God of War NVIDIA DLSS & Reflex Game Ready Driver Released - Download and Install For The Definitive Experience

By Andrew Burnes, Ryan Narragon on January 14, 2022 | Featured Stories Drivers

Our latest GeForce Game Ready driver ensures the definitive gaming experience in God of War, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction, Hitman III, The Anacrusis, GRIT and Monster Hunter Rise. And introduces DLDSR (Deep Learning Dynamic Super Resolution), an updated NVIDIA Control Panel feature, enhancing Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) resolution with AI, to improve image quality and accelerate performance.

Additionally, there are three new NVIDIA Freestyle filters that allow you to enhance your games with Screen Space Ray-Traced Global Illumination, Screen Space Ambient Occlusion, and Dynamic Depth of Field. Plus support for 8 new G-SYNC Compatible gaming monitors and displays.

Read on to learn more about all of this fabulous stuff, and to download and install this awesome new driver on Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems, simply fire up GeForce Experience and click the "Drivers" tab.

Game Ready For God of War, Enhanced With NVIDIA DLSS and Reflex

Sony Interactive Entertainment and Santa Monica Studio’s God of War goes live on PC January 14th with enhanced graphics, exclusive PC features, and HDR. And if you play on a GeForce RTX GPU, desktop or laptop, you can enhance God of War with our AI-powered, performance accelerating NVIDIA DLSS technology, and the latency-optimizing NVIDIA Reflex for the definitive PC experience. Play as Kratos, a Spartan warrior in the realm of Norse gods and monsters, fighting epic beasts while teaching his son how to survive in this mystical world of the gods.

By installing our new Game Ready Driver, you’ll optimize your system and enable support for NVIDIA DLSS, accelerating performance on GeForce RTX GPUs. And on GeForce 900 GTX Series and newer GPUs, you can enable NVIDIA Reflex to quickly and easily reduce system latency, making gameplay snappy and responsive for even the most difficult challenges.

 

Eager to experience God of War at its very best, with all the above enhancements enabled on your PC? Check out the system requirements and recommendations chart below.

To learn more about God of War, head over to its Steam Page or Epic Games Store Page, and check out our God of War launch article.  

Game Ready For Rainbow Six Extraction With NVIDIA DLSS & Reflex

On January 20th, it’s time to join millions of players in the Rainbow Six universe and fight an evolving and deadly alien threat in Rainbow Six Extraction. Extraction is a brand-new tactical co-op PvE FPS for up to three players, featuring a deep gear and ability progression system, over 90 weapons and gadgets, 12 ever-evolving maps, unpredictable enemy mutations, and more. With NVIDIA DLSS accelerating performance and NVIDIA Reflex optimizing system latency for more responsive gameplay, GeForce RTX gamers will get the definitive Rainbow Six Extraction experience at launch.  

 

Installing our new Game Ready Driver will optimize your system and enable support for NVIDIA DLSS, accelerating performance on GeForce RTX GPUs. And on GeForce GTX 900 Series and newer GPUs, you can enable NVIDIA Reflex to quickly and easily reduce system latency.

Game Ready For All The Latest Titles

Our latest Game Ready Driver also includes optimizations and enhancements for the many games launching in the next few weeks.

HITMAN III: HITMAN III Year 2 starts on January 20, 2022! Jump into new maps, storylines, and modes with the latest Game Ready Driver for the best possible experience.

The Anacrusis: Your starship has hit a snag at the edge of explored space; the first sentient extraterrestrials that humanity’s discovered want to tear you asunder. Four humans survive first contact, and must now fight back the hordes in The Anacrusis, a four-player, co-op first-person shooter designed by Stray Bombay.

If you play on a GeForce RTX GPU, PC or laptop, your battles against the alien menace can be accelerated using NVIDIA DLSS, which you can get a first look at in our NVIDIA DLSS The Anacrusis gameplay video: 

 

GRIT: This Wild West battle royale features beautiful landscapes, trains and horses ready to ride, and epic gunplay. Saddle up with our latest Game Ready Driver and be the fastest gun in GRIT’s wild west with NVIDIA DLSS boosting performance by up to 60% at 4K, and optimized system latency courtesy of NVIDIA Reflex.

 

Monster Hunter Rise: With over 7.5 million copies sold so far, Capcom’s Monster Hunter Rise is the ultimate action role-playing game. Explore new maps, monsters, and new hunting actions in this new storyline from the Monster Hunter franchise.

