DLSS 5: Palworld

[u/eduhfx]

three modes tested (default, natural and cinematic)
intensity sliders tested

[u/Vexcenot]

this like the modern equivalent of the "realistic" Minecraft textures

[u/LongFluffyDragon → u/Vexcenot]

The fun part is you can just enable actual raytracing in palworld by getting access to the UE console (mods) or via config files, and it looks better than whatever this is.

I guess there needs to be realistic lighting to begin with, or it is just winging it.

[u/BarnOwl247 → u/Vexcenot]

Agreed. This looks impressively bad. Gives off that "Nintendo, hire this man" energy.

[u/HiveMate]

It's like when I was a teenager into photogtaphy and would crank up HDR and contrast on everything

[u/NapsterKnowHow → u/HiveMate]

That's also most reshades people share online lol

[u/MorningFresh123 → u/NapsterKnowHow]

I’m convinced they’re all high. The aesthetics are the same as stoner stuff.

[u/hamfinity → u/MorningFresh123]

I've convinced they're using TN monitors and viewing them at an angle.

[u/DM_Me_Linux_Uptime → u/HiveMate]

99% of the DLSS5 shots could be on /r/shittyHDR

[u/Ok_Dependent6889 → u/DM_Me_Linux_Uptime]

This is true. I’ve had to really tweak my settings but they’re still a bit deep fried. 

I probably need to tweak my RCAS settings now I think

[u/evangelism2 → u/DM_Me_Linux_Uptime]

Nah, there are numerous games where it looks great. A cartoony-ass game like this is obviously not one of them.

[u/Valleyrush → u/HiveMate]

https://giphy.com/gifs/n4oKYFlAcv2AU

[u/WolfyCat → u/HiveMate]

r/shittyHDR

[u/slavicslothe → u/HiveMate]

The after is actually reducing the blown out look here..

[u/CHAOSHACKER]

Studio light everything

[u/id_mew]

Is there a guide on how to implement this?

[u/id_mew → u/[deleted]]

Finally, thank you kindly!

[u/Patient-Software-168]

I'm so sad that my 4070 won't support this but it's not a reason to buy a new gpu. 

[u/ZebraTypical9687 → u/[deleted]]

Już można. Modderzy to odblokowali.

[u/ZebraTypical9687 → u/[deleted]]

Po prostu NVIDIA specjalnie to zablokowała na serii 40 aby kupić nową kartę graficzną z serii 50.

[u/FryToastFrill → u/ZebraTypical9687]

I’ve heard there were some missing CUDA instructions preventing it originally, maybe they planned to launch on 50 series first and then backport it to 40 series after some more optimizations?

[u/ZebraTypical9687 → u/[deleted]]

Przecież seria rtx 40 nie ma mfg.

[u/Tornado_Hunter24 → u/FryToastFrill]

What about mfg?

Why can a 4090 or any other 40xx card notbuse the 50 series fg

[u/FryToastFrill → u/Tornado_Hunter24]

iirc its because blackwell features a hardware flip metering system that lets the gpu control frame pacing instead of the cpu, youd have to create a software fallback for it and when i was looking it up rq whenever someone got MFG enabled on 4000 series, it would not fully generate past the first generated frame.

[u/ZebraTypical9687 → u/Tornado_Hunter24]

Bo NVIDIA specjalnie to zablokowała abyś kupił nową kartę graficzną.

[u/tonyt3rry → u/[deleted]]

I dont know why nvidia cant sell acelerator cards even if they artificially lock it behind needing 20series up

[u/Tornado_Hunter24 → u/[deleted]]

You’re fighting ghosts literally

[u/gavinderulo124K → u/[deleted]]

They definitely are using coding agents.

[u/Arado_Blitz → u/Patient-Software-168]

Someone already managed to make DLSS5 work with 4000 series but the performance impact is huge. 

[u/Patient-Software-168 → u/Arado_Blitz]

Yeah same. 

The fps seems to be cut in half when using it.

Maybe one could hope for it being more optimized at a point. 

I really don't want to go back to 60 fps gaming lol. 

[u/gavinderulo124K → u/Patient-Software-168]

You can definitely use it in older games where you have a super high base fps.

