Adaptive Supersampling

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

For us Potato PC users out there!

I just discovered the joys (horrors) of setting supersampling to 0.5 on my old Potato laptop. It's brilliant, it means I can use station services, and dock and all these amazing things! Can't see much though.. lol
However, in space, I don't need supersampling. It runs fine.

So my idea is an option for "Adaptive Supersampling".
Which basically tries to maintain a certain FPS, and will raise and drop the supersampling as the FPS changes.

It would be Off by default. So what you set is what you get. I'd imagine 99.9% of users would use this. Lol

Then you'd have options that adjust the threshold which triggers the change.
For example <20 FPS. If he FPS drops below 20 FPS for more than a few seconds, it'll drop the supersampling down until the FPS is >20 FPS. Same for 30FPS, and so on.
You could even go the other way, and change the supersampling Up if you're well above a comfortable FPS. So >55FPS. If your FPS is consistently above 55FPS, it will raise the supersampling, etc.

Probably not worth the effort, but it'd be handy for us lower end users.

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

 

[Riverside]

I like the idea of automatically adjusting sampling to maintain a requested framerate. The game has extremes of GPU load going from virtually empty space to drawing planetary terrain or inside a station. I'd be happy to have my GPU utilised more in space to reduce jaggies on orbital lines for example but have it dialled back on a planet surface to maintain a reasonable framerate.

 

[Jon flint]

While adaptive resolution scaling is more common on consoles, I have seen a few titles on pc that will dynamically change rendering resolution to maintain a target fps.

It would be a welcome addition to Elite, especially as more and more GPU intensive features are released with future updates.