RTX 500 Celebration Continues: 9 DLSS Games Available This Week & New RTX Trailers For Black Myth: Wukong, Mecha BREAK, and The First Descendant Released

By Andrew Burnes on December 12, 2023 | Featured Stories Frame Generation GeForce RTX GPUs NVIDIA DLSS NVIDIA RTX

Last week, we kicked-off a month-long celebration after passing a milestone years in the making: the release of over 500 #RTXON games and applications. This week, Bethesda joins the fun with a special surprise giveaway.

 

RTX doesn’t stop at 500; even more DLSS games have been released. Call of Duty: Warzone Season 1, SCUM, THE FINALS, and THRONE AND LIBERTY are all available now or out this week with DLSS 3. And Ready or Not, Sands of Aura, Silent Rain, Soulslinger: Envoy of Death, and The Devourer: Hunted Souls are either available now or launching this week with DLSS 2.

Plus, fresh from The Game Awards, we have new RTX trailers for Black Myth: Wukong, Mecha BREAK, and The First Descendant.

Keep reading for the full lowdown.

#RTX500: Celebrate & Win $500 Green Man Gaming Gift Cards, and More

Incredible blockbusters, engrossing indie titles, and your most-played multiplayer games feature RTX technologies, such as stunning ray tracing effects, and performance accelerating DLSS.

If you’ve missed out on any, now’s your chance to catch up - we’re giving away twenty $500 Green Man Gaming gift cards that can be spent on RTX games, or any of the games and DLC their massive store offers.

Additionally, you’ll have a chance to win our much sought-after #RTXON keyboard keycaps!

For a chance to win:

We’ve partnered with Bethesda in 9 RTX titles, including Deathloop, DOOM Eternal, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Redfall, Quake II RTX, The Elder Scrolls Online, and Wolfenstein: Youngblood. To celebrate our RTX collaborations, we’re partnering with Bethesda to give away something very special this week, so please follow our official GeForce social channels to find out how you can enter.

THE FINALS Is Available Now With DLSS 3, DLAA, Reflex & Ray Tracing

Embark Studios’ THE FINALS is a free-to-play shooter set in a highly destructive world, making each match unique. Players form teams of three and enter tournaments that see the lowest-ranked teams dropped, concluding with a one-on-one grand finale for the title of champion. The goal is to collect, carry, and bank boxes of cash - the team with the most cash at the end of the round wins. But team wipes and steals see the pendulum of success swing widely from moment to moment, putting contestants on the edges of their seats each and every match.

 

THE FINALS was recently shadow dropped on Steam in a surprise announcement, giving gamers instant access to environments that can be blown apart by explosives and an arsenal of weapons. As buildings are blown open, and walls come crashing down, the world’s lighting needs to react realistically as light is occluded or disoccluded. To make this a reality, NVIDIA RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) is used to accurately calculate and update light and shadow in real-time on all platforms.

With a GeForce RTX GPU in your PC or laptop, RTXGI can leverage hardware-accelerated ray tracing to produce richer and more realistic global illumination effects. When enabled, you’ll experience light realistically bouncing around the environment, reacting to destruction, and interacting with volumetric fog and smoke. And light and shadow will look even better.

At 4K, DLSS 3 multiplies performance by 2X on average, when ray tracing and every other setting is maxed out, enabling smooth 100+ FPS gameplay on the GeForce RTX 4070 and up, and frame rates of up to 226 FPS on the GeForce RTX 4090, giving you the definitive experience in THE FINALS.

At 2560x1440, performance is boosted by 1.6X on average, enabling all GeForce RTX 40 Series desktop gamers to play THE FINALS at over 100 FPS with max settings:

At 1920x1080, a 1.6X average improvement enables flawless every GeForce RTX 40 Series gamer to play at over 144 FPS, with frame rates hitting an incredible 300-plus on the GeForce RTX 4080 and 4090:

If your performance in THE FINALS is high enough already, you can instead enable NVIDIA DLAA, an AI-based anti-aliasing mode that utilizes the same technology developed for DLSS. DLAA uses a native resolution image to maximize image quality, rather than boosting performance, for an even richer, more detailed experience.

And to make gameplay even more responsive in THE FINALS, all GeForce gamers with GPUs dating back to the GTX 900 Series can enable NVIDIA Reflex, which reduces system latency by up to 57%.

With Reflex, DLSS, and hardware-accelerated ray tracing, GeForce RTX gamers will receive the definitive experience in THE FINALS. See for yourself in our new frag video, leveraging all three technologies to deliver the best gameplay possible:

 

Download THE FINALS on Steam, and install our new Game Ready Driver to further optimize gameplay.

