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Smooth Motion is NVIDIA’s answer to AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames


Now here is something that came out of nowhere. NVIDIA has just included a new setting in its NVIDIA App, called Smooth Motion. Smooth Motion appears to be a form of frame generation that PC gamers can enable in every game. In other words, it’s similar to AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames.

From the looks of it, Smooth Motion may be exclusive to the RTX50 series GPUs. I haven’t tested the new NVIDIA App on the NVIDIA RTX 4090, so I’m not 100% sure about it. So, if you have an RTX30 or RTX40 series GPU, comment below if you get the option for Smooth Motion.

UPDATE:

As suspected, Smooth Motion is indeed exclusive to the RTX50 series GPUs. You cannot enable it on older NVIDIA GPUs.

You can find Smooth Motion right below DSR. Right now, Smooth Motion supports both DX11 and DX12 games.

As with AFMF, Smooth Motion may be ideal for games that do not support DLSS (or for those that only have support for DLSS Super Resolution). For instance, you can use Smooth Motion in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, which only supports DLSS 3 Super Resolution.

Interestingly enough, NVIDIA never mentioned this feature during the review cycle of its RTX50 series GPUs. It simply came out of nowhere. So, that’s a pleasant surprise.

What’s also interesting is that Rivatuner can force NVIDIA Reflex in games that don’t have native support for it. So, NVIDIA owners may get better and more responsive controls with Smooth Motion than AMD users got with AFMF.

I will take a closer look at Smooth Motion this weekend. So, expect an article with my impressions this Sunday.

Stay tuned for more!

UPDATE #2:

NVIDIA told us that support for the RTX40 series GPUs will be coming in a future update.

“NVIDIA Smooth Motion is a brand-new driver technology and requires time for validation and QA across multiple products. Support for GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs will be coming in a future update.”