Gamescom 2024 is one of the most important events in the world of gaming, and as it could not be otherwise, NVIDIA used this festive environment to introduce some his most important newswhich I have compiled for you in this special article.

We start talking about GeForce Nowthe well-known cloud gaming service of the green giant. This platform has improved a lot over the years and NVIDIA has been able to target it so well that, as I told you in my analysis, it has been able to succeed where Google Stadia failed.

GeForce Now continues to receive improvements, and in this case we have to start by highlighting two major milestones that break the barrier 2000 games supported with service and support “add-ons” in World of Warcraftgreat news for fans of this title, as this news will make their lives easier.

But that’s not all, there’s more. They will also receive this service three new triple A games which are some of the highlights of the year: Black Myth Wukong, Star Wars Outlaws and Final Fantasy XVI The implementation of automatic registration when using PC Game Pass is also confirmed, a small innovation that will improve the user experience.

More than 600 games supported by NVIDIA RTX

And what is to come. I remember when NVIDIA announced RTX technologies which originally consisted of hardware accelerated ray tracing and first generation DLSS. They raised many doubts, but that much is clear They marked the way forward both to game developers and to the green giant’s own rivals.

List of new versions compatible with this technology it is very interestingas we have the aforementioned Black Myth Wukong, Star Wars Outlaws and Final Fantasy XVI as well as other future releases like Dragon Age: TheVeilguard and Dune: Awakening which will also be compatible with NVIDIA Reflex.

It is also confirmed that anyone who purchases a GeForce RTX 4070 or higher graphics card, or a PC or laptop equipped with this level of GPU, will receive free copy of Star Wars Outlawswhich is another big version with ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 and Reflex support.

To complete the information, I leave you an attached image where you can see some of the most important new games of today and theirs degree of compatibility with NVIDIA RTX.

Ray tracing: raises the bar for new games and brings classics to life

This technology has worked wonders in Black Myth Wukong, which has full ray tracing support and as we can see in the comparison images, After activation, the quality of the graphics will improve significantly. Its impact on performance is remarkable, as I told you then, and in order to enjoy the game smoothly by activating ray tracing, we have to resort to NVIDIA DLSS Super resolution and image generation.

Another game that takes ray tracing up a notch is Star Wars Outlaws, which also uses it flash reconstruction present in DLSS 3.5 to improve performance.

Ray tracing can graphically enhance any current game, but it can also be used to give classic games a second life through NVIDIA RTX Remix. Half-Life 2 RTX is one of the most important projects currently in development, and the truth is that it looks spectacular, because it not only uses full ray tracing, but also includes new assets for improve both modeling and texturing.

Half-Life 2 RTX is compatible with NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 and the generational leap achieved with this project is so impressive that I think it is Technically, the closest we could get was Half-Life 3.

NVIDIA ACE: Intelligent NPCs to transform the gaming experience

Artificial intelligence is one of the central pillars of NVIDIA and the green giant applies it in many sectors and levels. In terms of gaming, DLSS technology undoubtedly stands out in all its aspects, but we must not forget about ACE, which applies AI to NPCs to improve realism in games.

This promises to change the gaming experience forever, and after watching a live demo at Computex 2024, I can tell you that has the potential to do so. During Gamescom 2024, the green giant reviewed the development of this technology, starting with the first conversational NPC presented at Computex 2023 and progressing through the implementation of dynamic reactions based on attributes, interactions between NPCs, NPCs in the narrative and its execution. on computers with NVIDIA RTX solutions.

NVIDIA’s generative AI and the company’s ACE NIM microservices are key to achieving intelligent AI-powered NPCs, a topic I’ve already mentioned in this article. Well, the most important news that the green giant has announced is that it has made it Significantly improve conversations and response times NPC in your ACE NIM ecosystem thanks to the new LLM Neumotron-4 4B Instruct NIM.

To demonstrate what this technology can do, NVIDIA offered technical demo with MechaBreak gamewhere we can see that the NPC Tyn Ni is able to intelligently interact with the player, recognize people and objects, and achieve a level of realism that would be impossible without AI support.

G-SYNC is getting bigger and closer to the masses

One of the biggest improvements I enjoyed with one of the last transmission upgrades I did was going to G-SYNC. This technology completely eliminates tearing and stuttering, and significantly improves the gaming experience, as it achieves a clear image, without interruptions and stuttering caused by frame desynchronization.

This technology has also seen significant improvements over the years, among which we can highlight, for example, the support of HDR and 12-bit color accuracy, the introduction of a version compatible with G-SYNC, which brought this technology closer to the general public. and Ultra Low Motion Blur 2. Now NVIDIA has announced another important advance, the Pulsar.

Pulsar is a technology that is able to multiply up to four times the degree of clarity that we can enjoy in games that work with high FPS and also with high refresh rates. You can see in the attached picture that the difference is very big. Thanks to this greater image clarity, we will enjoy an excellent gaming experience and we will have an advantage in competitive titles.

Interesting, no doubt, but that’s not all, I wanted to save the most interesting for the end. NVIDIA and MediaTek have entered into a cooperation agreement completely eliminating the need to include another module with a dedicated processor in monitors with G-SYNC, and make this technology much more economical and appeal to more gamers.