When you fire up your favorite game, you’re playing it instantly. That’s what it means to be Game Ready on GeForce NOW. The experience has been optimized for cloud gaming and includes Game Ready Driver performance improvements. NVIDIA manages the game updates and patches. And when a game supports RTX, you can play it on GeForce NOW with beautifully ray-traced graphics and DLSS 2.0.
The GeForce NOW library is ever-growing. In an effort to help spotlight the games that are coming to the service, we’re moving to a monthly cadence for announcing new instant access games. Games will continue to be released every week – with new game launches available day-and-date, and back catalog games released each Thursday – but our members, and your readers, will now be able to learn about what’s coming a little further in advance.
Today NVIDIA released a new GeForce Game Ready driver for the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, the company’s latest flagship GPU. The driver offers a ton of enhancements and optimizations for a variety of games. DLSS comes to No Man’s Sky, Reflex heads to Escape From Tarkov and War Thunder, and there’s day-one support for Chivalry 2 and Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2.
It is Time for Ti!
This new driver adds support for the new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti which is out now. Powered by the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti delivers an incredible leap in performance and fidelity with acclaimed features such as ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS performance-boosting AI, NVIDIA Reflex latency-reduction, NVIDIA Broadcast streaming features and additional memory that allows it to speed through the most popular creator applications as well. It is the new flagship gaming GPU of the RTX lineup.
No Man’s Sky Gets NVIDIA DLSS
Another important aspect of NVIDIA Game Ready drivers is that they are often used as a delivery mechanism to add new features for GeForce users. This Game Ready driver also supports NVIDIA DLSS in No Man’s Sky.
Hello Games’ popular game received a NVIDIA DLSS update, bringing the performance-accelerating technology to both desktop and virtual reality users. This update boosts performance in desktop mode by up to 70% at 4K, substantially improving the smoothness and responsiveness of gameplay, giving GeForce RTX gamers a better overall experience. In VR, DLSS doubles performance at the Ultra graphics preset, maintaining 90 FPS on an Oculus Quest 2 with a GeForce RTX 3080.
Over 130 games and applications already include ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS and RTX AI technologies.
Escape From Tarkov and War Thunder Get NVIDIA Reflex
Escape from Tarkov, the high-stakes first-person shooter, is adding support for NVIDIA Reflex soon, making players more competitive by reducing system latency.
War Thunder already introduced NVIDIA Reflex support to the free to play military multiplayer action game. When enabled, system latency is reduced by up to 43%, perceivably improving responsiveness.
NVIDIA Reflex latency-reducing technology is also now supported in 12 of the top 15 competitive shooter-based games.
More Game Ready Goodies and Upgrades
NVIDIA’s Game Ready Driver for GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and No Man’s Sky also adds other features including:
- Day one support, delivering the best experience forSniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 on June 4. the long-awaited launch of Chivalry 2 on June 8th.
- The addition of GeForce Experience optimal settings for five new games, including:
- Aim Lab
- Biomutant
- Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time
- Everspace 2
- Redout: Space Assault
- NVIDIA GeForce partnered with blacksmith creator channel That Works to create a titanium-themed RTX 3080 Ti GPU. Watch to see how That Works uses a combination of machining, forging, and fabrication to create this one-of-a-kind GPU and a damascus treasure chest to hold it.
GeForce NOW Update
This GFN Thursday brings big news for GeForce NOW members in June, with 38 games joining the platform this month, including 13 games this week.
This week’s additions include the thrilling FPS Necromunda: Hired Gun (Steam, Epic Games Store), the modern warfare shooter experience, Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 (Steam), city-building game, Before We Leave (Steam) and SOFTSTAR’s SLG game, Empire of Angels IV (Steam).
When you play on GeForce NOW, you’re playing the PC games you already own from your favorite digital game stores, streaming straight from the cloud to nearly all of your devices.
The complete list of games releasing this week is below.
- Before We Leave (Steam)
- Creativerse (Steam)
- Empire of Angels IV (Steam)
- Hokko Life (Steam)
- Pro Cycling Manager 2021 (Steam)
- Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 (Steam)
- Thea: The Awakening (Steam)
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier (Ubisoft Connect)
- Tour de France 2021 (Steam)
- Tour de France 2020 (Steam)
- X3: Reunion (Steam)
- Xuan Yuan Sword: The Gate of Firmament (Steam)
More in June
There’s even more diverse and thrilling games coming soon to GeForce NOW, including:
- Phantom Abyss (Steam)
- Starbase (Steam)
- AMID EVIL (Steam)
- Dual Universe (Native Client)
- Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG (Steam)
- The Final Station (Steam)
- GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- (Steam)
- Morbid: The Seven Acolytes (Steam)
- Neptunia Virtual Stars (Steam)
- Not The Robots (Steam)
- Pathway (Steam)
- Quest Hunter (Steam)
- Roguebook (Steam)
- Spirit of the North (Steam)
- Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism (Steam)
- Strategic Mind: The Pacific (Steam)
- Supraland (in early access on Steam, coming out of early access in June)
- Sword and Fairy (Steam)
- Sword and Fairy 2 (Steam)
- Sword and Fairy 3 (Steam)
- Sword and Fairy 3 Ex (Steam)
- Tools Up! (Steam)
- Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt (Steam)
- The Universim (Steam)
- Vikings – Wolves of Midgard (Steam)
In addition to the games that were announced as joining GeForce NOW in May, another dozen-plus titles launched throughout the month, including:
- Biomutant (Steam, Epic Games Store)
- Black Desert Online for Turkey (Pearl Abyss)
- Bullet Girls Phantasia (Steam)
- DoDonPachi Resurrection (Steam)
- King of Seas (Steam)
- Maneater (Steam)
- Move or Die (Steam)
- Saints Row: The Third Remastered (Steam and Epic Games Store)
- Saviors of Sapphire Wings / Stranger of Sword City Revisited (Steam)
- Shadowrun: Dragonfall – Director’s Cut (Steam)
- Siege Survival Gloria Victis (Steam)
- Snowrunner (Steam)
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III (Epic Games Store)
- The Wonderful 101: Remastered (Steam)
- WRC 8 Fia World Rally Championship (Epic Games Store)