r/whenthe • u/KennethLjubkos no one cucks like Gaston. You think you have a wife no IT'S MINE • 5h ago

No seriously, what the fuck?

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u/PowerPlaidPlays 4h ago

Putting aside the ones where people cranked it way past reasonable settings, tbh I'm just kinda underwhelmed by it. A lot of the time it just ups the contrast and sharpness, and adds some extra random shadows or highlights. It's like a visual version of FL Studio's "Soundgoodizer", just doing random tweaks that usually get people to go "that looks better" in an A/B test, but when playing the actual game normally you won't really notice.

It seems like a thing where in a few years when they get it to stop fucking with character faces, and it's being put on games that from the ground up where it's being considered from the start, it would offer some minor improvements, but the cost needed to actually be able to do it seems not really worth it. Just adjust your TV's contrast.

As it is right now, even if you can get something looking decent it just makes the kinda janky game animations look even worse. When it "looks like a video game", that stuff sticks out less.

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u/Tight_Grapefruit5280 4h ago

this is honestly the only example I've seen that doesn't look like an screenshot ran thorugh chatGPT and even then, this just looks like the same image but in a higher resolution.

DLSS 5 has a thing where it either changes nothing or makes the game look like an AI generated video. It honestly would be better if we just tried to make games look better naturally instead of trying to force an AI layer between them

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u/PowerPlaidPlays 4h ago

Yeah, from what I've seen it ether is not making much of a meaningful difference, or it just is trying to shove everything into the same generic GenAI realistic look. I saw another person theorize that it's going to lead to a bump in games pushing "hyper-realism", but then we are going to hit a wall where all of the AAA games look exactly the same, and to stand out games are going to get more stylized which so far this does not seem like it would help much with.

Any of the improvements are things that can just be done in-engine on similarly expensive hardware, from what I've seen DLSS5 takes a lot of power to run and can hit framerates hard so it's not like it's an alternative to the other expensive hardware.

I think overall it's kinda funny how when used subtly and thoughtfully *it's not bad*, but a subtle minor improvement is not going to be effective in marketing expensive hardware so they can recoup the pile of money burned to develop it.

If it were not for screenshots like this, it would probably not get much attention.