Boost games with Lossless Scaling

Ian Evenden has found a clever way to improve performance for windowed games.

YOU’LL NEED • Lossless Scaling ($10.25 on Steam)• Games A lot of digital ink has been spent recently on extolling the virtues of resolution upscaling in games. This new technology allows games to run in a lower resolution internally, before being upscaled to a higher pixel density with apparently no effect on performance. Of course, there’s always a cost, and that’s why upscaling features are often gated behind hardware upgrades. If you want the latest version of Nvidia’s DLSS, which includes frame generation to boost frame rates as well as resolution, you’ll need a GeForce RTX 4000-series card. The same thing will almost certainly happen when the 5000 series is released. There is, however, a software solution that can allow upscaling features to run on unsupported hardware, and it’s on…

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