[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #15144: FSR/DLSS/XeSS Upscaling

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#15144: FSR/DLSS/XeSS Upscaling
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Reporter:  Haravikk         |      Owner:  (none)
    Type:  feature request  |     Status:  new
Priority:  normal           |  Component:  Graphics: Scalers
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 I would love to see the ability for ScummVM to apply newer upscaling
 methods to games, so we can improve how some of them will look on larger
 displays.

 My understanding is that FSR, DLSS and XeSS are all implemented as shaders
 that can be applied to the final frames, so no support is needed within a
 game's own engine, which should make it possible to enable at least the
 basic versions of these upscaling methods as a generic user-configurable
 feature for any supported game.

 AMD's FSR is the most widely supported of the three, as DLSS is NVidia
 specific, and I believe XeSS is Intel specific, so it would be the most
 obvious one to attempt first. However all three work in essentially the
 same way (to the extent that many games that only support one can support
 the others via a simple DLL swap).

 The basic version of all three simply focuses on upscaling individual
 frames, while the later versions (FSR 2 etc.) are able to give better
 results if they can be provided with accurate motion vectors indicating
 how individual pixels are expected to move between frames. This would
 likely be more complex however since I doubt it would be easy to do in a
 generic way, so I would suggest focusing on FSR 1 as a starting point.

 When it was released, Baldur's Gate 3 only supported basic FSR, but the
 results were still extremely good, allowing the game to be run on a 4k
 display while rendering at 1080p on modest hardware, giving a much crisper
 result than rendering at 1080p and letting the display apply basic
 upscaling. While some displays do have fancier upscaling built in, most
 don't, so an option in ScummVM would still be a useful improvement.

 Many ScummVM compatible games like Zork Nemesis suffer from low
 resolutions, and basic scaling (bicubic etc.) does them no favours, but
 with modern scalers it may be possible to get them looking a bit better on
 larger/higher resolution displays.
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