The graphics giant has always been keen to deliver new graphics drivers for its enthusiastic GeForce Gamers always and with every game launch they make sure their gamers get day-0 support by pushing ‘Game Ready’ new drivers. However, do we know how this process exactly works and how NVIDIA delivers new drivers to its gamers?
To show this, NVIDIA has recently published a blog and a video showing how they are able to achieve ‘Game Ready’ drivers for its gamers without fail and the story behind this:
Since they debuted in May of 2014, NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Drivers have been top of their class, and a new video from NVIDIA explains what it takes to get our drivers ‘Game Ready’. In a single day, NVIDIA’s Game Ready Driver testing process involves over 1,000 different tests across a wide variety of launched and upcoming titles.
This amounts to over 1.8 million hours of testing in 2021 alone. To put this in context, that’s over 214 calendar years invested into Game Ready Driver quality in a single year!
How ‘Game Ready’ Drivers Work and How They Contribute to the Best Gaming Experience?
GeForce Game Ready Drivers deliver the best experience for your favourite games because they are finely tuned in collaboration with developers and extensively tested across thousands of desktops and laptop hardware configurations for maximum performance and reliability.
NVIDIA’s Game Ready Driver program was created from the ground up as a method to provide the best gaming experience possible. This program creates a synergy with game developers, establishing a regular cadence of exchanging pre-release game builds and drivers. We work together on finding optimizations and resolving issues and iterate builds accordingly to ensure both the game and the Game Ready Driver deliver the highest quality and performance at launch.
And while our developer partners are typically forced to stop working on the launch build of a game after it’s hit its GOLD milestone, to shift focus to post-launches fixes and patches, NVIDIA continues to optimize our driver for the game up until release, providing gamers with an even better Day-0 experience.
Given how integral the display driver is to the overall gaming experience, NVIDIA does not release Beta Game Ready Drivers. Just like fully released games are held to a higher standard versus the same game in Beta, we feel strongly that only launch-quality drivers will do. As a result, every Game Ready Driver is WHQL-certified by Microsoft.
NVIDIA has launched over 150 Game Ready Drivers, with Day-0 support for over 400 games; in 2021 alone, there were 20 Game Ready Drivers with support for 75 titles. And beyond the games we list support for in our driver articles and release highlights, we have teams dedicated to Unreal Engine, Unity, and other leading development engines. This ensures the thousands of PC indie games released each year, built exclusively with the tools and features provided by said engines, run exceptionally well at launch.
Game Ready status is achieved through the work of hundreds of expert engineers, thousands of test PCs, a focus on excellence, extensive investment, and close cooperation with developers. This exhaustive process ensures each Game Ready Driver is optimized for your favourite new releases, month after month.
