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If you haven't seen the latest video game news: https://x.com/NVIDIAGeForce/status/2033617732147810782
Mar 17, 2026 2:21 PM
MCroft07
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If you haven't seen the latest video game news: https://x.com/NVIDIAGeForce/status/2033617732147810782
barbarian818
Copycat bullshit. Everyone's trying to take a bite off the OG Slim Goodbody.
beatmacster
I prefer my games to look like games if that makes sense. Only realism I want is the environments. Big open world sandbox games would therapeutic to just walk thro trees listening to wind blow the leaves…. Then get eaten by a T-Rex but hey.. it’d be calming for a minute or 2
khety1890
I find this highly insulting. These people do know that game devs and their artists go for a certain style, yes?
MCroft07
they keep saying that game devs and the artists are heavily involved in it too as a defense but I dont think they realise that just makes us all hate it even more lol
MCroft07
Not some of you lot think I'm promoting this coz I think it's a good thing
ThisOldCPU
GratuaCuun
Ew...
JeanLucguizamos
They were doing so well with 4.5, what a disappointment
Mirrormancer
wtff?
thedarklord187
Hi those are hand drawn and/or AI and not from the official video Hope that helps
ecstaticpuppy
It’s a meme and a joke hope that helps
MantisTobagganMD
"Please please please like our "AI" garbage, we've sunk soooooooooo much money into it and we're absolutely hemorrhaging cash!" - Nvidia, 2026
MCroft07
they should have started with this
ReelPoop
LOL
ShadeMeadowsArt
SCREW AI
Randazzo
Well played.
MCroft07
I'm SO glad they got mocked for this, we should be bullying companies and corporations for this shit online, not each other
MyCommentsUsuallyHaveTypos
@op The map very strongly reminds me of "Shadow Man" from the late 90s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Man_(video_game)
wadatahmydamie
Well that’s a deep cut
Neednoggle
heroesblood
Best part? You need an entire other 5090 to run it! Just an extra $4284 before tax!
MCroft07
Don't forget to remortage your house for some more ram too!
SunBrolem
Oblivion is on that list. I don't know what they think it will do with the horrifying abominations people birth in the character creator for that game.
drinkthederpentine
Creating horrible abominations in oblivion is literally my favorite part lol
camn333
And to think, this is why I can't upgrade my 6 years old computer anymore.
JohnnyFiveAces
You meant 16 right? Skyrim on medium-high?
FeedTheNachoMan
If you're talking about RAM, that's because of data centers, not AI. Shit like the youtube algorithm.
Mirrormancer
Lovely.. The "algorithm", which is notoriously shite at figuring out what I'd actually like to watch. Often pushes right wing slop and conspiracy videos, neither of which I'm fond of. Fuck, it doesn't even show me cat videos.
FeedTheNachoMan
I mean, sneaking right-wing slop in a form that is at least semi-palatable to you is exactly what the algorithm is intended to do
Mirrormancer
Except it's not even semi-palatable. It's outright rage bait slop with annoying thumbnails like "WOKE high school student gets SCHOOLED by retired marine - SHUTS DOWN debate with this one word" or some other dumb shit.
OMFGWhatHaveWeDONE
I haven't read anything yet, but we can assume this is just an AI pass over over 3D render?
meme2zombie
Yeah, it's a filter.
And it's generated live which means that every time you see a character their face will be different.
Kyzyl
So it'll be used for pr()n?
meme2zombie
It already is.
Hexrowe
Of course - but then, everything always is. It's often a major driver of new media tech.
Imadethisaccounttopost
Thai really feels like 10steps back in the growth of graphic technology. There is no growth or bridging here, just lazy shortcuts.
MCroft07
yepp, I'm glad they got fully roasted on the internet for it
Imadethisaccounttopost
Even major gaming news outlets, who usually are on these knees giving the deepest blowjob and reach around, are write hit-pieces about how much of a shit idea this is.
