VideoRenderer VS Magpie

Update: I got it working with MPC-BE 1.6.6 and this extension: https://github.com/emoose/VideoRenderer/releases/tag/rtx-1.1 It is no game changer for 3D VR, but I does feel slightly sharper. But for 480p anime it is a huge difference, but that is not something I watch in VR anyways.

Releases · emoose/VideoRenderer (github.com)

Recent drivers for 30 and 40 series added VSR, or Video Super Resolution, which upscales all videos in chromium browsers and some other media players that added support for it like MPC and VLC. I recommend following this guide for MPC as VLC is still in development and has a huge memory leak right now https://github.com/emoose/VideoRenderer/releases

NVIDIA's AI upscaling technique, requires: GeForce RTX 40 or 30 Series GPU. If you have mediaplayer classic black edition MPC-BE + emoose-VideoRenderer. For PC that's what I ended up using.

I don’t think you’re correct, that one is in “maintenance mode” with the last release in January while emoose’ fork has been constantly adding new features and is much more commonly downloaded https://github.com/emoose/VideoRenderer/releases/tag/rtx-1.1

I haven’t messed around with 4K to 8K (might not even be available), but the new-ish nVidia Video SuperRes modded into MPC has been pretty wild for upscaling blurry VR content, considering it does it in real time.

You already can with MPC-BE. check it out

[https://github.com/emoose/VideoRenderer/releases/tag/rtx-1.0](https://github.com/emoose/VideoRenderer/releases/tag/rtx-1.0)

If you are looking to upscales the file themselves, I don't really know any free Video AI Upscale app, but if you want to use RTX Super Resolution on video playback, although I don't know if or when stuff like MPC or VLC would be able to implement it in their video player, I know that there is a person that was able to make it all work on any fork of Media Player Classic either it be MPC-HC(k-Lite codec pack), MPC-BE or etc! You can get it there; https://github.com/emoose/VideoRenderer/releases/tag/rtx-1.0

depending on the game, fsr(or dlss if you have the option) may be available in options to help you out, otherwise you could give a free option a go, such as Magpie

For games that won't go full screen, at least we have Magpie as a last resort. The experience won't be as seamless though...

Another thing you can try is playing the game in a borderless window at a lower resolution and using Magpie to upscale it to fullscreen. Magpie offers a variety of upscaling options that can produce a less blurry image than the bilinear interpolation that is typically done when upscaling by the GPU or display.

Configure VLC to play the video in an extra window with the same resolution as the video source and upscale the window to fit the screen. On Windows 10 the FSR upscaling can be achieved with Magpie. On the Steam Deck the system built-in FSR/CAS combination is used.

Something else that may also be of interest is Magpie. It's a tool to upscale windowed content into fullscreen with a variety of upscaling methods available.

also using enabled antialiasing in game settings (or even globally set in video driver) consume much less resources then rendering full size bigger resolution image for reducing aliasing. there are also such tools like Magpie (https://github.com/Blinue/Magpie/blob/main/README_EN.md) or Lossless Scaling tool from Steam. they enable FSR supersampling to any game on any GPU.

https://github.com/blinue/magpie https://store.steampowed.com/app/993090/lossless_scaling/

To everything that the community has said, I also want to add that No Man's Sky has FSR tech (the game runs at a lower resolution and it's upscaled). You can use Magpie or even better, Losless Scaling to create a similar effect in SC and win some extra frames :)