How A Custom DirectX 12 Port Brought Neural Rendering To DOOM 1993

DOOM 1993 running through a custom DirectX 12 renderer with NVIDIA DLSS 5 Neural Rendering.

DLSS 5: The 33 year old shooter now feeds modern NVIDIA graphics technology data its renderer was never designed to produce. DOOM has spent decades proving that old software can survive on almost any hardware. In 2026, software engineer Nikolai Zhivotenko pushed that tradition in a stranger direction by rebuilding the classic shooter so it … Read more