NVIDIA GeForce 522.25 Driver Releases

The NVIDIA 522.25 WHQL graphics driver was released at the same time as the RTX 4090, which not only supports the new card, but also opens DLSS 3 and optimizes for a series of popular DX12 games, with performance improvements of up to 24.6%.

DLSS 3 games first three "Portal RTX", "Racer RTX", "Cyberpunk 2077", the near future will usher in "Marvel's Spider-Man: Remastered", "Memory of Light: Infinite", "Legend of the Plague: Requiem", "F1 22", "Against the Wind" "Fuyun Ting", "Life and Death Reincarnation", "Microsoft Flight Simulator", and "Super Human".

DLSS 2 games will also continue to develop, with the upcoming additions of "No Tomorrow Road: Echoes of Edo", "Dakar Rally", "Destroy All Humans 2: Rediscovery", "Gotham Knights", and "Mysterious Seas: Thieves Saga Compilation".

At the same time, the new driver adds a number of optimizations for DX12 games, including shader compilation optimizations, CPU load reduction, and a new Resizable BAR profile, many of which are most effective under high CPU loads and enable greater utilization of the GPU.

RTX series desktop and laptop graphics cards, all can benefit from this optimization.

The best example comes from Assassin's Creed: Hall of Valor, where the RTX 3090 Ti 1080p resolution with Light Tracing and DLSS 2 quality modes turned on, boosted performance by a whopping 24.6%, and 2K and 4K resolutions by 21.4% and 16.7% respectively.

Other games with significant enhancements include:

- Battlefield 2042: performance improvements of up to 7% (1080p)
- No Man's Sky 3: performance improvements of up to 8% (1080p)
- Call of Duty: Vanguard: performance improvements of up to 12% (4K)
- Control: performance improvements of up to 6% (4K)
- Cyberpunk 2077: performance improvements of up to 20% (1080p)
- F1 22: performance improvements of up to 17% (4K)
- Crysis 6: performance improvements of up to 5% (1440p)
- Forza Horizon 5: performance improvements of up to 8% (1080p)
- Forza Horizon: Zero Dawn: Up to 8% performance improvement (4K)
- Drakengard: performance improvements of up to 7% (1080p)
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Shadow of the Tomb Raider: performance improvements of up to 5% (1080p)
- Total Darkness 2: performance improvements of up to 5% (1080p)
- Watch Dogs: Legion: performance improvements of up to 9% (1440p)

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NVIDIA GeForce 522.25 WHQL Desktop

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