NVIDIA has released a new version of the NVIDIA App that finally adds official support for Smooth Motion to all NVIDIA RTX-40 series GPUs. By using it, owners of RTX-40 series GPUs will be able to enable Smooth Motion and boost their in-game performance.
For what it’s worth, NVIDIA has not yet fixed the AF setting for the NVIDIA RTX-50 series GPUs. If you force AF X8 or X16, you’ll get visual glitches in all your games. NVIDIA has acknowledged this issue, and a future driver will fix it. However, there is no ETA on when this will happen. So, if you own an RTX-50 series GPU, you should stay away from the AF setting.
The new NVIDIA App will also add a global toggle to override the DLSS settings. This means you can enable the Transformer Model for all games via a single global setting. This will save you time as you will avoid doing any per-game profile adjustments. In my opinion, it’s always best to do these changes per game. Still, it’s good to have the option to force them in all titles with a Global profile.
And there you have it. Smooth Motion is something that a lot of NVIDIA RTX 40 and 50 series owners can use in games that do not support DLSS 3/4 Frame Gen. As with AMD’s AFMF, this is a driver-based frame generation solution. It’s not as polished as native DLSS 3/4 Frame Gen. From my tests, though, it’s better than both AFMF 2.0 and Lossless Scaling.
The only downside is that you need to have a game profile to use Smooth Motion. As such, you cannot use it in games or applications that don’t have an NVIDIA profile. Still, you can create a profile to force Smooth Motion. For instance, I tried creating a profile for a game that will come out next month (for which NVIDIA does not have a game profile yet). And yes, I was able to enable it on both the NVIDIA RTX 5090 and the RTX 4090. Yes, it actually does work.
You can download the new version of the NVIDIA App from NVIDIA’s official website. To gain access to it, you’ll have to opt in to the beta version. The public version will become available next week.
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