Fan mod adds AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution to GTA V, can you spot the difference?

Fan mod adds AMD's FidelityFX Superior Resolution to GTA V, can you spy the conflict?

(Image credit: NarutoUA)

We have high hopes for AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) technology, especially afterwards having tested it and discovering it works pretty well. 1 thing we pointed out is that information technology should be fairly trivial for spirited developers to add u support for FSR. Reinforcing that notion is a fan mod that injects AMD's upscaling tech into Grand larceny Auto V, essentially replacing the one that is well-stacked into the game.

Information technology comes courtesy of modder NarutoUA, who posted some information on Reddit (via Videocardz), along with a video comparing different scenes with FSR turned off and on in GTA V. Have a look:

It's a little difficult to score out the dispute on a small YouTube window (operating room if watching connected a smartphone), but if you expand the windowpane to a full screen watch, the difference in image choice becomes more patent. Through different scenes, NarutoUA compares two modes: Performance and Quality.

Surprisingly, justified in Public presentation way the image quality looks healthier with FSR reversed on (at the least to my eyeballs). It's not necessarily a drastic difference, but in apiece scene, there is less blur when enabling FSR. I would have potential there to be slightly more blur in Performance mode, non less, as it focuses on offering the biggest performance bump.

Hither's how AMD describes the four different modes (Carrying into action, Balanced, Choice, and Ultra Quality):

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution across multiple preset settings — (Effigy credit: AMD)

Like Nvidia's Artful Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) applied science, FSR aims to improve carrying into action by having your GPU render a scene at a depress resolution, so upscaling it. That way you get the visual quality benefit of a higher resolving at a lower rendering cost to your GPU, compared to rendering a scene natively at, say, 4K (which can be super heavy on hardware).

AMD's solution relies on a more conventional spatial upscaling technology as opposed to leveraging AI through machine learning, arsenic is the case with DLSS. So AMD and Nvidia go about this in really different ways, with the same general goal in heed.

In our pocket-sized experience with FSR so far, IT seems DLSS works a little better overall. Nevertheless, FSR is an open source technology and is too being made available to Xbox Series X/S developers, which in theory should service boost adoption of the tech. It's also compatible with a wide range of cards, including some legacy GPUs (IT doesn't require special ironware like Tensor cores).

American Samoa to the GTA V fan mod, it is available on GitHub, if you want to give it a vortex. Just be advised that there is always a gamble when downloading wildcat software.

If you decide to brave IT, the instructions bid for copying a DLL file and an INI file cabinet to GTA V's tooth root folder, so going into the game's Advanced Nontextual matter Settings part and setting the desired frame scaling mode (0.5x = Performance modality, 0.667x = Balanced mode, 0.75x = Quality modality, and 0.883x = Ultra Quality mood). You rear end edit the gta5_fsr.ini lodge if you motivation more fine metric grain control.

You can also check away some direct screenshot comparisons here, here, and here.

What about the performance impact, though? It's tumid to tell largely, because even in the YouTube video, there is not much going on in the scenes. There is some driving towards the end, and according to the frame counter, performance is roughly the aforesaid when switching from native rendering to turning FSR on and using the Quality mode.

One some other word of caution if you make up one's mind to kick the tires on this mod. If playing online, thither is the jeopardy of a ban. This shouldn't happen, as other art mods work out just exquisitely (that is to say, Project ENB and ReShade), only you ne'er know.

Paul has been playing PC games and raking his knuckles on computer ironware since the Commodore 64. He does not have some tattoos, only thinks it would be assuredness to father one that reads LOAD"*",8,1. In his off time, he rides motorcycles and wrestles alligators (only one of those is true).