The next big thing. Everybody wants to create it. Retailers want to sell it, and in theory at least, consumers want to sweep it up in their arms. But what happens when two competing technologies claim to be the one true future? It's almost as fractured and chaotic as worldly religion; on one side you have the HD DVD devout, and on the other sit the Blu-ray believers. Both are convinced that they are destined to rule.
Two competing formats, but only one will reign supreme.
Today, IGN gives their verdict...
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TNS: DLSS 5 promises photorealism, but its AI-driven enhancements risk overriding artistic intent; especially when it comes to character design.
The nice thing about DLSS5 is the devs have full creative control over how they implement it. They can mask off assets if they don't want the tech to adjust anything on them, so main characters could be kept as they are intended. If they just want to adjust foliage or lighting, they can do that. That being said, I can't imagine the artists had some specific aesthetic for random NPCs in games like Starfield where this new DLSS makes the characters look that much more lifelike and real.
I can understand people getting upset over Grace and her changes, even though if you look at the new image it actually looks a lot closer to the real model for Grace funnily enough.
I think this whole demonstration was showing what is possible, not necessarily what always will happen. At the end of the day devs can just choose not to use it, and end users don't have to use it either.
This is what I don't understand. Why the hate for Nvidia when they only supplied a tool. A tool that when used appropriately could be amazing. If devs want to be lazy implementing it, that's on them.
and the end user can decide not to use it if they don't want to.
I personally don't get the hate, this has the potential to be huge in certain situations. People always want to hate on new stuff for some reason, I remember when people called Raytracing a gimmick and something that nobody would care about back when the 2 series cards first showed it off.
That's where you didn't understand the joke. Nividia purposley teaming with entire triple a studio to create shitty and to improve when nividia card is installed.
This is called scaling instead of native. They don't want us to have super computer which is a threat to elite.
These tools are fine but instead of focusing on real next gen with extra ram into video cards.
Nvidia decreases ram and giving us a filter garbage!!!!!!
Keep kneeling down to lick their boots. You're doing a great job and the billionaires really need your support.
Let's set aside the issues with the plastic-looking AI for a moment.
I don't personally have much issue with an intelligent approach to improving performance through creative means - prior iterations of DLSS, PSSR, and FSR seem fine to me. Where I take issue is with the apparent misuse of the added power in terms of immersion and overt reliance on AI in everything. It's depressing to see AI shoehorned into everything and Huang is going way too far in this iteration. I'm old enough to remember that when you bought new components, you got real frames - not this frame generation nonsense. We're at a point where they're charging a premium for fake frames and, because of the very technology used in the RTX 50 cards, the cost to build/buy any computer is out of control. Without the AI features, improvements are modest at best between RTX 40 and RTX 50 cards, albeit similar performance on RTX 50 is more efficient. But the price increase is basically telling you that you shouldn't upgrade unless you're going to use AI features. Really, think about that: you're paying a premium for frames that aren't really there and image quality that isn't really there. I don't think that justifies the ridiculous component shortages, made *even worse* when we consider that helium supply is affected by the war in Iran - pretty important for things like semiconductors.
Now let's actually talk about the demonstration. I saw some typical AI weirdness. Aside from the AI slop-style image it outputs, it made the lighting worse and the color correction was weird. It seems to me that, for AI image reconstruction, all roads eventually lead to your standard AI slop output. I certainly would not take Jensen Huang's word for it when he says it can look different. Development of this technology involves machine learning. It needs to be trained on tons of images. Tell me how this technology works with novel styles or colors/lighting used in novel settings. I believe this is where the strange color correction is coming from.
And I should also add there's kind of an illusion of choice for devs here. They can decide not to use it...but that just makes people curious about what it would look like if it did. People with DLSS5-capable cards are going to want to take advantage of it because the level of AI enhancement is often the only real differentiating factor with preceding cards. We already saw that with PS5 Pro where people kept asking when this game or that game is getting PSSR enhanced. The availability of the technology creates an expectation, and people are going to feel that it is incumbent upon developers to make their purchase worth it. We do it every generation when we complain about cross-generation games because we want our games to take full advantage of the new hardware. This is no different.
