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Nvidia DSR

dannywaugh1

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Hi all,

Just been testing my new build with some games and noticed DSR in the nvidia experience.
Do you guys use it while gaming or not?
 
Only for Assetto Corsa when playing on a big 1080p screen, since it shrinks the UI and gives me more room for onscreen apps.
Other than that, not really.

On another note, maybe it's just me, but I found AMD VSR to have slightly better image quality in comparison. No biggie though, it's pretty minor.
 
Last night I set up my new TV rig. I managed to chuck together a really nice system for not much coin. Not done the full maths yet but I would say about £250 tops.

Any way, whilst building I managed to procure a Asus Mars 760. It would turn out to be a result..

I have a 65" TV and it is 4k but I felt that there would be no way on earth that a dual GTX 760 card could run 4k so I instead connected it to one of the TV's 1080p ports. I played Fallout 4 for about three hours and actually understood why so many people had been ****ging off the graphics. Before this I had been running it at 4k with a Fury X and whilst it looked a little rough in places it really wasn't as bad as people were making out, and now I know why, I was running it at 4k.

1080p though just looked like complete corn hole. The shadows looked terrible too.

Any way, after a little bit of fiddling around I managed to find the DSR settings and enabled them to run Fallout 4 at 1440p. Blimey, what a difference ! it now looks decent again.

This is a very good move from AMD and Nvidia, especially given that many people buy stupidly over powered GPUs. (looks at those running a 980ti @ 1080p)

Any way I can also say that 1440p almost looks as good as 4k so I won't be bothering to play it at 4k any more.

Bravo !
 
I used it when I had a 1920x1200 monitor, basically to get an idea of how 2560x1440/1600 would perform prior to upgrading the monitor.
 
Uncle Petey said:
Only for Assetto Corsa when playing on a big 1080p screen, since it shrinks the UI and gives me more room for onscreen apps.
Other than that, not really.

On another note, maybe it's just me, but I found AMD VSR to have slightly better image quality in comparison. No biggie though, it's pretty minor.
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Probably need to adjust the sharpness slider in nvcp, by default it's at 33%, if you have the headroom reduce it to around 10-15% to sharpen edges up :)

I use dsr when I can to the highest possible setting, fifa 16 at 5k 144hz, rocket league at 4k 144hz to name a few regulars I add it to.

It's even handy for not using a games own aa settings, like gtav I found better performance with severely reduced aa backed up with a moderate level of dsr.
 
I was very pleasantly surprised with it tbh. Obviously 1080p for gaming on a 65" screen was never going to be ideal. What I'm most impressed with though is the Mars. It runs FO4 better at 1440p than my Fury X @ 4k.

Really didn't think it would cut it at 1440p.
 
Where i have enough grunt to up-scale and where it works.... always. (sometimes screen click options don't scale with the res)

It does make a noticeable difference to IQ, looks much better. better colour, cleaner, sharper
 
smogsy said:
Also when testing DSR you lose 1% ish fps compared to native. Mightbe software overhead
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Could be.

Out of interest, are there any differences when you go down in resolution compared to native at the same resolution? (not using DSR but using two different monitors), not sure why you would but i didn't expect the 1% difference in DSR. I personally would include 1% well within margins for error.
 
arc@css said:
I haven't tried doing this yet, but reading your post has made me think about it more.
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In what I play I found it to be a pretty decent experience. Now on 1440p and from the benchmarks I done the numbers are pretty similair.
 
dannywaugh1 said:
Hi all,

Just been testing my new build with some games and noticed DSR in the nvidia experience.
Do you guys use it while gaming or not?
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All the time, Although mines VSR on AMD. I treat it like another graphics setting now, I have a 1080p monitor and run games at 1440p or easy to run titles at 4k.
Like someone said once it's like another notch on the AA setting.
It makes it look a little nicer.
 
Insanties_birth said:
They don't do DSR on laptops yet :( Got a GTX 980m I wanted to test it with but no chance to try it. big computer is an AMD card too.
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Then use AMD VSR. It's actually better than DSR because it allows you to run the whole desktop at the higher resolutions, rather than just the games.
 
Playing at 1920x1200 i can not tell the difference when i use dsr to 2560x1600 quality wise but the fps sure takes a dive.


I believe a 1440 or 1600 monitor would make a difference in Image quality more than dsr does on 1080 and 1200
 
ALXAndy said:
Then use AMD VSR. It's actually better than DSR because it allows you to run the whole desktop at the higher resolutions, rather than just the games.
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Funny you should say that because last night i changed dsr and looked on the desktop to see what options it had and saw 4k and 1600 in the options but did not apply it.

Are you sure it does not work on desktop? I will check later but cant right now.
 
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