Why is FSR locked to Remastered?

[Kachunnga]

This makes no sense. Remastered and FXAA already add blur, so why is FSR locked behind these settings?

Why is PA giving a middle finger to low-spec gamers? The blur would be minimal on lower settings, and it'd help massively with this game, since it can be resource-intensive at times even when set to "low."

The blur from FSR also seems to be easier on my eyes than BDO's anti-aliasing options, so giving a performance boost on top of that would be perfect for me. My eyes are garbage so an unclear/choppy image can be very straining on my eyes, FSR would solve both of these issues... if it weren't locked behind a video setting that completely negates those benefits.

[Simple Man]

Upscaling functions with any graphics settings, FSR is just upscaling with a "special algorithm". You're also not required to use any form of AA, can have it off.

Use the normal function with low settings while avoiding remastered altogether, you apparently say thats not, or somehow less blury, perfect then.

[Kachunnga]

Originally posted by Im doing my part!:

Upscaling functions with any graphics settings, FSR is just upscaling with a "special algorithm". You're also not required to use any form of AA, can have it off.

Use the normal function with low settings while avoiding remastered altogether, you apparently say thats not, or somehow less blury, perfect then.

In theory yes.
But Pearl Abyss decided that was unacceptable. If you try to use it on anything below Remastered, it tells you that you have to enable it to use FSR. Same with FXAA, but there's a simple workaround for that part.
(I also tried using the config, but still no luck. FSR only applies in Remastered.)

[Simple Man]

I meant standard upscaling, it works with any graphics settings.

Under optimization, there will be not applied, upscaled, and FSR. If you're not using remastered simply use upscaled.

[Kachunnga]

Originally posted by Im doing my part!:

I meant standard upscaling, it works with any graphics settings.

Oh, I didn't realize. My bad. That said- Dear god no! The basic upscaling setting is literally the worst upscaler i've ever seen. It adds dark lines, artifacts and aliasing that literally looks like a JPEG and is VERY harsh on my eyes. Immediately causes pain.

I just don't get the decision to arbitrarily limit FSR to remastered.

[Claude Van Dong]

Possible answer is that in terms of image quality FSR mainly relies on game's native AA, meaning AA needs to be applied to the image before FSR, which means the better the AA, the better resulting image quality will be. In case of BDO there r 2 AA solutions: FXAA and TAA. TAA is the more advanced one out of the 2 and they locked it, for whatever reason, behind remastered mode. So if you turn off remastered you will no longer have access to TAA which means FXAA will have to suffice for FSR. And perhaps they've concluded that image quality in such scenario is atrocious. Those are just speculations ofc, because seeing how PA does stuff there could be ... no reason at all. As there's seemingly no reason in locking TAA behind remastered mode, no reason for there to be no LOD settings in this game, no reason for bundling up and locking graphics settings behind presets instead of letting players choose what they want to turn on or off. Perhaps they thought that game's rly demanding only on remastered and above mode, and below that it alrdy runs fine. It doesn't really matter, you won't achieve anything with this topic or complaining, devs live in a Korean tank and prolly don't even speak English, so... Basically they couldn't care less.

[Kachunnga]

Originally posted by s0ulty:

Possible answer is that in terms of image quality FSR mainly relies on game's native AA, meaning AA needs to be applied to the image before FSR, which means the better the AA, the better resulting image quality will be. In case of BDO there r 2 AA solutions: FXAA and TAA. TAA is the more advanced one out of the 2 and they locked it, for whatever reason, behind remastered mode. So if you turn off remastered you will no longer have access to TAA which means FXAA will have to suffice for FSR. And perhaps they've concluded that image quality in such scenario is atrocious. Those are just speculations ofc, because seeing how PA does stuff there could be ... no reason at all. As there's seemingly no reason in locking TAA behind remastered mode, no reason for there to be no LOD settings in this game, no reason for bundling up and locking graphics settings behind presets instead of letting players choose what they want to turn on or off. Perhaps they thought that game's rly demanding only on remastered and above mode, and below that it alrdy runs fine. It doesn't really matter, you won't achieve anything with this topic or complaining, devs live in a Korean tank and prolly don't even speak English, so... Basically they couldn't care less.

What makes it more frustrating is that there's a simple workaround to use TAA instead of FXAA, and many people (myself included) things it looks much better. But yeah, you're right...