GeForce Experience At CES 2018: Fortnite Battle Royale Gets NVIDIA Highlights; Freestyle Game Filters Unveiled; Ansel Enhanced

By Andrew Burnes on January 07, 2018 | Featured Stories NVIDIA Freestyle Freestyle Fortnite Battle Royale CES GeForce Experience NVIDIA Highlights NVIDIA Ansel ShadowPlay Highlights

Introducing NVIDIA Freestyle, plus NVIDIA Ansel Enhancements, and Support For NVIDIA Highlights In Fortnite Battle Royale

GeForce Experience is a free application that makes PC gaming accessible and effortless by automatically optimizing settings and updating drivers, and capturing and sharing gameplay with intuitive one-click controls and streamlined menus. And since its launch, GeForce Experience has been continuously improved and enhanced with new features like NVIDIA Highlights’ automatic capturing of your best moments, NVIDIA Ansel’s photo mode, WhisperMode’s quiet laptop gaming tweaks, and much more.

Today, at CES 2018, we’re announcing more improvements and features, which give you more ways to customize, capture and share your gaming and experiences. To learn more, keep reading.

NVIDIA Freestyle: Customize Your Game’s Appearance In Real-Time

Modify gameplay to match your mood using NVIDIA Freestyle

Today, we’re unveiling NVIDIA Freestyle, a way for you to personally customize a game’s appearance through the application of real-time post-processing filters. With Freestyle’s options you can be more creative with your games, adding a retro war-themed filter for your favorite FPS, for example, or enhancing color and contrast to make a game look more photorealistic. Or maybe you’re color-blind, like me, and want to make a style that makes it easier to differentiate between colors and see key features.

You can even use night mode, which reduces the amount of blue light emitted, so you can get to sleep easier after a night of gaming.

All of Freestyle’s functions are easily applied through an in-game overlay, accessed by pressing “Alt+F3” in supported titles. There are 15 available filters, 38 different settings, and many possible combinations, enabling you to create a truly unique look for your gameplay with just a few clicks.

How to use NVIDIA Freestyle to enhance and customize your gameplay:

1. Install the latest GeForce Experience (GFE 3.12 or above) and download the latest Game Ready driver (390.65 or above).
2. Opt-in to the Freestyle beta in GeForce Experience through “Settings” > “General”, and check “Enable Experimental Features”.

Get the NVIDIA Freestyle beta by opting in to our beta branch by ticking the Experimental Features box in Settings > General

3. Hit “Alt+Z” for the in-game overlay and click “Game Filter”, or access Freestyle directly by pressing “Alt+F3”.

Get instant access to the NVIDIA Freestyle UI during gameplay by pressing Alt+F3

With the Game Filter Freestyle overlay loaded, click on the “+” icon to add a new filter to your game, and again to stack more filters. You can save these combinations in any of the 3 provided slots that are assigned per game, and can cycle through these slots using a hotkey, mid-game, without re-opening the overlay. To assign custom keyboard shortcuts for these actions, press “Alt+Z” and navigate to “Settings” > “Keyboard Shortcuts.”

Quickly and easily make your own custom gaming experience by adding filters and adjusting options

Some of our favorite combinations are “war cinema,” which adds a Vignette filter, reduces the vibrance using the Color filter, and decreases Gamma using Contrast. Another favorite is “Eagle Eye,” which increases vibrance through Color filter while sharpening the image using Details filter. With a full suite of powerful filters, you can customize your game to your liking.

Four filter styles we made in ARK: Survival Evolved. With so many options available, it's easy to make your own, unique style for your favorite games

Four different filter combinations we created and applied to ARK: Survival Evolved. Make your own by pressing Alt+F3 during gameplay

Let us know what you think of Freestyle on Facebook and Twitter, and be sure to share your best filter combinations with others through Reddit, social media, and forums.

NVIDIA Highlights: Coming January 10th To Fortnite Battle Royale

NVIDIA Highlights automatically captures kills, deaths, and key events in supported games, enabling you to review, edit, and share your best and most amusing moments with ease after a long day of gaming.

First released in August, gamers have already used NVIDIA Highlights to capture millions of in-game events, many of which you’ll find trending on Reddit, and in ‘best of’ compilation videos on YouTube. Now, Fortnite Battle Royale players can get in on the action, with the release of a NVIDIA Highlights patch on January 10th for the game’s entertaining PvP Battle Royale mode, which has over 30 million players.

To activate NVIDIA Highlights in Fortnite Battle Royale you’ll need to update to the Fortnite NVIDIA Highlights patch on January 10th, and have GeForce Experience 3.12 or higher, the Fortnite Game Ready driver, and a GeForce GTX graphics card.

Once everything’s ready, launch Fortnite, and select Battle Royale. GeForce Experience will ask if you want to enable NVIDIA Highlights for Fortnite Battle Royale. After you click "Yes", kill, death, and Victory Royale Highlights will automatically be recorded without any further input.

At the end of your match, select the “Highlights” button on your lower right. This will showcase the Highlights captured, and from this screen you can select which Highlights to save to your Gallery, and which to share immediately to Facebook or YouTube.

The NVIDIA Highlights button enables you to instantly view, save and share the Highlights captured in your latest match

If you’ve yet to install Fornite, you can get instant access to its free Battle Royale PvP mode by downloading the game client here. Once you’ve learned the ropes, be sure to send your best Highlights to us on Facebook and Twitter.

NVIDIA Ansel Photo Mode: Enhanced For Even Better Photo Customization

NVIDIA Ansel hands GeForce GTX gamers the tools to capture unique, professional-grade 2D, 360° and Virtual Reality 360° photos. Millions of shots have been snapped in 36 supported games, and now we’re making Ansel even better with a refreshed design, new features, and integration into the “Alt+Z” Share overlay.

Jump directly to NVIDIA Ansel via Alt+F2, or press Alt+Z to access the complete Share overlay, from which you can click the Photo Mode button to load Ansel's user interface

When you access Ansel in any supported game via the “Photo Mode” button in the “Alt+Z” overlay, or through the Ansel “Alt+F2” hotkey, you’ll immediately notice that we have refreshed our overlay controls, added 8 new filters, and added the ability to combine multiple filters together.

Customize your game photos in even greater ways with NVIDIA Ansel's stackable filters, and all-new filters and options

Now, users have even more real-time editing tools to create stunning screenshots. To try them for yourself, download GeForce Experience 3.12 and our latest Game Ready driver (390.65 or above), and opt-in to the GeForce Experience beta program.

Customize, Capture and Share With GeForce Experience

We are excited to bring new and improved ways for gamers to customize, capture, and share their gameplay, with GeForce Experience's new Ansel and Freestyle features. And with NVIDIA Highlights' addition to Fortnite Battle Royale, players can ensure their best moments are always recorded for instant, easy sharing. Download GeForce Experience now to try all of these new features!