Remaster Classic Games With AI-Powered DSR and Advanced Freestyle Filters

Our latest Game Ready Driver adds DLDSR (Deep Learning Dynamic Super Resolution), an AI-powered enhancement of NVIDIA DSR, which renders a game at higher, more detailed resolution before intelligently shrinking the result back down to the resolution of your monitor. This downsampling method improves image quality by enhancing detail, smoothing edges, and reducing shimmering.

DLDSR improves upon DSR by adding an AI network that requires fewer input pixels, making the image quality of DLDSR 2.25X comparable to that of DSR 4X, but with higher performance. DLDSR works in most games on GeForce RTX GPUs, thanks to their Tensor Cores. 

Check out the improvement in performance vs. the original below.  

To enable DLDSR, open the NVIDIA Control Panel, and navigate to Manage 3D Settings > DSR Factors, and select DLDSR. 

We've worked with the modding community and teamed up with Pascal Gilcher, a popular ReShade Author, to release three advanced, depth-based Freestyle filters, SSAO, Dynamic DOF, and SSRTGI, a modified version of his popular "Ray Tracing ReShade Filter". These depth-based filters are accessible by pressing Alt+F3 during gameplay when GeForce Experience’s in-game overlay is enabled in the app’s settings menu.

  • SSRTGI (Screen Space Ray Traced Global Illumination), commonly known as the “Ray Tracing ReShade Filter” enhances lighting and shadows of your favorite titles to create a greater sense of depth and realism.
  • SSAO (Screen Space Ambient Occlusion) emphasizes the appearance of shadows near the intersections of 3D objects, especially within dimly lit/indoor environments.
  • Dynamic DOF (Depth of Field) applies bokeh-style blur based on the proximity of objects within the scene giving your game a more cinematic suspenseful feel.

With DLDSR and SSRTGI combined, you can enjoy a remastered experience in classic games like Prey.  

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Support For Newly Validated G-SYNC Compatible Displays

Our newest Game Ready Driver also adds support for 8 new G-SYNC Compatible displays that deliver a baseline Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) experience that makes your gaming smoother and more enjoyable.

MANUFACTURER MODEL HDR SIZE LCD Type Resolution VRR Range
AOC AG275QG3R4B+ Yes 27" IPS 2560x1440 (QHD) 48-170Hz
AOC Q32G3WG3 Yes 32" IPS 2560x1440 (QHD) 60-165Hz
AOC AG275QXE Yes 27” IPS 2560x1440 (QHD) 48-170Hz
Dell G2723HN No 27" IPS 1920x1080 (FHD) 48-165Hz
HP OMEN 27i IPS No 27" IPS 2560x1440 (QHD) 48-165Hz
MSI MPG321UR-QD Yes 32" IPS 3840x2160 (4K) 60-144Hz
Philips 24M1N3200ZA No 24" IPS 1920x1080 (FHD) 48-165Hz
ViewSonic VX3220-4K-Pro Yes 32” IPS 3840x2160 (4K) 48-144Hz

These newly-validated monitors give gamers even more choice when searching for a great gaming display. For a complete list of all G-SYNC, G-SYNC ULTIMATE, and G-SYNC Compatible gaming monitors, check out our handy and frequently updated G-SYNC page, which can be sorted and filtered, helping you quickly find the ideal display. 

Additional Version Of GeForce RTX 3080 With 12GB GDDR6X

The GeForce RTX 3080 was the first GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics card that we released, and remains one of the best high-performance GPUs around, capable of delivering amazing performance at 4K and in the 150+ NVIDIA DLSS AI-accelerated games and apps.

Now, our GPU partners, including ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galax, Gigabyte, INNO3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac, are offering a 12GB GDDR6X version of the GeForce RTX 3080. The GeForce RTX 3080 is supported in today’s Game Ready Driver.

It has a reduced hashrate for Ethereum mining to help with availability for gamers. The original GeForce RTX 3080 with 10GB will remain; the new 12GB is simply an additional version. For more details on this new RTX 3080 option, visit the product page on GeForce.com.

GeForce Game Ready Driver - Download Now

Learn more about GeForce Game Ready Drivers here. You can download the new GeForce Game Ready 511.23 WHQL driver through GeForce Experience.

If you experience any technical issues with the new Game Ready drivers please post a detailed report on the GeForce.com Driver Feedback Forum, where our Customer Care team can better assist you. And if you’re looking for a full list of fixes in this driver, for previously-reported issues, head here.