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1000 GeForce Experience Users To Receive For Honor!

One thousand GeForce Experience members will receive a copy of the hit Ubisoft title For Honor in the latest GeForce Experience reward!

Winners will be informed via notification in the GeForce Experience client on Tuesday, July 18 (US time).  To be eligible, just download and log in to GeForce Experience, then opt-in to communications from NVIDIA (using the accounts tab within the settings menu).

 

For Honor Is The Latest Free Game From NVIDIA!

In For Honor, players embody warriors of the three Great Factions – The noble Knights of the Iron Legion, the deadly Samurai of the Dawn Empire, and ferocious Vikings of the Warborn clans – fighting to the death on intense and believable melee battlefields. Storm castles, defeat invading armies, and win epic duels as you battle for the survival of your people.

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For Honor is just the latest reward gamers could receive for playing on GeForce. Dating back to July 2016, NVIDIA has thanked our loyal GeForce Experience gamers by giving away: limited edition GeForce GTX replica USB thumb drives, MSI VR-Ready Notebooks, HTC Vive Systems, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GPUs, SHIELD Android TVs, and full versions of Overwatch, Gear of War 4, Ghost Recon Wildlands, Watch Dogs 2, For Honor, and more.

For Honor is one of 15 titles that supports NVIDIA Ansel. Ansel allows you to capture gameplay that was never before possible. When Ansel is supported in game, players can move the camera to any angle they desire, apply filters, use super resolution capture and even capture in 360 for viewing in VR. Learn more about these features in the Ansel Technology page.

Other NVIDIA technologies that will benefit For Honor include HBAO+, 4K support, G-Sync, GeForce Experience, and NVIDIA Surround.

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The Mass Effect: Andromeda Ansel Contest Details

NVIDIA just announced an in-game photography competition that allows players of Mass Effect: Andromeda on PC to put their artistry to the test by creating and sharing their best photos using NVIDIA Ansel, a revolutionary new way to capture in-game shots. The Shot With GeForce GTX Mass Effect: Andromeda Ansel contest starts today and runs through May 14, 2017.

 

The Mass Effect: Andromeda Ansel Contest Details

To enter, photographers have to capture an in-game photograph in Mass Effect: Andromeda with NVIDIA Ansel and share it on Facebook or Twitter by tagging @NVIDIAGeForce and using the #SHOTWITHGEFORCEGTX and #MASSEFFECT hashtags.

One Grand Prize winner will receive The Andromeda Initiative Custom PC and get their winning image posted as a free wallpaper on GeForce.com. And two Runner-Up winners will each get a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card, and have their winning image posted as a free wallpaper on GeForce.com.

 

NVIDIA Ansel

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NVIDIA Ansel is a revolutionary new way to capture in-game photographs. Think of Ansel as a camera that is integrated into your gaming experience that allows you to capture gameplay that was never before possible. When Ansel is supported in game, players can move the camera to any angle they desire, apply filters, use super resolution capture and even capture in 360 for viewing in VR. Read more about these features in our article – The NVIDIA Ansel In-Game Screenshot Technology Explained.

Ansel is supported in ARK: Survival Evolved, Conan Exiles, Dishonored 2, For Honor, Kona, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Obduction, Paragon, Snake Pass, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands, War Thunder, Watch Dogs 2, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and The Witness. Ansel is coming soon to upcoming titles such as Lawbreakers. It is supported in the Unity Engine and in the Unreal Engine as a plug-in.

 

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The NVIDIA Game Ready Driver 378.66 Details

NVIDIA has released the new NVIDIA Game Ready driver 378.66 for For Honor, Halo Wars 2 and Sniper Elite 4. The new driver also enables NVIDIA Ansel technology for For Honor and Paragon.

Game Ready for For Honor and more

Available on or before launch day, NVIDIA Game Ready Drivers provide the best experience for GeForce gamers in these titles because NVIDIA engineers work up until the last possible minute to optimise performance and perfect gameplay. And as an additional verification of quality, they are WHQL-certified by Microsoft.

