Just as a reminder, Digital Rights Management was introduced to prevent people from using digital content in ways that its producer didn't approve of. In many instances this means preventing unauthorized copying of MP3s or software.
In reality however, DRM simply amounts to an annoyance for legitimate customers, while those people who weren't planning to buy but pirate, have plenty of ways to hack or crack the copy protection schemes. Luckily more content providers have started to realize this. But not all of them.
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!
How did such an idiot get to be the ceo of anything? He just doesn't understand a normal person's mindset or questions and ends up cursing, calling him an idiot and saying he isn't talking to him any more...
Question:
"you're saying that you believe that X-Plane's copy protection scheme actually works?"
His Reply:
"holy sh1t you are an idiot
where did i ever say, imply, or ever so much as HINT that ANYTHING actually WORKS????????????????????????? ???????????"
Someone please get this guy fired... Please.
i'd pirate his game just for him being a tool, but it doesn't even sound like it's worth pirating
the gaming developers and publisher really just don't get it.
Trying to discuss it with them is like trying to have a conversation about pro choice with a christian ( bangs head against wall)
When you say you cant be bothered to put a DVD in the drive every time you want to fly? A nocd-Crack? That game is writen for people who are passionate about flying - and usually not about computers, so its a quite passable solution - to those customers, as they can just put a USBstick in the back of the machine and forget about it - my uncle is like that and I'm sure he would love it - if he had to worry about such things with me around.
The game itself is, in my opinion, just great - it tries to actually simulate a plane (unlike M$ Flightsim) and give you tons of options about it - why, they even included an Anime-Fighterjet for the non-serious players like me - with Missiles on board! Such dongle-schemes have been around for decades, try to deal with it - or help the starving developers survive by providing a better model (some people don't want to work with boring stuff but still expect to get paid for their work somehow and sure, Opensource is wonderful, but you can't eat source).
And how is not being able to play the game without some proof of your authentication the evil kind of DRM? Its just normal for commercial software!