Oh, good. I was worried the balls were one of those butt rip cord starters.

When’s the last time you tried to emulate something? The Wii and PSP can handle up to N64 decently, and that hardware is going on 20 years old.

Depending on your phone you can emulate PS2 and even Switch games.

Just hold on to whatever you have, even phones, and emulator devs will figure out the rest. Accuracy has been king for a long time while we’ve had strong hardware availability, but there’s no reason we can’t do per game speed hacks again like old SNES emulators when hardware gets scarce.

You fight like a dairy farmer!

Painkillers are free if you’re brave enough

One thing that Mario Kart DS has that didn’t carry forward to other games is mission mode. Definitely worth a look.

I have literally never seen this occur outside of:

• it attempting to reset the default PDF viewer multiple times
• twice when the entire group of settings related to cortana/internet search from the taskbar changed and they didn’t attempt to map previous choices to the new settings

That was over the course of a literal decade, most of it with a day job working IT and sysadmin in a Windows environment.

If you’ve got more hard evidence of MS doing this I’d love to see it, but as far as I can tell this comes from the same place that has resulted in every support thread saying you need to run “SFC /scannow”.

This is literally a porn artist.

If I recall right, they were getting rid of one older unsupported way to do that, but multiple news outlets misread it as getting rid of the ability to bypass at all and then the story got spread from there.

That’s fine, but I would personally reccomend that anyone considering moving to Linux also consider reading up on some basic Windows system administration stuff as well.

Group Policy is a way to consistently configure settings on Windows for the OS and a decent number of programs. It often has a ton of options for things that aren’t in the normal user facing settings menu or control panel. It was made so that sysadmins could set the settings how they wanted and then just push the same settings to every machine at their workplace. Where it becomes useful for the personal user is that if you’re using any Windows install above Pro, you can adjust Group Policy for your own machine. Most of the “secret registry settings” you’ll find online that actually work are just what Group Policy sets without a straightforward menu.

Target feature update version is needlessly confusing, but it can be broken down like this: Target “feature update” version. The feature update is the specific version of Windows that will be targeted when it looks for updates.

Linux is ultimately the better option, but it can still sometimes involve a level of tinkering effort that could just as easily be done to get your Windows working better for you.

My guy you literally linked some guy fucking around in Special K as supposedly an explanation of the tech, you misread a marketing headline as being technically descriptive, and yourself even admit that it uses AI to generate which is the common usage nowadays for the label.of slop.

I definitely appreciate being called close minded, an asshole, and compared to MAGA for not agreeing with your personal stick up your ass about what you think is proper terminology though.

Have a rotten day.

I’ve not been an asshole here, you’ve consistently talked down at everyone calling this slop due to some minor technicality in terminology that you’ve still failed to back up or expand on beyond linking to the same video a second time.

You also have really zeroed in on some claims that I’ve literally never heard anyone make:

It is not changing geometry. It is changing lighting. It is changing material properties.

No one has said shit about geometry, lighting, or materials because that is not the level at which DLSS operates. Both in previous versions and in this latest version.

It’s not what anyone thinks is going on here, and it calls into question your own understanding of all this that you’ve now insisted upon it twice. It’s not making lighting and materials changes. You’re confusing raytracing which is often turned on and off in graphics presets alongside DLSS because of the intense resource usage, but it is not part of DLSS. Go download a mod for finer grained graphics settings controls in Cyberpunk 2077 and that much will be made clear.

There are plenty of tools people can use to get an idea of how any games’ rendering pipline works, such as Special K as shouted out by the video you linked. Personally I like Reshade for getting a look at render passes, output targets, buffers etc.

DLSS operates on a completed “flat” render output/buffer. As far as I’m aware, It has no knowledge of geometry, materials, or shaders unless the devs are really doing wacky shit and have direct line to nvidia devs. Maybe they’re passing it the depth and normal buffers as well as the flat render output. That opens a lot of options (see marty’s RTGI shader) but is demonstrably still just working with slightly more than gets slapped on the screen as a flat raster image.

It can do edge detection as movement detection through comparing a number of the previous input frames using the types of techniques used in video compression to detect and handle movement, as the end of your video makes small mention of.

Usually it’s used on the output of the 3d render pipeline before the flat HUD elements are slapped on top. Apparently a lot of games the guy that made the video tested didn’t seperate out the HUD layer, or maybe it had something to do with his previous methodology. I’m not watching multiple of his videos to check, and I find it kind of hilarious that someone would think they were some voice of knowledge on how this stuff works if they put the kind of effort they indicated they had for their previous videos without using Special K.

I had already watched the video you linked. I’ve now watched it twice to ensure I didn’t miss anything.

It’s some guy playing with the features in Special K that allow you to utilize DLSS at arbitrary upscalong ratios while allowing HUD elements to render at the viewport resolution. It has nothing to do with the underlying tech or how DLSS works beyond showing that the defaults in most games could be better tuned.

