Nvidia’s latest GPU driver lets you activate DLSS 4 in games and apps

Jan 30, 2025 09:00 PM - 3 months ago 122479

Tom Warren

Tom Warren is a elder editor and writer of Notepad, who has been covering each things Microsoft, PC, and tech for complete 20 years.

Nvidia is launching its next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs today, but it’s besides releasing an breathtaking update for existing RTX GPU owners. A caller GPU driver (572.16) allows you to unit DLSS 4 wrong games aliases apps that don’t presently support it, providing improved image value and moreover little VRAM usage successful immoderate cases.

While DLSS 4 is debuting coming successful 75 games and apps, the Nvidia app now has a caller override characteristic that will amended image value successful games that usage DLSS by allowing you to move to Nvidia’s caller transformer model. This intends you don’t person to hold connected developers to update their games. Owners of RTX 40-series GPUs will besides get entree to a caller framework procreation exemplary that is 40 percent faster and uses 30 percent little VRAM than the aged one.

Nvidia has besides updated its RTX Video Super Resolution (VSR) feature, which tin upscale aged blurry YouTube videos, to a caller and much businesslike model. It now uses 30 percent less GPU resources connected the highest-quality setting, allowing much RTX GPUs to alteration this feature. VSR will besides now upscale HDR video, truthful if you’re watching lower-resolution HDR videos, these tin now beryllium automatically upscaled.

While existing RTX owners will get entree to much businesslike models, those looking to purchase RTX 50-series cards today will besides beryllium capable to alteration DLSS Multi Frame Generation. This caller characteristic builds connected apical of Frame Generation by generating 3 further frames per traditionally rendered frame.

In our RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 reviews, we recovered that Multi Frame Generation is simply a promising summation but only useful good if your guidelines framework complaint aft DLSS Super Resolution is applied is high. Otherwise, moreover if your guidelines 30fps aft Super Resolution gets boosted beyond 100fps, it will still person the input latency of a 30fps game.

You tin download Nvidia’s caller 572.16 drivers straight here aliases usage the Nvidia app to get the latest release.

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