TECH NEWS – Back in 2017, Nvidia unveiled the GTX G-Assist, which at the time was just a taste of the future that artificial intelligence could help gamers achieve. Seven years later, a very different solution is running under that name. It’s not a physical device (although who knows, there might be a demand for one if it could plug in via USB), but an AI-based assistant that runs on the PC.

“PC games offer vast universes to explore and intricate mechanics to master, which are challenging and time-consuming feats for even the most dedicated gamers. Project G-Assist aims to put game knowledge at the player’s fingertips using generative AI. Project G-Assist takes voice or text input from the player, along with contextual information from the game screen, and runs the data through AI vision models.

These models enhance the contextual awareness and application-specific understanding of a large language model (LLM) linked to a game knowledge database, and then generate a tailored response delivered as text or speech. Project G-Assist can configure the player’s gaming system for optimal performance and efficiency. It can provide insight into performance metrics, optimize graphics settings based on the user’s hardware, apply safe overclocking, and even intelligently reduce power consumption while maintaining a performance target,” Nvidia wrote.

For more complex role-playing games, real-time strategies, and simulators, we often have to go to the game’s wiki or website, or dive into forum posts, sometimes risking whether the information is credible. Nvidia used Ark: Survival Ascended in its presentation, and here the technology was given questions about objects, creatures and tasks. We get a well-optimized summary that doesn’t mislead us.

Nvidia is also working with graphics card, case, and power supply manufacturers to build the perfect SFF PC. Nvidia announced this initiative a few months ago, and we’ve already reported that the company is opening up to smaller chassis. To comply with the standard, the graphics card should be 304x155x50 mm (the size of the GeForce RTX 4070 and its Founders Edition) and no larger than two and a half slots, so most manufacturers (including Asus, Galax, Gigabyte, Inno3D, MSI, Palit, PNY, and Zotac) will probably go for the two-slot solution. Nvidia in particular is opening up to the RTX 4080 Super and RTX 4070, as the RTX 4060 cards are considered a mainstream option.

The graphics cards are just one part of the initiative. Nvidia has also reached agreements with several case manufacturers (Asus, Cooler Master, Corsair, Fractal Design, InWin, Lian Li, MSI, Nzxt, Phanteks, Silverstone, Suger, Thermaltake) to support their mini-ITX and SFF cases. They must provide at least 312×154.5x50mm space to accommodate a 2.5 slot Nvidia SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce video card. ITX motherboards can thus be paired with sufficiently powerful cards, but these are not produced directly by Nvidia.

Source: WCCFTech,