That’s pretty dang cool. Just hope that Xbox and Rockstar don’t pull a Sega and call the cops on this guy for buying it and releasing what they found.

I also do hope that he donates the dev kit, intact, to the gaming preservation museum so this kind of stuff can be reserved for history.

I mean not a fan of epic but damn that sucks for the developers that the leadership had let things stagnate until massive layoffs had to happen.

Daniel Owen’s interview with the Nvidia’s Jacob Freeman which is where the analysis of this article is even more illuminating:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0EM1vKt36s

Yup, that underlying geometry is unchanged, that nose was always that deformed and big.

Considering that DLSS and DLAA are, and I would image that the FSR equivalents are too, separate processes so they could drop DLSS and just concentrate on DLAA. But that’s not where the money and ray tracing is, and part of that is also on gamers in general since there’s always such a focus on FPS, something that even I’m guilty of, and not visual quality.

That’s actually a pretty interesting point, especially since it was recently that the SC declined to hear another case challenging that original ruling.

That’s what the tech was touted as over a decade ago when this started with both DLSS and FSR. Give an extension of life to your older cards.

Currently that’s not what it used for, it’s now a tool that allows developers to not give a crap about optimizing the game or creating textures and models that look good out of the box. Now it’s THE tool that will get you up to 60 fps with a GPU that has a ton of expensive RAM because developers don’t have to care just let AI make it’s guess, better have money because screw your low end gaming, it’s THE tool to ensure that native rendering and models don’t have to be good, just slap on what you want it to look like and let AI do the rest, artists intention be damned.

With it running on two 5090’s, and yeah, yeah, they said it’ll run on one card and we all should believe corporations, it looks like their little way of starting to make owning a gaming computer too expensive for anyone and why don’t you just subscribe to our cloud gaming instead where you can rent out the capability we decide to give you. Call me cynical but that’s what I’m seeing here.

The hogwarts legacy demo was especially egregious. The mesh they applied make that teenager look like a thirty year old with the crap the did. It was absolutely horrible.

And yeah, even the resident evil screen, I know that everyone is focused on the whole AI only fans update, but just the scene behind the character, everything was just brighter, kind of ruining the moody, melancholy look and I’m guessing the intent of the original scene.

Yeah, I just downvoted and moved on. Thought about replying, still have it in draft, but figured it would have been pointless with what the guy wrote even originally and then was proven right when the walls of text with nothing substantial came from it.

Also, they had this running on two 5090’s in a SLAI mode.

So not only will they be shitting all over the game designers and artists design with AI slop, you’ll have to buy two top of the line cards for the privilege to have that slop served to you.

ETA: it’s also two top of the line cards that are massively increased in price due to AI slop.

I mean AI targeted a school and killed hundreds of little kids with a precision missile already, so yeah.

Guess this goes on my patient gamer list.

Given this history that FSR 4 was proven to have been able to be supported in RDNA 3 and 2 via a unintentional commit by AMD and the intrepid open source community implemented FSR 4 on these cards giving them much improved visual quality with a minor loss in frame rate and that this rumour is coming from a reliable source that has a history of being correct with their leaks, I’m inclined to distrust this corporation and start sharpening my tines.

And don’t get me started on how AMD has dropped linux support, another competitive advantage, and we’re relying on open source coders to give us FSR 4 capability while Nvidia, the current god father of fucking over gamers, has been increasing linux driver support.

But hey, we all have our opinions based on our observations.

I’m going to get downvoted but honestly I’m not 100% against some form of digital ID. I don’t think these half baked, unthought through state laws and patchwork state systems are anyway way to go about it though and they certainly do not have enough safeguards in their laws to limit surveillance which I’m sure there are those who crafted the laws to intentionally leave that out and they certainly didn’t have any inkling of cybersecurity in mind when they proposed these laws.

I mean we in the modern age already have a crap ton of digital ID’s flying around using our NFC enabled devices and 2FA systems commercially and we mostly don’t blink a single eye on these systems and generally regard them as a safer alternative now. And let’s not pretend that these corporations aren’t tracking the living heck out of us already with this.

Don’t do loot boxes then.

As for more user info, that I can agree with up to a point and I certainly don’t trust a corporation, even Valve to do the correct thing and protect additional PII.

Valid point. Still I think that there’s a notable difference between the physical vs digital aspects though that makes digital much worse.

There’s seems to be more effort involved with cards because they’re physical, more ritual maybe of going to the store to pick up a pack of cards or having to wait for the delivery giving it that cool down time vs digital where access is instant gratification and gambling dopamine hit.

Another thing I’ve noticed is that those companies that have tried physical loot boxes haven’t faired well either and haven’t taken off like their digital counterparts. Maybe it’s that mix of seeing physical items vs value and waiting for the next hit kind of dampens the gambling addition effect.

And then there’s the whole money into currency with the whole 1000 gems for 99 bucks to buy a 950 gem item psychological predation that you don’t have in physical collectibles, at least not that I’m aware of.

I guess overall I find the digital loot box just on another level of predatory, exploitation of addiction much worse than physical collectibles.

But hey I’m all for regulating physical items for gambling too. It would be interesting to see a actual study on them like they’ve done with loot boxes.

Valve I think are the most “ethical” implementations of loot boxes that just straight up charges cash.

Yeah, looks like the 9070xt will be the last AMD card I’ll be buying.

What a slap in the face to those who buy their GPU’s and giving away the only competitive advantage they had over Nvidia.

On the physical side, popular products used in this way include baseball cards, Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, and Labubu. In the game space, digital packs similar to our boxes date back to 2004 and are in widespread use.

I think that video game loot boxes are very much different when you’re hiring psychologist to maximize fomo and extra currency to make kids spend more with 100 gems short of your next purchase.

But if they want we can outlaw baseball cards and Pokemon too. I’m good with that.

It’s not about sales, it’s about how many units they had to get through customs.