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Nvidia GeForce 387.92 WHQL driver optimized for Shadow of War, Forza Motorsport 7 & The Evil Within 2

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NVIDIA has released a new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the Nvidia GeForce 387.92 WHQL driver driver offers optimal performance for Shadow of War and The Evil Within 2. In addition, NVIDIA claims that this new driver offers better performance in Forza Motorsport 7.

We’ve already published our PC Performance Analysis for Forza Motorsport 7, however we’ll be sure to test the game with it. As we’ve found out, the NVIDIA GTX980Ti was underused in low resolutions. As such, we are curious whether this driver has resolved this issue.

In addition, this driver provides optimal gaming experience for 4A Games’ new VR game, ARKTIKA.1.

This driver also adds some really interesting features. The Nvidia GeForce 387.92 driver now supports OpenGL 4.61, GameStream support for HDR and Fast Sync for SLI.

Furthermore, this driver adds/updates the SLI profiles for Earthfall, Lawbreakers, Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, Nex Machina, ReCore, RiME, Snake Pass, Tekken 7, The Evil Within 2 and We Happy Few.

Last but not least, this new driver adds support for the DirectX Intermediate Language. This includes full support for DirectX 12 Shader Model 6.0. Do note that only NVIDIA Kepler and later GPUs support this though.

Those interested can download this new driver from here. You can also read the full release notes here.

Enjoy!

34 thoughts on “Nvidia GeForce 387.92 WHQL driver optimized for Shadow of War, Forza Motorsport 7 & The Evil Within 2”

      2. Haha no.

        If there is one f*cking game that deserves to bomb it’s Shadow of Lootboxes. Seriously f*ck this game, it’s pure distilled cancer, giving WB any money for this is like selling your soul to the devil.

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        1. You’re entitled to your opinion. Do not buy/play the game if you will but hacking it is just stealing plain old simple. I was not telling him to buy the game against his will. I was just telling him to buy the game if he’s interested in the product and if he likes the franchise. Otherwise meh.

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          1. I won’t even bother pirating this, hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if Najam wasn’t saying he wants to pirate the game either, it’s that this game deserves to bomb hard and I’d be happy to see it cracked on day one just to stick it to the WB beancounters responsible for all the lootboxes and microstransactions cancer in this game.

  2. “Optimized for Forza Motorsport 7”

    Won’t help, problem lies in the hands of the devs… The lazy consoleasslicking devs…

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  3. So much and often,these new drivers fly around. And here I am still using driver 350.12 version on a almost 2 year old Win7 OS and all is well. 🙂
    Wonder if the drivers really optimize the game that is written for. I never play those hyped AAA games that everybody is fapping when it comes out.

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    1. I’m confused about those drivers, too. Do they really make the mentioned games perform better? What about the other titles?
      I’ve grown really skeptical about updates of any kind if they come from irreputable developers.

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      1. Freaky right? But guess technically it should work. Guess they just write in new code for those new games,so they work better.
        Also,then,those games are not so well optimized if it needs extra driver update. Just how would the games work without it? 🙂
        But I remembered that when Skyrim came out it was a bit badly optimized,actually I had a week graphics card. And by simply downloading a small dll file (I think),not even of 1mb size,the game worked much better,because the game noticed as if I have a better graphics card. 🙂

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        1. No, I mean the titles NVIDIA wasn’t focused on improving in terms of performance when making this driver. So it would be all games minus Shadow of War, Forza Motorsport 7 & The Evil Within 2. For example: what would run Grand Theft Auto V better? The driver from this article or the game ready driver from 2015 which was made with GTA V in mind?

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          2. The thing is, it could be good for NVIDIA. Nerfing the performance would make people forced to buy newer cards sooner. I’ve seen many apologists who would rather chalk up the problem to the age of the GPU itself and not drivers/game optimization, even though the performance in the same titles which worked well got worse (creeping normality). Those people would rather buy new hardware than search for a software solution, so that would work on them.
            Also, search for this query:
            “Nvidia is deliberately downgrading kepler gpu’s performance in favor of Maxwell.”
            I like their cards, but damn. After such incidents I can’t trust them and simply believe that the changes they will bring will be for better. Whether it’s deliberate or just a hack job, I don’t want to use such drivers.

      3. You usually see a small increase in performance. Worse case scenario the game crashes and has poor frame pacing with old out of date drivers. I update regardless so whatever.

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    2. if you play older games then you can keep the stable drivers and be just fine. An example would be my youngest daughter. She plays Skyrim, Garry’s mod, Killing floor 2, Sims 4 and Left 4 dead 2 almost exclusively. Her drivers are more than a half a year old.

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  4. This driver also fix the ram issues that users of cemu (and some from rpcs3 too) were getting when loading shaders.

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  5. Im still looking for a freaking good driver for gears of war 4. Faq my life, its like 6 months now with crappy drivers and blue screens. And the devs are doing nothing to help the user neither.

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    1. 4. Microsoft Games folder, then click on Gears of War folder (if you have placed Gears of War folder in another location on your computer go to that location and find Gears of War)
      5. Look for Binaries
      6. Once Binaries is open scroll down until you find Startup application (not startup.dll)
      7. Right click on it and click on Run as Administator

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  6. let’s see how it performs with Agents of Mayhem aswell, the game ready driver for that game was way worse than the previous one…

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  9. In other news, the fad is dying. Surprise!

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4a73f517154815f97c37718bd7a5a56138a5e2250775870f0e6a2bcfefc2045f.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b8a054532cb229469dc6abf0f29c1caf1f99c221488937b34710814d4fb3af40.jpg

    And before anyone points to China, Korea, or just Asia; yes, it’s going strong there, but only for now. It’ll only last as long as it takes them to make a F2P Clone, at which point it’ll dissipate & die near-instantaneously (not to mention how they’ve already misstepped with their Asia release, which hasn’t won them any good will with that crowd, in the least). No wonder they’re so desperate to make the console releases sooner, rather than later. Got to milk that sh*t before the fad keels over dead!

    Not to mention the damage Fornite is doing to them…..

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    1. it was fun while it lasted.

      I want a new videocard but prices are high because of bitcoin mining, hopefully that fad will die too.

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      1. This mining stuff seems to be cyclical. Maybe not too long before some sensibility is restored to pricing by retailers but there will probably be more waves of mining craze to follow in the future.

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