- Johanno ( @Johanno@feddit.de ) 6•5 months ago
I don’t get the hate.
I mean how many Firefox users can even use this? Requires new gpu including compatible monitor.
And where is the usecase? Videos in browser? Those are usually chopped down anyway. Upscaling will not help there.
So it’s a cool feature for the 10 people who can use it.
- Midnitte ( @Midnitte@beehaw.org ) English18•5 months ago
I mean how many Firefox users can even use this? Requires new gpu including compatible monitor.
Isn’t that exactly why the hate?
Mozilla should focus on adding features everyone can use, not gimmicks from Nvidia that require you to buy their GPU and their approved monitors. Plus considering Nvidia’s history with Linux which is a popular OS for Firefox…
AMD doesn’t require that shit for, say, FreeSync or FSR.
- PolarisFx ( @PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•5 months ago
Nvidia, wayland issues aside is still the superior card 9/10 times. This isn’t a gimmick to get people to buy Nvidia, most of us will buy it anyway. During my last purchase as I pondered over whether I should get an amd and move over to wayland or an Nvidia card that would allow me to locally generate images of whatever I wanted. It was a pretty easy decision, I’ll stick to X11 and Nvidia until the end. Stuff like this is just a bonus
- Johanno ( @Johanno@feddit.de ) 1•5 months ago
True. That is a good argument
- swayevenly ( @swayevenly@lemm.ee ) English7•5 months ago
You think only 10 people have an RTX GPU?
Also super resolution and HDR are separate checkboxes.
- Johanno ( @Johanno@feddit.de ) 1•5 months ago
Obviously I was exaggerating. But maybe only 10 people have an rtx, use Firefox, and even want to use the feature.
- lud ( @lud@lemm.ee ) 1•5 months ago
Well Nvidia is the biggest Graphic card manufacturer by far so it’s quite likely that any individual Firefox user has an RTX card.
I do too, but unfortunately it’s an old RTX card which doesn’t support this feature (if I recall correctly anyways)
- swayevenly ( @swayevenly@lemm.ee ) English1•5 months ago
It supports all RTX cards.
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5448/~/rtx-video-faq
- lud ( @lud@lemm.ee ) 1•5 months ago
That’s nice. Support for my card (2080ti) seems to have been added last October.
- sgibson5150 ( @sgibson5150@slrpnk.net ) 6•5 months ago
I set this up today on my work laptop with (internal) RTX3060. According to the status indicators on the Adjust Video Image Settings page in the Nvidia control panel, super resolution is working in Chrome v124.x and v125.x but not at all in Firefox v126.0. My eyes tell me the same thing. I was able to play a 480p YT stream in Chrome and it looked surprisingly good on my external 1440p monitor. In FF it looks like ass. I may set up a secondary profile in FF just to make sure I haven’t changed some config setting over the years that would prevent it from working right in FF. Will update if I find anything interesting.
Edit: Just tried this again with YouTube in FF v126.0 with a clean profile. It does work, but only when the video is full screen (which makes sense I guess, but the behavior is different from Chrome) and I had to manually set the quality level in the Nvidia control panel. In Chrome the auto setting used level 4 (the highest level), but in FF the auto setting only used level 1.
- geekwithsoul ( @geekwithsoul@lemm.ee ) English2•5 months ago
Weird. I’m on desktop with an RTX 3080 and both super resolution and HDR are working just fine for me in both full screen and not. Results are actually quite good for me.
I think the default setting for auto depends on source resolution and desired display resolution from what I can see, so it’s variable depending on how and what you’re watching.
You on Windows 10 or 11?
- sgibson5150 ( @sgibson5150@slrpnk.net ) 2•5 months ago
Sorry. Should have mentioned. OS is Windows 11 Pro 23H2 22631.3593. Also, video driver is Nvidia Game Ready Driver 552.44.
- geekwithsoul ( @geekwithsoul@lemm.ee ) English1•5 months ago
Interesting - I’m running the same driver version but on latest version of Windows 10 Pro. In FF, under about:config, is gfx.webrender.enabled or gfx.webrender.all set to true? If not, that might be part of it.
- sgibson5150 ( @sgibson5150@slrpnk.net ) 1•5 months ago
On the new clean profile I created in v126.0, I didn’t have a gfx.webrender.enabled and gfx.webrender.all was set to false. Changing gfx.webrender.all to true didn’t really change the behavior. Nvidia control panel only shows super resolution active when full screen. Watching the same test video as yesterday at the same requested resolution. I did notice that if I set the Quality back to auto, with gfx.webrender.all = true, it picked 2 today instead of 1. 🤷♂️
Edit: One DDG search later https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1445419