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Nvidia's new GPU driver primes your PC for Naraka: Bladepoint and Back 4 Blood

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It also adds more than a half a dozen G-Sync Compatible displays to the mix.

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Nvidia has begun pushing out an updated 'GeForce Game Ready' that brings with it optimizations for a few game launches, and specifically Naraka: Bladepoint (Psychonauts 2 (August 25).

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As it pertains to Naraka: Bladepoint, Nvidia claims owners of GeForce RTX hardware will "receive the definitive experience with best-in-class performance," including for DLSS and Reflex, which will boost performance by up to 60% at 4K, and make you more competitive through the reduction of system latency."

DLSS is Nvidia's AI-powered upscaling technology, and in our experience, the latest version GeForce RTX 3080.

You can also enable DLSS in the Back 4 Blood open beta, though not Reflex, at least not in the open beta. It's possible Turtle Rock Studios could add it in by the time the game launches on October 12.

The latest GeForce driver (version 471.68) also brings GeForce Experience's one-click optimal settings trick to 20 more games (over 1,000 games are now ed), and validates seven more Asus's VG258QM and PG32UQ, Lenovo's G24-20, MSI's G251F, and ViewSonic's XG320Q.

As is often the case, the latest GPU driver introduces a handful of bug fixes, including the following:

  • [Batman Arkham Knight][GeForce 10 Series]: The game may crash when turbulence smoke is used.
  • [Hitman 3]: The game may display random flickering when V-Sync is disabled.
  • [Monster Hunter World]: The game displays flashing glitches after extended gameplay.
  • [Assassin's Creed Odyssey]: Drops in frame rate occur during gameplay and when running the benchmark.
  • [Topaz Video Enhance AI]: The application fails to process video with driver TDR error.
  • [D5 Render]: Black corruption overlay occurs with Nvidia DLSS on.
  • Rendering artifacts appear on the desktop when using Nvidia SDR deep color (10pbc).
  • [PLA Benchmark][PhysX]: The Nvidia GPU is not used for PhysX when running the benchmark.

You can have GeForce Experience fetch the latest driver if you have the utility installed, or head to Nvidia's GPU driver page to manually and install it.

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