There's a chance that, if your games have been stuttering with DLSS frame generation enabled, it's because you have VSync on and didn't know the two don't always play nicely. If you're one of the unlucky few, you might want to try updating your Nvidia drivers.
Game Ready Driver 596.49 has reportedly enhanced smoothness when the two are working together. When the discussion thread opened up on the Nvidia subreddit, this fix immediately met some support. As of the time of writing, the top upvoted comment says, "Huge if true, gargantuos if verifiable."
Another account responds to this comment saying, "I can confirm it". Previously, on their RTX 4090 rig at Ultra settings with 2x frame generation, they reportedly saw noticeable micro-stutter and hitching and had to swap to FSR to fix the issue. Now, they claim 2x frame generation "works perfectly with vsync enabled."
Not everyone is having such a great time, with one user saying it's still an issue for them and another saying Monster Hunter Wilds performs poorly for them. However, a third user points out that Monster Hunter Wilds performed poorly for them even without VSync and swapping to FSR helped.
Capcom seem to get mentioned quite a lot in the thread, with some claiming Pragmata and Resident Evil Requiem stutter less now, and others claiming things are just as bad. However, it's hard to verify with every one of these cases that the problem lies at the feet of Nvidia's shiny new drivers. Still, some success is a good sign and worth updating your drivers over.
You can download the driver by the driver's direct download link or by doing so in the Nvidia App. My download of the drivers by themselves sits at under 1 GB, and there's not too much else to them, other than that one fix. It includes compatibility updates for Forza Horizon 6, Directive 8020, and Subnautica 2, and comes with a fix for a Foundry Mari 7.0v2 flickering issue.
As always, if something is playing up in your rig when you try to play games, updating your drivers is a decent first step.
