New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers

The GeForce website now offers new version 376.09 WHQL-certified GeForce reference drivers for NVIDIA graphics cards. They note these specifically support Watch Dogs 2, Dead Rising 4, and Steep, and they offer technical details about each of those games. The post includes this recent trailer with a look at NVIDIA gameworks support in the Windows edition of Watch Dogs 2, which is due tomorrow. On a related note, NVIDIA also offers a new Watch Dogs 2 Graphics And Performance Guide.

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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers
Nov 30, 2016, 06:02
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Slick wrote on Nov 30, 2016, 03:03:
Right side of the steam page in gold lettering:

"Requires 3rd-Party Account: Uplay (Supports Linking to Steam Account)"
How weird. Hard to believe I could overlook that... I guess I was assuming it would be in the fine print and I was skipping down to the bottom of the page. Kind of reminds me of that visual/brain test where they ask the person to count the number of times the basketball is bounced...

Not sure how valid your analogy is, but I understand the angst. However, I won't lie. Convenience is King, even to me and although I personally avoid Walmart is it any better when I buy from Amazon or my local Meijer?

It is what it is.

This comment was edited on Nov 30, 2016, 08:58.
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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers
Nov 30, 2016, 03:03
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Nov 30, 2016, 03:03
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Mr. Tact wrote on Nov 29, 2016, 23:24:
LOL -- no worries. I admit I am a curmudgeon.

To me it would be like if you had to use different browsers for various web-sites. I don't want to have multiple digital distribution applications. I want it all in one place. And if Ubisoft doesn't want to give up some of the cash to Steam, don't put it on the platform. *shrug*

My real gripe is with the lack of identification of the requirements.

Right side of the steam page in gold lettering:

"Requires 3rd-Party Account: Uplay (Supports Linking to Steam Account)"

And as for not wanting more than one distribution platform, think of it this way:

You want everything to be sold through walmart, you want every other independant store that sells that kind of goods to not exist, cause it's simpler to just buy from walmart.

Fuck walmart.

If I make my own product, I should be able to sell it myself without the sky falling from users that are too stuck in their ways to click a different icon on their desktop.

There's no good reason to buy a Uplay game on steam, and they SHOULD stop doing it. But as the market has spoken, there's enough people out there who say: "I only buy games through steam" to make it worth their while.

Steam takes a cut comparable to a publisher. 30% of gross is a lot. if the developer's profit is only 50% of gross (other 50% is development costs, marketing etc.), steam takes literally more (30%) than the actual game developers get (20%).

And for this fee, they:

A) don't pay for any development of the game

B) don't pay for any marketing or advertising of the game besides appearing in the steam store.

C) don't even pay the pennies required to host the damn game for download, that still goes through Uplay.

and for all of that, you now have 2x DRM programs you have to have launched simultaneously to play your game. It's ridiculous. And the only reason it still exists is because people say: "I only shop at walmart".
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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers
Nov 29, 2016, 23:24
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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers Nov 29, 2016, 23:24
Nov 29, 2016, 23:24
 
LOL -- no worries. I admit I am a curmudgeon.

To me it would be like if you had to use different browsers for various web-sites. I don't want to have multiple digital distribution applications. I want it all in one place. And if Ubisoft doesn't want to give up some of the cash to Steam, don't put it on the platform. *shrug*

My real gripe is with the lack of identification of the requirements.
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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers
Nov 29, 2016, 22:57
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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers Nov 29, 2016, 22:57
Nov 29, 2016, 22:57
 Slick
 
I'm sorry, are people really still adamantly against a 100mb app living on your computer? Is it 2016? I liked this better then it was 2004 and people were saying the exact same things about steam.

Really get over it. UPlay has been required even if you buy from steam for like 5+ years.

