NVIDIA DLSS 5 is coming to Hogwarts Legacy starting November 5th, 2024. This is a free update, and this is a game-changing way to render environments. Officially called 3D-Guided Neural Rendering, it puts control of AI generation into the hands of the art teams.
NVIDIA's new rendering technology gives art teams control over AI generation
It will allow them to have more fidelity, without sacrificing character consistency. If you care about graphics or stable frame rates, then you're going to want to know how rendering pipelines are changing.
- DLSS 5 Technology Name: 3D-Guided Neural Rendering
- Supported Games: Hogwarts Legacy, NBA 2K27, War Thunder, Yanyun Sixteen Sounds
- New Feature: Neural Rendering option in settings
Neural Rendering is a new setting in game settings. It's about improving environmental lighting, and environmental materials. NVIDIA worked with Warner Bros.
Games and Avalanche Software on this. You can count on the appearance of the characters to match the artistic vision because of it. This is a change from other AI Rendering, which is total autonomy for the AI in generating visuals.
NVIDIA DLSS 5 takes geometric data, material data, and motion vectors to produce a stable, flicker-free frame. It makes sure that what is generated is consistent. No flickering, no tearing, no wandering around.
All of this technology base allows the AI to improve environmental detail. But the art team can lay down a heavy-handed limit on the models of the characters.
We talked about NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing 1.9 Boosts in our previous coverage of Nvidia. It was all about developer performance. With NVIDIA DLSS 5, it's all about artistic control, and enhancing visuals.
It works for Hogwarts Legacy, for NBA 2K27, for War Thunder. And for Yanyun Sixteen Sounds from China. It's getting DLSS 5 on November 23rd.
Neural Rendering is getting an important new feature with DLSS 5. NVIDIA is bringing AI generation, but this time with clear direction from artists. It's about improving the lighting and materials of the environments, while also making sure characters are true to the models. And this is available for Hogwarts Legacy now, with more game integrations to come later in the month.
Does the Neural Rendering toggle affect character models or is it strictly environmental materials and lighting as claimed?
It is strictly environmental. The article states the AI cannot touch the character models to preserve consistency. You get better lighting without flickering characters.
The rollout date for Hogwarts Legacy is Nov 5. War Thunder gets it mid November. Do not confuse the two release windows.
Finally a use for the RTX 40 series beyond just looking pretty at 4k.
iirc the motion vectors are crucial for this stability 🤔
Hope they fixed the VRAM leak in the last patch before this update drops.
Driver injection latency will determine if this actually feels responsive or just heavier.
As long as the update is free and does not bloat the install size I am happy.