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NVIDIA today released Game Ready Driver 522.25 which essentially adds support for the new GeForce RTX 4090 and Day 1 optimizations for future games like Scorn (out in two days), A Plague Tale: Requiem (out in six days) , Uncharted: Legacy by Thieves Collection (out in seven days) and Gotham Knights (out in nine days).
However, NVIDIA also has a surprise for existing GeForce RTX owners. The new Game Ready driver also greatly improves DirectX 12 performance in several games such as:
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: up to 24% (1080p)
- Battlefield 2042: up to 7% (1080p)
- Borderlands 3: up to 8% (1080p)
- Call of Duty: Vanguard: up to 12% (4K)
- Control: up to 6% (4K)
- Cyberpunk 2077: up to 20% (1080p)
- F1 22: up to 17% (4K)
- Far Cry 6: up to 5% (1440p)
- Forza Horizon 5: up to 8% (1080P)
- Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition: до 8% (4k)
- Red Dead Redemption 2: up to 7% (1080p)
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider: до 5% (1080p)
- Tom Clancy’s The Division 2: up to 5% (1080p)
- Watch Dogs: Legion: до 9% (1440p)
NVIDIA has been pretty vague about these DX12 enhancements available with the Game Ready 522.25 driver, although it does say they include shader build optimizations, reduced CPU overhead, and resizable BAR profiles. In general, optimizations make better use of your graphics card, especially in CPU-related scenarios.
As always with new versions of NVIDIA Game Ready drivers, the full release notes reveal some fixed issues such as:
- [Teardown] Fixed performance degradation when using MSI Afterburner overlay.
- Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands exhibits texture distortion after extended gameplay on NVIDIA GPUs
- UE5.1 crashes when path tracking is enabled on some drivers
You can download the NVIDIA Game Ready 522.25 drivers from link.
