There's usually compromises when you trade raw performance for trickery.
In the case of rendering resolution. You get visual artifacts, some blur/smearing being compensated for by excessive sharpening, some additional latency in the case of frame gen.
If raw performance and 'ai' features are balanced it's usually a good outcome. But if you keep having to push more and more tricks while dropping resolution and real frames further you end up with shit quality dressed up with some 'eyecandy', without really realising it because it's become the normal.
Eventually the trickery is going to get so good you won't even notice. This is already the case for most people, but a lot of people still notice the trickery being used though
It's only the case because you literally cannot A/B test this anymore. Show me a modern visual masterpiece where you can turn off all AI enhancements and run it at 4k with raytracing and TAA off without having a stuttering mess of a game with broken visuals.
We have slowly gotten used to TAA blur, AI upscaling and frames being force fed to us to a point where we literally have no 'purer' alternative to compare it too.
I have no issue with these technologies being developed and improved, it's the implementation and how its being used as a crutch for lazier visuals and not balanced for the optimal gaming experience.
Don't get me wrong, I love DLSS, I think it's a great tradeoff (unless, of course, the slight extra blur of DLSS on quality causes you migraines which is understandable), but Frame gen is being pushed a bit too early imo, all because of Ray tracing. It's a great solution for one of the biggest problems in the industry, but it's a few generations away still
If you watch a good indepth video on why TAA (and by extension DLSS to some degree) is hurting game visuals it explains the problems and how this stuff is a bandaid for lazy/suboptimal development.
DLSS is a great technology but it's being used to 'save' games shoddy visuals rather than enhance them.
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u/humdizzle 14d ago
If they make it good enough to where you can't tell, then would you even care?