Upscaling

[Aereldor]

I've got a Laptop with a GTX 1060 that runs Flight Simulator just fine at 1440p medium. 

 

That said, I also have a 50" 4k tv lying around that I wanted to try using. Unfortunately, even on the lowest settings at 4k, it's a stuttery mess. Actually, with a GTX 1060, pretty much everything new at 4k is a stuttery mess.

 

Is there anything I can use in place of DLSS to upscale a 1080p or 1440p output to 4k? Maybe 3rd-party software that's the opposite of DSR, something I don't know about in Nvidia settings, a DLSS alternative like DirectX Raytracing

[Mateyyy]

Have you tried messing around with the sharpening filter in Nvidia Freestyle? It works pretty well from my experience.

[Aereldor]

1 minute ago, Mateyyy said:

Have you tried messing around with the sharpening filter in Nvidia Freestyle? It works pretty well from my experience.

It's in NVidia Control Panel now, I figured they'd updated it with some contrast-adaptive sharpening or something.

 

But... How do I get it to upscale a 1080p output to 4k? If I set the resolution to 1080p or use 25% rendering scale in-game, and turn on 1080p, I'm just going to get a sharpened image that stills treats 4 pixels as 1. Because that's what happened with Reshade Sharpening and it just looked worse.

 

Does NVidia Sharpening Filter stretch the 1080p output to 4k and then try to fill in the blanks based on certain parameters, or just apply a sharpening filter to the 1080p image?

[Stahlmann]

43 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

It's in NVidia Control Panel now, I figured they'd updated it with some contrast-adaptive sharpening or something.

 

But... How do I get it to upscale a 1080p output to 4k? If I set the resolution to 1080p or use 25% rendering scale in-game, and turn on 1080p, I'm just going to get a sharpened image that stills treats 4 pixels as 1. Because that's what happened with Reshade Sharpening and it just looked worse.

 

Does NVidia Sharpening Filter stretch the 1080p output to 4k and then try to fill in the blanks based on certain parameters, or just apply a sharpening filter to the 1080p image?

The "streching" should normally be handled by your TV. Set the resolution scaling options in NVIDIA control panel, so the scaling will be done by the Display, not the GPU. Then you can try the sharpening filter.