Nvidia Image Scaling - Breathing New Life Into Old Graphics Cards

[@samtheman9000]

The 1050 Ti worked well for so many years, even took advantage of FSR well, can't wait to try this out now. They are practically elongating the life of this card every year with these new settings

[@RandomGaminginHD]

The 750Ti works too with this which is a dream come true 😁

[@Rockden]

@@RandomGaminginHD Can confirm, my 750Ti is a trooper and altough I'm not able to play the latest AAA games, NIS certanly helps things :)

[@tilburg8683]

Look on the bright side. Your 1050ti can crush a brand new mid/high end priced gpu such as the 6500xt in a fair amount of games.

[@mkhn-yu3to]

@@tilburg8683 Rx 6500 xt is an entry level gpu

[@yahyasajid5113]

@@tilburg8683 I don't like the 6500XT as well but let's not get ahead of ourselves The 1050ti isn't touching a 6500XT

[@fredrik2008]

Pretty nice, more resolutions available. Been using fsr with protonGE in linux, it also helps low end systems alot, it unlocks alot more resolution options too.

[@soulshinobi]

These explorations of what you can get away with older hardware, and what works and what doesn't, is more important now than ever. Subscribed.

[@Sirdustetryne]

I love your passion (I might call it) for low end video cards. Your content is so so good for people on a budget. I myself have a 3080, but still love seeing your content. It's nice seeing how things work. I wonder what the percentage of no video card, low, mid and high end cards your audience got? Maybe make a poll on the community tab?

[@TheOriginalBruh]

While fsr, dlss etc. are great for all GPUs, I think that it will lead to developers focusing less on optimization with the excuse of them implementing such technologies, which then negates the point of having them. But maybe I'm just overthinking it.

[@beegyoshi6525]

I feel that way with DLSS, most recent titles cant lock to native 4K60 even in recent titles if RT is on, even with 3090s. There's something wrong here.

[@ar1xx._.626]

@@beegyoshi6525 i think we have to wait 2 more generation for 4k Max Rtx 60 fps till then DLSS and FSR are the saviour

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah I hope that’s not the case. A well optimised game and FSR or NIS though is awesome

[@BertieJasokie]

@@RandomGaminginHD Wont count on it. Just like how faster internet and cheaper storage has made way for huge bloated games that seem to look no better at the low/medium settings compared to older titles that only demand a fraction of the space.

[@romarioputra3775]

very very smart observation. This is what i see to in Android Phone munching out many phones that have 6 gb 8gb of ram THAT IS obviously does not need. Im scared that many android developer will neglect ram optimization thinking "every phone now have the same ram as my laptop, why would i think of optimize my app?"

[@RunningFromMachines]

This feature is the reason I was able to crank my settings in Cyberpunk 2077 to a mix of Medium/High on an i5-4460 + 1650 Build, and still maintain over 30 FPS. With Cyberpunk's visual asthetic the NIS felt more subtle and allowed me to finally complete the game so I'm very thankful for NIS.

[@rpgamezzz270]

Make sure sharpening slider set to 30%. Default 50% sharpening looks too sharp and grainy. This my personal preference tho

[@thatautogarage3644]

I always love the cinematic GPU shots, always blending tech with nature

[@ibizenco]

A GT in a tree, in this case. :-)

[@interrobangings]

Been having a rough week adjusting to my new job, but seeing you put tech in trees and in your garden never ceases to put a smile on my face and a chuckle in my heart. Thank you for being you.

[@koonzipher4692]

I love a good ol' GT 1030. Need to watch this via VGA, its the only way to roll

[@YoutuberL1M]

Is VGA really A Big deal?

[@ayuchanayuko]

You also need a SVGA CRT monitor. TFT panels is just too high tech.

[@aarongarza4769]

@@KZbinrL1M Using a CRT for oddball and lower resolutions is fantastic actually.

[@JonathanGray89]

AFAIK you can't even use VGA with a 10-series card. The ports are all digital so even a simple DVI-to-VGA adapter won't work. You would need an active HDMI-to-VGA adapter or something.

