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willfill

Trouble spotting enemies on your 1080p monitor? Blurry visuals? Give supersampling a shot, you won't believe the difference.

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I have been playing PUBG at 1080p 120hz, 100% screen scale since it released, and I have never been able to reliably spot enemies at a distance. The game seems to blur everything together, even with most visual settings on very low.

I used Reshade back when that was the go-to solution, and its Lumasharpen helped a great deal. Now that it has been banned I have been using Nvidia Game Filters sharpen/clarity settings, and they help a little bit, but the game still really looks off when there are many detailed objects intersecting each others pathway in your field of view.

Today I decided to try 120% screen scale, and it greatly improved the visuals, more so than the Game Filters. Even just the grass in the lobby looked sharp and non-pixelated. I recently upgraded to a powerful card (1070 Ti) and I noticed my framerate wasn't noticeably changed by this (although it does add pretty severe input lag) so I decided to try out supersampling, never having tried it before because I assumed that I haven't had a good enough GPU.

Wow. Running a custom resolution of 2560x1440 @ 120hz on my 1080p monitor looks unbelievable. Specifically in PUBG with it's weird blurring/aliasing issues, the difference when downsampling from a higher res is almost as extreme switching between a 1080p monitor to a 1440p is in normal games/usage. Everything just has this level of clarity, as if you were looking through a dirty window before. You can pick out a helmet or a backpack in the woods from hundreds of meters away.

It didn't noticeably affect my framerate AT ALL. My 1070Ti is more powerful than the majority of GPU's out there, but my friend with a non-overclocked 1060 6GB/i5-3570k said he didn't notice anything aside from the game looking incredible. Game runs just as smooth as ever but the level of detail and overall graphical fidelity is insane. Even if you did notice a drop in frames, I think a lot of people would gladly accept that to get this level of clarity because it arguably matters more in this game. Even if you think your GPU isn't powerful enough, just give it a shot and see how it handles it, create a custom 1440p res and see how it looks and runs on your rig. It's amazing and I can't believe I didn't try this earlier.

I'll put my specs/settings below, if you want to try this but don't know what it is or how to do it just leave me a comment and I'll help you figure it out.

Posted Jan 26, 2019, 9:04 AM UTC · edited

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willfillOP•

PC Specs

  • i7-3770k @ 4.3ghz

  • 16gb DDR3

  • 1070 Ti @ stock clocks

  • SSD

  • Monitor is a Benq XL2420T, 1920x1080 @ 120hz

Nvidia Control Panel Custom Resolution/Scaling Settings

  • 2560x1440 @ 120hz (32-bit), progressive
  • Scaling Mode = Aspect ratio | Perform on GPU | Override scaling mode set by games enabled.

Nvidia Control Panel PUBG 3D settings (these are just the ones I changed and work for me, YMMV)

  • Anistropic Filtering = 16x
  • FXAA = Off
  • Gamma Correction = On
  • Antialiasing - Mode = Override
  • Antialiasing - Transparency = Off
  • Max Pre-Rendered Frames = 1
  • MFAA = Off
  • Power Management = Prefer Max Performance
  • Preferred Refresh Rate = Highest Available
  • Shader Cache = On
  • Texture Filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization = Off
  • " - Negative LOD bias = Clamp
  • " - Quality = High Quality
  • " - Trilinear Optimization = On
  • Threaded Optimization = On
  • Triple Buffering = Off
  • Vsync = Off

Nvidia Game Filter Settings

Color

  • Tint Color = 0%
  • " Intensity = 0%
  • Temperature = 0%
  • Vibrance = 46

Brightness/Contrast

  • Exposure = 0%
  • Contrast = 40%
  • Highlights = 10%
  • Shadows = 0%
  • Gamma = 50%

Details

  • Sharpen = 40%
  • Clarity = 80%
  • HDR Toning = 46%
  • Bloom = 0%

PUBG Graphics Settings

  • Highlights Auto Capture = Disable

  • Display Mode = Fullscreen

  • Resolution 2560 * 1440

  • FOV = 103

  • Lobby/Game FPS Limit = Unlimited | smoothed frame rate disabled

  • Screen Scale = 100 (input lag if increased)

  • AA = Very low (still messing with this, AA in this game seems to add a lot of blur so I have avoided it, but just tried the non-FXAA settings, ie medium/high/ultra. It looks really nice, need to play more to test if it causes blur.)

  • PP = Very low

  • Shadows = Very low

  • Textures = High

  • Effects = Very low

  • Foilage = Very low

  • View distance = Very low

  • Vsync = off

  • Motion blur = off

  • Sharpen = enabled

Something to mention, when I first changed the in game setting to 2560x1440, my game crashed and I had to reboot my pc, started up PUBG and it was in 1440p and working fine.

When my friend changed his res, his game would no longer open properly, just fullscreen and then minimize, and he couldn't reopen it, game just stayed minimized. He verified integrity of game files in Steam which downloaded one file, and then it worked fine. Played for a bit, tried changing his display mode from fullscreen to windowed fullscreen. Same thing happened immediately. Had to verify game files again, reacquire 1 file again, after that just left it in fullscreen mode and there hasn't been any issues. Also if your mouse is "stuck in a box" in the middle of your screen when in high res, try Alt+Enter, and make sure your scaling in Nvidia Control Panel is set to Aspect ratio mode, Override scaling mode set by games is checked.

