And this is why indie games will probably have a second golden age.

So it uses up way more hardware and power whilst not improving the part of the game were the fun is: gameplay.

What's next NVidia, an AI driver that play the game for you?!

I get why some people would like this, but Nvidia has lost touch with their gaming market.

AI users are their market now, and this is what they want. This is an advertisment to lazy game publishers/developers like Bethesda.

Yeah no at this point nuke the whole fucking company.

"Make it shitty"

It doesn't look like the same character anymore. The right side just looks like something AI hallucinated that is vaguely similar. If that were a real person you wouldn't be able to recognize them anymore.

Also, what the fuck do you call that? "Standard Human Face" ?

AI has never fixed shit ever. It always just makes shit up. I wouldn't even use it to remove the Starbucks cup from Game of Thrones, cause I don't know what the fuck it will put there instead. Whatever it "thinks" is supposed to be there, I guess.

Don't call it DLSS!

Call it AISSS (AI Slop Supersampling)!

They’re being very careful about cutting almost immediately after the DLSS is turned on. It all looks like printed media, not actual video. There’s something very off about the way the details just sort of track along the normals of the surface. Maybe something I’d enable as a novelty in a few rare cases, but certainly not something I’d use to replace any existing solutions.

Edit: There may come a moment in time, like it did for me with RTX (specifically Control) where a game finds a way to work it into the very idea of the look of the game and manages to make DLSS 5 look jaw-droppingly gorgeous. But that will be up to artists, not the geeks at NVIDIA trying to shortcut the artistic process. I can see it being a tool for some rare games, and those are the few I’m actually really looking forward to.

What happened to that woman?

Maaaan.... I really wish they'd fuck off with this shit, but it's only going to get worse because this is how they're going to push cloud gaming given it takes 2 5090's to achieve this, and dummies will help them because she's hotter now.

A long way down this road there are a bunch of morons voluntarily plugging themselves into the matrix, dick first.

Thanks! I hate it!

DLSS 5: For when 85% fake frames and 75% fake pixels just isn't enough!

AI filters on the end result that basically kills the soul of the art direction. I can see a game parody that capitalizes on this.

Leaving aside the question of artistic intent, does this not lead to every player having a different experience? Or maybe even every session? DLSS 5 seems to fill in a looot of details and even changing things. How are they making sure it's the same for every player?

Nvidia actually used two RTX 5090s for its demos: one plays the game, the other exclusively runs the DLSS 5 technology. The use of two GPUs is required right now as DLSS 5 still has a long way to go in terms of optimisation - both in terms of performance and its VRAM footprint. However, DLSS 5 is designed for use on a single GPU and that's how it will ship later this year.

So much easier when you can just throw 2x the hardware at things. Let's wait and see how it works on a single card.

Also, guessing it will be set up so developers can turn it on and off as needed in their game. If they make it a user-facing global setting, it will quickly turn into a meme generator.

Edit: Option B it is: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/nvidia-dlss-5-has-become-the-source-of-many-memes-as-the-backlash-continues/

How much does this increase my carbon footprint?

Am I able to compete with the likes of Taylor Swift or Elon Musk if I use this?

oof the dislike ratio on this video is brutal. 23k likes but 49k dislikes, at least according to PiePipe.

as it should be. DF has instantly lost all the credibility they worked so hard to earn for so many years.

Meanwhile my windows PC restarts if I launch a game with kernel level anti-cheat, after updating my GPU driver a few months ago. Just tried the new driver, instant reboot.

MS and Nvidia are fucking entirely made of vibe-coding morons, and apparently testing is no longer needed.

What happens when you apply this to a game in a cartoonish style? Is it going to look like those unsettling renders of the Simpsons characters with life like human skin?

This is not even remotely close to being a released product so far as I can tell. It's running on two RTX 5090s in series.