Overview
- Community developers have released two unofficial projects that make NVIDIA Smooth Motion run on some RTX 30 (Ampere) cards by changing how the driver initializes frame generation.
- One project extends an existing DLSS Frame Generation compatibility layer with a proxy DLL and Vulkan support so Smooth Motion can be toggled per title via NVIDIA Profile Inspector.
- The other project, NVSmooth30, patches the driver runtime (NvPresent64.dll), intercepts CUDA module loading, and retargets Ada/SM89 kernels to Ampere/SM86 without redistributing NVIDIA binaries.
- Early user reports cite large displayed‑frame‑rate gains on cards such as RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 but those claims are community‑sourced, not independently verified, and users report crashes, corrupted frames and black screens.
- Because the mods rely on driver internals they may break with driver updates and can trip anti‑cheat systems, so developers and outlets advise using them only for single‑player or experimental testing and not in competitive play.