New Nvidia Image Scaling

[Mister Woof]

I'm a bit confused with the new Nvidia Image Scaling feature with the newest driver.

 

Previously, I was using Image Sharpening at 0.5 value. I liked how this sharped some images and removed some TAA blurriness in games.

 

Now with the recent update, it is changed to be "GPU Scaling & Sharpening"

 

 

How is this different than the old "Sharpening" only? Does the GPU scaling mean it reduces resolution scaling like in FSR?

 

It has "GPU Scaling & Sharpening" and then a sub field with a slider for "Sharpening," so it seems it should be separated from scaling. But there's no scaling option.

 

I don't want to run at a reduced scale resolution, just add sharpening.

[Quackers101]

um? not sure, and nvidia

also can you see this in geforce?

 

[KaitouX]

I didn't test yet, but I guess it will just change the usual shitty upscaling algo used when running the game in lower than native resolutions for the optimized Lanczos. If you run the game in the native resolution I would guess it will just add the sharpening filter.

[Mister Woof]

Did some brief testing.

 

It seems it only does "GPU Scaling" when you set your resolution in-game to a lower resolution to your native resolution. If you enable the overlay feature, a green "NIS" icon appears on the top to indicate GPU scaling is active (in-game resolution lower than native). If you are at native resolution, GPU scaling is disabled (and it only does sharpening) and it has NIS in blue on the top left.

 

It also only works in fullscreen, which I never use anyway (multimonitor display) and always play borderless windowed.

 

Apparently you can force it in GFE and set a scale, but that isn't something that I'd use.

 

So - run your games in borderless windows, or native full screen - and it won't use GPU scaling, just sharpening as normal.