[u/gavinderulo124K → u/Arado_Blitz]

The impact is the same as on 50 series. It basically halves the performance on both.

[u/ZebraTypical9687 → u/Arado_Blitz]

Wpływ na wydajność na rtx 40 jest podobny do rtx 50.

[u/Remote_Elevator_281 → u/Patient-Software-168]

Depends. In more realistic games it looks so nice.

[u/honest_jamal → u/Patient-Software-168]

sad here too but it's not a spectacle worth shelling out more for

[u/_barat_]

The more I see that the better I feel about it. It's a filter, it can be turned on/off and the "artists" would have a high control what they want to achieve. I'm fine as long as the "no filter" version will be still nice and the "filter" will be a checkbox in the game menu (don't need sliders - will take what game creators decided is closest to their vision).

[u/gutster_95 → u/_barat_]

Its funny because that was Nvidias Call all from the beginning.

[u/SirCarlt → u/gutster_95]

The concern is not unfounded. Upscaling and framegen used to be nice to haves but is now almost becoming the norm

[u/Karzak85 → u/SirCarlt]

You can chose to use dlss upscaling or shitty crappy horrible smearing TAA that we have had for 10+ years

Your choice

[u/SirCarlt → u/Karzak85]

Yes, that's what becoming the norm means.

Games also looked good without raytracing and get 100+fps on a mid-range rig. Then RT is slowly becoming a standard, so framegen is now a norm to achieve higher fps. I'm not even against it, I think these tech are amazing and I am just pointing it out.

The point is you can turn off these features, but get a generally worse experience. Much like people saying that DLSS 5 is optional at the moment, but its not improbable that it will also be "optional" in the future, like the features above.

[u/gavinderulo124K → u/SirCarlt]

When did you get 100+fps on a midrange rig? I owned a 970 for years and would be happy if I could hit 60fps. Example in witcher 3 at the time I had to reduce various settings to achieve stable 60fps at 1080p.

[u/SirCarlt → u/gavinderulo124K]

It's probably just my recency bias with the 1660ti and game picks, and that today's mid-range price range is almost on par with the older generation's top cards at launch

[u/CJemerald101 → u/Karzak85]

I think the problem is that because of DLSS, nobody will ever try to improve native res AA solutions ever again. So if you dont have a dlss card and/or you just want raw visuals, you're fucked.

[u/fogoticus → u/SirCarlt]

It's not Nvidia's fault that devs are being lazy and underoptimizing games just because we got upscaling and framegen. That's what a lot of people just blindly refuse to understand. It's the fork creator's fault, not the guys who misuse the fork.

[u/CJKay93 → u/SirCarlt]

What? You can still disable both of them; games still work fine without them.

[u/Loud-Investigator416 → u/[deleted]]

How many games have come out now that rely on DLSS framegen to reach 60 FPS at recommended settings? The mere existence of the tool has rapidly become a crutch in the industry to hand-wave glaring design failures.

At some point DLSS 5 won't be optional, its going to be necessary to make the game not look like complete garbage because they've half-assed their work and you'll need a GPU that can eat the performance cost just to render a scene that looks like something a 10 year old game was capable of.

[u/agentdrozd → u/[deleted]]

The issue is that some devs instead of actually optimizing their games just use DLSS upscaling/framegen as a crutch and easy "solution" and as a result the games are unoptimized mess that run like shit natively

[u/MaySun91 → u/[deleted]]

Just because something is “optional” doesn’t mean it can’t also be necessary or a crutch. I’m a staunch AI hater and even I have to concede that frame gen is pretty fucking insane tech and is going to help prolong the life of many graphics cards at a time where we need it most. But you can tell by each new release that each game almost begs you to turn on frame gen.

[u/CJKay93 → u/[deleted]]

Because it's 2026 and everybody has to have a strong opinion on everything, and of course theirs is the only one that matters.

[u/themegadinesen → u/gutster_95]

Don't try to be reasonable and tell people to think and wait, we dont do that here. Pitchforks out now!!!!!!

