DLSS swapper

[Darren S]

Not sure of the 'true' benefits of this, but thought I'd give it a go.

So, some studios leave their existing DLSS support in limbo, despite updating and patching the game that uses it. Some people report significant improvements within games that support DLSS and of the games I've tried it with - I've had no issues.



My DLSS supported library when opened, looked like the below. Look how old the setting for ACC is, when the latest release is 3.8.10.0.

Downloaded 3.8.10.0 within the Library of the DLSS Swapper itself and updated them all. As said, no issues yet - but they do warn that potentially some multiplayer anti-cheat software, might get twitchy with it? As such, I've left Warframe alone for now - plus it wasn't that far behind to begin with.

@SharkyUK - any thoughts on this mate? A mere placebo change, or potentially something that could add some improvements for very little effort?

 

[SharkyUK]

@SharkyUK - any thoughts on this mate? A mere placebo change, or potentially something that could add some improvements for very little effort?

It could indeed offer improvements with DLSS-enabled/supported games. I think it's one of those cases whereby you'd have to try it and see for yourself (unless a table somewhere documents games and their performance metrics against the various DLSS versions). It could be useful for experimentation and seeing if supported titles actually benefit. Of course, if strange artefacts start to appear, or unusual crashes start happening, then the first thing to do would be to switch back to the original DLSS implementation (for that title) and see if the problems go away.

Some titles may have issues if they have been hardwired to use a specific version of DLSS (which would be a daft move, I think) and, as you point out, it could trigger some anti-cheat measures if the DLSS implementation (and/or its DLL) is factored into a title's security routines. Err on the side of caution!

DLSS sometimes gets a lot of hate but it's a cool piece of tech and a major part of modern real-time rendering pipelines. It will be interesting to see what new changes are presented in DLSS 4 on the new 50x0 nVidia cards.