GeForce 526.86 Game Ready

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This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. Specifically, this new Game Ready Driver offers improved stability, solves image corruption issues, and supports NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution and NVIDIA Reflex.

Learn more in NVIDIA's Game Ready Driver article here.

GeForce GRD 526.86 Feedback Thread (Released 11/10/22)

Fixed Issues in this Release:

• [Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II] Flashing corruption can be seen randomly while playing the game. [3829010]
• [Call of Duty: Vanguard] Game may randomly crash after extended gameplay [3841398]
• VTube Studio crashes to black screen after driver update [3838158]
• GPU may get stuck in P0 state after exiting certain games [3846389]
• [Anvil Engine Games] Environment flickering [3843932]
• Drop in 8K60 AV1 decoding performance on RTX 4090 [3835745]
• [Forza Horizon 5] Some PC configurations may see rainbow-like artifacts in game after extended gameplay [3685123]
• Halo Infinite crashes shortly after starting a match [3850630]

Open Issues:

• Toggling HDR on and off in-game causes game stability issues when non-native resolution is used. [3624030]
• [DirectX 12] Shadowplay recordings may appear over exposed when Use HDR is enabled from the Windows display settings. [200742937]
• Monitor may briefly flicker on waking from display sleep if DSR/DLDSR is enabled. [3592260]
• Maxon - Cinema4D + Redshift3D vidmemory allocations cause TDR or Driver Crash [3659104]
• RedCine-X Pro potential crash while working with effects during video playback [3809401]
• Desktop Window Manager (dwm.exe) service may report higher GPU usage on some RTX 30-series configurations [3830387] Workaround: disable Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling from the Windows Settings
  Manuel@NVIDIA
  It affects 20 series and 40 series too. Our next Game Ready Driver will have a fix for this.
• [Daz Studio] Application crashes after updating to latest driver when trying to run simulation [3838022]
• [GeForce RTX 4090] Watch Dogs 2 may display flickering when staring at the sky [3858016]
• [Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition] Screen randomly flashes corruption during gameplay [3793355]
• MSI Afterburner is not prioritizing GPU temp limit over power when selected in app [3858911]

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Branch progression:

526.86    r526_25-17
526.72    RTX 4080 press driver
526.67    r526_53-3
526.61    r526_25-7
526.52    r525_00-178
526.47    r526_25-3
526.21    test driver
525.87    test driver
525.53.00 r525_00-154
525.26    bugfix_main-17735
525.14    bugfix_main-17649

Branch r525 supports Microsoft DirectStorage 1.1
Source: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/accelerating-load-times-for-directx-games-and-apps-with-gdeflate-for-directstorage/

Works fine with GeForce and Quadro branches, test with Tesla side branch r525_00 asap (Simon says VGPU 15 will come "in a few weeks")