Having the best possible quality for a game at launch is important. However, titles continue to evolve with new content and features through patches and DLC. Game Ready drivers aim to support all major milestones for games meaning we’re always working to bring you the best experience every time you game.

Paragon and For Honor get NVIDIA Ansel

With the release of this Game Ready driver version 378.66, two new games get NVIDIA Ansel – For Honor and Paragon.

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NVIDIA Ansel is a revolutionary new way to capture in-game shots. Think of Ansel as a camera that is integrated into your gaming experience that allows you to capture gameplay that was never before possible. When Ansel is supported in game, players can move the camera to any angle they desire, apply filters, use super resolution capture and even capture in 360 for viewing in VR. Learn more about these features in the Ansel Technology page.

Ansel is also supported in ARK: Survival Evolved, Conan Exiles, Dishonored 2, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Obduction, War Thunder, Watch Dogs 2, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and The Witness. Ansel is coming soon to upcoming titles such as Lawbreakers and Mass Effect: Andromeda. It was also recently added to Unity Engine and Unreal Engine as a plug-in.

 

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NVIDIA Ansel For ARK: Survival Evolved Now Available

Today you begin your ARK: Survival Evolved adventure alone and naked in a fiery desert wasteland. To survive you’ll need to find water and food, harvest new flora and craft new items. Thrive and you’ll tame new creatures — and even bring back jaw-dropping images — from a stunning new world.

 

NVIDIA Ansel For ARK: Survival Evolved Now Available

NVIDIA has enabled ARK: Survival Evolved and its expansion pack Scorched Earth with NVIDIA Ansel, a powerful, easy-to-use game camera that lets you capture professional-grade screenshots in ways you never could before.

ARK players can now enjoy the biggest expansion pack yet, Scorched Earth, an entirely new desert-themed ARK filled with new biomes, creatures, gameplay mechanics and challenges that will push players’ survival skills to the limit.

You’ll be able to travel back and forth from the Scorched Earth map to the ARK: Survival Evolved main game, taking with you newly collected tools, weapons and their new tamed creatures to impress your friends and dazzle your combatants.

With NVIDIA Ansel, gamers can capture beautiful screenshots of their surroundings and creations. Simply hit “Alt+F2” while in single-player to access the following Ansel features:

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  • Free Camera — Roll, zoom and reposition. Go wherever you want to create the perfect photo, capturing from never-before-seen perspectives and viewpoints.
  • Post-Process Filters — Tweak the look, feel and mood of your screenshot before saving. Ansel includes brightness, vignette, sketch, color enhancer, field of view and many other special effects options.
  • 360° Capture — Capture 360° panoramic screenshots in mono or stereo. View these images in Google Cardboard, on your PC or in a VR headset. For Android and Cardboard users, we’ve released the NVIDIA VR Viewer bundled with updated Ansel 360 Capture screenshots that you can view today. Download the app and check it out.
  • Super Resolution (Beta) — Capture huge screenshots beyond the limits of your monitor resolution at maximum fidelity levels for wall prints, posters or high-quality desktop wallpapers. This beta feature uses cutting-edge technology to deliver never-before-seen resolutions from game engines. Check out some examples in the Ansel Super Resolution Gallery.

 

Try Out Ansel on ARK

The NVIDIA Ansel technology is here today on ARK: Survival Evolved. Take unique screenshots that were once impossible to frame and snap.

Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, The Witness, Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and now ARK: Survival Evolved all include Ansel support now, with more to come.

 

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Mirror Edge Catalyst Now Enabled With NVIDIA Ansel

Singapore, 15 July 2016Mirror’s Edge Catalyst is now enabled with NVIDIA Ansel , a powerful, easy-to-use game camera that lets you capture professional-grade screenshots in ways you never could before.

