• Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
      3·
      2 days ago

      It recommends FSR for modern games and bilinear filtering for pixel art.

      FSR is already supported on any version of wine using DXVK AFAIK, so if you’re gaming on Linux, you have it.

    • Yondoza@sh.itjust.works
      27·
      3 days ago

      I disagree, I think if you provide ownership of the company as part of compensation you can pay people to care. No big companies do this, but I think they could!

      • frezik@midwest.social
        182·
        3 days ago

        There’s plenty of companies with stock options as part of the compensation package. They’re always just a bone thrown in. They absolutely do not want employees to be able to effectively do a hostile takeover of their own company and set it up as some kind of commie worker cooperative.

        • Yondoza@sh.itjust.works
          7·
          3 days ago

          I’ve changed my mind and I’d like to disagree with my previous statement. You can’t pay people to care.

          Very good point. I worked for an employee owned company and I hated the work, but loved the atmosphere. There really was this sense of everyone there working together to make everyone better. I don’t think stock options can provide the same atmosphere, the employees need to have agency around leadership choices as well as the compensation that comes with it.

      • MinusPi (she/they)@pawb.socialEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        In that case, they then care primarily about the success of the company. The quality of the product is secondary as long as it sells.

  • MHLoppy@fedia.io
    571·
    4 days ago

    I’ve come across this utility before - using it seems to add input latency according to the reviews it has on Steam. So using it to increase performance isn’t really better than not using it, it’s just a tradeoff.

    If you’re not sensitive to input latency then that’s likely going to be a good tradeoff for you, but if you are (or play competitively) it’s not.

    • Xenny@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 days ago

      I use it. It’s fucking amazing for certain games. I can only run cyberpunk at like 50-60 fps. This literally makes it run at 144 with very minimal issues. A fast processor and freesync/gsync eliminates the input lag almost entirely.

      Best case for it is to run fps locked games at higher fps like Metal Gear Rising Revengeance

      Still wouldn’t use it for online shooters though and it doesn’t play well with quite a few games. But when It works it really works. So much so I just have it launch to my system tray and I casually flip it on whenever I try a new game because sometimes it’s really nice.

      Like sometimes in a game the camera movement will be a tad choppy. This cleans up most choppy cameras. It’s just a neat thing to toy with.

      Oh yeah it’s the only frame generation you can use that doesn’t require you go through some horrid upscaler first. Full image quality babee

        • Xenny@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          Yes. On my system in my opinion . Also to clarify I’m only using the frame generation technology. I hate upscalers which is part of why I like this program. You can use frame gen without upscaling

      • MHLoppy@fedia.io
        1·
        2 days ago

        FSR 3.1 (specifically 3.1, not 3.0) added an optional decoupling of the frame generation and the upscaling, but yeah that would still need first party support from the game developer. I should edit my comment to explicitly mention the frame gen possibility, didn’t realize that was something people were using this for!

      • MHLoppy@fedia.io
        23·
        3 days ago

        That’s one of the program’s common usages, yeah. Among other things (like integer scaling for pixel-based games), it can be used to:

        • render a game at a lower “internal” resolution and then apply one of several upscaling options to make up the difference, improving performance and hence “free FPS”, and/or
        • generate intermediate frames between “real” frames, which I guess you could describe as “free FPS” (but the quality of the intermediate frames will be so-so - there’s lots of tests and stuff of frame generation more broadly if you’re interested!)

        edit: added frame generation

  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    It works and is pretty cool. I have a good PC so I can’t say much about how much it actually helps but playing Kenshi smooth was a cool experience.