By Darren Allan
Alongside the release of its new GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, Nvidia is unleashing a fresh graphics card driver which promises a performance boost in DirectX 12 games.
Those running DX12 games (under Windows 10) will benefit from driver optimizations which according to Nvidia will deliver an average performance boost of 16% across these various titles.
The biggest gains are to be seen in Rise of the Tomb Raider, with a rather incredible 33% boost to the frame rate, and Nvidia also boasts that Hitman will get a similarly chunky 23% improvement.
Gears of War 4 will be boosted to the tune of 10%, Ashes of the Singularity by 9%, and Tom Clancy’s The Division will get a more modest increase of 4%. Still, every extra bit of smoothness is welcome, as ever.
Ansel antics
Better performance is the key point with this new driver, but those who like to take screenshots of their games will also be interested to learn that Nvidia Ansel support has arrived for another Tom Clancy game, namely Ghost Recon Wildlands.
Ansel (pictured above) is essentially a screen-grabber on steroids, pausing the game at the moment you wish to capture, and then allowing you to enter the game-world …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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