NVIDIA DLSS is now in PS2 - Does it Work? | Planetside 2 Love Letter Update

[@SN1PERx64]

A nice little QoL improvement on the reflex sight pictures. Really helps my hammerhead 4x scope from the giant orb it was before

[@Timoruz]

I can really see DLSS messing with cloaking mechanics. Either making cloaked infils super easy to see or the opposite.

[@JaredJKOB]

Yeah but that's more a failing of the aged cloaks than DLSS.

[@CAMIKAZE78]

Definitely a consideration.

[@Timoruz]

@@CAMIKAZE78 I remember in Enlisted if you enable DLSS you can see the outline of soldiers through foliage.

[@VCE4]

A small detail that wasn't in patch notes - chat now displays a hint of how to write to your team only (/re command)

[@CAMIKAZE78]

I did notice that as well, a very neat QoL improvement for sure.

[@Slay0lot]

Yes, I run a 144 hz 4k monitor and enabling DLSS on Quality with Ultra graphics on a 3080 graphics card and a I7-12900k cpu has improved the performance. I would normally without DLSS get 70-110 FPS and now it’s 100-144 FPS even in large 96+ fights. It definitely feels smoother. My input lag that ran at 96ms now runs around 52ms with DLSS.

[@darrsil]

How are you getting that performance? I have an I9-13900F and a 4090 with everything maxed and I often dip down to 50 fps in large fights, and that's at 1080p. How do you maintain 100 fps?

[@frankhardy123]

@@darrsil At 1080p you're barely using your graphics card. It's basically dead weight and putting more demand on your CPU. Run the game at atleast 1440p with your graphics card to notice an improvement.

[@plussum3255]

I sorta liked that people had to walk up to vehicle terminals rather than spawning on the map. Made it a bit more of something to fight for.

[@soulshinobi]

I might know how to read, but I still like it when you read me the patch notes. It lets me take in PlanetSide while I'm working, and you also provide a little bit of context or history sometimes.

[@xMinos]

+ Option to turn off reticules + Voice packs are finally no longer "one per gender" + Possible future performance boosts, thanks to newly implemented analytic tools + On-map vehicle pulling is back Some great QoL updates! Would love to see more of these in the future

[@porten1277]

The comand center makes me wonder if it can be damaged by vehicles/bombs/flail, there would be little reason for most attackers to enter it, if they can just blow it up from the outside...

[@CAMIKAZE78]

Definitely a fair consideration mate, we'll have to see what happens in due time.

[@Shadowhawkdark]

Not only did they "standardize the size" of reticles, they also made them a lot cleaner at the same time. The center dot feels a lot more "centered", where previously I noticed with center dot programs the "dot" would shift depending on the zoom level you used, making everything feel inconsistent while you shot, and it also fixed some minor gripes, like the T shaped reticle that TR has always had a weird look for me, always appearing as 3 pixels tall on the horizontal part of the T, but the middle pixel was for some reason always not colored even though it was obvious it shouldve been. I would also note that I'm curious about how the "returning" vehicle spawning messes with the new "contested" system. A confusing problem I constantly had was that the vehicle spawning from menu would randomly flick on and off with no indicator as to why, and I'm wondering if it was the same issue they had with the contested systems, where someone could cap 1/4 sites and hold an entire lane hostage. I'd be curious to know if they fixed it for vehicle spawning too, or just slapped the system back in without checking it.

[@capiron2316]

The best part of the update is the nanite cost of impulse 'nades getting lowered to 25. Now I can comfortably run weapons besides the Punisher on my Icarus jets!

[@CAMIKAZE78]

I must say, I have been enjoying the spoils of that change as well.

[@chettonex]

DLSS will do wonders on those running low tier GPUs. Some people that run the game at 1080p with 144hz will now be able to try running it at 2K resolution. It also helps lowering your load on your GPU, and that can have long term benefits in regards of your gpu lifetime.

[@CAMIKAZE78]

If you have a "low end" GPU (anything less than a 2060), you can't even use DLSS in the first place. In addition, if you are running the game on a 2k resolution and pairing it with a 2060, there's a good chance that turning DLSS on isn't going to have that big an impact regardless, once again, the game is hardly GPU locked. As far as improving lifespan, you are still achieving a heightened framerate which will certainly place an equivalent strain on the GPU.

[@LettuceJuice]

Lower loads don’t have much of an impact on GPU lifetime

[@solacenl]

I hope they add the option to toggle the reticle in vehicle HUDs as well. Some of them have too much going on, like the Mosquito and most tank guns.

[@georgepal9154]

I had some comments, but you covered all my initial thoughts, so good on you Thoughts? Same as before, cautious optimism. It does seem like the devs listened to the mutual community response that improving the game mechanics bottom up and fixing longstanding issues was what kept people around the most, and they are certainly taking what steps they can to improve the base experience. I'm not sure how or if they can solve cpu overload, network overload, and all that stuff without more fundamental upgrades. That new construction base command center was a good teaser, though. If the bases look like that, and they have vulnerable hardpoints instead of being vulnerable on all sides, they'd be far more interesting to fight through. Only external walls should be vulnerable on all sides. Core buildings should have hardpoints for infantry to deal with, as an analogue to the main game's gameplay loop.

[@patlecat]

The NSO faction colors aren't working I always see yellow on my weapons.

[@ex0stasis72]

Here I was searching "planetside 2 graphics update" and I was supprised that they even added DLSS to this since it's such an old game that if your GPU has a hard time with it, then it's also too old for DLSS (RTX 20XX and newer). And even my RTX 2070 Super handled this game great in the past.

