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SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

GOG has the new Make Your Choice Promo, with games up to 90% off during 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20250416_make_your_choice_promo.

Steam has three new deals and two sales:

• There’s a new daily deal with The Entropy Centre being 75% off during 26 more hours: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1730590/The_Entropy_Centre/
• Rain on Your Parade will have a 67% discount until the 22nd of April: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1213230/Rain_on_Your_Parade/
• RoboCop: Rogue City will be 80% off until the 29th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1681430/RoboCop_Rogue_City/
• And these are the new sales:
  • The Poysky Production Publisher Sale has up to 35% discounts until April 29: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44847133/sale/poyskysale
  • And publisher/developer DON'T NOD puts its games up to 80% off until the same 29th of April: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33977966/sale/publishersaleapril2025

Fanatical has two new deals:

• The new Star Deal is Mortal Kombat™ 1: Khaos Reigns Kollection, with a 72% discount during 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/mortal-kombat-1-khaos-reigns-kollection
• The BYOB: Warhammer 40,000 Battles (Spring 2005), their typo, not mine, has 18 items to get (games and DLCs) in bundles of 3+, 5+ or 7+ during 31 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-bundle-warhammer-40-000-battles

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 576.02 driver
https://videocardz.com/driver/nvidia-geforce-game-ready-576-02

HIGHLIGHTS
Game Ready for GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
This new Game Ready Driver supports the new GeForce RTX 5060 Ti GPU and provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including Black Myth: Wukong and No More Room in Hell 2.

Gaming Technology

• Adds support for the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

FIXED ISSUES

Fixed Gaming Bugs

• [Fortnite] Random crashes during gameplay [5171520]
• [The First Berserker: Khazan] DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED Crash [5195216]
• [Star Wars Outlaws] Application will freeze after leaving the game idle for 5+ minutes [5191099]
• Game stability issues when playing games with DLSS Frame Generation + GSYNC [5144337]
• [Monster Hunter Wilds] Crash after accepting quest with DLSS-FG Enabled [5087795]
• [InZOI] Game crashes with error “GPU crashed or D3D Device Removed” [5154864]
• [Overwatch 2] Stutter when using VSYNC [5171856]
• [Hellblade 2: Senua’s Saga] Increased aliasing when using TSR [5125662]
• [Hellblade 2: Senua’s Saga] Crashing when using Smooth Motion [5209772]
• [The Last of Us Part 1] Crash when using Smooth Motion [5208799]
• Dithering/banding in some games on RTX 50-series GPUs [5121715]
• [Control] Flickering corruption in multiple areas [5118876]
• Stutter when using VSYNC [5202703][5202474]
• VSYNC in NVCP + frame generation causes issues in DLSS 4 games [5124816]
• [UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection] Artifacts on screen when collecting treasures [5158954]

Fixed General Bugs

• Stability issues when using Windows 11 24H2 [5160948]
  Bugcheck with PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (50) when playing games with DLSS 4 multi-frame generation [5144337]
• [RTX 50 series] GPUs crash with black screen/underflow [5160845]
• [RTX 50 series] Random black screen issues [5090505]
• General system stability issues [4921925]
• [RTX 50 series] System hard hang with 572.16 driver loaded [5107271]
• Compute Shader-related tests are failing due to “error” [4894179]
• [HWBU][DT GB202/203][LG 27GN950 Specific] Display blacked out when applying 120Hz refresh rate [5044229]
• PC display will not wake after extended sleep time [5131052]
• Two DP outputs of the RTX 5090 will blue screen when trying to watch protected videos [5167145]
• Black screen issue when testing 3D Mark with driver 572.02 and 572.16 [5095825]
• Primary blank display showing blank after hot-plugging the display in daisy chain [4978206]
• Display shows blank screen on setting RR 165/200Hz when daisy chain is enabled [5049227]
• Second display showing blank when applying higher RR for second display when displays are connected in daisy chain [4956573]
• Primary monitor (AORUS FO32U2P) goes blank when HPD/power cycles second display in Daisy chain [5075448]
• [GeForce RTX 50 series] GPUs crash with black screen when playing graphically demanding games [5098914]
• RTX 50 series displays blank screens on LG 5k2k 45GX950A-B when running in DisplayPort 2.1 mode with HDR [5192671]
• Black screen on installing drivers and booting into Windows [5153642]
• DP2.1 - UHBR10/13.5 link rates are unstable on LGE 27GX790A-B [5080789]
• Multiple users reporting black screen issue when disabling the “FCH Spread Spectrum” settings [5204493]
• [RTX 50 series] Slightly higher DPC latency may be observed on some system configurations [5168553]
• [RTX 50 series] Varjo Aero VR headset may fail to establish connection [5117518]
• Changing the state of “Display GPU Activity Icon in Notification Area” does not take effect until PC is rebooted [4995658]
• [RTX 50 series] Display may show black screen when selecting DLDSR resolution [5144768]
• [Octanebench] Performance regression [3523803]
• [DaVinci Resolve] UI overlay in Fusion page is not displayed correctly [4974721]

>> Hopefully, this is the end of the black screens problems people have had with the last drivers.

NVIDIA Unreal Engine 5 Zorah Tech Demo Available For Download
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/nvidia-unreal-engine-5-zorah-tech-demo-available-for-download/
NVIDIA fans, here is something for you today. The green team has just released its CES 2025 Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo, Zorah, which was used to showcase the capabilities of the RTX50 series GPUs.
The Zorah Tech Demo is, I kid you not, 108GB in size. Yep, that’s a huge tech demo so make sure to have enough free disk space.
This demo uses RTX neural rendering that highlights the latest innovations in geometry, lighting and character rendering technologies. The demo is built in the NVIDIA RTX Branch of Unreal Engine 5 (NvRTX).
As NVIDIA has noted, Zorah has been updated with stunning new scenes that push the boundaries of RTX real-time path tracing. It also supports RTX Mega Geometry, RTX Hair, ReSTIR PT, and ReSTIR DI.
In short, this is one of the best-looking tech demos out there. It’s also one that can push your GPU to its limits. Plus, it may give us a look at what next-gen games may look like.
>> The article has a 1:04 minutes video, which seems quite short for a 108GB demo.

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GAMING NEWS

New gameplay trailer for Blades of Fire focuses on combat
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/new-gameplay-trailer-for-blades-of-fire-focuses-on-combat/
505 Games has released a brand new gameplay trailer for its new action game, Blades of Fire. This new trailer focuses on the game’s combat mechanics. So, make sure to watch it if you are interested in it.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Patch 1.2.4 Released & Detailed
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-patch-1-2-4-released-detailed/
Warhorse Studios has just released Title Update 1.2.4 for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and shared its full patch notes. The key feature of this update is the Hardcore Mode. So, let’s take a closer look at it.

Black Myth: Wukong April Patch Adds Support for NVIDIA DLSS 4 & Intel XeSS 2.0
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/black-myth-wukong-april-patch-adds-support-for-nvidia-dlss-4-intel-xess-2-0/
Game Science has released the April Update, also known as Patch 1.0.16.18901, for Black Myth: Wukong. This patch came out on Epic Games Store a couple of days ago. Sadly, though, the Steam version has not received it yet (and there is no ETA for when it will come out).