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Now that neural rendering runs inside emulators, the question is whether it should. We think the answer is no, and not mainly for the reasons you would expect.

DLSS 5 only works by hooking a game's own DLSS calls. So how is it running in Skyrim, Batman and a PS2 emulator? The answer is a clever fake, and it explains why the results look unstable.

Every PC handheld on sale runs AMD or Intel graphics, which means DLSS is off the table. Here is what FSR and XeSS actually do for you, and which settings are worth changing.

Brand new Game Boy and NES games keep appearing, which raises an obvious question. Who is still writing code for 1989 hardware, and how? The answer is a set of free tools that changed everything.

CRT shaders reproduce what a game was built to look like. Neural rendering invents detail that was never there. Both make old games look better, and they are not the same thing at all.