Nvidia's DLSS brings massive boost to VR, including No Man's Sky

Nvidia's DLSS brings massive boost to VR, including No Human being's Heaven

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Nvidia is increasing the number of games that support Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) engineering, and in a first, will include VR titles like No Man'due south Sky.

In club to be the best possible feel, VR ideally needs very high frame rates. As headset screen resolution increases, there's a real claiming around driving those pixels and maintaining a frame rate of 75Hz or higher. While 75 gets the job done, ideally, 90 or more frames per second is needed for the best possible experience.

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The biggest game getting DLSS back up is No Man'south Heaven, which runs in both VR and traditional modes. Driving it at 4K resolutions volition challenge even a modern GPU, and thanks to the RTX 3080 restock shortage, the only people that seem to have cards are pesky scalpers. That means that anyone with a xx-serial card and DLSS back up can push button more than pixels and maintain a solid frame rate.

According to Engadget, DLSS tin can improve the VR performance of No Man's Heaven by 50% in Ultra quality. That should mean that fifty-fifty more than modest computers tin can button a stable VR framerate. The Radius and Wrench are the other two VR titles which are getting DLSS support.

Metro Exodus PC Enhanced Edition, Scavengers, Everspace 2, Amid Evil, Aron's Take chances and Redout: Space Assault are also all getting enhanced DLSS functionality.

If you're unclear, DLSS works by applying car learning to a lower resolution image, making it appear far higher in quality than it actually is. Recollect of it as really smart video upscaling. Although, information technology can't universally work in any game. It needs to be baked into a game's code by developers before information technology can work. DLSS offers modes to satisfy people who want the best possible frame rate, and those who care more about quality.

The bad news is that only RTX 20-series and RTX 30-series cards support DLSS 2.0, and those are all in very short supply at the moment.

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