At Gamescom 2024 taking place in Germany from 21 to 25 August 2024, PC hardware and computing company Nvidia presented new gaming technologies and new RTX games.
RTX is a graphical technology that allows for realistic lighting (ray-tracing) and enhanced graphics in video games and other content. The tech features Nvidia DLSS 3.5 which enables boosted performance and improved ray tracing capabilities in supported games. As per the company, there are over 600 games and applications that support RTX as of now. This tech feature is exclusively available on the company’s RTX series graphics cards.
The company announced a digital human technologies on-device small language model Nvidia ACE (Avatar Cloud Engine). The language model was showcased in the game tech demo, Mecha Break. This advancement allows for realistic conversations and roleplay with in-game characters. The company announced 20 new RTX supported games and new games coming to the company’s cloud gaming service GeForce Now.
Alongside these, the company announced a collaboration with MediaTek that brings G-Sync display technologies to more monitors. Below are all its reveals:
Nvidia ACE: Advancing AI-Powered Game Characters
Nvidia ACE (Avatar Cloud Engine), a suite of technologies for making digital humans more life-like with generative AI.
The first game to showcase ACE and digital human technologies is China-based developer Amazing Seasun Games’ Mecha Break, a fast-based mech combat game that demonstrates AI-powered game characters.
The ACE suite features Nvidia’s digital human technologies on-device small language model (SLM) called Nvidia Nemotron-4 4B Instruct. This language model improves conversation for in-game characters. This new on-device model provides better role-play, retrieval-augmented generation and function-calling capabilities, allowing game characters to more intuitively understand player instructions, respond to gamers and perform more accurate and relevant actions.
Perfect World Games is advancing its ACE and digital human tech demo, Legends. The demo features a maiden character Yun Ni that can converse with the player and identify objects visually in the real world with her AI-powered vision capabilities powered by the same Nvidia ACE technology.
Celebrating 600 RTX Games and Apps With 20 New RTX Titles
The company’s 600 RTX-enhanced games are now available.
Alongside, the event included the addition of 20 new RTX and DLSS titles, including upcoming games like MachineGames’ Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Funcom’s Dune: Awakening, Bioware’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard and the newly launched Game Science’s Black Myth: Wukong.
Half-Life 2: An RTX Remix Project Unveils Remastered Nova Prospekt
The project from Orbifold Studios is a community remaster of Valve’s classic game which was released back in 2004. The game now has over 100 contributing artists, Orbifold Studios unveiled a remaster of one of Half-Life 2’s most iconic levels, Nova Prospekt. Nova Prospekt is an old run-down prison invaded by the aliens known as the Combine.
Using Nvidia RTX Remix, Orbifold Studios has remastered Nova Prospekt with full ray tracing, DLSS 3.5 and Reflex. Nvidia Reflex is a technology available on Nvidia GeForce cards that reduces latency in supported games. The Nova Prospekt trailer also reveals remasters of Gordon’s revolver, shotgun and Overwatch Standard Issue Pulse Rifle, remasters of the Combine soldiers and Antlions, and the addition of new geometry and detail that uses the capabilities of modern PCs to increase realism.
Nvidia and MediaTek Bring G-Sync Display Technologies to More Gamers
Nvidia and MediaTek are collaborating to make the industry’s gaming display technologies more accessible.
Nvidia G-Sync is a display technology that helps reduce screen tearing, minimise input lag and enhances image quality for supported monitors.
The collaboration introduced G-Sync Pulsar, a new technology that offers 4x the effective motion clarity alongside a smooth and tear-free variable refresh rate (VRR) experience. G-Sync Pulsar will debut on newly announced monitors, including the Asus ROG Swift 360Hz PG27AQNR, Acer Predator XB273U F5 and AOC AGON PRO AG276QSG2.
GeForce-Now announcements
Nvidia’s GeForce Now is a cloud gaming service that allows users to play high end games on low end computers and mobile devices. New games are added to the service on a weekly basis.
As part of Gamescom, the service added Game Science’s latest game Black: Myth Wukong and Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XVI PC demo, which are available to stream for users. The service also added Xbox automatic sign-in for Microsoft Store games on the service.
The service recently also introduced mod support for World of Warcraft: The War Within. According to the press release, the service added new data centres in Japan and Poland and has over 2000 games available for players to stream.
Star Wars Outlaws: GeForce RTX 40 Series Bundle
The company also collaborated with Ubisoft, Massive Entertainment and Lucasfilm Games to launch a Star Wars Outlaws GeForce RTX 40 series graphics card bundle. Players will get to experience the open-world Star Wars game, set between the events of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, with features like Nvidia DLSS 3.5, ray tracing and Reflex technologies. The game will also be available on GeForce Now cloud gaming service.