Fallout New Vegas 'Remaster' Becomes Nightmare Fuel With NVIDIA DLSS 5

Fallout fans have been experimenting with NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-assisted neural rendering technology designed to make games photorealistic in real-time. Players have spun up Fallout New Vegas and fed the 2010 title through the DLSS rendering framework multiple times. The resulting videos showcase an eerie rendition of the post-apocalyptic role-playing game that some observers have compared to a bad acid trip.

Multiple videos have emerged on YouTube showcasing Goodsprings content captured in Fallout New Vegas with three passes of DLSS 5 applied. Other users have pushed the neural rendering technology further, running up to seven neural passes on characters like Rose of Sharon Cassidy, also known as Cass. The automated upscaling and AI-driven lighting and textures produce heavily distorted character models and environments.

While the technology introduces advanced neural processing to older games, the results do not always translate into clean visual enhancements. Given that the Fallout universe revolves around creatures and environments mutated by radiation in a global wasteland, the unusual visual distortions generated by the tech have drawn humorous comparisons to in-world mutations.