Nvidia’s GeForce 528.49 Driver is Game Ready for Company of Heroes 3 and RTX 40 series Laptops

Nvidia’s latest GeForce drivers are ready for RTX 40 series laptops

Nvidia has just released their GeForce 528.49 drivers for Windows PCs, offering support for Nvidia’s new RTX 40 series notebook GPUs alongside day-0 optimisations for Company of Heroes 3. 

Oddly, this new driver does not ship with day-1 optimisations for Hogwarts Legacy, which became available yesterday to Deluxe Edition purchasers. In addition to RTX 40 laptop GPU support, this new driver also adds support for 10 new G-Sync compatible displays. Below are the release notes for Nvidia’s latest GeForce driver. 

Game Updates

– Day-0 optimizations for Company of Heroes 3.

The addition of GeForce Experience optimal settings for 5 new games, including:

– Dead Space
– Dual Universe
– Goat Simulator 3
– Paragon: The Overprime
– STALCRAFT

Gaming Technology

Introduces support for GeForce RTX 40 Series notebooks

Support for 10 new G-SYNC Compatible gaming displays:

– AOC PD32M
– ASUS XG32AQ
– ASUS XG27AQV
– IO-Data GCQ271HA
– Lenovo Y27-30
– LG 27GR950
– LG 45GR95QE
– MSI G321Q
– ViewSonic VX2781-2K-Pro/2
– ViewSonic VX2781-4K-Pro

Fixed Issues

– Adobe Bridge stability issues with 528.02 [3957846]
– Disable Hitman 3 Resizable Bar profile on Intel platforms [3956209]
– Discord update causes GPU memory clocks to drop to P2 state [3960028]

Known Issues

– Toggling HDR on and off in-game causes game stability issues when non-native resolution is used. [3624030]
– Monitor may briefly flicker on waking from display sleep if DSR/DLDSR is enabled. [3592260]
– [Halo Wars 2] In-game foliage is larger than normal and displays constant flickering [3888343]
– [Steam version] Forza Horizon 4 may freeze after 15-30 minutes of gameplay [3866530]
– [GeForce RTX 4090] Watch Dogs 2 may display flickering when staring at the sky [3858016]
– Increase in DPC latency observed in Latencymon [3952556]
– Adobe After Effects / Media Encoder – issues with ProRes RAW files [3957455] [3957469]
– Adobe Premiere Pro application instability [3940086]

Product Compatibility (Desktop graphics cards)

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