The new GeForce 610.74 WHQL Game Ready Driver, released July 7, is built specifically around two launches: id Software’s DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations DLC, out today, and Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, arriving Thursday.
According to the official release notes, the driver enables full DLSS 4.5 support for both titles, including Multi Frame Generation on RTX 50-series cards, transformer-based Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction, and NVIDIA Reflex. Revelations in particular leans hard on path tracing, and NVIDIA is claiming RTX 5090 owners can expect roughly 310 FPS at 4K with everything maxed, which tells you exactly how much of that frame rate is coming from Multi Frame Generation rather than raw rasterization.
Revelations itself is a meaty release, not a token DLC drop. id Software is positioning it as the culmination of 35 years of DOOM history, delivering 10 to 12 hours of content built around a new weapon called the Chain Spear and a Metroidvania-style hub area called the Slayer’s Hub. It’s a send-off given the studio’s current situation: with Xbox’s restructuring having hit id Software hard this week, this may be the last major DOOM content the studio ships in its current form for a while.
Outside of game-specific tuning, the changelog doesn’t have much to say. The only general bug fix addresses a Tencent Meeting flickering issue tied to Smooth Motion, and NVIDIA has left an open issue on the books: “Prefer Maximum Performance” power management mode may not apply correctly. Early reports on the Guru3D driver forums also flag ongoing VRR flicker complaints on certain panels when frame rates are capped, an issue that’s persisted across the last several 600-series driver branches without an official acknowledgment. If you’ve had flicker problems with VRR and Smooth Motion enabled together, this driver doesn’t appear to fix that.
We’ve been keeping an eye on NVIDIA’s 610-branch drivers since 610.47 quietly killed the classic Control Panel back in May, and this release continues that trend of narrow, launch-day-focused updates rather than broad stability passes.
Bottom line: if you’re not touching either of this week’s big releases, there’s not much reason to rush the update. If you are jumping into Revelations tonight or picking up Black Flag Resynced Thursday, grab it first, especially if you’re running DLSS or path tracing and want the intended performance baseline rather than digging through custom settings yourself.