NVIDIA all on DLSS, but goodbye to Kepler and old Windows

NVIDIA it is ready to touch altitude 120 between games and applications with support for Deep Learning Super Sampling, in short DLSS. The US firm is preparing to bring its AI upscaling technology up 10 more games over the course of October, included on the brand new Back 4 Blood.

Over the next few weeks, NVIDIA DLSS will find space in Baldur’s Gate 3, Chivalry 2, Crysis Remastered Trilogy, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Sword and Fairy 7 e Swords of Legends Online. Inoltre, è arrivato da poco su Alan Wake Remastered e F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch.

To hit us in this list are the two Tomb Raiders developed by Crystal Dynamics, certainly not the first hair titles. To celebrate 25 years of the series, Crystal Dynamics and NVIDIA have decided to add DLSS to 2016’s Rise of the Tomb Raider allowing all gamers with GeForce RTX GPUs to play in 4K at over 60 fps with maximum details. From October 18 Shadow of the Tomb Raider, one of the first RTX titles, will be updated to the latest version of the DLSS with benefits for both performance and image quality.

This announcement comes with the release of drivers Game Ready GeForce 496.13 WHQL which, in addition to targeted optimizations for the games already mentioned, earn the option Shader Cache Size. By changing this entry, players can change the amount of disk space used to store compiled shaders. In theory, this option can help mitigate any stuttering phenomena.

Finally, as announced in June, these drivers are the first to say goodbye to GPUs based on Kepler architecture, namely the GeForce GTX 600 and 700 / Titan series. More specifically, NVIDIA’s drivers no longer support the following models:

TITAN: GeForce GTX TITAN, GeForce GTX TITAN Black, GeForce GTX TITAN Z

GeForce 700: GeForce GTX 780 Ti, GeForce GTX 780, GeForce GTX 770, GeForce GTX 760, GeForce GTX 760 Ti (OEM), GeForce GT 740, GeForce GT 730, GeForce GT 720, GeForce GT 710

GeForce 600: GeForce GTX 690, GeForce GTX 680, GeForce GTX 670, GeForce GTX 660 Ti, GeForce GTX 660, GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST, GeForce GTX 650 Ti, GeForce GTX 650, GeForce GTX 645, GeForce GT 640, GeForce GT 635, GeForce GT 630

Instead, the GeForce GTX 750 Ti, GeForce GTX 750 and GeForce GTX 745 cards are saved which, although included in the 700 series, are based on the subsequent Maxwell architecture. Kepler architecture dates back to 2012, so it has been supported for a full nine years (well beyond its useful life). Game support and features aside, Nvidia will ensure anyway critical security updates through September 2024, thus moving the official farewell to 12 years after the introduction of architecture.

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The new drivers, as opposed to the previous 472.12 WHQL, they say goodbye also to Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 to focus on Windows 10 and 11. What is written for the old Kepler architecture also applies in this case, ie Nvidia will distribute any critical security updates until September 2024.