Render beyond your panel.
Not just in games.
Your GPU can draw the whole desktop at 4K and downsample it back to your 1080p monitor — text, browser, apps, everything sharper. Resonance turns that hidden driver power into one click, with automatic scaling and per-app rules.
Same pixels, sampled twice
Drag the seam. Left is your panel drawing at native resolution. Right is the same frame rendered above-native and downsampled — the way Resonance shows it.
↔ drag to compare · rendered in real time on your GPU
Driver-first, not screen capture
The operating system genuinely composites everything at a higher resolution. No per-window capture, no overlay latency — the whole screen benefits at once.
Everything renders high
Desktop, browser, apps and games composite at a virtual resolution above what your monitor reports.
2880×1620 / 3840×2160Downsample in hardware
The driver's high-quality filter (13-tap Gaussian, or an AI DLDSR kernel) shrinks it to fit the panel.
DSR · DLDSR · VSRNative signal, more detail
Your monitor still receives its native 1080p — but every edge and glyph carries supersampled clarity.
1920×1080 · sharperThree planes in concert
A Rust core drives the hardware; a designed control center makes it effortless. The name is the metaphor — native at the center, resolutions orbiting like harmonics.
Tuner
Talks to NVAPI, switches display modes, and compensates DPI so text stays the same physical size — just crisper. Every switch is guarded by a crash-safe revert timer.
Conductor
Declarative rules watch the foreground app and power source. Open Photoshop → DLDSR engages. Unplug the charger → back to native. You stop thinking about it.
Chamber
A tray-resident window with a harmonic-ring selector and spring-physics motion. A guided onboarding detects your GPU and walks you through the first switch safely.
What the alternatives can't do
Existing tools upscale a single captured window. Resonance raises the real resolution of the whole system — and adds the workflow nobody built.
| 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 | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ |
Built in phases, runnable at every step
The full driver chain is already proven on real hardware. The engine and CLI work today.
Proof of concept
NVAPI probe, mode switching, DPI control — verified end-to-end on RTX 3060 Ti.
Core engine & CLI
Guarded switching, harmonic profiles, capability doctor, continuous integration.
Chamber — the control center
Tray-first Tauri app, harmonic-ring UI, onboarding, live revert countdown.
Conductor — automation
Process & power watchers, per-app profiles, global hotkeys.
Beyond NVIDIA
AMD VSR, Intel scaling, and a driver-side quality plane for DLDSR filters.
Release & polish
One-step installer, auto-update, localization, accessibility, docs site.
What you need
Windows 11
Windows 10 21H2+ supported on a best-effort basis.
NVIDIA GPU with DSR
GTX 900-series or newer. DLDSR needs RTX (20-series+). AMD & Intel coming.
Headroom to spare
Rendering at 4× the pixels costs GPU. Best on a card faster than your panel demands.
Nothing else
No account, no subscription, no telemetry. MIT-licensed, forever.
Resonance is an independent open-source project. DSR, DLDSR and NVAPI are technologies and trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation; VSR of AMD. This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by either. Above-native rendering increases GPU load and, at non-integer factors, can soften some content — Resonance recommends integer and DL factors, and always offers a one-key return to native.