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for sponsoring this video the note is a powerful affordable easy to use Linux based cloud computing service that is one click apps for games like Minecraft and valheim sign up today at linode.com Linus to get a free 100.60 day credit the concept is simple a game comes with a single file that determines its dlss version funny thing about files though you can replace them Tech PowerUp has a database of all the dlss revisions to date and programmer Brad Moore created a handy tool called dlss swapper that makes it dead simple to try different versions on your favorite games the question then becomes how far can we push it we start off by installing dlss swapper this would be straightforward but as a non-Windows store Universal app we need to import and Trust Brad Moore's certificate before Windows will let us install it so this is one reason why uwp apps aren't very well liked by the way but it's easy enough assuming we trust Brad here he's outlined all the steps you need to import it so 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the version number on the bottom right corner this is the dlss revision that it's currently using and if you've never swapped the dlls before is the version that the game shipped with dlss 1.0 the first release rendered at a fixed 50 native resolution and it had no temporal component either so every frame got treated in a vacuum leading to shimmering artifacts and other errors that were often distracting and unpleasant 1.1 improved things slightly with a sharpening filter although there's not a whole lot more information about it and it wasn't around for long before 2.0 came out anyway that version removed the need for each game to be trained individually by NVIDIA and added the temporal element that makes steel SS so impressive to look at Now 2.0's debut game was control which notably shipped with version 1. that gave us the first side by side look at the two upscaling revisions and highlighted how important that motion Vector data was for improving image quality dmss 2.0 also added different scaling factors in its quality balanced and performance presets and dlss 2.1 added the ultra performance mode which renders at a third of the Native resolution not a lot is known about what 2.2 does yet but early reports indicate that tweaks have been made to reduce some of the or start effects we can see here that Doom Eternal Metro Exodus and War Thunder are all on dlss 2.1 while F1 2021 runs 2.2 and of course shadow of the Tomb Raider runs 1.0 clicking on a game will give you a list of all the dlss versions that you've downloaded and swapping is as simple as choosing one and clicking update as you might expect sticking to the same major revision of dlss is probably going to be the most stable option but if you want to be bolder you can easily reset it back to stock as long as you don't manually delete anything just like you could reset your water bottle to stock after getting our new spout lid but why would you ltdstewer.com half off if you already own one or buy it with a new bottle in testing I've found that as a general rule version 2.1 and 2.2 are often interchangeable but some games have a floor that's usually a few versions below what they ship with this makes sense because they'd probably have been initially developed with that version before shipping with an updated release I did run into one game in particular that didn't like any changes and that's War Thunder swapping the dll disables dlss entirely which may be a function of the anti-cheat software that Gaijin is using if that's true then be aware that other games with anti-cheat may or may not take kindly to tinkering with these core files either Doom Eternal which only recently got dlss and RTX support comes stock with 2.1.66 but runs fine with the latest revision down to as low as 2.1.55 in terms of visual Fidelity at 1080p Ultra performance the latest dll shows significantly less shimmering on this floor grading over stock which seems to corroborate the findings digital Foundry made in their dlss 2.0 First Look it's not likely that you'll be using Ultra performance at any resolution lower than 8K but this shows how far along dlss has come since its first outings F1 2021 comes stock with version 2.2.9 which is pretty close to the latest revision available but still upgrading has a subtle effect on the amount of ghosting present on thin objects like the Pito tube at the front of the car this helps reduce often acting High motion Trails but in some scenes the car's wheels will still also ghost pretty badly and there's unfortunately not a whole lot that the update can do for that the reason for this is as best I can tell while the car is more or less stationary in the frame here the motion vectors for it are moving with it at high speed along the racetrack feeding irrelevant motion data to the algorithm this is visible to some extent around the potato tube at high speeds as well where it gets softer thanks to that ghosting even when you're not turning so does that mean that upgrading to a newer version is always going to look better maybe not in Metro Exodus we can again see ghosting thanks to that motion Vector of the train moving along the tracks interestingly it's worse with the stock and latest revisions of dlss while the older 2.1 revision seems to suffer less from it not only that but want the latest version provides better Clarity in the chain links in most cases the older version surprisingly often looks closer to Native rendering and I struggle to explain why perhaps the older version made less aggressive use of motion vectors than later 2.1 and 2.2 releases this doesn't really line up with digital foundry's findings with a bright gun sight in the dark sewers so contrast and perhaps even color detection may make up the bulk of the tweaks since 2.1 but what about dlss 1.0 well you obviously cannot use a different major revision here the game just doesn't launch in every game we tested however there were a few different revisions for each of the early titles that came out like Final Fantasy XV the debut title that shipped with revision 0.9 fascinatingly if we upgrade that to the final 1.0 variant released for shadow of the Tomb Raider which is I think Point 17 were treated to a slight image quality improvement it's pretty minor but the studs in Cindy's had here have a kind of smear to them with the stock dlss while the updated version shows them more correctly as round there's also a bit more contrast around her shoulder pocket and a bit more clarity to her jacket's patch you can much more clearly make out the Royal Capital lettering on the license plate too there's a lot of admittedly subtle differences and the Very earliest release shows even rougher upscaling so it's just a fascinating look to see how little changes to either the algorithm or the data set have improved things over time because remember these old revisions they were trained by NVIDIA on a game by game basis now you might be wondering if this easy to upgrade dlss why did Brad have to program anything well it seems to be that NVIDIA might want to look at opening up a little bit these off-label upgrades for dlss are fascinating and potentially can improve your gaming experience AMD's Fidelity FX super resolution may not be an AI upscaler but it's been Making Waves among enthusiasts and big projects alike thanks to its open architecture not only that but Intel's also open AI upscaler xcss hopes to compete with dlss's Walled Garden directly whenever we finally get a taste of Team blue gpus that's a while off yet but get subscribed because it'll be one of the biggest events in PC gaming Hardware in a long long time and you're not going to want to miss that I have to wonder where it all goes from here though we've got the scaling itself we've got the temporal element with multi-frame data we've got motion vectors to inform future frames what's next will the scalar take data about the viewport scene geometry I mean from there the question becomes how long before AI upscaling in effect is doing the bulk of the rendering work with so little input from traditional rendering that it's basically obsolete those are questions we can't answer today we also can't answer how swapping dlss might affect your favorite game there's just far too much to dive into for one video so put on your scientist goggles and maybe do a little bit of testing of your own it's super simple to do this video is brought to you by manscaped manscaped provides an all-in-one grooming kit that has you covered from head to toe their performance package 4.0 features their awesome lawnmower 4.0 waterproof body trimmer their weed whacker ear and nose hair trimmer plus a whole lot of other goodies and for a limited time you get all of this plus two free gifts the shed travel bag and a pair of manscapes anti-chafing boxer briefs so visit manscapes.com Tech or click the link down below to get 20 off and free shipping thanks for watching guys a small portion of 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