Nvidia has released new drivers for the PC versions of Metal Gears Solid 5: The Phantom Pain and Mad Max just in time for their release tomorrow, the graphics company announced today.
The GeForce Game Ready 255.82 WHQL Mad Max and Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain drivers, as they are called, can be downloaded from the GeForce Experience, Nvidia’s user interface tool for their graphics cards, or GeForce.com. The drivers include support for SLI profiles and the Nvidia Control Panel Ambient Occlusion profile. The drivers also contain SLI profiles for Gu Jian Qi Tan Online, Rocket League, and World of Tanks.
Nvidia released a trailer for The Phantom Pain on PC earlier this month, showing off its 4K resolution, running at 60 frames per second. The Phantom Pain will be able to run at 4K and even 5K resolutions, if your PC hardware can handle it, something that will be lost on console players.
In July, Nvidia announced a bundle for the GTX line of graphics cards. For a limited time, the GTX 980 Ti, 980, 970, 960, as well as the 980/970M laptop graphics cards will come bundled with a copy of The Phantom Pain for PC.
While The Phantom Pain was scheduled to be released on Sept. 15, two weeks after the console release of the game, the developers went into crunch mode and even gave up their summer vacation so that the PC version would release alongside the console versions on Sept. 1.
The PC version of The Phantom Pain on disc only contains an executable for the Steam installer and nothing else. Additionally, pre-loading has not been enabled on Steam for The Phantom Pain, meaning that downloading and installing the game cannot take place until the game’s official release date of Sept. 1, 2015. Many games on Steam, especially highly-anticipated ones like The Phantom Pain, support pre-loading so that players can begin playing the game the very minute the game is officially released.
