Artificial intelligence will also make its effects felt in the gaming world. As you can guess, the pioneer of this will again be NVIDIA. The GPU giant announced an artificial intelligence-supported assistant that instantly monitors the course of the game and detects various information during Computex 2024. The artificial intelligence robot called G-Assist not only offers instant support to players, but also contains algorithms to monitor system performance and hardware and offer optimum settings.
The green team’s technology may seem “unnecessary” to some players at first. However, RTX and DLSS technologies were not so widespread in the beginning. NVIDIA will improve its assistant over time and provide different functions.
In summary, we can say that artificial intelligence will now show its influence more in the gaming world. Powered by “LLM (Large Language Model)”, the artificial intelligence robot will be able to react to contextual actions taking place on a game screen through voice or text inputs, giving you ideas and recommendations.
What is Project G-Assist?
Project G-Assist was announced as an RTX-powered artificial intelligence assistant technology that provides context-sensitive assistance for PC games and applications. There are countless games of different genres in the gaming world. Some of them have large maps, characters, creatures and large universes to explore. The green team’s technology was developed to improve the experience by providing game information to the user.
We wrote that G-Assist receives instant information during the game. The data obtained is processed with the help of various information databases and artificial intelligence models. Then, a response is generated in the form of text or speech, depending on what is happening in the game. NVIDIA partnered with Studio Wildcard to introduce the technology with ARK: Survival Ascended. In this game, Project G-Assist can answer questions about many topics such as creatures, missions, items and bosses. Artificial intelligence technology can also personalize its responses based on the user’s gaming experience.
In addition to game-related information, the technology can evaluate your system’s configuration and performance and instantly make adjustments for the optimal gaming experience. The settings applied are based on extensive testing on thousands of hardware configurations. The AI can strive to achieve a certain frame rate and safely control the voltage to maximize performance per watt. This can help laptop users extend battery life.
You can think of G-Assist as Copilot designed for games. An intelligent assistant that analyzes the game in real time to provide you with hints. Artificial intelligence can recognize in-game objects and use OCR to read text, then combine this information with external sources such as wikis to offer assistance. Microsoft’s assistant named Copilot also offered some assistance in games such as Minecraft and Sea of Thieves. The green team’s technology will be much more comprehensive. The first promotion was made with Ark: Survival Ascended.
We will be able to activate NVIDIA’s new artificial intelligence assistant with just a keyboard hotkey. Players sometimes get stuck at a point and try to access the online guides at that very moment. G-Assist will now come to your aid. Let’s give an example from the game ARK: Survival Ascended used in the promotion. The GPU manufacturer says G-Assist can recommend the best weapon to use if you’re just starting out with the game, and also provides tips on bosses via text and voice prompts. He states that he will offer the option to buy or get information about dinosaur information.
Best of all, Project G-Assist is aware of what’s going on in the game and can establish context. Using artificial intelligence vision models, the assistant can receive information from the game screen, understand and analyze it, warn the player about what is happening and provide information about what to do next.
We don’t know when Project G-Assist will become widespread because it is a tool that needs to be specifically implemented by game developers. This feature is included in the upcoming RTX AI development kit, but everything is in the hands of the game studios.
How does AI Assistant work?
In fact, we have explained the working logic clearly enough. Project G-Assist collects voice or text input from the player along with a snapshot of what’s happening in the game window. Snapshots are artificial intelligence tools that provide context awareness and application-specific understanding for the Large Language Model (LLM) connected to a game information database such as a wiki. Seeing models is feeding. In other words, information is provided to artificial intelligence algorithms so that they can give a result.
LLM offers logical and personalized answers based on what’s happening in the game. To summarize it another way, NVIDIA’s assistant is like a specialized gaming version of other chatbots. NVIDIA claims that G-Assist “can be customized by developers for a specific game or application, providing a high degree of accuracy and insight.”
Multiple computer vision models are running to understand what’s going on in the game, as well as an AI model to recognize text spoken in the background. An OCR model is used for text recognition; quest objectives, NPC names, etc. like. On top of this, another model is used to recognize objects in the game; such as enemy types.
The assistant will be able to run on the cloud or locally on an RTX GPU. So can it negatively affect performance? NVIDIA says that when artificial intelligence runs on the GPU, the performance will be affected in very small amounts. The company also stated that these performance costs are similar to “screen recording/streaming software” operations. In the process of collecting information, a record of previous frames is kept and these are analyzed only when necessary. Unlike DLSS, no pipeline is used in this process.
Game Tuning and Overclocking with Project G-Assist
All players want to get maximum performance from their system. However, generally adjusting game settings is a bit complicated and requires fine-tuning and experimentation. As we just mentioned, Project G-Assist can make the best game settings depending on the instantaneous flow.
The green team gave an example from Cyberpunk 2077 to demonstrate the assistant’s abilities. The company claims that you can get the highest performance from Steam games with a “simple command”. G-Assist will be able to analyze and adjust your hardware configuration with minimal effort.
Automatic hardware detection settings are a thing that’s been around in the PC gaming space for years, but running in-game benchmarks are always on par with the average FPS you’ll experience when playing a game. It isn’t happening. Artificial intelligence can not only detect your hardware, but also monitor in-game data. It tracks and graphs frame rates, latency, power consumption and other hardware statistics, then makes automatic adjustments if you approve. However, to “take full advantage of your display’s resolution, refresh rate, or other capabilities like HDR/G-Sync,” you need to turn on your PC or laptop. can analyze.
It’s not over yet. It is also possible to overclock reliably with a single command. The overclocking of the vehicle will be based on extensive testing with your data and thousands of hardware configurations.
As you know, there are hundreds of game and hardware settings in game menus, applications and control panels. The AI-powered assistant will also explain what these settings do and the impact they can have on performance.
Future of Technology
NVIDIA thinks AI assistants will change the way people interact with games and applications. If the technology works as promised and receives positive reactions from players, its future is very clear. Making the game settings perfectly will save people a lot of time. Likewise, if those who play games with stories get quick help from the assistant, this will save us time.
If the overclocking settings work well, it is delicious. These features came with the first announcement. We all know NVIDIA very well. The technology giant, which stepped into the world of artificial intelligence years ago, undoubtedly has the capacity to take G-Assist to great places in the future.
