NVIDIA has released GeForce Game Ready Driver 596.36 WHQL, arriving ahead of the May 5 launch of Conan Exiles Enhanced and bringing official support for the newly announced RTX 5070 Laptop GPU 12GB configuration.
Conan Exiles Enhanced is Funcom’s free Unreal Engine 5 overhaul of their eight-year-old open-world survival title. The update brings dramatically improved visuals, an overhauled rendering pipeline, and full NVIDIA feature integration: DLSS Multi Frame Generation, DLSS Super Resolution, and Reflex all come along for the ride.
Beyond Conan Exiles, the 596.36 release adds official hardware support for the RTX 5070 Laptop GPU 12GB — NVIDIA’s newly announced variant using 24Gb GDDR7 modules to deliver 50% more VRAM than the existing 8GB model, while running on the same 128-bit bus.
On the bug fix side, 596.36 addresses a handful of nagging issues that have been bothering players for a while. White texture flashes in God of War: Ragnarok get resolved, clothing flickering on character models in Assassin’s Creed Shadows is fixed, grass and vegetation flickering in The Crew Motorfest is corrected, and an issue where non-shader nodes connected to material outputs rendered as black in Blender 5.0.1 EEVEE is also squashed. There’s also a fix for blocky artifacts in H.264 DXVA 2.0 playback, which is worth noting for anyone using their RTX card for media decoding.
The 596.36 WHQL driver is a full WHQL-certified release, not a beta, so it’s (Ed: Allegedly) safe to push to your main rig. The driver supports Windows 10 and Windows 11 64-bit across the GeForce RTX 20-series through the latest RTX 50-series hardware.
You can grab it through the NVIDIA app, GeForce Experience, or manually from GeForce.com. As always, if you run into anything unusual after installing, the GeForce Driver Feedback Forum is the place to report it. If you’ve been holding off on updating, the Conan Exiles Enhanced prep and the Blender fix alone are probably worth the upgrade.