i miss when GPUs just rendered the game, and that was all.
None of this upscaling, AI graphics altering bullshit that is there ultimately to distract from the impotent promises of 4k gaming, which is unnecessarily ridiculous to begin with.
For fucks sakes, I don't want "realistic" graphics, I want high and smooth FPS, they have been calling their games "realistic" for the past 20 years. Just make the game with a unique art style and optimise it.
Every single "realistic graphics" game looks shit after 5 years while Mario is over here still looking great decades after release.
No the games have to look like real life don't you get it? Nevermind that fortnite and Minecraft, the two biggest games out there have cartoonish graphics and literal pixelated cubes no! We need to be able to see the reflection in a drop of sweat! And more AI!
Games should have "style" and "performance"? Bah. What poppycock I say, another billion to the AAAA games! For the investors! /s
I'm playing 10 year old games that go for realistic graphics, and they look just fine.
They don't look like a film, they look like generated graphics. It's not really a problem for immersion anyway.
So traumatised by AI ads on YouTube that I think this post is a tai chi ad.
When will they realize that good graphics does not equal a good game?
Yeah, life has infinite graphics and it's a 3/10 at best.
Not anytime soon since gamers are still overwhelmingly indicating they will pay out the nose for the latest graphics.
I wouldn't use it, even if it was adding performance. Nvidia really found a new technology that is even worse than Frame Generation.
I don’t care about or want this technology
Well its a good thing no one plays games anymore, its just benchmarking and dick measuring right? Right?
Wait, what is even the point of using an upscaling technology if it makes your game run slower than without it? Why wouldn't I just run native res at that point? Is their only point that "it looks better" in their minds?
total polar opposite of its original purpose.
Looking at the basic performance charts Nvidia has provided us so far, the ultra-high frame rate figures are based on 6x Multi Frame Generation.
Let this sink in for a moment.
I want to make sure I understand this right. The 6X here means that for every one real frame generated by the GPU, the next six frames that follow will be AI generated?
I'm pretty sure its 1 real frame every X frames so 6x would be 1 real, 5 generated.
Stop supporting Nvidia. If you don't see the writing on the wall, you're part of the problem.
Inb4 the flak from fanboys who think that a $5 trillion corporation is in their best interest: they certainly aren't in your interests as a gamer, and they're making money (in part) off of those who have forgotten what gaming is about.
Also inb4: yes, losing some frames to not have to deal with Nvidia's bullshit is worth it.
Inb4^2: AMD is not a saint. But whataboutism has never fixed anything.
PhysX, G-Sync, HairFX, etc.
The writing was on the wall for a long time already.
I will never get how Nvidia got THAT popular amongst gamers. Like sure, Nvidia always had some benefits in certain usecases. But how many people were actually capturing game footage as a job and needed the best hw encoders? How many gamers also used their gaming rig also as a workstation for things where CUDA is essential? A lot! For sure. But not >90% market share a lot.
I honestly blame AMD for consistently missing every opportunity to actually be competitive in the space. So much so that they've spawned a phrase. "AMD never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity".
It's not hard for Nvidia to capture the market when AMD doesn't compete at all for anything other than the low end market except in a blue moon. Their name is synonymous with mid range at best cards. If you want high end you literally only have one choice and I say that as someone who owns a 7900 XTX. Even that card, which was designed to be competitive with the 4080, comes with a whole lot of compromises that make the card only competitive in pure raster performance, Linux compatibility, and literally nothing else.
You mentioned some of the technologies that Nvidia cards have. You're right that not everyone needs every feature but being on the other end of that spectrum also sucks. Not having compatible hardware encoders means you take a performance hit every time you screen share your game in discord. Not having CUDA means your card is basically ONLY good for video games (yes I know rocm exists but trying to use it is a frustrating experience compared to CUDA). Having Ray tracing performance that's so far behind the competition means you'll always be making a sacrifice in either quality or performance. Choosing AMD means consistently watching Nvidia create new technologies and waiting for AMD to reinvent them a generation later to lackluster support.
Looking at the basic performance charts Nvidia has provided us so far, the ultra-high frame rate figures are based on 6x Multi Frame Generation. So, while the little RTX 5060 can churn out a 258 fps result in NBA 2K27 at 1080p Ultra settings with ray tracing and DLSS 5 enabled, the game underneath will actually be running at around 43 fps.
I can feel the molasses from here.
Just generate more fake frames with a second 5090!
Nvidia's new SLAI technology!
Not gonna lie, I'd try this in the same way I've tried AI for 5 minutes like a morbid curiosity thing. I'm also gonna admit that I can see it working with a very specific category of games, if it didn't have a performance impact. Those games being the kind of games I have absolutely no interest in; sports games. I can see it for porn games too but I've not played more than a few and didn't really see the appeal, but I can imagine it'd be a cool thing for some people.
None of that has any effect on this being a purely bad thing though, I'd rather stop using technology completely than being forced to use AI in any way.
Saw a Fallout 4 mod that would do this and immediately imagined my PC on fire.
You know what AI reminds me of? That Xavier the renegade angel episode where the monks built that machine to do the monk chants for them and all but two monks remained afterwards and the two that were left in the monastery were playing video games and had put on weight. And the monks said something like: surely engaging in western luxuries will not make us lazy.
Edit : ayyyyy full episode https://www.wco.tv/xavier-renegade-angel-episode-11-vibracaust
Doing a shitty job of something at exorbitant cost? Sounds like "AI" to me!
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