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PC Gamer
James Bentley

I tested Nvidia's AI gaming assistant: it advised me to 'update' to old drivers and told me I wasn't playing a game (I was playing a game), but maybe I should've expected that from version 0.1

Nvidia Project G-Assist.

Nvidia's Project G-Assist is one of the few times in the last year or so that any of the big gaming companies have name-dropped AI and I've actually seen the vision. A chatbot/diagnostic tool that reads your system and gives advice on how to better optimise it seems intuitively like something that could actually be useful

A lot of the problem with games having larger and larger settings menus is that it can all feel a tad too granular. Do you flip one option to get 1 fps higher, or do you go for a slightly nicer texture? Are all your components running at the speeds and temps they should be, and how would you know if not? Tinkering is one of the best parts of owning a PC, but that joy lies in the option to do so—not the obligation.

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