NVIDIA's G-Assist was originally an April Fool's Day prank in 2017,butWhat became a true technology demonstration last year has now become an AI assistant for RTX GPU owners. The G-Assist project is nowAvailable in the NVIDIA app, it will help optimize game and system settings, measure frame rates, and even change the lighting of connected devices.

G-Assist acts as an AI assistant via voice or text prompts, so you can ask questions like "How does DLSS frame generation work?" and the assistant will give you ChatGPT-like output. Even more interesting is that you can ask G-Assist to optimize games for the best performance or image quality, or let it control the lighting on devices supported by Logitech, Corsair, MSI, and Nanoleaf.

Players can even ask G-Assist to analyze and optimize their entire PC, so it can detect if the game has frame rate throttling, if the GPU is performance-limited, and what steps you can take to improve overall performance. It can even detect if the refresh rate on your monitor isn't reaching its maximum and recommend options like overclocking the GPU or lowering the game's resolution to achieve the desired frame rate.

G-Assist uses a local small language model and requires nearly 10GB of space to implement assistant functions and voice functions. This AI assistant runs on a variety of RTX 30, 40, and 50 series desktop GPUs, but you'll need a graphics card with at least 12GB VRAM.

G-Assist is an optional part of the NVIDIA app update, which also includes new DLSS overlay options and the ability to adjust display scaling and color settings. You can download NVIDIA’s app here:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/nvidia-app-update-g-assist-new-dlss-override-and-more/