Metal Upscaler

Metal Upscaler 0.5.0 for Minecraft 26.2 SHARPER DLSS

Everything new in the 1.21.1 update, now on 26.2 as well.

New

• DLSS Sharpness slider (default 60%).
• The FPS counter now includes generated frames. F3 also shows how many were rendered and how many generated.
• Distant Horizons terrain now gets the full DLSS treatment instead of being treated like sky.
• With Distant Horizons 3.3 or newer, the render scale changes in game. No restart needed.
• Settings can be opened from the Mods list.
• The vignette now shows even with shader packs that turn it off.

Better DLSS

• Much sharper picture, especially textures and at Ultra Performance.
• Always uses NVIDIA's best quality model, at every preset.
• No more maze pattern on shader pack clouds and shadows.
• Less smearing on mobs, particles and other moving things.
• Frame generation works in fullscreen.

Fixed

• The game freezing on "Loading World".
• The screen freezing after turning frame generation off or changing the upscaler, on Windows and macOS.
• The game freezing when quitting.
• Smearing close to the camera with a shader pack and Distant Horizons together.
• The FPS counter not going up with frame generation when using Iris and Distant Horizons.
• Your hand disappearing with frame generation on.
• The picture looking too bright with D3D12 presentation.
• The filter tooltip describing MetalFX on Windows.

Good to know

• Use normal fullscreen with DLSS. The separate "Exclusive Fullscreen" video setting turns D3D12 presentation off, and with it frame generation.
• Once D3D12 presentation has started, it stays on until you quit, even with frame generation off or another filter selected. That is what keeps the screen from freezing.
• The sharper textures apply to DLSS only. MetalFX is unchanged in this version.

Requirements

• Minecraft 26.2, NeoForge 26.2 and Java 25.
• Sodium is optional. Use 0.9 or newer for the settings page. For shader packs, use Iris.
• DLSS: Windows with an NVIDIA RTX card. Multi-frame generation: RTX 50 series.
• MetalFX: Apple Silicon Mac.

Licensing

• See LICENSE and NOTICE inside the jar (META-INF). The source is available for inspection only.
• Free to include in CurseForge and Modrinth modpacks. Re-uploading or repackaging the jar elsewhere is not allowed.
• Includes NVIDIA DLSS (NVIDIA RTX SDKs License) and a port of AMD FSR 1 (MIT License). MetalFX is used through macOS; nothing is redistributed.
• NVIDIA, DLSS and RTX are trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation. Apple, Metal and MetalFX are trademarks of Apple Inc. This project is affiliated with neither.