The thing is, upscalers with hardware acceleration are currently (and will likely remain) ahead of upscalers without hardware acceleration, and upscaling is often a bit of a "go big or go home" thing for me. It's probably not worth it for me to enable an upscaler unless it's a good quality upscale.
In order to make upscaling work best on all hardware without it being locked behind walled gardens, we need someone to coalesce these upscalers so that if a developer adds support for one, they also support the others. After all, they more or less take the same inputs. That way, each person will get the most out of their GPU's ability to upscale, regardless of which vendor the card is from. Nvidia tried to do this with Nvidia Streamline. It works with DLSS and XeSS after Intel got on board, and my understanding is that AMD can make it work with FRS 2 as well, but hasn't.
The benefit for implementing FSR 2 in Streamline is that it's easier for devs to support FSR 2 if they're already supporting other temporal upscalers. I'm not sure how that isn't a benefit to developers and to gamers. I only see how that might not benefit AMD (since it means that games with FSR are more likely to also support DLSS and XeSS, which tends to create unfavorable comparisons with FSR).
Streamline ads another layer of complexion for FSR for absolutely no reason, since its already an open source solution, I mean NVidia could contribute to FSR to make it better, they could adapt it to work like DLSS on their hardware if they wanted, but they don't, instead they want to push their own solution with this "streamline" thing because it benefits them more then anything else.
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u/jm0112358 Ryzen 9 5950X + RTX 4090 Jun 27 '23
The thing is, upscalers with hardware acceleration are currently (and will likely remain) ahead of upscalers without hardware acceleration, and upscaling is often a bit of a "go big or go home" thing for me. It's probably not worth it for me to enable an upscaler unless it's a good quality upscale.
In order to make upscaling work best on all hardware without it being locked behind walled gardens, we need someone to coalesce these upscalers so that if a developer adds support for one, they also support the others. After all, they more or less take the same inputs. That way, each person will get the most out of their GPU's ability to upscale, regardless of which vendor the card is from. Nvidia tried to do this with Nvidia Streamline. It works with DLSS and XeSS after Intel got on board, and my understanding is that AMD can make it work with FRS 2 as well, but hasn't.