LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII Guide

How to play LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII on higher resolution than the monitor's native resolution (NVIDIA DSR Guide) for LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII

How to play LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII on higher resolution than the monitor’s native resolution (NVIDIA DSR Guide)

Overview

A simple guide how to play to the game on higher resolution than the monitor’s native resolution.

NVIDIA DSR

Dynamic Super Resolution renders a game at a higher, more detailed resolution and intelligently shrinks the result back down to the resolution of your monitor, giving you 4K quality graphics on an HD screen.

LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII 4K Resolution trick

To make the game graphics better the only thing you need to to do is to enable Dynamic Super Resolution in the NVIDIA Control Panel. Follow these steps in the guide to eanble Dynamic Super Resolution.

Before we can set Dynamic Super Resolution we first need to determine whether our GPU supports it. This table shows the currently supported DSR cards and was taken from this website: [link]

Card name
DSR Supported?
GeForce GTX 1080
Yes
GeForce GTX 1070
Yes
GeForce GTX 1060
Yes
GeForce GTX TITAN X
Yes
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Yes
GeForce GTX 980
Yes
GeForce GTX 980M
Yes
GeForce GTX 970
Yes
GeForce GTX 970M
Yes
GeForce GTX 965M
Yes
GeForce GTX 965M
Yes
GeForce GTX 960
Yes
GeForce GTX 960 (OEM)
Yes
GeForce GTX 960M
Yes
GeForce GTX 950
Yes
GeForce GTX 950 (OEM)
Yes
GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Yes
GeForce GTX TITAN Black
Yes
GeForce GTX TITAN
Yes
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Yes
GeForce GTX 780
Yes
GeForce GTX 770
Yes
GeForce GTX 760 Ti (OEM)
Yes
GeForce GTX 760
Yes
GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Yes
GeForce GTX 690
Yes
GeForce GTX 680
Yes
GeForce GTX 670
Yes
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Yes
GeForce GTX 660
Yes
GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST
Yes
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
Yes
GeForce GTX 650
Yes
GeForce GTX 590
Yes
GeForce GTX 580
Yes
GeForce GTX 570
Yes
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Yes
GeForce GTX 560
Yes
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Yes
GeForce GTX 480
Yes
GeForce GTX 470
Yes
GeForce GTX 465
Yes
GeForce GTX 460 SE
Yes
GeForce GTX 450
Yes
GeForce GTS 450
Yes

1. On the desktop right mouse click->NVIDIA Control Panel.

2. In the control panel go to Manage 3D Settings. Find DSR – Factors on the Global Settings Tab. Select the multiplier of your choice. Mine is set on 4.00x (native resolution) then click Apply. Finally close the NVIDIA Control Panel.

3. On the desktop right mouse click->Display Settings.

4. Go to Advanced display settings.

5. Select the resolution of your choice, than click Apply. In this case we will select 3840 x 2160.

6. Go back to display settings.

7. Here comes the important step. Make sure you move Change the size of text, and other items: 150% (Recommended) slide bar to 100%. Otherwise the game won’t run at 3840 x 2160 resolution.

8. Launch the game. if it is not in Windowed Mode, just press Alt + Enter to enter to that mode. Go to Graphics->Display Resolution and set resolution to 3840 x 2160.

Result

Enjoy. This screenshot was made in 4K resolution.

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