[@couriersix2443]

I’m impressed with that level of performance out of a GT 1030. Definitely gonna try this out with my laptop that has a mobile 1050 Ti. This should help me finally get better consistency/even better FPS with more demanding titles, although the cpu is really what holds things back in my opinion. It’s a i5-7300HQ (so mad I didn’t go with an 8th Gen i5 or at least a 7th Gen i7) which wouldn’t have been too bad a couple of years ago. But 4c/4t with an all-core turbo of 3.1Ghz doesn’t quite cut it for some newer titles. I’d like to think using this scaling application would help with cpu demand as well, since it’s rendering at a lower resolution and the gpu is doing the rest. But I’ll have to find out when I get a chance later haha

[@thenungzo]

I'm running a i7-2600 and GT 1030 system. Thanks for all your videos on lower end hardware :)

[@The93Momo93]

very nice, things that lenghten the lifespan of any card are greatly welcome in these hard times where finding almost any decent gpu is a huge challenge, ngl the 1030 is doing surprisingly well here considering how weak it is

[@Sudarshanwadhwan3457]

Your content is really awesome:).

[@humzakhan4367]

Videos was uploaded 4 mins ago you commented 3 mins ago video is 6 mins long So my question is are paid to post positive comments?

[@CharlesVanNoland]

@0:02 Oh man, old GPUs are growing on trees now! Maybe after a few cross breeding experiments we'll have modern GPUs growing right out of the ground and the GPU market and shortages will be over!

[@iamstartower]

Earth is so polluted now it can't sustain for life... let alone gpus... too late... we should have enginered more resistant varieries when we had a chance...

[@novidyaheresir]

If you average 50FPS, adding a custom resolution of 50HZ allows you enable vsync and enjoy tear free experience. For those of you who don't know, vsync works in multiples, so at 60HZ, the target is 16ms(60FPS), if the target is missed, then next target is 33ms(30FPS) This causes stutter if you can't maintain 60FPS. If you can't hit 60FPs but can average 50, then, vsync at50HZ is better as this will allow you to run a more smooth game. If you don't care about screen tearing then this has no meaning to you but if you do, this is a good strategy. You can make custom resolutions from the Nvidia Control Panel.

[@dinosaurd7295]

I wanna live in a world like yours ... where graphics cards grow on trees ;)

[@Rapscallion2009]

For me, this is what gaming should be about. Having a reasonable experience at a reasonable price.

[@trillmixin6999]

the series s is a bargain

[@aarongarza4769]

@@trillmixin6999 it’s not. To many games don’t run properly on the console because developers don’t lock their games to 30/60 like they should. Far to often they leave the game heavily unoptimized with an unlocked rate leading to all sorts of issues. A PC with a low end graphics card is vastly superior since you actually have control over the graphical options and you can do things other than just gaming. PC will always have more value than a garbage neglected lower end console.

[@Alfenium]

@@aarongarza4769 Not to mention emulation. Xbox got its emulation card revoked, those incidences were straight up theft.

[@trillmixin6999]

@@aarongarza4769 a lot of new pc games have been very crap in terms of optimization too. my 3070 struggles to run infinite and fh5 just off the top of my head

[@Fractal_blip]

@@Tyxi sounds like you're making the case for a 300 dollar raspberry pi 😋

[@larrybreavman4864]

Excellent video which is very useful nowadays due the shortage and high video cards prices. Greetings from Mallorca.

[@ankur313]

Thanks for doing a video on NIS. Appreciate it.

[@Hybred]

You can also inject FSR into games with some programs (along with setting custom values and sharpness settings for it) that may be may worth it than using NIS on the driver, but it would need some tests.

[@Fernando-Rodriguez]

I have Gt 1030 2G GDDR5 paired with an I5 4570 and 16Gb of ram running at 16 mhz, personally I use every trick in the book to squeeze more performance out of this card and the thing that has helped a lot is using Custom resolutions such as 900x900p 75hz at which games like resident evil 3 remake run at a constant 60fps and hit 75fps at times with nearly all setting on maxium possible, doom eternal runs at a constant 60fps with a mixure of high and low settings and dynamic resolution scale but it's more playable than 720p 30fps. so if you guys happen to have a gt 1030 that you have to use then try creating custom resolutions such as 900x900, 1000x900, 1200x900, 1300x900 and so on you'll have blackbars at both sides of the screen but the image quality will remain at native resolution.

