In summary:
- PCWorld reports Nvidia’s DLSS 4.5 launches March 31st, featuring Dynamic Multi-Frame Generation that adjusts frame generation from 1x to 6x automatically.
- This technology matters for gamers seeking maximum framerates by dynamically hitting performance targets based on monitor capabilities.
- Despite hardware rumors, no new GeForce RTX 50-series GPUs were announced, though additional features include RTX Mega Geometry and expanded path tracing support.
Nvidia is powering up its DLSS technology, as previewed at CES at the beginning of the year. According to an announcement at the Game Developers Conference in San Franciso, DLSS 4.5 will bring a collection of new improvements starting March 31st. This includes Dynamic Multi-Frame Generation, which allows DLSS to dynamically adjust its output to hit performance targets, usually based on your monitor’s refresh rate.
DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation (say that five times fast) will let DLSS automatically adjust the factor of the frame generation, from 1x to 6x at maximum on hardware that can handle it (so, five generated game frames for every one rendered). In supported games, this is done in an attempt to keep pace with your framerate target (typically the max of your monitor, such as 240Hz) while keeping rendered frames at maximum for any given portion of the game.
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There’s a bunch of other goodies announced as part of the GDC blowout, too. RTX Mega Geometry to boost frame rates in path-traced games, plus a special variant for foliage, path tracing support for 007 First Light and Control Resonant, and several community projects that bring RTX lighting to older games like Portal 2, Need for Speed: Carbon, and Call of Duty 2. Nvidia is also offering GeForce Now as a method for developers to offer playtests during development, an interesting approach.
But there’s also a conspicuous absence from GDC, just like CES: new hardware. The GeForce RTX 50-series Super variants that had been rumored in 2025 are nowhere to be found, and as far as we know, may never materialize, amid talk of scaled-down production of consumer gaming cards in favor of “AI” industrial output.
Author: Michael Crider, Staff Writer, PCWorld
Michael is a 15-year veteran of technology journalism, covering everything from Apple to ZTE. On PCWorld he’s the resident keyboard nut, always using a new one for a review and building a new mechanical board or expanding his desktop “battlestation” in his off hours. Michael’s previous bylines include Android Police, Digital Trends, Wired, Lifehacker, and How-To Geek, and he’s covered events like CES and Mobile World Congress live. Michael lives in Pennsylvania where he’s always looking forward to his next kayaking trip.
