{"id":65085,"date":"2014-05-27T13:31:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T11:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=65085"},"modified":"2014-05-27T16:20:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T14:20:40","slug":"watch-dogs-new-nvida-amd-graphics-drivers-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/65085-watch-dogs-new-nvida-amd-graphics-drivers-released","title":{"rendered":"Watch Dogs: new Nvida, AMD graphics drivers released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the launch of Watch Dogs, and ensure your PC is in tip-top gaming shape, AMD and Nvidia have released new drivers for their respective graphics cards.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia now offers the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/download\/driverResults.aspx\/75991\/en-us\" target=\"_blank\">GeForce\u00a0337.88 driver<\/a>, while AMD is serving up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/show\/8058\/amd-catalyst-146-beta-drivers-now-available-adds-new-eyefinity-functionality-more\" target=\"_blank\">Catalyst 14.6 driver<\/a>. The new Catalyst driver is yet to be posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/support.amd.com\/en-us\/kb-articles\/Pages\/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">AMD&#8217;s site<\/a>, as 27 May 2014 is a holiday in the US, but should be available from Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Both updates promise to enhance and stabilise Ubisoft&#8217;s latest title, and offer new improvements and features.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This 337.88 Game Ready WHQL driver ensures you&#8217;ll have the best possible gaming experience for Watch Dogs,&#8221; said a post from Nvidia, adding that new DirectX optimisations would reduce loading times and provide &#8220;significant&#8221; performance increases &#8211; depending on how powerful your rig is, naturally.<\/p>\n<p>AMD has put together a few performance optimisations of its own, which offer a 25% performance for single cards and the necessary profiles to enable Crossfire support.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fWKOyqOJMmQ?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Will AMD or Nvidia give you the better Watch Dogs experience? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamesn.com\/nvidia-launches-geforce-33788-drivers-amd-launches-catalyst-146\" target=\"_blank\">PCGamesN <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/show\/8058\/amd-catalyst-146-beta-drivers-now-available-adds-new-eyefinity-functionality-more\" target=\"_blank\">AnandTech<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/64959-is-the-nintendo-wii-u-worth-buying.html\">Is the Nintendo Wii U worth buying?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64883-space-hulk-deathwing-screenshots-look-promising.html\">Space Hulk: Deathwing screenshots look promising<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64881-arena-of-fate-revealed-by-crytek.html\">Arena of Fate revealed by Crytek<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMD and Nvidia serve up new drivers to mark the release of Watch Dogs, and make sure the game looks as good as possible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":65087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1051,10529,7699,12485,45,4771],"class_list":["post-65085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-amd","tag-amd-catalyst","tag-geforce-drivers","tag-graphics-drivers","tag-nvidia","tag-watch-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65089,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65085\/revisions\/65089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}