Upscale on high resolution monitors on Linux with gamescope

[TheRealOptimusHippo]

This isn't a support request, I just wanted to share in case it helps others.

Linux has the gamescope program available from Valve Software https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope. You can use it to upscale the game so you get to have nice big UI buttons and text without changing the resolution for the rest of your desktop environment.

I used:

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gamescope -w 1280 -h 720 -W 3840 -H 2160 -f -F fsr -- "/home/me/Games (Non-Steam)/Myth II/Myth2_64bit"

This runs Myth 2 at 1280x720 and then upscales it up to 3840x2160.

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-f

is for fullscreen

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-F fsr

is to use AMD's upscaler, which actually works really well!

There's a few other options available to you that are listed on the above Github link. (e.g. there's an Nvidia upscaler as well)

[Melekor]

Thanks for sharing this, sounds handy. If you can post a screenshot of the fsr/nis option I'd be curious to see that as well (don't have access to it myself)

[TheRealOptimusHippo]

FSR comparison - before and after

myth II FSR comparison.png (1.94 MiB) Viewed 1300 times

Sorry for the late reply. I don't know how to set my notification preferences well apparently

The 4K images are bigger than the forum 4MB limit unfortunately but here's a comparison of a small part of screenshots with and without the upscaling (FSR).

The UI text and buttons are actually the same size with and without this upscaling. I think in my original post I may have been referring to the text and button size of the the main menu UI. The menu was giving me quite a headache reading it in 4K. The gamescope upscaler magically made that full screen and large too which is much nicer.

Below are the original 4K images:

https://tinku.net/img_share/Myth%20II%2 ... caling.png
https://tinku.net/img_share/Myth%20II%2 ... scaled.png
https://tinku.net/img_share/Myth%20II%2 ... scaled.png

The text is a bit clearer in the FSR version as well.