One of the best indie horror games gets DLSS 3 in time for Halloween

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Slender: The Arrival crept its way onto the indie horror scene a decade ago and has gone on to become a fixture in the world of PC horror games. Now, the upcoming Slender: The Arrival 10-year Anniversary Update has arrived, with the inclusion of Nvidia DLSS 3,just in time to scare a whole new generation of players this Halloween season.

Over the years, some of the best horror games have brought us a slew of iconic and unforgettable bloodcurdling villains, but none gripped the world as much as Slenderman. Slender: The Arrival isn’t even the first game to be developed based around the ghastly suited figure, but the Blue Isle Studios developed title was popular among the creepypasta-loving demographic. With the inclusion of Nvidia DLSS 3, Slender: The Arrival’s 10th Anniversary Update has some frightfully big performance gains, for those looking to re-experience the horror classic on RTX 40 series graphics cards.

On its website, Nvidia revealed that the Slender: The Arrival’s 10th Anniversary Update sees a 2.8X increase in performance, thanks to the brand-new integration of DLSS 3. Through testing on various RTX 40 series graphics cards, the RTX 4090 saw a boost of 166.9 fps, in comparison to 65.3 when DLSS 3 was turned off. The RTX 4080 graphics card also sees a considerable frame rate jump, with 128 fps being reached thanks to the frame-generative technology. Not so far behind, the RTX 4070 Ti, also saw an increase from 29.9 fps to 88.2, while the non-Ti version only saw gains from 21.6 fps to 63.1.

While the high frame rates achievable with the RTX 40 series of graphics cards in the newly updated Slender: The Arrival is a boo-tiful sight to behold, the game will also be seeing other performance gains. The game will be