Too Good To Be True?? Testing Lossless Scaling in MSFS 2020

Today we’re testing the Lossless Scaling app in Microsoft Flight Simulator. It offers huge performance gains, up to 3X, but is it too good to be true? Are there any drawbacks? Does image quality suffer? Is there tearing or weird visual artefacts?

We’ll be testing with it on, with it off, and looking at how it compares to nvidia’s proprietory frame generation technology.

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00:00 - What is Lossless Scaling?
03:01 - Image Quality Comparison
07:18 - Nvidia Frame Gen Comparison
12:24 - Lossless Scaling on a VRR Monitor

#MSFS #FrameGen #LosslessScaling

[pixelfps]

Recently bought this application… really did help my frames by a ton since I’m bottlenecked on by my 3050Ti. Great video btw!

[fs-max]

Picked this up on discount and since then with a 4060ti and 5600x I've not had to worry about fps at all when using payware aircraft/scenery combos. Pretty brilliant software!

[bootstrapflyer]

This software is a godsend on my aging system. Some areas are reaching over 100 fps on the 165 htz monitor. Have been able to increase my visuals, and for the price, incredible!

[TheCirrusflyer]

Great review! Explained it to me clearly and answered a few questions I had. over 100 FPS from MSFS is

[regwatson]

Seeing how Lossless Scaling is all done in software you know that NVidia could have easily provided this sort of frame generation FPS boost for it's 3000 series users - they just didn't want to because it would have hurt 4000 series sales. NVidia must be pissed - we have it now and all for a Fiver 🤣. It's like getting a 4000 card for free. Thanks for the great review.

[ths]

Either set tearing or max frame latency 2 when there is a chance that generated framerate will go above refresh rate. Otherwise you block LS from presenting all the needed frames and framepacing will be broken (skipped frames, fast forwarding etc).
-dev

[docholliday]

Well, you convinced me this is really worth the coin. So I will give it a shot. Thank you for a great video.

[BoganSimGamer]

Great vid, this literally transformed my game. Love your stuff

[westcastlemodelrailway]

Thanks for the review … very informative and thought provoking about MSFS settingS!

My RTX 2060 Super graphics card has been running MSFS (via PC Gamepass) flawlessly (or so I thought) for the last couple of years, using DX12 and DLSS super scaling.

When the Microsoft servers went down recently, noticed the Deluxe base game was half price, so cancelled and uninstalled Game-pass version of MSFS, and brought MSFS outright in the MS Store.

It reinstalled under a couple of hours, and has re set the default graphics to TAA .. and the graphic quality is now out of this world!

Think the other big thing that made the game run smoother and load quicker is not installing all the handcrafted airports I have picked up over the years. (Just install the ones I need per flight!)

Loathed to touch any MSFS / PC settings while the game is running and looking so good, but might dust off my Oculus Rift headset out the cupboard and purchase this software to see if it improves the game in VR.

Would be interesting to know if anyone has tried the software in VR?

[StevesSimStation]

Im going to have to give this a try since I have a 3080ti.... Least till I can get my hands on a 4070ti or 4080. This could help a ton with my cinematics that Ive started doing.

[excessivelysalty_]

It works better than I thought it would, definitely worth the $7 USD.

[Andy.Gledhill.Models.]

Well, for the sake of the £5.89 that I paid for this tool. Its a game changer for me. I only have a RTX 3060 graphics card, with a Ryzen 9 5950X CPU and 32GB ram. But my monitor is a Samsung Curved 32" one at 3440 x 1440 resolution that runs at 100mhz. So, I will take every extra frame I can get lol. The latest version of lossless scaling now has LSFG 2.3 and up to X4 frames. I tried the default Heathrow with the default Airbus A320 and FSLTL up and running. With scaling turned off, I was barely getting above 16FPS on take off from the cockpit view. With 4x scaling turned on, I was suddenly getting FPS in the range of 45 to 70, and it still looked very smooth. I am experimenting with different graphics settings in the sim. But, I must say that I think this was the best £5.89 that I have spent on my PC lol.

[mancsi-woxc]

there is a new free alternative for amd 6000 and 7000 series gpu users which lets you use frame gen in any game, afm2 is the name and it's in the new preview driver

[ExuGoat]

I bought this application aswell and to my surprise I was getting over 120fps on average on ultra setttings. I used to get around 60 with A LOT of stutters. Highly recommend

[yams]

Good option for many users...I'm with AMD, must check if this software is compatible

[CentralFloridaHipHop]

This is some voodoo magic. went from 20fps to 60fps in 1 click. Hope we all didn't sell our souls to the great duck to have this magic Lol

[STERNWAERTS]

gonna wait for the new sim and how this will perform, might add this app later on as it looks very promising! i have a 2070 and playing on a 34" 3440x1440 60hz display.

[mughug]

Works great on my RX 6800XT and virtually all my games. While not perfect, it is a real bargain for what it does right. Imagine if it was free, we would still have people complaining about it. :(

[AdamJB]

I'm struggling with this, when I move about it gives a strange artifact/shimmer on everything, it definitely looks better but even looking around the flight deck gives of a trailing edge on it

[RIdersfan]

Is the Nvidia frame generation the one that is within the sim or an external app? Really good comparison video ❤