Black Myth: Wukong Launching August 20th, 2024 With DLSS 3, Reflex & Ray Tracing - Watch The New Trailer

Based on the well-known Monkey King mythology, and the 16th Century Journey To The West novel, the Unreal Engine 5-powered Black Myth: Wukong is at the top of many people’s wish lists thanks to the release of jaw-dropping trailers in recent years.

A new trailer is now available to watch, announcing an August 20th, 2024 release for the game. Captured on a GeForce RTX 40 Series PC, the in-game footage utilizes NVIDIA DLSS 3 to multiply performance of its exquisite graphics:

 

You can now wishlist it on Steam and the Epic Games Store.

Mecha BREAK World Premiere Trailer - Launching With DLSS 3 & Ray Tracing

Developed by Seasun Games, Mecha BREAK is a multiplayer mech game that allows players to choose from diverse mechs and battle colossal war machines on treacherous terrain. Get ready for the ultimate showdown in 3v3, 6v6 and Battle Royale modes. Discover an array of assault, melee, sniper, reconnaissance, and support mechs, each with unique playstyles. Engage in immersive aerial and ground combat, employing strategic tactics for close and long-range encounters. Unleash devastating firepower, scorch foes with precision beams, and rain missiles upon the battlefield. Prepare for adrenaline-pumping battles, lightning-fast maneuvers, and explosive firepower. Experience the essence of speed, power, and thrilling controls.

 

Mecha BREAK will be launching with NVIDIA DLSS 3 and ray tracing, giving GeForce RTX gamers the definitive PC experience. Stay tuned for more details.

Call of Duty: Warzone Season 1 Now Available - Warzone Adds DLSS 3

On December 6th, Season 1 for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III and Call of Duty®: Warzone™ went live. Tons of new in-game content was introduced, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and Warzone lobbies added full ray tracing to enhance the appearance of your loadout, characters and vehicles, and Call of Duty: Warzone added support for DLSS 3, following its addition to all other modes and campaigns.

 

For GeForce RTX gamers, Season 1 sees the debut of NVIDIA DLSS 3 in Call of Duty: Warzone. Multiply performance with DLSS 3, enabling many GeForce RTX 40 Series gamers to exceed 120 FPS with max settings activated at 4K:

GeForce RTX 20 Series and 30 Series gamers can boost performance with DLSS Super Resolution. And if performance is high enough already in your opinion, you can instead enable NVIDIA DLAA, an AI-based anti-aliasing mode that utilizes the same technology developed for DLSS. DLAA uses a native resolution image to maximize image quality, rather than boosting performance, for an even richer, more detailed experience.

Additionally, all GeForce gamers, dating back to users of the GeForce GTX 900 Series, can activate NVIDIA Reflex for the lowest latency.

NVIDIA Reflex is synonymous with responsive gaming, and can be found in the latest and greatest games.  Reflex reduces system latency so your actions occur quicker, potentially giving you a competitive edge in multiplayer matches, and making single-player titles more responsive and enjoyable. NVIDIA Reflex is now used by over 50 million players each month, is available in 9 of the top 10 competitive shooters, and is activated by 90% of GeForce gamers in over 90 supported titles.

In Call of Duty: Warzone, NVIDIA Reflex reduces system latency by up to 28%, and combined with the super fast frame rates delivered by DLSS, you can let your skill shine when competing on the battlefields of Urzikstan, Ashika Island and Vondel.

Call of Duty: HQ serves as the hub for all Modern Warfare III content, enabling players to quickly access Multiplayer, Zombies, and the Firing Range. With the launch of Season 1, GeForce RTX gamers can now also activate pre-game full ray tracing, also known as path tracing, in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone’s lobbies, enabling you to see your characters, skins, vehicles, and weapons in an entirely new light.

Full Ray Tracing is a demanding but highly accurate way to render light and its effect on a scene. Reflections, shadows, ambient occlusion, and more are all amped up, letting your Call of Duty content shine with incredible detail and realism. Inspect your Gunsmith weapons with incredible detail, see your characters with pixel-perfect lighting and shadowing, head to the Firing Range to test your beautifully rendered loadouts, and marvel at immersive pre-game moments with you and your assembled squad.

All GeForce RTX gamers can activate Full Ray Tracing via the Video options menu, and doing so will automatically enable NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 with DLSS Ray Reconstruction. Ray Reconstruction replaces hand-tuned ray tracing denoisers with a new unified AI model, elevating the image quality of ray-traced effects and full ray tracing to new heights, further enhancing detail, realism and immersion.

For even faster performance, in Call of Duty lobbies and all available campaigns and modes for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, and Call of Duty: Warzone, activate DLSS Frame Generation, which multiplies frame rates.

Additionally, GeForce RTX 40 Series path tracing performance gets even faster thanks to Activision’s use of Shader Execution Reordering (SER).

