NVIDIA announced last year its own AI chatbot called Chat with RTX, the locally-run AI chatbot, in its demo form. More recently, the company has released something that’s more gaming centric, in the form of Project G-Assist. This too is experimental, but the idea here is that it can do a whole range of things like adjusting the lighting on your connected RGB peripherals and components to optimising the graphics for your games.
Like Chat with RTX, NVIDIA says that Project G-Assist makes use of ACE, the tech used to make in-game NPCs more lifelike. The brand says it “uses a specially tuned Small Language Model (SLM) to efficiently interpret natural language instructions, and call a variety of NVIDIA and third-party PC APIs to execute actions on the PC”. Which explains the RGB lighting bit mentioned above.
But probably more impressively, you can get Project G-Assist to give you real-time diagnostic data and and recommendations to “alleviate system bottlenecks, improve power efficiency, optimise game settings” and more. Which is a little ironic as Ars Technica reports, making use of this while playing games causes gaming performance to take quite the hit. It is running locally on the same GPU that handles your games after all. So in the report’s example of Baldur’s Gate 3 at max settings, frame rates dropped by about 20%.
As mentioned, Project G-Assist is still experimental, so issues are sort of expected. The company says that you can enable it from the NVIDIA app’s Home tab, under the “Discovery” section. Once that’s done, it will appear as an overlay. While you obviously need an RTX GPU to use this, only the 30, 40 and 50 series are specifically mentioned, and they have to be desktop graphics cards with 12GB of VRAM or higher.
(Source: NVIDIA, Ars Technica)
