New utility overlays Nvidia DLSS 5 onto the entire Windows desktop – including movies and YouTube

The DLSS 5 leak keeps producing unexpected results. The NeuralScreen mod applies Nvidia neural rendering not just to games but to any Windows window, from YouTube videos to movies.

The tool creator, a modder going by Perseval_BLR, built the app with help from Claude and posted the source code on GitHub. NeuralScreen works as an overlay on top of any windowed application, since the filter isn't tied to any specific game engine.

In the demo video, the developer first applies DLSS 5 to a clip of Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay, recreating the effect of a full mod for the actual game. A scene from Interstellar shows up next, and the technology starts generating shadows and skin tones for the real actors just the same way. The demonstration wraps up with Doom 3 running in windowed mode with the filter active.

The app can switch between windows on the fly or process the entire screen at once. By default, number keys handle window switching, recording, screenshots, and pulling up the settings menu, though the bindings can be reassigned.

Like other mods built on the leaked neural network, NeuralScreen offers a set of visual presets and sliders for fine-tuning the image. There's even a screen-wipe comparison mode that works during runtime. The one real limitation – exclusive full-screen mode isn't supported.

The cost of this "enhancement" stays steep. In the demo, an RTX 5070 Ti struggles to hold 60 fps while processing Doom 3, a 22-year-old game, at a resolution of 2576 × 1487.

Officially, DLSS 5 only works on RTX 50-series graphics cards, but enthusiasts have already extended compatibility down to the RTX 20 series.