With NVIDIA gearing up to launch DLSS 5 on September 4, a rather colourful spectrum of reactions is already flooding the user base, mate.

DLSS 5's main party trick is that the AI reinterprets light sources all on its own, rendering real-time graphics like textures, shadows, and reflections with a startling degree of realism. While the official release is locked in for September 4 at 1:00 PM in South Korea, Reddit and various overseas forums are already having a field day leaking in-game footage featuring the tech.

The majority of players clapping their eyes on it are properly chuffed with the visual leap. Strands of hair, skin textures, lighting, and spatial depth have become so forensic that some are claiming "the tech has advanced a generation." Unsurprisingly, this glow-up looks even more bonkers in older titles that have been around the block, such as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and GTA 5.

On the flip side, however, a few cynics are pointing out that characters can end up looking rather aged or just plain uncanny due to warped facial features. Critics are also arguing that using AI to fiddle with character designs and palettes misses the developers' original artistic intent, insisting that blindly chasing photorealism doesn't automatically equal a visual upgrade.

Hardware throttling is another proper headache on the radar. When one player actually fired up the life simulation game Inzoi using an RTX 4070 Super, a Ryzen 7800X3D CPU, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM on Ultra settings, the frame rate kicked off at a wobbly 30 fps before nose-diving down to a brutal 1 fps after just 30 minutes.

Still, DLSS 5 hasn't even had its proper public rollout yet, and NVIDIA has already promised continuous tweaks under the bonnet. Naturally, folks are holding out hope that these teething troubles will get ironed out as time goes on.