Nvidia DLSS 5: Modders enable AI faces in all sorts of games

Modders have leaked an early version of Nvidia's DLSS 5, discovered in the NBA 2K27 early access build, enabling AI-enhanced faces in games like Cyberpunk 2077, The Last of Us 2, and Control. The 158 MB nvngx_dlssnr.dll file, which TechPowerUp estimates contains 148 million parameters with 8-bit precision, works with Reshade on GeForce RTX 5000 series cards but can halve frame rates. Nvidia plans to officially release DLSS 5 in the fall, with support limited to optimized titles.

Nvidia DLSS 5: Modders enable AI faces in all sorts of games Nvidia hasn’t even released DLSS 5 yet, but players are already trying it out in “Cyberpunk 2077” and many other titles. The developers of the basketball game NBA 2K27 have kicked off a wave of pre-release tests for Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling 5 DLSS 5 . The starting point is the library file nvngx dlssnr.dll, which was discovered in the early access version of NBA 2K27. ”nr” presumably stands for Neural Rendering and represents the core function of DLSS 5: the enhancement of game characters using artificial intelligence /news/Neural-Rendering-Nvidia-zeigt-DLSS-5-deutlich-zurueckhaltender-11371549.html?from-en=1 . The dll file is 158 MB in size. Techpowerup has already taken a look at it https://www.techpowerup.com/352033/nvidia-dlss-5-dll-leaked-by-nba-2k27-early-access-build-heres-our-analysis and concludes that model weights make up 89 percent of the library. The website suspects that it contains 148 million parameters with 8-bit precision FP8 . Nvidia itself has only announced DLSS 5 so far, but has not yet released it. A Discord server focused on the modding toolkit RenoDX https://discord.com/channels/1408098019194310818/1542647972695904317 shows particularly high activity regarding the DLSS 5 leak. “lecram” has provided a version that works in all sorts of games. On the Discord server, in the “dlss5” channel, new versions are pinned https://discord.com/channels/1408098019194310818/1542647972695904317/1542827065601032262 , with interested parties downloading and installing at their own risk. Videos by heise Activatable with Reshade The dll works in conjunction with the post-processing injector Reshade. The program intervenes at the end of the rendering chain to change the appearance of games. The version “Reshade with full add-on support“ https://reshade.me/ download is required. Interested parties download the necessary files, copy them into the main directory of the game where the exe is located, and start Reshade in the game. There are different levels that influence the appearance of faces in games to varying degrees. Depending on the setting and game, it can look very good to unpleasantly plastic. Among other places, in the Nvidia subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/ , members share numerous screenshot comparisons. On YouTube there are various videos https://www.youtube.com/results?search query=dlss+5 , including for “Cyberpunk 2077”, “The Last of Us 2”, and “Control”. Empfohlener redaktioneller Inhalt Mit Ihrer Zustimmung wird hier ein externes YouTube-Video Google Ireland Limited geladen. Ich bin damit einverstanden, dass mir externe Inhalte angezeigt werden. Damit können personenbezogene Daten an Drittplattformen Google Ireland Limited übermittelt werden. Mehr dazu in unserer Datenschutzerklärung https://www.heise.de/Datenschutzerklaerung-der-Heise-Medien-GmbH-Co-KG-4860.html . The early DLSS 5 version currently only works with current GeForce RTX 5000 series graphics cards. However, the whole thing is currently hardly practical: the frame rate can drop by half when activated. Nvidia plans to complete the new DLSS version in the fall. Officially, it is only intended to run in specific games if developers optimize their titles accordingly. mma mailto:mma@heise.de