Nvidia DLSS 5 Delivers AI-Powered Breakthrough in Visual Fidelity for Games

p_ing wrote: post #3

> The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Interesting, given this game was shortly abandoned after release with major performance issues.

I think they are just injecting the new DLSS on it, no changes from the developers.

Edit: wrong, they are mentioned in the article and will support it themselves.

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Post by dandellion » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 7:08 PM UTC

I really don't like how it changes the face of the girl and looks like someone different or like they had a bad plastic surgery. The other characters also slip into uncanny territory.

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Post by Hamuko » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 8:53 PM UTC

dandellion wrote: post #5

I really don't like how it changes the face of the girl and looks like someone different or like they had a bad plastic surgery. The other characters also slip into uncanny territory.

Yeah, the fact that she looks like she's been ran through a prompt "make her look hotter" is a major turn-off. Feels like I'm being sold real-time AIslop. I'd always turn this feature off based on this demo. Can't imagine that the artists behind these games are particularly happy about Nvidia changing their designs this much either.

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Post by hatingisok » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 8:57 PM UTC

I hope this will work on NES emulators.

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Post by nhinck2 » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 9:08 PM UTC

dandellion wrote: post #5

I really don't like how it changes the face of the girl and looks like someone different or like they had a bad plastic surgery. The other characters also slip into uncanny territory.

Also taking a dirty foggy environment and sanitising it.

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Post by hmry » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 9:26 PM UTC

The demo video (https://x.com/NVIDIAGeForce/status/2033617732147810782) is even less appealing than the screenshot. The old woman at 00:20 especially looks awful!

This has all the worst aspects of AI-generated faces. Unfitting high contrast lighting that doesn't match the environment, shiny plastic-looking skin, and only barely resembling the original likeness. It's like an Instagram yassification beauty filter.

I'll be honest, I don't know enough to judge whether it's impressive that they can generate these kinds of faces (that were state-of-the-art two years ago?) in real time now, on an $8000 dual-GPU prosumer desktop. But artistically, it serves less as an ad and more as a warning to stay away from this tech. I'm surprised someone thought this was a good showcase.

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Post by gdulli » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 9:31 PM UTC

hmry wrote: post #9

The demo video ( https://x.com/NVIDIAGeForce/status/2033617732147810782 ) is even less appealing than the screenshot. The old woman at 00:20 especially looks awful! This has all the worst aspects of AI-generated faces. Unfitting high contrast lighting that doesn't match the environment, shiny plastic-looking skin, and only barely resembling the original likeness. It's like an Instagram yassification beauty filter. I'…

The uncanny valley remains undefeated.