[@ravinnight3073]

I would love to see the construction to but me an my friends play on PS4 an it’s barely gets updates I mean what happen to the new lighting/ MBT tops an the new archers did they not get added or is ps4 that far behind

[@sergeantdornan7000]

At this point I've given up on Consoleside. No point in playing for me if they don't give it any love. Glad you're still having fun enough to play it though.

[@HardlyGaming]

This was one of the few updates they've done that I was actually impressed with.

[@johanneskaiser8188]

They'd better add text scaling next, past 2K it's quite unreadable. On the graphical side, that is. If they push this back to try and get rid of the endless zergs avoiding each other like the plague I'll take that gladly.

[@alperb.4225]

ook. i play with 6900xt // 5950x cpu // 1440p // 32 gb 3600 mhz rams . and still cant play with shadows : on without shadows on all fine . ... any idea ?

[@maihongphuc4723]

What is the best option for best visual in antilasing bros???

[@wokewizards]

Love your content bro!❤️🚀

[@LettuceJuice]

What are your computer specs CAMIKAZE?

[@fr0zen1isshadowbanned99]

I am very glad we got FSR now. Last year I upgraded to the 5800X3D and wanted to finally switch my 1080ti for a 4000 or 7000 Series GPU. But as we see, they are not only priced horrendous but also chug giant amounts of Energy(looking at AMD here). So yea, I love the performance FSR gave me. It is a very noticeable uplift from the previous "upscaling" method they had. But sadly the Picture looks even worse xD 1440p upscaled with the Performance Preset must be around 700p D: 180fps+ in exchange... I take it ^^

[@ulln7877]

could share your useroption?thx

[@Shimpriv]

Idk what sort of CPU you'd need to run this game at remotely acceptable FPS on 4k Ultra. Even 13900 is not up to the task - i was all fired up to finally play with some decent graphics for a change but still anything but potato config would drop below 60 sometimes.

[@Shibansh]

I don't think it's your CPU or GPU that is the problem!! It's the games optimization which honestly suck!! It's understandable that the optimizations sucks cause your game will start to have bad network and fps issues as soon as an area's player count exceeds 150!!!

[@Jan-cg1pq]

I'm all for customizability, so I really like the Update! Still waiting for more than 74 fov tho.... (yes I know you can change it but a lot of people don't know and it doesn't work for vihicles)

[@stormer1092]

They need to do something to offload the cpu and go to gpu. Probably easier said then done. Amd fsx is useless on my setup

[@kingnight4823]

I think when its put in if im not overly crazy playing d2 i might try planetside 2 out again. though my main thing i want is armor to be better :C

[@igorkir7485]

Your analysis on dlss if wromg Ill start with personal benifit - as someone with a laptop - my temp is much lower across my gpu and cpu for the same frame rate, meaning that my pc can run on higher frequencies and lower temp Now to the rest: most of the stutters people had in critical moments - are gone witb dlss - even when heavily cpu bottlenecked - something that people tried to get rid of for years Add to that the benifit of much smoother gameplay and the ability to get higher fps on average - and yeah you lose visual quality(btw this shouldn't be this drastic, no idea what the ps2 team did - did they not train it with nvidia?... idk)

[@glitchreloaded1284]

I was about to comment on the quality of the DLSS implementation, and how the thing doesn't seem to know what a sharpness slider does, if they can get the thing properly trained I will defo be using it in the way you've outlined because my rig has basically banished me from any larger than 48/48 fights due to the frame rate being so abysmal

[@ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenter]

@@glitchreloaded1284 It appears that the guy doesn't know much about DLSS and just repeats what he's heard about PS2 being cpu limited.

[@Xizax41325]

For some odd reason I get a 5-10 fps boost when I played using the ai upscale on 1.5/1.75. No clue why but it also made the hud way too small to be practical for me on my 1440p monitor. Used riva tuner for a couple sessions with it both full resolution and upscaled, noting the avg fps per session. That's a 3080ti on a ryzen 5800x. Guessing it's just a fluke though since I'm pretty much always cpu bottlenecked on ultra.

[@deathbysloth3180]

I’m running a 3080ti and a 5950x with PBO enabled, I am gpu bound here when I enable DLSS my gpu usage goes from about 100-112% (gpu is overclocked and power limit is maxed out) to around 70-80%. How ever DLSS is like really blurry even on quality at 1440p like the video mentioned. Edges a fuzzy and my site reticle blurred out badly when moving while aiming almost like sniper scopes in csgo or something

[@KyomonGames]

@@deathbysloth3180 Same for me, the big plus is the lower gpu usage, Im gettin about the same fps as dlss off but my gpu is way cooler due lower gpu usage, since I live in a hot country its a big difference for me, and u can fix most of the visual problems of dlss by using nvidia filters, the Details one. rtx 2080s here btw

[@arriner6028]

This game...

[@xVertigo101]

I'm going to get 7950x3d and hope I get 60 fps 4k ultra with 3080 lol

[@illegalalienfromsalviaspac449]

That'll be a killer cpu for this game . 5800x3d is already the best cpu for planetside .

[@xVertigo101]

@@illegalalienfromsalviaspac449 nice, looking forward to my new pc

[@joeimjoe]

Thought the thumbnail said piss

[@Kna5041]

Ha thinking planetmans can read.

[@housebandthexenos2569]

I HATE the new uniform reticle size. So you've been using a weapon 10 years, and have it down exactly, now your reticle is smaller or bigger. On one of my fav weapons now the reticle is half the size. My eyes arent as good as they used to be and I can barely see this tiny dot. They need to give you an option to go back to the old un-uniform behavior.

[@batistanc28]

DLSS + Sharpness 50+ = blend Granade useless🥳

[@RED--01]

My framerates go up like 25-30 fps but the game looks like dog shit even with dlss on quality. Doesn't work like in bf2042..

[@Biscuit9891]

so nothing new cool