Plot Twist! Why Denuvo is working so well with Stellar Blade with no issues?

[GentleLight]

Another topic by me. I wanted to put some thoughts out and see what everyone thinks.

As you know, Frame generation is locked behind only those who own a RTX 50 Series GPU in this game specifically.
As you may also know, stellar blade is missing A LOT of settings that previous titles I play normally have.

"normally" I go into settings and enable either DLAA, DLSS, Xess, etc when I try a new game on PC. I try to get the best quality possible while maintaining 60fps or higher. I also have no issues enabling frame generation on other titles (Like the first descendant).

But Shift up..... or perhaps Sony?.... Choose DLSS 4 only (and the other amd option).

Why did they choose such limited options in settings?

Shift up claims that Denuvo does not cause any performance impact on stellar blade. This is true as you can see from the demo. However..... I feel this is a mis-direction. By limiting the up-scaling options we have, Shift Up (or Sony) may have prioritized a controlled environment to ensure consistent performance.

This is also a way to market Denuvo as reliable in an attempt to improve their rep or prove rumors wrong. Additionally, Nvidia gets to market their DLSS 4 tech "oh wow, 300fps just from enabling frame generation" and all that jazz.

Sometimes I wonder how much the game has been effected by such schemes. In fact, I sometimes wonder just how much control Sony has over Shift Up when making decisions. Nvidia and AMD involvement is probably present as well.

[Gibbs]

So your "educated guess" is that they intentionally crippled the graphics to make denuvo look good?

I'm not sure the term "educated guess" means what you think it means.

[GentleLight]

Originally posted by Gibbs:

So your "educated guess" is that they intentionally crippled the graphics to make denuvo look good?

I'm not sure the term "educated guess" means what you think it means.

"intentionally crippled the graphics" is incorrect. I said we have less upscale options, less ways to adjust our settings. Less control.

In fact, having all that off (DLAA, Xess, etc) is preferred for best quality. The extra settings help boost performance.

[Song of Storms]

I mean, sure, if you're crazy and don't understand Denuvo. Then you believe there's entire conspiracy where every setting exists to tank performance, every setting is about Denuvo, your bad performance is because of a Denuvo, Denuvo killed your dog in first grade, Denuvo caused the 2008 finacial crash.

Everyone else is just like "oh, they have the two mainstream options for upscaling at launch. That's pretty good for their first big PC effort".f

Beyond the fact that Denuvo does not impact performance unless they've implemented it very badly or stacked in-house DRM on top of it like Capcom did..

[Cephei]

For 7$ you can buy lossless scaling, you can choose all kinds of different upscaling methods and force framegen on any gpu, works great in any game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/

[Seamus]

Originally posted by GentleLight:

My educated guess:

You don't understand what those three words mean.

[GentleLight]

Originally posted by Seamus:

Originally posted by GentleLight:

My educated guess:

You don't understand what those three words mean.

Since I "apparently" don't know what the word means, I removed it. I typed it out of habit anyway and there was no reason to have it in my post.

[G00DIEGUMDR0PS]

This opinion piece is very 'flat earth' theory...

[Seamus]

Originally posted by GentleLight:

"apparently"

You also don't know how to use quotation marks. They're not for emphasis.

[Chris The WZRD]

I have the graphics maxed out in 4K and DLAA, and it doesn’t drop below 240fps. This game is very optimized

[TheSho21]

Doesn't DLSS4 work on 20 series and up? How is that limiting?

Also, minor correction but 2x frame gen works on 40 series cards. The 4x is exclusive to 50 series.

[Magic Tofu Cat]

yeah its cause you final y have a pc that is not classed as potatoe level

[vault2049]

Originally posted by TheSho21:

Doesn't DLSS4 work on 20 series and up? How is that limiting?

No, DLSS 4 upscaling only works with 4000 and 5000 series and DLSS 4 framegen only work on the 5000 series.

If you have a <3000 GPU you are stuck with FSR 3.1, which isn't that bad but it is not DLSS.

[Pheace]

So the argument would basically be that it's set up so PC players can't push their settings to ridiculous extremes so they don't get the opportunity to complain?

[GentleLight]

Originally posted by Pheace:

So the argument would basically be that it's set up so PC players can't push their settings to ridiculous extremes so they don't get the opportunity to complain?

Correct.

For everyone here, I actually don't care one way or another. This was just a random theory I thought of and I don't really have any extreme views on the matter. But I figured if I took the side of Denuvo haters, this would be my argument.

[Big Chaddus87]

Originally posted by vault2049:

Originally posted by TheSho21:

Doesn't DLSS4 work on 20 series and up? How is that limiting?

No, DLSS 4 upscaling only works with 4000 and 5000 series

Absolutely false, on the 3000 and 2000 you have less performance (FPS) but it works exactly like on the 4000 and 5000