FSR 3 vs DLSS 3

[cerealkeller]

I’m curious what other people with Nvidia cards think about the FSR vs the DLSS in this game? I hadn’t even tried it, as FSR has been pretty universally inferior to DLSS in image quality. But out of curiosity I tried it, and performance with frame gen is roughly the same. As far as I can tell, at least in the area I’m in, FSR actually looks a bit better than DLSS. I have noticed in every part of the game so far, that objects and terrain in the distance looks muddy and blurry with DLSS. But with FSR, the distant terrain looks sharper, closer to native in my opinion.
The TLDR is, Nvidia owners, what’s your opinion on FSR 3 vs DLSS 3 in this game in regards to image quality?

[cerealkeller]

I tried playing with DLSS again for a bit a few hours. The frame rate is almost the same between them both with frame gen. And I have come to a conclusion. Some sections of the game look better with DLSS and some areas look better with FSR. You're welcome although, I can say with certainty that they are both viable options in this game. It's actually really good to see FSR finally becoming good since I can use it for frame gen on my 3080 system.

[Astral Dark]

I have 2 computers. 1 w/ 7900xtx 7950x3d, and another with RTX4090 + 14900k. The only mod I've done is the widescreen mod and set the quality to 10 in there. I prefer FSR on both cards. It's the only game I prefer FSR in. I typically hate sharpening, and hate texture blur. Here it's just the best of the evils available. I do not know why game companies abandoned clear textures and I don't care why. This is a good game. I've played every final fantasy there is from 1 to 16 and this has been a great experience. However when you turn the game on, everything on highest purest image, no sampling etc, and force AA off in the drivers of both cards, it's still a blurry hideous mess. FSR3 makes it better than the original. DLSS I think was learning from the horrible base texture rendering. Frame gen even works great with it. The only downside to all that is the quest markers etc jiggle weirdly, yet I find this tradeoff to be worth it among all the options.

[Plankton]

At 1080p atleast on my 3080 12GB I must agree. Played a large amount of the game with dlaa and always thought it was muddy and not resolving textures properly and using fsr3 set to native aa with the default sharpening at 10 the image is very crisp and clean and i don't see any of the ringing artifacts typical of sharpening which is a plus.

[iameatingjam]

I did end up settling on dlss and just living with the huge vram use ( I mean I have it don't I? Might as well put it to use).


Personally, I don't mind a bit of blur. I remember the days where aliasing was my biggest enemy in gaming and am just happy those days are gone. Yeah temporal aliasing increases blur. I personally don't give a ♥♥♥♥. Its a million times better than seeing jaggies everywhere. If I'm a little tired ( or a little tipsy) I might increase the sharpness on my display. But I rarely have to do more than that. If I do need more, which I haven't in this game, I'll use reshade.

I don't personally like the look of fsr but you might - its a matter of taste.

[CzUSMC]

FSR 3.1 looks better than DLSS in this game. Use FSR in this game.

[cerealkeller]

well I played the game fully, came to the conclusion, in general the game looks better for things up close and at medium range with DLSS, and anything in the distance looks better with FSR. I ended up switching back to DLSS at some point and leaving it there after flip flopping a bunch of times.

[WitWolfy]

I prefer DLSS 3. FSR tends to bring the quality down on my side... Not my cup of tea

[Kriss Hietala]

ignore dlss and fsr. use xess.

[iameatingjam]

引用自 Kriss Hietala：

ignore dlss and fsr. use xess.

I found xess quite good. But I still prefer dlss, blurriness and all. I hear intel hardware not only improves xess performance wise but visual quality as well. Makes me want to try one of their cards.

[Kriss Hietala]

intel arc had same performance on dp4a and xmx when tested xess. performance didn't improve. Only the visual quality.

[cerealkeller]

引用自 Kriss Hietala：

intel arc had same performance on dp4a and xmx when tested xess. performance didn't improve. Only the visual quality.

Intel has a long way to go, but they've also come a long way already. It's good to have them as a competitor in this market because Nvidia needs someone to challenge them on the high end eventually, hopefully they can do that since AMD seems to be dropping out of the high end unfortunately. It's a shame too, because back when it was ATI, they made some kick ass graphics cards. And some more recently too, I haven't owned one since the HD 5970

[Beat]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I usually dont even try fsr but in this game

From barely playable on 10600k 3060ti all low still stutters. To

A dream. Mid high super fluid with frame gen. I dont even have artifacts or ghosting. Massive impovement. Thats a first.

[cerealkeller]

引用自 Beat：

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I usually dont even try fsr but in this game

From barely playable on 10600k 3060ti all low still stutters. To

A dream. Mid high super fluid with frame gen. I dont even have artifacts or ghosting. Massive impovement. Thats a first.

Nice, I'm glad it helped. I never typically try FSR either, because it's usually not as good, but in this case it's pretty good.