Upscaling Quality and RT Performance Tweaks (outdated)

I must confess it is by no mean 100% original content. I spent my time tinkering with already existing mods of this kind in order to find the most reasonable values specifically for RDNA2 GPUs. The credit shall be given to this gentleman and to this gentleman for genuine further modding material.

• Predominantly, "1st world" victims of last mining hysteria who wanna play this game with RT Enabled at what can be considered playable framerate. You could get a proper CPU of a very high calibre like i7-11700K, yet GPUs were too expensive for you so you sticked to a lowly RX 6700 XT or even lower. Yes, we're talking RT On, that's why RX 6700 XT is "lowly." It's a great raw raster performer, even gets playable FPS at 4K with some settings adjusted to lower levels.

• And for sure it's not the mod of your choice if you're already experiencing performance issues without RT. But FSR.ini and XeSS.ini, the files affecting the FSR and XeSS behaviour, are likely to make your experience a bit less frustrating (if your GPU supports DLSS then just ignore this mod). Simply put: if you already have low performance with RT DISABLED you do not use RT.ini.

Expected behaviour on various GPUs

My mod makes RT effects drain more VRAM than the vanilla RT for a reason. Thus, given we have an AMD GPU, everything but Path Tracing and RT Lighting is enabled, and the game runs at Medium-High settings:

• 8 GB GPUs are a no go for RT. Forget about RT in this game. You will run out of VRAM and get constant stuttering.

• 10 GB GPU, an RX 6700 non-XT, is somewhat OK for 1080p. Not ideal because you will have low framerates, and stuttering in Dogtown.

• 12 GB GPUs are only good for 1080p or 1440p+FSR. Whilst 7700 XT is capable of reasonable RT performance with this mod, 6700 XT and 6750 XT still have performance issues. Fluid Motion Frames helps but doesn't provide with absolute comfort.

• 16 GB GPUs are capable of native 1440p and 2160p+FSR. Though 6800 non-XT is very slow at RT, especially at 4K, basically being even slower than 7700 XT but not by much.

• 20+ GB GPUs are basically capable of any common resolution. Your only concern is generally poor RT performance in AMD GPUs which is mitigated but not completely negated by this mod.

For nVidia GPUs, consider the fact they are generally better at RT and hav