I see companies like NVidia constantly releasing changes that immediate impact gaming visuals (ex full ray tracing in Cyberpunk 2077). How do these take affect without the graphic engine changes. And vice versa, how do graphic engines constantly improve on existing hardware?
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Graphic card drivers do contain lots of little game specific hacks (that’s what the “game ready” version of the driver means), usually to fix graphical glitches or improve performance, but for any major features they do need to be implemented in the game engine.
For example I’ve seen plenty of press releases for CDPR adding support for things like full path raytracing to Cyberpunk 2077, but not for NVIDIA adding features to games on their own. Do you have a link for the press release you saw? Potentially game devs can be given early access to new drivers so features can be enabled as soon as the driver is released publicly.
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