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Broadcast Pro
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Broadcast Pro
Nvidia DLSS 4 boosts ‘Dune: Awakening' performance, adds path tracing to F1 25
'Dune: Awakening' features full support for NvidiaA DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, along with DLSS Frame Generation, DLSS Super Resolution, and Nvidia Reflex, which cuts PC latency by up to 50%. Nvidia has announced that DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation is delivering major performance boosts in Dune: Awakening, while EA SPORTS F1 25 launches with full support for Nvidia's advanced suite of DLSS technologies, including Ray Reconstruction and Multi Frame Generation. Funcom's highly anticipated Dune: Awakening invites players into a detailed version of Arrakis, inspired by Frank Herbert's novels and Denis Villeneuve's acclaimed films. The game blends survival mechanics with large-scale multiplayer elements, offering players a chance to rise from basic survival to power on the harshest planet in the universe. Available now in Advanced Access for Deluxe and Ultimate Edition owners, the game's general release is set for June 10. The title integrates Nvidia DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, Frame Generation, Super Resolution, and Reflex, which reduces system latency by up to 50%. Gamers using the Nvidia app can also upgrade DLSS Super Resolution to a new transformer-based AI model for enhanced image clarity. With DLSS 4 and Super Resolution enabled, frame rates in Dune: Awakening are increased by an average of 4.9 times at 4K resolution with maximum settings. Meanwhile, EA SPORTS F1 25, the official video game of the 2025 FIA Formula One World Championship, has debuted on PC with cutting-edge path-traced effects, significantly raising the bar for visual realism. GeForce RTX GPU users can activate DLSS Ray Reconstruction to replace traditional denoisers with a single AI model, delivering a more stable and detailed ray tracing experience. GeForce RTX 50 Series players can take full advantage of DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation for performance gains, while RTX 40 Series users benefit from DLSS Frame Generation, and all RTX GPU owners can utilise DLSS Super Resolution. When all three DLSS technologies are combined, performance in F1 25 is multiplied by up to 7.9 times at 4K Ultra High settings with path tracing, even during demanding in-game conditions like a nighttime race on a wet Bahrain track with 20 competing cars.
TECHx
a day ago
- Entertainment
- TECHx
NVIDIA DLSS 4 Boosts Dune: Awakening and F1 25
Home » Emerging technologies » Gaming » NVIDIA DLSS 4 Boosts Dune: Awakening and F1 25 NVIDIA has announced that NVIDIA DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation is now enhancing performance in two major PC titles. These include Dune: Awakening and EA SPORTS F1 25 . According to NVIDIA, Dune: Awakening now supports DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation. It also includes DLSS Frame Generation, DLSS Super Resolution, and NVIDIA Reflex. This combination significantly improves gameplay performance and image quality. Funcom's Dune: Awakening delivers a visually rich recreation of Arrakis. The game blends survival gameplay with persistent multiplayer features. Players can explore the universe inspired by Frank Herbert's novels and Denis Villeneuve's films. It is currently available in Advanced Access for Deluxe and Ultimate edition buyers. The general release is scheduled for June 10. NVIDIA reported that enabling DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation alongside DLSS Super Resolution can multiply frame rates by 4.9X on 4K with max settings. Reflex support also reduces PC latency by up to 50%. Additionally, EA and Codemasters revealed that EA SPORTS F1 25 supports the full suite of DLSS technologies. The title marks the first use of path-traced effects in the franchise, delivering heightened realism and immersion. Players with GeForce RTX GPUs can enable DLSS Ray Reconstruction. This feature replaces traditional denoisers with an AI model, enhancing the fidelity of ray tracing. Moreover, the game supports: DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation on RTX 50 Series DLSS Frame Generation on RTX 40 Series All RTX users can utilize DLSS Super Resolution. NVIDIA revealed that using all three DLSS technologies together can multiply performance by up to 7.9X on RTX 50 Series GPUs. This boost was tested during a wet night race in Bahrain with 20 cars at 4K Ultra High settings. These updates reinforce NVIDIA's ongoing focus on AI-powered graphics and performance optimization.
