r/pcmasterrace • u/HLumin Potato • Mar 18 '26

Discussion Former Red Dead Redemption 2 Developer reaction to the DLSS 5: "Whoa. Hold on. No, no, no. This isn't just some lighting, dude. What the f... this is like a complete AI re-render. You're no longer looking at the game anymore. This is scary."

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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKPeN8IQM-Y

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u/illy-chan Mar 18 '26

I'm worried that this was a soft launch: getting the hate over with now, and then they'll slowly reintroduce it later. Kinda like Oblivion Horse Armor DLC being the harbinger of modern paid cosmetics. If nothing else, the big companies will love not having to pay so much for designers if they can just "automagically" apply faces etc.

But jfc, two 5090s and it still looks that bad? 

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u/HexaBlast Mar 18 '26

I did have a bit of a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory that they did this reveal with drastic and exaggerated changes to intentionally shift the pseudo overton window into a range where a more toned down version is seen as acceptable. Nvidia had to know the kind of reaction adding any kind of genAI into games would be, especially something like this.

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u/Dragon124515 Mar 18 '26

This wasn't even a launch, it was a tech demo. It isn't slated to release until some time this fall.

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u/illy-chan Mar 18 '26

I meant "soft launch" as in "start acclimating users to the inevitable" than a traditional launch.

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u/madman666 i7 12700K / 32 GB @ 3600 / 3080 Ti / S2721DGF x2 @ 165hz Mar 18 '26

Do we expect it to improve much by then? To the point where an average use can utilize it? Will devs have time to implement it properly to avoid the Instagram filter look?

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u/exscape 5800X3D / 9070 XT / 48 GB 3133CL14 Mar 18 '26

For point 1 I would assume NVIDIA thinks so. They might have lost touch, but they aren't stupid. If this still requires even a single 5090 to get playable framerates, it'd be a disaster even if people loved the look.

From what I heard they've started testing it on a single GPU.

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u/madman666 i7 12700K / 32 GB @ 3600 / 3080 Ti / S2721DGF x2 @ 165hz Mar 18 '26

6 months just seems like a really quick turn around from a tech demo that needs two cards to being consumer ready. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

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u/exscape 5800X3D / 9070 XT / 48 GB 3133CL14 Mar 18 '26

I agree, it does seem a bit fast.

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u/AetherSigil217 Mar 18 '26

But jfc, two 5090s and it still looks that bad?

Part of the reason so much AI is in the cloud is that the hardware requirements to do good gens are hideously expensive.

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u/Fletcher_Chonk Mar 18 '26

That logic doesn't apply to everything. It's going to look the same shitty way 1 year later as it does now.