[@Davidx_117]

That's a neat idea but the problem I see is the game not looking right in those weird aspect ratios, many people don't like stretching old 4:3 games to 16:9 so taking 16:9 and squeezing it to 1:1 or other weird aspect ratio sounds like a bad idea. I'll have to give it a try though as I'm curious, and I guess with low end hardware you may not be too picky anyway (Edit: a lot of modern games do have other aspect ratios besides 16:9, but still never seen 1:1)

[@Afonso.Soares]

If games accept those weird aspect ratios, great. I’m ok with running at a lower resolution now, thanks to NIS, I just wish there was more support for non-squared pixels, both from system and software. There’s only one axis to tamper with, leading to better image, second only to checkerboard.

[@Fernando-Rodriguez]

@@Davidx_117 some games like Resident evil 2 and 3, god of war and Kena the bridge of spirits actually maintain the 16:9 aspect ratio some like gta definitive edition don't. You can't be picky and it doesn't look that bad when you consider the performance boost.

[@Fernando-Rodriguez]

@@Afonso.Soares most games do accept these resolutions.

[@Gienek_CPU]

Very nice and working in all games, NIS and optimized settings is the key for cheap playing all games :)

[@michalzustak8846]

What is NIS?

[@Gienek_CPU]

@@michalzustak8846 NIS - Nvidia Image Scaling

[@fishball3079]

The first card I bought by saving lunch money when I was still a high schooler. In MSI afterburner I pushed it to +140mhz core clock, +280mhz mem clock, It works just fine but now I'm planning on an upgrade.

[@zukakota]

GT 1030 was my first gpu. Im using RTX 3060 now but 1030 was beast

[@MOP_LV]

Hey! Really liking your content, since I'm struggling with a GTX 750 myself. Maby you have any idea why does NIS resolutions look worse for me than dropping straight down to 1080p from 1440p native?

[@Fractal_blip]

The plain gtx 750? No ti?!

[@MOP_LV]

@@Fractal_blip Indeed

[@RubyRoks]

This is a fantastic option for games without in-engine resolution scaling, although those are getting rarer between the popularity of Unreal Engine and the ease of implementation of FSR

[@paulb4uk]

With new cards being harder to get at decent prices its great that this exist it also prolongs the usable life of working cards meaning less end up as e waste also great for countries where pc hardware is very expensive .

[@scotttait2197]

Good video ... having a clear out came accross my asus 750Ti again... your video has given me the incentive to fire it up again 👍

[@levsieechill9419]

wym leave a dislike if we didnt like it, mate ur voice alone is a good reason to like the video.

[@GTAVREALISM]

Much like FSR, features like this really help prolong the life of older GPUs, one thing I'd love to see is a small PCI device kind of like a GPU, but with a sole purpose of adding machine learning upscaling, it could run from the GPU to the upscaling card to your monitor, and at the right price, DLSS and Ray Tracing add on cards would be a godsend.

[@K3vyB]

*PhysX card flashbacks intensify*

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

I'd love to see add-on devices providing any utility at all. If there was ever a time for multiple cards to work at any capacity, it's now, but it's only regressed away from that.

[@MultiYippee]

@leipero RSR will likely make its way to more GPUs, just like how Radeon Image Sharpening and Radeon Boost were exclusive to newer GPUs before being unlocked in a future driver update to all AMD GPUs.

[@GTAVREALISM]

@@dycedargselderbrother5353 Yes multiple GPUs have gone the way of the dodo unless you are talking about stuff like extreme benchmarking, remember the Nvidia PhysX cards, I'd love a DLSS/RT card much like that, if you could render the RT and upscale within the same ms time frame that an RTX 3080 could do for example, yet you could add it to a rig with an RX 580 or GTX 1060 and add machine learning-based upscaling and RT capability, I'd be buying one instantly.

[@zmb5501]

That would be cool a pcie dlss card. Too bad I already have a 3080

[@gvii]

I wish they had this function back when I had my 1060/3G. I would have been far less disappointed in the card. Though that was my fault for not researching enough to realize what they did with the 1060 regarding the 3G/6G processor before I bought it.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

I’ve been meaning to look at the 3GB 1060 again. I had one years ago 😁

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

1060 3gb is underrated, sure some games would need higher vram for higher res textures, but 3gb goes a long way.

[@boltinabottle6307]

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j It's not just less VRAM. The card also has fewer CUDA cores. NVIDIA's marketing led people to believe it was just a 1060 with less VRAM, which is why the card is not remembered in a positive light.