Web Release
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Web Release
NVIDIA DLSS 4 Powers Dune: Awakening with Multi-Frame Generation, Brings Path Tracing to F1 25
NVIDIA DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation is multiplying performance in Dune: Awakening. Additionally, EA SPORTS F1 25 is now available, featuring path tracing and support for the full suite of DLSS technologies, including Ray Reconstruction and Multi Frame Generation. Featuring a stunningly rendered recreation of Arrakis, Funcom's much-anticipated Dune: Awakening allows players to immerse themselves in the rich and imaginative world created by Frank Herbert and brought to life by Denis Villeneuve and Legendary Entertainment's award-winning movies. Rise from survival to dominance on Arrakis, the most dangerous planet in the universe, in a game that combines the grit and creativity of sandbox survival games with the social interactivity of a large, persistent multiplayer game. Following its launch in Advanced Access for Deluxe and Ultimate edition buyers, the general release is on June 10th. Dune: Awakening includes support for NVIDIA DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, DLSS Frame Generation, DLSS Super Resolution, and NVIDIA Reflex, which reduces PC latency up to 50%. Using the NVIDIA app , DLSS Super Resolution can be upgraded to the enhanced transformer AI model for better image quality. Enabling DLSS 4 with MFG in conjunction with DLSS Super Resolution multiplies frame rates by an average of 4.9X at 4K, max settings. EA SPORTS invites players to take the lead as a new chapter of Formula 1 begins with EA SPORTS F1 25 , an official game of the 2025 FIA Formula One World Championship. On PC, F1 25 introduces path-traced effects for the first time, taking the game's ray-traced effects to the next level, radically improving realism and immersion. Using a GeForce RTX GPU, F1 25 players can activate DLSS Ray Reconstruction , replacing traditional ray tracing and path tracing denoisers with a unified AI model that greatly increases the fidelity and stability of ray tracing and path tracing, giving all GeForce RTX gamers a better experience. Additionally, GeForce RTX 50 Series owners can activate DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation to multiply performance while GeForce RTX 40 Series owners can accelerate frame rates with DLSS Frame Generation, and all GeForce RTX gamers can use DLSS Super Resolution. Using DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, DLSS Ray Reconstruction, and DLSS Super Resolution, performance multiplies by an average of 7.9X on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs at 4K with Ultra High settings and path tracing during a race around a wet Bahrain circuit at night with 20 cars.
The Independent
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Dune Awakening swamped by 100,000 early access players ahead of launch
Dune Awakening isn't technically out yet, but that hasn't stopped almost 100,000 eager players from jumping into the massively multiplayer online game during its early access period. Officially launching on 10 June, Dune Awakening has you exploring the sandy wilderness of Arrakis. Developed by Funcom, creators of Conan: Exiles, the MMO allows players to fully immerse themselves in Frank Herbert's revived and genre-defining science-fiction universe. Dune Awakening is set to launch on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X and S, and sees players assume the role of The Sleeper, a jobbing freelancer set loose in the desert world of Arrakis to form alliances, join guilds, fight for control of regions, and avoid the sci-fi series' behemoth sandworms. First teased in 2023, Dune Awakening is finally approaching a full release. Players who paid extra can jump into the game early, and almost 100,000 players have joined, leading to server overloads and connection problems – and a lot of negative Steam reviews. Ready to get sand in your stillsuit? Here's everything we know about Dune Awakening so far. Dune Awakening release date Dune Awakening launches on PC, PS5, Xbox Series S and X on Tuesday, 10 June. Players who pre-ordered Dune Awakening and paid for advanced access can start playing now, ahead of the game's full release. What is Dune Awakening about? While stylistically similar to the most recent Dune movies, Dune Awakening draws as much from the classic Frank Herbert books as it does the recent Timothée Chalamet-fronted blockbusters. Pitting you as a lone wanderer in the desert world of Arrakis, Dune Awakening is a mixture of open-world survival and multiplayer combat. Starting out with nothing but a scrap knife, you'll attack enemy camps to loot the materials needed to expand your armoury, build new tools, vehicles and weapons, and expand your guild's camp to grow your power and influence. The IMAX-scale of Arrakis can also be felt in the giant sandstorms that rage across the game world, as well as those iconic sandworms – skyscraper-sized monsters that burst from the dunes and must be avoided at all costs.
The Herald Scotland
26-04-2025
- Politics
- The Herald Scotland
Lord Gove of … where? Is this some kind of joke?
