AMD FSR looks bad at 1080p

[WolfEisberg]

Very noticeably bad. I thought the point of FSR was to run at a lower resolution while have very little, hardly noticeable, degradation of image quality.

[Cryiox]

Running a game at sub native resolution (let's say 720p on a 1080p) looks bad, because upscaling is bilinear scaling, which is poor.

FSR has a better scaling algorithm, therefore the image will look better than simple upscaling. Besides this, FSR also has a sharpening pass, to make the image even better.

FSR Ultra Quality at 1080p is slightly under 900p. I won't lie saying it looks exactly the same or better than native 1080p (even more so if you had sharpening directly to 1080p), but it looks really close to native and better in spots.

[Zuffy]

The point of FSR (and DLSS) is to increase performance for a given resolution with minimal* image quality degradation. A good starting point is to make sure you have the resolution set to whatever your display's native resolution is and then enable FSR set to "Ultra Quality." This will boost performance for an almost-imperceptible-in-most-cases loss in image quality.

*Only applies to "Ultra Quality" mode, even AMD themselves state that the other modes noticeably degrade the image.

[Tiasmoon]

İlk olarak Captain Man tarafından gönderildi:

I thought the point of FSR was to run at a lower resolution while have very little, hardly noticeable, degradation of image quality.

That is mostly only true for the very highest presets of FSR and DLSS.

Higher preset = lower performance gains, image quality doesnt decrease much.
Lower preset = much higher performance gains, image degrades significantly.

[Tiasmoon]

That does look quite horrible.

[Eye of Newt]

It looks like objects in the distance get more pixellated with FSR. This would make sense if it's not upscaling as well as it should from the "gaming resolution" to your monitor's native resolution.

[Arvi]

any sharpening on low resolutions is bad ofc since that will bring out the pixels.
FSR was developed mainly to bring low end cards up to 4k capability.

[Tiasmoon]

İlk olarak Arvi tarafından gönderildi:

any sharpening on low resolutions is bad ofc since that will bring out the pixels.
FSR was developed mainly to bring low end cards up to 4k capability.

No, the point of FSR and similar techs is to make games less taxing to run and increase FPS at the desired resolution (in this case 1080p)with ideally only a small loss in image quality.

The focus is not resolution or visual clarity, but fps.

[Komarimaru]

İlk olarak Tiasmoon tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Arvi tarafından gönderildi:

any sharpening on low resolutions is bad ofc since that will bring out the pixels.
FSR was developed mainly to bring low end cards up to 4k capability.

No, the point of FSR and similar techs is to make games less taxing to run and increase FPS at the desired resolution (in this case 1080p)with ideally only a small loss in image quality.

The focus is not resolution or visual clarity, but fps.

Sadly, 1080p was never a factor for FSR, even AMD said so. Does it help cards run the game better? Yes. 1080p is already a tiny resolution, limited pixels to work with, what do people expect?

[Moga CMDR]

FSR works well for me in other games, but I run things at 4K. most recently CP2077. ran nice and looked great. I used it on something else too but I can't recall atm, but it's worked well for me at 4k.

I agree with folks that it may not work at all at 1080p. At 4k it's sharp and looks just as good as native, at least in some games.

That said I do not use DLSS or FRS in this game, because it runs fine for me natively.

[id]

İlk olarak Ron Stoppable tarafından gönderildi:

Very noticeably bad. I thought the point of FSR was to run at a lower resolution while have very little, hardly noticeable, degradation of image quality.

I think FSR is worser than using the TV upscaler... or the GPU native upscaler. It's a good try but a bad tech. It's just like DLSS 1.0: good try, bad results.

FSR 2.0 on the other hand is pretty good. I heard this game will be updated with it. Let's wait and see how this unfolds. I also heard that God of War have the same drawbacks as death loop but it's pretty damn close to DLSS. DLSS is still the best result but FSR 2 now is good enough.

[Seamus]

İlk olarak id tarafından gönderildi:

I heard this game will be updated with it.

Citation needed.

There are no signs of any work being done on the game.

[id]

İlk olarak Seamus tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak id tarafından gönderildi:

I heard this game will be updated with it.

Citation needed.

There are no signs of any work being done on the game.

provided:

https://youtu.be/zwfj6lKwQiE?t=3128

But rewatching now, I probably got wrong. Let's see.

[Seamus]

İlk olarak id tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Seamus tarafından gönderildi:

Citation needed.

There are no signs of any work being done on the game.

provided:

https://youtu.be/zwfj6lKwQiE?t=3128

But rewatching now, I probably got wrong. Let's see.

Going by the description, they're talking about FSR 2.0 being added to god of war, which has already happened. And an update for forbidden west.

Not seeing anything about zero dawn.

There also hasn't been any movement on the steam depots for the game since the last patch.

No new beta branches or anything.

[id]

İlk olarak Seamus tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak id tarafından gönderildi:

provided:

https://youtu.be/zwfj6lKwQiE?t=3128

But rewatching now, I probably got wrong. Let's see.

Going by the description, they're talking about FSR 2.0 being added to god of war, which has already happened. And an update for forbidden west.

Not seeing anything about zero dawn.

There also hasn't been any movement on the steam depots for the game since the last patch.

No new beta branches or anything.

It's the subtittle that confused me. "God of War and Horizon patches". As they talked about FSR first I assumed Horizon would receave too. I don't know if Horizon will ever be touched again but would be a good adition.

[R2DSF]

Off course it looks bad. 1080p with Ultra Quality FSR 1.0 is actually 860p