• beefcat@lemmy.world
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      The author wasn’t selling DLSS, they were selling a shim to make it work with Starfield. That does require original work.

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          Honestly, 90% of programming work now is “I got X library to work inside of Y new system in Z engine”. It makes sense too - it’s exceedingly rare that it makes sense to reinvent someone else’s wheel - and at times, not insignificant to implement the right hooks.

        • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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          Things don’t need to be novel and amazing to be marketable. And if it’s that trivial, rather than pirating it people would just rewrite it. The fact that they’re stealing it means it has value.

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            The fact that they’re stealing it means it’s priced above its perceived value though.

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              So it has perceived value…

              But that guy above was saying that it’s worthless and trivial to implement…

              You can’t have it both ways.

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              That’s not true at all. People often steal because they value the item but cannot afford the price.

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          Strange how they felt the need to pirate his non-work instead of just doing it themselves?

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          And starfield itself is useless without a huge stack of technology that someone else made. That’s just how software works.

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        Do you copy and paste comments from reddit? I read this exact comment last night I am SURE of it

    • Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de
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      But DLSS is an Nvidia DLL, you’re not even licensed to redistribute it - and you’re not doing anything special, you’re hooking into the data the engine spews out for FSR.

      If it’s not anything special, someone else could just “easily” reproduce it instead of having to pirate it?

        • ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world
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          They are not distributing components of the dll. They are creating a modification of a Bethesda game which has allowed modding at the discretion of Bethesda.

          The Nvidia dll is being redistributed without modification for an Nvidia GPU as exactly described.

          Do you think every single game publisher negotiated a deal or paid money to ensure DLSS in their game? Can you point out any documentation outside of the direct reference to the SDK license that I linked that is in direct opposition to what your are saying? Can you point to me any discussion what so ever about paying to implement DLSS?

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      If it’s so trivial to do why doesn’t everyone do it on their own?

      If it’s any easy mod to replicate it seems like it won’t have much self life as a paid mod.