IceStorm

"Guy that sells shovels says you should spend 50% of your salary in shovels".

@nimlot26 @IanCutress Tell us you didn’t watch his video without telling us you didn’t watch his video.

People keep sending me Daniel Owen's video which basically states that DLSS5 is an instagram filter because it uses just one frame and a motion vector. While his questions were valid and he actually got the replies he needed, his lack of basic technical understanding took him to the wrong conclusion. A lot of you have a very hard time understanding the basics of how a frame is rendered in your game and what kind of information is available before postprocessing and straight up went to the idea is that a rendered frame is like the screenshot you saved on your disk. @ado_tan and his friends have some amazing breakdowns about how different games render stuff. I suggest you to dive on his blog and check all of them out. This way maybe you will understand a bit more about how games are rendered. Here you have an article he wrote about how GTA5 renders a frame. I'm sure it will be eye opening for a lot of you. Till you do your research...I'll just go and play Crimson Desert.

@IntelGraphics @IntelGaming Please reach out to Pearl Abyss. Would be a shame if Panther Lake laptops and B580 owners were unable to play @crimsondesert_

@hamsterinjar Property management should have an emergency 24x7 line for you to call.

@hamsterinjar No voicemail? No e-mail? No twitter account? I would report them now, even if is after hours, and if this a safety issue, call the police.

Trump’s EPA is working overtime to gut the protections that limit harmful vehicle pollution. No science. No facts. Just a decision that puts the health of millions of Americans’ at risk. California is leading this effort to fight back!

Death Stranding 2 developer offers nuanced take on Resident Evil Requiem's DLSS 5 makeover: "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no" gamesradar.com/games/resident…

not a trans person in a public restroom not a drag queen not an illegal immigrant not a legal immigrant a white c!s-het christian man who voted for the ped0phile currently in the white house

Microsoft says it won’t auto-install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows 11, likely due to outrage over “Microslop.” The rollout was set for late 2025 but is now on hold.

Just a bunch of guys walking like Bethesda NPC's.

@GeForce_JacobF If the light source is moving, it’s not an apples to apples comparison.

@IceStorm Lit by the sun, so yes, indeed more correct 😀

DLSS 5 off vs on example in Zorah, check out the improved occlusion, shadowing and material detail

@GeForce_JacobF This one again looks like someone stuck a studio light behind the camera. At the end of the day, it does not matter. Very few will own the 5070 Ti or better cards needed to run DLSS 5.

One more, of Mr. Lizard here 🦎 Objects in background look a lot more grounded, better shadowing and more realistic looking foliage 👍

@GeForce_JacobF This one looks like you moved the light source up in the air to reduce the lighting on the leaves closer to the ground. As a consequence, the upper floor is now brighter.

Another example here, leaves with proper subsurface scattering and improved material/light interaction.

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What AI hawkers simply can't understand is: even if you put aside the stolen training data, unwanted integration, environmental impact, creation of low-trust culture, and dogshit output, they still talk and behave like fanatical tent preachers and no one wants to be around them.

@GeForce_JacobF Looks like someone stuck a studio light behind the camera, which is what much of the environmental commentary has been about. I can move the brightness/gamma slider in most games. I am positive the art direction did not intend for me to do that.

There will be no WW3. They've abandoned numbered releases and switched to a live service model with seasonal events.

@IanCutress Thousands of engineers. Not a single art director to tell them what they were going to show was horrible.

"Hey, here's a demo that's still early and unoptimized, coming out end of year hopefully. We're still getting it to work and this is an early alpha." "We shoved it onto two separate GPUs to ensure the base game runs fine and the DLSS works well enough for the demo." "We have 5090s, so why not run it on those. We could have used two GT730s for the lolz, and you would have asked why, but we had 5090s on the desk." Everyone starts screaming 🎶OMG 🎶 🎶 IT REQUIRES 🎶 🎶 TWO 5090s!!1!🎶 🎶 WONT SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN 🎶 I really can't fathom the dumb. You know console games are made on dev kits that are vastly faster than the consoles they run on. It's well documented, especially in early cycle design. To anyone that claims I'm pro NVIDIA or I'm not taking people's complaints seriously, go look at my previous NVIDIA tweets. I don't get passes for events. I find issues with their messaging all the time. This is just one where seemingly most of the TechTube space couldn't be bothered to apply the most basic critical thinking, or didn't ask a basic question or two. Instead, let's jump straight to drama and have it as the cornerstone of the outrage and content. Because clicks, I guess. There are a thousand other things to mention about DLSS5. I gave them a ton of feedback when I spoke to the engineers at the demo in person (most of the time it looks like a repositioning of the light source more than anything else, it was shown on games that aren't that high in graphics fidelity (I'm actually disappointed in modern AAA if this is what we have), half the time it looks simply like the additional tesselation we saw in DX11, and it can ignore a number of doubly-relected shadows). Here's the kicker though. NVIDIA has thousands of employees working on its gaming portfolio. I've seen so many people complain 'why did they work on this when they could have worked on other stuff'. They ARE working on other stuff. You might be able to only think about one feature at a time (make sure you remember to breathe), but these things are all developed in parallel with other features. If anyone has enough money to have teams invested in researching and developing a bucket load of features, it's NVIDIA. Also, you can turn the feature off. Imagine complaining about a TV channel you don't watch, just because it's on the guide and the cable service promoted it and needed two 8K TVs to do so because it was early 3D. I'll say it again. I really can't fathom the dumb. Or rather I can, and I'm just amazingly disappointed on this hardware critique. I'll get backlash from other media just for this post, sure, that much is certain (and thanks for obliging, much appreciated). But perhaps I should just bring @ctnzr on the show for an interview later in the year. He's a really cool dude anyway.

You gave him criminal immunity, you stupid bitch.