NVIDIA has today released GeForce Game Ready 527.56 WHQL driver. The driver brings support for Portal with RTX, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt next-gen update and Jurassic World Evolution 2’s DLSS 3 update.
Game Ready For Portal with RTX – Out Now For Free On PC!
Now 15 years old, Portal remains a timeless classic, with gameplay as fresh, engaging and exciting as it was back in 2007. Today, we’re releasing a fully ray-traced reimagining of Portal in collaboration with Valve, for free. Called Portal with RTX, it uses the power of GeForce RTX graphics cards to render every aspect of Portal with previously unimaginable, jaw-dropping detail.
Each ray of light uses GPU-intensive full ray tracing, also known as path tracing, to accurately model the real-world properties of light, and how that light affects every surface and object. Compared to our work on Quake II RTX and Minecraft with RTX, light bounces up to four times more, and new technologies are incorporated, making Portal with RTX one of the most advanced showcases for simulated light in gaming.
Illumination, shadows, reflections, refraction, and everything in between are all a result of the fully ray traced world, and its interactions with the upgraded and enhanced assets that have been rebuilt hand in hand with Valve.
Game Ready For The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s Next-Gen Update
On December 14th, all The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt PC players will receive a free update that adds various gameplay changes, new quest content, and new graphics features that take full advantage of the latest PCs and laptops.
Here’s what to expect:
- RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) adds more immersive and realistic outdoor ray-traced lighting
- Ray-traced ambient occlusion improves shading around objects occluding light
- Ray-traced shadows improve the fidelity, clarity and visibility of shadows
- Ray-traced reflections increase the accuracy and quality of reflections on bodies of water and other suitably reflective surfaces
On top of that, Ultra+ settings increase draw distances, foliage density, background character detail, asset quality, and more. Texture resolutions are increased and environments gain new geometric detail. The list goes on!
To accelerate your performance when all of these features are enabled and maxed out, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s next-gen update also introduces support for NVIDIA DLSS 3, enabling GeForce RTX 40 Series gamers to multiply their performance.
Game Ready For Jurassic World Evolution 2’s DLSS 3 Update
Frontier Developments, in collaboration with Universal Games and Digital Platforms, is releasing the Jurassic World Evolution 2: Dominion Malta Expansion today.
Set before the epic events of Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment’s Jurassic World Dominion, the Jurassic World Evolution 2: Dominion Malta Expansion will task players with helping to lead a brand-new enterprise in Malta. Working alongside Cabot Finch and a star-studded cast of characters, including Kayla Watts (voiced by DeWanda Wise), Soyona Santos (voiced by Dichen Lachman), Barry Sembène (voiced by Omar Sy), and Lewis Dodgson (voiced by Campbell Scott) players will set up parks across three stunning Mediterranean locations.
Available alongside the paid DLC is a free update for all existing players, which includes DLSS 3, and a range of new features, including attacking and eating behaviors for smaller species, five campaign levels now available to play as challenge maps, a range of new skin and pattern colors for select dinosaur variants, and a range of Quality of Life enhancements.
Fixed Issues
- [GeForce RTX 4090] Watch Dogs 2 may display flickering when staring at the sky [3858016]
- Games utilizing DLSS 3 may crash when ending a recording using Shadowplay or OBS with NVENC [3817185]
- Older versions of Minecraft Java Edition show corruption on screen [3870232]
- [Microsoft Surface Book 2] Display driver fails to install on GeForce GTX 1060 [3876764]
- [RTX 4090] No display when hot plugging back and forth between DisplayPort and HDMI [3672801]
- Errors in Adobe Premiere and After Effects with H.264 and HEVC content [3881781]
Known Issues
- Toggling HDR on and off in-game causes game stability issues when non-native resolution is used. [3624030]
- [DirectX 12] Shadowplay recordings may appear over exposed when Use HDR is enabled from the Windows display settings. [200742937]
- Monitor may briefly flicker on waking from display sleep if DSR/DLDSR is enabled. [3592260]
- [Halo Wars 2] In-game foliage is larger than normal and displays constant flickering [3888343]
- [Steam version] Forza Horizon 4 may freeze after 15-30 minutes of gameplay [3866530]
You can download GeForce Game Ready 527.56 WHQL driver from NVIDIA’s site here or through GeForce Experience.
