Patch for November 19, 2018: NVIDIA Adaptive Shading

[jasonBethesda]

A new patch has been deployed to implement NVIDIA Adaptive Shading, improving the performance of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. We’ve been working with NVIDIA to make sure the game runs great on NVIDIA RTX hardware. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus debuts the first implementation of NAS.

Additional patch notes:

• Added support for NVIDIA Adaptive Shading on NVIDIA RTX series GPUs. (Improves frame rate by dynamically adjusting the shading resolution in different areas of the screen, without affecting fidelity).
  
• Ensured that, on multiple GPU systems, the discrete GPU is preferred over an integrated GPU.
  
• Players can now choose to ignore/suppress warnings when the selected video settings exceed the amount of dedicated VRAM available on the GPU
  
• Fixes for skinning issues on GTX 970

For more information, check out the below info from NVIDIA:

GeForce RTX graphics cards support several new, innovative advanced shading techniques, that enable developers to further improve performance, and do things that were previously impossible. One of these techniques is NVIDIA Adaptive Shading (NAS), formerly known as Content Adaptive Shading (CAS). This adjusts the rate at which portions of the screen are shaded, meaning the GPU has less work to do, boosting performance. Factors like spatial and temporal color coherence are measured each frame, and in areas where detail remains unchanged from frame to frame, such as sky boxes and walls, the shading rate can be lowered in successive frames.

[bobbie424242]

Thank you !

[Nelly D Racer]

There seems to be an issue I've tried the balanced and quality presets for adaptive shading and game freezes after a few minutes. I'm running an RTX 2080 Ti.

[Morgan_Yu]

mine doesn't even start after last update...just a black screen

[Nelly D Racer]

Okay looks like I might've found my issue, I just verified the game and there's a gigabyte of data that needs to be reaquired :)

[bobbie424242]

Originally posted by Morgan_Yu:

mine doesn't even start after last update...just a black screen

Verify the game files in Steam.

[Morgan_Yu]

Originally posted by bitowankenhobitt:

Originally posted by Morgan_Yu:

mine doesn't even start after last update...just a black screen

Verify the game files in Steam.

Already did that, nothing happend

[green.nifta]

Try deleting this file "Wolfenstein II The New ColossusConfig.local" in your savegame folder.

It should be in C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\Saved Games\MachineGames\Wolfenstein II The New Colossus\base

[Morgan_Yu]

Originally posted by green.nifta:

Try deleting this file "Wolfenstein II The New ColossusConfig.local" in your savegame folder.

It should be in C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\Saved Games\MachineGames\Wolfenstein II The New Colossus\base

Thanks a lot but did that too and nothing changed. Installing nvidia drivers again right now. Thing is everything else works as it should so i do not think drivers reinstall will do anything.
UPDATE: reinstalling drivers did the trick but once i reconfigure options in video menu and restart black screen comes again

[neunkornett0140]

I've noticed that I can no longer enable deferred rendering in the game since the update, it will always disable itself if I turn it on in the options menu, furthermore if I use my old config files
from before the patch where deferred rendering was enabled it stays enabled in game but the game will instantly crash upon loading a save game.
I've also noticed that performance seems lower in general with the patch.

Running a GTX 1080 TI with 416.94 drivers.

[harmonlpoehl]

Originally posted by Morgan_Yu:

mine doesn't even start after last update...just a black screen

Same here! notting working reinstall driver and verify didnt fix it.

Turn off Afterbuner ,runs fine for my system.

[Morgan_Yu]

Mmmm might be windows 10 version after all.....thought i already have v1809 but no, v1803. So im forcing windows to update right now and see what happens

[Gehangus]

i am using v1803 right now.
Version 10.0.17134 Build 17134

[Morgan_Yu]

Close afterburner. Right now is making the game to crash...

[green.nifta]

Originally posted by Morgan_Yu:

Close afterburner. Right now is making the game to crash...

Glad you found the cause!

[Cxjey2025]

Originally posted by green.nifta:

Originally posted by Morgan_Yu:

Close afterburner. Right now is making the game to crash...

Glad you found the cause!

I played some parts of the game and did not crash my pc.