The floodgates are open and the DLSS dominos are starting to fall, because AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 is now open and out in the wild. And enterprising modders have been jury-rigging the upscaler into any game they can find. The first was Cyberpunk 2077, where modder, PotatoOfDoom(opens in new tab), figured out a way to inject the feature in place of DLSS to enable AMD gamers to enjoy FSR 2.0.
That same technique has now been modified to the extent that Nexus Mods is starting to see some games—Red Dead Redemption 2(opens in new tab) and Dying Light 2(opens in new tab)—with their own versions of the mod, based on PotatoOfDoom's original. Gamers are also then using those files themselves to try and get the same effect on a number of other games, with Metro Exodus: Enhanced Edition(opens in new tab) and Guardians of the Galaxy(opens in new tab) both popping up on Reddit recently.
The results seem to be that the games are a little softer than native, but generally deliver the performance uplift we're craving with little other fidelity problems.
So we tried it ourselves, to see if we could get noted ray tracing and DLSS 2.0 champ, Control, working with the mod.
We grabbed the Dying Light 2 mod and used the registry edit file along with adding the nvgx.dll to the Control library. Booting into DirectX12 mode and suddenly, with our Radeon RX 6700 XT, we're now seeing the option to enable DLSS in the options.
We've run a few tests and at the highest settings using both 1440p and 1080p resolutions, we're seeing a 75% and 44% increase in average frame rate respectively. Which immediately sounds like a huge plus. The Control settings don't offer the Quality, Balanced, or Performance options like some titles, but just
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