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Playing ancient PC games on modern high resolution monitors

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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

Is there anyway to “upscale” old 640-480 games?

Right now you either get a tiny box you can’t see or a pixelated mess.

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If you are on Linux you can use gamescope. It has FSR 1 built-in.

Personally I would take the pixelated mess over any upscaling any day. It’a either blurry or just plain wrong.

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