I’ll take any excuse to wheel out the horrible official emblem for Microsoft’s DirectX 12 Ultimate tech gubbins, and at present’s new Nvidia driver provides me excellent event to take action, because the graphics card large has simply added help for Microsoft’s new {hardware} accelerated ray tracing commonplace to their newest GeForce driver.
The driver comes virtually a month after Microsoft added help for DirectX 12 Ultimate to Windows 10, so now all Windows 10-based RTX graphics card homeowners must be properly and really prepped to benefit from this extra common ray tracing commonplace as soon as builders begin utilizing it in games. To obtain the Game Ready 451.48 WHQL driver, you’ll be able to both go to Nvidia’s website, or open your GeForce Experience app and set up it from there.
Right now, there are nonetheless valuable few ray tracing games that make use of Nvidia’s RTX GPUs, however the hope is that with the launch of the ray tracing-enabled PS5 and Xbox Series X consoles later this 12 months, ray tracing ought to develop into much more prevalent in games going ahead – which is simply as properly, seeing as how Nvidia are planning to launch their next-gen Nvidia Ampere RTX 3000 graphics playing cards a while later this 12 months. Indeed, AMD’s upcoming ‘Big Navi’ graphics playing cards may also help ray tracing once they launch later this 12 months, as will all new AMD Navi playing cards going ahead due to the corporate’s 2nd Gen RDNA 2 structure.
That stated, it’s unlikely you’ll see a large rise in your RTX card’s present ray tracing efficiency by putting in this new driver, as games have to be made with DirectX 12 Ultimate in thoughts to be able to benefit from the usual’s further options and efficiency boosts. However, in case your PC has not too long ago up to date to the May 2020 model of Windows 10, then you’ll have seen a brand new characteristic in your Graphics Settings known as “Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling”. This new characteristic permits your graphics card to handle its personal reminiscence as an alternative of getting Windows 10 try to do it, which Nvidia declare can probably assist to enhance efficiency and cut back latency – though by how a lot they didn’t say. You’ll must restart your PC earlier than it takes impact, nevertheless it’s most likely value switching on anyway as a result of each little helps, proper?
Nvidia’s DirectX 12 Ultimate driver additionally provides help for 9 new G-Sync Compatible monitors, together with the newest model of Samsung’s large 49in tremendous ultrawide display monitor, the Odyssey G9, which is the 240Hz (!) successor to my a lot beloved CRG9, in addition to one-click optimum settings for 12 games. These embrace Command & Conquer: Remastered Collection, Gears Tactics, Monster Train, Outer Wilds and Age Of Empires III: Complete Collection to call just some.
