Nvidia 591.44 drops GTX 900 and 10 Series support, adds Battlefield 6 optimizations

Nvidia has released driver 591.44 WHQL with optimizations and support for Battlefield 6 and improved fidelity of DLSS Ray Reconstruction in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. The latest driver is now the recommended driver for those playing the latest Call of Duty.

Additionally, in a surprising move, Nvidia is bringing back 32-bit PhysX support in certain games. The RTX 50 series launched without PhysX support, which caused poor performance in old games, forcing some creative solutions, like buying an old Nvidia card just for old-school games. Now, however, Nvidia is bringing 32-bit PhysX support back into the following games:

• Alice: Madness Returns
• Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
• Batman: Arkham City
• Batman: Arkham Origins
• Borderlands 2
• Mafia II
• Metro 2033
• Metro: Last Light
• Mirror’s Edge

What is no longer getting any support is the GTX 900 and GTX 10 series. These graphics cards are no longer supported, and driver 591.44 no longer works on PCs with those GPUs.

As usual, the latest update contains several bug fixes:

• Battlefield 6: Gaming stability issues
• 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
• Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name: Corruption after driver update on some system configurations
• Black Myth: Wukong: Lower performance in driver branches newer than R570
• Monster Hunter World: Iceborne: Some particle effects may be missing on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 3: Gameplay becomes dim over time
• Madden 26: Stability issues
• Users running R580 branch drivers (58x.xx) or newer may observe lower performance in some games after updating to Windows 11 October 2025 KB5066835
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: Random corruption on main character's sword corruption
• Adobe Premiere Pro: Freeze During Export Using Hardware Encoding
• Sophos Home Antivirus: System stability issues
• Green line observed while viewing videos in Chromium browser on GeForce RTX 50
  Series GPUs

You can download the latest Nvidia driver from the official website or the Nvidia app. Full release notes are available here.

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Posted Friday 5 December 2025 at 3:55 am AEST (my time).

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