DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction Released; RTX Spark is Game Ready; CONTROL Resonant Bundle; Gears of War: E-Day is RTX On; New RTX Games & More Revealed

Gamescom 2026 began with GeForce On, featuring major RTX announcements for millions of PC gamers:

• NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction is available now, further enhancing image quality in path-traced and ray-traced games
• 007 First Light’s path tracing and DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction update launches September 15th, adding to its slate of advanced tech, which already includes DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution and Dynamic Multi Frame Generation
• CONTROL Resonant’s new path tracing and DLSS 4.5 gameplay video gives you a fresh look at this anticipated title, and it’s now bundled with select GeForce RTX graphics cards, laptops and PCs
• Gears of War: E-Day is adding RTX Mega Geometry, enhancing ray tracing on GeForce RTX GPUs, which also benefit from full support for DLSS 4.5
• New DLSS 4.5 and RTX news and trailers have been released for AION 2, ANANTA, Aniimo, Beautiful Light, Black State, CINDER CITY, Fragmentary Order and Silver Palace, demonstrating the enhanced image quality and accelerated performance GeForce RTX gamers can enjoy when these titles are launched
• NVIDIA RTX Remix has been upgraded with DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, a major Painkiller RTX mod update has been released, and The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind RTX is in development
• NVIDIA RTX Spark arrives this Fall and leading publishers are bringing blockbuster PC games and technology to NVIDIA RTX Spark
• GeForce NOW is expanding ways to play with new DLSS 4.5 settings, including Super Resolution, Dynamic Frame Generation and Ray Reconstruction, plus expanded support for Steam Machine and other devices and platforms, and even more big PC games headed to the cloud
• AGON by AOC has unveiled the first 5K G-SYNC Pulsar monitor, new G-SYNC Compatible displays are coming from ASUS and LG, and G-SYNC Pulsar controls are available now in the NVIDIA app
• Win GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, PCs, GeForce RTX Laptops, Steam cash and more from the comfort of home with #RTXPowersPlay

For a complete run down of all of these announcements, read on, and click through to our dedicated articles for even more detail about each.

If you’re at Gamescom, you can go hands-on with RTX games, check out exclusive presentations, grab GeForce RTX 50 Series Founders Edition graphics cards at European RRPs, snag GeForce Trading cards, and more. Find all of the details here, to ensure you don’t miss out at the world’s biggest gaming expo.

Building upon the major advancements introduced with NVIDIA DLSS 4.5, including a 2nd generation Super Resolution transformer model, Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, 6X Multi Frame Generation, and an enhanced Frame Generation model, we’re excited to announce that DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction is available now, adding a new 2nd generation transformer model, delivering superior image quality in ray-traced and path-traced games.

DLSS Ray Reconstruction is a neural rendering technique for all GeForce RTX GPUs that improves image quality in ray-traced and path-traced games. Replacing traditional hand-tuned denoisers, it uses an NVIDIA supercomputer-trained AI network to generate higher-quality pixels in the parts of a ray traced frame where rays were not sampled. The model is unified with DLSS Super Resolution, intelligently analyzing temporal and spatial engine data to reconstruct sharper, more stable, and higher-fidelity high-resolution images.

DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction features a new 2nd generation transformer model to deliver even better image quality in ray-traced and path-traced games. It is available now via a new NVIDIA app update, introducing several major improvements:

• Efficient Denoiser: The new model delivers 35% more compute capability, and processes 20% more parameters, while maintaining similar performance to the previous model
• Enhanced Super Resolution: Building upon the advances from DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution, the model has deeper spatial awareness across every scene, and more intelligently uses game engine pixel sampling and motion data. The result is improved lighting accuracy, better temporal stability and clearer motion in ray-traced and path-traced content
• Expanded Training Dataset: Trained on a larger dataset, the new model is even better at image reconstruction. This intelligence gives the model even better awareness to pick the most accurate engine data to reconstruct scenes closer to ground truth
• Finer Developer Control: The new model provides developers with finer control for temporal accumulation, providing precise tuning of model response for even better image quality

To upgrade your system with DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, go to Settings > About in the NVIDIA app and opt in to Early Access releases (an official release will follow in September).

Once installed:

• Open the “Graphics” section and select a supported game (alternatively, select “Global Settings” at the top of the window and apply the updated Ray Reconstruction to every supported game in your library)
• Scroll to “Driver Settings”
• Click “DLSS Override - Model Presets”
• Click “Custom”
• Open the “Ray Reconstruction” drop-down and choose “Recommended” or “Preset F”
• Click “Apply”

Our new NVIDIA app update also adds per-game controls for Resizable BAR in Driver Settings for all games and apps, G-SYNC Pulsar settings in System > Display > G-SYNC Pulsar, Borderless Windowed mode support for Optimal Playable Settings, and a few other user-requested quality of life tweaks that are detailed in full in the release notes.

