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SpecialKO / SpecialK

Lovingly referred to as the Swiss Army Knife of PC gaming, Special K does a bit of everything.
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[Enhancement] Add better support with Lossless Scaling app #199

Open ThomasEricB opened 2 weeks ago

ThomasEricB commented 2 weeks ago

Hello! We, from the Lossless Scaling discord, are pleased to announce that discord user Evil Quaint has figured out how to inject SpecialK into the Lossless Scaling app (known for adding Frame Generation and Upscale for games). Here is the link for Evil Quaint's tutorial video on our discord: https://discord.com/channels/1042475930217631784/1113110546485628930/1279151705946329211 (Uploaded to GitHub below for convenience) However, there have been a couple of issues with the current injection method, such as:

I was wondering if you guys could work on a "force focus" feature or something like that to fix these injection issues? Apologies if such is a tall order. Thanks for the wonderful app.

Thomas

Ravnger commented 2 weeks ago

I second this. It adds quite a few possibilities to LS, so better support would be much appreciated.

ThomasEricB commented 2 weeks ago

Tutorial Video:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7b39b232-c691-4f25-bb93-f0e0202fc414

cathyjf commented 2 weeks ago

Loseless Scaling isn't free of cost, so I don't know if too many people are going to be willing to buy it to debug this issue, particularly when the open source alternative application Magpie also exists.

ThomasEricB commented 2 weeks ago

particularly when the open source alternative application Magpie also exists.

Hey Cathy, personally I am a big fan of Magpie and what it does for scaling too!

Lossless scaling whilst paid was first published on steam on December 8th 2018. It offers a spatial scaler based on machine learning that is superior to FSR and other spatial forks as can be seen here:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/issues/788#issuecomment-2258106641

Lossless scaling also does more than scaling. Including frame generation which is akin to vfi/post process, done at a very high quality & universal; working with games, videoplayers or any windowed apps

Whilst Magpie is free, and did release on 4th of March 2021, it does not compete with Lossless Scaling directly or have the same goals. As a fan of Magpie, I would also not discredit how many users Lossless scaling has, which is more than 20 thousand apps sold

I hope I got across why both apps are great and why solving this could help so many of these users!