NVIDIA has announced that Epic Games’ Unreal Engine has been upgraded with a Frame Generation plugin for Unreal Engine 5.2, making it easy for all Unreal Engine developers and creators to take full advantage of DLSS 3’s AI-powered performance multiplier and its celebrated technologies. Those would include DLSS Super Resolution, NVIDIA Reflex, and Frame Generation, an excellent choice for those with GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs who need a performance boost but don’t want to sacrifice image quality and are willing to accept some input lag. Epic Games launched Unreal Engine 5.2 in May 2023, with new features that include a procedural content generation network.
“NVIDIA DLSS 3 introduces truly impressive frame generation technology and the Unreal Engine 5.2 plugin will offer developers a great choice for increased quality and performance of their games,” said Nick Penwarden, Vice President of Engineering at Epic Games.
How to Install DLSS 3 for Unreal Engine
- Agree to the Terms of the License Agreement and download DLSS 3 for your version of Unreal Engine.
- Unzip the DLSS folder. Only the 5.2 version of DLSS contains the Streamline/Frame Generation plugin.
- Copy the plugin folders to install to the /Engine/Plugins/MarketPlace folder of your Unreal Engine directory. If you don’t currently have a /MarketPlace folder, create one.
- Launch Unreal Editor, go to Plugins, and search for the plugins to activate. Search for “NVIDIA” to quickly list all of the included DLSS 3 plugins.
- Activate and restart Unreal Editor.
- Load the DLSS 3 Test project from the /Samples folder of the downloaded DLSS plugin file.
From an NVIDIA GeForce post:
Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool, enabling game developers and creators the freedom and control to deliver cutting-edge real-time 3D content, interactive experiences, and immersive virtual worlds.
In February 2021 the DLSS Super Resolution plugin was released for Unreal Engine 4, making it a cinch for any developer to accelerate the performance of their game or app, further accelerating adoption of DLSS.
Today, Unreal Engine was upgraded with the release of the DLSS 3 Frame Generation plugin for Unreal Engine 5.2. Now all Unreal Engine developers and creators can take full advantage of DLSS 3’s AI-powered performance multiplier.
Unreal Engine developers can get started now with help from our plugin integration blog, and we recommend checking out a recent Inside Unreal interview that Epic held with NVIDIA developers, talking in-depth about the new Unreal Engine 5.2 plugin.