DLSS 4.5 and RTX technologies are available in the overwhelming majority of this year’s major upcoming releases. At Gamescom, we made a number of exciting announcements, and released new, exclusive trailers for the following games:

• 007 First Light’s path tracing and DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction update launches September 15th, adding to its slate of advanced tech, which already includes DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution and Dynamic Multi Frame Generation
• AION 2: Watch a new DLSS 4.5 trailer from the free-to-play MMO that launches in the West on September 30th
• ANANTA: Watch a new DLSS 4.5 trailer from the upcoming open-world RPG that’s also launching with ray tracing
• Aniimo: Watch a new trailer from the animal-catching RPG, which will launch with DLSS 4.5, and later add NVIDIA ACE, for natural interaction with your creatures
• Beautiful Light: Watch the debut DLSS 4.5 and ray tracing trailer from the upcoming PvPvPvE extraction shooter
• Black State: Watch a new DLSS 4.5 and ray tracing gameplay trailer from this massively anticipated shooter
• CINDER CITY: Watch a new DLSS 4.5 and ray tracing trailer from the upcoming tactical shooter
• CONTROL Resonant’s new path tracing and DLSS 4.5 gameplay video gives you a fresh look at this anticipated title, and it is now bundled with select GeForce RTX graphics cards, laptops and PCs
• Fragmentary Order: Watch a new DLSS 4.5 gameplay video from the upcoming tactical sci-fi FPS, also launching with DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction and ray tracing
• Gears of War: E-Day is adding RTX Mega Geometry, enhancing ray tracing on GeForce RTX GPUs, which also benefit from full support for DLSS 4.5
• Silver Palace: Watch the debut ray-traced trailer from this upcoming ARPG, also launching with DLSS 4.5

Click the links above to jump straight to each announcement and trailer.

Remedy Entertainment’s CONTROL Resonant is launching September 24th, and is now bundled with select GeForce RTX GPUs, laptops and PCs.

At launch, CONTROL Resonant on GeForce RTX systems will include our complete suite of DLSS 4.5 enhancements, plus immersive path-traced effects, building on the incredible ray-traced tech debuted in the original CONTROL.

DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction will further refine image quality, while also accelerating frame rates, and Dynamic Multi Frame Generation will multiply performance, enabling GeForce RTX 50 Series players to experience CONTROL Resonant at its very best, with incredible visuals and fast frame rates.

Classic PC games are remembered for their incredible stories, characters and gameplay, but dated visuals can make them tough for modern players to enjoy. NVIDIA RTX Remix changes that. Built for RTX PCs, this modding platform uses cutting-edge path tracing to completely reimagine timeless titles, letting longtime fans and a new generation experience era-defining games in stunning detail.

That’s exemplified today by the release of a new Painkiller RTX update, and the debut of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind RTX, two community-made mods that add DLSS-accelerated path tracing to much-loved games.

Additionally, modders can now enable DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction and Multi Frame Generation in their creations, further enhancing image quality with better lighting accuracy on all GeForce RTX GPUs.

To learn more, and to download Painkiller RTX, head on over to our NVIDIA RTX Remix article.

NVIDIA is bringing the next wave of RTX gaming to Gamescom with support for new games, anti-cheat technologies and increased visual quality.

Electronic Arts, Embark and Ubisoft are among the latest game publishers and developers bringing blockbuster titles to NVIDIA RTX Spark ahead of its launch this Fall. They join the publishers that announced RTX Spark support at COMPUTEX in May, including KRAFTON, NetEase, Riot Games and XBOX.

NVIDIA is working closely with game developers and ecosystem partners to ensure today’s top PC games, including EA SPORTS F1® 25 and Apex Legends, Ubisoft’s Anno 117: Pax Romana, and Embark Studios’ ARC Raiders and THE FINALS, run seamlessly on RTX Spark devices.

“We’re excited to bring Anno 117: Pax Romana to a new generation of RTX-powered PCs,” said Stéphane Jankowski, Ubisoft executive producer of Anno 117 : Pax Romana. “Our teams build the game to be seen wide: full districts, long sightlines, thousands of details at once. Seeing RTX Spark hold that level of fidelity from a single chip is genuinely impressive.”

RTX Spark reinvents personal computing, bringing personal AI agents, advanced content creation and high-performance gaming together in a platform engineered from the ground up for the next wave of Windows PCs. For gamers, RTX Spark combines Windows devices with NVIDIA RTX technologies, including DLSS and Reflex.

Bringing Anti-Cheat To RTX Spark

Supporting modern PC gaming goes beyond running the game itself. Many of today’s biggest online games rely on sophisticated anti-cheat technologies, to enable fair play across the multiple platforms these games run on.

NVIDIA has been working with EA to bring native EA Javelin Anticheat support to RTX Spark, including EA’s biggest multiplayer games, such as EA SPORTS F1® 25. RTX Spark launches this Fall.

GeForce NOW is the premier cloud gaming service, enabling you to play PC games you own on a variety of devices, including outdated PCs and laptops, handhelds like the Steam Deck, Macs, phones, tablets, and TVs.

The latest and most advanced games can be enjoyed at max settings, with ray tracing, path tracing, and DLSS 4.5. And high speed action games and shooters can be streamed at up to 360 FPS.

