Nvidia's new DLSS 5 Brings Photo-Realistic Lighting To RTX 50-Series
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A massive technological leap for graphics - and we've been hands-on with four games.

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I’m completely speechless. This looks so terrible I thought it was a joke, but apparently Nvidia released these demos to impress people. DLSS 5 runs the entire game through an AI filter, making every character look like it’s running through an ultra realistic beauty filter.

The photo above is used as the promo image for the official blog post by the way. It completely ignores artistic intent and makes Grace’s face look “sexier” because apparently that’s what realism looks like now.

I wouldn’t be so baffled if this was some experimental setting they were testing, but they’re advertising this as the next gen DLSS. As in, this is their image of what the future of gaming should be. A massive F U to every artist in the industry. Well done, Nvidia.

  • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
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    6 months ago

    oof the dislike ratio on this video is brutal. 23k likes but 49k dislikes, at least according to PiePipe.

    as it should be. DF has instantly lost all the credibility they worked so hard to earn for so many years.

    • JonsJava@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Someone reported your comment.

      that’s glorification of violence and then there’s nuclear options…

      You don’t have a pocket nuke, do you?

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Makes perfect sense in context.

    Nvidia is no longer a gaming company. They do not care about gamers. They are actively DRIVING AWAY gamers as fast as they can, because AI chips are more lucrative than dirty smelly tiny consumer products.

    This is meant to show off real-time AI generation performance, which is massively marketable to AI companies. Not consumers. Nothing is about consumers.

  • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I just watched the Digital Foundry video on this and the way they fuckin glaze over this tech just disgusted me enough to unsubscribe.

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.socialEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Can’t believe DF is so positive about this, just looks horrible. I’ve actually been quite positive about technologies like DLSS and FSR but this… no thanks.

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Crazy to me to see people just now waking up to just how underinformed Digital Foundry really is to technical details, and how much they sold out.

      • Gathorall@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Well, helps that you don’t need to know how to turn a computer on to see that they’re glazing some complete bullshit, just eyes.

  • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Hmmm I also just thought of how this is it looking the “best” for the demo and that most of the time it will just be the makeup gun set to “whore”

    • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I looked at some of the demo images and if it reads old lady, it decides to quintuple the wrinkles and go full witch. But otherwise, yeah, whore gun.

  • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    They’re being very careful about cutting almost immediately after the DLSS is turned on. It all looks like printed media, not actual video. There’s something very off about the way the details just sort of track along the normals of the surface. Maybe something I’d enable as a novelty in a few rare cases, but certainly not something I’d use to replace any existing solutions.

    Edit: There may come a moment in time, like it did for me with RTX (specifically Control) where a game finds a way to work it into the very idea of the look of the game and manages to make DLSS 5 look jaw-droppingly gorgeous. But that will be up to artists, not the geeks at NVIDIA trying to shortcut the artistic process. I can see it being a tool for some rare games, and those are the few I’m actually really looking forward to.