NVIDIA has officially released the public beta of Project G-Assist, an AI assistant designed for GeForce RTX PC owners, which is available in the NVIDIA app. With this tool, you can easily tune, control, and optimize your gaming PC settings using voice or text commands.
Key Features and Capabilities
Project G-Assist runs directly on your device, so you don’t need a subscription, and you get lower latency.
- Performance Monitoring and Tuning: You can ask the AI to show or graph your frame rates, latency, GPU temperature, and usage. It can also optimize your game settings and apply GPU overlocks.
- Voice and text commands: the Assistant understands natural language, so you can quickly make changes by saying things like “improving my power efficiency”.
- Context-aware help: G-Assist can use screen snapshots to give you in-game tips, such as boss strategies and where to find items.
- Peripheral control: The AI can control devices from partners such as Corsair, Logitech, MSI, and Nano Leaf, allowing you to adjust lighting or fan speeds.
- Community Plugins: You can add custom plugins to the assistant through a dedicated hub to get new features.
At Gamescom, NVIDIA is rolling out the first major update to Project G-Assist. This experimental on-device AI assistant lets users tune their NVIDIA RTX systems using voice and text commands.
The update launches a new AI model that uses 40% less VRAM, improves tool calling intelligence, and expands G-Assist to support all RTX GPUs with 6 GB or more VRAM, including laptops. There is also a new G-Assist plugin hub that lets users easily find and download plugins for additional features.
NVIDIA also announced a new path-tracing particle system for the NVIDIA RTX Remix modding platform, set to launch in September. This system will add fully simulated physics, dynamic shadows, and realistic reflections to visual effects.
NVIDIA also announced the winners of the NVIDIA and ModDB RTX Remix Mod Contest. You can see the winning and finalist RTX Mods in the RTX Remix GE Force article.
G-Assist: Now Smarter and Broadly Accessible on More RTX PCs!
Modern PCs are powerful, but getting the most out of them often means dealing with a complicated mix of settings across software, GPU tools, and control panels.
Project G-Assist is a free on-device AI assistant designed to make things easier. It functions as a central command center, giving users quick access to functions that were once hidden in menus via voice or text commands. Users can ask assistants to:
- Run Diagnostics to Optimize Game Performance.
- Display or chart frame rates, latency, and GPU temperatures.
- Adjust GPU or even peripheral settings, such as keyboard lighting.
The G-Assist update delivers a much more efficient AI model that is faster and uses 40% less memory while still giving accurate responses. This improvement allows G-Assist to run on all RTX GPUs with 6GB or more VRAM, including laptops.
It’s easy to get started:
- Install the latest game-ready driver (580.97 and above) from the NVIDIA App.
- Open the NVIDIA app, go to Settings > About and opt in to beta and experimental features/early access, then relaunch the app; it should be on version 11.0.5.
- In the NVIDIA app, go to Home and then scroll down to discover and download the G-Assist 0.1.17 update.
- Press Alt + G to activate.
Another G-Assist update coming in September will add support to laptop-specific commands, including features like NVIDIA Battery Boost and Battery OPS.
Introducing the G-Assist Plugin Hub with Mod.io
NVIDIA is working with Mod IO to launch the G-Assist Plugin Hub. This hub lets users easily find G-Assist plugins and discover and download community-made ones.
With the latest update, users can now ask G-Assist which new plugins are available in the Hub and install them using natural language, all thanks to a modern Mod.io plugin.
Project G-Assist is a big step towards bringing AI into PC gaming. It makes system optimization easier and provides real-time in-game help.
