A significant replace is rolling out for PlayStation 5 Professional in the present day within the type of improved PSSR upscaling tech, Sony has confirmed, which debuts in Resident Evil Requiem.
PSSR is Sony’s reply to Nvidia’s DLSS, a machine-learning-based upscaler that improves recreation decision with out impacting efficiency. Introduced final yr, the improved PSSR relies on AMD’s FSR4 and arrives as a part of Sony and AMD’s Venture Amethyst initiative.
In a weblog publish revealed on PlayStation’s web site, system architect Mark Cerny confirmed that the brand new PSSR is utilised in in the present day’s large launch, Resident Evil Requiem, when working on PS5 Professional. Different present video games shall be upgraded to make use of the brand new PSSR in March, he mentioned, through a system-level toggle permitting customers to swap out the previous and new variations.
“We’ve been arduous at work on a brand new model of PSSR, which takes a really totally different method to not solely the neural community but additionally the general algorithm,” Cerny wrote. “We’re pleased to share that Resident Evil Requiem – delivery in the present day – is the primary title to make use of this extra superior PSSR, which helps to maintain each body price and picture high quality excessive.”
He added: “By means of AMD’s FSR 4 upscaling expertise, PC players have already seen the advantages of our collaboration. With the up to date PSSR, we’re delivering the very newest of this co-developed expertise with an extra six months of refinement for PS5 Professional gamers.
“We look ahead to extra information in March, when a number of present video games improve to the improved PSSR. There will even be a system software program replace at the moment; deciding on ‘Improve PSSR Picture High quality’ in Settings on PS5 Professional will help you expertise the brand new PSSR with any PS5 Professional video games that at the moment assist PSSR!”
PlayStation 5 Professional was launched in 2024, and over 50 video games subsequently obtained updates with graphical upgrades and different efficiency enhancements. Nonetheless, following launch, some gamers reported points with how PSSR upscaling labored on some video games, suggesting they seemed worse than on the bottom console.
In its new evaluation of the up to date PSSR’s utilization in Resident Evil Requiem, tech specialists Digital Foundry name it “the true deal”.
“In Resident Evil Requiem’s RT mode, we’re upscaling to 4K from a base decision barely larger than 1080p,” it says. “Wonderful particulars, resembling stitching on character clothes and small textual content on environmental signage, resolve convincingly on a 4K show. Edge readability is considerably improved, and the picture presents as a legitimately high-quality 4K output at 60fps, aligning with the unique promise of PSSR.
“It has been famous that the PS5 Professional model does nonetheless exhibit some noise in RT scenes – however we are able to verify it’s not a problem with PSSR itself, however in Capcom‘s denoising resolution. You get the identical factor on the PC model even when utilizing DLSS 4.5 or FSR4.”
