NVIDIA has announced that the GeForce Hotfix display driver version 546.31 for Windows 10 x64 and Windows 11 x64 systems is now available for download.
This new hotfix, which is based on the Game Ready Driver (546.29) that NVIDIA rolled out yesterday with additional support for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III/Warzone and Cyberpunk 2077’s Update 2.1, addresses two issues, including potential stuttering when V-SYNC is enabled.
Here’s what the hotfix should fix, per NVIDIA:
- [Discord] When streaming gameplay, colors may appear muted [4349586]
- Intermittent stutter may be observed when V-SYNC is enabled [4379096]
NVIDIA goes on to explain that these problems may make it into their drivers because software can be pretty complicated:
A GeForce driver is an incredibly complex piece of software, We have an army of software engineers constantly adding features and fixing bugs. These changes are checked into the main driver branches, which are eventually run through a massive QA process and released.
Since we have so many changes being checked in, we usually try to align driver releases with significant game or product releases. This process has served us pretty well over the years but it has one significant weakness. Sometimes a change that is important to many users might end up sitting and waiting until we are able to release the driver.
The GeForce Hotfix driver is our way to trying to get some of these fixes out to you more quickly. These drivers are basically the same as the previous released version, with a small number of additional targeted fixes. The fixes that make it in are based in part on your feedback in the Driver Feedback threads and partly on how realistic it is for us to quickly address them. These fixes (and many more) will be incorporated into the next official driver release, at which time the Hotfix driver will be taken down.
And while affected users can download the hotfix now, NVIDIA admits that waiting for the next WHQL certified driver remains the safest option:
To be sure, these Hotfix drivers are beta, optional and provided as-is. They are run through a much abbreviated QA process. The sole reason they exist is to get fixes out to you more quickly. The safest option is to wait for the next WHQL certified driver. But we know that many of you are willing to try these out. As a result, we only provide NVIDIA Hotfix drivers through our NVIDIA Customer Care support site.
A link to NVIDIA’s new GeForce Game Ready 546.29WHQL driver can be found here.