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title: "OptiScaler Output Scaling: Performance Guide"
description: "Use a repeatable method to tune OptiScaler performance settings, image quality, sharpening, output ratio and frame generation without guessing."
canonical: https://optiscaler.ink/keywords/optiscaler-output-scaling
updated: 2026-10-18
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# OptiScaler Output Scaling

Use a repeatable method to tune OptiScaler performance settings, image quality, sharpening, output ratio and frame generation without guessing.

The best OptiScaler settings are game- and GPU-dependent, so a controlled test method is more useful than copying a single preset. Pick one scene, one resolution, and one baseline before tuning — OptiScaler does not improve performance in every game.

## Adjust the Quality Ratio

Move from higher quality toward more aggressive scaling only when performance gains justify the image-quality change.

## Establish a Baseline

Measure native game behavior with the original upscaler and record frame rate, image stability, input feel, and visible artifacts.

## Choose the Output Backend

Select the backend you want to test and keep all extra sharpening and frame-generation options disabled for the first comparison.

## Add Sharpening Carefully

Sharpening can restore perceived detail, but too much can exaggerate edges, shimmer, and texture noise. Use small changes.

## Evaluate Frame Generation Separately

Frame generation changes displayed frame rate and motion feel. Test it after the base upscaler path is stable so you can identify where artifacts come from; experimental OptiFG works in some DirectX 12 scenarios.

## Practical Checklist

- Record a baseline in one fixed scene before changing any setting.
- Keep original files backed up before changing the game folder.
- Test one setting or backend at a time.
- Avoid anti-cheat protected online sessions.
- Document the working configuration before updating.

## Related

- [Best OptiScaler performance settings: a practical tuning method](https://optiscaler.ink/guides/best-performance-settings)
- [OptiScaler Sharpening](https://optiscaler.ink/keywords/optiscaler-sharpening)
- [OptiScaler Sharpening Settings](https://optiscaler.ink/keywords/optiscaler-sharpening-settings)

## Download

ZIP next to the game executable: [Download OptiScaler](https://optiscaler.ink/download)

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