An enhanced edition will be released for Metro Exodus, and a major visual overhaul is planned. But hardware is only part of the equation. In preparation for the game's release, Nvidia's latest "Game Ready" GPU driver (version 466.27) has been optimized to take full advantage of the game's "fully ray-traced lighting pipeline" and DLSS 2.0 support.

Nvidia notes that Metro Exodus is one of the first games to employ real-time ray tracing. It utilizes the Tensor cores in GeForce RTX graphics cards to achieve better visuals with minimal performance impact. While the original version was not without flaws and sacrificed too much visual fidelity, DLSS 2.0 is a major improvement and well worth turning on. [Nvidia says that the Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, which will be available on May 6, "features new and advanced ray-traced reflections, improved ray-traced global illumination lighting that applies to all light throughout the game, and a new and improved lighting system that was previously only available in The Two Colonels" DLC, and the introduction of raytraced emissive lighting previously seen only in "The Two Colonels" DLC.

The release of the latest driver also brings Game Ready optimizations to other upcoming games, including "Resident Evil: The Village" (May 7) and "Mass Effect: Legendary Edition" (May 14).

In addition to performance tweaks, Nvidia has added five more G-Sync-enabled monitors with this driver update. They are:

Monitors verified as G-Sync compatible do not have the actual G-Sync hardware module, but have passed Nvidia's review for G-Sync support with compatible graphics cards and the latest drivers. G-Sync. There are currently over 150 displays with G-Sync compatibility badges.

The release notes list only three bug fixes this time around. One of them addresses "a number of performance-related issues related to Nvidia Reflex and Rainbow Six Siege," and the other addresses a bug that limited the in-game frame rate to the display's refresh rate when connected via HDMI 2.1 and vertical sync is turned off The third bug fix addresses a crash issue affecting Rigid Gems and Prepar3D.

The latest drivers can be installed from GeForce Experience or downloaded and applied manually from Nvidia's driver download page.