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So, I got my RTX 3050 back in July, I think, so I'm kinda new to that DLSS thing. Well, I was trying to run Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, and to my surprise, it worked. But with a few tweaks, and that's what my question is about.

The game runs fine on 1080p, but I have to use:

DLSS Ultra Performance mode on High settings

or 

DLSS Quality Mode on Medium settings.

My question is: What's the difference? Because honestly, I couldn't see what I was missing graphics wise. I mean, the FPS improvement is very obvious on Ultra Performance High Settings, but will I get better visuals on Quality Mode Medium Settings?

I'm lost, I would be very happy if someone can tell me what would be the best settings for Hellblade II on my hardware.



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Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but DLSS Quality Mode results in a shaper image (well, more like 'less blurry' at 1080p), whereas DLSS (Ultra) Performance Mode results in better performance but a blurrier image. Quality + Medium vs. Performance + High is basically a tradeoff between a sharper image + worse graphics otherwise vs. a blurrier image + better graphics... and the performance of those two might also not be equal. Of course it's up to you which you prefer in practice.

For the record, I don't think DLSS of any kind is liked very well with 1080p, but since you have a relatively low-end graphics card, you might have to stick with it anyway.



To probably most people DLSS quality at medium settings would have notably better image quality than ultra performance at high settings but if you really can't tell the difference just use ultra performance for the higher FPS. Do keep in mind that how it looks can vary by game though.



DLSS mode Render scale Internal resolution at 4K Internal resolution at 1440p Internal resolution at 1080p
Quality 66.7% 2560 x 1440 1707 x 960 1280 x 720
Balanced 58.0% 2227 x 1253 1485 x 835 1114 x 626
Performance 50.0% 1920 x 1080 1280 x 720 960 x 540
Ultra Performance 33.3% 1280 x 720 853 x 480 640 x 360



Ultra-performance upscales from a really low resolution and thus has more artifacts/blurring, so if you're running a 1080p output it's better to go for quality mode.



 

 

 

 

 

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Thanks, guys. I think I understand it better.

I managed to make the game run at 1080p with half of the settings on Medium, and the other half at High with DLSS to Quality without losing much performance. It's running quite good right now.