News Nvidia's new WHQL driver squashes some game-crashing bugs, adds support for Avowed and Civ VII

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Nvidia has released the GeForce Game Ready Driver 572.42 WHQL, which includes day-one support for Avowed and Civilization VII and Frame Generation updates for several other titles.

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Another fix in the newest driver affects the 3DMark DXR Feature Test. It is peculiar, as the release notes say user tests resulted in an "Unusually low score for Blackwell GPUs." If that fixes everything, then the software developer time spent here hardly seems worthwhile.

I actually reported that one! LOL. I don't know that many other people use it, but I wanted what would hopefully be a more vendor agnostic full ray tracing test. Now I can retest and see what things look like. Here's the 5080 / 5090 old data, though: