The AMD Supersampling - Ultra Quality - Boosted my FPS

Ratstar · Jul 30, 2021

I only have a 1060 GPU and got shocked when I set the AMD Supersampling to Ultra Quality... What sorcery is this?

LKx · Jul 30, 2021

It's called rendering at a lower resolution

Wimmer · Jul 30, 2021

Ratstar said:
I only have a 1060 GPU and got shocked when I set the AMD Supersampling to Ultra Quality... What sorcery is this?

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I'm curious to see what your ship's HUD looks like. Sharp like in Horizons, or grainy and uneven?

Tharrn · Jul 30, 2021

Go to a ring and check the asteroids out. That's when I had to turn it off again while mining :/

hunvagy · Jul 30, 2021

Oh dear god the jaggies everywhere.

Ratstar · Jul 30, 2021

hunvagy said:
Oh dear god the jaggies everywhere.

They tricked me

Erei · Jul 30, 2021

You are not playing at your resolution, you are playing at a much lower resolution.

So yes, obviously it will boost the performance. At the cost of quality.

Ratstar · Jul 30, 2021

Erei said:
You are not playing at your resolution, you are playing at a much lower resolution.

So yes, obviously it will boost the performance. At the cost of quality.

it was just a trick. I think optimization is impossible

Vandaahl · Jul 30, 2021

Previously, I was running 1080p on a 1440p screen and upscaled with FFY CAS and NO anti aliasing.
Now I'm running 1440p SMAA FSR Quality upscaling (I can't select balanced, as performance is always selected) with a similar performance, but the quality is worse.

Ratstar · Jul 30, 2021

Vandaahl said:
Previously, I was running 1080p on a 1440p screen and upscaled with FFY CAS and NO anti aliasing.
Now I'm running 1440p SMAA FSR Quality upscaling (I can't select balanced, as performance is always selected) with a similar performance, but the quality is worse.

I give up

Florenus · Jul 30, 2021

I use regular supersampling to help with poor Elite AA. At x2 it looks ok.
AMD Supersampling might be helping with FPS, but it looks awful.

I have Nvidia card, so I've seen what DLSS can do in some games and while quality is slightly worse than having it manually upscaled, it's only slightly worse, with really noticeable FPS gain. This AMD thing is crap in comparison.

Sakashiro · Jul 30, 2021

Ratstar said:
I only have a 1060 GPU and got shocked when I set the AMD Supersampling to Ultra Quality... What sorcery is this?

It's not sorcery but garbage. In update 5, supersampling + CAS produced much better results.

Alec Turner · Jul 30, 2021

hunvagy said:
Oh dear god the jaggies everywhere.

Yeah this. I turned the AMD SS thing on for about 30 seconds, saw all the jaggies everywhere and turned it straight back off again. I'd rather have 30fps than that.

Mogen Teras · Jul 30, 2021

Ratstar said:
it was just a trick. I think optimization is impossible

Indeed; FSR is only a dirty bandaid on a very deep wound. It is not and should not be considered an end-all fix for performance in lieu of proper optimization.

Given their recommended spec, you should not be required to make resolution sacrifices with upscaling just to reach the bare minimum performance. I hope people at least understand this.

ebbrell · Jul 30, 2021

What driver version, has any tested latest 471.41
Does anyone with it get a boost, I don't I have it

I don't use experience either

Mogen Teras · Jul 30, 2021

ebbrell said:
What driver version, has any tested latest 471.41
Does anyone with it get a boost, I don't I have it

I have not tested it, therefore I cannot directly give an answer. Indirectly though, generally speaking drivers don't usually ever give real performance boosts. Usually new drivers fix issues with older drivers that had caused performance losses.

ebbrell · Jul 30, 2021

Mogen Teras said:
I have not tested it, therefore I cannot directly give an answer. Indirectly though, generally speaking drivers don't usually ever give real performance boosts. Usually new drivers fix issues with older drivers that had caused performance losses.

Im thinking Nvidia are blocking fsr... When turned on gpu only used 40percent.. Fine on native

Ian Skippy · Jul 30, 2021

ebbrell said:
Im thinking Nvidia are blocking fsr... When turned on gpu only used 40percent.. Fine on native

No.

Just no.

Mogen Teras · Jul 30, 2021

ebbrell said:
Im thinking Nvidia are blocking fsr... When turned on gpu only used 40percent.. Fine on native

They are not, and doing so would be illegal. Please do not spread misinformation.

ebbrell · Jul 30, 2021

Mogen Teras said:
They are not, and doing so would be illegal. Please do not spread misinformation.

Haha, it was just a thought.
They detect ethereum mining and slow it down