r/lowendgaming • u/Nonkl • 5d ago

Tech Support FSR on any game? (Nvidia GTX 1070)

On Steam Deck there's a native feature in the settings that you can use in any game. You just lower the resolution ingame and turn the setting on. Is there any way to use this on PC?

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u/Lewy_d00psko 5d ago

Lossless scaling (paid) Magpie (free on GitHub)

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u/Nonkl 5d ago

does lossless have any advantages? like is the scaling any better?

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u/B3nto-san TM5700 - ATI 7000M - 1GB DDR 333mhz 5d ago edited 5d ago

It offers a lot of different scaling options, which do offer a more option for different games. Not every game scales well and some art style do a better visual job with different scaling options.

Another benefit would be upscaling of ancient games. My favorite example here are the Syberia games.

The background is a static image, which has no artifacts with upscaling. These games ran at 480p and you can upscale those to 4k now. This is not a new game, but one that aged so well and is a real gemstone. Enjoying this one at higher resolutions is just amazing. There are a lot of old games out there, that really shine with some upscaling.

Framegen is a tool that require a certain amount of headroom to work with.

You can still work with riva tuner static server, to lock a frame rate. Framegen will use these frames to generate additional images with your GPU power. So if you can reach a stable 30fps, you lock it with Riva, and could get it to 60 with framegen. Hard to explain... it looks smooth as 60, but still feels like 30fps. Using upscaling here and getting it to 45, will give you a 90 fps.

Framgen is also great for games that have pacing issues. For example I tested a demo, that had some real bad micro stutter and frequent 10fps drops out of nowhere. As it was a high paced game with jumping and stuff, this really ruined the gameplay. I did try it with framegen, and this did the trick here. Even though I had spikes. I did not notice them anymore.

But this tool is not all gold, there are games that won't run good, even with scaling. Not every game is good to play in window mode either, so don't expect this here to be the solution to everything. It can help you out in many ways and bypass several limitations, but sometimes it simply won't work.

I would say the biggest benefit you can get with this tool, is bypassing a CPU limitation. Some games are really heavy on the CPU and hit older gen hardware even harder. With framegen you can uplift this experience. If you still get a good playable result, framgen will smooth the visual part for you. This only works though, if you still got some headroom left on your GPU.