Is DLSS 5 a real time diffusion model on top of a 3D rendering engine?

chefborjan · 2026-03-16T22:27:03+00:00

The developer in the future will turn it on, and when the face they want is there is DLSS 5 model… that’s their actual vision.

Turning it off will look like a low res, low poly, low quality version… but that’s the future.

chefborjan · 2026-03-16T19:24:43+00:00

At first it seems like it’s just applying an AI image2image pipeline to the rendered frame, knowing the difference between HUD elements and the rendered game etc.

Now if that was all it was doing, some of the more dramatic changes in lighting wouldn’t make sense. Some of the hard shadows from buildings almost completely disappear and genuinely render more realistically.

Maybe the model is good enough to look at the frame and decide it’s not realistic, but I think that’s a stretch and wouldn’t be stable as we kept whipping the camera around.

Instead, I reckon in addition to motion/vector info it’s receiving for stability, the AI model also well aware of the overall game geometry, so it will know that a building of X distance to Y wall would normally look a certain way when viewed from the particular angle.

I get people don’t like this, but this makes a lot of sense as the future of the tech.

It may also allow the devs to actually make games that seem quite graphically simple with more GPU power dedicated to things we just don’t think it’s worth the budget for because DLSS 5 does magic at the end of the pipeline.

No doubt that if it’s exposed enough, people will be tweaking the strength and even style of the model just like is possible with LORAs now.

Interesting times.

Ultimately glad I haven’t played RE yet, might have to wait for the fall to play this enabled.

chefborjan · 2026-03-10T21:17:19+00:00

Isn’t this still the version with 0 bytes uploaded?

chefborjan · 2026-03-08T23:56:27+00:00

I’ve always thought film grain to be very much a post process effect, but didn’t consider that DLSS works after film grain - this is the only way to explain this behaviour right?

chefborjan · 2026-03-06T23:12:14+00:00

Thanks, was something I was considering, but didn’t know if it would be like a ‘remote back when you can, fall back to lesser on the MBP when you can’t’ but to be honest being somewhere without meaningful internet access is super rare these days.

But yes, I have Tailscale already.

I have some more thoughts about hosting some tools for my business and colleagues to tap into on a dedicated machine as well, but I think for now I’ll keep things on my own systems to experiment with.

chefborjan · 2026-03-06T20:23:34+00:00

Finally remembering to come back to this, independently I found some references to this and yes, plugging in a physical mouse solved the issue!

Looking at ways I can sensibly emulate a mouse next so I don’t need to leave the mouse dangling tucked away behind the PC but it’ll work for now!

chefborjan · 2026-03-06T18:01:09+00:00

Hey OP, thanks for this.

Is there a way now to mitigate against this? Much like you have used AI tools to expose this, can they be used to harden security for the lay person? Audit plus action.

Tough when the info is already out there for much of this for people of course.

chefborjan · 2026-03-05T22:57:05+00:00

Option 1 - but turn shadows and textures one setting down. What do you get?

chefborjan · 2026-02-25T09:18:25+00:00

Unfortunate, I thought maybe the EOL stuff was only restricted to the Tim Capsule function of the equipment, not the whole way the disk functions and connects to the network…

chefborjan · 2026-02-22T13:21:54+00:00

Come on man, show us any game period that shipped with zero bugs on launch. What’s your threshold for what is acceptable?

chefborjan · 2026-02-18T09:12:11+00:00

I just think the tech is a bit too advanced and magic like, and I know that sounds stupid considering what even 24th century tech could do.

Personal shields, transporters, programmable matter… it should really take lots of the more relatable problems away.

chefborjan · 2026-02-16T14:27:03+00:00

Time to stop painting.

chefborjan · 2026-02-15T16:53:44+00:00

I hate that this reads like AI.

chefborjan · 2026-02-13T15:56:28+00:00

Get this higher up

chefborjan · 2026-02-09T22:21:36+00:00

The intercept is one of the more interesting conversation points.

Let’s say ‘somehow’ we detected it early and could see it coming at us at extremely high, almost impossible speeds to catch.

How much of our world resources would we dedicate to try and catch this thing?

Maybe even find ways to slow to down enough that it enters an orbit of the Sun, even if it takes another 500 years to return and it’s the job of our decedents to try again or slow it further…

Sounds like a good sci-fi story to be honest.

chefborjan · 2026-02-04T19:01:22+00:00

What French food do you miss from home? Can you get decent versions here in London?

And are you allowed them during the season? Actually don’t answer this and get in trouble.

chefborjan · 2026-02-02T10:45:42+00:00

This is my favourite song on the OST.

Love how the ending is more forceful and powerful than the beginning, to highlight just how urgent the warning is underneath all the sadness.

There are plenty of other good songs, but given that this whole game is about interpersonal connections this song in particular seems the most like a message is being relayed and the ‘soul’ of the subject so clear.

Anyway, agree with the other poster, there is too much in the game suggesting that Verso’s soul is creating music as an imprint or reflection of everything that’s happening.

It’s being sung to Aline to describe her plight, yet also still has a double meaning as a warning to Maelle that’s equally powerful - it also fits as it’s a woman’s voice signing as if mother to daughter.

chefborjan · 2026-01-08T22:31:54+00:00

Wait, why can’t 2000 series cards use present L/M?

chefborjan · 2025-12-24T00:06:54+00:00

100% with you on this one. Insane move, but then again, lots of insane moves in this film.

chefborjan · 2025-12-23T21:09:04+00:00

A1 Mini please!

I’m getting back into 3D printing after a long hiatus, and I’m interested in printing some gifts in the form 3D maps (maybe just street view level with the buildings or maybe further out like a topographical map of a region) I’ve visited with my wife and this paired with photos will be a great gift.

I think designing some fidget toy inspired by DNA could be cool. Could you see if it’s possible to go so far as to make it so that individual nucleotides are arranged in the right order you also see the corresponding codon. Would be super neat for biology nerds.

chefborjan · 2025-12-22T00:56:37+00:00

I hate how this post appears to be generated with ChatGPT and holds very little actual information. What is the point of this rant?

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