NVIDIA DLSS Coming To Back 4 Blood, and Available In 4 Games This Month, Including Escape From Naraka

With NVIDIA DLSS support available in Unreal Engine 4, Unreal Engine 5, and Unity 2021.2 Beta, developers can enable DLSS with a flip of a switch, greatly improving players’ performance and experience while keeping image quality comparable to native across all resolutions, even at 1080p. Over 60 games now support NVIDIA DLSS, and we’re continually improving DLSS’s quality.

Today, we’re announcing that DLSS is coming to Turtle Rock Studios’ much anticipated co-op zombie shooter, Back 4 Blood, at launch. DLSS will also be available this month in Escape From Naraka on July 29th, and has launched in F1^Ⓡ 2021, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Rust this month.

For further details about all of these announcements, read on.

NVIDIA DLSS boasts industry-wide support, with plugins and SDKs available for Unreal Engine 4 and 5, and Unity, and support in over a dozen of the leading first party engines. This wide breadth of support ensures the overwhelming majority of developers can quickly and easily add NVIDIA DLSS to their titles, and leverage extensive documentation from NVIDIA and their peers to ensure the highest levels of image quality.

With DLSS instantly accelerating the performance of so many gamers’ systems, bringing support to your game is a must-have, enabling many more players to experience games at their very best, as developers intended.

Back 4 Blood is a cooperative first-person shooter from the creators of the critically acclaimed Left 4 Dead. You and your team of three ‘Cleaner’ friends are at the center of a war against the Ridden. These once-human hosts of a deadly parasite have turned into terrifying creatures bent on devouring what remains of civilization. With humanity's extinction on the line, it's up to you and your friends to take the fight to the enemy, eradicate the Ridden, and reclaim the world in a series of co-op campaign levels featuring randomized elements, a unique loadout system, and 8 different characters with their own perks and stats.

Team-up online with drop-in and drop-out four-player co-op to fight the ever-evolving Ridden threat together, or play the campaign solo with three A.I. teammates. Alternatively, gamers can also become a Cleaner or switch sides and play as the Ridden with friends in the online PvP Swarm mode, which supports up to eight players.

Ahead of the game’s release, you can participate in the Back 4 Blood Open Beta. Beginning August 5th, those who pre-order will be guaranteed Early Access to the Open Beta, which concludes August 9th, and a limited number of people who register on the Back 4 Blood website will also be invited to participate. If you miss out, however, don’t despair - the Open Beta will continue August 12th to 16th, and will be available to everyone. 

And when Back 4 Blood launches on October 12th, 2021, PC players with GeForce RTX graphics cards can activate NVIDIA DLSS to benefit from the technology’s trademark performance boosts. Head back to GeForce.com then to learn more.

Small Indonesia based development team, XeloGames, launches Escape From Naraka July 29th. Powered by Unreal Engine 4, players will encounter a unique first-person action-platformer set in a Balinese temple inspired by real statues, real mythology, and creatures straight from legend. 

If you play Escape From Naraka on GeForce RTX PC or laptop, you can enhance your experience with ray-traced reflections, ray-traced shadows, RTX Global Illumination and performance-accelerating NVIDIA DLSS. Check out these effects in action in this new RTX video: 

Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the highest-rated games of all time, with over 275 perfect scores and over 175 Game of the Year Awards. And last week NVIDIA DLSS was brought to both Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Online, accelerating performance by up to 45%.

Learn more in our dedicated Red Dead Redemption 2 NVIDIA DLSS article.

July started with a bang, with NVIDIA DLSS support coming to the Unity-powered Rust, one of Steam’s top 10 most played titles, boosting performance by up to 50% at 4K:

Get further information about the launch in our Rust NVIDIA DLSS article.

Following the introduction of NVIDIA DLSS to F1^® 2020, we’ve worked with Codemasters to bring the latest version of our AI and Tensor Core-powered tech to F1^Ⓡ 2021, where it can boost performance by up to 65%, enabling every GeForce RTX GPU owner to play at 60 FPS+ at 2560x1440, and owners of the GeForce RTX 3070 and up to play at over 60 FPS at 4K with max settings and ray tracing.

For more details, check out our F1^® 2021 NVIDIA DLSS and ray tracing article.

Following the launch of Escape From Naraka, there’ll be over 60 performance-accelerated titles for you to enjoy. Each month, we’re bringing you more games, more enhancements, and just generally more. For the lowdown on our next batch of announcements, and news about other NVIDIA technologies and GPUs, stay tuned to GeForce.com.