If you already have the three ingredients needed for NVIDIA Reflex to work — a compatible game, graphics card, and monitor — then there seems to be little reason to not turn it on. This question is regularly posed on gaming forums, including across Reddit, and the responses are generally overwhelming in saying that Reflex should be turned on. In one May 2024 discussion, there was some disagreement as to whether there was a point to turning it on in single player games, albeit dependent on various caveats: One user said it should be turned on with a keyboard and mouse, but not with a console-style controller…and another felt even that was game-specific. Others disagreed about the overarching question, with some noting it mainly helps locally
If you’ve been reading closely, though, you may have noticed something slightly curious: That we keep saying that you need to turn it on. In November 2022, one user of the NVIDIA subreddit posed a related question to the group: If NVIDIA Reflex is so good, why isn’t it enabled by default? It seems like most commenters interpreted the question as why Reflex isn’t enabled by default across the board, as multiple answers were of the “because the game needs to support it” variety. Regardless, the general consensus was that there’s just enough of a likelihood of negative or perceived negative reactions — like slightly lower frame rates — that NVIDIA and game developers elected to leave it off by default just in case.
