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[HeelPower]

This game is one of the most impressive upgrades yet.

Sucker punch really overachieved when it came to this game's visuals.It goes toe to toe with best looking games of 2016.

Quite the achievement.

 

[firelogic]

One interesting point is that it only took 2 people at Sucker Punch to do the Pro mode.

 

[leeh]

What's the actual rendering resolution of this then? If its 1800p after checkerboard, what's it before?

One interesting point is that it only took 2 people at Sucker Punch to do the Pro mode.

Wow, that's very good.

 

[thelastword]

If anyone at DF is reading, ETA for Overwatch analysis?

From what I've seen, the pro upgrade has better AF and sports a higher resolution than 1080p. It doesn't improve AA however, outside of less shimmering due to the high rez. That dev should have put TAA to good use here, it's the one thing they could improve on......

 

[Tonky]

Is there a 1080p + 30fps + improved post-processing mode?

 

[NBtoaster]

Man, DF and Leadbetter must have been playing lots of solid 60fps games on consoles all this time. A game falls to 56fps in the video at worst, it's mostly 60fps, but DF hates playing that way so much...Hell, he's only showing that mode because it's default and what the developer prioritizes. Such crappy framerates is not up to the DF standard surely and it's certainly not the way they like to play.....SMH..


The game has a 30fps capped mode use it, why are you trying to say negatives about a 60fps mode that's mighty impressive? Funny, I've heard some DF staff members say that Ryse has a solid framerate but yet it falls to the teens in many scenes on XB1. I wonder what DF will say next, With Witcher 3's framerate problems or Ryse or Just Cause, should they cap these to 15fps?

I've never seen a couple of frames down from 60fps causing so much pain before. DF staff must have absolutely hated COD on XB1 last gen, because the campaigns there were no way a locked 60fps....

The default mode is the 30-50fps high resolution mode. And you're way overstating the negativity when as a whole the video is very positive about the game.

 

[LordOcidax]

No it's not it's a parallel rendering method that's now able to be done with a single GPU because they can run compute & the fixed function pipeline at the same time so instead of GPU-A & GPU-B rendering the odd & even checkerboard fields they are using compute to fill in for the second GPU by using information from the previous frame & other data to create the part of the frame that would have been done by GPU-B.

Still upscaling by definition.... i dont see any problem with that, is not the native res at the end of the day, you are taking a base res and using a upscaling method to output a higher res.... is the "upscaled" word attached to a single method or something?

 

[chromatic9]

Don't mean to offend, It's just the constant guessing i.e. "I think" or "Cerny told me", and the constant bringing up of CheckerBoarding. I have watched several Vids and it's basically the same rhetoric. It's has a soft image? what the hell does that mean without a comprarison to show this soft you supposedly see.

The PS4 Pro has more to it than Soft and CheckerBoarding and the drumbeat of 60fps. Things we don't hear about in the analysis

New ID buffer for tracking triangles and objects, opening the door to advanced spatial and temporal anti-aliasing

Delta colour compression technology arrives in PS4 Pro, maximising memory bandwidth. Not seen in PS4

New features from AMD roadmap - the ability to run two FP16 operations concurrently instead of one FP32, plus the integration of a work scheduler for increased efficiency

Enhanced 16-bit half-float support

This is what I'm talking about when I say surface, it's the constant barrage of checkerboard, framerate, and we some something soft.

Do Infamous SS and First Light use all of this?

 

[Harp]

Look at the black of the image constantly shifting, on screen edges and even at the middle point of the image. A lot of the game is constantly washing out to black.

These images are captured fractions of a second a part:

This is not a PC game you can open up renderdoc and see the individual buffers, drawcalls, etc and point out "oh here they are tracking velocity much more accurately on PS4pro!". There is no point of direct reference to show the difference between native 4k in this title and the checkboarded and upscaled version you have. Likewise you cannot measure or show the difference of an FP16 shader vs an F32 in a console game without knowing where they are before hand, nor can you visually point out the effective usage of better compression.

It is a blackbox with very few analogous points of reference. DF tries to pry open that blackbox with the tools and info available. Spouting technical phrasing coming from SONY without being able to actually discuss its measurable effects on a per-game basis would be rather useless. It would also be highly speculative.

So because there is no way to do a proper test they are just guessing? And guessing consistently makes you an expert? I use DF for entertainment purposes only, they lost me back when battlefield 4 came out and they where explaining which console had better image quality. When the Xbox had clear black crush, which they latter admitted that their testing was wrong but because they would come to the same conclusion they were not going to recreate the videos.