He has a short bit talking about older anti-aliasing tech, then says that DLSS is an advancement without actually getting into how it works.

In all 18 minutes, there is hardly 60 seconds discussing the actual tech, and it literally uses the term generation.

So to be clear, since you seem to be highly mistaken about this: DLSS uses image generation technology along with some very fancy edge detection to attempt to fill in gaps and generate extra details that are not present in the original image.

It is not rendering only the needed sections at higher resolution or anything along those lines, but I can see how someone may think that was implied by your video.

So again, now that I hopefully have shown you that I do in fact know more than a decent bit about how DLSS works, and you still have not provided more to back up your point beyond a video of some guy fucking around with Special K and going “whoa cool”…

What part of DLSS generating image data that does not exist in a lower resolution source image and using it to fill in what would otherwise be repeated pixels in a traditionally upscaled (nearest neighbor, bilinear, trilinear, etc) image… how is that not generative?

Edit:

Would it kill you to not double the length of your goddamn comment after posting it?

I’ve got better things to do at this point than continue this, but at a glance I see that you took Nvidia’s news post’s wording as gospel.

Edit again:

It’s clear now, you got hung up on some misleading marketing wording in one of the headlines. You even admit it uses AI to generate additional image data. Stop being condescending.

Fine then. Make it clear how it is not approproate to label this generative AI. That’s the basis of your claim that everyone else is being sloppy. Back it up with more than just your own declaration.

Even here you’ve not backed up your beliefs or statements with anything beyond restating your original point.

To anyone just glancing at the promo before and after image, this appears to just be applying image generating AI toolchain tech to the preexisting frame generation. There is at least some amount of responsibility on nvidia for using an image that gives off this look.

Pretending that a reasonable conclusion that a large amount of people are drawing simply isn’t reasonable, and that it is for reasons entirely self-evident, is just masturbation.

I think that being a purist about terminology misses the point and substance of the complaints people have about this.

Considering that centurii-chan is clear hentai bait most of the time and lemmy’s massive hateboner for windows, I give it about 15 more.

Edit: Just checked rule34(dot)xxx. centurii-chan is literally a porn artist.

Given how often the Linux force is quick to tell someone their particular Linux bugbear is because they haven’t configured things right, I am constantly stunned at how fucking much the wider internet accepts learned helplessness with Windows.

There are countless trustworthy third party tools available for preventing Windows 10 from upgrading to 11, if you don’t want to go into group policy and set the target feature update version yourself.

Part of the setting that 2077 left out is a subculture of extreme body modder furries. So actual “flesh” cybernectic ears, muzzles, animal jointed limbs, etc.

You can get grenade launchers embedded in arms that look like normal human flesh until the panels separate due to the magic of synthflesh/skin. With that tech some of the animal features would be easier to engineer than separating and seamlessly meshing panels.

Chips and chipware are another thing left out of 2077 (besides the relic chip Johnny/Keanu is on) but are present in the Edgerunner anime. Generally small chips (equivalent to modern day micro-sd) that slot into your neck. Can be basic data storage and transfer, but often give quick access to skills you don’t actually have, like jiu jitsu. Or in this case, mimicry of the idle actions of a specific animal breed.

Three of those are the same thing (AI features) and all are easily handled through group policy.

You are using a version the has group policy right? Spoofing a Pro license with MAS Grave takes roughly 2 minutes from opening the website to finished, on a slow connection.

It’s even easier if you don’t set up a Microsoft Account during install of the OS. You did take the 30 seconds to look up the current bypass when you started, right?

It’s even easier than that if you just don’t use Microsoft Office. Open source office suites work fine on Windows.

Of course, Linux is the easiest way.

If you don’t take 30 seconds to look up the bypass on install. If you’re capable of switching to Linux it’s hardly forced in any way that matters.

Yep. Imagine that, using the specialist version of the OS strips out a lot of the bullshit.

I’ll never argue that the suck inherent to Windows is OK, but anyone who thinks it’s somehow completely unavoidable just isn’t trying. It’s always kind of shocking to see Linux users, who are at least on paper tech savvy, have complaints that include shit that can be disabled by toggling a single switch in a top level settings menu. Meanwhile they’ll act like some of the arcane hoops needed to fix shit like sleep mode, hdr, or audio on some combinations of hardware and distro is just par for the course.

Personally, I find the better approach to convert folks isn’t to create an insane caricature of the issues with Windows, but to go “here’s the list of all the stuff you need to do to fix Windows, or you can sidestep it entirely with Linux but risk occasional strange hardware compatibility problems”

These are tools, not religion.

Memories of college days gone by.

Just get your rest folks. Work isn’t going to give you a medal for “most late nights” or “closest flirtation with burnout”. If your boss hasn’t allocated enough resources to reach the goal timeline, you tell them as soon as you realize and then it’s their problem.

Living here in jersey, fighting villains from afar…