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I got it yesterday to play the co-op with a mate. I put in 4h 😬

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Quoting: EWGSo, besides exposure, does this do anything to help Godot?

For Godot to improve, it must get professional users to identify all the ways in which things don't work right. Mega Crit also did a sizeable donation to the project. That definitely helps.

Both are things that help (and such a success should result in some donation!), and the exposure is quite important too, I think. The message "you can do mega sellers in Godot" is a big thing.

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Quoting: EWGSo, besides exposure, does this do anything to help Godot?

For Godot to improve, it must get professional users to identify all the ways in which things don't work right. Mega Crit also did a sizeable donation to the project. That definitely helps.

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Uncanny valley on a new level.
Yeah okay, the altered image looks "better", but not in comparison. Here it looks like two different characters. Or like the character in different ages. It's not the same, not what the artist wants to express.
I guess I'd choose to play the left version...

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I don't personally mind if AI stuff is used as a tool to make tedious tasks faster. It has its place as a tool, but there always has to be person the double-check what it generated and then get tweaked accordingly i guess.

Just please stop pushing lazy art with AI tools.

ARC Raiders imo has done most of the things right with it in my book. If AI thing isn't in my face with the sloppy art or hallucinated stuff then thats ok.

hopefully smaller (double A and whatnot) will understand that they can use this technology to speed up some tedious things, but dont overstay their welcome with that.

triple A ofc will probably fire most of the staff and use AI for everything if they can get away with it.

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Quoting: fenglengshunWhat made me stop was the way they removed, restored, and then removed some codecs without adequate dialogue and then not mentioning it in the updates announcement.

Yes, that codec drama made me stop using Manjaro, too. Not only they removed these codecs (H264), they also made it very hard to reinstall them, whereas other distros like openSUSE provided an easy workaround for it.

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I used Manjaro for years without major issues (well, except those certificate ones, which were bonkers).

But I saw the writing on the wall for the distro, so I hopped before it became an urgent issue.
Well done, me.

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lol what an awful upscaler that is
looks like those AI generated youtube thumbnails coming to alive. Awful

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Utterly revolting.

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Why does DLSS off look higher resolution than DLSS on, going from 1 attached picture it looks like a downgrade

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Manjaro made me finally switch from Windows 7 to Linux, when windows 7 was EOL. I am still using it as a daily driver, and I am really happy with it. It would be a shame if it disappeared.

My main "update issues" with it were mostly either due to Nvidia drivers (things were much smoother once I switched to AMD), and when not performing updates for months on my secondary laptop (which is, well, "the Arch way" it seems).

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So, besides exposure, does this do anything to help Godot?

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Quoting: pbPlease tell me the left hand image is just lowest settings. Tomb Raider from 2013 looked better than that without any mumbo jumbo.

Resident Evil 9 didn't look anywhere near this bad when I played it on a potato-ish rx6600 without any upscaling

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On the bright side, for the first time in few years, AMD and Intel don't need to compete with the latest DLSS updates.

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After trying multiples distros for a few years, I have been using Manjaro KDE (XFCE before) and I never had any major issue with it. I am currently on the KDE "unstable" branch to get all the new Linux development stuff immediately and it hasn't been "unstable" at all. So I am on the latest Kernel, latest Plasma version, latest MESA drivers with no problems and all my games rock on it. I wasn't aware of the issues mentioned but it has been totally mute for me.

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NVIDIA invented the programmable shader

That sounds like bs. Nvidia didn't invent that.

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Quoting: scaineI love the idea of Manjaro - Arch, but with milestones (stable releases). It sounds like the power of Arch, but without the constant fear that every update will bring issues. And pamac - lovely. They've actually addressed one of the biggest issues (for me) of Arch.

But now that I'm on CachyOS with its built-in Snapper/BTRFS integration, I have that comfort anyway. If I do an update and my system has issues, I just reboot and choose the snapshot before the upgrade via Grub. Easy.

I still miss Pamac though. I haven't looked to see if it's portable to a generic Arch install.

I hope Manjaro get their organisational ducks in a row. It would be great to see what they could achieve without constantly having to fight internally with each other.

Pamac is in the AUR, just pick your flavor and install it

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Quoting: geckofish52Let me guess, 7090 graphics with the 6070??

