What a couple of days. The build-up, the sleeping in tents, the stock and pricing anticipation, then the actual RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 launch, followed of course by all those gorgeous, hefty cards being snatched up so quick that the stocks hit zero quicker than you could say "yes, I'd like an RTX 5080 please". But fear not, for in lieu of RTX 50-series stocks, we now have the latest GeForce driver release that should give a nice boost to more than just the latest generation of Nvidia GPUs.
In addition to enabling DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation (for those whopping 4x fps results) in 75 games for RTX 50-series cards, Nvidia says the new Nvidia app update, which should get you on the latest 572.16 driver, also gives RTX 40-series cards enhanced DLSS frame generation.
But fear not, 30-series and 20-series gamers. We older-gen folk—me with my RTX 3060 Ti—should now be entitled to a dose of enhanced ray reconstruction, super resolution (in beta), and DLAA (also in beta). Of course, only when these options are enabled in-game.
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention—RTX 50-series envy and resentment, perhaps—you lucky, lucky RTX 5080 or RTX 5090 owners will also have access to 'Smooth Motion', which is driver-based frame interpolation. In other words, it adds a generated frame between frames just like the first generation of Frame Generation, but it's done on the driver level which means it can be enabled in games that don't officially support it.
Nvidia explains: "To enable NVIDIA Smooth Motion, select a compatible DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 game in Graphics > Program settings. Scroll down the list of options on the right to reach “Driver Settings”, and switch Smooth Motion on."
