NVIDIA 596.36 driver carries support for 12GB RTX 5070 laptop GPU and Conan Exiles Enhanced

The driver is adding support for Conan Exiles Enhanced version's DLSS 4.5 features and NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5070 laptop GPU with a 12GB VRAM.

A new graphics driver has just been released for NVIDIA GeForce customers to use. The WHQL-certified 596.36 Game Ready driver is now live, and it's carrying support for the new Conan Exiles Enhanced upgrade, as well as the company's new RTX 5070 laptop GPU configuration.

Conan Exiles Enhanced, the free update for Funcom's eight-year-old multiplayer RPG, is bringing improved visuals, enhanced performance, and modern rendering technologies on May 5. With the latest driver, NVIDIA is adding day-one support for DLSS Multi Frame Generation, DLSS Super Resolution, and Reflex technologies as a part of its DLSS 4.5 upgrade.

The driver also brings support for NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5070 laptop GPU with a 12GB VRAM configuration.

"Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs remains strong, and memory supply is constrained. In order to maximize memory availability, we are releasing the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU 12GB configuration with 24Gb G7 memory," explained the company. "This gives our partners access to an additional pool of memory to complement the 16Gb G7 supply that currently ships with most GeForce GPUs. The 12GB configuration will exist alongside the current 8GB configuration, and allows our partners to bring a broader range of GeForce RTX 5070 laptops to consumers."

These are the fixed gaming bugs in this release:

• God of War: Ragnarok: Certain textures may intermittently flash white during gameplay.
• Assassin's Creed Shadows: Flickering on the character model's clothing
• The Crew Motorfest: Grass and vegetation flickering

These are the general bug fixes:

• Blocky artifacts when playing back H.264 content with DXVA 2.0
• Blender 5.0.1 EEVEE: Non-shader nodes connected to the material output rendered as black (zero value)

The NVIDIA 596.36 driver is now available for download from the NVIDIA app. For those who want to download it directly, standalone links are here. Here are the official release notes (PDF).

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