Fallout: New Vegas Next-Gen Remaster Is Quietly Horrifying

Published Sep 12, 2026, 12:30 AM EDT

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Whether we like it or not, DLSS 5 is here to stay and if you had to ask me, I wish that it was not. I am all for photorealism in video games, but there is a line, and the arrival of Nvidia's DLSS 5 has passed that line quite a lot, making some of our favorite digital characters look, well, terrifyingly real, and not in a good way.

However, if photorealism is what floats your boat, then you will love the latest project that sees DLSS 5 added to the beloved Fallout: New Vegas, giving the 2010 action RPG the makeover that many of us did not ask for.

Whilst an official remake for Fallout: New Vegas may currently be in development by Bethesda, alongside a remake of Fallout 3, YouTuber Ryan Bevins has taken it upon themselves to show what the addition of DLSS 5 could look like for the game, and in a 13-minute showcase, we can see the results.

There is no denying, in terms of visuals, that Fallout: New Vegas is pretty outdated, with it having been well over a decade since it first launched on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. As beloved as the game is, with many hailing it as the best Fallout entry so far, it could do with a slight makeover, but is DLSS 5 the right answer?

Well, you can now make that decision for yourself by seeing what Fallout: New Vegas would look like with DLSS 5, neural rendering and using the RTX 5080. Or, according to Ryan Bevins, "Fallout: New Vegas running at 2560×1440 with experimental DLSS 5 Neural Rendering through DLSS5-Feeder."

As you can imagine, the experiment soon saw viewers take to the comments to share their thoughts, and it seems as though fans are feeling divided. "The models look fantastic and benefit greatly from DLSS 5," one comment read. Another said, "Fallout: New Vegas looks so bad even DLSS 5 can't help it, but the characters do look slightly better."

"With these comparison videos, I feel that people just put the neural slider all the way to the max and call it a day instead of making it look decent with tastefully adjusted slider values," another explained. "It's like putting a sharpening filter or contrast filter all the way to the right, it'll make things worse, it has to be adjusted per game basis." With others calling the results "uncanny", it seems as though the arrival of DLSS 5 is not for everybody, but luckily, with an official Fallout: New Vegas remaster currently in development, hopefully the same will not be said for its arrival.

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