Launched in the present day, Nvidia driver 537.34 provides optimizations for Lies of P and Mortal Kombat 1, however extra urgently consists of some Starfield-related efficiency notes. The most important is the addition of a resizable BAR profile that Nvidia says will enhance Starfield efficiency on RTX 30-series and 40-series GPUs.
Earlier than this replace dropped, we defined easy methods to allow Resizable BAR manually for Starfield. You’ll find extra particulars in that article, however the in need of it’s that BAR stands for “Base Deal with Register,” and the function has to do with bettering the sport’s entry your graphics card’s reminiscence. In accordance with Nvidia, this replace improves Starfield efficiency by a median of 5% on RTX 40-series desktop GPUs.
The Resizable BAR profile shall be “robotically utilized for players working the most recent Recreation Prepared Driver (537.34) or the earlier launch (537.17),” Nvidia stated. The brand new 537.34 driver additionally provides Starfield to the “optimum settings” GeForce Expertise function, which tweaks the sport’s graphics settings primarily based in your {hardware} config.
(Aspect word: The picture above of my Starfield character attempting to field an alien has nothing to do with this driver replace, it is simply the latest screenshot I had of the sport. I punched it to loss of life.)
