Poll: How do you game? Upscaling or native? (updated poll choices - 24/12, revote!)

random_matt · 21 Dec 2023 at 16:40

Native wins as always.

nutsnut · 22 Dec 2023 at 12:20

Native with some MSAA.

1440p with an Nvidia 3090

TheRealDeal · 22 Dec 2023 at 16:41

Better than Native they say. "The computer says no"

CuriousTomCat · 22 Dec 2023 at 21:41

I play older games at native and upscale for recent games.

RX 6600

Yrkoon · 22 Dec 2023 at 22:00

native for me at 1440p just upgraded a radeon 5700 to a 7800xt earlier

Grim5 · 23 Dec 2023 at 18:30

nutsnut said:
Native with some MSAA.

1440p with an Nvidia 3090

Msaa was fun, pitty it's not 2010 anymore sadly

Grim5 · 23 Dec 2023 at 18:31

CuriousTomCat said:
I play older games at native and upscale for recent games.

RX 6600

Yeah the poll has a problem, there is no option for native plus upscaling. I believe most use both, it just depends which game they are playing

Gerard · 23 Dec 2023 at 18:35

On the occasional game I play these days, native, which is winning by a landslide.

TNA · 23 Dec 2023 at 19:19

GPU - 4070 Ti
Res - 3440x1440 but DLDSR at 5160x2160 combined with DLSS when possible.

DLSS has come a long way to the point now for me that not using it is leaving performance on the table.

If you combine DLSS with DLDSR then there is no doubt for me you get better than native image quality. To me it is day and night improvement.

MissChief · 23 Dec 2023 at 19:20

Native. 3080@3440x1440p

TNA · 23 Dec 2023 at 19:56

TheRealDeal said:
Better than Native they say. "The computer says no"

Your doing it wrong that's why

Try DLDSR with DLSS and you will see it is better

TheRealDeal · 24 Dec 2023 at 08:35

TNA said:
Your doing it wrong that's why

Try DLDSR with DLSS and you will see it is better

No i am doing it correct. Native is king mate and the vote is in :cry:

TNA · 24 Dec 2023 at 08:38

TheRealDeal said:
No i am doing it correct. Native is king mate and the vote is in

You keep saying that to yourself

Deleted member 77746 · 24 Dec 2023 at 08:42

Native always but I still play emulated stuff that doesn’t need 4K content.

Nexus18 · 24 Dec 2023 at 09:22

TNA said:
Your doing it wrong that's why

Try DLDSR with DLSS and you will see it is better

He won't be able to as he has an amd gpu

As for thread results, I'm not overly surprised tbf given how this thread went i.e. power efficiency was the most important factor during rdna 2/ampere time yet here we are with ada and rdna 3.....

So much like that other thread I would say a large part of it is with people having a preference for amd/amd gpu owners voting native and also because as evidenced, FSR is never as good as native let alone better, much like myself, I would never use FSR and instead reduce settings thus native would also be getting my vote here.

Also, having read through all the posts, I've noticed it's mostly amd gpu users posting native so I probably should have done a better poll in terms of something like:

Native (AMD gpu owner)
Native (Nvidia GPU owner)
Native (Intel GPU owner)

DLSS

FSR (AMD gpu owner)
FSR (Nvidia GPU owner)
FSR (Intel GPU owner)

So I'll change the poll which would give a better insight, it won't change the results in terms of native leading for what people "use the most" (remember not preference) but at least we can see where the majority is coming from.

Nexus18 · 24 Dec 2023 at 09:25

@Stanners, is it possible to delete the poll and do the options above as well as enabling so we can see who votes what.

EDIT:

Probably don't bother with XESS since no one voted for it.

K1LaW8tt5 · 24 Dec 2023 at 09:32

Yes keep doing the poll until you get the results you want.
Maybe run with

What upscaling do you use?
I prefer DLSS
I love DLSS
DLSS in most games
Always DLSS

Then you can check the results later on while putting the cookies out for Santa.

Nexus18 · 24 Dec 2023 at 09:37

K1LaW8tt5 said:
Yes keep doing the poll until you get the results you want.
Maybe run with

What upscaling do you use?
I prefer DLSS
I love DLSS
DLSS in most games
Always DLSS

Then you can check the results later on while putting the cookies out for Santa.

How's it getting results I want? It's not going to influence the overall result of native leading the way % wise..... It's to get a better insight to which gpu band are using what, nothing more as for obvious reasons, fsr is never better than native thus it makes sense that amd users most likely aren't going to vote for FSR (and they can't use DLSS and XESS isn't in enough games) i.e. we look at hubs (outdated now and somewhat flawed results)

It ain't rocket science to read through the thread and see it's mostly amd gpu users voting/posting native.....

It's rubbish posts like yours which drag these threads down and add nothing useful to the topic.

EDIT:

And obviously we have nvidia gpu owners preferring/posting native too, hence why it would be good to see what % of nvidia owners prefer native.

Stanners · 24 Dec 2023 at 10:10

Nexus18 said:
@Stanners, is it possible to delete the poll and do the options above as well as enabling so we can see who votes what.

EDIT:

Probably don't bother with XESS since no one voted for it.

@Nexus18

All done, who voted for what should also be visible.

uksoldierboy · 24 Dec 2023 at 10:50

Native
1440P
7900XTX

Tried FSR and DLSS on my Nvidia stuff, think it's all just a bag of balls tbh and little more than a way to push Ray Traced games at playable fps.
I'd rather fob off Ray Tracing and focus on performance at native resolutions.

Not a fan of it at all.