[@solidsneak69]

Yup its nvidia, same as 1030 ddr4 vs gddr5 🤦

[@Rapscallion2009]

I had the same thing when choosing between the 1060 and rx470. I chose the AMD card as it has 33% more RAM and I stand by my decision.

[@Jvwtt]

Great video! I have a gt 1030 and AC: Valhalla is terrible to play with 1080p low... This looks better than 1080p with 50% resolution and plays well enough to enjoy. Thank you!

[@jonathanellis6097]

I've been using nis for a while now with my GTX 1080. I have a 1440p monitor, so using nis in some more demanding games means I can still hit 60fps while the game still looks good. Hopefully graphics card pricing comes down this year so I can upgrade!

[@Fractal_blip]

I would wait till they roll out the super/ti variants of the rtx 4k series

[@Kidd-nt3jo]

Amazing! I just noticed this setting about 15 minutes ago.

[@bobbycatgt70]

Thanks for the tips! Now i can enjoy my game with my GT1030 😆

[@Ari-ez1vj]

Dude, I have a 1070, didn’t know about this! Thanks!

[@Kiabeta]

Are you going to do a Dying Light 2 minimum/recommended specs video?

[@juanme555]

Nice, this will surely turn my 8400GS into a performance KING!!!!

[@thenamestoddretodd4538]

Im so happy i i stumbled acrost this vid i play rust with a laptop 1050 with everything cranked to low minus graphics quality to 3(6ish is max) bouta go try this and see the difference

[@Pupp3tCl0wn]

I tried it today because my RTX 2070S is already slowly starting to choke in some games and unfortunately scaling on this card model causes strange graphic artifacts. Even in the system, programs began to deform slowly, just as frost covers glass in winter. For a moment I was scared that my graphics card broke.

[@scottiusnevious5143]

I GOT A BAREBONES PC BUILD, for free. It came with one of these gems. never knew the number went that low, its amazing for what it is but i still slapped in my old 970. Still not very good but only came with a single stick of 8g ram... its a i5 11400f though so imma try getting a 20 series card and 2x16 3600 ram, its surprising how cheap you can form a build together. After that a new nvme and an all in one liquid cooler and i got me something not as fast as my laptop but somewhat comparable. this build has me excited, i thought it was gonna come with a old amd but it came with a spicy 11th gen. This is why it pays to be a kind person in life, homies do reciprocate every now and then.

[@ssllllllllllllllss]

They are still sell on the shelf here!!! [Brand new with factory warranty]

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah same here 😁

[@Bushidounohana]

Yep, NIS has breathed new life into my GTX 1060 on a 4K display. While I still lust after the latest and greatest, it definitely makes a marked difference in how my otherwise 1080p-oriented card performs.

[@zowkingame1169]

I won the same card, can you instruct me about that option that scales from 0 to 100? what should I use? what about the text box (mine default is 50%)

[@Bushidounohana]

@@zowkingame1169 sorry buddy, been away from my computer. Will check in this over the weekend and let you know what my settings are!

[@DeepteshLovesTECH]

Hope radeon super resolution will work even when laptop display is not directly connected to the dGPU. NIS needs direct connection to the Nvidia GPU.

[@studyit6074]

yes i suffer a lot because of this my shadowplay won't work on desktop and NIS

[@IcebergTech]

After looking into these in some depth, I decided that the difference between using spatial upscalers like FSR / NIS, and just simply using the resolution scale slider, was negligible. I guess it's easier than creating custom resolutions if a game doesn't have a scale slider, and it's not like their existence hurts anyone, so while part of me gets very annoyed when spatial upscaling is touted as some kind of special feature, I've decided there's more important stuff in the world to get upset about.

[@dylanpresidafonseca2545]

It's much better than the bicubic scaling you'd get if you simply reduced the resolution, and can be sharper than temporal upscaling depending on method used and source res. It is however, considerably worse than a method like dlss.

[@IcebergTech]

​@@dylanpresidafonseca2545 I won't go into all my testing- I made a video but never uploaded it, as I wasn't happy with the results- but I was left with the conclusion that Unreal's Temporal Super Resolution is the most exciting bit of new upscaling tech that doesn't require tensor cores. It's not perfect, but it leaves spatial upscalers in the dust!

[@dylanpresidafonseca2545]

@@IcebergTech that implementation is one of the good ones.