You cant be an expert and lazy and provide misinformation. You complete a test and you provide the facts of that test. And you then do that consistently.

 

[TalonJH]

Since the Pro release I've been playing First Light because I never gave it much time when it was free on PS+. Game types usually dictate whether resolution or framerate is more important and I thought I would ejoy the higher resolution mode more but this game looks amazing at 60fps. Go for the framerate here.

 

[2blackcats]

One interesting point is that it only took 2 people at Sucker Punch to do the Pro mode.

Makes me all the more annoyed about other games not getting a patch.

Are 1080p owners playing with high frame rate or downsampling?

 

[dark10x]

I actually think this is one example where the unlocked frame-rate is awesome. It holds pretty steady and looks great.

 

[No_Style]

So because there is no way to do a proper test they are just guessing? And guessing consistently makes you an expert? I use DF for entertainment purposes only, they lost me back when battlefield 4 came out and they where explaining which console had better image quality. When the Xbox had clear black crush, which they latter admitted that their testing was wrong but because they would come to the same conclusion they were not going to recreate the videos.

You cant be an expert and lazy and provide misinformation. You complete a test and you provide the facts of that test. And you then do that consistently.

Did they call themselves experts? Or are you labelling them as such because the audience refer to them as such? I've always seen them and even a lot people who cover tech for a living (The Tech Report and AnandTech) professional enthusiasts.

Also there are many professions out that involve making educated guesses and people often call those theoretical physicists, statisticians and market analysts experts for their consistency.

 

[adamsapple]

I actually think this is one example where the unlocked frame-rate is awesome. It holds pretty steady and looks great.

Yeah, that's great news.

I was under the impression that the frame rate was locked to 30 on Pro-mode. Didn't realize it was unlocked (or had a toggle for those who wanted it).

 

[thelastword]

Been playing Second Son on the Pro, I prefer the framerate option even if it does dip quite often. Game feels awful at at locked 30 once you've experienced the higher frame rate.

I preferred Shadowfall unlocked, I preferred I-SS and I-FL unlocked, these games average around 40fps , I-FL a little higher. The infamous games feels even better now at mostly 60fps on the Pro....

TRDE felt much smoother to me unlocked as well, even when DF have their 30fps locked mode they complain about the unlocked mode. They also complained about the few dips in TLOUR in the bloater fight as if it was such a problem, when that game was 99% 60fps on OG PS4, yet, that game had a 30fps mode too...... It's crazy how anal they are about this, even when they have choices......

So beautiful! It looks soo good at 50+ fps!

Also, the Pro Upgrade was put together by two Sucker Punch developers, that's really awesome!

So it shows that perhaps with more optimization and more persons they most probably could have hit it locked, but who cares really when your framerate is that high already and you're just improving an older game for better perf and resolution in a few days. One thing is sure, this is a hefty performance and rez boost on top of the PS4 version, and I think many will want to play again at the higher framerate. With that said, HDR brings a significant boos to the games as well....and that can't be understated.


The other thing is this......How is infamous soft? This just seems like an effort to downplay the accomplishments here. It's not 4k native, it's not 3200x1800, it's 1800p checkerboarded says Leadbetter, it looks soft compared to what? What other version of this game? The PS4 version?...The downplaying of goodwork here is a headscratching tbh...

 

[Fisty]

So because there is no way to do a proper test they are just guessing? And guessing consistently makes you an expert? I use DF for entertainment purposes only, they lost me back when battlefield 4 came out and they where explaining which console had better image quality. When the Xbox had clear black crush, which they latter admitted that their testing was wrong but because they would come to the same conclusion they were not going to recreate the videos.

You cant be an expert and lazy and provide misinformation. You complete a test and you provide the facts of that test. And you then do that consistently.

I'm ready for your tech analysis on Infamous First Light, go ahead

 

[Liabe Brave]

but.. checkboard is a upscaling technique....whats the problem here?

I agree, although checkerboard is a very impressive upscaling technique.

But that's like what upscaling means. Converting one lower res video signal to a higher res video signal.

But that is not what checkerboard does. It absolutely does not convert one size of buffer to a larger size of buffer. It is not upscaling.

What's the actual rendering resolution of this then? If its 1800p after checkerboard, what's it before?

There is no "before", 3200x1800 is the buffer size (half the pixels of which are calculated through the checkerboard method).

