Community Guide: How does the SWAP DLL for DLSS 4 work and what does it work? 7 comments
DLSS 4 was also released with the market launch of GeForce RTX 5090 (test) and RTX 5080 (test). The new scaling model can also be introduced in many games with the old DLSS implementation via the NVIDIA app, but not in everything. And what about players who don’t use the app? Community member A.Xander has the solution.
DLSS 4 brings new super resolution
With the GeForce-RTX-50 series, NVIDIA has incremented the DLSS version again, so that DLSS 4 is now the latest version of the feature package. It should be noted that DLSS Super Resolution can also be available in version 4 and works on all RTX graphics cards up to the GeForce RTX 2060. Next, a new transformer model is used, which replaces the previously used Convolution neural network. According to NVIDIA, the new approach offers better image stability, more moving details, less ghosting and a lower VRAM requirement. There are many advantages to the test, but sometimes also disadvantages – it depends.
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By early 2025, 75 games are expected to support DLSS 4, partly in primitive mode via the Nvidia app (download). A constantly updated list of all games with DLSS contains nvidia. However, many older games have implemented DLSS (2 or newer), but cannot be persuaded with DLSS 4 via the app. And some players don’t want to use the app. What can we do?
DLL Swap for DLSS 4 and Explained
Techtip Reader A.Xander has the solution: in his guide he explains in detail how users can make games with an old DLSS version themselves for DLSS 4. The basis of the business is to copy the DLSS-DLL files current ones and swap old versions in the respective games.
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The reader’s article takes interested players at their fingertips and takes them through the process step by step. A.Xander has also completed a number of tests in various games, including The Witcher 3, The Last of Us Part I, Horizon: Forbidden West and Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl. Screenshots with DLSS 4 Super Resolution and the old original version of the game make the differences tangible.
Additionally, the reader article also provides benchmark results and a blind test with seven images and various DLSS versions and profiles as well as native rendering resolution and SMAA at Horizon Forbidden West.
Image comparison: Image comparison in Stalker 2: DLSS 3 (image: community member a.xander) ⇔ DLSS 4 (both enlarged) (image: community member a.xander)
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