If you want to make your graphics look the quality of a Disney pre-rendered movie... then work toward it, don't just use a lazy filter.
It's as bad as the smoothing filter for pixel games.
DrDadJokes
OFF / ON
Malak224
Who’s that pokemon?
It’s… *Loud screeching noise*
KarenFromTheHOA
Good to see there are no racial biases being incorporated into this tech
Hmuda
I used to buy Nvidia to have DLSS.
In the future I will buy AMD to not have DLSS.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
New iterations of FSR have been quite nice too. Hopefully AMD does not try to imitate here. No one needs this.
snatchingbabies
Theres some good evidence that it wouldnt be possible at any reasonable level of efficiency. FSR will likely keep getting better but were unlikely to see this type of texture upscaling on AMD
DarkParn
I thought you were doing something for the new Hellraiser game coming out.
DrDadJokes
So this is why building a PC cost twice as much as a brand new house
akafluffy
ha, I wish. Houses are now as expensive as yachts used to be.
76000BatteryLlamas
So it grinds up orphans to make the picture slightly lighter
fubizdaddie
I cannot think of anything I want less than to make all of my games look like generative AI video. Did anyone notice that in their demo they needed/used TWO 5090 GPUs? Great now Unreal Engine 5 will run 100% load on one entire GPU so the other can glance at it, throw away the work, and run 100% load to feed me AI slop. Can't wait to need a 32GB GPU consuming as much power as my oven and generating add much heat, just to play games. Entirely fuck Nvidia and the entire triple-A games market.
MCroft07
couldnt agree more, RAM is already hard enough to get, I SPAT my drink out when I saw this took TWO 5090's to run?? It feels like they really do not care to see how gamers are struggling to keep up with tech and the state of the economy with it all. Furthermore, we live in a world where some of the most popular games look like animated cartoons like fortnite, borderlands, zelda, so... why
BlindPiranha
Here's another article for those that don't use Shitter: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-debuts-dlss-5-for-increased-visual-fidelity-in-games-ai-infused-tech-transforms-pixels-with-photorealistic-lighting-and-materials. Keep up the artwork @OP!
Eldibs
Fun fact, there's an add-on for Firefox that automatically replaces all Twitter links with the relevant XCancel link.
KilroyLichking
"Gone are the somewhat flat, uncanny-valley facial details on character models, and in their place are vastly superior hyper-realistic replacements. " and yet it still cant fix the fact that every tod howard npc has dead unblinking eyes
BlindPiranha
"Vastly superior" had my eyes roll so hard they still hurt.
khety1890
Yep. No regards for artstyles
eronth
Neat from a technological standpoint, but fucking weird from a gaming standpoint.
Darkwell
If you assume their version of gaming is "selling glitzy AAA garbage to the least discerning mainstream consumers" then it's 100% for better gaming.
If you like good gameplay and real frames and developer intended art, it's hot horseshit.
pareidoliaperson
He I mean if the AI slop Ads can do it why not AAA??/S
ragekritz
Not neat, very lame
GratuaCuun
The comment section on all the articles about this tech is hilarious - DROWNING in bots and bros repeating how 'this is the future' and 'cavemen need to move with the times' and diatribes about 'all their artist friends who love AI'
Fuckin POP already ya God damn bubble...
TheZerax
If you look at the youtube video comments for this tech, it's hilarious.
UseYourVoice
The bubble will pop, but like the video game crash of the 80's and the .com crash of the 90's, it's just going to wipe out all the smaller, weaker companies. The bigger, stronger ones will still be here and will keep developing AI until it's a part of daily life like video games and the internet.
TheDoctorCrankenstein
Sadly this is most likely what will happen given our current systems.
Hexrowe
Wow. From stylish artwork to generic AI slop with but a flip of a switch!
SOLARvsFACISM
I think thats a cosplayer in body makeup on the right.
mormacil
Pretty sure the image on the right is a real human body painter.
