Modders are testing an unofficial version of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 in Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA V and many other games after code for the AI enhancement technology appeared in an early access version of NBA 2K27. Members of the RenoDX modding channel on Discord have reportedly found a way to extract the DLSS “Neural Rendering” file and apply it to Control before it expands to other games, as previously reported by Notebook Check and VideoCardz. In one video, a person shows how Control protagonist Jesse Faden’s facial features become increasingly less defined as they modify various DLSS 5 settings enabled by RenoDX modders. With the “Neural Uplift” setting disabled within the mod, Jesse’s face has a smooth, uniform appearance. But as soon as the modder activates this feature with one of the presets, her face becomes paler, with more visible laugh lines and what looks like more makeup smeared under her eyes. Another modder appears to have gotten DLSS 5 technology working in GTA: San Andreas, where it appears to apply a filter effect to CJ’s face and improve textures throughout the city. It also makes the shadows on CJ’s face and the environment around him more pronounced, while the city lighting changes from a warm to a cool tone as the modder adjusts one of the sliders. Several other videos are also floating around the web, with the DLSS 5 mod bringing more definition to the cartoonish look of a Palworld character and altering the intensity of shadows. There are plenty of other videos floating around the web (and there probably are more). Modders testing the mod say that it affects game performance. One person testing the mod with Final Fantasy VII Rebirth says that it “halves” their frames per second (FPS) and that “swapping between presets consumes a TON of vram.” You can see the frames drop from 90 to 29 FPS while another modder adjusts the sliders in GTA V. Modders had the unofficial version of DLSS 5 running on RTX 50 series chips, but now some have also made it work on RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 chips, according to VideoCardz. Nvidia first announced DLSS 5 in March, which uses AI to bring “photorealistic lighting and materials” to the game. real-time graphics. Demos showing off DLSS 5 in Resident Evil Requiem, Starfield, and Hogwarts Legacy sparked an immediate backlash, with many players complaining about the characters’ generic or “yasified” appearance. Others expressed concern that it could alter a developer’s vision for their characters, to which Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang responded by saying that the tool “doesn’t change artistic control.” DLSS 5 will officially launch this fall.
