{"id":1547019,"date":"2026-04-07T17:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eUzkiZuiJA7YWwqnyLfBQh"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:13:24","slug":"71-of-you-say-you-could-never-be-convinced-to-turn-on-dlss-5-with-37-saying-it-wouldnt-matter-how-good-it-looked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/71-of-you-say-you-could-never-be-convinced-to-turn-on-dlss-5-with-37-saying-it-wouldnt-matter-how-good-it-looked\/","title":{"rendered":"71% of you say you could never be convinced to turn on DLSS 5, with 37% saying it wouldn’t matter how good it looked"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The reveal of DLSS 5<\/a> was pretty much the biggest thing to happen in PC gaming last month, and also one of the most contentious. Indeed, our own team reacted<\/a> with a whole heap of different emotions, from general antipathy to vitriolic ranting. In fact only a few of us were in any way measured in our response.<\/p>\n

So we thought we’d leave things to calm down a touch, assess what DLSS 5 might actually be doing behind the scenes\u2014turns out it might not be as smart<\/a> as we might have hoped\u2014and let the dust settle before taking the temperature of PC Gamer readers.<\/p>\n

We put the question to you last week: Could Nvidia convince you to use DLSS 5? <\/strong>And, honestly, the answers are not all that surprising.<\/p>\n

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I’m not surprised that the majority of readers said they would never use the technology, with a full 71% of answers to the poll responding they could not be convinced to turn the feature on. But I have to say I’m a little surprised that, out of those polled, 37%\u2014the largest percentage of responses\u2014said it wouldn’t matter how good the feature looked, they were ethically opposed to it, and would never enable it.<\/p>\n

I will say that is probably quite an easy thing to say right now, with just a few screenshots of Starfield, FC26, and yassified Grace filling our minds’ eyes, but if we get a little more clarity from Nvidia and devs on how it’s used, and a new game comes out that looks amazing and plays brilliantly on a single GPU, I think at least some <\/em>of those respondents might have their faith tested.<\/p>\n

I do find it interesting that 10% of readers are already convinced and are all ready to go DLLS On with the new AI-powered feature when it arrives in the fall (if it is indeed still going to be released that soon). There are also another 9% of respondants who would happily enable it in certain games. That’s largely where I’ve ended up; where something that doesn’t have a distinct art style and is going for photorealism as a goal, such as FC26, does actually look better than the original.<\/p>\n

Just needs to not be an absolute resource hog to do it, though…<\/p>\n

Finally, we have 10% saying they would happily enable it if the games looked better than the very AI-gen look they have in the first promo material. Which is a fair enough assessment given that we’re talking about a single model, extrapolating all the context for a frame from a single, static, 2D image and some motion vectors. There’s a real chance that if Nvidia and the devs aren’t careful an uncomfortable level of homogeneity would be our future.<\/p>\n

The results weren’t so cut and dried when we asked you about switching to Linux, where 43% of you have , or will be switching to gaming on Linux this year<\/a>. And this week we’ve also been asking you about your preferred gaming resolution. Anything 4:3, right?<\/p>\n

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