....we all knew there would be a celing hit at some point when it comes to how much more fidelity and how many more frames and how much more resolution there can be before you just simply can't do anymore. With each new iteration of tech, you are only getting refinement, no more real innovation. And that is to be expected ever since we hit the uncanny valley. So you either live in the past and play the older stuff the way it was, or you embrace the present and deal with these directions that newer generations of players have already come to expect. If you are 40 and up, you are NOT the target demographic for these kinds of changes. Kids today WANT the CGI of the movies in their games. They have no appreciation for the classic animation and pixel art of what old timers grew up with.
***If you are 40 and up, you are NOT the target demographic for these kinds of changes. Kids today WANT the CGI of the movies in their games. They have no appreciation for the classic animation and pixel art of what old timers grew up with. ***
You mean those demographics that are mostly playing Minecraft, Fortnite, Marvels Rivals, and the like?
"I'm old enough to remember when you bought new hardware you got new frames, not this frame generation " ok grandpa. I'm sure your turning machine was might my impressive back in the day but could you have said something that made you sound like less of a tit?
Also as things stand the component shortages aren't because of Iran. They are still the knock on effect of things that happened during COVID and the massive expansion of hardware needed for AI data centres.
On your frames not really there point let me put this into some context for you. So it's using probability to predict there stuff will be to draw additional frames usually. This doesn't mean the frames aren't real. Infact it's not actually that different to how quantum mechanics works. If you have a particle inba vaccine you can know it's position or it's velocity but not both. The more accurately you know one the less accurately you know the other. As soon as you measure one the other becomes less accurate. Yes this applies to every particle in your body and infact the universe and interactions between particles are considered the same as a measurement. Now if I get a ball and throw it I can still tell you where the whole ball as a collection of particles is and what velocity it is travelling at.
Anyway, back to the quantum mechanics side of things: that means I can work out a probability that for a given velocity or position the other value will be x likely to be y. This becomes known as the probability distribution. If I want to know the precise details about a given set of particles I have to use this probability distribution to work it out. You can still use this to model a system and work out what particles are doing/will do. You are no more or less real just because the particles inside you that comprise your body are only a probability distribution until a measurement is taken.
Let me give you another example: a computer generated an image of a location. Is that real? Why? Can you go there, physically? No....
darthv72,
A few points:
"....we all knew there would be a celing hit at some point when it comes to how much more fidelity and how many more frames and how much more resolution there can be before you just simply can't do anymore."
Correct, but doesn't that say a lot about consumer culture? If we can't do anymore, why give us the same thing but less reliably? Frame generation and DLSS do introduce problems are imperfect technologies, and I think demanding this price to test and train their models is madness. Really think about it: we're losing jobs, our environment, and affordable PCs for this? Really?
"With each new iteration of tech, you are only getting refinement, no more real innovation."
I don't agree. Technology is still rapidly advancing, and they're using AI in genuinely interesting ways outside of gaming: a hospital in South Korea is currently pilot testing a patch that people wear and it sends notifications to their phone when their blood sugar gets low. This is well beyond "refinement" and absolutely passes muster for innovative. Within the gaming space, instead of focusing on outright visual enhancement, there are other approaches worth considering when immersion takes priority: Bringing sense of smell into games? Temperature? Eventually as we learn more about the human brain, VR where your thoughts can control your character? Even if we just think about what's possible today, Why not use the technology to go the extra mile and make path tracing a more standard thing?
"So you either live in the past and play the older stuff the way it was, or you embrace the present and deal with these directions that newer generations of players have already come to expect."
I think this is incredibly reductive and myopic. You resign yourself to what is, and don't care about what should be. Ever hear of voting with your wallet? The new generation of players' expectations doesn't make change positive - for example, I *expect* games to be sold incomplete with some egregious monetization mechanism. Doesn't mean we have to accept a damn thing, and you'd do well to remember that.
