One of the most exciting announcements at the end of the year was the announcement of the long-awaited arrival of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Next-Gen, and it seems that GeForce NOW was just as eagerly awaiting it as we were. about the quick response they gave to the said notice. As you may remember, just a few weeks ago CD Projekt Red surprised and delighted us by announcing that this highly anticipated update would be released on December 14th, less than a week from today, Friday the 9th, and to whet our appetites, a few days later they also revealed the long-awaited first trailer, with which we can already get an idea of ​​what awaits us in the ever-approaching holidays.

The prospects are, of course, spectacular… but only for those who have the necessary hardware to make the most of the graphical improvements found in this great update, which, let’s remember, is completely free for users who already have the original title. And here comes GeForce NOW, NVIDIA’s cloud gaming service, which announced a few days after the update that users of the service will be able to enjoy The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Next on it. The updated game will be available on GeForce NOW starting next Wednesday.that is, ready from its very arrival to users.

But that’s not the only news NVIDIA has to do with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Next-Gen, as RTX graphics card users looking to play it on their own PC will also find a Game Ready driver update to offer. , including the following improvements for players of the CD Projekt Red title:

• Ray Traced Global Illumination (RTXGI).
• Ambient occlusion with ray tracing.
• Ray-traced shadows.
• Ray-traced reflections.
• DLSS 3.

So, as you can see, in addition to the usual performance improvement of games for which NVIDIA drivers have been optimized, we will also find a huge improvement in the graphics part, which will provide a spectacular gaming experience for those who face The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for the first time, as well as those who have already done so in at the time or in the years since.

This new version of the Game Ready drivers also adds compatibility with one of the announcements that surprised us the most in recent months, Portal RTX, a surprising update to the Valve classic, the full technical analysis of which can be read here, and which must have undoubtedly stirred emotions in GLaDOS (although it obviously she won’t show, we already know what she is like…). With this driver update, and especially if you have an RTX 40, you’ll be able to get the most out of it and wait for Valve to finally pluck up the courage to revive this much-loved franchise.

New titles in GeForce NOW

While we wait for next Wednesday to arrive to enjoy the great The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Next-Gen update, this week NVIDIA brings us eight new titles to the list of games compatible with GeForce NOW. They are the following:

• Chained Echoes (New on Steam)
• IXION (New on Steam and Epic Games Store)
• Knights of Honor II: Sovereign (New V Steam Y Epic Games Store)
• Sword (New on Steam)
• Toggs (New V Steam)
• THE SAMURAI GIRL (New on Steam)
• Row of Saints IV (Free on Epic Games Store)
• Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Steam)