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Hogwarts Legacy Adds DLSS 5 Neural Rendering on PC

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A hooded student with a glowing wand looks out over Hogwarts castle above the mist in Hogwarts Legacy key art

Hogwarts Legacy now supports NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 Neural Rendering on PC. Avalanche Software added it in a PC patch, build 2153883, that it posted on Steam at 11:28 AM EST (8:28 AM PST) on November 5, 2026, for both the Steam and Epic Games Store versions. The same patch adds support for Valve’s Steam Machine.

DLSS 5 Neural Rendering

The patch updates the game’s NVIDIA upscaling to DLSS 5 and adds a separate DLSS 5 Neural Rendering option, with settings Avalanche says it tuned for the best visual results. Two things to know before you look for it:

  • It is off by default. You have to turn it on yourself; Portkey Games’ support site has an article on enabling it, linked from the patch notes.
  • It needs an RTX 50 Series card. Avalanche lists an NVIDIA RTX 50 Series GPU as the current requirement, along with GeForce Game Ready Driver 616.64 or newer.

Everything Else in the Patch

The rest of the patch is about hardware support and graphics options:

  • Steam Machine and Steam Deck OLED: official support, including optimized graphics settings and a virtual keyboard.
  • Intel XeSS: updated to a newer version, with support added for XeSS Multi-Frame Generation.
  • NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops: support added.
  • Settings fixes: some graphics options could save incorrectly, and that is fixed. Changing certain frame generation options should now need fewer game restarts.
  • Drivers: the game’s minimum GPU driver notifications were updated.

The notes list PC changes only. There is nothing for PS5, Xbox Series X|S or Switch in this patch, and no new story content.

What This Means for Players

If you own an RTX 50 Series card, update your driver to 616.64 or later and switch Neural Rendering on in the graphics settings to try it; everyone else still gets the DLSS and XeSS updates. For another game adding DLSS 5, see our story on War Thunder getting NVIDIA DLSS 5.

On a Steam Machine, the new optimized settings and virtual keyboard should make the castle easier to run from the couch. Our guide to showing FPS on the Steam Machine helps you check the results, and our list of the best Steam Machine games has more to install. If you are heading back to Hogwarts on PC anyway, our list of the best Hogwarts Legacy mods is worth a look first.

Source: Avalanche Software, “Hogwarts Legacy PC Patch, November 5th, 2026”, Steam, November 5, 2026.