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

Morrus · 2026-03-17T18:57:58+0000

trappedslider said:
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.

Did you use AI to make that reply? Because those are not your words.

Gladius Legis · 2026-03-17T18:59:15+0000

Cergorach said:
For those that don't understand what's going on:

DLSS stands for 'Deep Learning Super Sampling', it's an AI (deep learning) powered technology for image enhancement and upscaling in (mostly) video games. Made by Nvidia for use with their videocards, version 5 is the newest incarnation, which adds the OPTION to use an AI model for enhancing lighting and material surfaces using neural rendering.

The developer needs to integrate DLSS 5 themselves into each game, and you can turn it on or off, so first the developer retains control on using this technology or not, second the user of the game/hardware has the option to turn it on or off. People that don't want to use it, don't have too. Apparently this will only work with the RTX 50xx series of video cards from Nvidia, DLSS5 will be released this fall.

There has been a movement within the computer games communities where a certain subset doesn't want 'fake' frames or pixels in their computer games. Which is odd, because every frame/pixel is fake in the first place. But that doesn't matter to certain crowds with torches and pitchforks. Where they paint everyone that does want to use this technology as someone 'bad', etc.

The OP is obviously going on a rant that's not really structurally argued, as they seem to be really angry... For some reason...

The "reason" being, no matter how much you want to copy/paste from NVIDIA's website and pretend to be more knowledgeable on the subject than me, I don't want all video games looking like someone put an Instagram filter over it all.

Cergorach · 2026-03-17T19:13:03+0000

Gladius Legis said:
...no matter how much you want to copy/paste from NVIDIA's website...

No, that was written by me. Yes, it collects information from different sources, but it wasn't copy paste. I might not be more knowledgeable then you on the subject-matter, but I am more knowledgeable then the people that asked what this was about. Hence the non-LLM generated, non-copy/pasted summarization for those folks... Not everything is about you, you know. Hence it was not directly aimed at you like this reply... Nor am I as angry or as all over the place in my ranting as you...

You don't like this? This tech isn't aimed at you, the creator retains control, the user retains control, this is just an option. You don't like, you don't use. How difficult is that to understand? Other people have differing opinions from yours, you don't agree, fine.

Gradine · 2026-03-17T19:23:55+0000

TwoSix said:
If your belief is that the designers who worked on the left-hand image didn't wish they had the tools to create the right-side image with real-time rendering, my gut feeling is that you're mistaken.

I'd much rather trust in the reactions of the thousands of artists railing against tools such as these than your gut

TwoSix · 2026-03-17T19:27:38+0000

Gradine said:
I'd much rather trust in the reactions of the thousands of artists railing against tools such as these than your gut

I'm a rando on the internet, it would be pretty silly to trust my gut opinion.

Autumnal · 2026-03-17T20:07:41+0000

TwoSix said:
If you think your militant approach to this topic is winning hearts and changing minds, I have to inform you that it isn't working nearly as well as you might think it is.

Well, he did change my mind. I went from knowing nothing of the subject and open to learning, to having a couple new ignore list entries

cbwjm · 2026-03-17T20:12:27+0000

Gladius Legis said:
Do I really need to say anything else?

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I guess I'll say a little more. Nobody other than a few of the worst people on the planet, who are the reason you likely can't afford to build a new PC right now, asked for what amounts to a grotesque Instagram/Snapchat/etc. Yassification filter on your video games.

Haha, yeah, I don't know why anyone would thought this was needed in video games, turns the women into that generic AI girl, not something I'd really see myself using instead I'd just stick to the original graphics.

There's some things I like about genAI such as quickly running up an image for a dnd game or bouncing ideas of chatgpt, but things like dlss 5, browser and operating system bloat aren't really what I'm after and while I think these big companies will blunder on, they're definitely getting blowback from their communities.

trappedslider · 2026-03-17T20:20:29+0000

Morrus said:
Did you use AI to make that reply? Because those are not your words.

yes i copied the response from google after coping in your question of what is a DLSS, it was either that or just linking you to NVidia's website from where it pulled the info.

my own words would have been "makes the game look better or worse depending on your view and uses AI" seemed a bit insufficient of an explanation

Morrus · 2026-03-17T20:24:44+0000

trappedslider said:
yes i copied the response from google after coping in your question of what is a DLSS, it was either that or just linking you to NVidia's website from where it pulled the info. my own words would have been "makes the game look better or worse depending on your view and uses AI" seemed a bit insufficient of an explanation

Don’t ever use AI instead of posting on this site again. It’s rude and insulting. More insulting than your usual lack of effort in posting. And if you can be replaced by AI, your presence here brings no value to the community. If you can’t be bothered to say anything, we sure as hell can’t be bothered to read it. Do not ever do that again.

trappedslider · 2026-03-17T20:24:46+0000

Gladius Legis said:
Are you capable of doing any more that copy-pasting from NVIDIA's corpo website?

he asked a question i answer,was i supposed to just say "it's just bad trust me"? I mean your op didn't even explain what it is,why it's bad or anything beyond "I don't like this"