I hope the image upscaling performance is better than 'Magpie'.

[안티파시즘]

https://ibb.co/f0pptq8

The link above is the lower left part of the image that was upscaled by a program that mentions the game 'Your Blight'. This is an image quality that cannot be achieved with ‘lossless scaling’.

If you take a screenshot with lossless upscaling, it is taken in windowed mode, so you cannot take a comparison shot, but this program still shows insufficient image quality when upscaling a 540p resolution game.

Ultimately, a lossless scaling program must have a resolution of 1080p to display a clear screen on a 4k monitor. For resolutions lower than that, it is difficult to experience full high-definition quality on a 4K monitor.

We ask the creator to update the quality.


You can download the program, and when you compare the 2D illustration with the 4k animation (maximum), you can see that the picture quality is excellent.


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F_yQtD9EYqaYdr0B1MdEEqGM2tvkYgg0/view?usp=drive_link

[Spook]

*edit;

After some research it appears that Magpie uses Anime4k for it's upscaling. Lossless Scaling offers this scaling-option as well.

[Gizzmoe]

Iiuc he meant that Magpie has a better upscaling quality from 540p to 2160p than LS?

[Spook]

Originally posted by Gizzmoe:

Iiuc he meant that Magpie has a better upscaling quality from 540p to 2160p than LS?

Which is unlikely as Magpie also uses Anime4k (and variations thereof), similar to Lossless Scaling. Magpie may somehow do it better.

[Spook]

Originally posted by 안티파시즘:

[...]

Have you tried using LS's Anime4k-upscaling option?

[Spook]

So i just tried LS's Anime4k to upscale a less then 540p image to 4k. The result looks frankly impressive and i think it might be unreasonable to expect a much better result.

Integer factors, such as 540p, 720p, and 1080p should do better when upscaled to 4k / 2160p. Higher resolutions (720p and up) do a lot better in general.

Give it a shot, use Anime4k.


*If your specific issue is screenshots not showing the upscaled image, then i can't help you with that one. Though somebody else might be able to.

[안티파시즘]

Spook,
Yes, when I use indie games, I always use that option to utilize lossless upscaling.
However, the image quality is lower than "Magpei". You can compare 540p resolution games by upscaling them on a 4k monitor.
How to set up Magpie in the link:
1.mode is 4k raal-uhd
2.method is graphics capture

Originally posted by Spook:

So i just tried LS's Anime4k to upscale a less then 540p image to 4k. The result looks frankly impressive and i think it might be unreasonable to expect a much better result.

Integer factors, such as 540p, 720p, and 1080p should do better when upscaled to 4k / 2160p. Higher resolutions (720p and up) do a lot better in general.

Give it a shot, use Anime4k.


*If your specific issue is screenshots not showing the upscaled image, then i can't help you with that one. Though somebody else might be able to.

[안티파시즘]

Gizzmoe,
That's right. You understood correctly.

Originally posted by Gizzmoe:

Iiuc he meant that Magpie has a better upscaling quality from 540p to 2160p than LS?

[Spook]

Originally posted by 안티파시즘:

Spook,
Yes, when I use indie games, I always use that option to utilize lossless upscaling.
However, the image quality is lower than "Magpei". You can compare 540p resolution games by upscaling them on a 4k monitor.
How to set up Magpie in the link:
1.mode is 4k raal-uhd
2.method is graphics capture

Originally posted by Spook:

[...]

I guess LS's implementation is not as good as Magpie's then.

I did see that Magpie does have different ?custom? versions of Anime4k, thats probably where the difference lies. You could request these versions be added to LS, probably try in the Discord-server.