We’ve done a lot of testing on DLSS4 and FSR 4 (and 3.1) to inspect image quality frame-by-fake-frame in addition to upscaling image quality. At times, these technologies serve their purposes well; DLSS in particular has gotten a lot better with its transformer model and FSR has substantially improved with version 4. We have a lot of criticisms of the fake frame technologies – especially benchmarking them on normal charts – but they do have a place in some situations. Now, we’re looking at Lossless Scaling and Lossless Frame Generation (sometimes called Lossless Scaling Frame Generation, or LSFG). This tool is highly versatile and does more than just upscaling for select games (and frame generation), but we’re really only focusing on those two core use cases today. It’s not as good as the tools built by multi-trillion dollar companies, but for something basically independently built and sold on Steam (and for $7), it’s not a big loss to try.

Link to Lossless Scaling, https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling / https://losslessscaling.com/

  • Goretantath@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 hours ago

    I mistakenly thought this would make my SNES games full screen without stretching, just does the same thing the emulator already does.

    • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
      14·
      6 hours ago

      It’s just a marketing term. There is nothing lossless about the fake frames generated by this tool. It’s just doing interpolation.

      • nfreak@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        5 hours ago

        I hate the name so much. I’ll use it with games where artifacts aren’t noticeable and input delay is negligible, but I’d never pretend it’s “lossless”. Same goes for any other framegen method.

        • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
          6·
          4 hours ago

          I didn’t realize this when I posted my last comment, but apparently the name is because it started out as a scaling tool for pixel-art games, where integer scaling is the desired (and lossless) upscaling method as opposed to the normal methods which cause blurring of the pixel edges.

  • 0li0li@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 hours ago

    Best purchase ever. It makes all my games run at 165fps, mostly without visible artifacts. And when it’s not perfect, it’s because the game itself can’t output above 50 fps… That app is wonderful!!

    • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      Why would I want to use it in games that already run well? What’s even the point of frames above 60 when it’s not the “real” kind that twitch shooters need?

    • Tim_Bisley@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      It works great in No Mans Sky for me. There are some environments where the fps drops significantly but stays above 60 and using this program keeps things looking good.