Fortnite Chapter 5 Now Available, New Fortnite Experiences Enhanced By DLSS 2 & Reflex

Fortnite’s Unreal Engine 5 upgrade brought astonishing new visuals to the world’s most popular Battle Royale. On GeForce RTX PCs and laptops, Fortnite players can boost performance using DLSS 2, gameplay is even more responsive thanks to NVIDIA Reflex, and ray tracing performance is accelerated significantly using the dedicated RT Cores on each GeForce RTX GPU. 

Chapter 5 of Fortnite Battle Royale brings a beautiful new Island, but not all is what it seems. “The Society” is pulling the strings in secret, and they’ve taken Peely in their spite. Join “The Underground” and take down The Society’s bosses — including its most notorious boss Valeria. To help you out, take the Island’s train, modify your weapons, and use a “Ballistic Shield” while shooting a pistol. Join the fight in Chapter 5 Season 1: Underground!

 

Additionally, there are three new Fortnite experiences, each enhanced and accelerated by DLSS 2, Reflex, and hardware-accelerated ray tracing:

 

Explore vast, open worlds where the magic of LEGO® building and Fortnite collide. Collect food and resources, craft items, build shelter and battle enemies solo or team up with up to seven friends. Get creative in building and customizing your ultimate home base using LEGO® elements collected from the world around you, then recruit villagers to gather materials and help survive the night. Gear up and drop into deep caves in search of rare resources and hidden areas.

 

From the developers of Rocket League comes Rocket Racing, a supersonic arcade racer that lets you drift, fly, and boost with your friends through an ever-growing selection of tracks. In Season Zero, hop into a rocket-powered car and put your skills to the test! Fly through the sky to avoid towering obstacles, take shortcuts, and flip onto walls to blast past your competition. Climb the ranks and unlock new tracks. This is just the start of the race with new Modes, Tracks, Creative Devices, Rewards, and more coming soon in 2024! With a cross-game Vehicle Locker, you'll be able to share your favorite cars between Rocket League and Fortnite.

 

Play in a band with friends or perform solo on stage with hit music by your favorite artists in Fortnite Festival! On the Main Stage, play a featured rotation of Jam Tracks. Compete against friends for the best performance or team up to climb the leaderboards. Explore the Festival Jam Stage to find friends and mix hit music together using the Jam Tracks in your locker. The festival is just beginning with more Jam Tracks, Music Icons, concerts, and stages coming soon. Take your stage in Fortnite Festival!

 

All Fortnite experiences are now available, so jump on in and experience everything new that Fortnite has to offer!

THRONE AND LIBERTY Available Now With DLSS 3 & Reflex

NCSoft’s THRONE AND LIBERTY is a free-to-play MMORPG that takes place in the vast open world of Solisium. You can scale expansive mountain ranges for new vantage points, scan open skies, traverse sprawling plains, and explore a land full of depth and opportunity. Adapt your fight to survive and thrive through strategic decisions in PvP, PvE, or both, as you encounter evolving battlefields impacted by weather, time of day, and other players. There is no single path to victory as you seek to defeat Kazar and claim the throne while keeping rival guilds at bay.  From solo play to large-scale battles, THRONE AND LIBERTY provides a wide spectrum of content, along with guild content that seeks the unique enjoyment of playing together, exclusive to PC MMOs.

 

THRONE AND LIBERTY recently launched in Korea, with a global release following at a later date. On day one, GeForce RTX gamers have been able to accelerate performance with DLSS 3, which includes DLSS Frame Generation, DLSS Super Resolution, and NVIDIA Reflex for improved responsiveness.

In our testing, we found that GeForce RTX 40 Series gamers can multiply performance by an average of 2.6X at 4K thanks to DLSS 3, using max settings, and by an average of 1.9X at 2560x1440 and 1920x1080, enabling all GeForce RTX 40 Series desktop gamers to play at over 60 FPS:

For updates on THRONE AND LIBERTY’s worldwide release, stay tuned to NCSoft and Amazon Games’ websites.

The First Descendant - New DLSS 3-Enhanced Trailer

Nexon Games’ The First Descendant is a free, third-person cooperative action-RPG shooter powered by Unreal Engine 5. Experience the fun of strategic boss fights through 4-player co-op, using an extensive range of unique characters, with exciting gunplay, and looting. Battle through the engrossing story, and tackle World Missions against huge bosses.

Ahead of its launch next year, a new DLSS 3-enhanced trailer for The First Descendant, giving you a fresh look at Nexon’s upcoming game. Check it out below:

 

SCUM Upgrades To DLSS 3 December 14th

SCUM, from Gamepires and Jagex, takes place in a not-too-distant future where prisoners fight for survival and glory as millions of viewers watch at home. SCUM aims to evolve the multiplayer open world survival game with unprecedented levels of character customization, control and progression, where knowledge and skills are the ultimate weapons for long-term survival. Combining the methodical planning and management of hardcore survival with optional PvP ‘network events’ available to everyone at any time, SCUM strikes a unique balance between complex simulation and intense action in this ever-evolving survival game.

