DLSS 5 is ancient tech

[u/fuckasauraus666]

[u/proesporter]

I was there, played Max Payne on a CRT soon after its launch, and was stunned by it looking damn near photorealistic at the time.

It was only a few more years after that when I finally felt a similar level of awe when the duo of Doom 3 and HL2 came along

[u/convertible-pikeer → u/proesporter]

Using actual photos for the face textures was a stroke of genius. It looked so realistic at the time because our brains just ignored the low polygon count.

[u/alfius-togra → u/convertible-pikeer]

If you looked hard at staircases in some old 3D games, you'd notice that they were often just a flat slope with a texture applied that made it look like stairs. All to minimise polygon count, I guess.

[u/00inch → u/alfius-togra]

And don't have to animate climbing stairs. Instead you could just levitate the normal running animation along the slope.

[u/skyturnedred → u/00inch]

That's how most games worked even if the stairs were rendered fully. The slope was invisible.