Still upscaling by definition.... i dont see any problem with that, is not the native res at the end of the day, you are taking a base res and using a upscaling method to output a higher res.... is the "upscaled" word attached to a single method or something?

It's not native, but it's not upscaling either. You're right that there are many methods of upscaling. But they all involve scaling--moving from one size image to another. That is not what checkerboard does.

Instead, it's a form of interleaved rendering. For example, Horizon: Zero Dawn and Days Gone will both use 2160c, where they render every frame at a full 3840x2160. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare uses a dynamic checkerboard, which at times can hit that size too. Checkerboard is one of a class of similar methods, such as those used by Killzone: Shadowfall or Ratchet & Clank.

 

[Gaogaogao]

thank you framerate gods

 

[Tarkus]

One interesting point is that it only took 2 people at Sucker Punch to do the Pro mode.

That's right! Two fucking people FROM Software!

TWO PEOPLE

 

[Brad Grenz]

but.. checkboard is a upscaling technique....whats the problem here?

No, it is not.

No it's not it's a parallel rendering method that's now able to be done with a single GPU because they can run compute & the fixed function pipeline at the same time so instead of GPU-A & GPU-B rendering the odd & even checkerboard fields they are using compute to fill in for the second GPU by using information from the previous frame & other data to create the part of the frame that would have been done by GPU-B.

Current checkerboard rendering has no relation to the multi-GPU solution from the 3DFX era so you should probably stop linking them. That's nearly as misleading as when people insist on calling it upscaling.

I do wish Richard would correct himself. Too many outlets defer to Digital Foundry's expertise on this stuff so having him perpetuate a false understanding of the tech is a significant problem.

 

[chromatic9]

The other thing is this......How is infamous soft? This just seems like an effort to downplay the accomplishments here. It's not 4k native, it's not 3200x1800, it's 1800p checkerboarded says Leadbetter, it looks soft compared to what? What other version of this game? The PS4 version?...The downplaying of goodwork here is a headscratching tbh...

The checkboarding has looked soft in terms of 1800p checkerboarding allegedly being able to be close, almost or near native 4k, it looks nothing like native 4k.

DF could or anyone with access could do a ROTTR and multiplat comparisons which pits checkboarding against standard PC 1800p and 1440p upscale to see how checkboarding fares.

I've seen SE screens of ROTTR 1800p checkerboarding look softer than PC 1440p screens. DF's ROTTR freebie video looks very soft but they never provide screens these days.

BF1 had some user screens posted of PS4 and PS4 Pro which looks very soft. Even had people posting when it was just video comparisons how its obviously not patched, yet it was but difference was minimal. Considering PS4 is 900-1000p as well.

Titanfall 2 shows much improvement and its just standard 1440p (slight dynamically scaling) over the PS4's 900-1000p. Sharpness is easily seen.

Uncharted 4 is straight 1440p upscale. I can see the res improvement even of DF's compressed YouTube video from 8-10 ft away.

I'd love to see some honest comparisons to see if checkerboarding is doing its thing. It's certainly not a cheap way of achieving native 4k or being close on evidence so far so I'd like to see how checkerboarding holds up to standard 1800p and 1440p upscale. Screenshots are like rocking horse shit.

 

[III-V]

I have only covered two Pro games myself but I've done as much research as possible on the subject. That hurts to hear that as I pour a ton of effort into research but I can't be an expert on all things, obviously. Just doing the best I can within my limited space here. :-(

I can absolutely, 100% tell the difference between 59 and 60fps on a 60hz display. No tools required.

Brush it off, you guys do excellent work! Not sure why people want to be a-holes about a subjective analysis of game performance. Its 100% fair to say it is softer than native 4K. We know you have a good eye for those fraps.

I actually think this is one example where the unlocked frame-rate is awesome. It holds pretty steady and looks great.

Agreed

 

[michaelius]

Hmm for me frame pacing felt off in unlocked so I switched to 30fps cap and it's much better

 

[RoboPlato]

The checkboarding has looked soft in terms of 1800p checkerboarding allegedly being able to be close, almost or near native 4k, it looks nothing like native 4k.

DF could or anyone with access could do a ROTTR and multiplat comparisons which pits checkboarding against standard PC 1800p and 1440p upscale to see how checkboarding fares.

I've seen SE screens of ROTTR 1800p checkerboarding look softer than PC 1440p screens. DF's ROTTR freebie video looks very soft but they never provide screens these days.

