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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

I never run the upscaling it looks and feels so bad.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (14 children)

Gee, we've had over a half century of computer graphics at this point. However, suddenly when a technology arises that requires obscene amount of GPU's to generate a results a GPU manufacturer is here to tell us that all computer graphics without that new technology is dead for... reasons. I cannot see any see any connections between these points.

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[–] MuAraeOracle 6 points 3 months ago

Sounds like a skill issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I don't know enough, but it sounds like Unix kernel will need a new way to separately give access to TPUs.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the premise seems flawed, i think.

i feel what he's saying is: we suck optimizing gfx performance now because gamers deem ai upscale quality as passable

this feels opposite to what the ps poll says that gamers enable performance mode more because the priority is more stable frames than shiny anti aliasing/post processing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't see how that's the case. Most people prefer more fps over image quality, so minor artifacting from DLSS is preferable to the game running much slower with cleaner image quality. That is consistent with the PS data (which wasn't a poll, to my understanding).

I also dispute the other assumption, that "we suck at optimizing performance". The difference between now and the days of the 1080Ti when you could just max out games and call it a day, is that we're targeting 4K at 120fps and up, as opposed to every game maxing out at 1080p60. There is no target for performance on PC anymore, every game can be cranked higher. We are still using CounterStrike for performance benchmarks, running at 400-1000fps. There will never be a set performance target again.

If anything, optimization now is sublime. It's insane that you can run most AAA games on both a Steam Deck and a 4090 out of the same set of drivers and executables. That is unheard of. Back in the day the types of games you could run on both a laptop and a gaming PC looked like WoW instead of Crysis. We've gotten so much better at scalability.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This feels like its establishing a precedent for widespread adoption/implementation of AI into consumer devices. Manufactured consent.

"We compute one pixel... we hallucinate, if you will, the other 32."

Between this and things like Sora, we are doomed to drown in illusions of our own creation.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago (8 children)

If the visuals are performant and consistent, why do we care? I have always been baffled by the obsession with "real pixels" in some benchmarks and user commentary.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I been playing old games on private servers. Its been nice.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Star Wars Galaxies or PSO?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately PSU, as all my friends veto'd me for PSO first. But PSOBB is next, and hopefully by then Team Clementine will have released their PSO2 Original.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You’re lucky to have friends into the same stuff, I couldn’t pay my friends to play an MMO. I got one girlfriend too, but she didn’t like how much I played. I never got to play BB, what’s it like? And PSO2 was my favorite, the memories… A chance to get back into that, dare I say, it almost felt perfect somehow.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tell me of these PSO private servers you speak of.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Can’t say there is one, at least not yet. The talks for PSO2.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago

RIP the future of high end computer graphics. 1972 to 2024. You had a good run.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago

Sounds like a bad thing tbh.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

Chasing graphics has lead to directions nobody could predict and I'm glad I don't play these games.

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