GeForce Game Ready Driver For Phantom Blade Zero & Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 4® Released

Our new GeForce Game Ready Driver includes support for new games and updates.

On October 22nd, Cyberpunk 2077’s new update is adding DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, and upgrading its already-supported Multi Frame Generation, Ray Reconstruction and Super Resolution integrations to our second generation AI models, further enhancing players’ experiences.

On October 23rd, Call of Duty^Ⓡ: Modern Warfare 4^Ⓡ officially launches, following the Early Access release of its campaign on the 16th, and our new driver adds support for Advanced Shader Delivery, enabling you to get into the game faster by skipping shader compilation.

And on October 28th, Phantom Blade Zero launches, followed by Crimson Desert Enhanced: Charting the Unknown on the 29th, both with a full suite of DLSS 4.5 technologies.

Download and install our now from the NVIDIA app or our website.

In S-GAME’s Phantom Blade Zero, launching October 28th, you play as Soul, a swordsman framed for murdering his master. Gravely wounded in the heart and left with just sixty-six days to live, he roams the Wulin alone and hunted, determined to unravel a conspiracy that has ensnared the martial world.

Choose from over thirty primary weapons and more than twenty unique Phantom Edges, mixing and matching them to suit your playstyle. Claim new weapons from fallen foes and expand your arsenal as you fight your way through the Wulin. Combat flows through seamless combos that are easy to learn yet rewarding to master.

Drawing from the golden age of wuxia cinema, Phantom Blade Zero fuses traditional martial arts with punk fantasy. Cold steel and mechanical prosthetics collide in its dark, distinctive vision of Kungfupunk.

On GeForce RTX GPUs, Phantom Blade Zero is accelerated by DLSS 4.5 with Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, and its path-traced lighting and effects are further refined and enhanced by DLSS Ray Reconstruction.

Pre-orders now available on Steam and the Epic Games Store; for the best possible experience when Phantom Blade Zero launches on October 28th, download and install our new GeForce Game Ready Driver.

War erupts on the Korean Peninsula as North Korea launches a full-scale invasion that threatens to destabilize the world in Call of Duty^Ⓡ: Modern Warfare 4^Ⓡ.

In the campaign, a young squad of South Korean soldiers fight to survive on the collapsing front lines, while half a world away a vengeful Captain Price wages a personal war from the shadows as he stays one step ahead of those hunting him. As Price’s off-book mission collides with the forces behind the invasion, the war spreads beyond anyone’s control.

In multiplayer, battle against foes in Team Deathmatch, Domination, Hardpoint, Kill Confirmed, Search and Destroy, and new mode Inflation, where every elimination builds your fortune and makes you a bigger target.

And in DMZ, Call of Duty’s definitive extraction shooter features a living world with unpredictable enemy encounters, weather, and objectives all brought together by meaningful match-to-match progression and inventory systems. Whether you plan to infil solo or with a squad, this volatile conflict zone offers numerous paths to choose from.

Call of Duty^Ⓡ: Modern Warfare 4^Ⓡ Campaign Early Access began October 16th, featuring our suite of DLSS 4.5 technologies, and DMZ Early Access began yesterday. Finally, on the 23rd, the full launch follows, adding multiplayer.

In all modes, DLSS Super Resolution will accelerate gameplay and enhance image quality. On GeForce RTX 40 Series systems, DLSS Frame Generation will further boost frame rates. And on GeForce RTX 50 Series systems, players can activate DLSS Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, with up to 6X multiplication, offering an ideal balance between image quality and performance, perfect for maximizing frame rates.

Additionally, NVIDIA Reflex can be enabled on all GeForce RTX systems, further reducing PC latency, making gameplay even more responsive.

Following the installation of our new GeForce Game Ready Driver, all GeForce RTX gamers will also benefit from Advanced Shader Delivery in Call of Duty^Ⓡ: Modern Warfare 4^Ⓡ.

In 2001, our GeForce 3 GPUs introduced Pixel Shaders, giving developers per-pixel control over graphics and transforming flat scenes into realistic worlds. Today, modern games rely on tens of thousands of complex shaders. However, generic shader files must be compiled locally into instructions specific to your GPU and driver version, which is a CPU-heavy process that forces players to wait up to 30 minutes every time a game launches or updates. Pre-compiling every possible combination on the developer’s side would mean users download terabytes of data with each new game and update, leaving local compilation as the long-standing norm.

Microsoft’s new Advanced Shader Delivery solves this by offloading the heavy lifting to the cloud. Using DirectX 12, Windows 11, and the Microsoft Agility SDK, developers capture shaders into a State Object Database (SODB), allowing Microsoft’s cloud network to precompile shaders for hundreds of thousands of hardware and driver combinations.

When you download or update a supported title, the exact Precompiled Shader Database (PSDB) tailored to your rig is bundled with your download via the Xbox PC app. This system is storefront-agnostic, meaning you benefit even when playing games purchased on Steam, as long as the Xbox PC app is installed on your PC.

By delivering ready-to-run shader files straight to your drive, Advanced Shader Delivery lets you skip the compilation screen entirely. Better yet, with a near-100% cache hit rate, it eliminates mid-game "just-in-time" shader compilation, wiping out CPU spikes and frame stutters in titles like Gears of War: E-Day, and Call of Duty^Ⓡ: Modern Warfare 4^Ⓡ.

NVIDIA DLSS 5 with 3D-Guided Neural Rendering elevates image quality, realism and immersion to new heights.

Where other DLSS technologies focus on reconstructing existing scene data to deliver higher-resolution images, additional frames, or cleaner ray-traced lighting, DLSS Neural Rendering takes the next step by using AI to generate the lifelike lighting and material details that real-time performance constraints have forced developers to strip away, allowing them to realize their original artistic vision.

Neural Rendering uses the game engine’s rendered frame, complete with its artist-designed geometry, textures, and lighting buffers, as an unyielding foundation. DLSS Neural Rendering becomes the final rendering stage of the graphics pipeline, infusing scenes with lifelike lighting and materials while ensuring the engine frame defines what must remain, and the artist directs what may change.

DLSS 5 debuted in NBA 2K27 last month, enhancing texture detail, skin subsurface scattering, contact shadowing, hair rendering, and more, bringing the likenesses of players even closer to reality:

Last week, NBA 2K27’s Season 2 update introduced a new, more performant DLSS 5 AI model that increases frame rates by up to 1.4X on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, RTX Spark laptops, and GeForce NOW:

DLSS 5’s 3D-Guided Neural Rendering model is now 10X faster overall compared to the model debuted in March, enabling more players of NBA 2K27 and future DLSS 5 games to enjoy DLSS 5’s transformative uplift in lighting and materials at higher frames rates and settings.

NBA 2K27 Season 2 introduces GOAT Builds that let players recreate NBA legends with attributes and physical profiles beyond the standard MyPLAYER Builder limits. Players can also hit the remastered Sunset Beach courts, tackle new MyTEAM challenges, and unlock Halloween-themed cosmetics and all-new seasonal rewards. For more information on Season 2, you can check out the full Courtside Report.

CD PROJEKT RED’s action-RPG is receiving a new update on October 22nd, upgrading Cyberpunk 2077’s entire DLSS suite of technologies to DLSS 4.5, and adding Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, further optimizing your experience.

Learn more about GeForce Game Ready Drivers here, and download the new GeForce Game Ready 621.01 WHQL driver through the NVIDIA app, or from GeForce.com.

If you experience any technical issues with the new Game Ready drivers please post a detailed report on the GeForce.com Driver Feedback Forum, where our Customer Care team can best assist you. And if you’re looking for a full list of fixes in this driver, head here.