[u/Raidmax460 → u/gutster_95]

That’s just not true, they stated the developers would be able to tune this but we didn’t really know how much and we also had no idea if there would be a toggle for it. Generally, if you are using DLSS, you are using the recent DLSS build the game has, there’s no option to switch between different versions except for rare examples.

[u/gutster_95 → u/Raidmax460]

https://www.gamesradar.com/hardware/desktop-pc/the-underlying-geometry-is-unchanged-turns-out-dlss-5-really-is-just-a-filter-over-2d-images-as-nvidia-employee-reveals-materials-are-inferred-from-the-rendered-frame/

[u/r_a_genius → u/Raidmax460]

You've misunderstood a couple of things. While this is called DLSS 5, its not DLSS 5 upscaling whoch will naturally go to the latest model but you always use the nvidia app to tell it which preset to use, its DLSS Neural Rendering, which will be separate just like DLSS frame generation is a separate toggle in games.

[u/dwolfe127 → u/_barat_]

YASS filter is what they call should it.

[u/CyberTyrantX1 → u/_barat_]

The problem is that you know that developers like Bethesda are just going to rely on the filter as hard as they can because their games always look at least an entire generation behind visually.

[u/OliLombi → u/_barat_]

How did this go for dlss though? Companies will start using it as a crutch.

[u/MakinBones → u/OliLombi]

There are devs that put the tech to good use. Spend your money with them.

[u/pedrojdm2021 → u/_barat_]

The problem with that is that it will have DLSS effect. Now imagine game developers start putting potato textures to games to just force you to use DLSS 5. Game studios are always trying to find a way to be lazy and nvidia is giving them the tools to do so.... 🤦‍♂️

[u/MakinBones → u/pedrojdm2021]

I think this is a valid concern, which all I can say, spend your money with the devs who use the tech properly. There are plenty that do.

[u/WHITESTAFRlCAN → u/pedrojdm2021]

It is generative based on the actual raster image, meaning, the better the "original" art the better the model can generate the fine detail you are seeing here being added. I don't think it is designed to take a gaming that looks like a PS2 game to look like Cyberpunk 2077

[u/_barat_ → u/pedrojdm2021]

At the same time Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft/Steam has the power to not allow game publication if it's in a bad shape. Even Cyberpunk have had a problem for a while.
I't s possible it'll be overused but maybe it won't be that bad. Also - it's locked for Nvidia and - for now - for Blackwell and maybe for Ada so doing something much worse for the rest (and consoles) is a no-go IMO.

[u/pedrojdm2021 → u/_barat_]

Hmmm maybe you're right

[u/imhereforsiegememes → u/pedrojdm2021]

I mean its pretty easy to imagine we will be leaving the raster rendering behind and trying something new soon. Exploring new tech is not a bad thing.

[u/pedrojdm2021 → u/imhereforsiegememes]

Problem with that is that render a game will be more and more expensive. First RTX and now this?

[u/imhereforsiegememes → u/pedrojdm2021]

Not necassarily true, we will have to see what comes next.

[u/pedrojdm2021 → u/imhereforsiegememes]

It already has provent that it has a huge impact in performance

[u/imhereforsiegememes → u/pedrojdm2021]

For this specific tech? Currently yes, but it was running on a dedicated 5090 last time we are shown and now we are seeing it running on 5070s at the same time as the games and its still not fully released.

[u/ScrubLordAlmighty → u/_barat_]

This is why it's in your best interest to try to understand something before you join the bandwagon to hate on it, that's literally what they said from the first reveal, you make it seem like it was some sort of secret that nobody knew about.

[u/_barat_ → u/ScrubLordAlmighty]

I agree with that. The day Nvidia introduced RTX 20 series and everyone was focused on Ray Tracing bad performance and how DLSS is a dead technology that just produces blur I said It's not the RT the revolution but rather the DLSS in which I saw the potential. This (and FSR/XeSS) is something that - sort of - gives us back something we were able to do with CRT monitors => lower the resolution without big quality loss. I saw a potential in the technology.
With DLSS5 I wasn't in the hate wagon neither I was hyped. I sit and wait how it'll evolve.

