Nvidia's latest driver is ready for Halo Reach and Quake II RTX 1.2

[WYP]

What year is this?



Read more about Nvidia's Geforce 441.14 driver for Halo Reach and Quake II RTX.

 

[Dicehunter]

Quite curious if Microsoft are eventually going to go and switch over to just allowing DCH drivers considering Nvidia have started to offer them as a download and Windows installs them as default VGA drivers, Either way, The Nvidia sharpening in OpenGL and Vulkan games should be quite nice.

 

[Peace Ð]

Need a quick recap of Image Sharpening, please :headscratch: The picture says "faster performance". So does it increase performance or affect it at all?

 

[Bagpuss]

Need a quick recap of Image Sharpening, please :headscratch: The picture says "faster performance". So does it increase performance or affect it at all?

Its a feature over which a lot of over-hyped fuss has been made but in reality is practically unnoticble when actually playing a game. The ONLY real use for it is in static screenshots,IMO


..in answer to your question, sharpening filters will always usually result in a (tiny) performance hit.

 

[WYP]

Need a quick recap of Image Sharpening, please :headscratch: The picture says "faster performance". So does it increase performance or affect it at all?

Basically you can render at a lower res and Nvidia can stretch it to higher resolutions and use sharpening to claw back some detail.

They realised that AMD has a great feature in FidelityFX and Radeon Image Sharpening and decided to steal the idea.

 

[Peace Ð]

Okay thank you, guys! So I could try lowering the rendering resolution and enable image sharpening to gain more fps while sacrificing less fidelity than I'd have to.