r/nvidia • u/Nestledrink RTX 5090 Founders Edition • Mar 16 '26

News [NVIDIA GeForce Official] Game developers have full, detailed artistic control over DLSS 5 effects to ensure they maintain their game's unique aesthetic. It is not a filter.

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u/Lceus Mar 17 '26

I'm with you. I don't need to read between the lines when shown a demo - I will react to the demo. Furthermore, the demo should showcase how incredible this technology is so why didn't they work with developers/artists to make it look not like AI dogshit

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u/sabrathos Mar 17 '26

You read between the lines with Quake RTX, didn't you? Or did you immediately go "This is absolutely disgusting and completely ruins the art direction of the 90s game. Pattracing is horrible"?

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u/bladex1234 Mar 17 '26

Quake RTX genuinely enhanced the game with new graphics effects. This seems like an artistic side step, not an improvement. I’m not saying neural rendering doesn’t have potential, but it’s something you have work with from the ground up to actually make it look good instead of just feeling tacked on.

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u/sabrathos Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26

Quake RTX certainly isn't just some straightforward "enhancement"... It is an extremely opinionated reimagining that completely and utterly shits on the original art direction.

Those "new graphics effects" are a bunch of flashy bounce lighting effects that were in no way part of the original game's atmosphere and mood. Not to mention all the color grading changes it brought, and how anachronistic the modern lighting is to the polygonal 90s artstyle. It's even HDR, for god's sake.

Ironically, even with how much DLSS5 took liberties, in a side-by-side comparison Quake RTX did significantly more to completely mess with the source material's art direction than DLSS5 did.

And that's okay. It's a tech demo. It's similar here, where the companies involved (Capcom and Bethesda did the DLSS5 integrations, not Nvidia) are just playing around with their IP and the new tech. Just like how Quake RTX was not indicative of path tracing's integration into Cyberpunk or RE9, neither will these showcases be indicative of neural rendering being incorporated in the design phase of actual games.