What is the vidya equivalent of pic related? For me it's input lag. I use DLSS / Framegen and I genuinely have no idea what people mean when they say it makes the input lag horrible. Maybe it's because I don't really play stuff like competitive shooters where you'd be more likely to notice that your aim / movement isn't *as* responsive as it could be, but I don't feel any meaningful difference when I'm playing single player games.
Upscalers, temporal AA and framegen are essentially all anti-thesis of their own intended use cases.
In layman's terms, if your base resolution and framerate are not high enough by default, both the upscalers, the TAA, and the frame-gen will look, run AND feel god-awful. And I am talking about some modest 1080p / 60fps no longer being "enough" to support those hacks; the real game logic will run at 1/2 or even 1/3rd of the perceived framerate, minus some extra 10-20% because of the whole processing of the fake frames, so unless you're already doing 60fps or more, you will notice the visible "Ping".
I personally first used framegen in the notoriously awful Silent Hill 2 UE5 de-make, because it runs like ass without it, and the devs idiotic decision to turn it into a "Dark Souls-lite" style action game meant that 30fps reeeally does not feel smooth.
With modified FSR3.5 set to Balanced + 2x FG, I was able to net locked "80" fps, but the input lag was VERY noticeable. Talking about visible .5 second delay before anything registered. I kinda learned to live with it, but it always felt like I was running in a hip-deep bog.
tl;dr: either you play very lightweight games, got an RTX5090 that can bruteforce modern shit at >120fps, or you're just blind + have never played a single SP game that requires precise movements and instant responsiveness.
In layman's terms, if your base resolution and framerate are not high enough by default, both the upscalers, the TAA, and the frame-gen will look, run AND feel god-awful. And I am talking about some modest 1080p / 60fps no longer being "enough" to support those hacks; the real game logic will run at 1/2 or even 1/3rd of the perceived framerate, minus some extra 10-20% because of the whole processing of the fake frames, so unless you're already doing 60fps or more, you will notice the visible "Ping".
I personally first used framegen in the notoriously awful Silent Hill 2 UE5 de-make, because it runs like ass without it, and the devs idiotic decision to turn it into a "Dark Souls-lite" style action game meant that 30fps reeeally does not feel smooth.
With modified FSR3.5 set to Balanced + 2x FG, I was able to net locked "80" fps, but the input lag was VERY noticeable. Talking about visible .5 second delay before anything registered. I kinda learned to live with it, but it always felt like I was running in a hip-deep bog.
tl;dr: either you play very lightweight games, got an RTX5090 that can bruteforce modern shit at >120fps, or you're just blind + have never played a single SP game that requires precise movements and instant responsiveness.