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Nvidia’s latest graphics driver brings DirectX 12 Ultimate support to RTX cardsPlus, nine new G-Sync Compatible monitors
Plus, nine new G-Sync Compatible monitors
I’ll take any excuse to wheel out the terrible official logo forMicrosoft’s DirectX 12 Ultimatetech gubbins, and today’s new Nvidia driver gives me just right occasion to do so, as the graphics card giant has just added support for Microsoft’s new hardware accelerated ray tracing standard to their latest GeForce driver.
The driver comes almost a month after Microsoft added support forDirectX 12 Ultimate to Windows 10, so now all Windows 10-based RTX graphics card owners should be well and truly prepped to take advantage of this more universal ray tracing standard once developers start using it in games. To download the Game Ready 451.48 WHQL driver, you can either visitNvidia’s website, or open your GeForce Experience app and install it from there.
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Right now, there are still precious fewray tracing gamesthat make use of Nvidia’s RTX GPUs, but the hope is that with the launch of the ray tracing-enabled PS5 and Xbox Series X consoles later this year, ray tracing should become a lot more prevalent in games going forward - which is just as well, seeing as how Nvidia are planning to launch their next-genNvidia AmpereRTX 3000 graphics cards some time later this year, such as theRTX 3080. Indeed, AMD’s upcoming ‘Big Navi’ graphics cards will also support ray tracing when they launch later this year, as will all newBig Navicards going forward thanks to the company’s 2nd Gen RDNA 2 architecture.
Nvidia’s DirectX 12 Ultimate driver also adds support for nine newG-Sync Compatible monitors, including the latest version of Samsung’s giant 49in super ultrawide screen monitor, the Odyssey G9, which is the 240Hz (!) successor to my much belovedCRG9, as well as one-click optimal settings for 12 games. These include Command & Conquer: Remastered Collection,Gears Tactics,Monster Train,Outer Wildsand Age Of Empires III: Complete Collection to name just a few.
