Metro Exodus not getting AMD FSR
First game developer to confirm no support for AMD FSR in a game.
It has been almost exactly 6 months since AMD first announced its Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards. It is also 6 months since AMD confirmed to be working on FidelityFX Super Resolution, a technology that was meant to compete with NVIDIA DLSS. Unfortunately for Radeon graphics card owners, this technology is far from being ready.
It appears that the slow development and lack of transparency with the consumers on FSR, has led first game developers to officially confirm no interest in support for this technology. 4A Games, a developer behind the Metro franchise has confirmed in its Metro Exodus FAQ that the game will not support FSR. The developer explains that it will not be compatible with its ‘rendering techniques:
Metro Exodus FAQ, Source: 4A Games
This leads us to believe that the developer already knows how FSR is supposed to work, which might be interesting considering that last month CVP and GM at Radeon Scott Herkelman stated that AMD has not yet made a final decision on the technology behind FSR. AMD is still evaluating many options, some not even based on machine learning.
At this point in time, we only know that FSR should launch this year and it should be cross-platform. AMD wants to implement FSR into PCs and gaming consoles that are equipped with RDNA graphics, which makes a lot of sense, and it may also explain why AMD is so engaged to make this right.
Recently 4A Games have announced an Enhanced Edition of Metro Exodus. The game was originally launched in 2019 and it was one of the first to support NVIDIA DLSS technology, which wasn’t really working as expected to say the least. However, the DLSS 2.1 which was added to the Enhanced Edition brings a massive visual and performance improvement to the game.
Digital Foundry has made a comprehensive video on the subject, including a comparison to ‘Temporal based reconstruction’ technology which is mentioned in the FAQ as an alternative to AMD Radeon users.
Metro Exodus “Original (DLSS 1.0) vs Enhanced Edition (DLSS 2.1) vs TAA, Source: Digital Foundry
Source: Metro Exodus FAQ via @Locuza_