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Nvidia RTX Super Resolution only works sporadically in full screen and not at all in windowed videos.

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Nvidia RTX Super Resolution seems to only work very rarely or not at all compared to the Chrome version. In some instances it will upscale the Full-Screen Video. It will not interact with windowed videos at all. But it will never upscale a windowed version that exceeds the playback resolution.

Steps to reproduce for windowed videos:

  1. Open any youtube video
  2. Set the resolution to 480p or lower (as I am using a QHD 2560 x 1440p monitor)
  3. Playback the video and monitor Nvidia Control Panel to see if Super Resolution has activated.

Observation for windowed videos: Feature works in Chrome. Feature does not work in Firefox

Full-Screen and Super Resolution: I have no idea what is going on here, on very rare occasions it does work, for the most part it does not work at all. If I had to give a rough idea of when it works, I would say that it is more likely to work when Firefox has been freshly launched.

I could neither see an active change in the Control Panel, or notice anything in the video quality. Both a quality change and feedback in the Control Panel occur when using the feature in Chrome. I have tested on identical links, with identical quality settings.

I tried:

  • setting the Super Resolution Quality manually, instead of manually
  • an incognito tab
Nvidia RTX Super Resolution seems to only work very rarely or not at all compared to the Chrome version. In some instances it will upscale the Full-Screen Video. It will not interact with windowed videos at all. But it will never upscale a windowed version that exceeds the playback resolution. '''Steps to reproduce for windowed videos:''' # Open any youtube video # Set the resolution to 480p or lower (as I am using a QHD 2560 x 1440p monitor) # Playback the video and monitor Nvidia Control Panel to see if Super Resolution has activated. '''Observation for windowed videos:''' Feature works in Chrome. Feature does not work in Firefox '''Full-Screen and Super Resolution:''' I have no idea what is going on here, on very rare occasions it does work, for the most part it does not work at all. If I had to give a rough idea of when it works, I would say that it is more likely to work when Firefox has been freshly launched. I could neither see an active change in the Control Panel, or notice anything in the video quality. Both a quality change and feedback in the Control Panel occur when using the feature in Chrome. I have tested on identical links, with identical quality settings. '''I tried:''' * setting the Super Resolution Quality manually, instead of manually * an incognito tab
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A clean install of Firefox seems to have helped with the consistency of full-screen video up-scaling.

I still notice the same behavior for windowed videos, but if the windowed video takes up most of the screen-space the up-scaling is now being applied as well.

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A clean install of Firefox seems to have helped with the consistency of full-screen video up-scaling.

I still notice the same behavior for windowed videos, but if the windowed video takes up most of the screen-space the up-scaling is now being applied as well.