TL;DR: NVIDIA confirmed Windows 11 update KB5066835 caused significant performance drops in some games on GeForce RTX GPUs. The new GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 581.94 restores up to 50% frame rate ...

NVIDIA is pushing out an out-of-band GPU driver update to resolve an issue introduced with Microsoft's October 2025 update for Windows 11 (KB5066835). According to NVIDIA, the Windows 11 update can ...

This month both Nvidia and AMD released driver updates optimized for the latest Call of Duty game, Black Ops 7. The drivers were released as versions 581.80 on GeForce and 25.11.1 on Radeon, ...

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Nvidia is racing to contain a wave of gaming slowdowns that surfaced after Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 updates, pushing out a targeted GPU fix and pointing the finger at changes introduced in ...