NVIDIA has just announced that it has discovered a couple of issues that affected Kepler GPUs in The Witcher 3, and is currently working on driver updates to resolve them. This is undoubtedly great news for all owners of such graphics cards, as the performance of CDPR’s RPG was underwhelming on those GPUs. Continue reading NVIDIA on The Witcher 3 – New Driver Updates Will Address Kepler Issues
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AMD on The Witcher 3 Hairworks Performance Issues, Optimization & Graphics Innovation
It’s been a really tough week for AMD. The Witcher 3 has just been released and according to reports, the game’s Hairworks effects have a huge performance impact on all Radeon GPUs. AMD accused NVIDIA for sabotaging AMD cards in The Witcher 3, and some media tried defending the green team. And AMD decided yesterday to answer a lot of questions that arose during these past few days about its innovations, the Hairworks performance issues in The Witcher 3, and the whole optimization procedure. Continue reading AMD on The Witcher 3 Hairworks Performance Issues, Optimization & Graphics Innovation
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – New Video Details NVIDIA GameWorks Graphical Effects
NVIDIA has released a new video for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, showing off its GameWorks effects that will be featured in it. According to NVIDIA, over three-dozen animals and monsters feature NVIDIA HairWorks for stunningly realistic fur and hair that moves with the creatures movement as well as environmental effects such wind. Continue reading The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – New Video Details NVIDIA GameWorks Graphical Effects
NVIDIA GeForce 352.86 WHQL Driver Releases – Game-Ready Driver for The Witcher 3
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. Continue reading NVIDIA GeForce 352.86 WHQL Driver Releases – Game-Ready Driver for The Witcher 3
New GeForce Experience Version Fixes NVIDIA’s Shield Streamer Service Performance Issues
A couple of days ago, we informed you about the performance impact of NVIDIA’s Sheild Streaming service. By default, NVIDIA had enabled this service – even on settings that were not streaming videos to Shield devices – which ultimately had a performance impact on various PC configurations. Thankfully, NVIDIA has released a new version of GeForce Experience that fixes the performance issues caused by this service. Continue reading New GeForce Experience Version Fixes NVIDIA’s Shield Streamer Service Performance Issues
NVIDIA Shield Streamer Service Impacts Performance By 3-6%, Disable For Extra FPS Boost In Games
It appears that NVIDIA has enabled a streamer service that impacts performance on PC systems that are equipped with its graphics cards. According to the research of Reddit’s “lhikary”, NVIDIA has automatically enabled NVIDIA Sheild Streamer Service on its drivers; a service that is useless to all those not owning a Shield device. Continue reading NVIDIA Shield Streamer Service Impacts Performance By 3-6%, Disable For Extra FPS Boost In Games
Report: NVIDIA GeForce 980Ti Detailed, Will Feature 6GB of VRAM, Coming in Few Weeks
Videocardz has revealed some new details – coming straight from NVIDIA’s Jen-Hsun – about NVIDIA’s new GPU, the NVIDIA GeForce 980Ti. The GeForce 980Ti will pack 6GB of VRAM, will be available with custom cooling solutions, will have five display outputs: three DisplayPorts, HDMI and DVI-I, and will sport GM200-310 GPU. Continue reading Report: NVIDIA GeForce 980Ti Detailed, Will Feature 6GB of VRAM, Coming in Few Weeks
AMD/NVIDIA Market-Share Graph Shows NVIDIA Conquering, 3 Out of 4 PC Gamers Own an NVIDIA GPU
Beyond3D’s member ‘dbz‘ has shared an interesting graph, showing the percentage of purchased NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards over the past few years. As dbz wrote, this graph was made from aggregated quarterly reports, mainly from Mercury Research with fillers from JPR where Mercury’s figures were unavailable. Continue reading AMD/NVIDIA Market-Share Graph Shows NVIDIA Conquering, 3 Out of 4 PC Gamers Own an NVIDIA GPU
AMD Catalyst 15.4 Beta & NVIDIA GeForce 350.12 WHQL Drivers Released, Optimized for Grand Theft Auto V
GTA V is almost upon us, meaning that both AMD and NVIDIA have released new optimized drivers for Rockstar’s title. AMD’s Catalyst 15.4 Beta comes with Crossfire profiles for a number of titles (like GTA V, Dying Light, Mortal Kombat X and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. On the other hand, NVIDIA’s GeForce 350.12 WHQL comes with SLI profiles for GTA V, Assassin’s Creed Rogue, Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty and Project CARS. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 15.4 Beta & NVIDIA GeForce 350.12 WHQL Drivers Released, Optimized for Grand Theft Auto V
Unreal Engine 4.6 NVIDIA VXGI – New Real-time Screenshots Show Amazing Visuals
NVIDIA had recently introduced to the public its new Dynamic GI called VXGI. VGXI has been integrated in a separate branch of Unreal Engine 4, and 3D artist “Byzantos” experimented with it. Below you can find some screenshots captured with this new Global Illumination technique in full effect. As Byzantos claimed, this is the most accurate solution available to date (especially when it comes to the performance/visuals ratio). Enjoy! Continue reading Unreal Engine 4.6 NVIDIA VXGI – New Real-time Screenshots Show Amazing Visuals