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Nvidia released GPU driver 621.01, enabling Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery, a DirectX 12/Windows 11 technology that precompiles shaders in the cloud instead of on a player's PC. Gears of War: E-Day and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 support the feature when downloaded through the Xbox PC app, even if purchased on Steam, and it's also supported on AMD and Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 drivers.
A GitHub programmer built NvidiaWatch, a website that compiles Nvidia driver release notes and forum feedback to track the status of 462 reported driver bugs. The site gives each bug and each driver release its own page, showing fixed, open, and carried-over issues, plus a chart summarizing how many problems were resolved per update. The creator first shared the project in late September and posted an update on r/Nvidia this week.
Cody Ho and Niklas reverse-engineered Apple's AGX GPU firmware and user-space stack to create a fully OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant Linux driver for the M4 Mac Mini and MacBook Neo, a project completed in roughly a month rather than the years such work typically requires. The driver already runs Chrome, Firefox with WebGL, and Minecraft at 200fps, though it remains unready for general users.