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

TwoSix · 2026-03-18T14:58:39+0000

Gladius Legis said:
Let's be real: what is FAR more likely to happen is that the studios (whether the devs of their own volition, or much more likely the suits in charge) will use DLSS 5 as a crutch, and development will cut down on the art side of things, render everything half-baked and let DLSS 5 fill in the details. And roughly 95% of future video games will all have that arbitrarily shiny AI slop look as a result.

Hope you're looking forward to it.

There are more games available on Steam than I can finish in ten lifetimes. If every single game studio winked out of existence right now, I'll still have games to play till I die, as will my children and probably my children's children.

There's enough to worry about with AI's ability to demolish all intellectual and creative labor, without taking an apocalyptic tenor about this absolutely "most first" of First World problems.

Gladius Legis · 2026-03-18T15:01:33+0000

TwoSix said:
There's enough to worry about with AI's ability to demolish all intellectual and creative labor,

Must be fun acting like this isn't connected to that.

Desdichado · 2026-03-18T15:01:38+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

I can't wait for the AI boogeyman bad fad to die off, which I predict will happen much sooner than many of its proponents can possibly imagine. It really only exists in weird online bubbles anyway.

Horwath · 2026-03-18T15:08:29+0000

TwoSix said:
There are more games available on Steam than I can finish in ten lifetimes. If every single game studio winked out of existence right now, I'll still have games to play till I die, as will my children and probably my children's children.

There's enough to worry about with AI's ability to demolish all intellectual and creative labor, without taking an apocalyptic tenor about this absolutely "most first" of First World problems.

this.
I have more than 200 games in my Steam library.
more than half I didn't even install as I do not have time to play them yet, but they were on 80-95% discount so I got them for next to nothing.

MarkB · 2026-03-18T15:10:24+0000

Gladius Legis said:
Let's be real: what is FAR more likely to happen is that the studios (whether the devs of their own volition, or much more likely the suits in charge) will use DLSS 5 as a crutch, and development will cut down on the art side of things, render everything half-baked and let DLSS 5 fill in the details. And roughly 95% of future video games will all have that arbitrarily shiny AI slop look as a result.

Hope you're looking forward to it.

They're not going to be able to do that in the short or probably even medium term, because the tech only works on high-end graphics cards and the studios need to be able to produce games for the wider market (including the players who can activate it but choose not to).

By the time that level of graphics reaches market saturation, the software will be mature enough and the studios sufficiently used to using it that it won't be a crutch, it'll just be another tool in the toolbox.

bsss · 2026-03-18T15:12:09+0000

On "boogeyman": I don't think the common person in particular is to blame when other forms of the AI field get mixed in with generative AI and LLM garbage because "AI" is the latest hype buzzword. If Nvidia just said "neural networks" and "deep learning" far fewer people would have leapt to the "AI == slop == bad, so DLSS == bad" reading, but being specific about "AI" doesn't align well with hype and investor marketing and corporate strategies.

Umbran · 2026-03-18T15:18:33+0000

Gladius Legis said:
Must be fun acting like this isn't connected to that.

Mod note:
You were already asked to dial it back once.

This is twice.

After this, if you cannot dial it back, it will be dialed back for you.

TwoSix · 2026-03-18T15:25:24+0000

Gladius Legis said:
Must be fun acting like this isn't connected to that.

It's only tangentially connected (outside of the Nvidia connection, this is about a neural network, not LLMs), which is one of the reasons the tenor of your posts seems so off.

It's not like Nvidia is using their GPUs for PCs to support their LLM server farm GPU business; right now, it's the other way around.

Gladius Legis · 2026-03-18T15:36:34+0000

TwoSix said:
It's only tangentially connected (outside of the Nvidia connection, this is about a neural network, not LLMs), which is one of the reasons the tenor of your posts seems so off.

It's not like Nvidia is using their GPUs for PCs to support their LLM server farm GPU business; right now, it's the other way around.

Yeah, it's called NVIDIA shifting from a computer hardware company (primarily GPUs) to a full-blown AI company, then getting high off its own supply and regurgitating it back at the gamers who allowed that company to be successful to begin with.

And yes I get this isn't reliant on data centers as LLMs are. But the results are looking eerily similar on screen, and it reflects the same disregard for artistic direction and vision that fully LLM generated slop does. The most charitable, by far, diagnosis is that NVIDIA failed to read the room.

It also doesn't help that you're announcing this at a time when RAM, SSD, and GPU prices are skyrocketing past affordability for most, also leading to the increasing costs of many electronics even if you don't build a PC. Even moreso when your company is one of the worst culprits in all this.

Belen · 2026-03-18T15:41:54+0000

TwoSix said:
The image on the right is obviously superior, in terms of looking more "realistic", than the image on the left.

I don't play top-tier games anyway, so I imagine I won't see much of an impact on my personal gaming decisions until the 2030s.

But the fact that this seems to be a technological leap seems to me to be inarguable.

It looks like AI slop that will make every game look the same.

In fact, say goodbye to art in game if they can just use the slop filter.

The right image does not even do a good job of rendering the art intention behind the character.