NVIDIA releases new graphics driver for old Pascal and Maxwell graphics cards

NVIDIA no longer ships regular gaming improvements and optimizations for old graphics cards powered by the Maxwell and Pascal architectures. These GPUs, from what many think was the golden era of NVIDIA, are still powering plenty of computers, and they remain quite capable for budget gaming. This week, the company released a new graphics driver for these graphics cards to address security vulnerabilities.

NVIDIA has released a software security update display driver for Maxwell, Volta
and Pascal-series GeForce GPUs which are no longer supported by Game Ready Drivers.
This update addresses issues that may lead to multiple security impacts.

Since Game Ready drivers no longer support Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs, the driver only contains security patches. According to NVIDIA, release 582.28 WHQL fixes five high-severity security vulnerabilities, including CVE-2025-33217, CVE-2025-33218, CVE-2025-33219, CVE-2025-33220, and CVE-2025-33237. You can read more about those security patches on the official NVIDIA Product Security page.

Interestingly, there are two known bugs that remain unaddressed:

• Counter-Strike 2: Text may appear slightly distorted when the 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

Given that Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures are no longer supported, these issues will most likely remain unfixed going forward, and the only way to get rid of them is to upgrade to a newer graphics card that supports the latest Game Ready drivers from NVIDIA.

For reference, Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures are used in NVIDIA's GTX 900 and 700 Series (Maxwell), GTX 10 Series (Pascal), and Titan V series (Volta). The oldest desktop graphics card series that still receives Game Ready drivers with fixes and optimizations is the GTX 16 Series (also the last non-RTX lineup).

You can download the NVIDIA 582.28 WHQL driver from the official website here. Full release notes are available here.

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Posted Saturday 31 January 2026 at 6:24 am AEST (my time).

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