BF1 had some user screens posted of PS4 and PS4 Pro which looks very soft. Even had people posting when it was just video comparisons how its obviously not patched yet it was because difference was minimal. Considering PS4 is 900-1000p as well.

Titanfall 2 shows much improvement and its just standard 1440p (slight dynamically scaling) over the PS4's 900-1000p. Sharpness is easily seen.

Uncharted 4 is straight 1440p upscale. I can see the res improvement even of DF's compressed YouTube video from 8-10 ft away.

I'd love to see some honest comparisons to see if checkerboarding is doing its thing. It's certainly not a cheap way of achieving native 4k or being close on evidence so far so I'd like to see how checkerboarding holds up to standard 1800p and 1440p upscale. Screenshots are like rocking horse shit.

Rise of the Tomb Raider is 4K checkerboard, not 1800p checkerboard

I'm unfortunately on a 1080p set so I can only speak from experience with downsampled images but Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, which uses checkerboarding, looks far sharper and cleaner than Modern Warfare Remastered or Titanfall 2, which do not use it.

Not sure if that would hold up on a 4K display though.

 

[onQ123]

No, it is not.



Current checkerboard rendering has no relation to the multi-GPU solution from the 3DFX era so you should probably stop linking them. That's nearly as misleading as when people insist on calling it upscaling.

I do wish Richard would correct himself. Too many outlets defer to Digital Foundry's expertise on this stuff so having him perpetuate a false understanding of the tech is a significant problem.

It's still called checkerboard rendering for the same reason because the rendering is being split up into a checkerboard pattern with one process rendering the black field & the other rendering the white field. this is the reason that it's called checkerboard rendering, you might think that they are not related but it's the same thing but with the newer GPUs one field can be rendered using compute instead of a second GPU. It's still the same thing happening but one GPU is being replaced by a cheaper method that's using the ID buffer & the previous field that was rendered.

 

[Always-honest]

So much to play on mah Proh. I will play First light on it soon.

 

[NastyBook]

Can't wait to go through First Light again.

 

[ghibli99]

Oh man, I can't wait to try this! I have my Pro ready to hook up, and my X800D just arrived a few hours ago as well to replace my LG. It's going to be a good night.

 

[chromatic9]

Rise of the Tomb Raider is 4K checkerboard, not 1800p checkerboard

I'm unfortunately on a 1080p set so I can only speak from experience with downsampled images but Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, which uses checkerboarding, looks far sharper and cleaner than Modern Warfare Remastered or Titanfall 2, which do not use it.

Not sure if that would hold up on a 4K display though.

Is there any documentation of ROTTR checkboarding? The Tomb Raider advert video just says 4k resolution, I hope you're not just referring to that. Is it in the eurogamer link? Is it two 1080p fields for 3840x2160p checkerboarding?

As for Infinite Warfare, I looked at some PS4 Pro and PC native 4k and the difference was obvious.

 

[thelastword]

The checkboarding has looked soft in terms of 1800p checkerboarding allegedly being able to be close, almost or near native 4k, it looks nothing like native 4k.

DF could or anyone with access could do a ROTTR and multiplat comparisons which pits checkboarding against standard PC 1800p and 1440p upscale to see how checkboarding fares.

I've seen SE screens of ROTTR 1800p checkerboarding look softer than PC 1440p screens. DF's ROTTR freebie video looks very soft but they never provide screens these days.

BF1 had some user screens posted of PS4 and PS4 Pro which looks very soft. Even had people posting when it was just video comparisons how its obviously not patched, yet it was but difference was minimal. Considering PS4 is 900-1000p as well.

Titanfall 2 shows much improvement and its just standard 1440p (slight dynamically scaling) over the PS4's 900-1000p. Sharpness is easily seen.

Uncharted 4 is straight 1440p upscale. I can see the res improvement even of DF's compressed YouTube video from 8-10 ft away.

I'd love to see some honest comparisons to see if checkerboarding is doing its thing. It's certainly not a cheap way of achieving native 4k or being close on evidence so far so I'd like to see how checkerboarding holds up to standard 1800p and 1440p upscale. Screenshots are like rocking horse shit.

2160p checkerboarded has looked very close to native 4k in side by side comparisons. Battlefield1 is lower than 2160p checkerboarded and also 1800p checkerboarded in terms of resolution and clarity, of course it was going to look a bit softer than the 4k native game running at max settings (textures, detail, effects, AF etc.) on the Titan X .