[@sheikhrayan9538]

Tbf I never liked res scalers, most games that I have played that are 2018 games or older have quite bad res scalers, excluding games like the division 1 & 2. Fsr and Nis are a really great add on when it comes to overall sharpness and the precievability In upscaling. But from 2018, there are still games that haven't adapted the full potential of forward rendering which supports TAA and its upscaling techniques. So there is still life and usefulness for these scalers, even in these times

[@wii166]

@@IcebergTech Thing is that only works with new games that try it so it's imo irrelevant we needed something that works with ALL cards and something that works in ALL games.

[@Doobie3010]

Useful stuff for those who need that little boost .Good job.

[@Patrick76496]

My 1660ti laptop will arrive next week, but until then I'm excited to try this out on my old GTX860M with Forza Horizon 5 :)

[@wizardwithsmg]

I'm fortunate enough to have a 3080, and I use NIS for certain games when I play on my TV which is 4k. I like using the ray tracing plugin for gshade with FFXIV, and that's heavy on GPU, but at 1440p it hits 60 no problem. Even with a 3080 4k is a lot of pixels and you sometime have to turn down settings, but with NIS you can leave them alone. I imagine it's wonderful for people more affordable GPUs.

[@George-mr6fy]

A great competitor for the more advanced fidelityFX super resolution. I had trouble to play modern 3d fighting games at 60 fps in the past 3 years using my gtx 1050 ti but with nis turned on at quality mode I can finally experience fluid gameplay without sacrificing too much visual quality. I hope it continues evolving and be a reliable substitute to dlss!.

[@kitrow2247]

I have upgraded from 8600GT from 2007 to D5 1030, and you know, it's awesome to play dota with more than 25 fps on a pc not much larger than ps4

[@normanmapson1459]

Pascal and Maxwell based GPUs take a performance penalty with the new NIS scaling and sharpening in drivers 496.76 to 511.72 compared to Turing and Ampere base GPUs. NIS is performed on shaders for Pascal and Maxwell rather than the dedicated hardware present for Ampere and Turing based GPUs. There is a workaround follows for Pascal and Maxwell that involves changing a Nvidia registry setting to enable an older scaling and sharpening method in drivers 496.76 to 511.72. The framerate difference is quite significant for Pascal and Maxwell GPUs. Can't post a Reddit link here without KZbin auto deleting the comment but it's under the Nvidia subReddit in 'Game Ready & Studio Driver 511.65 FAQ/Discussion' thread, the comment has 149 upvotes at the time of writing this and currently the most upvoted in that thread.

[@zulfianhamzah]

Finally u make video about it

[@emonhossain6882]

if you kindly do some more test for gt 1030 with nis it would help a lot

[@akggaming6445]

It will work like a charm for my 1050ti bought at 7k ruppes back then In 2018 which I was using for gta 5

[@dubkds]

Most of today's games have a built-in render scaler and sharpening in menu options. Older games should run fine in a native resolution. So I'm not sure if NIS is all that useful really.

[@n0rsca392]

This helps a ton, i have a 4k monitor and play most games in 2k, or 1080p because my 1650Super can't do anything in 4k other than desktop.

[@stevesmith1383]

Lies. It can play 4k Minecraft just fine

[@n0rsca392]

@@stevesmith1383 i said games

[@stevesmith1383]

@@n0rsca392 actually you know this is embarrassing my joke is entirely ruined because I meant to say mine sweeper lol. Damn I wrote that before I had coffee in the morning

[@n0rsca392]

@@stevesmith1383 lol

[@dudem5447]

You could set the resolution to 720p and Nis would still work. Just Check the option to show the marker which is blue or green and tells you if it's on or off.

[@tj3495]

For those who use AMD, there are upscaling and sharpness options in the software as well.

[@gorjy9610]

@leipero are drivers with RSR for any card out? I don't think so. Wait for them, everybody conclude same thing as you did from just one single line in press release (and ofc that in press materials nobody mention old products), even nvidia didn't advertise NIS.

