Nvidia releases Game Ready driver for The Finals, a new game made by ex-Battlefield devs that has exploded in popularity

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The Finals currently averages almost 200,000 concurrent players on Steam.

The Finals
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Nvidia has released a new Game Ready driver (version 546.33) that adds support for three new and current titles including Fortnite Chapter 5, Squad, and The Finals. The latter is a brand new first-person shooter from Embark Studios — a studio comprised of ex-Battlefield DICE developers — that quietly left early access and launched on Steam a few days ago. The game has exploded in popularity since its arrival, with over 200,000 concurrent players regularly enabling the game to break into Valve's top 10 most-played games on the Steam platform.

The Finals is a new take on the first-person shooter genre, featuring some gameplay elements you don't see in other contemporary shooters. The defining feature of the game is its destructible buildings, which opens up a near infinite amount of gameplay opportunities. And when we say destructible buildings, we don't mean your typical building destruction physics that you might see in Battlefield or War Thunder. The buildings in The Finals are completely destructible from top to bottom, enabling players to block off objectives, create choke points, and relocate enemy players at will.

The game is set in a virtual tournament with spectators watching you on the edge of the map. The main game mode is simple, featuring three teams of three who need to acquire cash and bank it out to win. But, winning a game can be extremely difficult due to the destructible buildings and the numerous weapons, gadgets, and character classes provided.

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Nvidia's latest driver update should provide gamers with the smoothest gaming experience on GeForce hardware with these new games. The Finals is not particularly demanding, though it comes with all the latest Nvidia graphics features like DLSS, DLAA, DLSS 3 Frame Generation, Reflex, and RTX Global Illumination to improve the game's performance and/or image quality.

According to Nvidia's benchmarks, the game can easily achieve over 90 FPS on an RTX 4060 at 1080p with ray tracing and the game's graphical settings maxed out, all without DLSS enabled. On the other side of the equation, an RTX 4090 at 4K can hit 130 FPS at native 4K, or 226.2 FPS with DLSS upscaling and Frame Generation enabled.

If you're interested in playing The Finals on an Nvidia card, be sure you grab this new driver — or at least a recent driver. I found that the game doesn't like to boot with old Nvidia drivers, causing the display to output a black screen. So, if you come across that issue, give this latest driver a shot.

Aaron Klotz
Aaron Klotz
Contributing Writer

Aaron Klotz is a contributing writer for Tom’s Hardware, covering news related to computer hardware such as CPUs, and graphics cards.

5 Comments Comment from the forums
  • SCP2000
    Free to play p2w games will always be the bane of this industry. Exploitative, manipulative, and driven solely by greed. There are no net positives.

    Remember, if it's free, then you're the product.
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  • armor152
    Nice! Such a good game so far and it's ran perfect since Thursday.
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  • Corrocon
    Free to play p2w games will always be the bane of this industry. Exploitative, manipulative, and driven solely by greed. There are no net positives.

    Have you even played the game? It's not p2w. All you can buy is skins for your contestants and their weapons. You have to play the game, earn xp and complete contracts to earn new weapons. Can't buy them.

    Remember, if it's free, then you're the product.

    That does not apply to most of the game industry. The games are free so they can sell you cosmetics or DLC's. The free you are thinking of is email and social media accounts that don't cost anything.
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  • SCP2000
    Corrocon said:
    Have you even played the game? It's not p2w. All you can buy is skins for your contestants and their weapons. You have to play the game, earn xp and complete contracts to earn new weapons. Can't buy them.



    That does not apply to most of the game industry. The games are free so they can sell you cosmetics or DLC's. The free you are thinking of is email and social media accounts that don't cost anything.
    Only briefly because modern shooters bore the crap out of me. It's the same rehashed garbage, lol.

    That, my friend, is how the F2P model works. Even if it is simply cosmetic at first, corporate interests eventually establish a stranglehold. That is how opportunists work.
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  • Corrocon
    SCP2000 said:
    Only briefly because modern shooters bore the crap out of me. It's the same rehashed garbage, lol.

    That, my friend, is how the F2P model works. Even if it is simply cosmetic at first, corporate interests eventually establish a stranglehold. That is how opportunists work.
    I mean if it's not for you it's not for you. The game isn't the same rehashed "garbage" that's been on the market for forever. It's definitely set itself apart with some unique features though they aren't all new concepts. Luckily it's not a BR game as we have too many.

    Well, your first comment was that the game is P2W, which was incorrect. It certainly is a F2P model, but I really don't get what your problem is with that model. The industry found a way to continue making money off of games that get regular updates and new content without making it a gambling game (like early Rocket League) or a P2W game. They also don't require the regular purchase of DLC content to continue playing the new updates. All you've done is allude to some vague corporate interest and something about a stranglehold. Of course, they are opportunists, they are in the business of making money. Let's just hope they don't switch to a pay per hour of gameplay model.
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