NVIDIA GeForce 497.09 Driver Brings Ray Tracing and DLSS Support for Icarus

The latest NVIDIA GeForce driver has become public and with it, several gamers volition be able to relish the latest games with several optimizations. The latest commuter (479.09) peculiarly focuses on bringing day-0 optimizations for ICARUS, the new co-op survival game by Dean Hall and RocketWerkz. The patch brings multiple benefits for RTX users, including the usual performance boots and even the support for RTX Global Illumination.

Later installing the latest commuter, players will exist able to optimize their feel using NVIDIA'south trademark performance boosts and RTX Global Illumination. This enhances the game's environments with realistic lighting from the lord's day and moon, which naturally bounce from surface to surface. RTXGI also allows for lighting to constantly change equally players level trees, erect buildings, and change the environment.

NVIDIA describes the game as follows:

Icarus is a uniquely session-based survival game for upward to eight co-op players or solo, developed by Dean Hall (creator of DayZ) and his New Zealand-based studio RocketWerkz.

Prepare in the aftermath of a terraforming project gone wrong, players drop down onto the planet Icarus for limited elapsing drops to complete missions and seek riches. Bringing limited resources with them, prospectors must explore the damaged planet, craft tools and machinery, build shelter, survive storms, hunt wild animals, extract exotic affair and return to their dropship in fourth dimension - or be left behind forever.

You tin sentinel a video showcasing the improvements brought by RTX below.

The latest NVIDIA GeForce Commuter also brings optimizations and enhancements for multiple games which will launch in the coming days. Chorus volition take enhancements similar NVIDIA DLSS to provide the definitive experience for RTX players. In improver, GeForce Feel'due south i-click optimal settings have received support for the post-obit games:

Farming Simulator 22
Halo Infinite
Inscryption
Ruined King: A League of Legends Story
Crab Game

Finally, the latest NVIDIA GeForce Driver includes back up for newly validated G-SYNC compatible displays. The displays that are supported can exist seen below:

The new NVIDIA GeForce 497.09 driver tin can exist downloaded through NVIDIA GeForce Experience. In other news, NVIDIA's adjacent-generation GeForce RTX 40 series gaming graphics cards based on the Ada Lovelace GPU architecture are being prepped for a major 2022 launch. You tin can read the report we wrote on the affair hither.