Nvidia’s DLSS could soon bring faster frame rates to a lot more games

Thanks to a new plug-in for Unreal Engine 4

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Nvidia’s DLSS technology, which brings faster frame-rates to gamers using itsRTX graphics cards, could soon be supported by a lot more games, as it has now arrived on the Unreal Engine marketplace.

It’s available as a plug-in for Unreal Engine 4.26, specifically, and this means that any developers making games with Unreal Engine – which is used to power quite a number of titles – can much more easily incorporate DLSS.

In short, devs using Unreal Engine can now just employ the tech off the bat, rather than having to go through the process of contacting Nvidia and applying to get on board with the DLSS Early Access Program.

So, we can expect more developers to do exactly this, and get the benefits of DLSS in their games.

Nvidiahas also brought its Reflex feature to Unreal Engine 4.26, which aims to reduce the latency between the CPU and GPU, and is designed for the likes of competitive shooters.

DLSS benefits

DLSS (which stands for Deep Learning Super Sampling) uses the tensor cores in Nvidia’s GeForce RTX cards to essentially upscale a game’s resolution, letting you play in, say, what looks pretty much the same as4Kbut is actually 1440p upscaled (and hence has a much lighter load on the GPU – meaning faster overall frame rates).

This is great for demanding games, and indeed for the ray tracing you also get with RTX graphics cards, as the latter is a tough prospect for any GPU to tackle, so DLSS really helps ease the burden.

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DLSS made great strides whenNvidia brought out version 2.0, although we have argued in the past that while the tech is certainly very impressive now, it’s almostworryingly vital for running demanding contemporary games(yes,Cyberpunk 2077– we’re looking at you).

As mentioned, games need to be coded to support DLSS, although there are already a fair few titles which do so including Cyberpunk 2077,Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Control and Death Stranding. We’ve made a list of thebest DLSS-powered games right here, if you’re interested.

You may also be wondering: doesAMDhave an equivalent of DLSS? Not yet, butAMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution could arrive in Marchto up the ante with itsRX 6000-series GPUs.

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Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel - ‘I Know What You Did Last Supper’ - was published by Hachette UK in 2013).

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