Overall Best upscale setting for performance?

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I'm just used to messing around with quality and frame rate, all this extra upscaling stuff is confusing me... I can run the game on the highest settings at around 80-100fps, but I just wanna know which one is considered the best overall

[GunStarX]

I found xess usually gave me more performance than fsr3 with the same settings. The other upscalers pushed my system harder for the same fps, although you could always turn the 3d resolution quality down and xess quality (or quality for whatever upscaler is used) for more performance when it gives the option.

I also found full screen windowed mode ran better than full screen. This may be different depending on your own gpu or driver. Other than that, turning lighting down seem to make the most difference to fps, and then shadows. I prefer using the more efficient upscalers as they keep the system cooler. I'll monitor cpu gpu and ssd temps in game with afterburner and librehardwaremonitor, and keep the gpu fan quite high with fancontrol

ps most people tend to prefer dlss for a balance of image quality and performance,but that's only for nvidia cards.

I'd rather that upscalers weren't necessary at all. There should always be an option to turn them off for the best image quality. I think in STWD you need to set the upscaler quality to ultra, or 3d resolution to 100 percent, but you will definitely lose performance and used up more power that way.

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Originally posted by GunStarX:

I found xess usually gave me more performance than fsr3 with the same settings. The other upscalers pushed my system harder for the same fps, although you could always turn the 3d resolution quality down and xess quality (or quality for whatever upscaler is used) for more performance when it gives the option.

I also found full screen windowed mode ran better than full screen. This may be different depending on your own gpu or driver. Other than that, turning lighting down seem to make the most difference to fps, and then shadows. I prefer using the more efficient upscalers as they keep the system cooler. I'll monitor cpu gpu and ssd temps in game with afterburner and librehardwaremonitor, and keep the gpu fan quite high with fancontrol

ps most people tend to prefer dlss for a balance of image quality and performance,but that's only for nvidia cards.

I'd rather that upscalers weren't necessary at all. There should always be an option to turn them off for the best image quality. I think in STWD you need to set the upscaler quality to ultra, or 3d resolution to 100 percent, but you will definitely lose performance and used up more power that way.

I see, thanks for the info, I'll give it a try