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[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 92 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Fake resolution is what it is.

And you know what it does have one use for me. I do like me my 4K monitors, but some games are simply too much for that. And rendering them at lower resolutions almost NEVER works without completely breaking full screen or something else. DLSS on the other hand pretends to be 4K and everything works again.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 57 points 1 week ago

Fake resolution has it's place, the problem is when Nvidia pressures reviewers to put its cards running a fake resolution against other cards running native resolution on benchmark charts.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I’ll take fake resolution for other framerates as long as it looks good enough! I play at 1440p though, because I don’t think mid-high level hardware is really there for 4k120+ yet.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i just wish it wasn't the general direction the industry had decided to push things.

it's become the expected norm. it's the performance metric games are optimized to hit now, and it's far from prefect.

i was just playing red dead 2 yesterday with dlss and i was legitimately struggling to do some things due to the artifacting. like there are some small missions and challenges that require you to find and shoot specific tiny birds with a bow, but dlss struggles with small things flying across a dynamic background. the birds would literally fade in and out of existence.

same thing with trying to snipe distant heads. the little red fatal zone indicator would ghost like hell and fade in and out.

like, it may be better than needing to drop your resolution, but it still kind of sucks sometimes.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 2 points 6 days ago

95% of those issues would disappear if there was a rendering hint layer for the games to use to mark which details needs to be rendered in higher quality, so the game engine would ensure that important details doesn't disappear.

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[–] AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A buddy of mine was locked up from 03 - 17. He was asking me, questions like " do you have Playstation 3, what kind of phone do you have?" ...

He said " man I know I missed a lot but people are so rude now. I was talking to my cousin and instead of talking to me he was looking at his phone. That is disrespectful." I said yeah man the world changed a lot. Felt terrible for him trying to integrate back into this bull shit.

He went away for the craziest shift in society I could imagine.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I miss 2003. So many bangers from that year. Ignition by R. Kelly. Picture by Kid Rock/Sheryl Crow. P. Diddy's party anthems Shake Ya Tailfeather and Bump, Bump, Bump. You could tune into The Apprentice to learn about business and enjoy Donald Trump's timeless one-liners, or The West Wing to learn about the American presidency, maybe a little Chappelle's Show for some laughs. Apparently it was also the first year we could all go hop on 4chan and Google Adsense for the first time. Anyway, it kinda makes you wonder what all those folks are up to now. I hope they're well.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 2 points 6 days ago

I was a roller skating rink DJ when Shake Ya Tailfeather came out. It had the place so hyped up I had security tell me to cut the song off before it finished. People jumping up amd dancing on tables and shit. It was wild. That song was definitely a banger.

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You just reminded me of why Y2K era nostalgia makes me ill.

I was working part time in a mall and heard all this shit on repeat, and my co-workers were quoting The Chappelle Show because it was ok to be racist if a black guy said it first.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're being downvote because you are correct. The culture in 2000s America was trashy at best. The CIA psyop was in full effect (project mockingbird) and everyone was dancing to the rhythm of the patriotic drum, and being asleep at the wheel.

The cartoons of the mid to late 2000s were pretty good though, it must be said

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[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (28 children)

Reminder: Temporal, proprietary upscalers are only made mandatory by devs, that actively refuse to make a properly functioning product.

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reminder: Most devs actually care about the things they make. This is a management/timeline problem, not a developer one.

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Well, I should have clarified by devs, I mean the entire companies, not the individuals. It's a collective problem, not an individual one.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

And/or consumers insisting on playing in 4K because "big number" even though fill rate is a huge issue with modern games and you can barely tell the difference on most setups. Which would not be so bad if they also didn't want ever increasing graphical fidelity and 120+ fps on top of that

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

4k is absolutely an upgrade over 1440p. I have two of them (an LCD and an OLED) and I absolutely love them in every game I play. I will admit that I'm in the super minority and because of my work history I've spent a lot of time looking at a lot of displays so I'm more sensitive to various artifacts than the normal person. And in games I always prefer looks over resolution, it needs to drop down to like 40fps or lower for me to start changing settings.

Basically, it was worth it for me but probably won't be for you. OLED is a significantly actual upgrade. You should get an OLED it'll change your life.

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[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I couldn't even imagine what seeing PC games for the first time in 2025 feels like, after not seeing them since 2011.

Do you think they were blown away? Or maybe disappointed that we still don't have photorealistic graphics yet? I wish I could speak with this person so I could pick their brain.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Dude we're still playing classic wow and runescape, that guy hasn't missed anything

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 15 points 1 week ago

Arkham City, Crysis 2, Skyrim. It really hasn't changed much. They've spent most of their time wanking over higher resolution and nicer reflections.

For comparison there was 14 years between this:

and this:

[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly, the jump from 2011 to 2025 doesn't seem nearly as steep as say 2000-2011. Sure games look better today but 2011 games still hold up. In 2000, 3d graphics were still new and most titles are considered unplayable now in terms of graphics and controls

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

And 3D was the "AI" of those times. They had to bring it to EVERYTHING. Micro Machines (a top view toy car racer)? We'll make it 3D, buy a card. Frogger? Yupp, Frogger 3D. They even tried to force 3D on poor Worms in 2003. I still prefer Worms World Party/Armageddon.

[–] WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge was genuinely great though

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Don't forget all the 3d movies too.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"I remember 14 years ago when my GPU used to draw almost 400 watts. Crazy right? Anyways, how is GPU power consumption these days?"

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

"I budgeted about $500 for my GPU, that should be able to get me a high end card right?"

(That's like $750 today, adjusted for inflation, btw)

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll take dlss, frame gen, and dynamic resolution over dropping a static resolution any day.

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