Nvidia 497.29 driver brings GTFO and Horizon Zero Dawn DLSS support

Nvidia logo with Game Ready Driver written

It is new driver time for Nvidia graphics users. The green team today brought forth the GeForce Game Ready 497.29 WHQL driver, adding support for the 1.0 release of GTFO out of early access as well as the recent DLSS implementation to Horizon Zero Dawn.

Nvidia didn't provide any exact numbers for GTFO's improvements, though it did add DLSS can improve performance of Guerrilla Games' action game by up to 50%. The title update carrying the feature also made a number of other improvements to the game, see full details here.

Other than those there are several bug fixes included in this driver too, carrying especially good news for Flight Simulator fans:

[Microsoft Flight Simulator]: The game may crash to the desktop during gameplay. [3454519]

[Microsoft Flight Simulator]: Purple/blue artifacts appear on ground textures in the game. [3454530]

[Supreme Command:Forged Alliance/Supreme Commander 2]: Performance drop occurs when there is mouse movement. [3405920]

Desktop may stutter after extended period when mouse cursor is moved. [3443235]

In multi-monitor configurations, the screen may display random black screen flicker. [3405228]

[NVIDIA Control Panel]: Spelling error in the German language NVIDIA Control Panel -> Manage 3D Settings -> Shader Cache Size default option. [3442310]

Here are the known issues still being actively investigated:

[Deathloop][HDR]: TDR/corruption occurs in the game with Windows HDR enabled. [200767905]

If this issue occurs, toggle the Windows HDR setting.

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through water. [3338967]

[HDR][G-Sync]: Mouse pointer gets stuck after turning on HDR from the Windows Control Panel or after toggling G-Sync from the NVIDIA control panel. [200762998]

To work around, click the mouse (right or left button). The mouse cursor will be sluggish for a few seconds before returning to normal operation.

[NVIDIA Advanced Optimus][NVIDIA Control Panel]: After setting the display multiplexer type to “dGPU”, the setting is not preserved across a reboot or resume from S4. [200779758]

[NVIDIA Image Scaling][Desktop]: The screen moves to the upper left corner on cold boot when Image Scaling is applied to the desktop. [3424721]

Do not apply NVIDIA Image Scaling to the desktop. It is intended only for video upscaling or for games which do not run with a scaling resolution unless the same Image Scaling resolution is applied on the desktop.

[NVIDIA Image Scaling][DirectX 11 video apps]: With Image Scaling enabled, video playback is corrupted or results in a system hang after performing an HDR transition. [3431284]

If HDR is required to be toggled from the Microsoft Control Panel, be sure to switch to a different Image Scaling resolution.

The 497.29 WHQL Game Ready driver is available for download from the GeForce Experience app. Meanwhile, standalone installation links for Windows 10 and Windows 11 can be found below. The release notes are here.

Desktop GPUs:

Download: Windows 11, 10 – DCH

Notebook GPUs:

Download: Windows 11, 10 – DCH