Nvidia GeForce 344.48 WHQL Driver Now Available to Download

Maximum PC: Nvidia today made available its "Game Ready" GeForce 344.48 WHQL driver, which among other things brings support for Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) to desktop graphics cards based on the company's Kepler and Fermi architectures. DSR is a featured that was rolled out with Nvidia's Maxwell launch, and what it does is render games at a higher, more detail resolution and then shrinks them down to the resolution of your monitor.

[ATi_Elite]

Consoles are closed systems that allow programming to the mettle and great optimization to squeeze all the power out of those single use systems.

pc are multitasking machines that allow for gaming and other task to be done simultaneously and once games are released these driver updates by Nvidia and AMD allow great improvement in the game code to get better performance on your Pc.

Not to the mettle because so many unique configurations but improved framerates

[Spenok]

Pretty much, which people just don't realize.

OT I just downloaded this driver :D

[ONESHOTV2]

it this update for desktop or mobile ? ha i see they have the mobile one as well..... great time to test this out

[starchild]

I'm glad it's out. Time to put this Dynamic Super Resolution through its paces. It's nice that it works on any game. If it really is an improvement over regular downsampling, which I already use (and is one of the reasons I prefer Nvidia cards lately), then it's going to be a great tool for PC gamers to get better quality out of our games. It basically gives you superior anti-aliasing similar to SSAA as an optioin in every single game.

[1nsomniac]

I'm confused, going from the description isn't this new 'DSR' just SuperSampling renamed or am I totally off the mark?

[starchild]

Not exactly. SSAA targets edges more specifically than downsampling by using a grid pattern and the same reference points as MSAA. Downsampling merely renders the entire image at a higher resolution then downsamples it to your display's native resolution. But unfortunately SSAA, similar to MSAA, doesn't work with a lot of modern games that use deferred rendering. Most directX10 and directx11 games are incompatible with SSAA if you try to force it at the driver level.

For these kinds of games I have been using downsampling combined with post-process anti-aliasing methods like TXAA, FXAA or SMAA. The downsampling cleans up the image somewhat by itself, but it doesn't do a totally adequate job of smoothing off all edge aliasing. So by using the post-process anti-aliasing in conjunction with downsampling it gives very nice results. The downsampling also minimizes the blur that is usually associated with these kinds of post-process AA methods.