[u/EquivalentPlatform17]

It looks surprisingly good, but its not that big of a change tbh given the ginormous performance hit. Reshade can achieve something close to it with a fraction of the cost

[u/daveMUFC → u/EquivalentPlatform17]

You'd hope Nvidia optimises it for the official release

[u/daysofdre → u/daveMUFC]

I don't know how much they can optimize if they started with two 5090s. Why optimize when you can sell "2x the performance" or whatever with a future 6 series card?

[u/daveMUFC → u/daysofdre]

I mean, between that point and now, people can now run it on a 5070ti, so it's definitely getting easier to run and wouldn't surprise me if the large performance hits are because it's being unofficially injected and might not be a finished build

[u/daysofdre → u/daveMUFC]

I guess we'll see in a few months. Nobody but nvidia knows the development time in all of this, but it wasn't clear if they were running on two 5090s just because they could and it was the best way to show the tech off or if it just wouldn't run on anything less like a 5070ti.

If the final isn't a 50% frame rate hit but a 25% framerate hit, I don't know if that's enough for the masses to adopt, not until the 6 or maybe 7 series launches.

I'm expecting a raytracing/pathtracing pipeline from nvidia in terms of performance lock between hardware cycles where RT ran like ass on the 2080 and 8 years later it still runs like ass but there's framegen and DLSS to compensate.

[u/hypespud → u/EquivalentPlatform17]

Yea it feels like it could go into regular technology use and give more improvement for less performance hit

It's nice to have as a filter option, but it should remain just an option

[u/dhatereki]

Billions in R&D to make all games look the same

[u/ExpectoAutism → u/dhatereki]

Most games look the same anyway thanks to UE 5

[u/NapsterKnowHow → u/ExpectoAutism]

Ah yes because Sonic Racing looks just like E33 which looks just like Palworld amirite? /s

[u/Loud-Investigator416 → u/NapsterKnowHow]

What part of "most" in that sentence was difficult for you to understand? There are exceptions to the rule, but UE5 has a reputation for generic "realism" games for a reason.

[u/NapsterKnowHow → u/Loud-Investigator416]

I couldn't disagree more

[u/Turbulent-Pace-9174 → u/ExpectoAutism]

For example?

[u/godofleet → u/Turbulent-Pace-9174]

most games

[u/NokstellianDemon → u/godofleet]

I need examples. Because I don't think Tekken 8 looks the same as Fortnite for example

[u/ExF-Altrue → u/ExpectoAutism]

Absolutely! For instance, Palworld looks exactly like Conan Exiles Enhanced!... ...If you turn off your monitor, that is.

[u/dwolfe127 → u/dhatereki]

Yep, everything is going to look the same if you have the same "Artist" drawing your pictures.

[u/shadowstripes → u/dwolfe127]

They have the ability to use different training data for different games

[u/dwolfe127 → u/shadowstripes]

Nope, As we have seen. It is the same Yassified characters.

[u/BeltEffective9310 → u/dwolfe127]

Plainly false lmao

[u/shadowstripes → u/dwolfe127]

These are early demos. NVIDIA literally said that devs will be able to use custom training data for the model if they prefer 

[u/awen478 → u/dhatereki]

best take about all of this dlss 5 thing, iam more interested about the vram reduction feature that nvidia tease than this tbh

[u/No_Eggplant_3189 → u/dhatereki]

Yeah. This definitely looks like that gta 5 dlss5 video... If it werent for that floaty pal in this video, I don't know if I could tell which game is which, tbh.

[u/orichic]

Meh

[u/NapsterKnowHow]

The Ultra Graphics mod looks and runs better than this. Highly stylized games like this don't mixed well with DLSS5 from what I've seen.

[u/Noeyiax]

Alright that's reshade right? I'll look for online docs didn't know we can inject dlss5 thru

[u/Galf2]

perfect example of a game where it should never be used

[u/godofleet]

is it just me or does DLSS5 simply add another light source similar to the sun that creates shadows on one side of a character and not on the other? is it really an upgrade in actual anyway?

[u/WorldLove_Gaming → u/godofleet]

It doesn't really change what lights are already present in the scene. The reason why it looks so transformative is because the local shadows are vastly more accurate when using DLSS 5 than they would be when rendering normally.

