Nvidia 581.80 driver lands with support for Call of Duty: Black Ops and Anno 117

Nvidia GeForce graphics users have a brand-new driver waiting for them. The latest update from the company is the WHQL-certified 581.80 Game Ready driver, and it looks like adding support for new games had been the primary objective, as there are only a couple of bug fixes included in it.

With the driver, those jumping into Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 on November 14 will be able to utilize the company's DLSS 4 upscaling and Multi Frame Generation technologies for better frame rates as well as Nvidia Reflex for reducing system latency. Meanwhile, Ubisoft's city builder and management game Anno 117 launches on November 13, and it will have support for DLSS to improve performance on PC as well.

On the same note, Paradox Interactive's latest grand strategy game, Europa Universalis V, is a part of the optimizations of the driver, just as the game releases today.

While it seems the focus has mostly been on supporting the new games, the company has fixed a couple issues with the 581.80 Game Ready driver:

• FIXED F1 25: Performance optimizations when using DLSS Frame Generation [5422722]
• FIXED Vulkan apps crash when launched on Core 2 Duo / Core 2 Quad CPUs [5509161]

Nvidia currently has two open issues that its driver teams are working on resolving:

• Counter-Strike 2: Text may appear slightly distorted when in-game resolution is lower than the native resolution of the display
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: Light flickering after driver update on some system configurations

The Nvidia 581.80 driver is now available for download in the Nvidia app and GeForce Experience. For those that may want to download it directly, standalone links can be found here, and here are the official release notes (PDF).

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Posted Wednesday 5 November 2025 at 4:10 am AEST (my time).

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