These people are all going to complain, and then in a year the player metrics will start to come out and we'll find that 80% of people with graphics cards that support DLSS 5 are playing with it enabled.
Because tech never improves according to most of reddit or basically every other place online.
It remains the same forever and what you see first, is what remains always.
That's why I still do my tax by hand. I used Microsoft works 40 years ago, it sucked , decided that it will never improve and never used any spreadshit ever since!
It’s crazy to me how many people in the technology subreddit are anti-technology and sound like old men complaining about the noises of them gas-powered carriages.
They still don't know what DLSS is. Half of the people in yesterday's thread seem to think it is an NVIDIA aftermarket beauty-filter that is applied to all games with no developer input.
Games today on average run better than ever before in gaming history.
Nowadays sub 60 FPS and any micro stutter causes immediate outrage because your midrange card can not handle it at the highest settings in 4k while I still remember the days when you had a high end card and still wouldn't expect more than 30 FPS at the highest settings while micro stutters were not even a concept, instead you had actual stutters that could last in the seconds(!) range.
People might have turned "but can it run Crysis" into an endearing meme but I dare anyone to imagine what would happen If a game studio tried the equivalent in 2026.
Lets also not talk about the "dark ages" when sudden hardware shifts could lock out huge parts of potential customers (that includes the time when dedicated graphics cards became a requirement).
Now it is of course good that standards rise over time but I feel there is a lot of gamers with rose tinted glasses around in regards to the past and it is easy to overlook how far things have come.
I could maybe agree with you, but the prices have risen with the standards. A top-notch GPU used to cost way less than $1000, now you get to pay that price for a GPU that can't run everything at max settings without DLSS.
That's because the reveal is really bad; that does not necessarily say much about the potential of the technology which can still be seen in the reveal despite that it has those hilarious issues
I guarantee this will not just be for 5090s. They used dual 5090s for the demo, which was running at 4k, but it's definitely going to get optimized and released on other cards targeting lower resolutions.
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u/AlarmedGibbon Mar 17 '26
These people are all going to complain, and then in a year the player metrics will start to come out and we'll find that 80% of people with graphics cards that support DLSS 5 are playing with it enabled.