DLSS 5 Manager Guide: Install, Live Flow, Safety and Undo

What is DLSS 5 Manager?

A free Windows app that installs DLSS 5 into your games and can apply it to any borderless window. DLSS 5 Manager is by NODIX-TECH and is published at github.com/NODIX-TECH/DLSS-5-MANAGER. Its README calls it a manager and one-click installer for DLSS 5, ReShade, OptiScaler and Live Flow. It runs on 64-bit Windows and needs an NVIDIA RTX card, apart from an experimental AMD mode. A new version arrives every few days, so features change quickly.

Facts from each project's README, checked 2026-10-05. Release versions from the automated check on Nov 11, 2026, 16:15 UTC.

What its release notes say it does:

How do I install DLSS 5 with DLSS 5 Manager?

The README has no step-by-step instructions; the developer says the app shows everything once you open it. From the repository and the release notes:

1. Download the newest release from the Releases page. Version 1.3.5 has two files, DLSS.5.MANAGER.1.3.5.exe and DLSS.5.MANAGER.rar, of about 570 and 600 MB. The release lists no checksums, so check your file in the download verifier, which compares it with GitHub’s own SHA-256.
2. Run the app. It keeps its cache, layouts and configuration backups in %LOCALAPPDATA%\DLSS5Manager\.
3. Choose a game and install. Skip any game the anti-cheat indicator marks.
4. In the game, open the overlay. Since 1.3.2 one button applies the basic DLSS 5 settings, which you can then adjust. Since 1.3.1 you can change the overlay keys, for ReShade and for the app’s own overlay, before you start the game.

What is Live Flow?

DLSS 5 for anything you can run in a borderless window. Added in 1.3.0 and based on what the developer learned from Perseval’s project, Live Flow is the developer’s way to get “DLSS 5 across all apps and games”: switch the game or app to borderless mode. It has grown quickly:

• 1.3.2: 4x multipass.
• 1.3.3: 6x multipass, a built-in FPS counter and colour controls.
• 1.3.4: Live Flow Super Res and a denoiser. DLSS 4.5 Frame Generation was folded into MFG Flow, which feels like NVIDIA Smooth Motion on NVIDIA cards.
• 1.3.5 (Live Flow 2): DLSS Multi Frame Generation on all RTX GPUs, colour modes such as sRGB, and HDR fixes.

Each extra pass adds the same neural work again, so 6x multipass costs far more than one pass; what multipass does.

Does DLSS 5 Manager work on AMD cards?

Only through an experimental mode that nobody has verified on an AMD card. The developer says they built it without an AMD card to test on (they use an RTX 3060), and this site has not tested it either. According to the 1.3.4 and 1.3.5 notes:

• Switch on AMD mode in the settings and install AMD’s HIP SDK.
• Live Flow supports RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 cards (Radeon RX 7000 and RX 9000). AMD cards get Flow MFG instead of DLSS Multi Frame Generation.
• RX 6000 cards run it through a community mod by danielblnc and also need the AMD HIP 7.2 Runtime.

DLSS 5 itself runs inside NVIDIA’s runtime, so treat any AMD result as unproven. What works on AMD, Intel and GTX.

Is DLSS 5 Manager safe?

Use only the official build, checked against its hash, and only in single-player games. Three points from its repository:

• Its releases list no checksums, and issue #59 reports the app as unsigned. Compare your file with GitHub’s SHA-256 in the verifier.
• The bundled nvngx_dlssnr.dll is a modified NVIDIA file whose signature no longer matches (issue #58). Keep the copy from the release.
• Fake copies exist, such as a password-protected “DLSS5-Manager” ZIP.

The anti-cheat indicator warns you but does not bypass anti-cheat: the ban risk game by game. All the details are in Is DLSS 5 Manager safe?

How do I undo it?

DLSS 5 Manager installs and removes its components per game. Remove its install from the game in the app, then start the game once without mods. Do that before you install another DLSS 5 tool into the same game, and back up any game that already has other mods before the first install.

DLSS 5 Manager or DLSS 5 Swapper?

Choose DLSS 5 Manager for frequent updates, Live Flow, Multi Frame Generation on any RTX card or the experimental AMD mode. Choose DLSS 5 Swapper for a steadier app with bundled components, an in-game F8 panel, Restore originals and SHA-256 values in every release. The tool comparison also covers RHI, DLSS 5 Autopilot and DLSS5oneclick, and the status page shows each tool’s latest version.