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Sony’s upgraded PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) technology is rolling out to several titles on the PS5 Pro, including Cyberpunk 2077, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Silent Hill 2, and more. Digital Foundry got a chance to test some of them and found that the “new upscaler delivers the kind of upgrade we were looking for from PS5 Pro.” Problems with shimmering, flickering, and other visual artifacts have been addressed, and they said it now delivers crisper and more consistent in-game graphics.
This is the first upgrade we’ve seen from AMD and Sony’s combined Project Amethyst work on improving the effect of rendering a game at a lower resolution, then using AI trained on graphics to analyze each frame and upscale it, delivering improved quality on the same hardware without reducing the frame rate. The upgraded PSSR is included with the latest PS5 system software update, which will start rolling out “in phases” on March 17th at 1AM ET, and Sony says its improvements will also improve AMD’s next FSR update when that rolls out.
The upgraded version of PSSR, which is similar to AMD’s AI-powered FSR 4 upscaling tech on PCs, was first announced last year before debuting with Resident Evil Requiem in February. Along with the games mentioned above, many other titles will support PSSR on the PS5 Pro when the software update becomes available, including:
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Alan Wake 2
Control
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
Nioh 3
Monster Hunter Wilds
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