In brief: The very excellent Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut is now available on PC. Along with all the usual platform-specific bells and whistles, the game comes with something we’ve never seen before, at least not officially: the ability to use Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling and AMD’s FSR 3 Frame Generation simultaneously.
Nvidia still keeps its DLSS Frame Generation feature exclusive to the company’s latest RTX 4000-series cards, while AMD makes its FSR 3 version open source.
There are mods that make the simultaneous use of DLSS upscaling and FSR 3 frame generation possible in certain games. Ghost of Tsushima offers this combination officially, allowing for some blistering framerates at high resolutions.
X/Twitter user Bloo posted that using the two features in conjunction allowed Ghost of Tsushima to reach over 170 frames per second in 4K with the settings at max on an RTX 3090. Ghosts is a beautiful game, made all the prettier by enabling this combo.
YOOOO!!!
Ghost of Tsushima lets you use FSR3 Frame Generation in conjunction with DLSS Without Mods!!!!
170+FPS in 4K Maxed out?!?!?! @NixxesSoftware you crazy for this one!!!#GhostofTsushima #PC #PS5 pic.twitter.com/wxp8BO5d6o
– Bloo (@BlooHook) May 16, 2024
AMD announced an update to FSR 3.1 in March, introducing upscaling quality improvements. The company defined these as improved temporal stability at rest and in movement, with less flickering and/or shimmering and fizziness around objects in motion. There was also the promise of ghosting reduction and better preservation of detail.
That announcement also included the news that FSR 3.1 would decouple frame generation from upscaling, allowing it to work with other upscaling solutions like DLSS and XeSS. For owners of non-RTX 4000-series cards, it’s an especially welcome move – there are games where the image quality provided by DLSS and/or XeSS is superior to FSR.
Our analysis of FSR 3 frame generation found that while it wasn’t quite as good as DLSS generated frames, it’s good enough in motion.
Ghost of Tsushima currently has a Very Positive rating on Steam thanks to 85% of the reviews being positive. It seems the requirement for a PlayStation Network Account, something that caused outrage when it was introduced for Helldivers 2, hasn’t been an issue this time around. But then it is only a requirement for the Legends multiplayer mode and not the single-player element.