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

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

(Epitome credit: No Man's Sky)

Nvidia is increasing the number of games that support Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology, and in a first, will include VR titles similar No Human's Sky.

In society to exist the all-time possible feel, VR ideally needs very loftier frame rates. As headset screen resolution increases, there'due south a real challenge 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.

Bank check out our RTX 3070, RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 stock trackers
These are the best VR headsets out right now
Plus: Nvidia Shield TV 2019 review

The biggest game getting DLSS support is No Man's Heaven, which runs in both VR and traditional modes. Driving it at 4K resolutions volition claiming fifty-fifty 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 20-series card and DLSS support can push more pixels and maintain a solid frame rate.

According to Engadget, DLSS tin can improve the VR operation of No Man'due south Sky by 50% in Ultra quality. That should hateful that even more than modest computers can push 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 ii, Amongst Evil, Aron's Adventure and Redout: Infinite Assault are besides all getting enhanced DLSS functionality.

If you lot're unclear, DLSS works by applying motorcar learning to a lower resolution prototype, making it appear far higher in quality than it actually is. Call up of it equally really smart video upscaling. Although, it tin't universally work in whatever game. It needs to be baked into a game's code by developers before it tin work. DLSS offers modes to satisfy people who want the best possible frame rate, and those who care more most quality.

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

More: Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti leaks once again — could arrive inside days

Ian has been involved in technology journalism since 2007, originally writing about AV hardware back when LCDs and plasma TVs were just gaining popularity. Near 15 years on, he remains equally excited as ever about how tech tin can make your life better. Ian is the editor of T3.com but has also regularly contributed to Tom'south Guide.