Each week, we’re bringing you news of the latest DLSS and ray tracing integrations in games and apps. Last week, Forever Skies and Trepang2 launched with DLSS 2, and our Unreal Engine 5.2 DLSS 3 plugin was released, making it even easier for gamers to multiply frame rates.
This week, the highly rated Stranded: Alien Dawn is adding support for DLSS 2, and the new GeForce RTX 4060 goes on sale, giving 1080p gamers high frame rates and detail levels, and up to 100 FPS in the most demanding games courtesy of DLSS 3.
Stranded: Alien Dawn With DLSS 2 Available Now
Haemimont Games and Frontier Foundry's Stranded: Alien Dawn is an engrossing planet survival sim that places the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors, who come under attack from increasingly hostile creatures, while trying to complete the 3 scenarios’ main objectives.
Today, the game’s free Jungle Update arrives on Steam, adding a new region to explore, new gameplay mechanics, and more. For GeForce RTX gamers, the update also includes support for NVIDIA DLSS 2.
TIME BREAKER Available Now With DLSS 2
DLSS 2 and 3 can be added to many games with just a few clicks thanks to engine plugins, giving GeForce RTX gamers faster performance and an even better experience. On Steam, there are dozens of indie games leveraging DLSS 2 and its plugins, including SHK Interactive’s TIME BREAKER, a first-person puzzle game with time control. Players tackle impossible puzzles by thinking how and when the time can be slowed down to complete challenge rooms.
TIME BREAKER also features ray-tracing ambient occlusion, ray-traced reflections, and ray-traced shadows - activate DLSS 2 to accelerate your frame rate and enable you to enjoy all of these effects at high resolutions.
GeForce RTX 4060 Available Now
In May we announced the GeForce RTX 4060 Family, and launched the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti. Today, the GeForce RTX 4060 goes on sale, with prices starting at $299. For gamers playing on previous-gen GPUs, the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture at the heart of the GeForce RTX 4060 delivers a massive upgrade, multiplying your performance, and supercharging creative apps. And thanks to the Ada architecture’s industry-leading efficiency, you’ll use measurably less power, your graphics card will run cooler, and fans will run at quieter speeds or even idle.
“Unleash the GeForce RTX 4060 in Dying Light 2 Stay Human and high frame rates at max settings is no sweat" - Tomasz Szałkowski, Techland. See the performance and efficiency of the new GeForce RTX 4060 in these clips from Dying Light 2 Stay Human, Returnal, and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Based on the May 2023 Steam Hardware Survey, 9 of the top 10 most used GPUs on Steam are 60 Class or lower, and 77% of Steam gamers play at 1080p or lower resolutions. For these gamers, the new GeForce RTX 4060 is a great upgrade, enabling them to play new, more demanding games at 1080p at excellent levels of fidelity. For gamers coming from a GeForce RTX 2060, performance is multiplied by an average of 2.3X across a suite of 18 games, and for GeForce GTX 1060 users, in addition to higher frame rates, they also get ray tracing and DLSS acceleration for the first time.
These substantial improvements enable you to enjoy the majority of games at high frames with max settings including ray tracing. And thanks to NVIDIA DLSS 3, you can experience some of the industry’s most advanced games running at over 100 FPS, at the highest possible detail levels.
Thanks to the Ada architecture’s industry-leading efficiency, the average gamer playing 10-20 hours a week could save a significant amount at recent energy prices, while having a vastly superior gaming experience. In Germany, for example, a gamer playing 20 hours a week could save up to $132 in energy costs over the course of 4 years, when upgrading from an RTX 3060 to an RTX 4060.
Sources: Euronews (Germany, UK), energysage (US)
All GeForce RTX GPU owners can also tap into an ecosystem of apps and technologies to further enhance gaming, work and creativity. Get the fastest ray tracing performance with GeForce RTX 40 Series and its dedicated 3rd gen Ray Tracing Cores. Make gameplay in over 70 titles more responsive with Reflex. Enjoy industry leading Virtual Reality performance, watch and stream with improved clarity thanks to AV1 codec support, enhance your webcam and mic with the free Broadcast app, and eliminate screen tearing with variable refresh rate G-SYNC displays. Get frequent driver updates with a single click via the feature-rich GeForce Experience client, and accelerate your workflows in leading work, productivity and creativity applications with NVIDIA Studio optimizations and enhancements.
Learn more about the GeForce RTX 4060 in our announcement article, and see which GeForce RTX 4060 graphics cards are available in your region on our Product Finder.
See what some of the press have to say about the GeForce RTX 4060:
- “Some games like Cyberpunk 2077 with full ray tracing are challenging for much more expensive cards even at 1080p, but with the wizardry of DLSS 3 and Frame Generation, even the relatively humble RTX 4060 can put on a good show.” - PC Gamer
- “... an excellent mainstream choice for PC gaming, a great little unit that delivers when it comes to 1080p and 1440p gaming and something that takes full advantage of groundbreaking tech like DLSS Super Resolution and Frame Generation.” - TweakTown
- “The Nvidia RTX 4060 is a capable 1080p graphics card with a DLSS 3 punch.” - GamesRadar
Check Back Next Week For Even More RTX Games
Each week there are even more DLSS integrations arriving for an array of games. Check back next week for a rundown of the next DLSS and RTX games, and head here to see the complete list of over 300 DLSS-enhanced games and apps.