Are all performance tips on the net now obsolete since FSR3 / DLSS is in the game?

[japp_02]

All these performance mods and performance guides you find in the net are more than 1 year old and reflect the situation where FSR 3 / DLSS was not in the game, only FSR 2.

Thus all these advices seem for me to go out of the window also because the Display options in-game have changed since. Nowhere did I find advices and explanations about what the activation of FSR 3 together with "Frame Generation" actually does.
Well, for my laptop computer system I can say what it does, and I'm worried about my laptop's health if using it:
Without activation of FSR 3 + Frame Generation I get barely 35 average FPS, all but strange (read on). Now, if I activate it with the same other settings (doesn't matter which ones, wether they are Low or Ultra) I get close to 60 FPS. And now I tell you: My laptop is a low-end system with a GTX 1660 Ti mobile grafics card.

So how does this jibe, does someone clearly understand this? I should not get 60 FPS with a low-end system or something is amiss. Or isn't it?

Thanks anyone to explain this and tell me if the advices on the net about performance settings etc. still apply.

[HeyYou]

FSR is just a flavor of frame generation. It's AMD's version. (at least, I think it's theirs....) Nvidia has their own, and I believe that's in the game as well now.....

In the end, if using one or the other gives you better performance, run with it, and SMILE! :D

[H5N1]

FSR is AMDs up scaling technology taking a crappy resolution and using math to raise the resolution using a different gpu process that is less demanding to potentially get better frames but I find FSR isn’t that great if you have too low of hardware like a Steam Deck for instance. FSR 4 which is only supported by the 9070 and 9070XT uses ai to do the upscaling like Nvidia’s DLSS does.

[japp_02]

Thanks. So, if I set FSR3 + Frame Generation on, whatelse should I change to get sharper and better lightening grafics, if I am at 60+ FPS I have a large margin to chose higher settings and have say 40 FPS which is still fine, right? Should I increase the resolution scale? Currently I've set it to 75%.

[H5N1]

That’s entirely up to your preference. Personally I like as high frames as I can get so I had to turn everything off and it still runs like crap on my Deck.

[japp_02]

Originally posted by H5N1:

That’s entirely up to your preference. Personally I like as high frames as I can get so I had to turn everything off and it still runs like crap on my Deck.

I get some crazy bouncings from the FPS changing to 100+ in the menus and maps, can I cap the FPS at 60, how do you do this, the NVidia Panel?

[H5N1]

Yeah you can do it in the control panel. If you go to the custom settings tab and scroll down you should see it in there.

[HeyYou]

Turn off the film grain texture.... That was the single best improvement on my game.

[japp_02]

Originally posted by HeyYou:

Turn off the film grain texture.... That was the single best improvement on my game.

Yeah, this is in all advices I've read. I've set the slider to 0.

[japp_02]

I see more clearly now. With FSR3+Frame generation set to on, true, you get 60+ FPS but also a soon game crash, at least when your system cannot handle it. So here are my revisited settings which work for me:

Asus Rog Strix Laptop
Game installed on external NVMe SSD, 5Gb/s USB 3.1
GPU: GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Mobile) 6GB
CPU: Intel i7 9750H
System RAM: 16GB

In-game settings:
Preset all values to Medium, then changing the values below
Motion Blur = Off
Crowd Density: Low
Vsync = Off
Film Grain = Off
Anisotropic Filter = 16x
Upscaling: OFF
NVidia Reflex Low Latency = Off
Enable VRS: On
Depth of Field: Off

Nvidia Panel: Add Starfield, change to 60 FPS cap.
Try to activate Tripple Buffer and Vsync set to ON in NVidia Panel for the game but make sure Vsync is turned off in the in-game setting, the game grafics could look better with this.

[kdodds]

Your 1660TI requires absolute lowest you can go at 2K or higher, disable dof, grain, etc. You will also benefit from mods that remove dynamic objects and downgrade textures/models. If you play for much over an hour, you're likely to get a heat shutdown otherwise.