I don't see why people would even want to or defend the practice of giving 30% of your money to a company that had NOTHING to do with building the game. Shit, steam doesn't even distribute it, you DL it through Uplay. It's just signing a 30% check to a middleman who provides nothing. If anything it's more cumbersome because now you HAVE to launch steam AND uplay anytime you want to play the game, instead of just buying it from the people who built it.

so tired of this conversation.

I can only imagine if people said that they'd only buy a whopper if sold by mcdonalds. That they hated going inside a burger king store SOOOO MUCH that they'd rather have the "convenience" of buying a whopper in a mcdonalds, only for the mcdonalds attendant hand them a whopper coupon redeemable at a burger king. it's beyond ridiculous. Also McDonalds keeps 30% of the cost, just cause.... convenience.

BUY YOUR FUCKING WHOPPER AT BURGER KING AND STOP WHINING THAT USING A STOREFRONT YOU DON'T LIKE IS A REAL-WORLD PROBLEM. It's not even that you have to get in your car and drive across town to the other store, it's a FUCKING APP ON YOUR DESKTOP. YOU CLICK IT. THAT'S THE INCONVENIENCE YOU'RE SO AGAINST.

and FFS, you got the game FOR FREE/ You're complaining about something that's FREE. This isn't even a question of store loyalty, you aren't paying anything! there's no transaction happening! You're givin something for free, and you throw a hissyfit and come to forums like this to egg others on into the perpetual cycle of "AM I RITE GUYS!? THIS IS BULLSHIT! HUH? AM I RITE??"

/rant

nothing personal, just very very tired of this. Man I just re-read my post, TRIGGERED ^_^

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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers
Nov 29, 2016, 21:04
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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers Nov 29, 2016, 21:04
Nov 29, 2016, 21:04
 
Screw that. Thank goodness I wasn't that interested. Am I overlooking it, or is there no indication on the Steam store page that this requires Uplay?

So am I just a whining curmudgeon, or is it totally annoying and stupid that if you buy a Ubisoft game via Steam, you still need Uplay.

This comment was edited on Nov 29, 2016, 21:17.
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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers
Nov 29, 2016, 20:19
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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers Nov 29, 2016, 20:19
Nov 29, 2016, 20:19
 
Mr. Tact wrote on Nov 29, 2016, 20:15:
if you get it on Steam, do you still need Uplay?
Yup, just like any other newer Ubi games
Won't run without Uplay
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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers
Nov 29, 2016, 20:15
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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers Nov 29, 2016, 20:15
Nov 29, 2016, 20:15
 
Ah, this is Ubisoft... so will I need Uplay to use the game code I got with the video card? Guessing I will... if you get it on Steam, do you still need Uplay?
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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers
Nov 29, 2016, 19:13
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Nov 29, 2016, 19:13
 
Quinn wrote on Nov 29, 2016, 18:33:
Creston wrote on Nov 29, 2016, 17:48:
Tipsy McStagger wrote on Nov 29, 2016, 15:09:
Ugh.. Anyone else finding that as you get old you have no time to actually play and finish the games that come out? Currently my game queue list just keeps growing.

Yeah, I do tend to take more time to finish games. The days when I'd get a new game and have it finished the next day are long since past. I still haven't finished Dishonored 2. My solution: just buy fewer games

The only reason I haven't finished Dishonored 2 is because of the garbage performance, relatively. I haven't tried after the 4gb patch of last week but that's because ppl here said they didn't notice anything.

This game runs very well! I still absolutely curse the fact I went to 144hz because 60fps is now stuttery to me and an actual no go, but turning on the AA option that forces MSAA 2X (cant remember the term atm) DRASTICALLY increased my fps. And yes, it actually warranted the capital letters.

