NVidia Geforce Graphics driver 473.81 Security Update. - Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for all major new releases, including Virtual Reality games. Prior to a new title launching, our driver team works until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix is included for the best gameplay on day one.

Nvidia stopped issuing GPU drivers updates to systems running Windows 8 and 7 in late 2021. Still, the company promised to release periodical security patches to unsupported devices until September 2024. One such update has just become available to those refusing to upgrade to Windows 10 or 11.

Driver 473.81 is available only to systems running Windows 7 and 8, and it contains no new features or game-related fixes. According to the release notes, the driver brings only security patches, and all the details will soon be available on the Nvidia Product Security Page. Nvidia says users with supported hardware need to update to Windows 10 and 11 to receive performance enhancements, new features, bugfixes, and game-specific improvements.

Hardware-wise, Nvidia GeForce 473.81 driver supports desktop graphics cards from the GTX 600 to RTX 3000 Series and mobile GPUs from the GeForce 800 Series to RTX 3000 Series. Users can download the latest release from the official Nvidia website.