I’d be more interested to see how well those lower end cards actually make use of the feature, because 6x frame gen didn’t really make much of a difference for me - at least in Stellar Blade.

On my 5080, 6x frame gen basically gave me the option of tolerating a bit of ghosting (which was actually barely visable for 6x frame gen in all fairness) in exchange for switching from DLSS Balanced to DLAA, and then jumping from 150 FPS to 300 FPS on a 240Hz monitor.

But yeah, neither option looked particularly better than the other. Perhaps if I was jumping from 60fps, to 120fps, and there was just as little ghosting, then the 6x frame gen version could win for me.

Since my OLED monitor (which I'm super happy with!) only supports up to 120 Hz, 6x frame gen, 4x frame gen and even 3x frame gen would make my experience worse... that would lower my base frames to 20, 30 or 40 fps.

After the Jak PC ports I also installed the PC port "Super Mario 64 Co-op Deluxe" on my Steam Deck.
Stable 90 fps in native 1280x800 with 8x anti aliasing and 100x draw distance.

I also activated the free analog camera. When I played though the Switch version last year, I was slightly annoyed by the camera position restrictions... and hated the unwanted camera panning in some levels. Some star objectives were also trial and error due to the short draw distance (f. e. shooting out of one cannon in the first level) in the Switch version.

Banjo Recompiled also runs great on my Steam Deck, I added a few new mods (skip tutorial level, extended draw distance, HD texture pack, "trot quietly", optional 1st person mode without restrictions, BK Nostalgia 64, BK Jiggies of Time). It also saves all collected notes in every level automatically.

A base framerate of 30fps sound rough man. And that's the thing, while the ghosting I had wasn't bad at all, I've found that artifacts are worse with a lower base framerate. As a result, I'm guessing that ideal scenario I mentioned (where I jump from 60fps to 120fps or higher, with just as little ghosting) would be unlikley to ever pop up.

It's been a while since I've looked up FG (given that I don't like to use it), but wasn't it that FG actually lowers your base frame rate somewhat (since you need extra processing for all those extrapolated frames) thus increasing your input latency? FG is nice for motion smoothness, but for actual gameplay smoothness it's making the game worse, IIRC.

Yeah, when using frame gen the native framerate is reduced because the card has to make the extra operations to create the fake ones. Latency comes from the lower native framerate and also because you're only controlling what happens in one of the 4, 5 or 6 frame you see on screen.

Reflex 2 was supposed to take care of the extra latency, but I honestly don't know if it does or not.

Majora via Recomp and HD texture pack is amazing.  Huge improvement.

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Kinda. 2x framegen doesn't actually double your framerate because of that.

I have statistics enabled on the nvidia app showing framerate, latency etc. I'll share the results of my test with you. Using Stellar Blade as an example again, with my settings at 4k DLAA everything maxed:

• Without framegen = 70fps (72ms latency)
• 2x framegen = 115fps (36ms latency)
• 3x framegen = 154fps (39ms latency)
• 4x framegen = 187fps (41ms latency)
• 5x framegen = 216fps (44ms latency)
• 6x frame gen = 240fps (48ms latency)

There was of course a bit of variance, but the above was the average in the one desert location that I was in. I couldn't tell any difference with the latency tbh - It's usually the ghosting and other artifacts which is the problem with framegen, though it's not an issue here for whatever reason.

Photos with these statistics (ignore the 1% lows, these are scuffed where I was tabbing in and out):

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