GeForce Game Ready Driver For The Half-Life 2 RTX Demo & inZOI Now Available For Download

Our latest GeForce Game Ready Driver includes support for the Half-Life 2 RTX demo, inZOI, and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation update.

Additionally, there’s support for Assassin’s Creed Shadows and The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered, both featuring DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation (enabled via NVIDIA app overrides in Assassin’s Creed Shadows), DLSS Frame Generation, DLSS Super Resolution, and NVIDIA Reflex. As well as support for Control’s new DLSS and tech update.

And there’s support for 61 new and updated NVIDIA app DLSS overrides.

Download and install from the Drivers tab of NVIDIA app or GeForce.com, and read on to learn more.

Game Ready For The Half-Life 2 RTX Demo, Featuring DLSS 4 With Multi Frame Generation & RTX Neural Shaders

A year ago, we released NVIDIA RTX Remix in beta, empowering the modding community with a groundbreaking tool to modernize classic games, enhancing their visuals while preserving the core gameplay that makes them special. Since that initial RTX Remix release, over 30,000 modders have experimented with hundreds of classic titles, and over 1 million gamers have played RTX Remix mods.

Now, we’ve officially released RTX Remix, exiting beta with a host of new capabilities including DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, cutting edge RTX Neural Rendering technologies, and many community-requested changes that will enable modders to improve their remasters, increase image quality, and further accelerate performance.

To demonstrate RTX Remix’s capabilities, Half-Life 2 owners can now download a free Half-Life 2 RTX demo from Steam, showcasing Orbifold Studios’ work in Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt, ahead of the full game’s release at a later date.

Half-Life 2 RTX is a community-made remaster of Valve’s classic game, made by Orbifold Studios. With a mission to remaster the entirety of Half-Life 2, Orbifold is updating every texture, model, and level, adding extra geometric detail to buildings and surfaces to realistically interact with fully ray-traced lighting. Even particles and animations are being revitalized to bring Half-Life 2 to modern graphical standards.

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To ensure the tone and feel of Half-Life 2 is retained, while enabling remastered assets to look realistic in fully ray-traced environments, the entire game has also been relit, replacing twenty-year old tech with today’s cutting edge lighting through RTX Remix. Essentially, Orbifold is remaking the entirety of Half-Life 2 graphics, while leaving its beloved gameplay untouched.

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Textures are remade by artists with height maps and physically-based materials, models are remade from scratch, levels are upgraded in the Hammer editor, and everything’s imported back into RTX Remix to be lit, enhanced by NVIDIA RTX technology, and packaged as a standalone game that will be available for free on Steam for owners of Half-Life 2.

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Now, you can get a preview of the team’s work by downloading the newly-released Half-Life 2 RTX demo, featuring levels from Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt. If you don’t own Half-Life 2, it’s available with an 80% discount in the Steam Spring Sale until March 20th.

Every aspect of each level has been upgraded, though the work isn’t final, and further tweaks and tech upgrades are planned for launch. Weapons, enemies, and skyboxes have all been remade, atmospheric effects added, visual effects enhanced, and audio updated.

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And every technology mentioned earlier is included. DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation multiplies frame rates by up to 10X at 4K. DLSS Super Resolution and DLSS Ray Reconstruction look even better thanks to a new transformer AI model. Neural Radiance Cache further accelerates ray-traced lighting. RTX Skin enhances Father Grigori, headcrabs, and zombies. RTX Volumetrics add realistic smoke effects and fog. And everything interplays and interacts with the fully ray-traced lighting.

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To play at the level of detail shown in the screenshots and videos seen in this article, we recommend a GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics card, though there are plenty of settings available to ensure a great experience on previous-generation GPUs, too. 

On GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation multiplies frame rates by 10X on average at 4K, using the Ultra Preset, enabling smooth, beautiful gameplay:

At 2560x1440, a 7.1X average multiplier allows GeForce RTX 50 Series gamers to play at up to 350 frames per second. And at 1920x1080, a 5.7X average multiplier sees performance surpass 400 frames per second.

Settings in the Half-LIfe 2 RTX demo are scaleable, enabling a range of system configurations to play:

Press Alt+X in-game to open the RTX Remix settings menu, where you can quickly switch between a number of graphics and DLSS presets. The minimum required GPU for the demo is a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.

