Today NVIDIA released a new GeForce Game Ready driver for the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, the company’s latest flagship GPU. The driver offers a ton of enhancements and optimizations for a variety of games. DLSS comes to No Man’s Sky, Reflex heads to Escape From Tarkov and War Thunder, and there’s day-one support for Chivalry 2 and Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2.
It is Time for Ti!
This new driver adds support for the new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti which is out now. Powered by the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti delivers an incredible leap in performance and fidelity with acclaimed features such as ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS performance-boosting AI, NVIDIA Reflex latency-reduction, NVIDIA Broadcast streaming features, and additional memory that allows it to speed through the most popular creator applications as well. It is the new flagship gaming GPU of the RTX lineup.
No Man’s Sky Gets NVIDIA DLSS
Another important aspect of NVIDIA Game Ready drivers is that they are often used as a delivery mechanism to add new features for GeForce users. This Game Ready driver also supports NVIDIA DLSS in No Man’s Sky.
Hello Games’ popular game received an NVIDIA DLSS update, bringing the performance-accelerating technology to both desktop and virtual reality users. This update boosts performance in desktop mode by up to 70% at 4K, substantially improving the smoothness and responsiveness of gameplay, giving GeForce RTX gamers a better overall experience. In VR, DLSS doubles performance at the Ultra graphics preset, maintaining 90 FPS on an Oculus Quest 2 with a GeForce RTX 3080.
Over 130 games and applications already include ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and RTX AI technologies.
Escape From Tarkov and War Thunder Get NVIDIA Reflex
Escape from Tarkov, the high-stakes first-person shooter, is adding support for NVIDIA Reflex soon, making players more competitive by reducing system latency.
War Thunder already introduced NVIDIA Reflex support to the free-to-play military multiplayer action game. When enabled, system latency is reduced by up to 43%, perceivably improving responsiveness.
NVIDIA Reflex latency-reducing technology is also now supported in 12 of the top 15 competitive shooter-based games.
More Game Ready Goodies and Upgrades
NVIDIA’s Game Ready Driver for GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and No Man’s Sky also adds other features including:
Day one support, delivering the best experience for Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 on June 4. the long-awaited launch of Chivalry 2 on June 8th. The addition of GeForce Experience optimal settings for five new games, including:
- Aim Lab
- Biomutant
- Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time
- Everspace 2
- Redout: Space Assault
NVIDIA GeForce partnered with the blacksmith creator channel That Works to create a titanium-themed RTX 3080 Ti GPU. Watch to see how That Works uses a combination of machining, forging, and fabrication to create this one-of-a-kind GPU and a Damascus treasure chest to hold it.
