Poll: Do you care about ray tracing / upscaling?

[Mopetar]

Almost universally it was an improvement for Bethesda characters. Probably because Bethesda seems to have serious problem making human faces... Maybe I'd turn it on in some Bethesda games.

Bethesda is using a decades old engine that they've tacked improvements onto over the years. It's never going to make anything as good as their contemporaries using more modern tech can put out. Better looking faces wouldn't do much to fix Starfield or any of the other recent Bethesda titles.

This technology would work a lot better if it were in the middle of the render pipeline so that it can be selectively applied and then other effects can be layered overtop. The main problem is that it's going to be expensive and require additional memory and for the foreseeable future that limits it to the top few percent of the market that can afford the $$$$ GPU that can do it without cratering the frame rate.

 

[DavidC1]

I don't hate the faces, as much as most people. I don't think it makes all the characters look the same either.

No, they kinda do: https://hotpot.ai/ai-character-generator

Nvidia's demo shots are basically "Realistic, HD" prompts of the many char generators out there. Depending on the char generator, you can see that it doesn't know how to really get out of the basic "mold" that it has of human faces.

Also, males are of much more subtle changes with DLSS5, over females and why Grace in Resident Evil has makeup added on(where it doesn't exist in the original), because actual pictures of women online tend to have heavy makeup on over males that really don't, so the output is a rough representation of everyone online.

The main problem is that it's going to be expensive and require additional memory and for the foreseeable future that limits it to the top few percent of the market that can afford the $$$$ GPU that can do it without cratering the frame rate.

Nvidia! We're on to you! We know your strategies!

 

[Win2012R2]

males are of much more subtle changes with DLSS5

Less of them on instagram... ?

 

[DavidC1]

Less of them on instagram... ?

They exist, but naturally they care much less about putting makeup. How many guys do you know of doing it regularly? Many don't even care about putting skin care products like cream. And social media is basically all about that.

AI is about scraping every available data on the net so it makes sense.

The bigger problem in all this is they are doing this at the cost of everything, environment in the towns the datacenters are in, increased electricity costs, massive waste, and all consumer electronics prices going up.

 

[Win2012R2]

The bigger problem in all this is they are doing this at the cost of everything, environment in the towns the datacenters are in, increased electricity costs, massive waste, and all consumer electronics prices going up.

I find your lack of faith in our future AI overloards disturbing

 

[Geranium]

Yeah no.... just no....

Is the native version running on low setting with DLSS ultra performance? That face looks it is from ps2 era with 800x600 resolution, not like recent RE Engine game with good face like RE2 Remake, RE3 Remake or RE4 Remake.

 

[NTMBK]

Bethesda is using a decades old engine that they've tacked improvements onto over the years. It's never going to make anything as good as their contemporaries using more modern tech can put out. Better looking faces wouldn't do much to fix Starfield or any of the other recent Bethesda titles.

This technology would work a lot better if it were in the middle of the render pipeline so that it can be selectively applied and then other effects can be layered overtop. The main problem is that it's going to be expensive and require additional memory and for the foreseeable future that limits it to the top few percent of the market that can afford the $$$$ GPU that can do it without cratering the frame rate.

Unreal Engine is also a decades old engine that has been iteratively improved. Starting a whole new engine from scratch at this stage is an insane endeavour.