How do GeForce "Game Ready" driver updates work?

[Seizure1990]

So Nvidia releases GeForce drivers pretty regularly, However, they always seem to tailor these updates to very specific games. So I'm left wondering, does Nvidia actually track down the root bug and fix it, thereby improving performance and reliability on the whole, or is there some hardcoded list somewhere in the driver with every game under the sun, telling it how to behave for particular games, so that literally only the specifically mentioned game is affected?

 

Does anyone know the answer to this, and if so, how do you know/what is your source?

[xendrome]

Yes all of the drivers have fixes, but they market them as Game Ready for specific games. Check the Change log files for each release

 

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/368.39/368.39-win10-win8-win7-desktop-release-notes.pdf

 

As an example, at the bottom of each driver page on Nvidia is a Release Notes

[Seizure1990]

Thanks! I just wasn't sure if I wanted to bother updating to the latest driver immediately every time a new one came out, but I guess it's worth it then.