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Sure why not?
VRAM? Disk space? Bandwidth?
Edit: In the description it says the ESRGAN model upscales 4x, so if the original files were 1k, that's your answer.
@cer12,
I take everything and upscale by 4x.
Some textures were 2k, so they became 8k. So for these textures I downsample with box model to 4k, because 8k has too large filesize (120MB).
(I can't just process the 2k with a 2x model, cause they don't really exist, and you can't turn a 4x model into 2x model cause complicated matrix math.)
If you have any interest in more upscaling you check the wiki here: j:D
In many cases it works fine. The whole point of these is usually to look about the same, except one can zoom in further. Some times detail can be interpreted, i.e. hair by certain models, cloth by certain models, grass from green by models, etc...
I'll stand by this one being pretty funky. But image super-resolution, while not 'magic' does result in perceptible improvements, which for most, lacking an alternative, is worth the usually negligible performance hit.
I'm kind of surprised there's so many people on the Skyrim Special Edition nexus with RAM complaints. Like I understand with Skyrim Legendary and Oblivion, but being 64-bit, it has access to as much RAM as you can give it. Also these textures only get loaded when you interact with an NPC wearing these clothes.
Compression artifacts can be removed quite well if you look at this image, these are the same resolution with compression artifacts removed via alsa's BC1-smooth-2 model.
Here is an example of artifact cleaning on dark brother hood robe. They are the same resolution, but the block compression has been removed using BC1-smooth2 model. Note the lose of color noise on the cleaned version. This essential for any upscaling to take place, as you noticed, because it prevents the model from interpreting noise as important information.
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However, difficulty arises with doubly compressed armors like these.
Essentially original author takes compressed texture -> recolors and merges it with other compressed textures -> then saves as a compressed texture.
When it is multiple times compressed and has different operations applied it becomes more difficult for the model to get to original image.
There are ways to get a better result via interpolation of models, and multiple cleanings, but that is a lot of work. I gave this 3 major attempts, then handed it out for people to use as they please.
@myztikricev RAM issue still applies with 32bit exceutables, because total ram allowed is '4GB' -> usually more like '3GB' *cries in Oblivion*. Total VRAM is included in this so I can never touch half of my VRAM (I have 8GB VRAM). With SkyrimSE it can take all my VRAM + regular RAM.
For the record, I run an average of 2K textures in my game (there are some exceptions). If you do the same, you won't regret using these textures over the original at all. Until someone actually redesigns these textures (which, to my knowledge no one has and likely never will) , this is a must have if you're using Common Clothes imo - This mod adds a ton of 'extra clothes', it's 'filler and variety' imo for all the folks just walking around. And these textures finally make them seem like a natural fit. I'm amazed I never considered doing this myself. Thanks for saving me the trouble.
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Edit: I verified it and it works perfectly with it (just overwrite).