GeForce Game Ready Driver 546.33 Out Now, Optimized for The Finals and Fortnite Chapter 5

NVIDIA announced the release of a new GeForce Game Ready driver (version 546.33) optimized for Embark’s competitive first-person shooter, The Finals, Fortnite Chapter 5, and Squad’s latest update. You can find more details below.

New features and fixes in driver 546.33

Game Ready – This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 3 technology including THE FINALS and Squad. Further support for new titles leveraging NVIDIA DLSS technology includes the launch of Fortnite Chapter 5 which features DLSS Super Resolution.

Applications – The December NVIDIA Studio Driver provides optimal support for the latest new creative applications and updates including support for the Reallusion iClone AccuFACE plugin, AV1 in HandBrake, and GPU Audio’s Vienna MIR Pro 3D.

Fixed Gaming Bugs

• [Discord] When streaming gameplay, colors may appear muted [4349586]

Fixed Application Issues

• [Chaos Vantage] Application takes longer to launch in r545 compared to r535 [5372807]
• [Blender] Application crashes on exit [4363978]
• [Discord] When streaming gameplay, colors may appear muted [4349586]
• [OBS] Tearing issue when recording high resolution video [4359771]
• [Firefox Beta] Increased page file memory use when enabling RTX Video Super Resolution [4359080]
• [Wallpaper Engine] Wallpaper shows tearing when cloned in multi-monitor configuration [4364562]

Fixed General Bugs

• A new NVIDIA icon is created in the system tray each time a user switch takes place in Windows [4251314]
• Studio Driver receives 4 additional General Bugs fixes but they were old fixes already included in Game Ready Driver version 546.01 and 546.17 onwards.
  tldr*: If you install driver version 546.33, you will receive all the previous fixes*.

Open Issues

• [Netflix] Display issues for videos when using Edge browser. Recommend using Windows Netflix application as workaround. [4388454]

Additional Open Issues from GeForce Forums

Notes: This is not new. Manuel from Nvidia has been tracking any additional driver issues in their forum post separate from release notes. Started doing this recently and will continue moving forward

• [Netflix] Display issues for videos when using Edge browser. Recommend using Windows Netflix application as workaround. [4388454]
• [GeForce GTX 10/RTX 20 series] PC may randomly freeze/bugcheck when Windows Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling and NVIDIA SLI are both enabled [4009884]
• Horizontal band may appear when cloning a G-SYNC display to HDMI monitor [4103923]
• [Alienware X17 R2 w/ GeForce RTX 3080 Ti] Display goes blank when DirectX game is launched while notebook is in dedicated GPU mode [4146369]
• [RTX 4060 Ti] Display may randomly flicker with a black bar on the top of the screen when using desktop apps [4239893]
• Slight stutter may be observed when scrolling in web browsers on certain systems [4362307]
• [Maxwell] After multiple sleep/wake attempts, monitor may not wake up [4351702]

You can always download the driver update through Nvidia GeForce Experience or the Nvidia Download page.