Overwatch 2 GeForce Game Ready Driver - Download Now

By Andrew Burnes on September 27, 2022 | Featured Stories Drivers

Our latest GeForce Game Ready driver helps you attain unbelievable levels of performance in Overwatch 2 with NVIDIA Reflex, and readies your system for take-off when playing Microsoft Flight Simulator with its new NVIDIA DLSS 2 update. Additionally, there’s support for new G-SYNC Compatible gaming monitors and GeForce Experience Optimal Playable Settings profiles.

Read on to learn more, and to download and install on Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems, simply fire up GeForce Experience and click the "Drivers" tab.

Game Ready For Overwatch 2 - Free To Play On October 4

It’s time to reunite and stand with your fellow heroes in Overwatch 2, a colorful team-based action game starring a diverse cast of characters, each with their own abilities. Travel the world, build a team, and contest a new range of objectives in new game modes. Overwatch 2 is an entirely new, fresh, free to play multiplayer experience, now designed around 5v5 combat, and it’s launching on October 4th.

 

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At launch, GeForce gamers can increase responsiveness with NVIDIA Reflex. By reducing system latency, NVIDIA Reflex provides faster target acquisition, quicker reaction times, and the best aim precision for competitive games. Fire first, dodge enemy attacks, and get the jump on competitors.

To maximize your competitiveness, up your frame rates with faster graphics cards, and leverage the unparalleled motion clarity of G-SYNC esports gaming monitors. On our new GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards, you can exceed 360 frames per second at 2560x1440, the new competitive sweet spot for performance, clarity, and low latency gaming. In fact, our new GPUs are so fast, Blizzard has increased the frame rate cap in Overwatch 2 to 600 frames per second: 

 

Overwatch 2 absolutely shines on the highest ‘Epic’ setting with a GeForce RTX 4080, and even in a climactic team fight, the game has never been smoother or more responsive” -John Lafleur, Technical Director, Overwatch

To ensure you get the definitive experience in Overwatch 2 on your system, download and install our new Game Ready Driver ahead of Overwatch 2’s October 4th release.

Game Ready For Microsoft Flight Simulator’s DLSS 2 Update

Microsoft Flight Simulator is a stunning, critically-acclaimed flight simulator that marries realistic recreations of popular planes with an accurate map of our planet, and regular free updates add immersive hand-crafted detail to the world’s most visited cities, airports and regions.

Developer Asobo Studio has just launched Sim Update 10, with the integration of NVIDIA DLSS 2. To take full advantage of this technology, our new Game Ready Driver is a required update. So be sure to download and install before you taxi for take-off.

Support For Newly Validated G-SYNC Compatible Displays

Our newest Game Ready Driver also adds support for 4 new G-SYNC Compatible displays that deliver a baseline Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) experience that makes your gaming smoother and more enjoyable.

Included in the new list of monitors are the two new Sony INZONE gaming monitors. The INZONE M9 is a 27” 144Hz, IPS, 4K monitor with high contrast HDR that’s enhanced by Full Array Local Dimming, for gamers seeking a better experience when playing games with details in deep blacks and brightness. And the INZONE M3 is a 240Hz Full HD display, perfect for shooters and competitive games. Learn more about the two new INZONE G-SYNC Compatible gaming monitors, and the new INZONE gaming headsets, over on the Sony website.

Support is also included for HyperX Armada 25 and HyperX Armada 27 Gaming Monitors from HyperX, the gaming peripherals team at HP Inc.

The HyperX Armada 25 Gaming Monitor offers a 240Hz refresh rate and 1ms response time for smoother and faster competitive gameplay, with vibrant colors and impressive detail on its 24.5-inch FHD (1920x1080) IPS panel. The HyperX Armada 27 Gaming Monitor offers an even sharper image and higher resolution with its 27-inch QHD (2560x1440) IPS widescreen and VESA Display HDR 400, delivering clear detail in various lighting environments and a more immersive gaming experience. The Armada 27 also offers a 165Hz refresh rate and 1ms response time for crisp and smooth visuals. 

Manufacturer Model HDR Size Panel Type Resolution VRR Range
HP HyperX Armada 27 Yes 27” IPS 2560x1440 (QHD) 48-165Hz
HP HyperX Armada 25 Yes 25” IPS 1920x1080 (FHD) 48-240Hz
Sony INZONE M9 Yes 27” IPS 3840x2160 (4K) 48-144Hz
Sony INZONE M3 Yes 27” IPS 1920x1080 (FHD) 48-240Hz

These newly-validated monitors give gamers even more choice when searching for a great gaming display. For a complete list of all G-SYNC, G-SYNC ULTIMATE, and G-SYNC Compatible gaming monitors, check out our handy and frequently updated G-SYNC page, which can be sorted and filtered, helping you quickly find the ideal display.

New Games Supported By GeForce Experience’s Optimal Settings

GeForce Experience’s one-click optimal settings enable you to instantly configure game options for your system’s hardware, giving you smooth, optimized gameplay. Over 1000 titles are supported, and since our last driver release we’ve added support for 16 more:

  • Call of the Wild: The Angler
  • Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed
  • F1 Manager 2022
  • Farthest Frontier
  • Inside the Backrooms
  • Isonzo
  • Lego Brawls
  • Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered
  • Metal: Hellsinger
  • MultiVersus
  • Rumbleverse
  • Saints Row (2022)
  • Scathe
  • Steelrising
  • Two Point Campus
  • Way of the Hunter

GeForce Experience also enables you to capture and stream your gameplay, take screenshots, upload videos to social networks, and more. For all the details, head here

GeForce Game Ready Driver - Download Now

Learn more about GeForce Game Ready Drivers here; download the new GeForce Game Ready 517.48 WHQL driver through GeForce Experience.

If you experience any technical issues with the new Game Ready drivers please post a detailed report on the GeForce.com Driver Feedback Forum, where our Customer Care team can better assist you. And if you’re looking for a full list of fixes in this driver, for previously-reported issues, head here