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Valery Kryzhanovsky has demonstrated the use of Nvidia's DLSS 5 technology on vintage games like the 1991 DOS shooter Duke Nukem and the 1972 game Pong. His experiments involve running these titles through DOSBox and overlaying DLSS 5 via ReShade, resulting in enhanced visuals with added depth and object detection. He provides detailed instructions and downloadable tools for others interested in replicating the process.
The Coalition's Gears of War: E-Day, built on Unreal Engine 5 and DirectX 12, was benchmarked across 44 graphics cards using its in-game performance tool. Tests were conducted at Medium and Ultra settings, with additional upscaling configurations applied at higher resolutions, all on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D system. Results aim to guide players on suitable GPU upgrades for the game.
Deep Silver is releasing free updates for Metro 2033 Redux and Metro: Last Light Redux that bring 4K textures, DLSS and PSSR upscaling, spatial audio, and controller haptics support on PS5, PS5 Pro, Xbox Series X/S and PC. The updates arrive October 22 on PC and October 29 on consoles, enabling 4K at 60fps or upscaled 4K at 120fps on compatible displays. The announcement also confirms a new entry, Metro 2039, due February 4, 2027.
A new open-source project called OpenDLSS reimplements the neural network behind Nvidia's DLSS 5, reproducing the same 71-block transformer architecture used in DLSS-NR build 310.8.0, down to matching intermediate outputs at all 75 block boundaries. The project runs on Vulkan using FP8 tensor-core computation, and includes a separate WebGPU browser port that reproduces identical results without tensor cores or FP8 support. Users must supply their own copy of Nvidia's trained model weights to run it.
An open-source GitHub project called DLSS-NR-on-AMD is reimplementing Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering runtime to work on AMD Radeon RX 9000 and RX 7000 series cards, currently supporting DirectX 12 titles that use FSR, including Cyberpunk 2077 and GTA V Enhanced. Early builds saw frame rates collapse from over 80 FPS to around 11-12 FPS on a Radeon RX 9070 XT, but successive alpha releases have delivered roughly 74% combined performance gains within 24 hours, and a new AMDNR launcher now automates installation.
Newegg is selling an ABS Cyclone Aqua prebuilt gaming PC for $1,399.99, a $300 cut from its regular price. The system pairs an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16GB GPU with a 20-core Intel Core i7-14700F processor, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD.
Korean outlet QuasarZone tested the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition running Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K with DLSS 5 enabled, recording peak power draw near 650W and a 16-pin (12VHPWR) connector temperature of 91.7 degrees Celsius, higher than the GPU die itself. The RTX 5080 also showed a temperature rise with DLSS 5 on, though smaller in magnitude than the 5090's.
Microsoft has expanded Automatic Super Resolution, its NPU-driven upscaling feature built into Windows, to Copilot+ PCs powered by Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 chips, a capability previously exclusive to Qualcomm Snapdragon X devices. The feature aims to boost frame rates in games rendered at up to 1080p, with Microsoft citing gains of up to 15% in titles like Assassin's Creed Valhalla, targeting a 60 FPS threshold.
Walmart is selling MSI's Gaming Trio GeForce RTX 5090 for $4,299 as part of its GeForce Week promotion, a price well below the $8,000+ third-party listings currently common for the card. The RTX 5090 remains Nvidia's top gaming GPU, still selling far above its original $1,999 MSRP due to scarce supply and demand from AI workloads.
CyberPowerPC's SLC8500WST prebuilt pairs AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor with Nvidia's RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card, 32GB of DDR5-6000 memory, and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, all for $2,299 at Walmart. The CPU and GPU alone typically cost over $2,000 when bought separately, making the bundled memory and storage essentially free by comparison.
A GitHub user known as Uzbekunknown built a project called "dlss-nr-on-intel" that reimplements Nvidia's DLSS 5 71-block U-Net neural network to run on Intel's Xe2 architecture via the Vulkan cooperative matrix extension, rather than wrapping the original DLL. The code was largely written by AI assistants Claude and GPT-6 Astra, with the developer directing the process, and testing on Intel's Arc 140V graphics showed the technique working but extremely slow, around 10.5 fps at 360p in Tekken 7.
Remedy's Control Resonant, the sequel following Dylan Faden's search for his missing sister Jesse amid a Hiss invasion of Manhattan, has been benchmarked across 28 graphics cards. The game supports full path-traced lighting via Nvidia's RTX Mega Geometry technology alongside the complete DLSS 4.5 suite, including Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction, and Multi Frame Generation.