To help you get the best experience on your system, check out the charts below for our settings recommendations and adjust in-game via Alt+X.

For even more information about the Half-Life 2 RTX demo, and the new capabilities of RTX Remix, head on over to our new RTX Remix and Half-Life 2 RTX demo launch article.

Game Ready For inZOI, Featuring NVIDIA ACE

KRAFTON's inZOI is one of the top 5 most wishlisted games on Steam. The upcoming life simulation game enables players to customize their family, home, work, and game world to create unique stories. Just like in the real world, your Zoi can find jobs to make a living while forming deep relationships through interactions with NPCs.

inZOI players can transform the city's NPCs (Zois) into ACE autonomous game characters with higher levels of artificial intelligence by activating the "Smart Zoi" experimental feature setting. Enhanced Zois are designed to adapt and respond more realistically and intelligently to their environment based on their personalities. For instance, a Smart Zoi with a considerate personality might decide to assist a lost character with directions, or offer food to a hungry stranger. And at the end of each day, Smart Zois will adjust their personal schedule of activities based on their experiences, further enhancing gameplay.

Players will also be able to observe their Smart Zoi’s inner thoughts in real-time as they go about their day, and influence them directly with a free-form text input to modify their actions and life goals. The actions and thoughts of Smart Zoi are governed by an on-device NVIDIA ACE Small Language Model, making it possible to have interactions that more closely mimic reality, and make the day-to-day life of your Zoi more engaging.

The NVIDIA ACE technology that powers Smart Zoi is a .5B billion parameter Mistral NeMo Minitron small language model. NVIDIA’s unique distillation methods provide high quality outputs at low latency in a very compact footprint, which is GPU-accelerated exclusively on GeForce RTX GPUs.

inZOI launches into Early Access on March 28th 00:00 UTC. Gamers with GeForce RTX GPUs can enable the Smart Zoi experimental feature and leverage AI for the ultimate inZOI experience.

Game Ready For Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s DLSS 4 With Multi Frame Generation Update

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide sends players into the depths of Tertium, an unforgiving hive city of the 41st millennium. Join strike teams of up to 4 players, grab your Warhammer 40,000 weapon of choice, and root out heretics attempting to gain control of the city.

At launch in 2022, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide featured support for DLSS Frame Generation, DLSS Super Resolution, and NVIDIA Reflex, and enhanced image quality on PC with ray-traced reflections and advanced RTX Global Illumination, allowing light to naturally propagate through environments, illuminating rooms and ensuring other areas are naturally darkened, as in the real world.

In an update launching next week, Fatshark are upgrading their DLSS integration to DLSS 4, adding DLSS Multi Frame Generation for GeForce RTX 50 Series gamers, and updating DLSS Frame Generation and DLSS Super Resolution to the latest AI models, accelerating performance and further enhancing image quality.

Game Ready For Control’s New DLSS & Tech Update

Winner of over 80 awards, Control is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Blending open-ended environments with the signature world-building and storytelling of renowned developer, Remedy Entertainment, Control presents an expansive and intensely gratifying gameplay experience. On GeForce RTX PCs, Control is an incredible technical showcase, using ray tracing and DLSS to elevate your experience to new heights.

A recently released update further enhanced Control and its technology.

Control was the first title to be updated with DLSS 2 Super Resolution in 2020 - the new update adds a more recent version of DLSS that improves image quality, and enables NVIDIA app users to manually upgrade to DLSS 4’s transformer AI model, increasing detail, clarity and image stability that bit further.

Additionally, all resolutions are now supported when using DLSS, film grain can once again be enabled alongside DLSS, HDR support is introduced and can be used concurrently with DLSS, shadows are improved when DLSS and ray tracing are enabled, texture fidelity is improved when using DLSS Performance mode, and DLAA is now available in-game.

Other technical improvements include the addition of a new Ultra Ray Tracing preset that leverages the power of newer, faster GPUs to increase the number of rays per pixel, for improved image quality and temporal stability, texture quality enhancements, faster texture streaming, support for a wider range of ultrawide monitor aspect ratios, up to 48:9, the addition of an FOV slider, and the upgrade of SDR color from 8-bit to 10-bit to reduce color banding, 

And finally, a previously console-exclusive mission is now available on PC, along with outfits that were previously accessible only to pre-order customers. To start the new “Dr. Yoshimi Tokui's Guided Imagery Experience” mission, collect Dr. Tokui’s tapes, featuring voiceover by Hideo Kojima, in the Extrasensory Lab of the Research Sector.