I must admit though that my first reaction on hearing Lord Gove would be Lord Gove of Torry was that the words don't belong together: Lord and Torry. I know Torry well – half my family are from there – and it's not a place that's very lordly, thank goodness. And despite only missing out by one letter, it's never been a Tory sort of place either. So a Tory calling himself Torry felt at first like a bit of a bad-taste joke, and judging by the vox-pops journalists did in the area, some of the people of Torry feel the same way. But then I thought about it some more and the scepticism I felt about a Lord called Torry started to turn into something else. It's nice that Mr Gove wants to pay respect to his parents – as I say, it's a reason to like him a bit more. There must also be a (small, very small) hope that when he gets to the House of Lords, his name will bring some attention to what's going on in the place he's named after, and other areas like it. Torry has suffered, is suffering, and it's frustrating that we're still making the same mistakes and making things worse, in Aberdeen, and elsewhere. In Torry's case, the mistakes go back a long way. Down near where Mr Gove's dad used to have his fish business is Old Torry, or what used to be Old Torry. The community was demolished in the 1970s, during the oil boom, to make way for an expansion of the harbour and it happened despite the objections of the people who lived there. The objections weren't listened to and it looked a lot like the interests of the people who lived in Torry mattered less than the interests of the people who didn't (this will be a theme). Exactly the same thing has happened more recently. Drive into Torry down the hill on Wellington Road and the one thing you can't miss is the new incinerator, sitting there all ugly and giant and hungry like one of Frank Herbert's sandworms. What it eats is rubbish from the better-off parts of Aberdeen which is bussed here then burnt. They tell us it'll provide 'energy from waste' but when the folk of Torry said they didn't want the incinerator, they were ignored. In other words, same-old same-old: the interests of the people who live in deprived communities matter less than the interests of the people who don't, and it's the people in the deprived communities who live with the consequences. Read more There are lots of other examples. Like Torry's Walker Road primary, my old school as it happens, which is shut and neglected and probably doomed. And Victoria Road school just up the road which is in an even worse state: reduced by neglect and decay and vandals and fire and the desire of the council to demolish and be shot of it even though there's a perfectly realistic plan to turn the building into affordable housing. Communities like Torry need communal buildings more than most, but they are more likely to lose them. Another couple of examples. You may have heard about the plans to develop and industrialise Torry's St Fittick's Park. We're told it will become an 'energy transition zone', which is a similar euphemism to 'energy from waste', so let me translate: it means a large part of the park will go and an industrial estate will go up in its place. Would this happen to a park in a wealthier part of town? Of course not. Then there's the reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete – Raac to you and me – the cheap, lightweight and now dangerous material that was used in buildings for decades including hundreds of houses in Torry. The council has told the people affected that their homes will be pulled down, but the compensation they've been offered is pathetic and won't get them a similar home elsewhere. The residents say, very reasonably: give us a fair price; they also say there's been no compassion or empathy, just an order to get out. (Image: Protesters at the incinerator) All of this does get me down a bit. Torry is a fine example of what old Victorian granite could create, but a lot of its architecture has been demolished and neglected. Torry has also been dumped with a lot of the consequences of development that benefits other places: the oil terminals that flattened Old Torry, the incinerator that burns other people's rubbish. To make matters worse, opportunities to support and protect the community, such as converting the old schools into homes, have also been missed or ignored. One of the big problems – and you see it in other cities too – is that time and again, the authorities get away with dumping bad decisions on places like Torry because places like Torry don't have the same number of pushy, well-connected people that the posher suburbs have. Torry has its champions of course – I know some of them and they're brilliant – but governments and councils and businesses have always found it easier to ignore deprived communities because they just don't know a lot of the people who live there. But maybe the creation of a new lord with the word Torry in his name is a chance to disrupt things a bit. I don't know if Mr Gove has thought about his new title as anything more than a tribute to his parents and if he hasn't, that's fine. But what I'd say is this: suddenly, out of the blue, a pushy, well-connected person has a connection with Torry. So perhaps he could come up and look around, and perhaps he could speak to local people, and perhaps he could say something in the House of Lords, or write about it in his magazine. A new Lord of Torry is a chance to push for a little bit of change; it would be great if the lord took it.
