NVIDIA has released its GeForce Game Ready 526.86 WHQL driver, offering what the company says is the best gaming experience for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, offering improved stability and solving image corruption issues, with support for NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution and NVIDIA Reflex. A direct link to the GeForce Game Ready 526.86 WHQL driver for users without GeForce Experience can be found here, while the release notes with a full list of fixes and more can be found here.
Fixed Issues in Version 526.86 WHQL:
- [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]
Open Issues in Version 526.86 WHQL:
- 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
- [Daz Studio] Application crashes after updating to latest driver when trying to run simulation [3838022]
From the official GeForce site:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II drops players into an unprecedented global conflict that features the return of the iconic Operators of Task Force 141, and boasts a massive multiplayer mode filled with content for FPS fans. Download and install our new Game Ready Driver for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II for optimized performance, improved stability, a fix for previously-reported corruption issues, and support for NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution and NVIDIA Reflex.
NVIDIA DLSS is our groundbreaking AI rendering technology that’s available in over 240 released games and apps, increasing graphics performance using dedicated Tensor Core AI processors on GeForce RTX GPUs. By tapping into the power of a deep learning neural network, we boost frame rates significantly, and generate beautiful, sharp images for your games.
With the performance provided by NVIDIA DLSS, GeForce RTX gamers will have the headroom to max out Modern Warfare II’s graphics at the highest resolutions, while maintaining smooth frame rates.
NVIDIA Reflex is a must-have in games, reducing system latency so your actions occur quicker, making you more competitive in multiplayer matches, and making single-player titles more responsive and enjoyable. Reflex is available in the most popular multiplayer and esports games, is supported on GeForce graphics cards dating back to the 900 Series, and only takes a single click to enable.
Discussion (14 replies)
Join Discussion →Good, hope it works. I'm enjoying the game but the lagging ans stuttering make it unplayable. After a lot of trial and error I think I've found that it runs fine as long as you keep textures to Low. Any higher and you get latency spikes up to 150 ms that make the game so choppy you can't play it.
Edit: Nope, it didn't work. Oh well, guess I'll keep on playing with everything set to high except textures.
I'm running the game maxed out at 1440 and it's smooth as butter.
Crashed right out the gate for me, but has seemed to smooth out a little now. This is pretty much how every new driver release acts with this game.
Congrats. It's a pain for me and according to search results, a lot of other people as well. Every time I load it up it's got game breaking lag but if I tinker with some settings it fixes it.... Even if it loaded up with the settings from my last session where it was running smooth.
I'm sure it'll get fixed over time and this is just launch day bugs but the fix can't get here soon enough.
Are you overclocking anything? Anything intensive running in the background, like AV? There are some guides for NV control panel settings you can try.
I had to revert to a previous driver to get through the game. Biggest issue I had in the campaign was the buggy AI... if you miss a group in the linear game path, they have a habit of catching up with you when it's pretty inconvenient!
In the last couple years I have started to get a little jaded by the Nvidia drivers, now I don't upgrade unless I specifically have to. Plus having an older card (1080ti) you never know what's going to break by them adding new stuff.
So I point at me from 7-8 years ago that absolutely wanted the bleeding edge nvidia driver and say "Not today"
Yyeeaahh, I been that way for more than a few years now.
Yeah I got the same card, and yeah newer drivers usually focus on newer generations of GPUs. The older GPUs don't get improved much with newer drivers, but newer drivers could indeed break sh1t for them.
What's the opposite of "fine wine"? That.
No I don't overvlock much anymore so everything is running at stock. Plus every other game I play is running perfectly. I ain't no rookie at PC gaming so I'm willing to bet the farm it's not something I'm doing wrong but rather an issue with the game or driver.
I think I've discovered a fix but didn't get a chance to try it more because I gotta job.... When I started the game up and it's a laggy mess, instead of dropping all the settings like I usually do I suffered thru the game for about a minute and it seemed to fix itself and I didn't have a problem with lag for the next hour I played.
This is my weekend off so I'll get some time with it and will be able to try it out if that's a real fix or not.
Wait a God dammed minute, I thought only amd drivers had issues.
It's definitely a game and not a driver issue. All my other games play fine, but COD MW2 is a hot mess.
Also take into consideration if you are running W11 and have 22H2 installed there are frame drop issues
It may be related
Also if you haven't updated, don't :P
Tried to install it more than a few times, and it always failed on my desktop (but not on other systems). Looks like MS finally withdrew it for some systems, as it's now listed as 'coming soon'.
That was my take.