New NVIDIA Driver Is Optimized for Microsoft Flight Simulator and WoW: Shadowlands, Which Is Getting Ray-Traced Shadows Soon

Aug 17, 2020 at 12:26pm EDT
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A new NVIDIA driver, version 452.06, was released today, focused on optimizations for Microsoft Flight Simulator, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, A Total War Saga: TROY, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2.

As part of the press release, NVIDIA boasted that the beta of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands will soon enable ray-traced shadows in what they claim is unequivocally the way forward after other behemoths such as Minecraft, Call of Duty and the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 also embraced ray tracing technology.

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As usual, the full release notes of the NVIDIA driver also unveil a list of fixed issues, which you may find below.

Lastly, the latest NVIDIA driver also adds eight new G-SYNC Compatible displays:

The grand total is now of 110 G-SYNC Compatible displays. You can check out the whole list here. As a final note, NVIDIA said that a new Studio Driver will be released tomorrow for creators.

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