Nvidia proudly revealed DLSS 5 on Monday evening, likely expecting the gaming industry to shower it with praise and marvel at its technical prowess. That’s not what happened. The footage shown has been accused of making games, particularly their characters, look like they’ve been passed through a crude AI filter, and what started as a slew of disgusted reactions from gamers has quickly turned into Nvidia being roundly mocked following its reveal.
Nvidia’s DLSS 5 Is The Internet’s Main Character Right Now For All The Wrong Reasons
Nvidia’s DLSS 5 reveal includes footage from Resident Evil Requiem, Starfield, Hogwarts Legacy, and more. It shows how the games are supposed to look, and then applies its AI-powered coat of paint. DLSS 5 is supposedly working its magic with the in-game lighting; however, the “after” images make the likes of Grace and Leon look very different from their original models, and I don’t think it’s unfair of me to say that most people don’t like it.
That’s why, after banging their collective head against the proverbial wall again as AI continues to be shoehorned into parts of the gaming industry where gamers don’t want it, the internet did what it does best – make memes. Those memes have almost exclusively been side-by-side images of what video game characters look like first without, and then with Nvidia’s new DLSS tech applied, and of course, one of the first ports of call was Sonic.
More specifically, movie Sonic. Sonic Paradox shared an image of movie Sonic, and then a matching image of the character’s original big-screen design that was infamously so bad that it resulted in the first movie getting delayed. Next up, we have Withers, who, if given the DLSS 5 treatment, gets his wrinkles smoothed out and grows breasts, at least according to llarissel. I can only assume that the post-DLSS 5 image is taken from footage of someone playing Baldur’s Gate 3 with the Withers Big Naturals mod enabled. I wouldn’t know anything about that, of course.
I’m Getting Worrying Live-Action Remake From This DLSS 5 Filter
Okami13_ has jumped on the chance to revisit that unpopular first look we were shown of Kratos in Amazon’s upcoming live-action God of War adaptation. The first image shows Kratos in God of War Ragnarok before he is transformed into the maligned glimpse of the live-action version we were shown last month.
You know something related to video games is really bad when it finds its way out into the real world, and that has already happened for DLSS 5. Not in a good way, but in a meme way, since that’s why we’re here. Even Domino’s Pizza has been poking fun, its UK account shared a picture of a pizza that looks like it was made in MS Paint being given the DLSS treatment, turning it into the real thing.
It’ll be fascinating to see where Nvidia goes from here, along with the studios that were seemingly okay with their games being used to showcase tech that has gone down like a lead balloon. Bethesda has already tried to pour water on the DLSS fire, whereas Capcom remains radio silent. Capcom’s reaction, if it has one, will be particularly interesting, since it’s the DLSS 5 version of Grace from Requiem that has been used the most by gamers to demonstrate just how much they dislike the AI-powered images the model creates.
- Date Founded
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April 1, 1993
- CEO
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Jensen Huang
- Subsidiaries
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Mellanox Technologies, Cumulus Networks, NVIDIA Advanced Rendering Center
- Headquarters
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Santa Clara, California, United States