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JackFunkLevel 3 Military Vest•

Thanks for taking the time to post this. I'm going to try it out.

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willfillOP•

No worries, good luck man.

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epitome89•

PUBG resets a value called sg.ResolutionQuality in the C:\Users[ur user]\AppData\Local\TslGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\GameUserSettings.ini

It should be set at 100, but after #fixPUBG it gets automatically reset to 70. I think it's some lazy "optimization" effort, and it can make the game seem blurrier.

Set it at 100, and make the file 'Read Only'.

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xFaNaTiix•

thanks!

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marked4death•

Hmm, I've never touched my .ini's and mine is default as: sg.ResolutionQuality=100.000000

Maybe they patched it?

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epitome89•

Odd, mine always defaults to 70 for some reason. Might be tied to some ingame setting, I have everything on very low.

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willfillOP•

Mine is set to 100 as well, but thanks for the advice, hopefully someone sees this who can benefit from changing it. After looking at that .ini file though, I'm wondering if it would be possible to just edit the ScreenScale value in there to 200 rather than creating the custom resolution and all that. If it will go beyond 120 by editing that, I wonder if it would perform better or worse than using the Nvidia Control Panel. Might try that out in the future.

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lukasgoti•

lol mine was also 70.000000, the fkc ?

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ThatMikezGuy•

For me sg.ResolutionQuality changes nothing if it's 100 or 70... I remember when I bought the game it had effect but for some reason it does not work anymore?

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shadycharacter2•

I tried it, even though I had the same FPS I've noticed heavy input lag after setting it to 120%

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willfillOP•

Interesting, I didn't notice any input lag but I have only played a few rounds so far. Did you still have the input lag if you downsampled from a higher res but left the in game setting to 100% scale?

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shadycharacter2•

no, I used the in-game supersampling

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willfillOP•

That sucks, I didn't notice anything at 1080p/120 scale, and I don't notice it either at 1440p/120 scale. Did you try switching from fullscreen to windowed fullscreen, or changing your 3D application settings maybe?

I find the game feels better in fullscreen, and I notice input lag when I run windowed; but my friend who I play with says that for him windowed fullscreen is the way to go and fullscreen causes lag. I feel like maybe what works for PUBG is dependent on your specific setup.

Maybe if you end up reinstalling windows on a new drive at some point give it a shot again, could just be a software issue.

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shadycharacter2•

yeah I always run fullscreen, the only problem I have with 100% screen scale though is that 4x scopes for 5.56 rifles look super blurry and shit compared to the rest of the optics, but I don't think they'll ever fix it because they've been that way for years now

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TheBattlefieldFan•

but my friend who I play with says that for him windowed fullscreen is the way to go and fullscreen causes lag.

Wut?

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RilounetAdrenaline•

Yes but how many fps do you have with this?

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willfillOP•

Last game I played on the snow map I averaged around 90fps, before that on Sanhok I averaged about 115fps. I've also been running ultra AA and view distance set to ultra (seems to increase fps?).

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Misterwright123•

Ops method didn't work. Screenscale 120 is an epic change. Everyone use.

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willfillOP•

Have you noticed any input lag?

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Snook_•

Def adds input lag

It would be nice if pubg could not code like shit and give us AA that looks crisp they did it once but only lasted a few weeks then back to a blurry mess

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Misterwright123•

they did it once but only lasted a few weeks then back to a blurry mess

Sounds like bluehole things fix something only to break it later again.

 

Do you see the input lag instantly? Is it easy to see? No input lag for me. But so much more clarity. It is an epic change.

 

Just tested. Screenscale 120 seems to make less input lag. Also fullscreen not windowed works the best.

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Misterwright123•

I didn't notice any input lag at all. Had rather succesful games after the change. Also one dinner solo fpp. Im just gonna load up the trainingsmap and look for input lag.

 

Just tested. Screenscale 120 seems to make less input lag. Also fullscreen not windowed works the best.

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willfillOP•

Huh, crazy how different this game works for each person.

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Misterwright123•

Screenscale 120 adds input lag now somehow.

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Hdsm88•

Supersampling is the same as dsr?

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willfillOP•

I believe so, I haven't tried the built in DSR feature though.

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KaiN_SC•

does freestyle works on pubg? for me i cant open the overlay. it worked in the past but now it doesnt.

I enabled the experimental features and cant open it via alt+z.

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willfillOP•

it is alt+F3, same thing confused me

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kem0011•

Any update with this? Whats your current graphics settings u r using?

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willfillOP•

I came here dressed to fuckin impress with my 1070ti, 1920x1080 monitor, mismatched sticks of ram, and of course, the 2012 special edition and god tier chip: the intel i7-3770k that I bought on craigslist 4 years ago. You're talking to a seriously iced out gamer so don't test me. I may FLEX on you even harder.

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MrEmuuPainkiller•

Too bad not a lotta people like you it seems lmao

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The_Toxicity•

omg we get it, you have an internetcapeable device and some kind of keyboard, it's really not that impressive.

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