Tuesday, October 8th 2024

NVIDIA DLSS Comes To FragPunk, Silent Hill 2 and More

More than 600 games and applications feature RTX technologies, and each week new games integrating NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex and advanced ray-traced effects are released or announced, delivering the definitive PC experience for GeForce RTX players. This week the FragPunk beta kicks off, with DLSS 3 and a suite of ray-traced effects, Simulakros and Starship Troopers: Extermination launch with DLSS 3, and the much-anticipated SILENT HILL 2 arrives with day-one support for DLSS Super Resolution. Additionally, you can check out a new DLSS 3 performance video showcasing God of War Ragnarök running on GeForce RTX, and a new one-of-a-kind LEGO Fortnite inspired RTX PC featuring a GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER.
FragPunk Closed Beta Begins October 10th, Featuring Ray Tracing, Reflex & DLSS 3
Bad Guitar Studio's FragPunk is a fast-paced 5v5 hero shooter with powerup cards that change the rules of each round! Choose your hero, your weapons, and pick from a selection of cards that dramatically change the rules of engagement. No two rounds of FragPunk are ever the same. Discover over 100 Shard Cards with an activatable selection that changes every round creating new and unique combinations that create infinite possibilities.

Each round lasts about 2.5 minutes, so get a move on! The short TTK means you will have a more exhilarating gaming experience. Pick between 12 heroes with diverse abilities, customize your weapon combination, choose your cards, and get ready for a fight!

On October 10th at 22:00 GMT, the FragPunk closed beta begins - head to the FragPunk Steam page and sign-up now for a chance to be invited. If you're granted access to this highly anticipated shooter, you can activate an array of ray-traced effects, DLSS Frame Generation, and DLSS Super Resolution to accelerate performance significantly, as well as NVIDIA Reflex to make gameplay even more responsive.

In the closed beta, GeForce RTX gamers can leverage their GPU's dedicated Ray Tracing Cores to enable and accelerate ray-traced transparent reflections, ray-traced opaque reflections, ray-traced ambient occlusion, and ray-traced shadows, greatly enhancing FragPunk's visuals.

To ensure your frame rates remain super high, activate DLSS 3 with Frame Generation to increase performance by 2.8X on average at 4K, with every setting enabled and maxed out. Play the FragPunk closed beta on the GeForce RTX 4070 and GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER at over 100 FPS, hit 140 FPS on the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, play at nearly 160 FPS on the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, and on the GeForce RTX 4090, the world's fastest consumer graphics card, GeForce RTX gamers receive the definitive experience, running at over 200 FPS with each option set to its absolute highest.

At 2560x1440, DLSS 3's AI powered tech multiplies FragPunk frame rates by an average of 2X, enabling every GeForce RTX 40 Series GPU to play with maxed out settings and ray tracing at over 90 FPS. On the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, and GeForce RTX 4090, PC gamers can play at over 200 FPS for the best possible competitive gaming experience at 1440p, which is the resolution of choice for many esports players.

At 1920x1080, FragPunk frame rates exceed 350 FPS on the all-powerful GeForce RTX 4090 thanks to a 1.9X DLSS boost, and are locked at over 140 FPS on the GeForce RTX 4060, with every setting maxed and ray tracing enabled.

Additionally, GeForce gamers can activate NVIDIA Reflex in FragPunk. This game changing technology reduces system latency on GeForce graphics cards and laptops, so your actions occur quicker, giving you a competitive edge in multiplayer matches and making single-player titles more responsive and enjoyable.

In the FragPunk closed beta, enabling Reflex with a few clicks sees system latency reduced, further improving the PC experience for GeForce gamers.

Since its debut in September 2020, NVIDIA Reflex has reduced system latency in over 120 games, and over 90% of GeForce gamers have enabled Reflex. 9 of the top 10 competitive shooters feature Reflex support, along with critically acclaimed co-op and single-player games. In 2023 alone, GeForce gamers played over 10 billion hours of their favorite titles with increased responsiveness thanks to Reflex's innovative system latency reducing technology.

Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2 from KONAMI and Bloober.

Simulakros Out October 10th With DLSS 3 & Reflex, Download The Demo Today

Enter a futuristic world of robots and advanced AI in Dear Villagers and Sirio Games' Simulakros, a fast-paced third-person shooter with rogue-lite elements. The CORP seeks to develop the ultimate weapon: the Simulakros unit. It's up to you and a mysterious hacker to disrupt their plans, by turning their deadly combat androids against them.

On GeForce RTX 40 Series PCs and laptops, gamers can enable DLSS Frame Generation, DLSS Super Resolution, and NVIDIA Reflex, accelerating Simulakros' performance and making gameplay even more responsive when it launches October 10th on Steam and the Epic Games Store. Before then, head to Steam and download the Simulakros demo, which features the same suite of GeForce technology as the complete game.

Starship Troopers: Extermination Exits Early Access October 11th, Featuring DLSS 3
Offworld Industries' Starship Troopers: Extermination is a 16-player co-op first-person shooter. Join the Deep Space Vanguard, an elite Special Forces branch of the Mobile Infantry, in the fight against the Bug menace and claim victory for humanity! Retake and rebuild bases, construct refineries, and complete a variety of other side objectives to wrest control of the planet away from the Bug menace. Massive, detailed maps with several unique zones add to the incredible replayability, and swarm-based combat with hundreds of enemy Bugs on screen delivers the sense of taking part in an overwhelming planetary struggle.

Offworld's innovative Carnage system means that the bug corpses persist even after death. Watch thousands of bugs pile up, changing the landscape and leaving a permanent scar on the battlefield.

Casper Van Dien reprises his role as General Johnny Rico in the Special Operations Group (S.O.G.), a solo play mode sees the player undertake a multitude of missions dispatched by the General himself as he brings together the best of the best from Spec Ops divisions within the UCF for top-secret assignments.

God of War Ragnarök Out Now With DLSS 3 & Reflex
From Santa Monica Studio, and brought to PC in partnership with Jetpack Interactive, comes God of War Ragnarök, an epic and heartfelt journey that follows Kratos and Atreus as they struggle with holding on and letting go.

The sequel to the critically acclaimed God of War (2018), God of War Ragnarök picks up with Fimbulwinter well underway. Kratos and Atreus must journey to each of the Nine Realms in search of answers as Odin's forces in Asgard prepare for a prophesied battle that will end the world. Along the way, they will explore stunning, mythical landscapes, and face fearsome enemies in the form of Norse gods and monsters. As the threat of Ragnarök grows ever closer, Kratos and Atreus must choose between the safety of their family and the safety of the realms.

God of War Ragnarök is available now on PC. If you own a GeForce RTX 40 Series GPU or laptop, you can activate DLSS 3 Frame Generation, DLSS Super Resolution and NVIDIA Reflex from day one, further enhancing your experience.
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