AMD’s Fluid Movement Frames (AFMF) expertise took some time to return to market. When it made its debut simply over a few weeks again, assist was restricted to only two video games: Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum. It seems as if AMD is pleased with how the tech is maturing, because it’s simply launched a preview driver that extends assist to properly past a handful of white-listed titles.
In accordance with the driving force’s launch notes, Fluid Movement Frames assist is obtainable not simply on any RX 7000-series GPU, however any RX 6000-series one as properly. However the important thing growth is that AMD says it is going to now work in any DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 sport.
That is actually nice information because it means AMD house owners can get a ‘free’ efficiency uplift in just about any sport launched over the past 10 or extra years. As a bonus, Fluid Movement Frames may be enabled on competing GPUs too. It even features on the massively widespread and venerable GTX 1060. AMD would possibly inadvertently be discouraging customers from upgrading if its body era tech is extensively adopted by the general public. Not that we’re complaining!
AMD Fluid Movement Frames is AMD’s body era expertise. It is part of the FSR 3 characteristic set. It is designed to spice up body charges in video games at difficult settings, notably at excessive decision or in video games with demanding ray tracing settings. For a complete overview of FSR 3 upscaling and Fluid Movement Frames expertise, it is properly value testing Jeremy’s overview.
This dramatically widened assist is in stark distinction to Nvidia’s DLSS 3 expertise, which requires per-game assist and the devoted {hardware} acceleration options unique to RTX 40-series GPUs. It stays to be seen if Nvidia can adapt body era to run on its older GPUs—that is if it is even attainable given its {hardware} necessities.
AFMF and body era expertise typically shouldn’t be a magic bullet. Body era will increase latencies. To fight this, AMD has launched its revised Anti-Lag+ expertise.
Notably, AFMF shouldn’t be beneficial when body charges are low as body era will make already excessive latencies worse. AMD recommends AFMF ought to solely be enabled for video games operating at a minimal body price of 55 FPS for 1080p shows, and 70 FPS for 1440p or above shows.
Do observe that the driving force is outlined as a Technical Preview, so it is not fairly prepared for a wider public launch. Nonetheless, if you’re the type of gamer that is comfortable to poke round and fiddle along with your GPU settings and also you’re ready to cope with a bug or two, this driver is properly value a glance.