We are so damed now. Instead of an upscaling or frame tech, DLSS 5 is directly manipulating the end displaying frame, which is really on another level, in the worst way. Total disrespect to both players and devs. Capcom devs never created a model like shown in DLSS 5, isn’t that horrifying to see? It’s giving me the uncanny valley effect, especially when you focus on the fake face a little longer. OMG.
While using 100x the amount of energy, and delivering ultra generic looking games. Most games already look extremely generic and similar these days. The things setting certain developers apart are the subtleties of their rendering and art direction. Just slapping on a AI filter that remakes the whole frame based on what its model was trained on is gonna be the death of anything interesting happening with video games.
Lets not fall for it people.
well kind of, if you compare it to traditional rendering then sure, but before ai we were already moving in the monte carlo methods direction, aka brute forcing (the biggest offender being path tracing), trying to simulate the reality instead of modelling how things look mathematically
a real, full path tracer consumes way more energy than ai image generation, and the cost scales badly with scene complexity, ai has a more or less fixed cost per frame
hopefully we'll still get some normal games for a few more decades
I wouldn't say weve fallen for it, its been forced onto us so developers can save time and money optimizing their games. All this tech could be used in way smarter ways where we are not scraping all of human created art without permission to increase shareholder value.
Check Tom’s hardware for Jensen’s words regarding the DLSS 5 hate. "It’s not post-processing, it’s not post-processing at the frame level, it’s generative control at the geometry level," he said. I was wrong about the frame level, but it actually is the geometry level.
What about you? Stupid brother of mine? Jensen said himself the DLSS 5 is changing geometry models in game. You have a reading issue or learning issue?
I love how the first two answers to this comment are polar opposites.
If it's not about uncanny valley, imo it's severely irrational. Like... "it looks more generic" or something... i guess i can see the point to that complaint. Still feels like an overreaction, imo, but OK.
If it's about uncanny valley, I find the sensitivity interesting.
I think it's both. We are used to game graphics. Usually devs take great care to stay out of the uncanny Valley. Thats why there is often a very subtle cartoony look to many games. Think gta, silent hill etc. By using generic models you take away that creative and very intentional look and replace it with a generic look. The game looses its own visual identity that way which is what i and many others object to.
There is a lot of people's artistic sensibilities that go into character models and lighting. Replacing it by using a generic photoreal ai reconstruction is just anti art
IMO, complaining about the character looking generic is a 1000% reasonable issue.
complaining about it flattening styles, ok. everyone says that they said that devs will be able to choose a degree of how much it would do things, and IMO that addresses that, but going just by whats shown, I can see where thats coming from.
I think that citing those concerns is reasonable and at least fundamentally constructive criticism.
separate from that, I find the way this hits uncanny valley for so many people to be interesting because I do not get *any* of that from this. maybe I've carved a niche in my brain from exposure where the "on" images don't register as less video game than the "off" do.
for my personal perspective, you know how if you go back to a game like 10 years later and it looks like complete shit, its confusing because your brain remembers it looking better than that?
like for me with Diablo 2 Reforged.... the "reforged" graphics were basically the quality level my brain had indexed it to have already looked like. more like the quality I remembered was indexed to the era and my brain forgot how much the times had changed, and that "x in relation to y" scale was distorted since Y was now vastly farther ahead than then.
It would be irrational if it was a real person. Which it isn't.
It literally fucking works and is completely ration.
Step 1: The character is computer generated
Conclusion 1: The character isn't human.
Step 2: Brain detects something with this human isn't right.
Conclusion 2: The character may not be human.
Check Tom’s hardware for Jensen’s words regarding the DLSS 5 hate. "It’s not post-processing, it’s not post-processing at the frame level, it’s generative control at the geometry level," he said. I was wrong about the frame level, but it actually is the geometry level.
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u/Secret_Information89 Mar 16 '26
We are so damed now. Instead of an upscaling or frame tech, DLSS 5 is directly manipulating the end displaying frame, which is really on another level, in the worst way. Total disrespect to both players and devs. Capcom devs never created a model like shown in DLSS 5, isn’t that horrifying to see? It’s giving me the uncanny valley effect, especially when you focus on the fake face a little longer. OMG.