Why no talk of Nvidia's sharpening upscale algorithm?

[SeeNoWeevil]

Oddly seems to be in competition with their own DLSS but from experience, I think it's fantastic and works on any game*. Before my 3080 arrives (lol) I've been using it to upsample ~1600p to 4K and it looks superb. I still think it's gonna be useful on Ampere to give you that little extra (e.g dropping to 1800p) to reach 4K60.

*doesn't currently work with HDR. Supposedly does on Ampere, can somebody with an HDR display test this?

 

[DFroN]

I find it to be much worse than DLSS and thus not in competition. It's useful for deblurring AA for example in COD:MW the SMAA is incredibly blurry and sharpening can improve it a lot. But rendering a lower resolution and then trying to sharpen it back up lowers image quality too much for me.

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

I find it to be much worse than DLSS and thus not in competition. It's useful for deblurring AA for example in COD:MW the SMAA is incredibly blurry and sharpening can improve it a lot. But rendering a lower resolution and then trying to sharpen it back up lowers image quality too much for me.

What res are you scaling from/to?

 

[DFroN]

What res are you scaling from/to?

On a 1440p monitor, render scale at 90%, sharpening value I can't remember but played with it a bit. It was an attempt to get some extra frames. Not doubting that you have a good experience with it, maybe it works better in other games that I haven't tried it on.

edit: Or it probably just works better the higher the resolution. If you’re upscaling from 1600p then you’re already over my native resolution, so theres still going to be good detail.

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

On a 1440p monitor, render scale at 90%, sharpening value I can't remember but played with it a bit. It was an attempt to get some extra frames. Not doubting that you have a good experience with it, maybe it works better in other games that I haven't tried it on.

edit: Or it probably just works better the higher the resolution. If you’re upscaling from 1600p then you’re already over my native resolution, so theres still going to be good detail.

I think this is the case. I had a friend try 1080p up to 1440p and said it was quite soft looking.

Can someone with a 30 series card and a HDR display confirm sharpening upscale works with HDR games?

 

[adrichardson81]

I find it to be much worse than DLSS and thus not in competition. It's useful for deblurring AA for example in COD:MW the SMAA is incredibly blurry and sharpening can improve it a lot. But rendering a lower resolution and then trying to sharpen it back up lowers image quality too much for me.

If anything, you don't want to over-sharpen when you do a straight upscale. Eg if I play on my Switch, I drop sharpening a notch in the monitor.

 

[chrcoluk]

Oddly seems to be in competition with their own DLSS but from experience, I think it's fantastic and works on any game*. Before my 3080 arrives (lol) I've been using it to upsample ~1600p to 4K and it looks superb. I still think it's gonna be useful on Ampere to give you that little extra (e.g dropping to 1800p) to reach 4K60.

*doesn't currently work with HDR. Supposedly does on Ampere, can somebody with an HDR display test this?

Never heard of it, but then seen it a youtubers video yesterday and wondered what it was, the setting in the control panel.

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

I make this post and then go and try and use it and it seems to be completely broken Can't get it to work at all on the current drivers. I get the correct external res but the image is centred with black borders (i.e no scaling). FFS.

 

[gpuerrilla]

I make this post and then go and try and use it and it seems to be completely broken Can't get it to work at all on the current drivers. I get the correct external res but the image is centred with black borders (i.e no scaling). FFS.

@CAT-THE-FIFTH @LePhuronn @TNA @KentMan

In before Grim sees the potential to spot a thread to promote DLSS..

 

[LePhuronn]

Let's link arms and make a wall so he can't get in

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

@CAT-THE-FIFTH @LePhuronn @TNA @KentMan

In before Grim sees the potential to spot a thread to promote DLSS..