NVIDIA’s Latest Game Ready Driver Tackles The Division, Need For Speed & Hitman

Just in time for tonight’s late-night release of Tom Clancy’s The Division, NVIDIA has released a brand-new Game Ready driver (364.47) to help deliver the best possible experience for GeForce gamers. This driver is also being considered a Game Ready driver for Hitman, due out this Friday, Need for Speed, dropping next Tuesday, as well as Ashes of the Singularity, a DirectX 12 game that was released last fall, but is still considered to be in “early access”.

The Division doesn’t support a great number of NVIDIA GameWorks features, but it does support the company’s ambient occlusion technology HBAO+ as well as ShadowWorks with PCSS (Percentage Closer Soft Shadow). NVIDIA certifies that the game will work just fine with DSR (dynamic super resolution), 4K resolution, G-SYNC, and SLI.

According to NVIDIA, to enjoy The Division ideally at 1080p, you’ll want at least a GTX 970; at 1440p, the recommendation bumps to a GTX 980 Ti. 4K recommendations are not mentioned, but given the requirements we do know about, I think it’s safe to say that 4K will at the very least require two GTX 980 cards.

If GTX 970 sounds like a high cost-of-entry for 1080p gaming, get ready for that becoming standard. Need for Speed came out to consoles first this past fall, with EA promising that more work was being done to the PC version to make it the game’s best version. That has resulted in some pretty hefty system requirements, including a GTX 970 for 1080p. It’s not explicitly stated, but we’d assume nothing less than a GTX 980 Ti should be used for 1440p. 4K? Well, your PC better be banging.

You can read more about the new driver right here.

Note: If you are running more than one monitor, you might want to hold off, or at least refer to here.

Edit: NVIDIA has followed up this release with GeForce 364.51 beta, which should be used if you experience any issues with 364.47.