Portal with RTX & The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Next-Gen Upgrade Game Ready Driver Released

Portal with RTX, our fully ray-traced reimagining of Valve’s 2007 classic game, is out now, and our newest Game Ready Driver is required to optimize your experience.

Our latest driver also delivers the definitive experience in CD PROJEKT RED’s superb The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which receives a major update on December 14th, adding ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS 3, and more. And there’s also Game Ready support for the addition of DLSS 3 to Jurassic World Evolution 2.

Today there are over 100 games and over 70 applications available with ray tracing support, including the highest rated and most played 2022 games, such as Cyberpunk 2077, Dying Light 2 Stay Human, Fortnite, F1^Ⓡ 22, Forza Horizon 5, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Remastered, Resident Evil Village, The Callisto Protocol, Warhammer 40:000: Darktide, and World of Warcraft: Dragonflight. And this holiday’s biggest titles, like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, are also adding ray tracing.

For the definitive experience, gamers should ensure their GPU is ready for today’s advanced ray-traced games, such as Portal with RTX, and future-proofed for tomorrow's biggest hits. Only GeForce RTX can deliver the very best experience, thanks to dedicated Ray Tracing cores, the AI-powered NVIDIA DLSS, and many more features.

Read on to learn more about our new driver; to download and install on Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems, simply fire up GeForce Experience and click the "Drivers" tab.

Now 15 years old, Portal remains a timeless classic, with gameplay as fresh, engaging and exciting as it was back in 2007. Today, we’re releasing a fully ray-traced reimagining of Portal in collaboration with Valve, for free. Called Portal with RTX, it uses the power of GeForce RTX graphics cards to render every aspect of Portal with previously unimaginable, jaw-dropping detail.

Each ray of light uses GPU-intensive full ray tracing, also known as path tracing, to accurately model the real-world properties of light, and how that light affects every surface and object. Compared to our work on Quake II RTX and Minecraft with RTX, light bounces up to four times more, and new technologies are incorporated, making Portal with RTX one of the most advanced showcases for simulated light in gaming.

Illumination, shadows, reflections, refraction, and everything in between are all a result of the fully ray traced world, and its interactions with the upgraded and enhanced assets that have been rebuilt hand in hand with Valve.

Get further details about the tech, enhancements, and new features of Portal with RTX by heading on over to our launch article.

On December 14th, all TheWitcher 3: Wild Hunt PC players will receive a free update that adds various gameplay changes, new quest content, and new graphics features that take full advantage of the latest PCs and laptops.

Here’s what to expect:

• RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) adds more immersive and realistic outdoor ray-traced lighting
• Ray-traced ambient occlusion improves shading around objects occluding light
• Ray-traced shadows improve the fidelity, clarity and visibility of shadows
• Ray-traced reflections increase the accuracy and quality of reflections on bodies of water and other suitably reflective surfaces

On top of that, Ultra+ settings increase draw distances, foliage density, background character detail, asset quality, and more. Texture resolutions are increased and environments gain new geometric detail. The list goes on!

To accelerate your performance when all of these features are enabled and maxed out, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s next-gen update also introduces support for NVIDIA DLSS 3, enabling GeForce RTX 40 Series gamers to multiply their performance. All other GeForce RTX gamers can accelerate their frame rates with NVIDIA DLSS 2. And everyone can reduce system latency with NVIDIA Reflex.

To get these next-gen upgrades, simply download and install The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. On December 14th, CD PROJEKT RED will launch the free update, and your game will be automatically enhanced. Stay tuned to their social media pages for further updates and the complete set of patch notes.

Frontier Developments, in collaboration with Universal Games and Digital Platforms, is releasing the Jurassic World Evolution 2: Dominion Malta Expansion today.

Set before the epic events of Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment’s Jurassic World Dominion, the Jurassic World Evolution 2: Dominion Malta Expansion will task players with helping to lead a brand-new enterprise in Malta. Working alongside Cabot Finch and a star-studded cast of characters, including Kayla Watts (voiced by DeWanda Wise), Soyona Santos (voiced by Dichen Lachman), Barry Sembène (voiced by Omar Sy), and Lewis Dodgson (voiced by Campbell Scott) players will set up parks across three stunning Mediterranean locations.

Available alongside the paid DLC is a free update for all existing players, which includes DLSS 3, and a range of new features, including attacking and eating behaviors for smaller species, five campaign levels now available to play as challenge maps, a range of new skin and pattern colors for select dinosaur variants, and a range of Quality of Life enhancements.

With DLSS 3 enabled, your dinosaur parks will be rendered at even faster frame rates, giving you the headroom to max out graphics and crank up the resolution.

Learn more about GeForce Game Ready Drivers here; download the new GeForce Game Ready 527.56 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.