My issue at this moment is not even a console vs a High end PC comparison. I'm simply saying there is no 4k native version of Infamous to compare the Pro version to, how is it soft? Compared to what? For objective reasons, the only version you can compare the PRO version of infamous to, is the OG PS4 version. Is it softer than that? No, it's much sharper, so is the framerate...much better.... and with HDR detail it's color detail and correctness is more true...Speak about the details before you, speak about how it compares to the OG PS4 version.....Not how you imagine a phantom version of Infamous would look like on a Titan X at 4k native.....

 

[RoboPlato]

Is there any documentation of ROTTR checkboarding? The Tomb Raider advert video just says 4k resolution, I hope you're not just referring to that. Is it in the eurogamer link? Is it two 1080p fields for 3840x2160p checkerboarding?

As for Infinite Warfare, I looked at some PS4 Pro and PC native 4k and the difference was obvious.

Leadbetter said in his RoTR video that it's a full 2160p checkerboarded.

According to Cerny, for 2160p checkerboarding it uses as base of 1920x2160

I'm sure you can tell a difference up close, but at standard viewing distances from a TV the differences are slightly minimized.

 

[III-V]

Leadbetter said in his RoTR video that it's a full 2160p checkerboarded.

According to Cerny, for 2160p checkerboarding it uses as base of 1920x2160

I'm sure you can tell a difference up close, but at standard viewing distances from a TV the differences are slightly minimized.

FWIW, RoTR is an absolute stunner with the checkerboard res, IMO. Every time I see it I really am wowed.

 

[jett]

Don't mean to offend, It's just the constant guessing i.e. "I think" or "Cerny told me", and the constant bringing up of CheckerBoarding. I have watched several Vids and it's basically the same rhetoric. It's has a soft image? what the hell does that mean without a comprarison to show this soft you supposedly see.

The PS4 Pro has more to it than Soft and CheckerBoarding and the drumbeat of 60fps. Things we don't hear about in the analysis

New ID buffer for tracking triangles and objects, opening the door to advanced spatial and temporal anti-aliasing

Delta colour compression technology arrives in PS4 Pro, maximising memory bandwidth. Not seen in PS4

New features from AMD roadmap - the ability to run two FP16 operations concurrently instead of one FP32, plus the integration of a work scheduler for increased efficiency

Enhanced 16-bit half-float support

This is what I'm talking about when I say surface, it's the constant barrage of checkerboard, framerate, and we some something soft.

What in the proverbial fuck would be the point of talking about any of that when analyzing and comparing a particular game's visuals and performance?

 

[JonathanPower]

This is not a PC game you can open up renderdoc and see the individual buffers, drawcalls, etc and point out "oh here they are tracking velocity much more accurately on PS4pro!". There is no point of direct reference to show the difference between native 4k in this title and the checkboarded and upscaled version you have. Likewise you cannot measure or show the difference of an FP16 shader vs an F32 in a console game without knowing where they are before hand, nor can you visually point out the effective usage of better compression.

It is a blackbox with very few analogous points of reference. DF tries to pry open that blackbox with the tools and info available. Spouting technical phrasing coming from SONY without being able to actually discuss its measurable effects on a per-game basis would be rather useless. It would also be highly speculative.

So your blaming them for not being able to decode and analyze the game code on the fly with their bare eyes.

 

[III-V]

So your blaming them for not being able to decode and analyze the game code on the fly with their bare eyes.

No he is saying quite the opposite.

 

[Ammogeddon]

I downloaded this ages when it was free on PS+ and never played it. I'll have to take a look.

 

[chromatic9]

2160p checkerboarded has looked very close to native 4k in side by side comparisons. Battlefield1 is lower than 2160p checkerboarded and also 1800p checkerboarded in terms of resolution and clarity, of course it was going to look a bit softer than the 4k native game running at max settings (textures, detail, effects, AF etc.) on the Titan X .
.

Leadbetter said in his RoTR video that it's a full 2160p checkerboarded.

According to Cerny, for 2160p checkerboarding it uses as base of 1920x2160

I'm sure you can tell a difference up close, but at standard viewing distances from a TV the differences are slightly minimized.

I can see this difference from 8ft away, crop is one to one. Not anything like 4k resolution. EDIT make that 12ft, as far as I can go without moving my furniture.

Doesn't bode well if this is true 2160p checkerboarding and not 1800p checkboarding.

