A New Dawn in the Cloud: ‘Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV’ Is Coming to GeForce NOW

Nvidia says Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV, from KING Art Games and Deep Silver, is coming to GeForce NOW after it launches on Steam on December 3. The update also adds Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen and 10 more games to the streaming library.

The more interesting piece is DLSS 5. War Thunder and Where Winds Meet are next to adopt its 3D-Guided Neural Rendering feature, and Nvidia says the latest model, released in October, doubles performance over the previous version and is tenfold faster than at its March announcement.

We don't usually spend much time on weekly game lineups, but this one is worth a beat. DLSS is one of the clearest examples of AI doing useful work for ordinary people. It uses neural networks to produce better-looking frames than raw hardware would otherwise manage, and it does that inside products people already enjoy. No chatbot, no hype cycle, just a better picture.

The claimed performance curve is the headline for us. If the model really has improved tenfold since March, that's a sign of how quickly these rendering techniques are maturing. Nvidia ties that progress to bringing the technology to more players, including GeForce NOW Ultimate members streaming on RTX 5080 cloud rigs. Faster models mean cheaper inference, which means the feature can run on more hardware and in more data centers.

The cloud side has its own logic. GeForce NOW handles downloads and updates on its servers, so a big strategy game like Dawn of War IV, or new downloadable content for Dragon's Dogma 2, doesn't eat local storage. That makes demanding PC games playable on Macs, handhelds and modest laptops. It's a real convenience.

The trade-offs are worth naming. Streaming depends on a strong connection, and the blog itself notes that availability can lag because games are onboarded after release. Neural rendering also changes what players see in ways they may not notice, and the more frames are inferred instead of drawn, the more the image depends on one vendor's models. And it's worth remembering who's telling this story. These performance figures come from Nvidia's own blog, so we'd like to see them independently tested.

There's a strange contrast in the timing, too. On the same day Nvidia's leadership upheaval dominates headlines, the company's gaming arm is publishing business as usual. That's a reminder that most of Nvidia's teams are still shipping, whatever is happening at the top.

Dawn of War IV features Space Marines, Orks, Necrons and the series debut of the Adeptus Mechanicus, with more than 70 campaign missions. War Thunder's DLSS 5 support arrives with its Eagle's Shadow update in mid-November, and Where Winds Meet gets it on November 23. Ultimate members can also play a demo marking the GeForce 8800 GTX's 20th anniversary.