Nvidia has released its GeForce 382.53 WHQL driver update. The update includes optimizations for DiRT 4, Nex Machina, and also adds profiles for Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, Little Nightmares, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and Transformers Online.

There are other changes made, too- on the whole, it sounds like Nvidia is cleaning up a lot of the mess made by some previous driver updates. You can check out the full patch notes for the update for yourself below.

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Provides the optimal gaming experience for DiRT 4 and Nex Machina.

Application SLI Profiles
Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

• Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition
• Little Nightmares
• PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
• Transformers Online

3D Vision Profiles
Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:

• Tekken 7 – Fair
• DiRT 4 – Not Recommended
• Nex Machina – Not Recommended
• Quake Champions – Good

Software Module Versions

• NView – 148.47
• HD Audio Driver – 1.3.34.27
• NVIDIA PhysX System Software – 9.17.0329
• GeForce Experience – 3.6.0.74
• CUDA – 8.0

Fixed Issues:

• [DirectX 11 games]: On some titles, in-game V-Sync does not work if Fast Sync is selected from the NVIDIA Control Panel. Consequently, the game frame rate is not locked to the maximum refresh rate, resulting in possible tearing. [200304603]
• [Aerofly RC 7]: Corruption occurs in the game when shadows are enabled. [1921628]
• [OpenGL][Tombstone Enginer]: Driver update causes corruption in Tombstone engine games. [1915851]
• [SLI][GeForce GTX]: The secondary display remains blank after switching from Clone or Extended mode to secondary-only display mode. [200288996]

A source said to have “knowledge” regarding an “unspoken API”, which is assumed to be DirectX 12, has spoken to Tom’s Hardware about the potential capacity for PC gaming that utilises GPU’s from both Nvidia GeForce and AMD Radeon.

Expected to launch alongside the upcoming Windows 10 operating system, DirectX 12 looks as though it may be leading the charge in the combo GPU field allowing users to make use of platform specific features such as AMD’s TrueAudio and FreeSync and Nvidia’s GeForce Experience software and 3D Vision. While this has strong merits for gaming on the PC, development for the optimization and distribution of these graphics resources is left up to developers. This means that the option is available should the developer wish to utilize it.

Whether or not the aforementioned “unspoken API” is in fact DirectX 12 is still in question, but given that it’s expected to be on the way and there’s been a lot of chatter about it’s gaming prowess, it’s a safe assumption to make. Still, you should take this with a grain of salt.

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