DLSS 5 will be the worst thing to EVER happen to video games


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NVIDIA DLSS 5 (Deep Learning Super Sampling) is the next generation of AI-powered neural rendering technology designed to revolutionize game visuals. and it's bad because of AI boogeyman

  • What it does: It moves beyond traditional upscaling to use deep learning to understand the "semantics" of a scene (identifying hair, skin, metal) and generates up to 5 AI frames for every real frame.
  • Key Features: It adds cinematic-quality lighting (subsurface scattering), enhances material realism, and brings near-native visual fidelity at a lower cost.
  • Goal: To deliver ultra-smooth, high-frame-rate gaming with photorealistic graphics, often aimed at pushing the limits of high-refresh gaming in 2026.
Are you capable of doing any more that copy-pasting from NVIDIA's corpo website?
 




This might be the worst exaggeration that I have read ever, by which I mean in the last few days? Come on, games had day-one patches, micro-transaction, gacha-mechanics, forced always-online features even for single player games, kernel-level anti-cheat systems intruding in your systems, and so much more? This is worse than all of that?

It's a new technology, some people will use it well, some won't, just as the existing ones.

Concerns about the realistic availability and cost of it given the current trends are a lot more justified. Of course, that just means that games for a long time will still need to put in some effort to work without them, because otherwise there is no audience that could play them.
And I also quite understand it if people are concerned that this is yet another way for companies to profit of the work of others and putting those people out of work.
 




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