Skip to main content

Modder has already patched AMD Super Resolution into Grand Theft Auto 5

One of the big perks of AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) feature is that it’s open source, and modders are already taking advantage of that. Using an FSR configuration file from another game, a fan was able to add FSR to Grand Theft Auto V, and the results are impressive.

I added FidelityFx Super Resolution to Grand Theft Auto 5

Redditor and modder NarutoUA1337 showed off their work on an AMD subreddit. The video above shows off the quality differences between the various modes, but doesn’t show any differences in performance. The video looks great, but high-resolution screenshots comparing the quality modes show a large decline in visual quality, which is typical of FSR at its more extreme modes.

The mod replaces Grand Theft Auto 5‘s internal upscaling tool with FSR. Although it’s not as quite as impressive as games that natively support FSR, the mod shows promise for the future. FSR uses spatial upscaling to increase performance in games running at high resolutions. It’s similar to Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling feature, though DLSS uses A.I. to enhance the image.

FSR is open source, unlike DLSS. AMD hasn’t released the feature through its GPU Open platform yet. AMD says it’s coming in mid-July. Instead, the modder borrowed precompiled shaders from another title that supports FSR and used them to implement the feature in Grand Theft Auto 5. 

The mod is available now on Github, though we recommend exercising caution if you choose to download it. Outside of the security risk, some users are already reporting issues on certain hardware. As always with mods, this implementation hasn’t been endorsed or verified by AMD or Rockstar Games.

Still, it shows a promising future for FSR. The fact that a modder was able to easily add it into a game before the open source code was available speaks volumes. In the future, we could see a list of community-sourced FSR implementations alongside AMD’s official list, and that’s exciting.

Going down this rabbit hole could expose more issues with FSR, though. As the comparison screenshots show, this fan implementation isn’t as polished as games with native support. Open source software is great for bringing features to the masses, but it doesn’t always come with the same oversight as a proprietary tool.

Editors' Recommendations

Jacob Roach
Senior Staff Writer, Computing
Jacob Roach is a writer covering computing and gaming at Digital Trends. After realizing Crysis wouldn't run on a laptop, he…
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X vs. Ryzen 5 7600: is cheaper better?
The Ryzen 5 7600X sitting among thermal paste and RAM.

AMD's Ryzen 7000 CPUs haven't had the best reception, but Team Red is correcting course. The new Ryzen 5 7600 is proof of that. It's slightly slower than the Ryzen 5 7600X based on the spec sheet, but it's around $70 cheaper, comes with a bundled cooler, and promises nearly identical performance.

After testing the processor myself, I can confirm -- the Ryzen 5 7600 is one of the best processors you can buy right now. With a couple of clicks, it can achieve identical performance as the Ryzen 5 7600X, and it comes in at a cheaper price.
Specs

Read more
Rockstar reportedly turned down a Grand Theft Auto movie with Eminem
Grand Theft Auto 3

Rockstar reportedly declined to make a Grand Theft Auto movie that could've starred the world-famous rapper, Eminem. The late Top Gun director Tony Scott was also reportedly considered to direct it.

On the Bugzy Malone podcast, Earthworm Jim director Kirk Ewing said that he spoke with Rockstar's Sam Houser in his hotel room one night about making a GTA film.

Read more
AMD previews FSR 3.0, which now includes frame generation
Frank Azor presenting at AMD's RDNA 3 launch event.

Despite just launching FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 2.0 in June, AMD just announced FSR 3.0 at its RDNA 3 launch event -- along with a new piece of tech AMD is calling Fluid Motion Frames. We don't have a ton of details yet, but FSR 3.0 looks to go toe-to-toe with Nvidia's Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) by generating unique frames all on its own.

According to AMD, FSR 3.0 will provide up to twice the frame rate as FSR 2.0, which seems to come exclusively from the Fluid Motion Frames technology. AMD hasn't shared any details on how this tech works, but the company confirmed that it is using frame generation similar to Nvidia's recently released DLSS 3.

Read more