| Summary: | Nearest neighbor scaling? | ||
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| Product: | xorg | Reporter: | N. W. <nw9165-3201> |
| Component: | Driver/nVidia (proprietary) | Assignee: | Aaron Plattner <aplattner> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Aaron Plattner <aplattner> |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | medium | CC: | arcadyg, aritger, brnguyen, ddadap, dmahashin, hdoyu, jajones, kspencer, nmahale, nstewart, pgriffais, yogishk |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
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Description
N. W.
2016-04-04 14:48:03 UTC
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 94818 *** Whoops, didn't notice the different module for this bug vs. 94818, sorry. Reopening. (In reply to Aaron Plattner from comment #2) > Whoops, didn't notice the different module for this bug vs. 94818, sorry. > Reopening. Yeah, sorry for using the wrong one initially. Aaron, actually I have submitted the same feature request for the Intel and AMD drivers as well yesterday. It has resulted in a patch for xrandr that allows to use nearest neighbor scaling now, see: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94816 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94820 Anyway, as being discussed in both threads, it would be interesting to know if the dedicated hardware scaler inside the GPU could also be used for this instead of using xrandr. Can you comment on this? And would there be any chance you could point the NVIDIA Windows driver team to this issue as well? It would be nice if nearest neighbor scaling would be available for NVIDIA cards on Windows as well. As already pointed out, there is a thread on the NVIDIA GeForce forums, but nobody at NVIDIA seems to have noticed it yet or doesn't seem to listen, see: https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/844905/geforce-drivers/integer-scaling-mode/ Would be really nice if you could do something about that. Regards Older GPUs certainly can't do nearest neighbor scaling in the display hardware. I'll have to look into whether it's possible with newer GPUs. (In reply to Aaron Plattner from comment #4) > Older GPUs certainly can't do nearest neighbor scaling in the display > hardware. I'll have to look into whether it's possible with newer GPUs. Well, in the following video at around 18:39 min, your workmate Tom Petersen says the following regarding NVIDIA's DSR (Dynamic Super Resolution): > https://youtu.be/cr-GToUHino > > [...] but what's different about this is, we're not using the > hardware of the GPU do downsample. [...] we no longer use the > hardware scaler. We're now using a filter that's designed to > make this look beautiful. So it's a thirteen tap gaussian > filter that runs as sort of a shader path [...] > It's done in software [...] it's run on hardware but it's a > filter that's running a complex gaussian filter to get > beautiful smooth edges even as we scale from pretty much any > resolution to any other resolution [...] In contrast to using > the hardware filter which is a very simple hardware filter, > it's roughly a box filter, so that's a lower quality scaler. So maybe the same shader method that is used for DSR could also be used to scale in software on the hardware with a nearest neighbor filter instead of a gaussian filter? Regards Any update on this one? |
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