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Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game (www.digitalfoundry.net)
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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.

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[–] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yeah sorry I'm not into high def TV myself. It looks awful unless all you watch is sports and brand new marvel movies (hard no).

You may think you're disabling it ,until you compare it with another TV that actually does zero processing . night and day.

Same effect as me thinking "huh, I guess the lag on my flat screen isn't too bad for gaming" then plug into my CRT and holy snap, the clarity and precision response. (Clarifying, this is with old and new consoles, obviously anything with an analog output into a new TV ia horirible without a upscaler, but even with a retrotink 2x upscaler, it still sucks. You need to send over $700 to make it look decent enough).

people don't know what They took from us.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    I have. I A/B test it all the time. I pause and pixel peep.

    And I don't watch any sports, nor any marvel movies.

    "huh, I guess the lag on my flat screen isn’t too bad for gaming"

    I've had CRTs. And I have one of those "zero latency" overclocked LCD monitors with no internal scaler. As much as I like them, they feel sluggish compared to something newer.

    Yeah sorry I’m not into high def TV myself.

    In that case, I suspect you haven't tried it on more modern displays, or when its baked into transcoded footage with one of the better filters.

    Yes, it looks awful and artifacty processed by older LCDs. But it looks really good these days.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, I'm not one to pay a lot for TVs. I'd like an oled, but with the prices, I really have no need for it for gaming and the TV I have is fine for normal watching.

    Also isn't it crazy how its taken this long for a display to be as good as a CRT (blacks and response time wise)?? Kind of the same thing with audio, how bad digital sucked originally and how we are just now fixing that with great DACS. Humans got it right the first time with tube amps and CRTs ! Not to mention they're repairable.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I’d like an oled, but with the prices, I really have no need for it for gaming and the TV I have is fine for normal watching.

    That is entirely fair. Electronics are all crazy expensive, really.

    Yeah, LCDs went from bad to “mixed” and stayed that way for a long time. Granted, some things like absolute sharpness are not great on a CRT, but still.

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