Anyway, I feel the PC 4k native comparisons are a bit silly. Best to compare how much better than the OG PS4 or if there's going to be a PC comparison lets see how checkerboarding fares to standard upscale of native 1440p 1800p and then 2160p native for some context on what checkerboard delivers.

 

[rawd]

This game solidified my Pro purchase

 

[Negotiator]

I'm not convinced all of these elements will play a significant role in the system either - half floats, for instance, is interesting in concept but how useful will it be in practice when developers have to maintain support for the original machine as well. There is certainly an interesting discussion to be had there.

It's possible to have 2 different GPU binaries (OG & Pro) according to the PS4 SDK.

Also:

https://twitter.com/cgyrling/status/796973474979844096
https://twitter.com/SebAaltonen/status/788798694271361024
https://twitter.com/SebAaltonen/status/788799985693392896
https://twitter.com/SebAaltonen/status/788991170458378240
https://twitter.com/SebAaltonen/status/788992032341647360
https://twitter.com/SebAaltonen/status/789318349218017280

 

[Freshmaker]

What's the actual rendering resolution of this then? If its 1800p after checkerboard, what's it before?

Wow, that's very good.

That would be 1800p then upscaled via checkerboard to 4k.

 

[AndyMoogle]

Also they are nitpicking things like they can tell without their frame analysis if it's 59 fps or 60,not just them. The so called pc master race always complaining about headaches due to 139 fps instead of rock solid 144

The difference between 59 and 60 fps is a lot bigger than it sounds like. I can instantly tell the difference between them.

 

[backbreaker65]

What in the proverbial fuck would be the point of talking about any of that when analyzing and comparing a particular game's visuals and performance?

I don't know, if you only asked the right question and maybe I would give a proverbial fuck. Since you're quoting me and being all nosey and shit. I stated that their analysis is just the same 3 words every god damn video "SOFT" CheckerBoard" and "FRAMRATE". I simply said their is more to the PS4 than 10 videos repeating the same shit over and over again. I don't need to watch but 1 video to know what they are going to talk about.

Is that Proverbial enough for you?

 

[RoboPlato]

That would be 1800p then upscaled via checkerboard to 4k.

1800p checkerboard is 1600x1800, using checkerboard to hit 3200x1800, and then upscaled.

 

[Trojan]

SMH at Richard still calling checkerboard rendering upscaling & even worse he said "checkerboarding up"

 

[TAJ]

I can see this difference from 8ft away, crop is one to one. Not anything like 4k resolution. EDIT make that 12ft, as far as I can go without moving my furniture.

Doesn't bode well if this is true 2160p checkerboarding and not 1800p checkboarding.

Anyway, I feel the PC 4k native comparisons are a bit silly. Best to compare how much better than the OG PS4 or if there's going to be a PC comparison lets see how checkerboarding fares to standard upscale of native 1440p 1800p and then 2160p native for some context on what checkerboard delivers.

If that crop is one to one then why is the PS4 Pro side zoomed in so much more?

 

[Freshmaker]

1800p checkerboard is 1600x1800, using checkerboard to hit 3200x1800, and then upscaled.

That makes no sense. It's being upscaled 2x in that scenario.

 

[LurkFish17]

1800p checkerboard is 1600x1800, using checkerboard to hit 3200x1800, and then upscaled.

I think it's actually 3200x1800 and then up to 4k. There's no way it's upscaling twice, that would look terrible.

 

[RoboPlato]

I actually think this is one example where the unlocked frame-rate is awesome. It holds pretty steady and looks great.

Yeah, I really do like the uncapped framerate here because it doesn't swing wildly. It's steady in a way few uncapped games are and allows for the increased clarity in temporal resolution.

That makes no sense. It's being upscaled 2x in that scenario.

Checkerboard rendering isn't upscaling. It's a resolution reconstruction technique. The very video this thread is about mentions that it's using checkerboard rendering and then upscaling yet still praises the results.

You can't go from 1800p to 2160p using that method because of how the pixels need to be arranged in order for it to work. It has to be a half resolution base before reconstruction.

 

[Freshmaker]

Checkerboard rendering isn't upscaling. It's a resolution reconstruction technique. The very video this thread is about mentions that it's using checkerboard rendering and then upscaling yet still praises the results.

That's a two pass upscale with a fancy name.

 

[FlutterPuffs]

That's a two pass upscale with a fancy name.

Pretty much, yeah. A different technique than what is usually done but still just upscaling.