The upgraded PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) upscaling that made it’s debut in the PS5 Pro version of Resident Evil Requiem is now headed to a whole bunch of titles including the upcoming Crimson Desert and older games such as Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 and many more.
The new and upgraded version of PSSR can analyze all the available pixels in an image and upscales them, which results in a boost in the effective resolution of over 50 titles on the PS5 Pro and results in sharper image quality with great fluid performance all around and minimal loss in detail.
According to a recent official blog post, the enhanced PSSR will now be available for the following games in the PS5 Pro:
- Silent Hill 2
- Silent Hill f
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Control
- Alan Wake 2
- Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
- Nioh 3
- Rise of the Ronin
- Monster Hunter Wilds
- Dragon’s Dogma 2
- Crimson Desert
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Most of the above mentioned games will receive the upgraded PSSR support through a PS5 system software update that’s going to roll out in phases starting March 16 at 10:00 PM Pacific Time and will become available to all users. The upcoming Crimson Desert will get the PSSR right when it launches on March 19 while older titles like Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Cyberpunk 2077 will receive the upscaler in the following weeks.
The blog post showcases each of the titles with the new PSSR upscaling in several screenshots which looks noticeably better than their earlier versions.
The new form of PSSR comes from Project Amethyst which was jointly developed by Sony and AMD, and utilizes the additional rendering horsepower of the PS5 Pro to make in-game visuals considerably crisper than what’s available on the base PS5 or on the Xbox Series X.
The real value of upscaling lies in getting more FPS than what can be normally achieved by the GPU but as you can already get all of those titles to run at a locked 60 FPS on the PS5 Pro, what the new PSSR will do is bring even more improvement to their overall image quality without impacting performance in any way.