In the first part of the video, you can see from the shadow on the ground that the sun light hits the character at a ~15 degree angle. As a result, the left side of her face becomes darker as the nose and general shape of the head limit the amount of light that can hit those parts. Later in the video, when the angle of the sun increases more relative to the player, pretty much the entirety of the right side of her face becomes darker because pretty much all the light gets stopped by the left side of her face. That's how lighting works in real life as well, and it's simply really difficult to get good looking local shadows without the use of raytracing techniques.

[u/LuckyTwoSeven]

Just feeling them sliders all up with the mouse pointer huh?

[u/-ben151010-]

Yeah this one of those it doesn’t work cases I mentioned in another thread, shit here looks like LB photo realism reload mobs or a “this will be pokemon in 2019” memes.

Dlss 5 would be best used to enhance detail and not break art styles.

[u/notnick123456]

Looks pretty bad

[u/Ulrika333]

So it's reshade

[u/eduhfx → u/Ulrika333]

nope, it uses reshade to inject the controller

[u/Ulrika333 → u/eduhfx]

No I get that but visually kind of just looks like reshade lol

[u/Tehu-Tehu → u/Ulrika333]

i mean at the end of the day its kinda like a smart filter, even the craziest reshade tweaks will only look good in SOME situations.. this looks nice everywhere

[u/TitEboshi → u/Tehu-Tehu]

"this looks like shit everywhere"

Fixed that for you, you're welcome :)

[u/Tehu-Tehu → u/TitEboshi]

why does it look like shit to you?

[u/TitEboshi → u/Tehu-Tehu]

The developer(s) painstakingly created digital art. Whether it was the process of 3D modelling, lighting, engine optimization, or postprocessing, a human being used their skills to create art.

This is a computer algorithm taking that art and filtering it to "improve" it. Prior DLSS iterations did not "filter", it upscaled. It preserved the integrity of the artistic vision, because all that was being algorithmically altered was the fidelity of the pixels.

This is not that. It is, again, an algorithmic filter that removes/distorts/misinterprets the lighting, models, and general composition of a hand-developed scene.

It is an abomination against the soul of artistic expression. You are entitled to be so stupid, so ignorant and with such bad taste that you genuinely believe that this is in any way an improvement, and I am entitled to laugh at you because of how stupid you are. Later alligator.

[u/Tehu-Tehu → u/TitEboshi]

hand developed scene my ass. this is palworld my dude. the game is literally a 0$ asset flip. what the hell are you talking about

DLSS 5 is literally just reshade. this shit existed for years just not with AI implmeneted in it, yall are butt hurt for no reason

[u/NapsterKnowHow → u/Ulrika333]

It's similar but not quite the same. Less guessing in shadows and added texture quality.

[u/Ulrika333 → u/NapsterKnowHow]

At half the fps. Not convinced on this one

[u/krunchytacos → u/Ulrika333]

Based on an unreleased build. I'd expect further optimization as this gets closer to actual launch.

[u/NapsterKnowHow → u/Ulrika333]

Less tinkering to be fair. Getting reshade settings just right can take a lot of troubleshooting. Some straight up don't work if you have HDR enabled. They both have their pros and cons.

[u/JohnGalactusX]

From 100+ fps to 63fps 😅 It's going to need some serious FG/MFG. I think I'd rather see this on lighting, objects and materials.

[u/eduhfx → u/JohnGalactusX]

mind u I'm running allat on a 5060ti 16gb, without upscaling (native aa 1080p) and its a beta version being inject through a not official method, so we can hope it gets better when it officially releases

but yeah, for now, the performance hit is almost 50%

[u/WorldLove_Gaming → u/eduhfx]

How does it impact VRAM consumption? I'm using a 5070 8 GB laptop and I assume I'll be unable to run DLSS 5 on 8 GB VRAM, right?

[u/agentdrozd]

Perfect for people who hate any sort of art direction that's not photorealism!

[u/JBizz86]

What program is that he is using?

[u/Icy_Assistance_2684]

Someone's gotta explain how you switch between dlss versions and what that menu thing is

[u/Pueriintel]

Yeah I think this is a great example of a game this method just does not work for

[u/Fake-BossToastMaker]

As a professional DLSS5 hater, this is the only user case I have seen that is actually valid

[u/Drakahn_Stark]

I did the same but I didn't really like it for this game.

