LSFG Guide

1 - Set your game to borderless fullscreen (if the option does not exist or work then windowed, it does NOT work with exclusive fullscreen)

2- Set "Scaling Mode" to "Auto" and "Scaling Type" to "Off" (this ensures you're playing at native & not upscaling, since the app also has upscaling functionality which you can use if you want)

DXGI Steps (Default)

3 - Cap your in game FPS to half your max refresh rate. If your hertz isn't evenly dividable like 165 just round down (ex 82)

WGC & GDI Steps

3 - Lock your in game framerate to a value you know you can always hit, these capture methods require a stable locked framerate to work. Interpolation has overhead so make sure your cap accounts for the slight FPS loss you get by using Lossless Scaling

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Capture Method

DXGI (Default): Dynamically adjusts output framerate to be double the internal, making it have the best frame pacing and some VRR support.

WGC: Does not dynamically adjust the output framerate based on the in game framerate, as a result it requires a locked stable FPS and can have worse frame pacing. However it has less latency than the DXGI method and a 6-9% less overhead

GDI: Provides no benefits over WGC, its just there incase your windows version does not support any other method

Latency

- Enabling Allow Tearing will lower the latency but screen tearing will occur. This may be worth it though at high framerates

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LSFG Tips

Tip 1: Overlays can interfere with Lossless Scaling, it is recommended to disable them (Game launchers, GPU software, etc).

Tip 2: Things under the "Rendering" tab except "Draw FPS" in the program may cause issues. If you encounter any issues disable them

Tip 3: Playing with controller offers a better experience than mouse as latency penalties are much harder to perceive

Tip 4: Enhanced Sync, Fast Sync & Adaptive Sync do not work

Tip 5: Add LosslessScaling.exe to NVIDIA control panel / app then change "Vulkan/OpenGL present method" to "Prefer layer on DXGI Swapchain"

Tip 6: Due to the fact LSFG has a performance overhead if you really want to hit a particular base framerate you can't quite get anymore or you want to claw some of that back either use LS's upscaling feature or lower in game setting

Tip 7: For systems with multiple graphics cards, it’s important to configure Windows correctly. Windows should use the same GPU to which the monitor is connected. Therefore:
1 - If the monitor is connected to the dedicated GPU (dGPU), configure the “losslessscaling.exe” application to use the “high performance” option.
2 - If the monitor is connected to the integrated GPU (iGPU), configure the “losslessscaling.exe” application to use the “power saving” option.

Tip 8: Turn off your second monitor. It can interfere with Lossless Scaling.

Tip 9: Use tools like RivaTuner to limit the FPS, especially in demanding games. Ideally, you’ll want to limit FPS to half (if 2x) or one-third (if 3x) of your monitor’s refresh rate. For example, if your monitor is 120Hz, lock the FPS at 60 (2x) or 40 (3x).

Tip 10: You can scaling off if you’re running the game at the same resolution as your monitor (native resolution). However, one of the advantages of the program is the ability to run games at lower resolutions than the native monitor resolution, improving performance without sacrificing too much visual quality.

Tip 11: Lossless Scaling can be used not only for games but also for other applications, such as watching videos in the browser, increasing the frame rate of low-quality videos.

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LSFG Additional Info

Minimum Supported: 30fps to 60hz+
Minimum Advised: 45fps to 90hz+
Recommended: 60fps to 120hz+
Enthusiast: 90fps+ to 180hz+

If you liked this guide there's a complete video guide for everything the Lossless Scaling program can do that you can find here: https://youtu.be/7SgA7M_XhQw