)

 

Hmm, ok so far,

Maybe one day I'll test it proerly by actually playing a game, LOL!

 

NIS feature needs to be enhanced.
Need some new features like color profile such as vivid, sports, cinema, dynamic contrast etc.

 

4k 24/23hz 10 bits still blurry. I need to put 12 bits for workaround since a lot of driver version.

 

great, 2 good news today, first is driver based on WDDM 3.1 for 22h2 and also the beta insider gets the explorer tabs