NetEase's Where Winds Meet adds NVIDIA DLSS 5 on November 24

In March 2026, Nvidia unveiled DLSS 5, a new generation of real-time neural rendering technology, at its GTC conference, positioning it as "the GPT moment for graphics." Unlike traditional supersampling techniques that merely increase resolution, DLSS 5 takes the color and motion vectors of each rendered frame as input and uses an AI model to generate realistic lighting and material details that align closely with the original 3D content, running in real time at up to 4K resolution.

On November 4, 2026, NetEase's open-world wuxia game "Where Winds Meet" ("Yanyun Shiliu Sheng") officially announced that it would integrate Nvidia's DLSS 5 technology on November 24, 2026, making it one of the first games worldwide—and the first in China—to support the technology. Players in North America will receive the feature one day earlier, on November 23. According to the official announcement, the November 24 release has undergone multiple rounds of dedicated tuning by Nvidia to strike a better balance between visual quality and frame rate, and the two companies plan to continue their technical collaboration going forward.

The game's official team stated that it is adopting DLSS 5's 3D-guided neural rendering approach. This method treats the frames rendered by the game engine as an immutable base; while fully preserving the geometry, textures, and lighting buffers designed by the art team, it uses a neural network to reconstruct complex lighting and material details in real time. The goal is to enhance lighting and character texture quality while avoiding blurriness or loss of clarity. As of the November 4 announcement, the feature has not yet gone live, and no further details about subsequent updates have been disclosed.