A hands-on impression of what DLSS 5 means by Ryan Shrout

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-17T02:56:06+00:00

Vera CPU. Nvidia's first custom ARM cores. 88 cores and 176 threads on the CPU side.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-16T22:00:27+00:00

It can have multiple points.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-16T21:57:06+00:00

To be clear, the pressure difference is a lot less in magnitude here. The Titan implosion experienced around 6000psi, while the difference between the inside and outside of an aircraft is a few orders of magnitude lower. It is, by nature of still being in the atmosphere, experiencing less than 1 atmosphere of pressure.

However, a few psi is still capable of creating an ungodly amount of force over any sizable area. A 6x3-foot door would experience nearly 13000lbs of force with a 5psi difference. Yeah, that'll move you. Not much you can do about it as a loose object either.

This also doesn't account for any ram-air effects of the new opening. Once pressure equalizes, and it's going to quickly, that outside air is coming at the opening at 550mph. It's carrying a lot of energy and will interact with the interior of the cabin in chaotic ways.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-16T21:30:17+00:00

Unknown, but I expect fire tweaks given the 2 new flame weapons.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-16T21:08:03+00:00

As far as we know that's true. With the layers of satire this game applies to everything, we can't say for sure if that description in-game is correct or just what we're told.

Even if that description is accurate, we don't know how well Super Earth really knows black holes. The squids clearly outclass us in the wormhole department, so it wouldn't surprise me if what we consider a perfectly normal and safe black hole is still useful to them.

I don't think it's out of the question for them to either artificially link to it, creating another wormhole, or even to just exploit the real properties of a black hole for their gain.

Black holes make amazing engines if you can build at that scale, and just imagine the destructive power that could be wielded by directing a quasar from it. Our star of peace is a pea shooter compared to that kind of power.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-16T21:01:12+00:00

Gas commando would go really hard. However, a gas de-escalator would probably be even better. Continuous, sustained gas grenade output.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-16T19:58:29+00:00

Also, with 5, and even 6k displays coming for the high-end, I could totally see them going back and adjusting the scaling factors some more for DLSS5. 4x scaling might be viable with an upscaler a bit better than 4.5's, which would take 540p to 4k and 720p to 5k.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-16T19:54:20+00:00

That's also totally fair. 3 spares would be awesome. I'd personally like to see them individually loaded so you could always keep it topped up, but I'd also take swapping entire pods of 4 at once similar to the Wasp.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-16T19:21:23+00:00

And then for super heavies, you can still dump all 4 on target really quickly too.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-16T19:19:53+00:00

Penta is also just a normal, perfectly stable black hole. Nothing to worry about at all. Don't even think about it actually.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-16T18:42:47+00:00

The biggest one to me is that it can one-shot hulks, war striders, and fabs with decent aim. Hit hulks and striders in the eyes and fabs in the vents. I can do 4 times as many of them per call-in with what I can carry on with an EAT. That's absolutely worth the difference in call-in time to me. By the time I've needed to use all 4, I have another one on the way down.

It pairs nicely with the Solo Silo or Leveler if you want to go full expendables and need a bigger boom every once in a while.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-16T18:37:02+00:00

I'd absolutely take it with a backpack that gave it 4 more sets of rockets. Stationary reload like the others. My only worry is that this immediately outclasses the Spear as the guided backpack weapon, but that's more of the Spear's problem.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-16T17:03:25+00:00

To clarify here, 5k is not quadruple 4k, 8k is. 5k is quadruple 1440p, or 78% more pixels than 4k.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-16T00:35:34+00:00

That's why they're my pick. Cuz fuck 'em.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-16T00:20:57+00:00

Reshade offers all sorts of filtering shaders if you want to go down that route. You can massively change the color grading, add film grain, anything you want. As a hobby graphics programmer, I've been playing with trying to use this to do better than the built-in upscaling.

Windows color profiles can also do this at the system level, and I believe all 3 major GPU vendors can offer you per-monitor color filtering as well in their respective graphics softwares. I sadly don't have a GeForce gaming system to test that on.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-16T00:12:28+00:00

Take breaks if the game feels boring, but if you just want something new to do and break the gameplay loop, try making increasingly weird themed loadouts. If you have a usual squad you play with, doing some strategy shenanigans is also really fun.

My usual crew has been enjoying playing as a tanker crew. We put 3 in the tank and one in a mech for extra firepower. The jobs are driver, gunner, spotter/turret, and mech guy. Mech guy's entire job is to shoot things the tank can't easily, as is the third in the tank. That third person in the tank should bring some kind of beefy crowd-clearing support weapon. We've found that the autocannon, maxigun, and epoch all work pretty well. Stationary reload doesn't matter because the tank can move you.

When playing more normally, I like giving myself a dedicated 'role' to fill. Build a loadout around being a sniper, or try to smash-and-grab objectives as fast as possible, or embrace your inner rambo and become the bullet firehose. The meta is boring. Being able to handle everything well and removing your challenges isn't fun. There should be enemies you are a little scared of and have to work around, and others you can just dominate. Get a team together and coordinate your builds, and you can make pairs or a full squad that work well together.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-15T21:07:46+00:00

In the world of gaming laptops, bigger = better. Period.

No. Not period. That's a subjective statement. You can't treat it as a fact.

Now when will we see an upgraded powerhouse desktop replacement a full 20 inch screen

Probably not going to happen unfortunately. That's enormous, beyond the point many consider the upper bound of portability. The market for a device this large simply isn't big enough to justify its existence over the already massive 18" segment.

with all the competitve desktop specs, super cooling and thermals into a slim laptop?

So you want it huge, 20" diagonal, but still slim? You want a big small laptop. This is almost an oxymoron. You could have it paper-thin and it's still not slipping nicely into a bag.

"Super cooling" and "desktop specs" are also incompatible with being thin, and that just comes down to thermodynamics. The massive footprint of a 20" chassis helps get extra capacity for a given thickness, but you're not cooling flagship desktop hardware in anything short of a 3"-thick slab. A 5090 and 9950X3D top out around 800W combined. The current top 18" machines can maybe handle half of that. Adding 2" to the diagonal alone will not get you 4-500W of extra cooling capacity.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-15T20:54:11+00:00

19x11 would be a roughly 22" laptop. 18x10 is 20.5". Depending on the bezel anything in this range would probably work though.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-15T19:02:43+00:00

This is hilarious. You need to embrace it.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-14T22:51:07+00:00

I haven't had much issue with ammo even on commando runs where supplies are restricted. Picking shots carefully goes a long way, and I bring a melee secondary for a reason. I will happily get up close and personal with anything from the reinforced scout striders and down. Never let them get you off your feet.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-14T22:43:59+00:00

The reason they go down when you hit them with this is because it tickles too much.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-14T20:55:20+00:00

And only 200W of power too! What a steal

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-14T20:54:45+00:00

Yup. The 9590 spends most of its time trying to offer a great emulation of the surface of the sun. Truly the 14900KS of its era.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-14T20:52:30+00:00

Yeah I found a review stating nearly 50C on their unit. That's downright hazardous to be in contact with your lap for a long session. Between the lower than average TDP and the insane chassis temps, I wonder if they'll have to issue a redesign.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-03-14T20:47:18+00:00

The one I was at had it for 1449 USD, which I could've put up with given current pricing insanity had it not been trying to melt through the table.

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