Upscaled

Upscaled — DLSS and FSR 3 for Minecraft

⚠️ Alpha software. Upscaled is an experimental client-side Fabric mod
built on Minecraft 26.2’s experimental Vulkan renderer. Expect visual issues,
compatibility problems, and breaking changes while development continues.

Upscaled adds real temporal upscaling to Minecraft using NVIDIA DLSS Super
Resolution or AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3.1.4. It renders the 3D
world at a lower internal resolution, supplies the selected upscaler with
camera motion, depth, and sub-pixel jitter, and reconstructs the result at the
window’s full resolution.

The interface, text, first-person hand, and screen effects remain at native
resolution. Upscaled integrates directly with Minecraft’s Vulkan renderer; it
is not a shader-pack approximation.

Features

• Two temporal upscalers — choose DLSS, FSR 3, or Auto. Auto prefers DLSS
  when available and otherwise falls back to FSR 3.
• Five quality modes — Ultra Performance, Performance, Balanced, Quality,
  and Native AA. Internal render resolution is selected for the active backend
  and current output size.
• Live configuration — enable temporal upscaling, select a backend, and
  change quality under Options → Video Settings → Upscaled.
• Native-resolution presentation — the 3D world is reconstructed first;
  HUD elements, menus, text, the hand, and screen effects are rendered
  afterward at the output resolution.
• Performance overlay — optionally displays FPS, active upscaler, quality
  mode, internal resolution, output resolution, scale factor, and the
  measured GPU cost of the upscale pass in milliseconds.
• Safe fallback — when the selected upscaler cannot initialize, Upscaled
  leaves world rendering native instead of enabling a partial upscale path.

Requirements

Setup

1. Place the Upscaled jar in your Fabric mods folder.
2. Enable Prefer Vulkan (Experimental) in Minecraft’s Video Settings and
   restart Minecraft if requested.
3. Open Options → Video Settings → Upscaled.
4. Enable Temporal Upscaling, select Auto, DLSS, or FSR 3, and choose a
   quality mode.
5. Enable Performance Overlay if you want live diagnostics.

Mod compatibility

Status as of v0.1.0+26.2-alpha-2. Upscaled hooks Minecraft’s own experimental
Vulkan renderer, so the first question for any mod is whether it runs on that
renderer at all — mods that require OpenGL are ruled out by the renderer
itself, not by Upscaled. On OpenGL, Upscaled disables itself safely.

If a combination misbehaves, disabling Temporal Upscaling in the settings
restores fully native rendering without removing the mod.

Current limitations

• Minecraft does not provide the complete temporal input set expected by DLSS
  and FSR. Upscaled reconstructs camera motion from the depth buffer. Moving
  entities, particles, and animated surfaces therefore do not yet have their
  own motion vectors and may show ghosting or instability.
• Performance depends on resolution and workload. Upscaling has a fixed GPU
  cost and can be slower than native rendering in lightweight, very-high-FPS
  scenes, particularly at 1080p. It is intended to help most when rendering is
  GPU-bound at higher resolutions or with heavier graphics workloads.
• Minecraft’s Vulkan renderer is experimental, and Upscaled currently targets
  Windows x64 only.
• FSR 3 here means FSR 3.1.4 Super Resolution. Frame Generation is not
  implemented.

Upscaled is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by AMD, NVIDIA, or
Mojang. DLSS is a trademark of NVIDIA Corporation. AMD FidelityFX and FSR are
trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Bundled native runtimes and license
notices are distributed under their respective licenses.