A new driver release by Nvidia makes the green team's cards that much more optimized for new and upcoming games, specifically Monster Hunter: World's PC release on August 9, and World of Warcraft's next expansion, Battle for Azeroth on August 13.
Nvidia gamers who are looking to play either game on launch day will want to make sure that they are running these latest drivers to ensure that they are "Game Ready." Although neither features cutting edge graphics, both are likely to be fairly taxing on even mid-tier systems, so making sure yours is as optimized as possible before release is a good plan.
Other games receiving optimization in this release include BattleTech, Conan Exiles, Destiny 2: Warmind, Frostpunk, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, State of Decay 2, the Crew Closed Beta, and The Crew 2.
Feature updates in this release include new support for CUDA 9.2, official support for the Windows April Update, Nvidia RTX technology support for ray tracing on Volta GPUs, Vulkan 1.1 support, and improvements to HD Audio and the NVDECode API.
There are bug fixes too in this release, including ones related to G-Sync settings and surround mode. World of Warcraft: Legion will no longer have odd color corruption when HDR and G-Sync are being used on a GTX 1080 graphics card, and Dark Souls Remastered now has a fix to stop the ghosting problem caused by temporal anti-aliasing.
Download the new driver here.
