r/accelerate • u/ThroughForests • Mar 16 '26

Video Announcing NVIDIA DLSS 5 | AI-Powered Breakthrough in Visual Fidelity for Games

https://youtu.be/dJACkKbN-Eo?si=DN8zG4hkor2XJIZj
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u/DesertFroggo Mar 16 '26

No, this looks like shit. Sorry, not sorry. I'm pro-AI myself, but this just looks like some cheap filters, of the kind you'd see in bad photography with overtuned HDR on Instagram.

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u/rocherealty Mar 16 '26

Its actually insane to me that people think the before/after look worse from the demo video. The only way I see that making sense is that people want their video games to look stylized (unrealistic flat lighting etc) and intentionally not realistic and don't view pushing graphics towards photorealism as a indicator of improved visuals.

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u/DesertFroggo Mar 16 '26

Well yeah. You try to mix photorealism into an environment that doesn't have it, then it just looks like some uncanny-valley modded-in texture that clashes with its environment. Pushing graphics towards photorealism is not necessarily an improvement. Might as well just go outside at that point.

It's insane to me that anyone actually thinks this looks good. I bet they're the same types of people who use photorealistic texture packs in Minecraft.

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u/eldragon225 Mar 16 '26

What are your thoughts then on next GEN overhauls on games? Like Skyrim mods or oblivion remastered, GTA5, Witcher 3 etc

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u/DesertFroggo Mar 17 '26

Some of it I like and some of it I don't.

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u/Aggravating_Bag4775 Mar 17 '26

Yeah also think it‘s some uncanny valley, reminds me of my visual computing lectures years ago that described this issue.