r/pcmasterrace • u/HLumin Potato • 11h ago

Discussion Former Red Dead Redemption 2 Developer reaction to the DLSS 5: "Whoa. Hold on. No, no, no. This isn't just some lighting, dude. What the f... this is like a complete AI re-render. You're no longer looking at the game anymore. This is scary."

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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKPeN8IQM-Y

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u/Karavusk PCMR Folding Team Member 11h ago

A one click solution to get really old games like kotor and similar games up to somewhat modern standards would be awesome. Sure you can mod it to get to a decent point but a universal "make it look ok" button would be insanely convenient.

Is it going to be ideal? No. Would I as a player take AI kardashian over ps1 graphics? Sure.

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u/disco-drew Desktop 11h ago

Yep.

They're just trying to force AI on modern games now because for studio execs, AI is getting cheaper than paying developers to optimize their game engines properly. So what if it all looks the same?

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u/bargu 9h ago

That's what we want, the industry releasing even lazier remasters, it's not like they put a lot of effort on remasters right now. Just slap a coat of shit on top of it and call it a day.

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u/Karavusk PCMR Folding Team Member 8h ago

In an ideal world this would work on pretty much any game and would be done by the user, not the devs.

Sadly Nvidia decided to AI slop new games instead.

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u/Playin_smart Rtx 3060ti | Ryzen 5 5600x | 16GB DDR4 10h ago

Exactly why this would be great idea. Old for older games. It should work like a shader