Whereas the upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI received’t be out there on PC this month, some avid gamers are making ridiculous preparations to make use of their PC graphics playing cards to use Nvidia’s DLSS 5 expertise to the console unique.
On an explicitly unmoderated GTAVI subreddit, consumer RevolutionaryBus8208 lays out a proposed setup, which runs a PlayStation 5 via a 4K seize card to a PC. From there, the video sign is run via Veyra, an open supply device that may apply DLSS 5’s AI-powered “neural rendering” to video content material. The consequence—which additionally makes use of DLSS body technology to extend the 30 fps supply to a 90 fps output—is then piped again to a 4K TV, theoretically including among the advantages of a beefy PC graphics card to a console-exclusive sport.
To reveal the potential of this setup, RevolutionaryBus8208 used Veyra to upscale the Grand Theft Auto VI Extended Look trailer posted in August. The resulting DLSS-ified version appears a bit higher in locations, with sharper background components, subtler shadows, and extra plausible mild scattering on some surfaces. However it additionally appears a bit washed out in comparison with the unique video’s deeper blacks and arguably suffers from an unnaturally clean “cleaning soap opera impact” in some scenes.
The GTAVI Prolonged Look trailer with DLSS 5 appears noticeably totally different.
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Whereas the upscaled model causes some occasional graphical artifacts and glitches from the body technology course of, it’s nonetheless an attention-grabbing proof of idea that reveals simply how far DLSS 5 has come from some of the early horror-show memes that circulated on the Web earlier this yr.