- Nvidia’s gentle movement technology is incoming for all RTX 4000 GPUs
- Previously, this image frequency boosting function was only for RTX 5000 cards
- It is still in beta version for RTX 4000 models, but it should not be long before the full version
Nvidia provides its smooth movement technology to increase image frequencies on all PC games with RTX 4000 graphics cards in a new driver.
This is excellent news for players with these GPUs – previously the smooth movement was only an option for RTX 5000 models – but the capture is that for the moment, this is still in testing with the nvidia beta pilot.
It should not be too long before technology goes to a release pilot.
This development was recovered from X by Huang514613, which underlined an article on the Guru3D forums, as indicated by Videocardz (the technological site verifying that the new beta version indeed carries functionality and tests briefly).
Smooth Motion is essentially the equivalent of the frame generation (FG) – by adding additional frames to increase frames per second, and make the game artificially more fluid – but it works at the pilot level (double the frequency of images).
This means that it can work with any DX11 or DX12 game (in theory) at all levels, while with the generation of frame (and DLSS 4), developers must code their game to use technology. This obviously limits the usefulness of the latter.
Analysis: Smooth operator – but be patient
Gently movement is a big problem because it means that a lot of old PC games, which will never be updated for the framework generation at this stage, can benefit from a similar functionality.
The capture is that the word “similar”, and Smooth Motion will not offer as good as the generation of frame in terms of image quality (or the boost of image frequency). However, for games that do not have DLSS or FG support, it is clearly much better than nothing.
As you may know, Smooth Motion is the equivalent of Nvidia of Fluid Movement Frames of AMD (who came before taking Team Green, and has recently been improved).
With a little luck, Nvidia will bring this functionality to the RTX GPUs which prior to the RTX 4000 range in the future.
I would be wary of trying to make this work on the mentioned beta pilot, by the way, because there are accident reports or even total PC locks caused by those who experiment with technology (which must be activated via the NVIDIA profile inspector tool).
If you have a RTX 4000 graphics card, be happy that Smooth Motion is on the way and wait for the official release of the finished pilot – it should not be too far away at this stage.
The first results are (generally) promising for a smooth movement on the RTX 4000 GPUs, by the way, according to the reports of the most intrepid players who went forward and tested this technology while it was in beta.
