Gamescom 2026 - GeForce On Community Update and RTX 5080 Giveaway
It's time for Gamescom 2026. I am covering it on site myself as usual, and for the kick-off, NVIDIA has just premiered the Geforce On Community Update, with tech announcements, news and game announcements.
THE NVIDIA GAMESCOM ANNOUNCEMENTS:
NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction is available now, further enhancing image quality in path-traced and ray-traced games, including many of the most awaited launches this year.
007 First Light’s path tracing and DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction update launches September 15th. Remember that the game already includes DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution and Dynamic Multi Frame Generation.
CONTROL Resonant’s has a new path tracing and DLSS 4.5 gameplay video and they're bundling it with select GeForce RTX graphics cards, laptops and PCs
Gears of War: E-Day is adding RTX Mega Geometry, enhancing ray tracing on GeForce RTX GPUs, which also benefit from full support for DLSS 4.5"
New DLSS 4.5 and RTX news and trailers have been released for AION 2, ANANTA, Aniimo, Beautiful Light, Black State, CINDER CITY, Fragmentary Order and Silver Palace.
NVIDIA RTX Remix has been upgraded with DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, a major Painkiller RTX mod update has been released, and The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind RTX is in development, which is the most iconic Elder Scrolls game to me!
NVIDIA RTX Spark arrives this Fall and leading publishers are bringing blockbuster PC games and technology to NVIDIA RTX Spark
GeForce NOW is expanding ways to play with new DLSS 4.5 settings, including Super Resolution, Dynamic Frame Generation and Ray Reconstruction, plus expanded support for Steam Machine and other devices and platforms, and even more big PC games headed to the cloud
AGON by AOC has unveiled the first 5K G-SYNC Pulsar monitor, new G-SYNC Compatible displays are coming from ASUS and LG, and G-SYNC Pulsar controls are available now in the NVIDIA app
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NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction
It is available now for all GeForce RTX GPUs via a new NVIDIA app update, introducing several major improvements:
Efficient Denoiser: The new model delivers 35% more compute capability, and processes 20% more parameters, while maintaining similar performance to the previous model
Enhanced Super Resolution: Building upon the advances from DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution, the model has deeper spatial awareness across every scene, and more intelligently uses game engine pixel sampling and motion data. The result is improved lighting accuracy, better temporal stability and clearer motion in ray-traced and path-traced content
Expanded Training Dataset: Trained on a larger dataset, the new model is even better at image reconstruction. This intelligence gives the model even better awareness to pick the most accurate engine data to reconstruct scenes closer to ground truth
Finer Developer Control: The new model provides developers with finer control for temporal accumulation, providing precise tuning of model response for even better image quality
To upgrade your system with DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, go to Settings > About in the NVIDIA app and opt in to Early Access releases (an official release will follow in September).
Once installed:
Open the “Graphics” section and select a supported game (alternatively, select “Global Settings” at the top of the window and apply the updated Ray Reconstruction to every supported game in your library)
Scroll to “Driver Settings”
Click “DLSS Override - Model Presets”
Click “Custom”
Open the “Ray Reconstruction” drop-down and choose “Recommended” or “Preset F”
Click “Apply”
RTX Remix Upgraded With DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, New Painkiller Mod Update Released & Morrowind RTX Mod Revealed
I remember being a kid, installing Morrowind, and being in awe at what was probably the first major RPG I ever played. Now it's going to get RTX! What NVIDIA RTX Remix does it use modern tech to help modernize classic PC games with path tracing and RTX technologies. Now it adds DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction and Multi Frame Generation too! There's also a major update for Painkiller RTX. Learn more and download here: NVIDIA RTX Remix article
RTX SPARK
NVIDIA RTX Spark arrives this Fall and leading publishers are bringing blockbuster PC games and technology to NVIDIA RTX Spark. Check the full announcement here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/gamescom-2026-nvidia-geforce-rtx-dlss-4-5-announcements/#rtx-spark
Here’s the statement straight from NVIDIA:
NVIDIA is bringing the next wave of RTX gaming to Gamescom with support for new games, anti-cheat technologies and increased visual quality.
Electronic Arts, Embark and Ubisoft are among the latest game publishers and developers bringing blockbuster titles to NVIDIA RTX Spark ahead of its launch this Fall. They join the publishers that announced RTX Spark support at COMPUTEX in May, including KRAFTON, NetEase, Riot Games and XBOX.
NVIDIA is working closely with game developers and ecosystem partners to ensure today’s top PC games, including EA SPORTS F1® 25 and Apex Legends, Ubisoft’s Anno 117: Pax Romana, and Embark Studios’ ARC Raiders and THE FINALS, run seamlessly on RTX Spark devices.
“We’re excited to bring Anno 117: Pax Romana to a new generation of RTX-powered PCs,” said Stéphane Jankowski, Ubisoft executive producer of Anno 117 : Pax Romana. “Our teams build the game to be seen wide: full districts, long sightlines, thousands of details at once. Seeing RTX Spark hold that level of fidelity from a single chip is genuinely impressive.”
RTX Spark reinvents personal computing, bringing personal AI agents, advanced content creation and high-performance gaming together in a platform engineered from the ground up for the next wave of Windows PCs. For gamers, RTX Spark combines Windows devices with NVIDIA RTX technologies, including DLSS and Reflex.
Supporting modern PC gaming goes beyond running the game itself. Many of today’s biggest online games rely on sophisticated anti-cheat technologies, to enable fair play across the multiple platforms these games run on.
NVIDIA has been working with EA to bring native EA Javelin Anticheat support to RTX Spark, including EA’s biggest multiplayer games, such as EA SPORTS F1® 25. RTX Spark launches this Fall.
THE GIVEAWAY:
As a bonus, we have a GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition to give away to one lucky member of the PCMR community right here in this thread. All you need to do to enter is answer one of the following questions:
What was your favorite GeForce On announcement from Gamescom 2026?
or
Which GeForce RTX game from Gamescom are you most excited to play?
Good luck, and may your framerates be high and your temperatures low this Summer. If you're at Gamescom, enjoy and say hi! I may have some card packs to give out if you find me.
You can enter until August 31st, 2026, at 11:59PM PST!
The giveaway is open to residents of: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Excluding Puerto Rico and its other territories and possessions), AUSTRALIA (except New South Wales, South Australia, the Australian Capital Territory, and the Northern Territory), AUSTRIA, CANADA (except Quebec), CROATIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, FINLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, GREECE, IRELAND, JAPAN, NEW ZEALAND, NORWAY, PERU, SOUTH KOREA, SWITZERLAND, TAIWAN, UNITED KINGDOM.
