Nvidia kicks off Gamescom 2025 with GeForce Now upgrades, new DLSS 4 games, App update

[Daniel Sims]

In a nutshell: Starting in September, GeForce Now Ultimate subscribers can stream games from servers equipped with the RTX 5080, the service's first Blackwell GPU, to enjoy higher frame rates and enhanced image quality. Nvidia also announced plans to introduce numerous features to its desktop app this week, and a lineup of upcoming games that support DLSS 4.

Nvidia made a host of announcements to inaugurate Gamescom 2025, the video game industry's largest trade event. Numerous other companies are set to make announcements and host showcases on August 19-24.

As Gamescom begins, the Nvidia app will receive a significant beta update, introducing more ways to tune graphics settings.

For example, users can now toggle overrides to activate frame generation, multi-frame generation, the DLSS transformer model, DLAA, and DLSS ultra performance mode in unsupported games globally, without adjusting settings for individual titles. Furthermore, Nvidia's in-game overlay now displays override performance statistics.

The update also introduces Smooth Motion, a driver-level function that enables frame generation for unsupported games, to RTX 40 series graphics cards. The feature was previously exclusive to RTX 50 series.

Nvidia also moved some popular Control Panel overrides, such as anisotropic filtering, anti-aliasing, and ambient occlusion, to the app. The change helps users enhance retro games by making the controls easier to access.

Users enrolled in the Nvidia App beta can access the new features on August 19, and a stable build will launch next week.

Meanwhile, GeForce Now's Ultimate subscription tier will begin utilizing the RTX 5080 in September. The introduction of Nvidia's Blackwell architecture to the cloud gaming service enables multi-frame generation and a new streaming mode with improved image quality and response times.

Frame rates can reach up to 120fps in 5K (5120 x 2880), 360fps in 1080p, or 90fps on the Steam Deck. On the fastest networks, input latency has been reduced to 30 milliseconds. Moreover, the new Cinematic-Quality Streaming mode introduces 4:4:4 chroma sampling, 10-bit HDR, AV1 encoding, AI video filters, and automatic display detection.

Additionally, GeForce Now's game library will nearly double when the new Install-to-Play function adds more than 2,200 Steam titles, bringing the total to over 4,500. The new games will be installed to a persistent 100GB cloud storage allotment, available to Ultimate and Performance subscribers, with higher capacities available with an additional subscription. Borderlands 4, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and The Outer Worlds 2 will come to GeForce Now when they launch later this year.

Nvidia also announced that Borderlands 4 and The Outer Worlds 2 will support DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation. Other upcoming DLSS 4 games include Cinder City, Pragmata, Black State, Phantom Blade Zero, Hell is Us, Chronos: The New Dawn, Directive 8020, and Resident Evil Requiem. Some of these titles will support ray tracing, while Driective 8020 and Resident Evil Requiem will include path tracing.

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Nvidia kicks off Gamescom 2025 with GeForce Now upgrades, new DLSS 4 games, App update

 

[poohbear]

This is the future of gaming, the Netflix of gaming if you will. With Wifi 7 and RTX 5080 servers, there's no reason to get anything other than a cheap laptop for gaming or just play directly on your Smart TV. Nvidia can save all their GPU production for their AI customers.

 

[mountains]

Does anyone have advice on what version of Nvidia drivers are the good ones now? I have been holding at v.566.36. Is it safe to update? I have a more powerful 40xx card and an AMD x3D CPU.

Thanks!

 

[Burty117]

Additionally, GeForce Now's game library will nearly double when the new Install-to-Play function adds more than 2,200 Steam titles, bringing the total to over 4,500. The new games will be installed to a persistent 100GB cloud storage allotment, available to Ultimate and Performance subscribers, with higher capacities available with an additional subscription."

Am I reading this right, they're adding a load of games to the platform, but you only have 100GB to install them to? I'm fairly sure a few of those games are bigger than 100GB on their own.

Or is that 100GB game save space? So nothing to do with the installation files, just the save states themselves?

This is the future of gaming, the Netflix of gaming if you will. With Wifi 7 and RTX 5080 servers, there's no reason to get anything other than a cheap laptop for gaming or just play directly on your Smart TV. Nvidia can save all their GPU production for their AI customers.

People have been saying that for at least 15 years now, it won't be the future of gaming, most people's internet connections are not good enough. Also, people are getting wise to subscription models, not everybody wants to pay monthly for the privilege to access games they've already paid for.

 

[airbornex]

So we’ve reached the point where your Steam Deck can stream games at 90fps from a server rocking a GPU you can’t even buy yet. Cloud flexing is wild.

 

[PandaBacon]

This is the future of gaming, the Netflix of gaming if you will. With Wifi 7 and RTX 5080 servers, there's no reason to get anything other than a cheap laptop for gaming or just play directly on your Smart TV. Nvidia can save all their GPU production for their AI customers.

People who can afford fast internet and the best tier of GFN won’t be rocking a cheap laptop. I’d recommend spending the money now and own your rig with a 5080 and cheap internet so at least you’re just paying for internet.

Me and my gf have the $50/6mo tier- which gets us a 3060 in the cloud. We also have a 4090 and 3080ti rigs respectively so we use GFN on really hot days. We tried it on 5G home internet and it didn’t work so well so I had to add cable internet again.

 

[Eldrach]

This is the future of gaming, the Netflix of gaming if you will. With Wifi 7 and RTX 5080 servers, there's no reason to get anything other than a cheap laptop for gaming or just play directly on your Smart TV. Nvidia can save all their GPU production for their AI customers.

This is nothing like Netflix.

You have to buy every single game in order to have access to it from Steam / Battlenet etc.

This is more like renting the blu-ray player in order to watch your blu-ray movies - you'll need to prove that you already own them before being allowed to use the rental player

Well...whatever, wierd analogy I guess..but Gamepass Ultimate is much more like what you're referring to than GeforceNow

 

[BlueDrank07]

Or is that 100GB game save space? So nothing to do with the installation files, just the save states themselves?

The phrasing makes it sound like it's the space to install the game files. I'd bet it's a way to get around licensing BS where game studios can force Nvidia to remove certain games from their service. It's a huge waste of disk space and it should be totally legal for the purchased games to be playable on rented computers from shared storage, but it seems that's not how the copyright laws work.

 

[0dium]

This is the future of gaming, the Netflix of gaming if you will. With Wifi 7 and RTX 5080 servers, there's no reason to get anything other than a cheap laptop for gaming or just play directly on your Smart TV. Nvidia can save all their GPU production for their AI customers.

When will that future come? In 30 years? I've got 300mb/s wired internet connection. The image quality is sh*t. Games with a lot of small detail are the worst, arma3 for example. All the parts of the image with grass are just garbage because of video compression. Wanna up the quality? Huge latency and packet loss kick in.