Gamers can capture beautiful screenshots of the unbelievable sprawling City of Glass, thanks to the following NVIDIA Ansel features integrated into the PC version of Mirror’s Edge Catalyst:

  • Free Camera — Roll, zoom and reposition. Go wherever you want to create the perfect photo as Faith runs through the City of Glass.
  • Post-Process Filters — Tweak the look, feel and mood of your screenshot before saving Ansel includes brightness, vignette, sketch, color enhancer, field of view and many other special effects options.
  • 360-degree Capture — Capture 360° panoramic screenshots in mono or stereo. View these images in Google Cardboard, on your PC or in a VR headset. For Android or Cardboard users, we’ve released the NVIDIA VR Viewer bundled with updated Ansel 360 Capture screenshots from Mirror’s Edge Catalyst that you can view today. Download the app and check it out.

NVIDIA Ansel on Mirror’s Edge Catalyst

Our revolutionary NVIDIA Ansel technology is here today on Mirror’s Edge Catalyst. Take unique screenshots that were once impossible to frame and snap. Just download the latest Game Ready Driver. For a more detailed look at what NVIDIA Ansel can do, go to GeForce.com.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Revealed

When NVIDIA first revealed the GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card, we examined the key features of the new NVIDIA Pascal architecture :

Today, NVIDIA extends the NVIDIA Pascal family with a new addition – the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card!

Be sure to also check out our NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Unboxing & Hands-On Preview!

 

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Video Presentation

NVIDIA invited us to an exclusive media conference call recently. We recorded it for you and compiled it into a video presentation so you can better understand what the new GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card offers gamers. You will also get updates on NVIDIA VR Funhouse and NVIDIA Ansel. Check it out!

 

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Key Takeaways

  • The GeForce GTX 1060 is based on the new GP106 GPU manufactured on the 16 nm FinFET process.
  • The GeForce GTX 1060 has 1280 CUDA cores and with a boost clock of 1.7 GHz.
  • NVIDIA claims the GeForce GTX 1060 can be overclocked to 2.0 GHz.
  • The GeForce GTX 1060 has 6 GB of GDDR5 memory running at 2.0 GHz.
  • The GeForce GTX 1060 will be faster than the GeForce GTX 980.
  • The GeForce GTX 1060 will only consume 120 watts of power.
  • The GeForce GTX 1060 will have a 6-pin PCI Express power connector but no SLI connector.
  • GeForce GTX 1060 custom boards will be available starting July 19, priced at US$249 and above.
  • NVIDIA will offer the GeForce GTX 1060 Founder’s Edition board on July 19 as well, priced at US$299.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Presentation Slides

For those who prefer to check out the slides, there are 18 of them. So we have to divide them into 3 pages for your convenience. Enjoy!

This presentation will not only cover the new GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card, but also updates on NVIDIA VR Fun House and NVIDIA Ansel. But first, a quick trip down memory lane to when the GeForce GTX 980 was launched two years ago.

The new GeForce GTX 1060 promises to change all that, thanks to the new NVIDIA Pascal architecture, which is optimised for both speed and performance per watt.

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Remember how fast the GeForce GTX 980 was two years ago? Well, the new GeForce GTX 1060 promises to deliver GTX 980-level performance with twice the energy efficiency in VR.

The GeForce GTX 1060 supports the NVIDIA Simultaneous Multi-Projection technology, which allows it to seamlessly project a single image simultaneously to both eyes, yielding a 3X VR graphics performance improvement over previous generation GPUs.

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This allows GeForce GTX 1060 users to play VR games with higher levels of detail, without sacrificing performance or quality, for a more realistic, immersive experience.

Simultaneous Multi-Projection is being integrated into the world’s biggest game engines, Unreal Engine and Unity. More than 30 games are already in development, including Unreal Tournament, Poolnation VR, Everest VR, Obduction, Adr1ft and Raw Data.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 also supports NVIDIA VRWorks, a software developer kit that allows developers to intertwine what users see, hear and touch with the physical behaviour of the environment –convincing them that their virtual experience is real.

