What happened
Nvidia published new DLSS 5 comparison screenshots for Hogwarts Legacy, showing much subtler face changes than its earlier demo, and the feature launches in the game on November 5th, followed by Where Winds Meet late next month.
Why it matters
The toned-down faces address gamer criticism that DLSS 5 made characters look artificially older, and Nvidia maintains developers have detailed artistic control over how the technology is implemented.
What to watch
DLSS 5 will debut in Hogwarts Legacy on November 5th, and the October update is set to first appear in NBA 2K27 on October 16th.
WHO IT HITSGamers who were put off by DLSS 5's earlier face transformations may find the toned-down version more acceptable, while game developers retain control over how the technology is implemented in their titles.
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Nvidia first showed off DLSS 5 earlier this year, and the technology immediately got branded as gen AI for video games. Gamers felt Nvidia had lost the plot, especially after seeing how faces were transformed — the 15-year-old student from Hogwarts Legacy suddenly looked much older, and Grace from Resident Evil Requiem looked yassified. Now, more than six months later, DLSS 5 is about to debut properly in Hogwarts Legacy, and it looks like it has been seriously toned down. Nvidia published new comparison screenshots today, where the changes to faces are as subtle as they are in NBA 2K27. Teenagers no longer look like middle-aged men, and even the environmental changes look more subtle.
Nvidia has always maintained that developers have 'detailed artistic control' over DLSS 5, and ultimately make the choice on how to implement the technology in their own games. DLSS 5 will now appear in Hogwarts Legacy on November 5th, and it's also coming to Where Winds Meet late next month. Alongside the visual changes, Nvidia is improving the performance hit of DLSS 5 with an October update to the neural rendering system that should make it twice as fast on RTX 50-series GPUs and the upcoming RTX Spark laptops. 'The DLSS 5 October update shrinks the footprint by 24 percent to roughly 118 million parameters while reducing 4K VRAM usage by 20 percent,' says Nvidia's Andrew Burnes. This new DLSS 5 model will debut first in NBA 2K27 on October 16th and 'will ship by default with future DLSS 5 games.'
Separately, Nvidia has shipped a new Nvidia app beta update that includes a faster performance mode for Frame Generation on RTX 40- and 50-series GPUs. The updated AI model uses a 'faster and lighter algorithm to boost frame rates' for Frame Gen, Multi Frame Gen, and Dynamic Multi Frame Gen. Nvidia says it has 'minor trade-offs in image quality,' and that performance mode for Frame Generation should now be up to 35 percent faster.
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