[@wyterabitt2149]

@leipero I have been able to use fsr in various games that don't support it using the Lossless Scaling software - it's pretty cheap, the free version doesn't have fsr available I don't think. I am surprised Steve hasn't looked at it yet, it's not perfect but so far it's been good for me. (also no idea why my comment saying this vanished . . . )

[@wyterabitt2149]

@leipero Badly written because it does what it's supposed to do? What a bizarre reply. Yes, in order to use fsr not natively in a game that doesn't have it you have to do it via a 3rd party. In this case it will have some impact on cpu as there's more of a overhead adding a 3rd party but that's not "badly written", that's the obvious and nornal cost of it not being native and it works great if you are gpu limited not cpu limited. The image improvement was well worth it for me while I was using it.

[@FawBio]

Need more games benchmark for this awesome feature.

[@deagt3388]

Thanks on this tip! ;-) (1050Ti)

[@twizz420]

I've actually heard running AMD's FSR on Nvidia cards is the best mix. You should do a comparison of the different scaling methods on different cards.

[@bramvandenbroeck5060]

I think my gtx 1660 oc doesn't need it yet, but i think in the future, at 1080p gaming, i have an option now to elongate it usefullness! Thanks for this awesome tip :)

[@conyo985]

NIS also works on custom resolutions. I have a 4K TV and I create custom resolutions higher than 4K and I turned on the NIS indicator. It's downscaling higher resolutions ok.

[@Dawrk_Lawst]

upgraded from a 1030 to a 6500 xt even though that card isint great the difference from using a gt 1030 for about 4 years is something astonishing

[@EpicLebaneseNerd]

Thank u, never knew about it, it is well hidden and never mentioned, i just turned it one, heard sharpness should be at 30 max, i booted up a game, DAYMARE , it was a steady 60fps (dippind to 58 from time to time) but i am happy about it, i don't have newer games to test, but thank u.

[@JiArumaiti]

Just turned this on while playing fh5 and it definitely helps my poor 960 2gb to try keeping up with the CPU

[@devasto8333]

how'd you do it? i tried NIS on fh4 but the game is not showing the custom resolution....

[@mx3fto]

@@devasto8333 What is your native resolution. If it's 4k we usually have so many to choose from it's easy to miss them.

[@devasto8333]

@@mx3fto nah not 4k, not even 1080p. I'm using 768p, can't find lower resolution option below 720p...

[@mx3fto]

@@devasto8333 Ahhh I don't think forza supports anything lower. Honestly at that low of a res I don't think this tech will help you out much anyways

[@devasto8333]

@@mx3fto yeah... You're right sadly.

[@mixplit9071]

Up until fairly recently I rarely had problems running anything on my 980. But a few recent titles like Cyberpunk have notably chugged a bit. And cranking everything to low just didn't look good. This might be the trick I needed, have to give it a try.

[@ionamygdalon2263]

Crazy question here... Can you combine DSR* with NIS? Let me explain. Lets say one has a GTX 1060 6GB (or equivalent). This gpu can easily run classic titles at 1440p. If we take 67% of 2160p we get 1447.2p which is barely above 2K. So this (internal) rendering resolution should not be a problem for the gpu. The added sharpening factor could further improve image quality. At least in theory. *Not to be confused with DLDSR which is Deep Learning DSR and is only for the RTX series.

[@tex69420]

5:29 best remastered physics ever!

[@PitBoss_ZA]

Nice. Thanks for the tip.

[@rorychivers8769]

Can you get some interframe blending to go with that 30fps? I mean if a game isn't twitch reaction heavy, that's probably indistinguishable from 60

[@Fender178]

Man this is a nice feature to have. And It even works on AMD cards via a 3rd party program called Lossless Scaling which can be purchased on Steam. This also can be useful for devices like the Steam Deck that are limited hardware wise that may struggle playing games like Cyberpunk 2077.

[@frozenturbo8623]

@@randomguydoes2901 Yep, RSR is basically FSR but for every single game that doesn't even have to support it but it's RDNA and RDNA2 only so you can see yourself using it on the new steam deck, consoles or using low end cards in the architecture.

[@davidb2885]

In my experience it is better to lower the resolution. For example I tried playing AC Origins on my 4K TV using the GTX 1650 oc. 4K is of course impossible, but the card never dips below 30 on WQHD (very high settings, AA low). So I could use Nvidia's adaptive sync to lock it to 30. Locks awesome! NIS however didn't, because I needed to render at 1080p in order to get the same performance. Strangely using the resolution slider and having the menu running at 4K wasn't an option. It had the same performance hit as NIS while looking of course even worse when at 50%. However I see that NIS can make sense when you only need a small performance increase.

