aliasIsolation VS FSRCNN-TensorFlow

as title says, "alias isolation" and there's a version for EGS as well

Game is incredible. I think it is a little bit too long and overdoes its welcome by like 3 hours but that is a common complaint, and despite that I have no misgivings recommending it to any horror fans. If you are playing on PC, I do want to strongly recommend a mod called Alias Isolation, since the antialiasing in the official release is awful. This made a huge improvement to the visuals in my opinion and the performance hit was worthwhile.

The great TAA mod "AliasIsolation" (https://github.com/aliasIsolation/aliasIsolation) out of the blue has stopped working for me!

Buy it, then install the mod that lets you inject TAA into it because good god does the base game has so much aliasing. If you have the horsepower, use your graphics card control panel to downscale it from a higher resolution if TAA softness bothers you, but the default FXAA was absolutely the black mark on its presentation.

Apparently, there's a popular AA mod out there called aliasIsolation, but it seems that it's only available for the Steam version. I wonder if anyone here who's on the Gamepass version managed to get the mod working? Or is there is an alternative that produces similar results?

there's aliasisolation as an example of such an effort.

Fsrcnnx

For VLC I don't know, but with MPC-HC you can use madVR [0]. My preferred setup is mpv [1] with a few shaders [2] such as FSRCNNX [3] and Krig Bilateral.

[0]: https://madvr.com/

[1]: https://mpv.io/

[2]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/User-Scripts#user-sha...

[3]: https://github.com/igv/FSRCNN-TensorFlow/releases

https://github.com/igv/FSRCNN-TensorFlow/releases (in checkpoints_params.7z)

Both are IMO sharper and more accurate than ACNet.

FSRCNN-TensorFlow

Not sure if there is anything newer, but FSRCNNX is probably the highest quality, upscaling only, shader.

You can of course use other shaders like Nvidia's Image Scaling or the popular FSRCNN (not to be confused with AMD's FSR).

As for shaders...well, it depends on what ye are searching for. In general using shaders can be a tad overkill, but in any case I would recommend using FSRCNNX for upscaling, SSimDownscaler for downscaling, and KrigBilateral for chroma. DO NOTE, you will need a relatively powerful CPU (or GPU, depending on your config) to run “heavy” shaders.

These features are not unique to madVR, as mpv also has debanding and "AI" based upscaling, along with their compression removing variants.