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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

Do you use DLSS3/DLSS4/FSR in your games?

I think I often turned it on with my relatively low powered
RTX3070Ti. Vague memories of more FPS in some games.

I've upgraded since to an RTX5070Ti, not much experience yet except with Starfield and that's not a very demanding game. Don't remember if I have
DLSS on or not, maybe. I don't generally care about fiddling with video settings but I usually check them, turn off any blur and adjust FOV if
needed.
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On Tue, 12 May 2026 16:13:11 +0300, Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> said this thing:

I don't generally care about fiddling with video
settings but I usually check them, turn off any blur and adjust FOV if >needed.

What, you don't like playing games with 55 degree FOV? ;-)

I forget exactly which game it was, but recently I played a fairly
recent title and it had a default FOV of 55. I was quite surprised,
because I hadn't seen an FOV that tight since the XBox 360 days (when
they frequently squashed it down to minimize how much the game had to
render in favor of higher frame-rates). Most modern games are much
more forgiving (even though I tend to feel cramped and claustrophobic
if it's anything under 85, and usually prefer higher than that).


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On 5/4/2026 1:19 PM, Justisaur wrote:

On 5/3/2026 1:17 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

A web-survey on PC Gamer* asked "Do you use AI, and if so what for?",
with various options from "not at all", to "everything", but in
between those extremes it also suggested "Only for in-game upscaling,
such as with DLSS or FSR4"... and then took umbrage when the numbers
indicated that 47% of those surveyed didn't even use AI upscaling in
game.**

The PC Gamer author was really surprised that so many people didn't
use DLSS. Myself, I'm less surprised... but maybe that's because I
never use it myself. In my case, it is less because of some extreme
stance against AI (I mean, I'm not sure I'd really consider DLSS4 to
be "AI" anyway) as it is that I just don't need it. My games look good
enough already. To be sure, I distrust the hackery that is DLSS, and
prefer to play the game 'as the developer intended it'. And earlier
DLSS versions of DLSS really weren't so much about improving the
visuals as frame interpolation made for smoothing the framerate
anyway.*** And while it isn't so much an issue with me, eXtreme Gamers
dislike the marginal lag and inaccuracy caused by DLSS4 frame
interpolation.

Not to mention, there's a whole host of PC gamers who never, ever open
the Video Options sub-menu anyway, and so would never enable it. Or
who are running games on older hardware, for that matter.

So between all that, I'm not surprised that 47% of surveyed gamers
don't use AI even for frame generation. It's not just gamers disliking
AI that's preventing it. There's a host of other reasons too.

Do you use DLSS3/DLSS4/FSR in your games?

For upscaling no.  For extra frames in Crimson Desert since it's about
20 without and 45 with.  I suppose I could try up-scaling instead of
extra frames, maybe that would work better.

Well, up to about 57 with up-scaling from 1080p to 1440p, it does look slightly worse, but not bad.
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

What, you don't like playing games with 55 degree FOV? ;-)

Not particularly :) But didn't I read somewhere that some console game
has a FOV slider now? Interesting times, we have.
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On Wed, 13 May 2026 14:47:16 +0300, Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> said this thing:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

What, you don't like playing games with 55 degree FOV? ;-)

Not particularly :) But didn't I read somewhere that some console game
has a FOV slider now? Interesting times, we have.

That wouldn't surprise me. While they'll never compete in performance
against modern PCs, recent consoles have been quite capable for years
now and a lot of the hacks needed back in the 2000s --like limiting
FOV-- aren't as necessary as they used to be. But at the same time, a
lot of console gamers are probably used to a more narrow FOV

[I also heard it may have something to do with it being
easier to aim with a gamepad? Who knows if that's true.]

so having a slider to move it into their comfort zone seems
reasonable.


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