What You Need To Know About DLSS 5 - WAN Show August 28, 2026

**Luke Lafreniere** (0:01)
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**Linus Sebastian** (0:26)
Well, that was bound to happen. What's up, everybody?
Welcome to The WAN Show! Happy Friday! We've got a great show lined up for you guys this week. Meta has agreed to heavy restrictions on teen users in a major settlement, and it could have far-reaching effects even beyond Meta's own products. I forget what we went with for the title of today's video, so I'm gonna go with China has joined Europe in scrapping Windows in favor of Linux. I don't think they were paying for Windows, but hey, still, pretty big deal. What else we got going on this week?

**SPEAKER_3** (1:12)
Well, he took my primary topic, of course, but Chinese memory firm CXMT relied on leaked Samsung technology to skip years of R&D, apparently.

**Luke Lafreniere** (1:22)
No!

**SPEAKER_3** (1:23)
That makes a lot of sense. Also this guy.

**Luke Lafreniere** (1:25)
No!

**Dan** (1:26)
Not China!

**Linus Sebastian** (1:29)
They wouldn't!

**Luke Lafreniere** (1:33)
No!

**SPEAKER_3** (1:34)
This is his application to the worldwide version of Billy Billy.

**Linus Sebastian** (1:43)
I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm applying for an acting school that specializes in incredulity.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:48)
Oh, there you go, there you go.

**Linus Sebastian** (1:49)
No!

**SPEAKER_3** (1:51)
Speaking of incredulity, this guy used the new DLSS.

**Linus Sebastian** (1:56)
I did. I tried DLSS 5 today, and I would like-

**SPEAKER_3** (1:59)
He's got thoughts about it.

**Linus Sebastian** (2:00)
I'd like to talk about that. Yeah. Oh, my God.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:18)
He made a couch.

**Linus Sebastian** (2:28)
Why were there two Luke's?

**Dan** (2:29)
The show is, oh, I got so confused.

**Linus Sebastian** (2:31)
The show, I forgot to say who the show is brought to you by.
The show is brought to you by AMD, XSplit, Infinite Cables, and DeltaHub, of course, alongside our RAP partner Dbrand, our laptop partner Dell, and our chair partner Razer. I'd actually like to take a moment to talk about these new Dell machines. They feel nice.

**Dan** (2:54)
They feel really nice.

**Linus Sebastian** (2:55)
Dan, do you have the model of them?

**Dan** (2:56)
Cause I do not. They only arrived on my desk yesterday.

**Linus Sebastian** (3:00)
Okay, I don't even see any talking points for them or anything.

**Dan** (3:03)
No.

**Linus Sebastian** (3:04)
And the logos are so subtle that if I didn't tell you that it was a Dell and catch the light just right, I wouldn't even know that it was. Weird product placement Dell, but definitely appreciated. The keyboard and trackpad are quite nice.

**Dan** (3:17)
It was also super easy to set up. Normally I have such problems getting them to output a different resolution than what displays internally.
Super easy. Also the intro used actual Minecraft Noteblocks for the song.

**Linus Sebastian** (3:31)
Did it?

**Dan** (3:32)
Cool.

**Linus Sebastian** (3:32)
Wow, great job, Noke. That was truly incredible. And wow, Noke, did you help with this new WAN logo? No, I'm just kidding. This is much too terrible to have been Noke. This must have been you.
Thanks, Luke. He made it last week. Why don't we jump-

**SPEAKER_3** (3:46)
I am proved. Is XPS 14 something? It's really hard to read. It's on the bottom.

**Linus Sebastian** (3:51)
Why don't we jump right into our first topic, which is of course the big leak. Within hours of NBA 2K27 shipping out early access copies, modders of the Renault DX community discovered a never before seen library called NVNGX underscore DLSSNRDLL, which unlocked access to DLSS5 ahead of the fall release. Well, as you can imagine, pretty quickly, modders got DLSS5 running on other games like Control, and within a day, it has spread like absolute wildfire and is now working on pretty much any game that has DLSS and supplies the vector data that is required for DLSS5's implementation.
It is not perfect, and I tried it today. It's not perfect. The library itself is experimental, so don't expect features like HDR to be fully functional. But what is available is sliders that allow you to play around with things like color and tone mapping of the neural rendering implementation, as well as, I forget what this slider was actually called, but it almost is like the sharpness of the neural, you know, object recognition and sort of enhancement. It's not quite sharpness.