{"id":558380,"date":"2026-03-23T04:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558380\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T04:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:49:12","slug":"the-dlss-5-backlash-is-still-swirling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558380\/","title":{"rendered":"The DLSS 5 Backlash Is Still Swirling"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Screenshot: YouTube@Nvidia. “Resident Evil Requiem” \u00a9 Capcom, 2026<\/p>\n

Almost a week on, the controversy and backlash over NVIDIA\u2019s DLSS 5 announcement are still swirling, following some mixed messaging from the company about how the tech works.<\/p>\n

A reveal trailer on Tuesday showcased multiple games like \u201cResident Evil Requiem,\u201d \u201cStarfield\u201d, and \u201cHogwarts Legacy\u201d using the new technology, which goes beyond simple upscaling and leads to massively revised visual appearances to games \u2013 especially character faces and the overall game\u2019s art direction. Those changes have drawn comparisons to an AI slop and an \u2018AI Yassification filter\u2019.<\/p>\n

The following day, CEO Jensen Huang downplayed the criticism, saying those calling it an AI filter are \u201ccompletely wrong\u201d because \u201cDLSS 5 fuses the controllability of geometry and textures and everything about the game with generative AI\u201d and says all of it is \u201cin the control \u2013 direct control \u2013 of the game developer\u201d.<\/p>\n

That has been interpreted as him saying it is not a filter or a post-processing effect, but rather something more integrated at the developer and designer level. If an accurate interpretation, then that claim appears to conflict with statements from NVIDIA engineers working on DLSS 5 along with the company\u2019s own official slides according to HotHardware<\/a> who reports that those slides indicate DLSS 5 works from the same data as previous DLSS iterations and is not more integrated into game engines.<\/p>\n

YouTuber Daniel Owens<\/a> asked NVIDIA\u2019s own marketing specialist Jacob Freeman if DLSS 5 is \u201ceffectively taking a single 2D frame as an input (with motion vectors) to create the output frame?\u201d to which Freeman responded: \u201cYes, DLSS5 takes a 2D frame plus motion vectors as an input. DLSS 5 is trained end-to-end to understand complex scene semantics\u2026all by analysing a single frame.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, he\u2019s indicating that DLSS 5 is an AI filter that uses only the 2D-generated game image and some vector data to generate the final image. Owen adds that \u201cthe underlying geometry is unchanged\u201d and \u201cdevelopers can also mask specific objects or areas to be excluded from enhancement\u201d<\/p>\n

The technology is still in development, so there is still hope that the issues with the tech can be ironed out in the wake of last week\u2019s launch and the decidedly poor reception. Criticism remains widespread, with the DLSS5 official video drawing an 84% dislikes vote on YouTube, while Digital Foundry\u2019s initial glowing coverage of it saw the owner on the receiving end of death threats.<\/p>\n

Kotaku<\/a> spoke with a number of game developers and the universal consensus appears to be negative: \u201cEvery dev I talked to, even those who didn\u2019t want to be included in this feature, all told me they hated DLSS 5 and were offended by Nvidia\u2019s announcement and how it seemingly overwrote the work of talented artists, modelers, and other game devs\u2026 many of them aren\u2019t even sure who this is for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Insider Gaming<\/a> reported earlier this week that some developers at studios like Ubisoft and Capcom were caught off guard by Nvidia\u2019s big reveal.<\/p>\n

Sources: IGN<\/a>, Kotaku<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screenshot: YouTube@Nvidia. “Resident Evil Requiem” \u00a9 Capcom, 2026 Almost a week on, the controversy and backlash over NVIDIA\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,142132,105],"class_list":["post-558380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}