Bless the Modder Who Is Fixing AMD’s Newest GPUs

You save up your hard - bring in money to invest in a new nontextual matter card for your microcomputer , snag your young prized possession , and life is skilful . You ’re gaming with still renders , negligible latency , and blister skeletal system charge per unit . Or are you ? If you own one of9000 serial RDNA 4 GPUsthat ’s not the causa except for a blue-ribbon few games . It turns out that AMD ’s FidelityFX Super Resolution ( FSR 4 ) technology , which is the magic sauce of AMD ’s GPUs and their answer to Nvidia ’s DLSS , does n’t work with a large swath of game . That include popular titles likeDiablo IVandSilent Hill 2 . And if you own an older AMD card , you ’re S.O.L. as there ’s no word if your computer hardware will get FSR 4 anytime presently or at all .

However , allot toPCWorld , a resolution does exist — if you own one of the 9000 serial cards . An enterprising modder named HighYield recently station a video showing off their newOptiScaler app . When used , the app enables FSR 4 on any biz that hold Nvidia ’s DLSS 2 or Intel ’s XeSS upscaling software . practiced of all , it ’s free . OptiScaler will also enable frame generation and some anti - latency accompaniment . You be intimate , the clobber you should have grow from day one when you plunked down $ 600or morefor your shining new Radeon 9070 XT lineup .

As of the right way now , FSR 4 , which AMD claim bring a ”substantial image tone improvement ” over FSR 3.1 , is exclusive to the company ’s 9000 - series owners , and with only44 gamescurrently hold the technology compare to theover 100 titlesgetting Nvidia DLSS 4 support , that leaves a lot of fans of popular games likeCyberpunk 2077,Alan Wake 2andStar Wars : Jedi Survivor , out in the cold .

Screenshot of Cyberpunk 2077 being played using modder’s High Yield OptiScaler app

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If you visitHighYield ’s X bill , there ’s a detailed walkthrough of setting up the OptiScaler app to enable FSR 4 on games likeCyberpunk 2077 . For OptiScaler to work , you must have either an Radeon RX 9070 or 9070 XT card and DirectX 12 installed . During the demo television , HighYield shows offCyberpunk 2077playing at 1440p at 60 frames per second with full path trace . And before you say it ’s a fluke , other YouTube videos are popping up read similar results . So for , OptiScaler can tide you over while AMD work out to enlarge the catalog for FSR 4 with more games hopefully coming sooner than later .

But the keyword here is modernistic . That means this workaround is not AMD approved . Which means the locating might not work perfectly at clock time , and there might be a time where AMD puts the kibosh on the app as FSR 4 starts rolling out to more games .

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Screenshot of OptiScaler demo on Cyberpunk 2077