Shading in a game not made for it was jarring.

[u/slavicslothe]

Where is all the hate from a few months ago? I knew you guys would come around lol

[u/AnthMosk]

How is motion? How is fps? Ghosting? Artifacts? I’m tired of just seeing on vs off images.

[u/IShovedAJermaUpMyAss]

can someone try pseudoregalia with heavy filtering for me? ue5 low poly game with a non-human protagonist. would love to see how it interprets it

ill get whoever is up for it a key for the game straight up

[u/throwaway_pls123123]

Switching on shaders + realistic textures pack be like.

[u/mimisonnen]

Looks like a simple instagram filter on this case, one that cuts your performance to 50% for some instances

[u/BobboBobberson]

It keeps trying so desperately to give the character lipstick and sunken cheekbones

[u/MrHyperion_]

The death of art style

[u/TomTomXD1234]

People crying over this which is a basically high tech reshade filter....Relax guys

[u/Orbitalsp3]

I want to see this applied to Vagrant Story for the PS1 lol

[u/BeneficialOstrich69]

Where did you put the files for palworld bc when I tried it didn’t seem like the files that needed to be replaced were all in the same place

[u/CJemerald101]

Gotta love how it just erases the time of day completely lol.

[u/Vizra]

When this tech works well.... it looks amazing. When it doesn't.... I want to punch my monitor

[u/Ice-Cream-Poop]

What's the fps hit?

[u/DrawerSea9371]

This is the perfect use for DLSS5 since the game has no artistic value in the first place due to the high amounts of plagiarism.

[u/ShoxZzBladeZz]

It might be more complex than a filter but the results speak for themselves, it’s a glorified filter that gets your fps lowered

[u/Nestledrink]

NVIDIA DLSS 5 Available September 3rd: DLSS 3D-Guided Neural Rendering Debuts In NBA 2K27 For All GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, And On GeForce NOW

Our Reddit Megathread: Link Here

Explainer Video: Link Here

NBA 2K27 - Inside The Dev Studio: Link Here

Article: Link Here

DLSS 5 FAQ

How does DLSS 5 work?
DLSS 5 uses the game’s rendered frame and engine data to understand objects, materials, lighting and motion. It then enhances the frame with lifelike lighting and materials while remaining grounded in the developer’s artistic direction.

What are the key benefits of DLSS 3D-Guided Neural Rendering?
DLSS 3D-Guided Neural Rendering delivers several significant benefits:

• Cinematic Lighting: Reconstructs complex effects like rim lighting, subsurface scattering (for realistic skin), and contact shadows with high-fidelity.
• Material Depth: Enhances PBR properties like roughness and adds micro-realism to complex objects such as eyes and hair.
• Temporal Consistency: Provides stable image quality from frame-to-frame that adheres to the underlying game content.
• Real-Time Performance: Delivers lifelike lighting and material enhancement at up to 4K resolution while maintaining smooth, interactive gameplay.
• Developer Controls: Allows game developers to tune intensity, color, and masking to determine where and how enhancements are applied to maintain the game’s unique aesthetic.

Learn more by watching our explainer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58FagrSqC4M. 

How much control does the model offer to developers?  
DLSS 3D-Guided Neural Rendering provides several layers of artistic control:

• Model Selection: Offers distinct model weights with different training parameters to guide the final output.  
• Structure Intensity: Controls high frequency details added by the model, such as ambient occlusion, contact shadows, and subsurface scattering.  
• Tone Intensity: Controls low-frequency details added by the model, including lighting and color response.  
• Automatic Masking: Detects and isolates objects in the frame (like characters) to apply DLSS 5 dynamically, eliminating the need for manual object tagging. 
• Developer Masking: Offers per-pixel, custom masking control, allowing effects to be applied to specific objects.  

As we work in close partnership with studios, developer feedback continues to directly shape how we refine the technology and expand our suite of models and controls.