This is the product of two 5090s, so playable framerates probably by 8090. Only two will be made, so be sure to sign up for the Death Race for a chance to win one of them! Mecha-Jensen will be keeping the other one, obviously.

Anyway, I can't wait for developers to start cutting costs and turning this into their crutch.

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Quoting: EhvisImagine being an honest game artist and seeing your creation ruined like that. I guess there is one positive thing. You can now filter out developers that don't care about art simply by their dlss5 support!

I think that would not really apply to a lot of situations. These kinds of decisions are often made by people OTHER than the artists; best case by a coder/team lead, worst case by the moneyman

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Imagine being an honest game artist and seeing your creation ruined like that. I guess there is one positive thing. You can now filter out developers that don't care about art simply by their dlss5 support!

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Quoting: Avehicle78873 Million Sales and they didn't have the decency to keep the GOG version up to date. No matter its' success, these guys lost all respect from me.

There is no gog version. If I were to guess, not until early access ends.

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Quoting: JohnologueIt certainly looks like they've drawn over the in-game frame with AI art.
...why?

You know, with video games, there is already a neural network interpreting from the simplified rendering of reality and converting it into the image the player perceives - it's called a brain. They're removing abstraction that works in the favor of immersion. That's why games from the 90s and such could look "good" even though they couldn't be photorealistic.

To answer the "why", it's because that's what it is. They can wrap things in as many names as they want, and keep calling that "super sampling", it's completely removed from it. The opposite, even; super sampling, upscaling functions, etc. had the initial goal of providing the *same* picture at higher resolution. This is the opposite of that; it's just their AI model redoing the frame; it's probably easier to do that way too; just sample a handful of iterations over the basic upscale.

DLSS moved from blurring and removing details to reinventing the frame. It was never good. Only people obsessed with saying "I can get 4K120fps on my potato" would be happy with it. And now, not only it's bullshit, but you'll also need super powerful hardware nobody can't afford anymore.

Bring me back baked lighting, detailed models, and raster optimizations please.

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nice, switching to cachyos repos on endeavouros. cool

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Quoting: williamjcmFramegen is fake frames. But this is basically an image-to-image genAI system with "turn this character into one that appeals to Gamers™" as the system prompt.

Thanks for the clarification. That still sucks. 😅

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Quoting: rea987Fake frames then? Nope, no thanks. Fuck Nvidia.

Framegen is fake frames. But this is basically an image-to-image genAI system with "turn this character into one that appeals to Gamers™" as the system prompt.

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No sir, looking at that shot it is NOT difficult to argue... The character looks like an AI generated character, not a video game character.

That makes the discussion quite easy in fact:

Like ai generated art? enable it.
Dislike ai generated art? do not enable it.

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It always surprises me seeing so many people talking about how stable manjaro is, then I remember it's arch based.
No offense to anyone, and nor am I hear to tell you what distro to use or not use, but I'm fairly certain how stable your manjaro install has been has nothing to do with manjaro.

In fact I'd wager if you could compile reliable data of people having major breakages with updates Manjaro would be a leader in arch based distros.
Now frankly there are some things that have become common grounds where you'll expect breakage: AUR packages, KDE, and Nvidia hardware.

As someone that hits all three of those, I assure you Manjaro is neither stable nor reliable (I haven't used it in quite some time, so perhaps it has improved!); and the issues I had on manjaro have not been present in ANY other arch based distro I've used.

For me though, many of the reasons people have abandoned Manjaro over the years aren't the reason I'll never (unless some sort of massive organization change happens) use it on ANY machine. That special rule of mine comes from the messy world of the Pine64-Manjaro relationship. It's hard telling what exactly was going on outside of blog posts from various people, and from that info I just can't in good conscience click the download button for Manjaro anymore.

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Looks cool, but not worth the price of admission. I also don't want to leave my home worried that I'm going to return to a pile of ashes!

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and yet something tells me people will still pay stupid amounts of money for the new cards. somehow. for some reason...

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I really do find it hilarious that someone put those two images together and actually thought they looked good. It’s like one of those edits some people used to do of the Horizon protagonist to make her ‘less political’, if you know what I mean.

Between this and the increasing prices, it’s becoming clearer to me every day that in future I’m going to stick to indies, emulators and the occasional game that somehow doesn’t fall too heavily into this bullshit.

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