The Witcher 3 releases tomorrow and as you may have guessed, NVIDIA has released a new driver focused on this highly anticipated RPG. According to the release notes, this new WHQL comes with SLI support and GeForce Experience 1-click optimizations for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. In addition, this new driver features SLI profiles for Magicka 2, Civilization: Beyond Earth and World of Warships.
Those interested can download the driver from here.
And here is the release notes for NVIDIA’s GeForce 352.86 WHQL driver:
Game Ready
Best gaming experience for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, including support for SLI
Technology and GeForce Experience one-click optimizations.Application Profiles
Added or updated the following SLI profiles:
• HairWorks: FurViewer – DX11 SLI profile added
• Magicka 2 – DX11 SLI profile added
• Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth – Updated DX11 SLI profile
• Witcher 3 – DX11 SLI profile added
• World Of Warships – DX9 SLI profile added3D Vision Profiles
Added or updated the following profiles:
• Battlefield: Hardline – Not recommended
• Dying Light – Not recommended
• Killing Floor 2 – Not recommended
• Lords of the Fallen – Not recommended
• Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes – Not recommended
Release 352 Graphics Drivers for Windows, Version 352.68 RN-W35268-01v01 | 4
Chapter 2 : RELEASE 352 DRIVER CHANGES
• Project CARS – Not recommended
• The Crew – Fair
• The Witcher 3 – Not recommended
• Total War: Attila – Not recommended3D Compatibility Mode Support
• Battlefield: Hardline – Excellent
• Dying Light – Excellent
• Elite Dangerous – Fixed profile
• Lords of the Fallen – Excellent
• Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes – Excellent
• The Crew – Excellent
• Total War: Attila – GoodSoftware Modules
• HD Audio Driver – version 1.3.34.3
• NVIDIA PhysX System Software – version 9.15.0428
• GeForce Experience – version 2.4.3.22
• CUDA – version 7.5Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 8.1 Fixed Issues
• [Quad SLI, Titan X] NVIDIA Control Panel is missing the 4-GPU alternate rendering
option. [200102851/1628781]
• [347.09] After a game being quit, the GPU stays in the P0 state if ShadowPlay with
Power Management in the NVIDIA Control Panel is set to Prefer Maximum
Performance. [200093247]
• [3D Vision, DX11, Grand Theft Auto 5] Some GUI text is not rendered in the left eye
view. [200092755]
• [350.12, World of Warcraft] Texture shimmering occurs after driver updated. [1636434]
• [SLI, World of Warships] SLI support needed for the game World of Warships.
[1630149]
• [Firefox] Firefox Nightly crashes when started on the NVIDIA GPU on an Optimus
system. [1609030]
• [Windows 7-x64, GeForce GTX 970] GPU usage is limited with Stereoscopic 3D
enabled, despite games running in 2D. [1601333]
• [Windows 7-x64, Optimus, GeForce GT 640M LE] Steam Overlay does not work with
Optimus. [1588623]
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Just found out im at work ALL DAY tomorrow 🙁
Just feel lucky you CAN work. I’m not permitted to work for medical reasons for the forseeable future! Just paying my smartphone bill is going to suuuuuuck 🙂
Yeah, I am lucky especially where I live as there is a lot of immigrants and not enough jobs to go around. Its not very often I get a day off so I was really happy to hear id have the day to myself on the same day TW3 releases.
Today I found out ill be in Nottingham all day instead though and Its always a long day there, at least 10 hours without travel time.
Looks like 3D Vision is dead.
Maybe from Nvidia it is, but not with the community who make and mod their own fixes.
… and HD3D … and FreeSync…
AMD better have a follow up with the Project CARS fixes today as well.
Ha good luck with that.
Guys,check this article,Witcher 3 performance.I can say dis-we are fucked.with hairworks ON even Titan x can’t reach 60 fps.Like it isn’t enough they downgrade game to peasant graphics,now it loks like it’s gonna be another AC Unity optimization.aa hahah…..damn 🙁
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/The-Witcher-3-PC-237266/Specials/Grafikkarten-Benchmarks-1159196/
Um, dedicated PhysX card, noob? : You fear-mongers are pathetic.
dedicated car for titan only for hairworks.You probably have this combo,otherwise you wouldn’t call someone noobs here,right you angry child?
This driver has a newer version of PhysX compared to the last beta and WHQL drivers.
Dudes I just finished playing the game after an hour of gameplay. NO WATER
TESSELLATION!! The water is horrible. 🙁 I have an MSI 970 OC, i7
4790K and have 60fps with everything ULTRA except foliage quality and distance which
is high. Had to disable hairworks because all I got was 10 fps minus
many times during gameplay especially when fighting many enemies and to
tell you the truth it wasn’t that much of a difference. Ok on enemies
i.e wolves you could see the fur but to lose10+ fps no thank you! Glad I
overclocked my card cause I wasn’t expecting to play the game on Ultra
settings with 60fps. But my overall experience wasn’t really positive.
The graphics in general is not something to get excited. And something
that I noticed is that the game is not open world! Shocking? Yes. Why? Because in many areas without wandering far away it kept telling me you
have reached the end of the world! Turn back! LOL! Don’t know if it was telling me because I had an active quest but it let me wander off at distance. Don’t understand what’s going on.