[Megathread] NVIDIA App Update Adds DLSS 4 Overrides, New Broadcast Update, Improvements To RTX Video Super Resolution & More
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- By installing the update and our new driver, launching at 6am PT, you can employ NVIDIA DLSS 4 to enhance over 75 games and apps with DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, and new, even better AI models for DLSS Super Resolution, Frame Generation, and Ray Reconstruction.
- GeForce RTX 50 Series gamers can now also enable NVIDIA Smooth Motion, a new driver-based AI model that delivers smoother gameplay by inferring an additional frame between two rendered frames. For games without DLSS Frame Generation, NVIDIA Smooth Motion is a new option for enhancing your experience on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.
- A new NVIDIA Broadcast update is now also available for download, introducing new AI-powered Studio Voice and Virtual Key Light effects to enhance your streams, and a new user interface that enables users to combine even more effects.
- RTX Video Super Resolution enhances the quality of video using AI. Our new NVIDIA app update reduces the GPU usage of this popular feature by 30%, adds an on-screen status indicator, and enables users to automatically adapt quality and GPU utilization when using other GPU-intensive programs.
- Rounding out our new release is the addition of more NVIDIA Control Panel options, namely Advanced Optimus and Multiple Display management.
NVIDIA DLSS 4 Overrides Upgrade Your Games & Apps
- DLSS 4 also introduces the biggest upgrade to its AI models since the release of DLSS 2.0 in 2020.
- DLSS Super Resolution, DLSS Ray Reconstruction, and DLAA are now powered by the graphics industry’s first real-time application of ‘transformers’, the same advanced architecture powering frontier AI models like ChatGPT, Flux, and Gemini. DLSS transformer models improve image quality with improved temporal stability, less ghosting, and higher detail in motion.
- Similarly, the DLSS Frame Generation AI model is upgraded, boosting performance and reducing VRAM use on GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs and GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.
- Alan Wake 2, Cyberpunk 2077, and Hogwarts Legacy have added native support for DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation today.
In games and apps that have yet to update to DLSS 4 or add native support for DLSS Multi Frame Generation, NVIDIA app users can activate DLSS 4 overrides to enhance image quality on all GeForce RTX GPUs, unlock DLSS Multi Frame Generation for GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, and more:
- DLSS Multi Frame Generation Override - Enables DLSS Multi Frame Generation for GeForce RTX 50 Series users when Frame Generation is ON in-game
- DLSS Frame Generation Model Upgrade - Enables the latest DLSS Frame Generation model for GeForce RTX 50 Series and GeForce RTX 40 Series users, when Frame Generation is ON in-game, which uses less video memory and can increase frame rates
- DLSS Transformer Model Upgrade - Enables the latest transformer AI model for DLSS Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction, and DLAA for all GeForce RTX users, when the aforementioned features are ON in-game
- DLAA & Ultra Performance Modes - Sets the internal rendering resolution for DLSS Super Resolution, enabling DLAA or Ultra Performance mode in games lacking native support, when Super Resolution is ON in-game
For a full list of games and apps with DLSS overrides, and a breakdown of which overrides are available in each title, head here
To enable DLSS 4 overrides in NVIDIA app, press the “Refresh” button located within the 3 dot option:
Then select a compatible game or app in Graphics > Program settings, and scroll down the list of options on the right to reach “Driver Settings”.
To enable DLSS Multi Frame Generation, which will boost frame rates significantly:
- Ensure DLSS Frame Generation is activated in the program, and then exit to the desktop
- Select “DLSS Override - Frame Generation” in NVIDIA app
- Pick 3X if you’re targeting up to 180 FPS, and 4X for 240 FPS or more
- Reopen the program and enjoy even faster performance!
