The next few weeks are stacked for PC gamers. Remedy’s sequel, a free overhaul of one of the best RPGs ever made, and a Gears launch all land within about two weeks. NVIDIA’s latest Game Ready driver covers all of them in one download.
GeForce Game Ready 617.14 targets AION 2 (October 5), Control Resonant (September 24), Gears of War: E-Day (October 6), and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered (September 29). Per the release notes, each title gets Game Ready support for DLSS and RTX technologies. CD PROJEKT RED’s free Remastered update for The Witcher 3 adds a revamped skill system, combat changes, an enhanced photo mode, and path tracing with DLSS 4.5 on GeForce RTX.
The bug fixes may matter more to some readers than the game profiles. Judgment, Lost Judgment, and Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. could fail to launch after installing driver 616.56; NVIDIA lists that as resolved in 617.14. Two display fixes address R615-branch problems: the Samsung Odyssey G95NC could show no picture over HDMI, and certain DisplayPort monitors could fail to wake from sleep.
If the monitor-won’t-wake problem sounds familiar, it’s because the R615 branch has been rough. NVIDIA already had to ship the 616.86 hotfix for browser flickering, broken virtual displays and RDP black screens earlier this month. Anyone who has been waking their PC and staring at a black DisplayPort monitor now has a better reason to update than game profiles alone.
Our take: this is an easy install for anyone planning to play Control Resonant at launch. It is also the first WHQL release to fold in the recent display fixes. Anyone who stayed on an older driver because of the R615 issues should read the full notes. If none of those bugs hit your setup and none of these four games are on your list, there’s no rush. As always with a launch-heavy driver, check the open issues list in the release notes before overwriting a setup that works.
The driver is available now from NVIDIA’s website or through the NVIDIA App. Let us know in the forums if it fixes your wake-from-sleep headaches.
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