"If you are 40 and up, you are NOT the target demographic for these kinds of changes. Kids today WANT the CGI of the movies in their games. They have no appreciation for the classic animation and pixel art of what old timers grew up with. "
You don't think you're overgeneralizing with this comment? I know people in their 50s that only care about graphics and plenty of younger folks love Minecraft. How many 40+ people do you think carried sales for Terraria, Stardew Valley, UndertTale or Shovel Knight?
I think they do have an appreciation. These are new IPs by the way. It's not like they re-released something the old heads played back in the day and was carried by nostalgia (think Virtual Console titles).
Extermin8or3_,
"ok grandpa. I'm sure your turning machine was might my impressive back in the day but could you have said something that made you sound like less of a tit?"
Way to misunderstand the comment—the "I'm old enough" comment is clearly tongue in cheek because it was, what, just a few years ago? But thanks for the useless remark. It was a gentle reminder that the average bulb isn't terribly bright (since we're throwing shit like children).
"On your frames not really there point let me put this into some context for you. So it's using probability to predict there stuff will be to draw additional frames usually. This doesn't mean the frames aren't real."
So what you're saying is... It's adding frames that weren't there before, by predicting the how the next frame appears, then creating them when they weren't there originally? Sounds like they're making it up using "educated guessing", which is what I'm saying. They're not real frames. It's generating frames that weren't there, and we already know from AI upscaling that prediction reduces overhead, but it's less reliable: it is why we get weird results when using this technology.
"Also as things stand the component shortages aren't because of Iran."
FFS, *read* what I wrote, please. I very clearly stated the **helium supply** exacerbated an existing issue. Reread my comment: I acknowledge there is a component shortage, *made worse* by the war. To the extent that I do reference component shortages, I correctly point out that AI is causing a lot of issues here. And yes, the war does have some hand in issues: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/0...
"Let me give you another example: a computer generated an image of a location. Is that real? Why? Can you go there, physically? No...."
Weird example and I don't even understand your argument here. If a computer generates an image of a real location, then yes, you can go there. If I generate an image of the Eiffel Tower or Angkor Wat, of course you can go there.
If we're talking about some place fictional like Pandora from Avatar, no, but we clearly agree to suspend our disbelief and treat it as a "location". In reality, it's not a real place.
You're missing the point about the frames. Previously, it would simply output the frames it could based on actual power. If nothing else, there was certainty you were paying for the real performance. Now, you're paying a premium for the illusion of performance. Do you see my point? It's a marked increase in cost for smoke and mirrors that might botch the output just because it makes an erroneous prediction.
I think in most cases the character models look better. Conversely, in most cases the lighting looks worse. It is brighter and cleaner but looks less natural.
That said, the broader issue I have with this tech is that it will likely eventually be used to replace most artist jobs in the industry. The C-Suite thought process being, why pay people to create when AI can artificially generate an image. The gaming industry has been shedding jobs dramatically over the last few years and this will only accelerate the process. All said, I think the pushback is less about the image that’s being produced and more about concerns of AI taking away peoples ability to earn a living. DLSS 5 and tech like this will eventually move us to a world that is less human and therefore less than optimal for humanity itself.
Unlikely it will be used to replace artists. Nvidia where very clear that the higher the quality going in of assets of the artwork the better the output. I think this could be seen best with some of the environmental stuff on like assassinscreed.
I’m pretty positive these devs/publishers were given these tools and even used it for this demo. NVIDIA can’t just tamper the art style but it’s funny how the developers are super silent about it and just letting NVIDIA take the blowback lol
Funny you say that as insider gaming reports that developers from Capcom actually said they had no idea this was happening to RE9 and didn't approve this.
What do you know another N4G bootlicker. If these are the kinds of people left in this community it has fallen to it's lowest depths.
I don't even think it will be standard until Nvidia produce a 60 series right now it requires two 5090's and clearly has a lot of issues
DLSS5 made Starfield characters come alive and look much better. I don't understand all this hate on a feature that's optional to use. I guess now a days people want to complain about everything
You can't just keep building cards with more & more memory, higher boost clocks, before you're going to need to keep a gpu in a refrigerator. Law of diminishing returns. DLSS / FSR was a game changer for owners of mid-range / lower end gpu's. Frame generation has been a game changer for the mid/low range cards. Each one described as a crutch at one point or still are by some.