 

Having already supported DLSS 2 for some time, SCUM is upgrading to DLSS 3 on December 14th, boosting frame rates on GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs even higher.

Ready or Not Exits Early Access December 13th, Featuring DLSS 2 and Reflex

In VOID Interactive’s Ready or Not, players take on the role of a Los Sueños Police Department SWAT commander dispatched to defuse various high-risk scenarios, including hostage situations, active bomb threats, barricaded suspects, and more. On December 13th, Ready or Not leaves Early Access with a massive 1.0 update, enabling players to dive deep into the immersive single-player campaign – Commander Mode.

The 1.0 release also significantly expands the number of single-player and online cooperative missions, completely overhauls prior missions, and offers much more additional content, customization, and quality of life improvements. At launch, you’ll have 18 missions to tackle with up to five players, dozens of options to customize a player’s entire SWAT team including armor, weapons, apparel, and more, and can immerse yourself in tactical gameplay, with full flexibility to approach situations using authentic equipment that SWAT teams utilize in the field.

 

To accelerate your performance, activate NVIDIA DLSS 2, and to give yourself the tactical edge, enable NVIDIA Reflex, to make the high stakes tactical combat even more responsive.

The Devourer: Hunted Souls Available Now With DLSS 2

Play as a paranormal investigator in ZTEK Studios’ The Devourer: Hunted Souls, a hybrid first-person survival and psychological horror, story-based game. Investigate a haunted forest solo or with up to 5 players in co-op try to lift the curse, experiencing a tragic story together. Will you survive or will you lose your soul?

 

The Devourer: Hunted Souls is available now in Early Access, with support for DLSS 2 for GeForce RTX gamers. You can even try before you buy thanks to the availability of a DLSS 2-enhanced demo.

Sands of Aura Available Now With DLSS 2

Chashu Entertainment and Freedom Games' Sands of Aura is an open-world action adventure with a fantasy setting of a realm in its twilight--a world buried beneath a sea of sand. Sail across the sandseas to return life to a dying world in an unforgettable experience that is equal parts engaging story and unrelenting, souls-like combat.

 

Sands of Aura recently exited Early Access with support for DLSS 2, giving GeForce RTX gamers the fastest levels of performance possible.

Silent Rain Available Now With DLSS 2

Silent Rain is a challenging hide and seek co-op horror game where each try will give you knowledge to go further on your next attempt. Team up with friends or brave the terror alone in this immersive horror experience. Step into the House of Origins, a haunted mansion where every corner holds the presence of an enigmatic doctor who will stop at nothing to capture and kill you.

Explore the mansion's rooms and unravel its mysteries while evading the grasp of the pursuing doctor, making every decision crucial to your survival. Can you unravel the secrets of the haunted mansion and escape the mysterious doctor? Embrace the challenge and discover if you have what it takes to survive in 2Brains&Coffee and Seedlers Interactive's Silent Rain.

 

Silent Rain is available now in Early Access and includes support for DLSS 2, helping GeForce RTX gamers explore the mansion at even faster frame rates.

Soulslinger: Envoy of Death Launching December 14th With DLSS 2 & DLAA

You are a gunslinger in limbo, involved in a gritty war against "The Cartel", a ruthless organization harvesting souls to break free of the shackles of the afterlife in Soulslinger: Envoy of Death from Elder Games and Headup Publishing. Grow stronger with each new run, gather the essence of lost souls to take on the biggest threats in this rogue-lite FPS. Step into the rich and immersive world of Haven, filled with mysterious NPCs who hold the secrets to its dark history. Be wary of the allies and enemies you make as every encounter might shape your journey ahead. In this mesmerizing western-fantasy world, you will experience a tale of grief, loss, and one man's obsession with cheating death itself.

 

Soulslinger: Envoy of Death enters Early Access December 14th with support for both DLSS 2 and DLAA. NVIDIA DLAA is an AI-based anti-aliasing mode that utilizes the same technology developed for DLSS. DLAA uses a native resolution image to maximize image quality, rather than boosting performance, for an even richer experience.

500 RTX Games and Apps and Counting…

Throughout 2023, DLSS and RTX technologies have been integrated into a massive number of games and apps, and each week we’ve shared the news in our RTX articles. In 2024 there’ll be many more integrations and announcements, so be sure to stay tuned to GeForce.com.

In the meantime, check out our previous announcements to see if there’s a great RTX game you’ve missed this year, and head here to see the complete list of over 500 RTX-enhanced games and apps.

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