NVIDIA GeForce 516.94 WHQL driver download & Discussion

Game Ready for Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best day-0 gaming experience for Marvel’s SpiderMan Remastered which includes support for the latest gaming technologies including NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA DLAA, NVIDIA HBAO+, and upgraded ray-tracing effects. In addition, this new Game Ready Driver offers support for the latest releases and updates including Madden NFL 23 and the beta for SUPER PEOPLE.

Fixed Issues
- [Apex Legends] Improves gameplay stability.
- [Red Dead Redemption 2] Performance improvement when using DLSS is lower compared to previous drivers.
- [Overwatch] Game may freeze on launching a match.
- [MSI GE66 Raider 10UG/MSI GE76 Raider 10UH] Windows brightness setting does not work when notebook is in dedicated GPU mode.
- [Chivalry 2] Toggling DLSS preset may cause gameplay to shimmer or show black rectangle.
- [Dungeons 3] Game will crash on startup.
- [Destiny 2] Game may randomly freeze after launching game or during gameplay.
- [Prepar3D] Light sources display flashing black boxes.
- [Xbox Application] Windowed G-SYNC engages and cause stutter/ sluggish performance in Xbox app.
- [NVIDIA Ampere GPU]: With the GPU connected to an HDMI 2.1 audio/video receiver, audio may drop out when playing back Dolby Atmos.
- [Star Wars: Battlefront 2] Game may get stuck when launching a game match

Open Issues
- [RTX 30 series] PC monitor may not wake from display sleep when GPU is also connected to an HDMI 2.1 TV, and the TV is powered off.
-Toggling HDR on and off in-game causes game stability issues when non-native resolution is used.
- 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.
- Monitor may briefly flicker on waking from display sleep if DSR/DLDSR is enabled.
- [RTX 30 series] Lower performance in Minecraft Java Edition.
- External display may not be detected when connected via USB-C on certain Razer notebooks.
- [Forza Horizon 5] Rainbow like artifacts in game after driver update.
- [Reallusion Hub] App will crash when launched on PC using a CPU with 32+ logical processors
- On rare occasion, video playback in browser may result in bugcheck code: 0x116
- [Marvel Spider-Man Remastered] Cutscene edges may appear blurry when DLSS is enabled on an ultra-wide monitor


Release Notes https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/516.94/516.94-win11-win10-release-notes.pdf

Download https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/geforce-516-94-whql-driver-download.html

 

Sweet thanks for posting.

 

r516_87-3

516.93 - r516_56-8
516.79 - r516_56-6
516.59 - r515_00-212

This one has the new HD Audio driver from the .79 hotfix.

 

How come this isn't on the main page for drivers?

 

The download is there now.

 

Security fixes in these ones too.

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5383

 

Does Vulkan installed with this driver? (and every driver?)

Im asking because i always use DDU first to remove everything and then i install the new one!

Edit: Nevermind i found the answer, Cheers!

edit2: Driver is installed, everything is looking fine!

 

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-...er-specs-mysterious-20gb-model-also-mentioned

 

TDP getting lower and lower by the week

 

I have a feeling that NVIDIA found out that just like with their cards of the current and previous generation, it is enough to do an undervolt and you lose max 2-3% of performance but the consumption drops by 100W or even slightly more.

 

It is not an "undervolt" until there is a defined value, which has not happened yet. At this stage they are testing various possibilities on the "frequency/voltage" curve for the chip, which is why there are so many different values in these "leaks". The final value they decide depends, among other things, on how they think the competition will be. They do not want to look bad in benchmarks, and if it is necessary to sacrifice consumption, then they will do it, even if they go out of the optimum of that curve.

 

Would like to have a simple voltage slider in the driver that allowed one click undervolting.

 

Agree. Nvidia should have something like wattman so you can undervolt and overclock via nvcp.

 

Ideally better than Wattman, i.e. stable and reliable API over generations and years of driver versions.

 

I did exactly that. I followed this suggestion and undervolted my 3080 to 825 mV/1805 MHz using MSI Afterburner. I may have lost 1-2% fps if any, and now my 3080 is both cooler and uses 80W less power. I suggest to everybody to do this for your stable 24/7 configuration and those long gaming sessions.

 

Im at work so cannot test my desktop but drivers installed just on gtx1060 laptop did a few quick matches of valorant runs fine.

 

I went nVidia about one year ago, but the last ~2 years of AMD software worked great. Not only did the basic driver have good overclocking/underclocking support, it is also PER GAME, so you can have an undervolt in one game and an overclock in another.

 

Good driver so far no issues

 

yeah need to with sky high elec prices

 

Great driver so far, installed over previous (+ reset settings in NVCP, set again + Inspector Tweaks).
All fine.

Tested:
BF2042, FH5, Last Epoch, MtG A & Solasta.