I still don't get people's fascination with AMD, people whine about Nvidia's 'anti-competitive' tactics when all they're doing is making games better. AMD always goes for the half assed option (eg open source physics).

I know what you mean, but it does suck that nvidia doesn't port physx to ati ( which the nvidia ceo has said is possible), but at the same time, ati could always come up with their own physx...actually I take it back, they sub-contracted lucasarts to work on their open source alternative...they don't have skilled enough technicians. I used to love amd, but them and ati have become second rate, they released faulty quad cores with 1 cores disabled because they were unstable...and so they sold them as triple cores, their video cards are barely a re-design, they just add a few more shaders, etc etc, but their gpu's run at about 100 degreesa and use far too much power, they might go decently in price/performance, but the products are shoddy. There is a good reason they are in second place in the gpu/cpu markets. I have build 3 pc's, 2 of them with amd's, but i will never use amd again, simply because by the time they have their 6 cores out, nvidia will have their 6 cores ( with hyperthreasding= 12threads), so they will never be able to match either nvidia or ati.

Another big thing: ati screamed about nvidia getting AA to work in batman arkham asylum...but nvidia has 100's of technicians they get to optimise games for people in the 'way it's meant to be played' program...for free. So they spent the time and money getting AA to work with the engine which doesn't natively support AA. ATI did nothing, yet they still complain. tisk tisk

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

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.

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

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.

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.