PS5 Pro's New PSSR Upgrade Arrives With Big Visual Gains For These AAA Games

When Sony's PlayStation 5 Pro shipped with the initial version of PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, eventual updates were expected since it was heavily based on AMD FSR 4, which is also still being updated. Now, the first wave of PSSR updates has arrived and it turns out not all PSSR updates are automatic. A number of games that shipped with PSSR 1 support will require the activation of a manual override in the PS5 Pro's Screen and Video system settings; specifically, it's the "Enhance PSSR Image Quality" option.

It's being left as an optional toggle in case users wind up preferring the original upscaler for whatever reason (like potential bugs or performance losses). The implementation recalls the existing system on PC for forcing AMD FSR 4 over FSR 3 games. Both PSSR variants are based on FSR 4, but PSSR 2 seems to boast a substantial ...