Tuesday, February 6th 2024
Mod Unlocks FSR 3 Fluid Motion Frames on Older NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20/30 Series Cards
NVIDIA's latest RTX 40 series graphics cards feature impressive new technologies like DLSS 3 that can significantly enhance performance and image quality in games. However, owners of older 20 and 30 series NVIDIA GeForce RTX cards cannot officially benefit from these cutting-edge advances. DLSS 3's Frame Generation feature, in particular, requires dedicated hardware only found in NVIDIA's brand new Ada Lovelace architecture. But the ingenious modding community has stepped in with a creative workaround solution where NVIDIA has refused to enable frame generation functionality on older generation hardware. A new third-party modification can unofficially activate both upscaling (FSR, DLAA, DLSS or XeSS) and AMD Fluid Motion Frames on older NVIDIA cards equipped with Tensor Cores. Replacing two key DLL files and a small edit to the Windows registry enables the "DLSS 3" option to be activated in games running on older hardware.
In testing conducted by Digital Foundry, this modification delivered up to a 75% FPS boost - on par with the performance uplift official DLSS 3 provides on RTX 40 series cards. Games like Cyberpunk 2077, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and A Plague Tale: Requiem were used to benchmark performance. However, there can be minor visual flaws, including incorrect UI interpolation or random frame time fluctuations. Ironically, while the FSR 3 tech itself originates from AMD, the mod currently only works on NVIDIA cards. So, while not officially supported, the resourcefulness of the modding community has remarkably managed to bring cutting-edge frame generation to more NVIDIA owners - until AMD RDNA 3 cards can utilize it as well. This shows the incredible potential of community-driven software modification and innovation.
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via HardwareLuxx
In testing conducted by Digital Foundry, this modification delivered up to a 75% FPS boost - on par with the performance uplift official DLSS 3 provides on RTX 40 series cards. Games like Cyberpunk 2077, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and A Plague Tale: Requiem were used to benchmark performance. However, there can be minor visual flaws, including incorrect UI interpolation or random frame time fluctuations. Ironically, while the FSR 3 tech itself originates from AMD, the mod currently only works on NVIDIA cards. So, while not officially supported, the resourcefulness of the modding community has remarkably managed to bring cutting-edge frame generation to more NVIDIA owners - until AMD RDNA 3 cards can utilize it as well. This shows the incredible potential of community-driven software modification and innovation.
27 Comments on Mod Unlocks FSR 3 Fluid Motion Frames on Older NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20/30 Series Cards
I'm only discussing the technical merits of the A770. For that purpose, lower performance products like the A750 are irrelevant. I agree that drivers have improved a lot, but the examples I linked to included games where Intel does well, e.g. CyberPunk. Knowing how well the A770 does, we can make a reasonable estimate of Battlemage performance. Getting to the 4070 would require a 60% performance increase over the A770 which is greater than the difference between the 3090 TI and the 4090 in TechPowerUp's reviews. One saving grace for Intel is their good ray tracing performance so if they managed to match a 4070 in rasterization, they would probably match it in ray tracing too which would be a pretty good position to be in.
None of this has any bearing on this topic so let's leave it to PMs if you want to discuss it further.
AMD shares were low because they offered nothing. Neither Intel nor nVidia launched Bulldozer or Vega.
However, you didn't understand. AMD, Intel, nVidia, Apple ... American companies. Pure capitalism. All of them, when they have no competition, take seven skins from the buyer because the shareholder is their God. In the first year after the launch of the superb Zen 3, AMD released only 4 processors on the market, none under $300, nothing non-X. Intel remained frozen in 4 cores while AMD was playing for amateurs, Apple doubles the price just for an apple painted on products and nVidia offers exactly as much as it needs and not as much as it can.
You should still be glad that there is fierce competition. At least here, the products of the two companies, be it processors or video cards, are now sold at a lower price than at launch. It's no small thing when inflation is Batman.