NVIDIA GeForce 596.36 WHQL Driver Is Available for Download
by John Papadopoulos · DSOGamingNVIDIA has released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the NVIDIA GeForce 596.36 WHQL driver offers the best gaming experience in Conan Exiles Enhanced. It also brings some other tweaks and fixes. So, let’s take a closer look at them.
The NVIDIA GeForce 596.36 WHQL driver fixes some flash white texture issues that could occur in God of War: Ragnarok. Moreover, it fixes some flickering issues that could occur in Assassins Creed Shadows. Plus, it fixes some grass and vegetation flickering issues that were in The Crew Motorfest.
It’s also worth noting that this new driver adds support for the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU. Furthermore, it fixes some blocky artifacts that NVIDIA owners could see when playing back H.264 content with DXVA 2.0. It also fixes an issue in which non-shader nodes connected to the material output rendered as black in Blender 5.0.1 EEVEE.
As I’ve said before, if you don’t suffer from these issues, you can safely skip this driver. On the other hand, those who want to keep their PC up to date can download it from this link. Below, you can also find its full changelog.
NVIDIA GeForce 596.36 WHQL Driver Release Notes
Game Ready for Conan Exiles Enhanced
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4.5 technology including Conan Exiles Enhanced.
Gaming Technology
• Adds support for the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU (12GB)
Fixed Gaming Bugs
• God of War: Ragnarok: Certain textures may intermittently flash white during gameplay. [5856704]
• Assassins Creed Shadows: Flickering on character model clothing [5987951]
• The Crew Motorfest: Grass and vegetation flickering [5950261]
Fixed General Bugs
• Blocky artifacts when playing back H.264 content with DXVA 2.0 [6058551]
• Blender 5.0.1 EEVEE: Non-shader nodes connected to the material output rendered as black (zero value) [5965763]
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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