Nvidia have launched a new driver for its GPUs; according to the changelog, this new driver includes game specific patches for the upcoming Street Fighter 5 and Hitman, both of which are major titles launching on PC in the coming month.
Of these, Hitman, especially, looks graphically stunning at times, and so probably needs game specific drivers the most. Street Fighter 5, on the other hand, is probably getting full support from Capcom to ensure that it doesn’t have a disastrous launch like so many PC ports from Japanese publishers often do.
In addition to these two upcoming games, the new driver update also includes a new SLI profile for Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, which should offer better SLI scaling for that title- something that the game has famously struggled with so far, as well as new profiles for XCOM 2 and Need for Speed.
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Application SLI Profiles
- Added or updated the following SLI profiles:
- Assassin’s Creed Syndicate – SLI profile changed (with driver code as well) to
make the application scale better
Bless – SLI set to SLI-Single - Need for Speed – profile EXEs updated to support trial version of the game
- Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare 2 – SLI profile added
- XCOM 2 – SLI profile added (including necessary code change)
- Assassin’s Creed Syndicate – SLI profile changed (with driver code as well) to
Windows 10 Fixed Issues
- TDR on Illustrator CC 2015 with drivers post Release 353. [1726408]
- [361.75] Enabling NVIDIA Surround after a driver clean install causes NVIDIA
Control Panel to crash. [1724062] - Windows 10 Open Devices and Printers ejects NVIDIA GPU. [1720849]
- Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 intermittently crashes on exit with NVIDIA drivers post
Release 353. [1711214] - [SLI, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate] Need SLI profile. [1666227]
Windows 8.1/Windows 8/Windows 7/Windows Vista Fixed Issues
- [Quadro K5200, Quadro M4000] Poor performance observed with Dassault Catia V5
R20, R21, R22. [200170447] - [361.75] Enabling NVIDIA Surround after a driver clean install causes NVIDIA
Control Panel to crash. [1724062] - [SLI] Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege shows corruption when Alt+Tab used in fullscreen
mode. [1724562] - [SLI, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate] Need SLI profile. [1666227]
Street Fighter 5 is due to launch on February 16; Hitman launches next month, but will have a beta on PC over this coming weekend.
