Games look blurry with DSR

[Od1sseas]

Using NVIDIA's DSR (Dynamic Super Resolution), when i increase the resolution in any game they look blurry! Only 4K DSR looks perfect, why other resolutions look blurry!?

[flibberdipper]

You've really gotta play with the smoothness factor for resolutions that aren't even multiples of your native res (or whatever it's called, it's been awhile since I've really used an Nvidia card). That was definitely my biggest gripe with DSR (my second biggest was that the cursor didn't scale along with the resolution, though maybe that's been fixed since I used it).

[emosun]

if you monitor has a weird subpixel layout then only its native res will look ok

[Od1sseas]

Just now, emosun said:

if you monitor has a weird subpixel layout then only its native res will look ok

4K DSR actually looks perfect, all other DSR res look blurry

[Od1sseas]

2 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

You've really gotta play with the smoothness factor for resolutions that aren't even multiples of your native res (or whatever it's called, it's been awhile since I've really used an Nvidia card). That was definitely my biggest gripe with DSR (my second biggest was that the cursor didn't scale along with the resolution, though maybe that's been fixed since I used it).

Correct me if i'm wrong but highter smoothness makes the image blurrier, that's why i set it to 0%

[flibberdipper]

2 minutes ago, Od1sseas said:

Correct me if i'm wrong but highter smoothness makes the image blurrier, that's why i set it to 0%

From what I remember that's right. IIRC the sweet spot for 1440p on a 1080p monitor (for me) was like 13 or 14%. It's really odd. (just gonna say it but AMD's VSR is a lot nicer IMO)

[WoodenMarker]

7 minutes ago, Od1sseas said:

4K DSR actually looks perfect, all other DSR res look blurry

I'm guessing you're using a 1080p or similar display as opposed to 1440p? UHD "4K"  is a a factor of 4x higher than 1080p which means there isn't any smoothing needed for pixels to line up for supersampling.

 

Moved to Graphics Cards.

[Mira Yurizaki]

29 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

 (my second biggest was that the cursor didn't scale along with the resolution, though maybe that's been fixed since I used it).

You have to enable software cursors if the app supports it. Otherwise by default the cursor is rendered last and overlayed on top.

[flibberdipper]

3 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

You have to enable software cursors if the app supports it. Otherwise by default the cursor is rendered last and overlayed on top.

I used it on the desktop primarily so software cursors weren't really a thing.

[CTR640]

It could be your opinion. I've been using DSR since I knew about it and in some games that doesn't has any AA in-game like NFS HP2010 and GTAIV, I enable 4K DSR, which of course gives a very clear image and smoothness is kept stock, 33%. And in heavy games like GTAV, using 1440p, also much better than 1080p. You should play with smoothness. If I set it at 36%, it doesn't look nicer. So ye, 33% IMO.

[Ebony Falcon]

I messed around with it for ages 

only 4x resolution is worth it

set smoothness to 0

x1.5 is ok if u add a back in ingame