NVIDIA has released a new GeForce Game Ready driver today, version 398.36, whose primary purpose is to deliver optimizations for Ubisoft's The Crew 2 (out now). As always with Game Ready drivers, though, there are additional fixes and additions; we've highlighted the most prominent here, though you can check the entire changelog at this address.
Game Ready - Provides the optimal gaming experience for The Crew 2.
SLI Profile - Added or updated the following SLI profiles:
Dark Souls Remastered
Hand of Fate 2
Need for Speed Payback
Super Mega Baseball 2
3D Vision Profiles - Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:
- Output Zero - Good
Driver Fixes
[Pascal GPUs][Gears of War 4][DirectX12]: Blue-screen crash may occur while playing the game. [2008731]
[Sterescopic 3D][NVIDIA Control Panel]: Switching the 3D display setting On and Off from the Windows display settings page has no effect on the NVIDIA Control Panel stereoscopic 3D settings page. [2045222]
- [G-SYNC]: G-SYNC may still be active after closing a game, causing the desktop to stutter.
- [Surround]: Multiple games crash when launched in Surround mode. [2181329]
- [HDR]: With HDR turned on, non-HDR full-screen video playback may cause corruption/flickering in the video. [200410646]
- Notebook]: Blue-screen crash occurs with Driver_Power_State_Failure error upon bootup. [2168487]
- Black Screen appears when booting Windows after installing the 397.93 display driver. [200418217]
As for The Crew 2, the game can be purchased via Amazon. Below you can find the PC system requirements.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM:
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- OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2400s @ 2.5 GHz or AMD FX-6100 @ 3.3 GHz or equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD HD 7870 (2GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better)
- Additional Notes: Game contains BattleEye (https://www.battleye.com/) anti-cheat technology and VMProtect (http://vmpsoft.com/support/user-manual/introduction/what-is-vmprotect/) anti-piracy technology.
RECOMMENDED:
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- OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4690k @ 3.5 GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 1600 @ 3.2 GHz or equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB) or GTX 970 (4GB) or AMD RX 470 (8GB) or better
- Additional Notes: Game contains BattleEye (https://www.battleye.com/) anti-cheat technology and VMProtect (http://vmpsoft.com/support/user-manual/introduction/what-is-vmprotect/) anti-piracy technology.
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