By Hassam Nasir
Publication Date: 2026-09-23 19:30:00
Two community projects have unofficially brought NVIDIA’s Smooth Motion frame-generation technology to GeForce RTX 30 GPUs. While NVIDIA officially supports Smooth Motion only on RTX 40- and RTX 50-series graphics cards, modders have shown that the driver-level technology can also run on RTX 30-series hardware.
NVIDIA Smooth Motion is a driver-level AI frame-interpolation technology that creates an additional frame between two rendered frames, making gameplay appear smoother.
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Unlike DLSS Frame Generation, Smooth Motion can be applied to games without native frame-generation support. This is because it does not rely on game-engine-supplied motion vector data, making it work across a wider range of titles, including emulators.
The first project, dlssg_for_sm86-MFG-version, builds on an existing community-made compatibility layer that brought DLSS Frame Generation to RTX 30-series GPUs. Its latest version expands that work by adding support for NVIDIA Smooth Motion, which can be enabled through NVIDIA Profile Inspector on Ampere hardware.
The project uses a proxy DLL placed alongside the game’s rendering executable and also adds Vulkan support to the existing DLSS-G compatibility layer. Testing has confirmed Smooth Motion on an RTX 3070, with additional RTX 3080 testing showing the feature working in several games and emulators. However, users have also reported compatibility issues and visual artifacts.
The second project, NVSmooth30 by ItsAdeline, takes a…
