nVidia just dropped their WHQL (officially supported) release of the 275 driver today with 275.33. This comes after the 275.27 beta driver which was stated in the release as having caused a significant drop in FPS in The Witcher 2. 275.33 is the first official release in the 275-279 series of drivers, and offers many improvements over the 270 series. Most notable are the performance improvements in the 400 and 500 series cards with games such as Crysis 2, Portal 2, Batman: AA, Bulletstorm, and Civilization V seeing FPS improvements. If you're running old drivers, it looks like now is the time to get yourself updated with this new official driver. Check below for the full release via nVidia.
Alexander Morton, the Scottish actor probably best known for starring in British comedy drama Monarch of the Glen - but known to me for being the hilariously foul-mouthed dwarf Zoltan Chivay in The Witcher 2 and The Witcher 3 - has died aged 81.
Darryl Linington from Notebookchect.net writes, "The backlash around Nvidia’s AI push and DLSS 5 has opened a broader question in game development. Beyond performance and image quality, veteran artists are now weighing what AI-driven rendering means for authorship and visual control. If a system can add or reinterpret detail after the fact, the issue is no longer just technical. It becomes a question of how much of the final image still belongs to the people who built it."
The latest GeForce driver introduces DLSS 4.5 Multi Frame Generation 5x and 6x alongside Dynamic Multi Frame Generation to RTX 50-series GPUs. The former increases the number of interpolated frames to 4 and 5 (between every two rendered frames), further reducing reliance on the CPU.
Big corp bowing down to another big corp is nothing more than helping each other. But try any games it doesn't work
I don't mind frame gen but only use it if I'm already >70fps without it. It is kinda nice but if I see any visual artifacts I will turn it off. Whenever I'm playing games on my 120Hz LG C3 I will almost never use it because frame rates >120fps look really bad. I think spatial super sampling is a far more interesting and beneficial tech than frame gen. Boosting 30fps to 60fps with framegen is just garbage.
Tvs were doing this 15 years ago with their telenovela effect... Idk how anyone can play with this on.
There is definitely input lag there and artifacts.
Frame gen just has too much latency and visual glitches for me, don't think I can ever use it for most games. I'd compare with it on and off and it's a world of difference in the feel. I need the very least input lag in my gaming. Companies should rely on actual optimization. As for potato hardware, I suppose it could have it's use.
Witcher 2 here I come.
this new update messed up my optimus, GPU doesn't activates when I see flash based videos on chrome anymore but it still works on firefox and IE9 though. Weird...
Another thing is that the index score of the integrated card dropped by a whole point (1.0) and my GPU by 0.1 point. =/
But it was a nice touch that now the GPU indicator on the task-bar lights up automatically when the GPU is "on" and it turns gray when is "off". But I hate the fact that they added one additional service to keep eating up my RAM. Who the heck needs automatic update to be "on" all the time eating ram when they only update their drivers like once every 4-6 months, I can do that manually. Or why not just be "on" during an update check up and then turn "off"? Now I have like 5 Nvidia procedures running at startup on my PC with the exact same name which makes it hard to guess what can be disabled!
Nice was about to update to beta driver anyway
Is their a 32bit version? All i see is the 64bit version.
i been playing witcher 2 perfect when i updated to 270 drivers.