Nvidia might be courting controversy with its recent DLSS 5 tech, but the company’s GPUs are still pretty powerful devices for running your games. If you have an RTX card in your desktop or laptop, you might be able to get even better performance out of it than you’re already seeing. Here are some of my favorite hacks to optimize your Nvidia GPU.
Of course, DLSS doesn’t come at zero computational cost, and that trade-off might not be worth it for you. Competitive online games or fast-paced action shooters often benefit from smoother frame rates, but some games are perfectly fine at 60 fps or so. In some games, you can turn off DLSS specifically, or you might find a more simplified toggle between Performance and Quality modes. It’s worth experimenting with these settings to see whether your prefer higher visual fidelity, or smoother frame rates.
Use DLAA for anti-aliasing in games you don't use DLSS with
Nvidia’s Deep Learning Anti-Aliasing (or DLAA) is in a similar family to DLSS features, but comes at the problem from the opposite angle. Anti-aliasing is a cornerstone bit of graphical technology that helps prevent the "stair-stepping" effect that can occur when rendering angled or curved lines. Where DLSS renders lower-resolution images and upscales them, DLAA takes full-resolution frames and uses machine learning to clean them up to produce smoother lines, without as much of a computational lift.
Another of Nvidia’s marquee features, real-time ray tracing, is an incredibly powerful tool to get photorealistic lighting and shadows. This is the same method that CGI workflows have been using for decades in movies to get realistic images, but it requires so much processing power that it’s only become feasible for games in recent years.
Tune your GPU to prioritize either performance or battery life
Overclocking your GPU is a common way to get a little performance boost, but if done the wrong way, it can potentially damage your hardware. So, Nvidia offers an official way to do it that’s designed to minimize that risk. In the official Nvidia app, head to the System tab, and enable "Automatic Tuning." This will let you get some extra speed out of your GPU, while still staying within your graphics card’s warranty.
Most gaming-focused monitors (and many that aren’t) support Nvidia’s G-Sync, but if you haven’t double-checked yours, it’s worth looking into. G-Sync is Nvidia’s version of variable refresh rate (or VRR) tech that reduces screen-tearing. This is an effect that can happen when the number of frames being rendered by your GPU don’t perfectly sync up with the frame rate of your display. Tools like G-Sync allow your GPU to vary the number of frames sent to your monitor each second, to avoid accidentally sending half-frames.
Enable G-Sync Pulsar for even better motion clarity
This one is much more rare, but if you have one of a handful of compatible monitors, then Nvidia’s newer G-Sync Pulsar feature can get you even better motion clarity. This new tech pulses the backlight on a supported monitor at a variable frequency to render motion more clearly. Nvidia claims it’s the equivalent of, effectively, a 1,000Hz refresh rate.
When you’re playing a competitive online game, there are a lot of steps between when you click a button, and when the game registers what you’ve done. And that delay can mean the difference between clicking heads and getting your own head clicked. That’s where Nvidia’s Reflex tech can help.
You'll find the option in the input setting for most games under "Nvidia Reflex Low Latency." Here, you can choose between "Off," "On," or "On + Boost" (though usually you can just go for "On + Boost" unless you're facing some niche technical problem).
Enable Video Super Resolution for better streaming video
This feature is particularly useful when you’re watching older or lower-resolution video, particularly 720p or lower. For higher-resolution, 1080p streaming video and up, you might not notice much of a difference, because those videos are already pretty high quality, but it can be a nice boost for lower-quality stuff. Keep in mind the usual caveats with machine learning-powered upscaling, though. It’s never perfect, and if you want to avoid artifacts or get the most accurate source image, you might want to disable this feature instead. But it's a good hack for bumping the sharpness of lower-resolution media.
Some of the app’s features are a bit more, let’s say, ambitious than just cleaning things up, though. The "Eye Contact" feature, for example, will artificially make you appear as though you’re looking directly into the camera, even when you’re not. That can be more off-putting than helpful, so maybe don’t turn that particular feature on.
Update your drivers to make sure your games run smoothly
Often, after a major game gets a new release or update, the Nvidia app will have updated drivers specifically tailored for it. These usually include bug fixes for specific games, as well as updates to the DLSS models that are trained on individual titles. Around the time of writing, for example, Nvidia is touting updates for Crimson Desert and the PC release of Death Stranding 2. If you haven’t checked for driver updates in a while, especially if you’re trying to play something new, make sure to hit that check for update button.
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