Yeah I had lots of antialiasing artifacts using the recommended settings through Geforce Experience but they cleared up with AA set to TXAA 1x and default sharpness of 10. I bought Dishonored 2 for $35 from Walmart on turkey day, installed it and have been running the beta patch. I'm only playing at 1080p/60hz on an i7, 16gb, 970GTX though. I get dips in FPS in open areas but nothing too bad. According to game stats I'm at 12.5 hours and nearly finished with 3rd level, only because I'm doing a stealthy playthrough and too stubborn to not get every rune/bonething. I think I am starting to understand what I can get away with as far as hiding and try not to cheese z-axis too much to hide from baddies.
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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers
Nov 29, 2016, 18:42
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Nov 29, 2016, 18:42
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Quinn wrote on Nov 29, 2016, 18:33:

This game runs very well! I still absolutely curse the fact I went to 144hz because 60fps is now stuttery to me and an actual no go, but turning on the AA option that forces MSAA 2X (cant remember the term atm) DRASTICALLY increased my fps. And yes, it actually warranted the capital letters.

Temporal Filtering. I don't really understand how it works, but it drastically increases framerate and also reduces the computational cost of the higher tier SSAO modes. Apparently a similar workaround is used on the PS4 to squeeze higher FPS out of its limited hardware.
Do you have a single fact to back that up?
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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers
Nov 29, 2016, 18:33
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Nov 29, 2016, 18:33
 
Creston wrote on Nov 29, 2016, 17:48:
Tipsy McStagger wrote on Nov 29, 2016, 15:09:
Ugh.. Anyone else finding that as you get old you have no time to actually play and finish the games that come out? Currently my game queue list just keeps growing.

Yeah, I do tend to take more time to finish games. The days when I'd get a new game and have it finished the next day are long since past. I still haven't finished Dishonored 2. My solution: just buy fewer games

The only reason I haven't finished Dishonored 2 is because of the garbage performance, relatively. I haven't tried after the 4gb patch of last week but that's because ppl here said they didn't notice anything.

This game runs very well! I still absolutely curse the fact I went to 144hz because 60fps is now stuttery to me and an actual no go, but turning on the AA option that forces MSAA 2X (cant remember the term atm) DRASTICALLY increased my fps. And yes, it actually warranted the capital letters.
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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers
Nov 29, 2016, 18:16
NKD
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Nov 29, 2016, 18:16
NKD
 
So I picked this game up. Good performance, lots of graphics options.

Driving isn't as bad as people were making it out to be unless you're looking for some kind of simulator. It's very arcadey and the the controls are very relaxed so your car isn't doing a lot of crazy shit while you're trying to drive, shoot, and hack. I find it easier to drive than in the previous game by a good margin. I can even use KB+M instead of picking up my gamepad every time I get in a vehicle.

Story wise I'm not very far in, but its your standard haxxor fare thus far and not too bad. Side activities are fun, and the multiplayer can be either frustrating (idiots logs off just before you kill/hack him) or amazingly emergent. I've had some crazy shit go down while chasing a bounty or, as I actually prefer, triggering a bounty on myself and getting some poor bastard killed in some crazy chaos.

The little RC car is really a gamechanger, havent got the quadcopter yet...
Do you have a single fact to back that up?
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Nov 29, 2016, 17:48
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Nov 29, 2016, 17:48
 
Tipsy McStagger wrote on Nov 29, 2016, 15:09:
Ugh.. Anyone else finding that as you get old you have no time to actually play and finish the games that come out? Currently my game queue list just keeps growing.

Yeah, I do tend to take more time to finish games. The days when I'd get a new game and have it finished the next day are long since past. I still haven't finished Dishonored 2. My solution: just buy fewer games
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Nov 29, 2016, 15:58
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Nov 29, 2016, 15:58
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The Half Elf wrote on Nov 28, 2016, 22:47:
Game performs well, but the driving sucks. And by sucks I mean cars are on rails/stick to the road. Would have prefered a halfway between more GTA driving. Co-Op is quite a bit of fun as well.

Also there is a 5 gig HD texture pack as well.

