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I am going to be honest with you guys, this game uses DLSS on RTX cards amazingly, 1440p looks like 4k on it with just a slight blur compared to 4k native. It does an amazing job at Adaptive Sharpening, Antialiasing etc the game looks much better for it, and not only that because it is using Tensor cores in the latest 2.0 revision, the frame rate increases as the workload is being effectively halved from the main the core, and it also helps keep temps down also.

On my 2080ti I had no difference in performance between 1440p and 4k with DLSS on, it does look amazing on 4k though, so anyone with a 2080 or less will be able to play it on 1440p but think its 4k.

With the 3x00 family coming soon, prices for the 2x00 family could drop by a lot. So consider getting an RTX card near the holidays if there is good deals happening, because more and more developers are utilising DLSS now. And to be blunt AMD have no alternative to it.

It really is. Now, in fairness, I think DLSS is especially effective for high geometry count scenes that don't also involve a lot of other shader effects taking up rendering time. So that's probably why the benefits are so much more pronounced with this game. Still, it does seem noticeably more natural looking with DLSS on and I really prefer it enabled - the aliasing was just not noticeable and everything looked and felt fantastic. You just couldn't perceive a quality hit whatsoever.

Sadly, I had to turn it off when troubleshooting somewhat random access violation game crashes, and so far they haven't come back. Everything is maxed out at 1440p in my case, but in addition to disabling DLSS, I also disabled fidelityFX CAS (apparently an AMD upscaling method). My hope is that leaving that disabled and re-enabling DLSS will result in a stable game again for me, while enjoying DLSS again.

Are you also on the latest Nvidia driver, 451.67? I heard it's causing issues for some others, and introducing stuttering. There are too many variables to really pin it down to a simple things like "driver version" and "feature X" I think.

[Edited by kachunkachunk, 7/15/2020 11:41:02 PM]

I do have the latest driver build, so far for me the only problem I have had is the region change connection bug, where it wont connect to the server to send your player data to so that it can finally load the new region data.

I had one access violation, but that was me messing around with a debugger though.

Also you can't have DLSS on if Fidelity is on.

[Edited by DABhand, 7/16/2020 12:19:15 AM]

I agree with you 100%
I'm playing this again on pc, coming from the ps4 pro to this on full 4k 120 fps and hdr, its insane, the one thing i wish wouldn't suck is the goddamn LOD, like dude, its all on max, my 2080ti is barley hitting 62c, why must the rocks in the distance look like semi, wet to the touch, dingle-berries.
More likely then not well get that feature when we get asked to buy the DEATH STRANDING GAME OF THE YEAR EDITION, but good news is, it will be free with your purchase of a new RTX 3080ti with its MSRP of $2,999.99

I can only agree.

I just boguht a brand new laptop with an RTX card inside of it and I can the game with 120hz on everything max without a dip in performance.

I am so happy DLSS is a godsend for sharp images granted if you are used to 4k gaming on a Desktop or hig end rendered 1440p then you do notice the differenc ebut it gets really close to perfection.

Also for reference the Laptop i got:
www.msi.com/Laptop/GL75-Leopard-10SX/Specification

There's not going to be much savings from the 3000 series because Nvidia has directed manufacturers stop making 2000 series cards. So when whatever is in stock (and may not be much as it is) runs out, that's it.

We'll be forced to purchase the 3000 series, which is of course not going to be any cheaper than the current high 2000 price points.

What will change things is AMD's price to performance with their next gen series of cards.

Due to the price of 2070 and higher, there will be plenty of stock left when the 30x0 cards hit. They have to get rid of them somehow. Not a huge saving, but a few hundred here and there.

Since you guys seem to know a lot about this... I got a little problem. I think almost every game that uses DLSS is very blurry on my machine. I got an 2080ti and gsync screen that has a native resolution of 2560x1440. I always use the max settings but the game still looks very blurry to me. Same goes for Monster Hunter World.