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[–] emptyother@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago

A patch?! A big one this time?

I'm looking forward to return to it.. As soon as im done with Alan Wake, AC Mirage, BG3, Cities Skylines 2, and Cyberpunk 2077 PL. Jeez, what a few great gaming months it has been.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I will never, ever get the obsession with DLSS. It runs on a single manufacturer's cards, and it only serves to increase framerates -- the need for which generally points to other issues with any game.

It is kind of like "true motion" effects on TVs ten years ago. Adding frames for frames' sake.

[–] stillwater@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

What's so hard to understand about sacrificing a bit of latency and a few visual nits for much better and more consistent framerate?

As much as the notion of developers getting lazy about optimizing for hardware is real, you really have to ignore a lot to suggest upscaling technology is snake oil.

[–] prof@infosec.pub 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For some DLSS can mean the difference between an okay experience or a refund. It's a band-aid you put on a badly optimised game, but it works.

Adding frames becomes relevant when you're starting to go below 60 or 30 fps, depending on your taste. And while I don't enjoy it only working on Nvidia cards either, they still have a quasi-monopoly on the GPU market, so I'm glad they're still thinking up new things instead of stagnating.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago

But still a band aid. Band aids are always band aids.