The new Nvidia Geforce 361.75 WHQL Game Ready drivers should bring all the optimizations as well as SLI profiles for the Tom Clancy's The Division Beta phase of the game as well as the Rise of the Tomb Raider which should launch tomorrow. According to the release notes the new drivers also include a couple of other SLI profiles as well as a beta support for external GPU over Thunderbolt 3 interface.

Nvidia has been working close with Crystal Dynamics developer on the Rise of the Tomb Raider game which will include Nvidia's HBAO+ Ambient Occlusion shadowing and offer quite an impressive graphics details as you can see from the new PC Tech trailer below. Such high graphics details will also require some decent hardware so Nvidia recommends at least Geforce GTX 970 in case you want to get 60 frames per second at 1080p resolution and high-detail settings, whle for 2560x1440 at same settings, you will need a GTX 980 Ti.

Tom Clancy's The Division Beta phase is set to kick off on January 29th on the PC and in order to enable HBAO+ and PCSS, Ubisoft recommends at least the Geforce GTX 970 for 1080p resolution.

As it was the case with recent Geforce graphics drivers, the new Geforce 361.75 WHQL Game Ready drivers are also available for Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions and support all recent Geforce graphics cards since Geforce 400 series.

According to the full release notes for the new Geforce 361.75 WHQL Game Ready drivers, in addition to the Rise of the Tomb Raider and Tom Clancy's The Division, it also includes SLI profiles for Metal Gear Solid V multiplayer and updated SLI profiles for Rainbow Six: Siege and Sebastien Loeb Rally Evo game. Hidden inside the release notes is also beta support for Geforce GTX GPUs, including GTX 900 series, Titan X and Geforce GTX 750 and GTX 750 Ti, for external graphics over Thunderbolt 3 interface.

Nvidia was also keen to note that it is currently bundling Rise of the Tomb Raider with certain Geforce GTX GPUs, desktops and notebooks so you should check out the bundle page as well.

As always, you can find the new Geforce 361.75 WHQL Game Ready driver over at Nvidia's dedicated driver page.