Since there is no listed optimization for X-Plane in the game-ready driver, I was wondering whether the studio drivers, with their 'stability and quality' would be a better choice - 100MBs of hotfixes in the g/r set for games I will never have.

If you are a content creator who prioritizes stability and quality for creative workflows including video editing, animation, photography, graphic design, and livestreaming, choose NVIDIA Studio Driver. After seeing it live, I'm excited to see its potential.If you are a gamer who prioritizes day of launch support for the latest games, patches, and DLCs, choose Game Ready Drivers. Thanks to Nvidia Reflex in UE5, users gaming with RTX GPUs will experience new levels of low latency. Not only will users experience beautifully rendered ray-tracing graphics but also higher frame rates from creation to the final product. The update also improves RTX accelerated ray tracing and DLSS in the UE5 viewport for real-time visuals, which is important when creating. This latest Studio Driver adds support for many creative applications like Unreal Engine 5's Lumen, which is a fully dynamic global illumination system for both hardware and software ray tracing. Nvidia also enhanced the speed and capability of the team workflows, making it a fantastic and clean work environment for a host of digital artists to collaborate within. I was blown away not just by how realistic everything was rendered or the perfect lighting and shadows, but also by how blazing fast everything was rendering.

I recently got a chance to sit and chat with Nvidia's team as they demonstrated many of the new optimizations and capabilities.

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