Not just AMD, too Nvidia in these hours he released new drivers with version 465.89 WHQL dei GeForce Game Ready (you can download them from here). For the US company this is a necessary release since it introduces optimizations for Outriders, game to be released in the next few hours that supports the DLSS to boost performance by up to 73% (according to Nvidia) on current and previous generation GeForce RTX cards.
Thanks to the greater performance guaranteed by DLSS, it is possible to choose whether to enjoy a smoother gameplay and therefore a greater number of fps or raise the resolution to enjoy higher graphics quality. Moreover, if you buy a laptop with a GeForce RTX GPU in some participating stores (and for a limited time), you will receive your own a key to free download Outriders from Steam (more details here).
In addition to the third-person cooperative play of People Can Fly and Square Enix, the drivers support the new DiRT 5 update introducing ray tracing, the Evil Genius 2: World Domination game and series Kingdom Hearts, which lands on PC via the Epic Games Store (here all the details). The drivers also carry the tecnologia Reflex in Rainbow Six Siege with the aim of giving players an edge lowering system latency by up to 30%.
Parallel to the drivers, and as anticipated in the past few hours, Nvidia remember the arrival of new ones firmware able to enable the feature Resizable BAR on the RTX 3060 Ti, 3070, 3080 and 3090 video cards (the RTX 3060 is already “ready” from the factory). The lucky few who own a partner RTX 3000, the so-called custom models, just have to check the manufacturer’s website on the page dedicated to their video card, in the Support section, to verify the presence of vBIOS and the tool to flash the firmware.
Those who have a Founders Edition, on the other hand, find information and everything they need to this address. According to Nvidia, the performance of its cards with Resizable BAR activated improve by up to 12%, at least in the 17 games listed below:
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
- Battlefield V
- Borderlands 3
- Control
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Death Stranding
- DIRT 5
- F1 2020
- Forza Horizon 4
- Gears 5
- Godfall
- Hitman 2
- Hitman 3
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Metro Exodus
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Watch Dogs Legion
Another novelty is the possibility of enable GeForce GPU passthrough on a Windows virtual machine. It’s a beta feature that winks at Linux users. “Play Windows-only titles on your virtual machine or, if you’re a developer, more easily test Windows and Linux code from a single system, accelerating development,” says Nvidia.
Finally, the drivers add five new monitors to the “G-Sync Compatible” list: the Asus XG16A laptop, the Dell S2522HG, the LG 27GP850 / 27GP83B and 32GP850 / 32GP83B and the Xiaomi Mi 245 HF1.