I’ve spent a great deal of money over the years upgrading to new PCs (and more recently upgrading existing ones myself) as I’m an avid flight simulation enthusiast and such applications tend to be very CPU and GPU intensive, especially as they’re “single threaded”.
But without (and sometimes even with) a robust setup these simulations tend to really struggle to produce the smooth frames per second (FPS) needed for enjoyable and realistic flying. And of course every few years there are new versions of the sim that increase the load so the spending for upgrades continues.
This AM I purchased an app called “Lossless Scaling” with a duck logo for $7 from the Steam store and it’s made a 2-3X improvement to my FPS in both my X-Plane 12 and MSFS flight simulators, the equivalent of a massive processor upgrade (it does this by inserting AI generated frames in between the “real” frames.
In any case it seems this app works similar magic for other gaming where FPS are important as well, so I thought I’d pass it along to anyone else contemplating spendypants PC upgrades as it’s really been money well spent for me (and FAR cheaper than buying or building a new top end computer).
As I mentioned flight sim hobbyists often chase the FPS dragon with either tons of $$$ or tons of time on questionable “tweaking” and this was a cheap, fast, and easy improvement.
