Jolt Country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJACkKbN-Eo

I don't have much to say here. My limitted understanding is that previous versions of DLSS would use a pattern matching algorithm to generate part of an image, so that it looks/performs better at an upscaled resolution than it would by actually performing the upscaling. This new version says fuck all that, let's make everyone look like an instagram model. This has been met with almost universal dislike by what you could conservatively call the internet. Which is sort of heartening, right, that in 2026 something can happen and we all agree that it's bad?
Everyone, that is, except Mr. Nvidia himself:
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-compone ... 5-backlash

Who are you gonna believe, your own eyes or the man personally responsible for doubling the price of your next computer to satisfy investers?

It's dogshit, absolute dogshit.

I hate how that standard AI sheen looks on things and they think people want it in their games. Hahaha. I am sure the idea is they think we will want to subscribe to the crap, too.

They are competing against the 4 trillion other games already made. It sucks. It's fucking cheeks.

When the guy states that: "everyone is wrong" is a big red flag. Especially when the guy wants to sell video cards to everyone.

See, he wears a LEATHER JACKET!!!!! AS A CEO!!!! HE KNOWS WHAT COOL IS!!!!!!!!!!

"Well, first of all, they're completely wrong," Huang said in response to a question from Tom's Hardware editor-in-chief Paul Alcorn about the criticism."

No, they are 100% correct, his dumb ass and dumbfuck developers proudly announced and revealed a feature that makes good games look like the smashed up feces a puppy creates when it poops in its cage.

I know it's not the way to sell stuff.

"Hello, I'd like to buy a pizza."

"Oh no, that's not what you want."

Yes it is because your food is mostly garbage, the pizza is slightly less garbage than everything else on the menu."

" Oh no, you're wrong."

Click

I don't quite understand the rage with this one people are having. You don't have to enable it! If it was forced on us then eh...

Other video card settings have divided people in the past such as bloom, lighting engines, etc for years and this feels like the same thing. At one point a very long time ago I honestly preferred software rendered quake II over blurry 3d via an actual video card and it frustrated me when some games just REQUIRED a video card. Star Wars - Phantom Menace comes to mind. That game could have totally been made to work using nothing but a good CPU and a higher RAM requirement.



I finally owned a PC with a video card maybe a year before the DOOM III alpha leaked, and never played Quake 2 or 1 in software rendered mode ever again lol.

Jizaboz wrote: Thu Mar 19, 2026 9:42 pmI don't quite understand the rage with this one people are having. You don't have to enable it! If it was forced on us then eh...

Well, my take is - It looks terrible. It is objectively a stupid and useless feature. The modified Resident Evil gal looks like every fake broad these dumb AI companies are trying to use to sell us things we can already do. It destroys the vision of the artists that worked on RE.

Add that to the clueless CEO screeching about how we are all wrong, and the fact that this AI crap is starting to wear out its welcome. Everything is more expensive because of AI, these dumb AI centers are bad for the environment and - for what? To make a game look worse?

That is my take.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Thu Mar 19, 2026 10:08 pm Add that to the clueless CEO screeching about how we are all wrong, and the fact that this AI crap is starting to WAR out its welcome.

(that's totally how I read that line lol)

I feel ya tho, which is why I brought up the Quake II example. Sometimes, just because it's new doesn't make it cool.

Right, and other people have said this, but it would not surprise me if nVidia eventually wants you to pay for a subscription for this stuff. So it is better for me to mock and humiliate it in my own little way. Nobody was gross enough to think they could have you subscribed to Quake bloom. "Oh hai, better pay my bloom bill this month." THat is how that garbage actually thinks.

It looks like AI slop. The only good use I can see for it is for porn games. (According to a friend of mine.)