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Baldur’s Gate 3players that are playing on PC with a Nvidia graphics card can now download a new Game Ready Driver that will enhance the performance of Larian Studios' hit title. Not only willBaldur’s Gate 3gain major benefits from this latest GeForce driver, but two other games,GordandThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre, will receive a new feature on supported RTX graphics cards.
Every few weeks, Nvidia releases driver updates to optimize and improve performance across a wide variety of games, including support for new titles at the time of release, or shortly after. The new Game Ready Drivers came just three weeks after the previous drivers fromNvidia added support for the RTX 4060Ti 16GB, forRatchet and Clank: Rift Apart,andPortal: Prelude RTX, a remaster of aPortalcommunity mod that features support for ray-tracing. While some Nvidia graphics cards will not be able to take advantage of features such as deep learning super sampling (DLSS) to upscale some games, users that have compatible GPUs will be able to select new options during their next play session ofBaldur’s Gate 3.
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The latest driver for Nvidia graphics cards is version 536.99, and users will need 675.66 MB of free space to download and install it. Users will require a GeForce 700 series card or later. Once installed,Baldur’s Gate 3players that play at high resolutions will see an increase in performance. According to Nvidia, players that utilize an RTX 40 series card such asthe much-maligned 4060Ti 16GBwill see an increase of over 40 FPS with DLSS 2 turned on in performance mode whileBaldur’s Gate 3runs in 4K at Max settings. ThoughBaldur’s Gate 3does not support DLSS 3 at the time of writing, cards such as the RTX 30 series and up can utilize DLSS 2 to varying degrees inBaldur’s Gate 3as well asThe Texas Chainsaw MassacreandGordin the latest driver update. Some driver fixes forControl,Battlefield 2042, andDead Spacewere also included in version 536.99.
The Nvidia game driver update came just days after Larian Studios released amassive hotfix patch forBaldur’s Gate 3that fixed over 150 outstanding glitches issues within a day of the game’s full release. With an overall rating of 97 on the review aggregate site Metacritic,Baldur’s Gate 3is one of the highest-rated games of 2023 and a strong contender for game of the year.
The update can be downloaded by users withcompatible Nvidia graphics cardsthrough the GeForce Experience app automatically, by going to the drivers tab and selecting version 536.99. If the driver does not show up in the app, users can try manually downloadinghere.
Baldur’s Gate 3is available now for PC, with a PS5 launch on September 6 and an Xbox Series X/S version currently in development.
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