Nvidia has released a software security update display driver for GeForce GPUs which are no longer supported by Game Ready Drivers or Nvidia Studio Drivers. This update addresses issues that may lead to multiple security impacts.

Advance Notice of Discontinued Support

NvIFR OpenGL support. Release 470 will be the last driver branch to support this functionality. NvIFR header files, samples and documentation have been removed from the Nvidia Capture SDK 7.1.9 release. Future drivers will remove NvIFR.dll and any other reference to NvIFR.

Nvidia has released a software security update display driver for GeForce GPUs to be used with Windows 7/8.x which is no longer supported by Game Ready Drivers. Effective October 2021, Game Ready Driver upgrades, including performance enhancements, new features, and bug fixes, are exclusively available for systems utilizing Windows 10 and Window 11 as their operating system. Critical security updates will be available on systems utilizing Windows 7 through September 2024.

What's New:

Requirement for Obtaining Nvidia Drivers for Windows 7

Microsoft now provides only SHA-2 signed drivers. If your Windows 7 system is NOT equipped to detect SHA-2, you need to install the SHA-2 update support patches. For details as well as access to SHA-2 update support patches, see the Microsoft KBA "2019 SHA-2 Code Signing Support requirement for Windows and WSUS".

New Features

This section summarizes driver changes in release 470 (since release 465).

  • Added support for CUDA 11.4.
  • Updated scaling resolution in NVIDIA Image Sharpening.

Discontinued and Unsupported Features

  • NvIFR OpenGL support.
  • Release 470 will be the last driver branch to support this functionality. NvIFR header files, samples and documentation have been removed from the NVIDIA Capture SDK 7.1.9 release. Future drivers will remove NvIFR.dll and any other reference to NvIFR.

Limitations in This Release

The following features are not currently supported or have limited support in this driver release.

OpenCL 3.0 Known Issues

  • Device-Side Enqueue related queries: Such queries may return 0 values, although the kernel can safely use corresponding built-ins.

This is in accordance with conformance requirements described on the Khronos

Group web site page The OpenCL Specification.

  • Certain denormalized results not flushed to zero: The denormalized results for some math functions that were flushed to zero when cl-fastrelaxed-math is passed as a compiler option on OpenCL 1.2 drivers are not flushed to zero with OpenCL 3.0 drivers.
  • Shared virtual memory: The current implementation of shared virtual memory is limited to 64-bit platforms.

Supported Products:

GeForce RTX 30 Series

  • GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
  • GeForce RTX 3090
  • GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
  • GeForce RTX 3080
  • GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
  • GeForce RTX 3070
  • GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
  • GeForce RTX 3060
  • GeForce RTX 3050

GeForce RTX 20 Series

  • GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
  • GeForce RTX 2080 Super
  • GeForce RTX 2080
  • GeForce RTX 2070 Super
  • GeForce RTX 2070
  • GeForce RTX 2060 Super
  • GeForce RTX 2060

GeForce 16 Series

  • GeForce GTX 1660 Super
  • GeForce GTX 1650 Super
  • GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
  • GeForce GTX 1660
  • GeForce GTX 1650
  • GeForce GTX 1630

NVIDIA TITAN Series

  • NVIDIA TITAN RTX
  • NVIDIA TITAN V