Next Page > Even More GeForce GTX 1060 Presentation Slides

 

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NVIDIA VR Funhouse will be available for free later this month from Valve’s Steam digital distribution service. Developed on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4, VR Funhouse will work on the GeForce GTX 1080, 1070 and 1060 GPUs and HTC Vive VR headsets. It will also be open sourced to developers and artists so they can create their own VR Funhouse attractions.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 also supports the NVIDIA Ansel technology, a powerful game-capture tool that allows gamers to explore, capture and share the artistry of gaming in ways never before possible. With Ansel, users can compose the gameplay shots they want, pointing the camera in any direction, from any vantage point within a gaming world, and then capture 360-degree stereo photospheres for viewing with a VR headset or Google Cardboard.

Gamers will be able to experience Ansel for themselves with Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst next week, and Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, later this month. Many more Ansel-enabled games are in development, including Epic Games’ Fortnite, Paragon and Unreal Tournament; Cyan Worlds’ Obduction; Thekla’s The Witness; Boss Key Productions’ Lawbreakers; Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s The Division; and the highly anticipated No Man’s Sky from Hello Games.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 features 1,280 CUDA cores, 6 GB of GDDR5 memory running at 8 Gbps and a boost clock of 1.7 GHz, which NVIDIA claims can be easily overclocked to 2 GHz for additional performance.

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Across the top gaming titles, GeForce GTX 1060 is on average 15% faster and over 75 percent more power efficient than the closest competitive product (the Radeon RX 480?) at stock speeds.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 custom boards will be available starting July 19 from NVIDIA GeForce partners, including ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac. The MSRP will start at US$249.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Founder’s Edition board – designed and built by NVIDIA – will be available starting July 19 for US$299. The GeForce GTX 1060 Founder’s Edition is crafted with premium materials and components, including a faceted die-cast aluminum body machine finished for strength and rigidity and a thermal solution designed to run cool and quiet.

 

Like the GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 Founder’s Edition boards, a dual-FETs power supply is used to improve power efficiency, along with a low impedance power delivery network and custom voltage regulators.

 

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NVIDIA Ansel In-Game Screenshot Technology Explained

On May 6, NVIDIA revealed the first gaming GPU based on their new Pascal architecture – the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080. The GeForce GTX 1080 not only boasts the latest Pascal architecture, it is also fabricated on the new 16 nm FinFET process technology and uses the new GDDR5X memory.

Although we were not in Austin, Texas for the official launch, NVIDIA invited us to an exclusive tech briefing in Bangkok on May 20th. While these hardware specifications are well-known by now, this was a technical briefing that would give us greater insights into the other new technologies that are being introduced with the GeForce GTX 1080.

NVIDIA brought in the big guns for the tech briefing and demonstration – Nick Stam (NVIDIA Senior Technical Marketing Director), Jeff Yen (NVIDIA Senior Technical Marketing Manager) and John Gillooly (NVIDIA Technical Marketing Manager). We will be posting a series of videos of their presentations, divided into topic-specific chunks. Today, we are going to look at the new NVIDIA Ansel in-game screenshot technology.

 

NVIDIA Ansel Explained

NVIDIA Ansel not just an in-game screenshot utility. It actually detaches you, the player, from the in-game limitations so you can capture your in-game shots in ways not possible before. You can also adjust the screenshots with a variety of post-process filters, or capture HDR images in super high resolution. You can even create 360-degree screenshots to display on your VR headset!

Here is a summary of NVIDIA Ansel’s key features :

 

Free Camera – Activating NVIDIA Ansel pauses the game and enables the Free Camera capability. This allows you to escape the first- or third-person perspective and compose your scene in any position, alignment or range, before taking unlimited high-resolution screenshots.

Super Resolution – Selecting the High Resolution option allows you to capture screenshots that are tens of thousands of pixels in size. This allows you to downsample the screenshot later, or zoom in to capture detail cannot be seen with the naked eye.

Post-Process Filters – NVIDIA Ansel comes with brightness, vignette, sketch, colour enhancer and special FX filters for added creativity. Users can even create and share their own special FX filters.

OpenEXR Capture – You can export Ansel screenshots in Industrial Light & Magic’s OpenEXR format so you can adjust the exposure, colour and levels in post-processing without creating artifacts.

360 Capture – This option allows you to create and share 360 degree screenshots for VR headsets.

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