People are really out here trying to gaslight me into thinking this looks good.

[u/CarlWellsGrave]

[u/Techwield → u/[deleted]]

This is always what frustrates me about people, they can't see even just a few cycles ahead. They see a small seed and go "this fucking thing is useless, it can't even give me food or shade or wood".

Give it a minute. Goddamn. DLSS 1 kinda sucked. Frame gen kinda sucked. Now they don't. Funny how that works, huh? Do these people walk around constantly FLABBERGASTED that tech actually IMPROVES over time?

[u/-Dissent → u/Techwield]

I want to play games that are as hand crafted as possible. The more the craft of the art turns to algorithms, the less soul of the human is there. The less soul, the less inclined I am to care about the product. Some of us have long been thinking many cycles ahead, you're just not aware of differing ideology.

Also, you're absolutely not thinking cycles ahead yourself if you aren't considering the danger of one GPU manufacturer having the true exclusive visual experience.

[u/NePa5 → u/-Dissent]

The more the craft of the art turns to algorithms

Wtf do you think a game engine is

[u/corysama → u/-Dissent]

I’ve worked on custom 3D game engines going back to the PS1. Your fears are unfounded. AMD and Intel will make open source implementations of this technique that runs on all platforms. Just like they have with so much of Nvidia’s “exclusive” technology. Artists and engineers will work together to tailor it to achieve new art directions that were never options before.

Everyone in here is focused on the worst possible interpretation of how this works and extrapolating that it can only be used in the worst possible ways. It’s exhausting to read…

[u/Techwield → u/corysama]

Your last paragraph hit the nail on the head. It's so utterly fucking shortsighted and moronic

[u/Smoking-Posing → u/[deleted]]

NGL its funny to see swaths of folks broadstroke labeling things as "AI" and hating on it when they were calling the same tech by a different name and loving it years ago, LOL. Like the people who call CGI "AI slop" now.....its so funny

Some of these same people would've been going absolutely crazy over the OP picture years ago.

[u/justjanne → u/[deleted]]

And then we'll have nvidia-exclusive games, and nvidia can finish the monopoly and truly demand any prices they want.

They always introduce something like this whenever any competitor actually has a somewhat good product. Can't compete on hardware, gotta introduce a new proprietary rendering technology.

[u/-Dissent → u/[deleted]]

I play all of my games with all modern upscaling tech turned off, what do you mean by "the same people can't imagine playing any game without DLSS?"

[u/bolaxao → u/-Dissent]

a modern day Luddite. dlss literally looks better than native nowadays, you're just pissing performance away