GeForce Driver 430.64 Out Now; Optimized for Rage 2 and Total War: Three Kingdoms, Improves Vulkan Performance in World War Z

Alessio Palumbo

NVIDIA released a new GeForce driver today, version 430.64. This Game Ready driver offers optimizations for the upcoming games Rage 2 (id Software/Avalanche, out on May 14th) and Total War: Three Kingdoms (Creative Assembly, out on May 23rd).

Furthermore, this new GeForce driver improves the performance of NVIDIA GPUs when running World War Z, the cooperative zombie themed third-person shooter/action game released a few weeks ago.

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World War Z Vulkan Performance Improvements

In each driver release we’re introducing optimizations and improvements for the games you’re still playing. Following double-digit improvements in our previous Game Ready Driver for Strange Brigade, we’re now improving performance by up to 18% in the recently-released World War Z:

New Game Ready Driver Supports Rage 2 and Total War: Three Kingdoms, And Accelerates World War Z Performance
As usual for any GeForce driver release, there are more fixes and additions listed in the full changelog document. You can find them below.
Application SLI Profiles - Added or updated the following SLI profiles:
• Imperator: Rome
• Insurgency Sandstorm
Fixed Issues in this Release
• Fixes higher CPU usage by NVDisplay.Container.exe introduced in 430.39 driver. [2577118]
• [3DMark Time Spy]: Flickering observed when benchmark is launched. [200511272]
• [BeamNG]: The application crashes when the game is launched. [2575392]
• [Shadow of the Tomb Raider]: The game freezes when launched in SLI mode. [2575536]
• [Hitman 2 DirectX 12]: The game crashes. [2584342]
• The desktop flickers when videos are played on the secondary monitor. [2552316 2565509]
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About the author: With over two decades of experience in gaming journalism, Alessio Palumbo has led the gaming vertical at Wccftech since August 2015. He started working at a young age for Italian websites like Everyeye.it, Gamestar.it, Nextgame.it, and Multiplayer.it before kickstarting the indie English-language publication Worlds Factory as its founder and Editor in Chief. In the last decade, he has coordinated the overall output of Wccftech's gaming section, managed PR relations, assigned reviews, produced daily news coverage, edited gaming content as needed, and delivered game reviews. Arguably, his trademark content is the long series of exclusive developer interviews that have been cited by Wikipedia and by the biggest news media and gaming publications. His passion for technology also makes him knowledgeable when it comes to gaming hardware and tech. His favorite genres include RPGs, MMORPGs, and action/adventure games.

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