looks horrendous, so blurry and full of artifacts. Even going from native to the highest quality upscaling degrades image quality significantly.
This highly depends on which version of the upscaling we are talking about and in which games and what scenery. In some games it looks worse than others. I would like to play in native resolution only, but prefer having higher framerates in exchange for a few artifacts. In example in the multiplayer team shooter “Marvel Rivals” with a comic like art style, I prefer hitting 90 fps with Lumen enabled on my low end graphics card. In mostly Balanced or sometimes Performance setting for FSR (between I think Highest Quality - Quality - Balanced - Performance or something like that). This is only possible with FSR enabled. There are only a few artifacts, so the exchange is worth it. If your experience is FSR 1 in example on the Steam Deck, then no wonder you don’t like it.
This highly depends on which version of the upscaling we are talking about and in which games and what scenery. In some games it looks worse than others. I would like to play in native resolution only, but prefer having higher framerates in exchange for a few artifacts. In example in the multiplayer team shooter “Marvel Rivals” with a comic like art style, I prefer hitting 90 fps with Lumen enabled on my low end graphics card. In mostly Balanced or sometimes Performance setting for FSR (between I think Highest Quality - Quality - Balanced - Performance or something like that). This is only possible with FSR enabled. There are only a few artifacts, so the exchange is worth it. If your experience is FSR 1 in example on the Steam Deck, then no wonder you don’t like it.