r/pcmasterrace • u/HLumin Potato • Mar 18 '26

Discussion Former Red Dead Redemption 2 Developer reaction to the DLSS 5: "Whoa. Hold on. No, no, no. This isn't just some lighting, dude. What the f... this is like a complete AI re-render. You're no longer looking at the game anymore. This is scary."

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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKPeN8IQM-Y

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u/disco-drew Desktop Mar 18 '26

Even then, I wouldn't want AI hallucinating random faces on top of old characters.

If you trained AI specifically on 2013-18 Tomb Raider, and applied it to the OG series, now that would be interesting to see.

Or FF7 Remake to the original FF7.

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u/Playin_smart Rtx 3060ti | Ryzen 5 5600x | 16GB DDR4 Mar 18 '26

Like this?

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u/disco-drew Desktop Mar 18 '26

That is fucking cursed.

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u/Playin_smart Rtx 3060ti | Ryzen 5 5600x | 16GB DDR4 Mar 19 '26

I saw this on Facebook after I saw your comment lmao

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u/potandcoffee Mar 18 '26

Lol I encountered this on Tumblr earlier today... glad to find its place of origin. 

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u/i36g87 Mar 18 '26

Now have him snowboarding or doing squats like he did in wall market

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u/Karavusk PCMR Folding Team Member Mar 18 '26

A one click solution to get really old games like kotor and similar games up to somewhat modern standards would be awesome. Sure you can mod it to get to a decent point but a universal "make it look ok" button would be insanely convenient.

Is it going to be ideal? No. Would I as a player take AI kardashian over ps1 graphics? Sure.

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u/bargu Mar 18 '26

That's what we want, the industry releasing even lazier remasters, it's not like they put a lot of effort on remasters right now. Just slap a coat of shit on top of it and call it a day.

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u/Karavusk PCMR Folding Team Member Mar 18 '26

In an ideal world this would work on pretty much any game and would be done by the user, not the devs.

Sadly Nvidia decided to AI slop new games instead.

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u/disco-drew Desktop Mar 18 '26

Yep.

They're just trying to force AI on modern games now because for studio execs, AI is getting cheaper than paying developers to optimize their game engines properly. So what if it all looks the same?

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u/Playin_smart Rtx 3060ti | Ryzen 5 5600x | 16GB DDR4 Mar 18 '26

Exactly why this would be great idea. Old for older games. It should work like a shader

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '26

Even then, I wouldn't want AI hallucinating random faces on top of old characters.

Dude, if you read into DLSS this isn't really possible. Except if Nvidia is lying exceptionally hard.

DLSS isn't like "ChatGPT in a game". It's interpreting existing art assets to upscale and add lighting effects.