Upscaling has become an excuse for lazy game optimization, and we're all paying the price
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Modern AAA games are increasingly shipping unoptimized, relying on AI upscaling technologies like DLSS and FSR to hit acceptable frame rates rather than investing in genuine engine optimization. This creates compounding problems: CPU bottlenecks and shader stutters that upscaling cannot fix, internal rendering resolutions collapsing to as low as 540p, and visual artifacts like ghosting and shimmering. The author argues the industry has passed a point of no return — upscaling is now baked into console hardware baselines and PC port pipelines, making native optimization financially unviable. The piece calls on PC enthusiasts to stop accepting inflated artificial FPS as real performance and demand architectural stability instead.
