It's time for COMPUTEX 2024! One of the biggest computer and tech conferences on earth is back and the main event is happening June 4th to 7th, in Taipei, as always. I'll have to chance to be present to cover many of the new things coming out of the event.

A few brands have started to announce news and products slightly earlier, here are the NVIDIA announcements for this year's event:

Project G-Assist is what Nvidia is calling an AI-based assistant to gaming. Yes, this Computex will have a lot of stuff called AI this or that, but let's see what this assistant is about:

It seems like it can use voice or text inputs from the player, along with a snapshot of what’s in the game window itself. The snapshot and information is fed into AI vision models that provide context awareness and app-specific understanding for the Large Language Model (LLM), which is connected to a database of game knowledge, such as a wiki.

It should be able to reply to game and performance-specific questions from the user, as well as do real-time performance tuning, and this tuning includes being able to actively overclock and undervolt to reach certain framerate or power usage targets.

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An interesting feature is this Assistant's ability to scan your system to see if there’s anything out of order, such as not taking full advantage of your display’s resolution, refresh rate, or other capabilities, including HDR and G-SYNC. Long gone will be the days of users forgetting to set their framerates to the actual native monitor rate! I wonder if it will be able to tell when users connect the monitor to the motherboard instead of the GPU.

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NVIDIA is working with graphics card and case manufacturers to establish a new guideline called SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards and Compatible Cases.

Manufacturer product pages and listings on global retailers will soon be updated with text labeling graphics cards that meet the guideline as “SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards”, and cases as being “Compatible with SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards”, allowing for an easy identification of what fits together, which tends to be particularly important for small for factor cases and GPUs.

SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards are RTX 4070 or higher with the following dimensions:

• 151 mm maximum height including power cable bend radius
• 304 mm maximum length
• 50 mm or 2.5 slots maximum depth

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Cases Compatible with SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards must have enough space to fit any SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Card and manufacturer’s bundled power connector, along with the other components of a PC. Depending on graphics card orientation, a total of 154.5mm clearance is required from either the motherboard or riser PCB to the side or top case panel. Additionally, a case must have clearance for 312mm in length, including the graphics card and extender (if any).

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Right now there are 36 GPUs and over 20 cases that are "SFF-Ready" but the number should grow fast. Check this page for a list and/or check for a reference to this standard in the product page of the case you're interested in.

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• Here's the new Star Wars Outlaws trailer for a first look at DLSS 3.5 with Ray Reconstruction and RTXDI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV0JSoqelNU
• Marvel Rivals Launching With DLSS 3 and Reflex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEK9DG54UGo

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Since RTX Remix Toolkit launched earlier this year, 20,000 modders have experimented with using it to mod classic games.

In June, NVIDIA will open source the RTX Remix Toolkit, enhancing modding with new asset capabilities and AI Texture Tools, and integrate it with other tools via a REST API and an SDK to expand its use beyond classic DirectX 8 and 9 games. 

Plenty of updates and improvements were announced, including AV1 recording and the claim that it can enhance video quality by 40% without using extra disk space, as well as allowing recording at 120 FPS.