Especially if youre not into LOTR lore, orfine hattery.

In my unclad head, then, Gollums highlight so far has beenDLSS 3.

DLSS 3 differs from the much more widely available DLSS 2 in a couple of ways.

A wide-eyed Gollum stands in front of a large brazier in The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.

Smoother visuals, no extra GPU strain.

), and it would appear that adding ray traced reflections wasnt enough to render it totally unplayable.

DLSS 3 is even more effective at 4K.

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Frame generation then took Gollum up past the 60fps barrier, with Performance-level upscaling averaging the best at 82fps.

Thatssix timesthe average FPS of native, ray traced 4K.

Crucially, DLSS 3s frame generation also soothes Gollums stuttering.

A bar graph showing how The Lord of the Rings: Gollum performs on a variety of graphical settings, using an RTX 4070 Ti.

A bar graph showing how The Lord of the Rings: Gollum performs on a variety of graphical settings, using an RTX 4070 Ti.

Gollum tentatively picks up a newly hatched baby bird in The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.