[@aarongarza4769]

You forgot to mention half refresh rate vsync in the Nvidia driver as well. Also a good one.

[@PixelShade]

I'm kind of wondering if AMD and Nvidia are offering these techniques so that people can hold on to old cards or buy used ones instead of them actually offering any budget cards? I fondly remember the days where I bought a 7870 for 250EUR, and was able to play games at 4x the resolution of the XBOX360 and PS3 versions, and at 60fps instead of 30-ish xD

[@JinghisKhan]

I wonder if you can enable all three at the same time, and what that does for performance. Say a RTX 2060 with DLSS + NIS running a game that has software-based FSR as well.

[@MrSnapy1]

Use lossless scaling on steam it injects fsa to any game. Some it really helps others not as much but for under 5$ its well worth it. Many options to adjust quality and performance.

[@MiguelBaptista1981]

Very useful video, thanks for sharing ! Godbless

[@mushfiqurrahman2515]

for real! i hope this work well in my case

[@Tmanstomp100]

technically nvidia image scaling was available in older drivers it was just called something different, and it didn't have the sharpening filter, but the old version actually gives higher FPS because of the lack of sharpening. It might be cool to see this tested although it isn't practical.

[@nunofernandes4501]

So the 750ti will have a resssurection? Please test it with NIS, along with GTX 960 and 1050ti. This is very good news for those with lesser cards.

[@MitcherSM]

So this upon TAA really sounds like a great time. Blur galore.

[@emunation8171]

So I got an optiplex 380 quite a few years back, had a core 2 duo in it but the real eye opener for me was the gt 210 that it had, paired with the core 2 duo it was pretty difficult to play many games with it, but I managed, I got both portal games to run at nearly playable as well as rocket league, other than that I really only used it for 2d games or simple games like Minecraft, I would really love if you could do a video on this card if you manage to get one or already have, I love messing with old tech just cause and it would be nice to see what that card is really capable of Edit: just realized you already have videos on it lol

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah I might check it out again though I love the 210 for some reason haha

[@sklynexd]

Sapphire also have Image Scaling in their Trixx app.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

My PCs do not struggle to play modern games. I struggle to pay a $70 entry price for yet another unfinished generic (usually urban) shooter (with or without parkour) that will also expect me to subscribe to additional DLC just so the profiteering and evil games company can hold me to ransom over actually finishing the game to some degree within 18 months of me buying it. That's the difference.

[@shaneeslick]

G'day Random, I'll have to give this a go vs FSR with GTX750Ti on my testbench

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

Thanks, will try it!!!

[@JustAnotherHo]

huh, you know Nvidia Image Scaling is something I literally didn't know existed until right now, and I thought I kept up on tech news pretty well.

[@fenixspider5776]

I hope amd also implements their RSR for all the supported gpus rather than going for only rdna 2 based ones

[@johnygiant]

this whole situation is just getting worse... i'm now convinced im going to be using my 1070 for a long time. Good thing these options exist to prolong our GPU lifespan.

[@berkantari981]

at least it's not a 1050 :(

[@CoolDudeClem]

For me 720p alone is enough. I have a 28 inch monitor and I play games from my bed, I'm a good 6 feet away from it. 1080p looks pretty much the same at that distance. Also, if I have my desktop at 1080p, everything on the screen is too small to see well.

[@stevesmith1383]

You know you can just increase the size of your desktop icons when you go to higher resolution

[@AK-nl6kq]

I use drivers version 473.04 on my GTX 670 and I use image scaling as well

[@mariastevens6406]

This card is amazing in my little emulation system.

[@oristechreviews]

Noticed it showed up yesterday!

[@SinaFarhat]

Thanks for the tip!

[@dominicradosta4781]

wow this really makes the diffrence between unplayable and playable. :O

[@gregsmith9183]

The gt1030 isn't a gaming card. Although its good for a home theatre/media PC setup in a small form factor case and you need a low profile single slot card capable of hardware decoding.

[@kelownatechkid]

The drivers that have NIS are also lacking the previous sharpening features though :/ I disagree that this offers 'more choice' since it literally ...doesn't.

[@Punisher6791]

can you do some tests with Dying Light 2 using various cards? game seems to be very demanding right now.

[@californiaspeedking7806]

Can you possibly review the RTX 2080?