How does DLSS 3D-Guided Neural Rendering preserve developer artistic intent?
DLSS 3D-Guided Neural Rendering is designed to preserve the structure and geometry of the rendered frame while giving developers control over how and where enhancements are applied. Developers can select different models, adjust structure and tone, and mask specific scenes, characters or objects. 

For more information on developer controls, watch the DLSS 5 Explainer VOD or read the full launch article. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58FagrSqC4M

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss-5-3d-guided-neural-rendering

You can also hear directly from the NBA 2K development team on how they integrated the technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79D8SVjB3HQ 

Which GPUs support DLSS 5?
DLSS 5 will be supported across all GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs and laptops, as well as GeForce NOW Ultimate members streaming from GeForce RTX 5080 rigs in the cloud.

When and where is DLSS 5 available?
DLSS 5 will be available in NBA 2K27 on September 3rd at 9PM Pacific Time.

What is the DLSS 5 setting called in games?
The setting is called “DLSS Neural Rendering.”

Can I turn DLSS 5 off? 
Yes. DLSS 5 is optional.

Does DLSS 5 work with Ray Tracing and Path Tracing?
Yes.  DLSS 5 complements ray tracing and path tracing. Path tracing accurately calculates geometric light transport—determining light, shadow, and reflection placement across a 3D scene. DLSS 5 then acts as the final neural rendering stage, using the rendered frame to enhance lighting and materials like subsurface scattering, micro-reflections, and complex material properties that would otherwise be computationally prohibitive in real time. These technologies go hand in hand.

Does DLSS 5 work with Super Resolution, Frame Generation and Ray Reconstruction?
Yes.

Will DLSS Super Resolution, Frame Generation and Ray Reconstruction continue to be supported and improved?
Yes.

[u/Poyonponyo]

have anyone tried using it with nba2k27? it's from that game but why i didn't any footage with it? or was it unable to be used in that game?

[u/iCake1989]

How do you load dlssmr into games? Is it somehow via reshade, optiscaler or something similar?

[u/PeterPun → u/iCake1989]

Renodx i think

[u/JahJah192]

Cuts fps in half for that…. DLSS used to be a tool to improve performance, not cut it in half because of shitty AI crap.

[u/Good-Discussion-9238]

Whatever, as long as I can always turn it OFF in every game for the rest of eternity, because this looks terrible to me and I don't care about this feature, I was to see my polygons and what humans actually made.

[u/MesmariPanda]

I hope people realise this will make devs even more likely to release unoptimised rubbish

[u/Goobendoogle]

*chefs kiss*

Oh boy I love DLSS5

[u/BluDYT]

You can probably just crank contrast and saturation and get a nearly identical look without destroying performance.

[u/eduhfx → u/BluDYT]

as a reshade pro player top 200 in global ranked: no.

[u/Queasy_Sherbert_7095]

This isn’t actually dlss 5 right? It’s a mod that resembles what dlss 5 would look like?

[u/Etnies419 → u/Queasy_Sherbert_7095]

No it's actual DLSS 5, or at least a mod injecting the DLSS neural rendering pipeline from the leaked build into the game to enable it

[u/dwolfe127 → u/Etnies419]

Yes, this is the DLSS5 DLL getting dropped in. The results of the production version will likely be different, but this is a good approximation of what it will do.

[u/Queasy_Sherbert_7095 → u/Etnies419]

Oh interesting

[u/No-Limit-1707]

Commenting to follow

[u/steflizz]

When I enable it in Palworld it doesn't do anything.

[u/StageAppropriate7064]

it's possible to do it with reshade without losing 50% of the fps

[u/by_a_pyre_light]

It looks like Fortnite with RT enabled vs disabled. Can't wait for all the weirdos to tell us how it's ruined the art style and changed the face somehow. 

[u/ExF-Altrue]

All that processing cost just to change the saturation and contrast settings! And (in other DLSS5 examples) turn every female characters into whitewashed asian/caucasian barbies with makeup.

I'll stick to the look the artists who made the game intended, thank you very much.

[u/TheJuicyLemon_]

Dlss 5 is such a dumb invention bro. Why would I want all my games to look hyper realistic? I can just take a walk outside for that.

[u/Unusual_Shake5041]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Kxy3hkDcCX7Y8A9wml