Super-resolution for your entire desktop. RESO·lution·NANCE — render beyond your panel, everywhere, not just in games.
Your GPU can render the whole OS at a resolution higher than your monitor supports — 2880×1620 or 3840×2160 on a 1080p panel — and downsample it back with a high-quality (even AI-powered) filter. The result is dramatically sharper text, cleaner edges and richer detail in every application: browser, IDE, photo editors, video, desktop itself.
The technology already ships inside GPU drivers (NVIDIA DSR / DLDSR, AMD VSR), but it is buried in control panels, has zero automation, breaks DPI scaling, and nobody uses it outside games.
Resonance turns it into a first-class experience:
- 🔆 One click / hotkey to shift the entire desktop into super-resolution and back.
- 🎚️ Automatic DPI compensation — text stays physically the same size, just sharper (via per-monitor DPI control).
- 🤖 Per-app automation — Photoshop in the foreground? 2.25× DLDSR kicks in. Game closed? Native restored. On battery? Stay native.
- 🛟 Safety rails — every switch auto-reverts unless confirmed; no black-screen dead ends.
- 🖥️ Tray-first UX with a designed, animated control center — not another gray settings dialog.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ OS composites everything at 2880×1620 / 3840×2160 (virtual) │
│ desktop · browser · apps · games — all supersampled │
└──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
│ GPU driver downsample
│ (13-tap Gaussian / DL filter)
┌──────────────────────────▼──────────────────────────────────┐
│ Physical panel @ native 1920×1080 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Resonance drives three control planes in concert:
| Plane | Component | Mechanism |
|---|---|---|
| Driver super-resolution | Tuner | NVAPI DRS (DSR/DLDSR factors & smoothness); AMD ADLX VSR planned |
| Display mode & safety | Tuner | Win32 ChangeDisplaySettingsEx / SetDisplayConfig + revert timer |
| DPI compensation | Tuner | Per-monitor DPI via DisplayConfig(Get/Set)DeviceInfo |
| Rules & automation | Conductor | Process/foreground/power watchers → declarative profiles |
| Control center UI | Chamber | Tauri 2 + Svelte 5, tray-first, motion-driven design |
Deep dive: docs/ARCHITECTURE.md.
| Capability | NVIDIA Panel | Magpie | Lossless Scaling | Resonance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| System-wide (desktop & all apps) | ◑ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| True above-native rendering | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Automatic DPI compensation | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Per-app automation | ✕ | ◑ | ✕ | ✓ |
| One-click / hotkey switching | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Crash-safe auto-revert | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Free & open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ |
- NVIDIA Control Panel exposes DSR as a raw checkbox: no desktop workflow, no DPI fix, no per-app logic, no hotkeys.
- Magpie and Lossless Scaling upscale a single window via capture — great for games, but they don't (and can't) raise the real desktop resolution system-wide.
- Resonance is driver-first: the OS genuinely renders more pixels, so everything benefits natively — no capture overhead, no cursor quirks, no per-window setup. Rationale: ADR-0001.
⬇ Download the latest installer — Resonance_x.y.z_x64-setup.exe (~3 MB, Windows 11).
Run it, and Resonance installs to your user profile with a Start-menu shortcut. First launch opens the control center; enable Start with Windows (Automation tab or tray menu) to have it wake into the tray at login. No admin rights, no account, no telemetry.
The installer is unsigned (no paid code-signing certificate yet), so Windows SmartScreen may show a "more info → run anyway" prompt on first launch. The source is right here if you'd rather build it yourself.
git clone https://github.com/nkVas1/Resonance
cd Resonance
# Try the engine right now — capability report for your machine
cargo run -p resctl -- doctor
cargo run -p resctl -- apply fifth # 1.5× supersampled desktop, auto-reverts if unconfirmed
# Build the desktop app (Chamber) — produces the installer
cd apps/chamber
pnpm install
pnpm tauri build # -> target/release/bundle/nsis/Resonance_*-setup.exeresctl verbs: doctor · status · modes · profiles · apply <profile> [-y] · native · revert · dpi [pct].
- Windows 11 (Windows 10 21H2+ best-effort)
- A GPU exposing above-native modes: NVIDIA DSR/DLDSR (GTX 900+ / RTX for DLDSR), AMD VSR, or Intel scaling — enable it once in your GPU's control panel; Resonance's
doctortells you if it's ready and how. - The core chain is vendor-agnostic — it drives any above-native mode Windows exposes. NVAPI is used only for informational detection.
Phases 0–4 complete; Phase 5 (release) in progress. The engine, CLI, control center and automation all work today. See docs/ROADMAP.md and CHANGELOG.md.
crates/
resonance-core/ # domain model: config, profiles, rules, revert guard
tuner/ # display modes · DPI · vendor detection (unsafe FFI lives here)
conductor/ # rules engine + process/power/foreground watchers
apps/
chamber/ # Tauri 2 + Svelte 5 control center (tray-first)
resctl/ # CLI — everything scriptable
poc/drs-probe/ # Phase 0 NVAPI/registry research tool
docs/ # architecture, roadmap, ADRs, research
site/ # landing page (GitHub Pages)