Aion 2 DLSS 4.5 & RTX Support: What the Official Trailer Confirms

The official trailer is branded 'DLSS 4.5 RTX Gameplay Trailer' and was published on August 26 — that is NCSoft and NVIDIA putting the DLSS 4.5 support of the PC version front and center ahead of launch.

The trailer shows fast action-MMO gameplay: large-scale battles, flight combat, and the world rendering with the ray-traced look NCSoft has been promoting since the Unreal Engine 5 reveal.

Combined with the earlier Gamescom trailer, the takeaway is that the global PC build will include NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 support on the PC version — PC released on Steam and PURPLE on October 5.

DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) renders at a lower internal resolution and upscales with AI, raising frame rates without an equal drop in image quality — the classic lever for a large, dense open world on mid-range PCs.

The exact feature set NC enables (frame-generation modes, ray reconstruction, preset selection) has not been itemized in the announcements so far; treat frame-rate headroom and sharpness as the confirmed benefit, and specific toggle options as launch-day details.

With the world being 36 times larger than the original Aion and Unreal Engine 5's heavy scenes, DLSS support is a strong signal that NCSoft intends the PC version to run well on a broad range of RTX hardware.

Owners of NVIDIA RTX GPUs are the direct beneficiaries — DLSS is an RTX-series technology, and an RTX-branded trailer points to ray-traced rendering being available at launch.

Laptop players and anyone on a mid-range card should expect DLSS to be the difference between smooth and stuttery large-scale fights, which is exactly the scenario the 36x world and faction warfare are built around.

Current non-RTX owners are not promised DLSS, but the game is in active development for a broad launch audience; the system requirements guide and performance guide remain the reference for baseline expectations.

The September 17–18 Launch Scale Test is the first chance to see DLSS in action on your own PC — the test client includes the game's opening worlds and a level cap of 37, plenty to judge frame rates in open-world scenes.

Before the test, pre-download the client from September 16, and use the test session to compare your graphics presets and note where you need DLSS on or off.

Whatever you observe during LST is your launch baseline: tune with the guidance in the PC performance guide, and you walk into the September 30 early access with settings already dialed in.

Nvidia and NCSoft have not published detailed feature lists for Aion 2's DLSS implementation as of this writing — multi-frame generation, ray reconstruction and specific RT effects are possible but not individually confirmed.

Performance claims in trailers are promotional; real-world results depend on your hardware, drivers, and the final optimized launch build.

We will update this guide when the full DLSS/RTX feature set is officially detailed, and when the system requirements are finalized.