Increase FPS in Squad with Image Upscaling

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  • proton-ge-custom

    Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components

  • Linux AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is an image upscaling algorithm that works with AMD and nVidia GPUs. - You'll need to install ProtonGE on your Linux distro to use FSR. Find installation instructions here. After ProtonGE was installed, you'll need to change a few things in Steam. - In Steam > Library > right click on Squad > Properties > Compatibility: select Proton-GE - In Steam > Library > right click on Squad > Properties > General > set the below launch options: WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1 WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR_STRENGTH=0 %command% - One note on "WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR_STRENGTH=0" - you can change the value from 0-5, whereas 0 sharpens the image the most, and 5 the least. I found 0 to improve image quality the most. You can also remove "WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR_STRENGTH=0" completely and FSR will use a standard value (which I believe is 2). - Start Squad, go to Settings > Graphics and set Window Mode to "Fullscreen" (FSR will not work with borderless or windowed mode; this is the case in all games) - Then set a resolution that is lower than your monitors native resolution in Squad's graphics settings (e.g., if your screen's native resolution is 1920x1080, set the in-game resolution for example to 1280x720). - Here's an image that shows recommended resolutions for different native screen resolutions. The closer the in-game resolution is to your screen's native resolution, the better the quality of the upscaled image will be. I have a 2560x1440p screen and 1920x1080p upscaled looked almost like 1440p ingame resolution. On the other hand 1280x720p upscaled to 1440p was quite blurry. - If you want to find out if FSR is working, check if your screen is displaying its native resolution. You can also use MangoHud to display the resolution among other things (GPU% and CPU%, memory usage and more).

  • MangoHud

    A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more. Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/Gj5YmBb

  • Linux AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is an image upscaling algorithm that works with AMD and nVidia GPUs. - You'll need to install ProtonGE on your Linux distro to use FSR. Find installation instructions here. After ProtonGE was installed, you'll need to change a few things in Steam. - In Steam > Library > right click on Squad > Properties > Compatibility: select Proton-GE - In Steam > Library > right click on Squad > Properties > General > set the below launch options: WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1 WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR_STRENGTH=0 %command% - One note on "WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR_STRENGTH=0" - you can change the value from 0-5, whereas 0 sharpens the image the most, and 5 the least. I found 0 to improve image quality the most. You can also remove "WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR_STRENGTH=0" completely and FSR will use a standard value (which I believe is 2). - Start Squad, go to Settings > Graphics and set Window Mode to "Fullscreen" (FSR will not work with borderless or windowed mode; this is the case in all games) - Then set a resolution that is lower than your monitors native resolution in Squad's graphics settings (e.g., if your screen's native resolution is 1920x1080, set the in-game resolution for example to 1280x720). - Here's an image that shows recommended resolutions for different native screen resolutions. The closer the in-game resolution is to your screen's native resolution, the better the quality of the upscaled image will be. I have a 2560x1440p screen and 1920x1080p upscaled looked almost like 1440p ingame resolution. On the other hand 1280x720p upscaled to 1440p was quite blurry. - If you want to find out if FSR is working, check if your screen is displaying its native resolution. You can also use MangoHud to display the resolution among other things (GPU% and CPU%, memory usage and more).

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