# Installing the recommended Windows Drivers for V-Ray GPU on Windows **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [July 11, 2023, 9:16am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/installing-the-recommended-windows-drivers-for-v-ray-gpu-on-windows/115740 "2023-07-11T09:16:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Muhammed\_Hamed](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/muhammed_hamed/32/73779_2.png) [@Muhammed\_Hamed](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Muhammed_Hamed)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 9:16am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/installing-the-recommended-windows-drivers-for-v-ray-gpu-on-windows/115740/1 "2023-07-11T09:16:44Z")
The recommended Nvidia drivers for V-Ray GPU are tested and verified by our QA. You will find the recommended drivers for Geforce and Quadro cards on our [V-Ray GPU product page](https://www.chaos.com/vray-gpu). Currently the recommended driver for Geforce cards is 572.16 Studio driver and for Quadro cards is R570 U1 (572.16) Please keep in mind a stable driver is big part of a reliable GPU rendering experience, please don’t update your drivers whenever Nvidia releases a new build, you need to wait for us to test/verify before updating. If you use an old or new drivers you will find a warning message in V-Ray’s log. It is normal that we recommend a certain driver for up to 3 months, this happens if there are issues with newer released drivers. We communicate closely with Nvidia when we recommend a certain driver, and if we found issues/instability. If you need to update your current driver for compatibility with other applications please send me a message here or an Email to [muhammed.hamed@chaos.com](mailto:muhammed.hamed@chaos.com), we will test and verify a new driver for your case. **Installing the recommended drivers for V-Ray GPU** - Visit [V-Ray GPU](https://www.chaos.com/vray-gpu) page to check the recommended drivers, it is in the banner at the top - If you have a Geforce card you can find the driver [here](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/)Using manual search, if you have a Quadro card use [this link](https://www.nvidia.com/download/index.aspx) to find the recommended Quadro drivers(If it shows a different version, please copy and paste the recommended Quadro driver version in Google to download it) - Click on **Start Search** , you will get a list of drivers sorted by what is **newly-added**. In this case the recommended drivers we tested are 536.40, click on **Get Download** , then click **Download now** in the next page - Once downloaded, **run the file as Administrator**. It will ask you for a path to unpack the contents, the default location is fine in this case - Click on **Nvidia Graphics Driver** , we don’t recommend installing Geforce Experience for stability reasons(unless you use some of its gaming features) - Click on **Custom Install** , and check the **Clean Install checkbox.** Keep in mind this resets any settings you have in Nvidia Control Panel, so you will need to manually change your Nvidia control panel settings(see below) every time you install a new driver - Click **Next** , wait for the installation to finish. At the point you need to save your work and close all other applications, the screen will flicker multiple times which is normal. - When installation is finished we recommend to reboot your machine to be safe. Now we can get to changing some of the Nvidia Control Panel settings **Nvidia Control Panel Settings,** Keep in mind that doing a Clean Install of drivers resets all settings to their defaults, so you will need to change these settings every time you install a driver. The following settings are key in getting the expected performance out of V-Ray GPU. Additionally when you launch the Nvidia Control Panel from Start menu and click on the home button you will verify the version of drivers you have installed ​ - Go to **Manage 3D Settings** , Scroll down to **Power Management Mode** and change it to **Prefer Maximum Performance** (this slightly increases the power draw of the GPUs in idle state by a slight margin, this is very important to avoid performance issues on GPU rendering with Vantage and V-Ray GPU). Click on **Apply Changes** - If you have multiple GPUs, Change **OpenGL rendering GPU** to the card you have your monitors attached to(this card will be used for viewport performance across all DCC application) and Click on **Apply Changes** **Other Windows Settings we recommend for GPU rendering,** We recommend enabling **Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling** option in Windows 10 and 11(enabled by default in Windows 11) This will free up VRAM accessible to V-Ray GPU on your GPU(s) This option is available Under **System, Display, Graphics, Default Graphics Settings** This option requires a system restart to take effect If you have questions please let us know Best, Muhammed ---
**Author:** ![Muhammed\_Hamed](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/muhammed_hamed/32/73779_2.png) [@Muhammed\_Hamed](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Muhammed_Hamed)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/installing-the-recommended-windows-drivers-for-v-ray-gpu-on-windows/115740/2 "2024-04-28T18:30:25Z")
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**Author:** ![Muhammed\_Hamed](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/muhammed_hamed/32/73779_2.png) [@Muhammed\_Hamed](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Muhammed_Hamed)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 10:25am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/installing-the-recommended-windows-drivers-for-v-ray-gpu-on-windows/115740/3 "2024-10-10T10:25:01Z")
Recommended driver updated to 561.09 Studio driver for Geforce cards, and R550 U9(553.09) ---
**Author:** ![Muhammed\_Hamed](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/muhammed_hamed/32/73779_2.png) [@Muhammed\_Hamed](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Muhammed_Hamed)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 8:20am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/installing-the-recommended-windows-drivers-for-v-ray-gpu-on-windows/115740/4 "2025-01-13T08:20:41Z")
Recommended driver updated to 566.14 Studio driver and for Quadro cards is R550 U12(553.50) ---
**Author:** ![Muhammed\_Hamed](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/muhammed_hamed/32/73779_2.png) [@Muhammed\_Hamed](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Muhammed_Hamed)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 10:12am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/installing-the-recommended-windows-drivers-for-v-ray-gpu-on-windows/115740/5 "2025-02-26T10:12:58Z")
Recommended driver updated to 572.16 Studio driver and for Quadro cards is R570 U1 (572.16) ---
**Author:** ![Muhammed\_Hamed](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/muhammed_hamed/32/73779_2.png) [@Muhammed\_Hamed](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Muhammed_Hamed)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 6:48am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/installing-the-recommended-windows-drivers-for-v-ray-gpu-on-windows/115740/6 "2025-07-28T06:48:13Z")
Recommended driver updated to 576.80 Studio driver for Geforce and Quadro cards. If you see a warning in the log please ingore. We will fix this ASAP ---
**Author:** ![Muhammed\_Hamed](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/muhammed_hamed/32/73779_2.png) [@Muhammed\_Hamed](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Muhammed_Hamed)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 8:33am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/installing-the-recommended-windows-drivers-for-v-ray-gpu-on-windows/115740/7 "2026-06-23T08:33:37Z")
Recommended driver is updated to 610.62 Studio driver. If you see a warning in the log please ignore, the log will be updated soon.