- Studio Voice is now out of beta, with improved performance and sound quality. The new version works on RTX 3060 desktop GPUs and higher.
- Support for Keyboard Shortcuts and Elgato Stream Deck.
- Fixed an issue where NVIDIA Broadcast virtual camera could only be detected as 30 FPS in Chromium-based apps.
- Improved robustness of audio device detection.
NVIDIA Broadcast Release Highlights
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What's new in NVIDIA Broadcast 2.2.0
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What's new in NVIDIA Broadcast 2.1.0
- Virtual Key Light is now out of beta, with improved performance and enhanced relighting quality. The new version works on RTX 3060 desktop GPUs and higher.
- New light mode for the UI for users that prefer a light theme.
- Support for multi-GPU setups. Upon install, NVIDIA Broadcast downloads the engines required for any GPU in the PC, so you can later switch which GPU it runs on in the NVIDIA Control Panel and have it work correctly.
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What's new in NVIDIA Broadcast 2.0.2
- Optimized performance for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series and NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs.
- Expanded support of Studio Voice and Virtual Key Light to GeForce RTX 5070.
- Improved Eye Contact effect, with increased stability for eye color.
- Accessibility enhancements: updated UI elements (navigation, highlighting, borders) and improved high contrast theme support.
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What's new in NVIDIA Broadcast 2.0.1
- Resolves high idle CPU utilization issue when selecting video for background replacement.
- Brings back Background Noise Removal from Broadcast 1.4
- Restores strength sliders for Background Noise Removal and Room Echo Cancellation.
- Adds option to disable Windows notifications for high CPU/GPU usage.
- Fixes OBS output bug where virtual camera output would not be visible if custom resolution is selected.
- Fixes issue where background replacement files could not be selected if file paths contain special characters.
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What's new in NVIDIA Broadcast 2.0.0
- Revamped UI. Improvements:
- New vertical layout option.
- Ability to apply more effects at once (note: more effects will have a higher impact on performance).
- Accessibility enhancements.
- New option to compare AI camera effects with side-by-side preview.
- New mic output meter and waveform visualization when testing mic effects.
- New GPU utilization meter.
- New AI Effects:
- Studio Voice (beta): Upgrade your mic to deliver premium audio quality (recommend GeForce RTX 4080, 5080 GPU or higher).
- Virtual Key Light (beta) Stay camera-ready with automatic face relighting that reduces shadows and keeps you evenly lit during your livestreams (recommend GeForce RTX 4080, 5080 GPU or higher).
- Upgraded AI Effects:
- Improved Background Noise Removal for better voice quality.
- Improved Eye Contact with added gaze stability and subtle random eye movements for a more natural appearance.
- Improved Virtual Background for better foreground/background separation.
- Revamped UI. Improvements:
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What's new in NVIDIA Broadcast 1.4.0.39
- Hotfix resolving virtual camera issues encountered by some users after updating to Windows 11 version 24H2.
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What's new in NVIDIA Broadcast 1.4.0
- New Effect - Eye Contact (beta): morphs the eyes of the speaker to simulate eye contact by estimating and aligning gaze with the camera.
- New Effect - Vignette: Simulates a lens effect by darkening the corners of the frame for cosmetic effect.
- Updated Virtual Background effects (Blur, Replace, Removal). The updated effect uses temporal information to improve segmentation quality and stability.
- App Improvements:
- New options for Mirroring Camera Preview and taking Selfie snapshots.
- Added tooltips for better accessibility.
- If the camera device selected as input is in use in another app, and the user attempts to display the NVIDIA Camera virtual device, the app will display a camera in-use icon instead of a gray frame.
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What's new in NVIDIA Broadcast 1.3.5
- Added support for new GeForce RTX 40 Series and NVIDIA RTX™ Ada Generation GPUs
- Improvements to avoid audio loops that result in no audio being heard from the microphone/speakers
- Added camera compatibility support for Microsoft Teams chat application
- Bug fix to avoid large audio log files
- Added Windows accessibility improvements
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What's new in NVIDIA Broadcast 1.3.0
- Improved quality of background noise removal, now with enhanced support for emotive speech (e.g. screaming while you broadcast horror games)
- VRAM Optimization when both audio and video effects are run together. Should reduce VRAM usage by ~40%.
- Improved input device support for DirectShow to support high quality cameras and virtual cameras. The following should now be supported:
- Canon EOS Webcam Utility
- Nikon Webcam Utility
- Sony Webcam Utility
- OBS Virtual Camera
- Wuta-Cam App (Mainland China only)
- UI polishing and bug fixing
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What's new in NVIDIA Broadcast 1.2.0
- New Effect - Room Echo Removal (beta): reduces room reverb from your audio.
- New Effect - Video Noise removal (beta): reduces video noise from webcams, especially in low light situations.
- This first version is not yet fully optimized and may have a higher impact on performance than other effects.
- Updated Effect - Noise Removal: added additional support for pet sounds (e.g. cats and dogs), improved quality and performance.
- Updated Effect - Auto Frame: added a buffer zone so the camera doesn’t move if you stay within the center third of the frame.
- App improvements:
- Multi-effect functionality: added support for multiple effects so users can combine up to 2 effects per device for a maximum of 6 effects.
- Please note that running multiple effects will have a higher performance impact on the system.
- Audio effects can be combined but noise removal loses some effectiveness.
- Improved Camera preview quality
- Improved and clarified UI messaging
- Reduced the memory size of the installer
- Multi-effect functionality: added support for multiple effects so users can combine up to 2 effects per device for a maximum of 6 effects.
- Bug fixes:
- Updating the app should now correctly keep your system (i.e. default Windows speaker and microphone) and third party app settings (i.e. your devices in Zoom or other apps). Use the Express Install option during the installation.
- Fixed an issue where the camera would hang you toggled quickly between tabs or closed the application before it loaded.
- Fixed an issue where background replacement would invert the orientation of your selected background image.
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What's new in NVIDIA Broadcast 1.1.0.21
- Hotfix that addresses an issue with WebEx in which your camera appears fine locally but looks blurry on the receiver's end.
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What's new in NVIDIA Broadcast 1.1.0.20
- Updated Noise Removal, with more noise profiles - including pets!
- New Performance mode added to Virtual Background that will reduce the impact of NVIDIA Broadcast on the system for higher FPS in games, relative to the default Quality mode.
- New option to configure your camera parameters, including brightness and contrast.
- UI updates to reduce the top bar of the app and provide a bigger preview on camera.
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What's new in NVIDIA Broadcast 1.0.0.33
- Bugfix to automatically close the application before applying a new update.
- New sleep functionality that allows the app to enter sleep mode if no apps are using the virtual devices in 30 seconds; app resumes automatically when an app loads the virtual device.
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What's new in NVIDIA Broadcast 1.0.0.30
- Bugfix to warn the user to close the application before applying an update.
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What's new in NVIDIA Broadcast 1.0.0.25
- First release of NVIDIA Broadcast, building upon the early community beta, RTX Voice.
- New Camera effects (beta), enabling AI effects for video. Users can select the camera resolution and framerate.
- Enables AI effects on microphone, speaker and camera (beta).
- Audio effects: Noise Removal, with 3x the noise profiles of the beta and 60% higher performance.
- Video effects (beta): Virtual Background (Background Removal, Background Replacement, and Background Blur) and Auto Frame.
- New UI to facilitate the new Camera virtual device.
- New preview feature added for microphone (allows you to record an audio clip) and speaker (allows you to choose from 5 recordings) to allow you to test how turning the feature on and off affects audio. Camera adds a preview feature.
- New installer that will pull the necessary bits depending on the GPU available on the system.