Grab the update from the Epic Games Store and Steam to experience the amazing Control with an even better suite of tech.

New NVIDIA App DLSS Overrides Now Available

NVIDIA app is the essential companion for users with NVIDIA GPUs in their PCs and laptops. Whether you're a gaming enthusiast or a content creator, NVIDIA app simplifies the process of keeping your PC updated with the latest GeForce Game Ready and NVIDIA Studio Drivers, and enables quick discovery and installation of NVIDIA applications like GeForce NOW and NVIDIA Broadcast. 

NVIDIA app also includes tons of game and experience-enhancing features. One of the most recent additions is the ability to upgrade games and apps with support for DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, and improved DLSS AI models:

• DLSS Multi Frame Generation Override - Enables DLSS Multi Frame Generation for GeForce RTX 50 Series users when Frame Generation is ON in-game
• DLSS Frame Generation Model Upgrade - Enables the latest DLSS Frame Generation model for GeForce RTX 40 Series and GeForce RTX 50 Series users, when Frame Generation is ON in-game, which uses less video memory and can increase frame rates
• DLSS Transformer Model Upgrade - Enables the latest transformer AI model for DLSS Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction, and DLAA for all GeForce RTX users, when the aforementioned features are ON in-game
• DLAA & Ultra Performance Modes - Sets the internal rendering resolution for DLSS Super Resolution, enabling DLAA or Ultra Performance mode in games lacking native support, when Super Resolution is ON in-game

Since the launch of DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation and our DLSS overrides at the end of January, there’s now support for over 100 DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation games and apps, making DLSS Multi Frame Generation the most rapidly adopted NVIDIA game technology of all time. Additionally, there are now over 160 games and apps in which you can update DLSS Super Resolution to our new transformer AI model, which further enhances image quality.

After installing our new GeForce Game Ready Driver and the latest version of NVIDIA app, DLSS 4 override options will be available in the Graphics > Program Settings screen, under “Driver Settings” for each supported title.

In the time since our previous GeForce Game Ready Driver, we’ve added or updated DLSS overrides for 61 games and apps:

• A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead
• Akimbot
• Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator
• Assassin’s Creed Shadows
• Astral Tracks
• Aunt Fatima
• Car Dealer Simulator: Prologue - Early Days
• Code Alkonost: Awakening of Evil
• Deceit 2
• DESORDRE: A Puzzle Game Adventure
• Desynced: Autonomous Colony Simulator
• DIRECT CONTACT
• Dragonkin: The Banished
• Dungeonborne
• EVE Frontier
• Everspace 2
• FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH
• FINAL FANTASY XVI
• Finnish Cottage Simulator
• Fort Solis
• Funko Fusion
• Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition
• InFlux Redux
• Jurassic World Evolution 2
• Kristala
• Layers of Fear
• Legacy: Steel & Sorcery
• LEGO Horizon Adventures
• Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
• Liminalcore
• Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
• Marvel's Spider-Man 2
• Metro Exodus
• Nightingale
• NINJA GAIDEN 2 Black
• No More Room In Hell 2
• Postal 4: No Regerts
• QANGA
• Returnal
• Revenge of the Mage
• Rise of the Ronin
• Satisfactory
• Serum
• Skye: The Misty Isle
• Slender: The Arrival
• SMITE 2
• Starship Troopers: Extermination
• Stormgate
• Sword and Fairy 7
• Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown
• The Axis Unseen
• The Black Pool
• The Elder Scrolls Online
• Tokyo Xtreme Racer
• Torque Drift 2
• TRIBES 3: Rivals
• Until Dawn
• Vector Strike
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
• Wuthering Waves
• Xuan-Yuan Sword VII

For a full list of games and apps with DLSS overrides, and a breakdown of which overrides are available in each title, head here.

GeForce Game Ready Driver - Download Now

Learn more about GeForce Game Ready Drivers here, and download the new GeForce Game Ready 572.83 WHQL driver through the NVIDIA app, or from GeForce.com.

If you experience any technical issues with the new Game Ready drivers please post a detailed report on theGeForce.com Driver Feedback Forum, where our Customer Care team can best assist you. And if you’re looking for a full list of fixes in this driver, for previously-reported issues, head here.