Upscaling and Frame Generation are disasters meant to conceal unfulfilled promises from GPU makers for 4k gaming, and as a coverup for the otherwise horrible performance some modern games have, even at 1080/1440p resolutions.

Upscaling will never, no matter how much AI and overhead you throw at it, create an image that is as good as the same scene rendered at native res.

Frame Generation is a joke, and I am absolutely gobsmacked that people even take it seriously. It is nothing but extra AI frames shoved into your gameplay, worsening latency, response times, and image quality, all so you can artificially inflate a number. 30FPS gaming is, and will always be, infinitely better as an experience, than AI frame doubling a 30fps experience to 60FPS.

and because both these technologies exist, game devs are pushing out less optimized to completely unoptomized games that run like absolute dogshit, requiring you to use upscaling and shit even at 1080p just to get reasonable frame rates on GPUs that should run it just fine if it was optimized better (and we know its optimization, because some of these games do end up getting that optimization pass long after launch, and wouldnt you know… 9fps suddenly became 60fps)

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    5 days ago

    Ray tracing is still prolly fecade away for mainstream too

    Tech has been fake promises at least since covid

    Nothing really changed practically for gaming since peak 2015 period.

    Just more MTX and scamming

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      5 days ago

      Oh, believe me, I agree… I agree so hard thats a worthy of a whole different post, lol.

      Its capable of making pretty screenshots. But ultimately its a pointless tax that serves no real purpose besides artificially increasing the price of GPUs. . . because what better way to increase the price of a GPU than to start tacking other features onto it, Right nVidia?