Yeah, I was worried about this from the video showing how much they've "improved" the driving since the last game. Can concur, cars stick to the road like glue. That being said, it is better than I thought. It's weird, and nothing I thought I'd like, but it's slowly growing on me. The cars aren't just stickier, they're "heavier" (even though this analogy doesn't make sense) in that they fall back to the ground a lot more quickly, like the world gravity was turned up. Not sure if this is more realistic or not, but it's def a departure from "driving game physics" as we've come to know them.
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Nov 29, 2016, 15:56
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Nov 29, 2016, 15:56
 Slick
 
Burrito of Peace wrote on Nov 29, 2016, 08:34:
Slick wrote on Nov 29, 2016, 03:33:
Oh and what I've played of the SP is surprisingly good too, some parts are a bit hit and miss, but all in all it's great "fun". In that it's actually fun, but it's also meant to be ingested as cheap fun, tongue-in-cheek, not taking itself seriously fun.

So it's like Saints Row and MR ROBOT had a drunken hatefuck and this was the result 9 months later?

Saints Row was basically slapstick it was so over-the-top. WD_2 is def more grounded, and the characters actually come off as pretty "real" for an idealized hollywood version of what people think hackers are.
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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers
Nov 29, 2016, 15:47
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Nov 29, 2016, 15:47
 
Tipsy McStagger wrote on Nov 29, 2016, 15:09:
Ugh.. Anyone else finding that as you get old you have no time to actually play and finish the games that come out? Currently my game queue list just keeps growing.

This skyrim playthrough is going to take like 200 hours as well and that will take me at least 3 months since I average 2 hours a night.

Heh, yea tell me about it. I've got the same thing going on with several games, I want to finish them, but if they dont grab my attention and hold it right away, they usually end up dropped.

I do like how UBI goes out of their way to create these High Res Texture packs that you can install. Thats a really kewl thing they do for a lot of their games. Not to may developers go out of their way to do that and offers them free.
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Nov 29, 2016, 15:09
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Nov 29, 2016, 15:09
 
Ugh.. Anyone else finding that as you get old you have no time to actually play and finish the games that come out? Currently my game queue list just keeps growing.

This skyrim playthrough is going to take like 200 hours as well and that will take me at least 3 months since I average 2 hours a night.
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Nov 29, 2016, 14:32
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Nov 29, 2016, 14:32
 
I wish FFXV was being released on PC, I'd like to give a whirl...
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Nov 29, 2016, 14:16
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Nov 29, 2016, 14:16
 
Dayum that is pretty.

I think I'll pick this up for Xmas. Well, it's either this or FF15.
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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers
Nov 29, 2016, 09:48
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Nov 29, 2016, 09:48
 
NKD wrote on Nov 28, 2016, 23:00:
The Half Elf wrote on Nov 28, 2016, 22:47:
Game performs well, but the driving sucks. And by sucks I mean cars are on rails/stick to the road. Would have prefered a halfway between more GTA driving. Co-Op is quite a bit of fun as well.

You can't go offroad? That's super disappointing.
You can, but it's going to be rough without an off road vehicle. As with the first game, motorcycles are king - other vehicles aren't worth bothering with, as bikes accelerate so much faster and can slip between traffic. Grab a dirt bike if you might need to go off road.
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Nov 29, 2016, 09:45
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The Half Elf wrote on Nov 29, 2016, 08:58:

Actually yeah, but more LOL Mr Robot (but I'm only 4 episodes into that series). I miss more of the dark theme of the first game, as this is more the Care Bears/My Little Pony version.

The quasi-Person of Interest stuff it had going on was relevant at the time but I feel like they couldn't just repeat it again. I like that they went in a different direction with this one. The driving model is arcade style but that's fine with me, I'm not looking for a realistic driving model from my silly hacker open world games. What really impresses me is the kind of insane situations that crop up with the AI, very fun stuff.

Watch Dogs 2 is honestly really good and I'm surprised because the first game was really mediocre. It's a shame its selling poorly but I guess the E3 stuff with the first game combined with the hype/disappointment isn't helping here.
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