Ammonator writes, "Let me get this out of the way first. I am not a Microsoft fanboy, I am a fanboy of a cohesive user experience that emphasizes form over function, but not at the expense of the function. I have been using Vista Ultimate for almost two years and eagerly look forward to Windows 7. And when it was finally available I downloaded the Beta, and did a fresh install on my Dell Latitude D630 which has a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2 GB Ram, 80 GB 7200 RPM HD, and a Quadro NVS 135M GPU. Now that you know a little about my history and what machine I am testing on, let's jump into the Beta preview.
I decided to take the plunge and install the 64-bit version of Windows 7 because I was in an adventurous mood and figured this would allow me to better evaluate how far Microsoft has come with their 64-bit OS. Installation was quick and painless and the initial configuration of the OS was simple. It has been said that first impressions are key when experiencing anything new. And my first impressions with the new Windows OS are quite favorable..."
Omar writes: "With the Horizon Festival coming to breathtaking Japan, you’ll need the essential gear to prove you’ve got what it takes to become a Horizon Legend as you cruise, drift and explore an open world full of spectacular driving experiences. That’s why we’re happy to announce the newest Limited Edition Xbox Wireless Controller and Wireless Headset collection, featuring inspired designs from Forza Horizon 6. The bright cyan and lime colorways celebrate the Horizon Festival’s recognition of iconic cars and hit music, with special features that are sure to impress any collector."
You can get Hall effect controllers slightly cheaper, but you'd struggle to find as feature-rich a package without some heavy, heavy sales.
Pascal Gilcher calls DLSS 5 impressive but shares the "AI slop" sentiment, explaining the likely tech behind it and why he dislikes it.
I fail to see how this is AI shhhhlllloooop. Looking at the different games they showed, this has made many of them look far better.
It's AI slop because it ignores the artists intent and changes the details ESPECIALLY when it comes to character faces. The scariest part of it is introducing it as the next stage of DLSS, a feature where the current iteration already has controversy surrounding it and for quite a lot of games cannot be fully disabled. So reasonably the precident is already set for what path this could take, and it's not good
In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost and so on. Many of the lighting deletes shadow, including shadow on the face like eyes even chin.
Why stop at art when it comes to human input - why not just have AI play the game for us, remove human input altogether
If you don’t like it, just don’t enable it. Personally I think it looks great from the videos I have seen.
And what about when you can't? Cause there's plenty of games where you cannot fully disable dlss already, i mean we're well into an era where it's a major crutch for developers to cover up their cut corners, why would this be any different?
You are playing with people's money and allow Nvidia to scam you.
In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost. This is all lie to raise the cost of the graphic card.
Making characters look more realistic not ok because we want the developer to decide on how the game was intended to look. - Internet
Change entire game through mods thus changing how the developers intended the game to be is ok. - Internet
Something consumers can do to a product after they have purchased it, entirely optional and can always be undone with a fresh install
VS
The leading gaming hardware manufacturer making this the next iteration of the main AA/Upscaling technique that is heavily relied upod by modern devs and is not optional in most games.
Not at all the same but nice try
At the moment you need 2 5090’s just to get an image on the screen so this is all vaporware until proven otherwise.
It's all about choice in the end. But, I would say that calling it 'more realistic' is quite a stretch. It looks like AI art, and that's rarely realistic.
All the comments I see are reminding me of how we got to the current state of gaming when microtransactions were first introduced: "It's completely optional guys, we promise! If you don't like it just don't buy it!"
I think we all know how that ended up.
I had the same exact thought the first time this was brought up in a separate article about a week ago. Took me straight back to the conversations surrounding “horse armor.” Just don’t buy it they said. Years later, many IPs I previously enjoyed are so infected with monetization schemes that I don’t even consider purchasing them anymore.
DLSS 5 and the like are the same thing wrapped in a different package. History rhymes but many of us never learn from it.
Biggest Scam. Overrides lighting and shadow. So why keep Ray tracing? It's all a scam to raise graphic card. We now see Nvidia with Microsoft downturn anything against them. Sony is next!
I wonder if this is the Windows release that will move me away from OS X? I loved XP, hate Vista. This OS is getting a lot of critical buzz already, though...
I'm so tired of having a new version of windows every other year (just about).. seriously.. when are they going to get it right? I thought Vista was supposed to be the savior?? lol
I skipped right over Vista. Still using my old Sony Viao from almost 5 years ago. I wonder if I'll skip right over Windows 7 as well? Probably won't start new a OS until I have a new laptop...
Simple Question, Windows 7 or OSX?
i do have to say ive been running windows 7 under vm ware and it runs on vm ware really good its actaully the fastest out of the 3 windows OS'es being Windows XP and Vista i do think Windows 7 will be a much more polish update from XP than the piece of trash vista was. and i am looking forward to snowleopard to being that it will be intel only i think it can be the best out of the mac os'es as well.