Hardware Unboxed harshly criticized LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight - it's all about Frame Generation

Some publications, including Digital Foundry, praise NVIDIA's technology and consider it the foundation of the next generation. Others, such as Gamers Nexus and Hardware Unboxed, criticize frame generation.

This time, Hardware Unboxed dissected the case of LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight and criticized its system requirements. They called the minimum configuration a manipulation and something "that should be illegal."

The publisher states that at minimum settings, one can play at 30 FPS with upscaling to 1080p. But these 30 FPS are achieved with Frame Generation enabled.

This means a base of 15 FPS, "overclocked" to 30 through frame generation. As Hardware Unboxed notes, Frame Generation does not increase performance, but only creates a sense of smoothness. Even at 30 FPS, the game's logic and controls remain at 15 FPS, leading to significant input lag.

In the recommended requirements, the technology is also used to achieve 60 FPS. It is noted that this is also an undesirable option – Frame Generation only makes sense at a base of 60 FPS and above.

Hardware Unboxed stated that NVIDIA initially misled users by calling the technology a way to improve performance, and now publishers are taking advantage of this without investing in Unreal Engine 5 optimization. The conclusion, in their opinion, is obvious – the problem is only getting worse.