First Leak of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Apparently Makes Games Look and Run Worse
A leaked, unofficial version of Nvidia's DLSS 5 AI-rendering technology has been retrofitted into games by modders, resulting in poor visual quality and reduced frame rates. Nvidia has previously acknowledged that early versions of this neural rendering feature struggled to integrate with standard game rendering pipelines.
Why it matters
This highlights the limitations of AI-driven visual upscaling and the risks of using unoptimized, leaked software in gaming environments.
We haven’t heard or seen much of Nvidia’s derided DLSS 5 since the company first revealed the “neural rendering” feature back in March. We now wish it would have stayed that way. Modders have managed to plug what appears to be a newer, leaked version of the AI-infused visual model into several titles, and, to summarize, it appears to be a crow’s feet and laugh line generator that cuts your frame rate in half.
Modders on the RenoDX Discord server have managed to retrofit a supposed DLSS 5 leak into several modern games. The leak apparently stems from the NBA 2K27 beta, which contained some of these DLSS 5 files inside. You can now see the model running inside a game like Control . Watching all this gameplay and comparing side-by-side shots of games with or without “neural rendering” enabled, we haven’t come away impressed.
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