Hexrowe
True, sorry, I was more commenting on the linked promo.
mormacil
Oh on that I agree
CallMeCourierSix
It's posted by Mcroft07, a known body painter. So yes, pretty sure it's safe to assume it's her on the right side of the image.
akafluffy
for this one, look at the link from NVIDIA :(
mormacil
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss5-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelity-for-games/ Where?
akafluffy
It has come to my attention that you're too stupid to engage with, go away, hopefully forever.
EekumBokumEekumBokum
Damn what did he do that warrants that reaction
derpman4k
Yeah uhh no, check who this post is by
Hexrowe
Oh, yeah, post is cool, I meant Nvidia's bullshit.
derpman4k
Aye, valid https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1cHRseDd3dzB2ZDd0ZGU1MXpnMmM2bWdqa285MXBpbG11ZDdldHFyYSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/mgU27SONcSTNfbtGb8/200w.webp
Thorketil
"Announcing NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games..."
AI-powered? Fuck that.
drinkthederpentine
Dlss has been ai powered for literally years. This is absolutely not news. What is different is the new slop instagram filter they're putting over it. Before it was just upscaling and it worked really pretty well. Dlss 4.5 is astoundingly good
HeadJamistan
It's run locally and it's just an LLM, if that helps.
Nostradamuswaswrong
All "AI" are just LLMs.
flail
It's not a Large Language Model that is changing these images lol. It's likely a diffusion model, which is similarly built on scraped images and artwork stolen from the people who actually create things.
drinkthederpentine
It's clearly not an LLM the fuck are you talking about
HeadJamistan
Learning language model. I got downvoted for saying facts. I'm sad that I got misinterpreted.
drinkthederpentine
What. LLM is large language model. That's not what dlss is or has ever been
HeadJamistan
Well shit. My entire comment section is a trainwreck. TIL derp
kydn
If the new DLSS is really doing that (link, not op's pic), it's fucking ugly as shite. It's horrible. It looks like a shit filter from TikTok rather than a proper enhancement to the graphical fidelity of the game.
BigDaddysMeatWagon
What's funny is it isn't even that far off. It looks like an AI "beautify" filter over everything.
heroesblood
It literally looks like they localized Midjourney to a 5090.
BlindPiranha
It just makes me look for retro-styled games from indie devs more. FUBBD (BB=Big Box).
meme2zombie
Yeah even in the rare cases where it does a decent face without changing the expression or making them creepy having a more realistic face on the regular video game art body model in a regular video game art world just highlights how out of place it is.
And that's like the least of the problems with it if it ever went live on an in-motion game.
OverwhelmingSurplusOfDiggity
It’s awesome tech but why the fuck did they choose such a bad demo??
kydn
Advancing technology is fine, but if we want a shit spreader spraying us in the face in the comfort of our home, Ktwo has some more ecologically friendly options
Hexrowe
Is it, really? 'Cos to me it looks like it just turns _everything_ into the same generic recognizably AI-generated imagery. It might have technically more detail, maybe, IDK, but it doesn't look _better._
meme2zombie
And since it's generated it won't be consistent. Every time you look at a character in the game it'll be slightly different, slightly off in new ways. Every time you play a scene the characters will have different expressions on their faces.
meme2zombie
This demo is them cherry picking the best of the best. That should tell you all you need to know about how "awesome" the tech is.
fubizdaddie
This demo also required two 5090 GPUs.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
It really is (according to Nvidia) so, as someone put it, they really just bought the next decade of RAM to make the "Destroys Art Direction" machine.
Arbitrarynamehere
We've been here for a while actually. Ray tracing slapped into games not made for it did the same thing.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
True. Games like Control, Spiderman, and even Minecraft really showed off what it could be like... Then everyone and their mom was like "If we use it game look good!" and boy did it fucking NOT. Ghostwire Tokyo is a great example of it looking FAR better with the raytracing off.
Arbitrarynamehere
Also remakes like Dark Souls did not need lighting engine tweaks because it genuinely killed the intentionality of it. Sometimes things are lit in unnatural ways and that's good