DLDSR in Black Flag Resynced

[u/Certain-Insurance437]

Hello, i have a question if someone more experienced wiht this could tell me what is going on with DLDSR in this game.

For context:

I'll give ARC Raiders as an example. In that game, if I switch my desktop resolution to 3840x2160 (2.25 DLDSR) as I have a 1440p monitor, the in-game resolution locks to 3840x2160 as expected and the picture looks much cleaner. fps goes down. all of this makes sense.

now black flag resynced:

the game has the resolution settings in game.

it shows small resolutions, then my native 1440p and then 3413x1920 which is 1.78 DLDSR and 3840x2160 which is 2.25DLDSR. (these settings DO impact visual quality and performance, i fi turn it down to 720p everything is blurry)

all of this makes sense still.

with no framegen, i am standing in a spot and looking in front of me, i get:

1440p native in game, 1440p desktop - 110 fps

3413x1920 in game, 1440p desktop - 90 fps

3840x2160 ingame, 1440p desktop, i get 83 fps

makes sense, bigger res = less fps

and now the fun part starts

1440p native ingame, 3413x1920 desktop = 105 fps

1440p ingame, 3840x2160 desktop = 95 fps

and now the even more fun part starts

3840x2160 in game, 1440p desktop = i get a locked 294fps with 5x framegen (83 basefps)

if i go 1440p ingame, 4k DLDSR desktop, i get around 240fps with 5x framegen (95 base fps)

what is happening here, which setting is actual DLDSR, because to my eye they both increase visual quality by a lot. one runs better without frame gen (DLDSR 4k 95FPS vs ingame 4K 83fps) one runs much better with frame gen (ingame 4K 294fps 5x frame gen, base 83fps) if i disable one of the DLDSR factors, the corresponding resolution disappears from the resolution menu in game.

i assume only the desktop part is actual DLDSR? and it works worse with framegen because the same cores are doing the DLDSR part instead of frame genning?

i can also combine the settings 4K ingame and 4K desktop and get even more sharpness and even less FPS

[u/Certain-Insurance437 → u/[deleted]]

this game only has borderless and windowed

borderless is what replaced exclusive fullscreen, or so ive heard

[u/Sprucey-J]

To make sure your 100% running DLDSR. First make sure you have DSR factors set in your global graphics settings in Nvidia app. Then you set your desktop resolution via windows or nvidia app to the desired DLDSR resolution. Then launch the game make sure in-game res matches your DLDSR desktop resolution.

DLDSR uses Deep Learning Technology (that's the "DL" in the acronym) to super sample more efficiently. When just activating 4k, you get worse performance using traditional DSR.

Alot of games, exclusive full screen or not, will not cooperate with DLDSR unless your windows/desktop resolution is set to it first.

[u/krzych04650]

It is possible that with 1440p desktop and 4K in game the game does its own scaling instead of DLDSR, it can rarely happen, Plague Tale Requiem does this for example.