Today, GeForce NOW is bringing members more ways to play with the announcement of new features:

• New DLSS 4.5 controls will soon give members more choice over how supported games look and perform with DLSS Super Resolution, Dynamic Frame Generation and Ray Reconstruction
• Steam Machine and Steam Controller support is coming later this year for Steam Deck and Steam Machines, and later for Windows and macOS, building upon the previous addition of Steam Deck support
• GOG single sign-on is now live, enabling you to link your GOG account once, sync supported games from your library, and launch them with a single click every time after
• Firefox is now officially supported, opening up another way to jump into high-performance PC gaming straight from your browser
• Later this year, GeForce NOW will expand support to more Fire TV Sticks, including the new Fire TV Stick 4K Select, bringing GeForce RTX-powered PC gaming to the biggest screens in your home
• Fire TV users will be able to purchase GeForce NOW memberships directly through Amazon, creating an even more seamless path from setup to gameplay, all within your Amazon account
• This year's biggest PC releases, including CONTROL Resonant, Gears of War: E-Day, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, The Blood of Dawnwalker, and STAR WARS Zero Company™ will all be available to stream from day one on GeForce NOW

For further details, keep an eye out for this week’s GFN Thursday blog.

G-SYNC Pulsar gaming displays deliver the ultimate motion clarity. Through variable frequency backlight pulsing, G-SYNC Pulsar multiplies the effective motion clarity of the display, giving you perceived clarity comparable to a display with a much higher refresh rate. It significantly increases the visibility of content in motion, and greatly improves fidelity, tracking and target acquisition.

Videos captured by a pursuit camera recording Counter-Strike 2 running identically on a G-SYNC monitor with and without G-SYNC Pulsar

Press and specialist reviews have lauded G-SYNC Pulsar gaming displays:

• “With Nvidia's G-Sync Pulsar tech, blurry gaming visuals go bye-bye.” - PCWorld
• “Again, the clarity difference under motion was undeniable. One was hard to parse under fast movement, the other, completely legible, whether focusing on details or looking at a moving scene overall.” - PC Gamer
• “Regardless of which test scenario I threw at this monitor, I was quite impressed by the difference that Pulsar made, especially at lower frame rates.” - Battle(non)sense

Each of the G-SYNC Pulsar displays released earlier this year featured a 27-inch 2560x1440 panel. At Gamescom, AGON by AOC has unveiled the 31.5-inch, 5120x2880 AGP327KG, running natively at 144Hz. It combines the ultimate motion clarity of G-SYNC Pulsar with a larger and higher-resolution panel, for gamers wanting a more immersive display and the increased detail delivered by higher-res rendering.

The AGP327KG also includes G-SYNC Ambient Adaptive Technology, using a built-in light sensor to give users the option to automatically tune color temperature and/or brightness based on the ambient lighting in the room, for optimal viewing at any hour of the day or night.

AGON by AOC are showcasing the AGP327KG at Gamescom 2026, letting attendees experience the new 5K G-SYNC Pulsar gaming monitor at the AGON by AOC booth.

If you already use a G-SYNC Pulsar display, or are intending to purchase the new AGON model, you’ll be happy to hear that controls for G-SYNC Pulsar functions are now available via our newest NVIDIA app Early Access beta update, having previously only been available through each monitor’s on-screen display. A full release for the update will follow in September.

At Gamescom our partners have unveiled new G-SYNC Compatible gaming monitors, giving buyers even more choice. Below are new models from ASUS and LG, and for a complete list of all G-SYNC and G-SYNC Compatible monitors, displays and TVs, head to the G-SYNC homepage.

ASUS ROG has just unveiled the ROG Swift OLED PG259QWS Ace, ROG Strix OLED XG259QDPG Ace and ROG Strix OLED XG259QDNS Ace.

The ROG Swift OLED PG259QWS Ace boosts the Tandem WOLED panel’s refresh rate to 700Hz at 1920x1080. As for the two other new displays, the XG259QDPG is a 24.5-inch QD-OLED running at up to 540Hz at 1920x1080, while the XG259QDNS runs at up to 360Hz, also on a 24.5-inch QD-OLED panel.

Earlier this year, LG announced the 25G590B-B, a new $999 24.5-inch, 1000Hz, IPS, 1920x1080 gaming monitor that’s available to pre-order in most regions, with shipping starting in early September in the United States. Overclockable to up to 1100Hz via DisplayPort 2.1, LG states that the 25G590B-B is the world’s first native 1000Hz 1080p display, and for serious players, the height-adjustable stand has adjustment scales, allowing you to dial in your setup.

Can’t make it to Gamescom? We’ve got you covered! Be sure to follow NVIDIA GeForce social channels as we share the hype from the show’s biggest announcements, and of course, chances to win big with prizes such as GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, epic free PCs, GeForce RTX Laptops, Steam cash and more using #RTXPowersPlay!

Stay tuned to GeForce.com throughout the year, where you can learn about new DLSS and RTX game enhancements, new drivers, new features, new AI innovations, and much more.