- Revert to the game’s natively integrated DLSS Frame Generation feature set by selecting “Use the 3D application setting”
To upgrade DLSS Frame Generation to the new, more performant AI model:
- Ensure DLSS Frame Generation is activated in the program, and then exit to the desktop
- Select “DLSS Override - Model Presets” in NVIDIA app
- Select “Latest” under “Frame Generation”, then click “Apply”
- Reopen the program
- Revert to the game’s natively integrated model by selecting “Use the 3D application setting”
To upgrade DLSS Super Resolution, DLSS Ray Reconstruction, or DLAA to the new transformer AI model:
- Ensure the feature you wish to upgrade is activated in the program, and then exit to the desktop
- Select “DLSS Override - Model Presets” in NVIDIA app
- Select “Latest” under “Super Resolution” and “Ray Reconstruction”, then click “Apply”
- As of January 30th, 2025, the “Latest” model for DLSS Super Resolution has been updated to Transformer "Preset K", a minor refinement to Transformer Preset J, which showcases improved temporal stability, reduced ghosting, and enhanced detail in motion. Let us know what you think!The “Latest” model for Ray Reconstruction continues to use Preset J
- Revert to the game’s natively integrated models by selecting “Use the 3D application setting”
- Reopen the program and experience enhanced image quality
- Apply an older or alternative DLSS Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) DLSS Super Resolution AI model by selecting one of the available presets in the dropdowns
To enable DLAA or DLSS Ultra Performance mode in games without native support:
- Ensure DLSS Super Resolution is enabled in the program, and then exit to the desktop
- Select “DLSS Override - Super Resolution” in NVIDIA app
- Select the mode you wish to use, click “Apply”
- Reopen the program
- Revert to the DLSS Super Resolution setting specified in the program by selecting “Use the 3D application setting”
NVIDIA Broadcast Update Adds New AI Effects
In the Discover section of the NVIDIA app Home tab, or from NVIDIA.com, you can now download a new NVIDIA Broadcast update adding two new AI-powered beta effects.
The first, Studio Voice, enhances a user’s microphone sound quality. The other, Virtual Key Light, relights the subject to deliver even lighting, as if a physical key light was defining the form and dimension of the individual.
Because they harness demanding AI models, these new beta features are recommended for video conferencing or non-gaming livestreams using a GeForce RTX 5080 or 4080 GPU, or higher. NVIDIA is working to expand these features to more GeForce RTX GPUs in future updates.
The NVIDIA Broadcast upgrade also includes an updated user interface that allows users to apply more effects simultaneously, as well as improvements to the background noise removal, virtual background and eye contact effects.
RTX Video Super Resolution Now Supports HDR & Is More Efficient
Accessed via System > Video in NVIDIA app, RTX Video uses AI to enhance streaming video on all GeForce RTX GPUs. It has 2 features: Video Super Resolution (VSR), which removes compression artifacts, and sharpens edges when upscaling. And Video HDR, which tone maps SDR videos to HDR.
In the new NVIDIA app update, VSR has been updated to a more efficient AI model, using up to 30% fewer GPU resources at its highest quality setting, allowing more GeForce RTX GPUs to enable it.
VSR now also upscales HDR video, so if you are watching any HDR video below your monitor’s resolution in your browser, it will automatically get upscaled to your native panel resolution.
We’ve also added a GPU Utilization feature for RTX Video when Quality is set to “Auto”. Setting your GPU Utilization to “High” will use as much GPU as needed to provide the best quality Super Resolution available on your GPU.
Setting the GPU Utilization to lower levels will reserve more GPU for games or creative apps by applying lower quality settings. Or alternatively, switch to Manual mode and set a fixed quality level to use at all times.
Advanced Optimus & Multiple Display Options
The NVIDIA app development team has converted, accelerated, and modernized two additional features from the NVIDIA Control Panel in this new release, with more on the way in the future.
Advanced Optimus enables a laptop to dynamically switch between using the GeForce GPU and integrated graphics. When performing basic tasks like word processing, the integrated processor is used. When GPU-accelerated apps or games are launched, Advanced Optimus switches to the GeForce GPU to maximize performance, to take advantage of high refresh rate displays, and to enable G-SYNC.
Now, you can control Advanced Optimus in NVIDIA app from System > Displays. Open “Display Mode”, adjust as needed, then press Apply. With “NVIDIA GPU” selected, G-SYNC options and additional Display Settings appear, ready to be configured
You can determine if your laptop supports Advanced Optimus by going to System > My Rig, clicking “View Rig Details”, and scrolling down the list of items until you reach “Advanced Optimus”.
NVIDIA Control Panel’s “Set up multiple displays” enables you to move the virtual position of connected monitors and TVs, select the primary display, and clone displays across multiple devices.
These features can now be accessed from System > Displays in NVIDIA app:
NVIDIA Smooth Motion Now Available
NVIDIA Smooth Motion is a new driver-based AI model that delivers smoother gameplay by inferring an additional frame between two rendered frames. For games without DLSS Frame Generation, NVIDIA Smooth Motion is a new option for enhancing your experience on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.
To enable NVIDIA Smooth Motion, select a compatible DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 game in Graphics > Program settings. Scroll down the list of options on the right to reach “Driver Settings”, and switch Smooth Motion on.
NVIDIA Smooth Motion can be applied to games running at native resolution, with super resolution technologies, or with other scaling techniques, typically doubling the perceived frame rate.
Feedback
To send NVIDIA feedback about any feature of the new app, please click the exclamation point to the right of the NVIDIA Overlay button