The tech is just getting better and better, and I'm excited to see what will be accomplished.
DF writes: "A massive technological leap for graphics - and we've been hands-on with four games."
Because it is they say it's just AI lighting but it's clearly more it's overhauling character models and not for the better
I'm going to give this a miss
Because they are using machine learning and, "machine learning is a specific subset of AI that focuses on training algorithms to learn patterns from data and improve over time."
Yeah, I don't like that it changes the way characters look either (why is it adding makeup?) but some things, like the hair, looks a lot better. It feels like it was an artistic choice to keep her makeup pretty dialed back, if it was my game I wouldn't like the GPUs effing with my.
(Machine Learning & Neural Networks combined together are "AI", just not as catchy.)
Ohh Boy df is getting destroyed over this opinion understand why but people need to not threaten or harass these guys
I don't agree with their opinion but they don't deserve threats
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And every hot chick will be the same hot chick. Grace’s face looks like every other fake hot chick on instagram.
And Blu-ray has that in spades. It's the reason BD-ROM has gained such a large lead, in addition to the launch of the Playstation 3 (i.e. market penetration).
"Microsoft has instead opted to keep the format at arm's-length until time has proven it successful. This, ironically, may also spell the format's long-term downfall since, under the guise of consumer-choice and flexibility, they are actually inadvertently crushing consumer confidence. If it isn't a standard feature, then why is it worth a dime at all? And if all manufacturers take the same wait-and-see attitude with HD DVD hardware that Microsoft has, then who's creating the drives? And who would bother to create publish for a format with no install base? Our concerns are clear." -IGN-
Unfortunately, I don't see many numbers being important as of now, but movie sales per unit is vital (something glaringly left out of the article). Blu-ray has a slight lead in players around 2% and thats with over 1 million ps3's. The attachment rate is half of HD-DVD's. The reason these numbers are important, this is because PS3 owners are not buying the system for movies (granted they might buy one or two since there are about 3 games worth playing right now, which should hopefully change soon) whereas an HD-DVD buyer is, because that is why they bought the player. There are no games on HD-DVD so its buyers are picking up more movies. The PS3 in the long run will give Blu-ray a great advantage in an installer base, but as of now, those numbers are like any facts. You can spin them how you want to make a point. So, go ahead fanboys and spin... just keep in mind this is a DVD format article.
Then standard DVD wins, hands down!
I've read that the image quality is supposed to be equal - even that HD-DVD is marginally better.
However, if I was your average Joe off the street, walking into my local Best Buy and checking out the two displays, the Blu-Ray was clearly superior. For whatever reason - bad cables, a less worthy TV, the HD-DVD demo picture looked just like the other TVs in the "TV section" going through their display loop.
The Blu-Ray had the "wow" factor - the picture was amazing - brilliant.
Again, I'm not saying which is actually better - I'm just saying what I observed at retail - and regardless of whatever someone reads - I could see someone coming it to the store with the intention of getting HD-DVD and leaving with Blu-Ray based on what I saw.
this is all well and good for blue ray but the thing is the average joe tends to get set in his ways for a lot longer than the gaming community who have to adopt a new format every 4 years look how long vhs went for they only got phased out 1.5 years ago and DVD only became the norm about 3 years ago so sony where right to included blue ray in the ps3 if they think their console will last 8-10 years by then microsoft and nintie will bring out the xbox 360 2 and WII 2 with blue ray in it as the norm. microsoft and nintendo where right not to included hd dvd or blue ray when it wont be cost effective or the norm for about 3-4 years. the uk doesn't switch over to digtal and full HD broadcasting till 2012 and about 1% of the uk have HD TVs. blue ray and hd dvd is pointless with out that. DVD has 3-4 years left in it so blue ray will be gathering dust till. put it simple 5 dvds for 30 quid or 2 blue ray dvds and a whole load of kit worth about 1.2 grand to watch them.....for the average joe no contest DVD wins Till HD telvision becomes standard.