Gil Murata

Henry III seized Tutbury and gave it to his son Edmund, the Earl of Lancaster. The castle was sacked yet again in 1322 but it eventually became a royal fortress when Henry IV came to the throne.

In 1449 Henry VI gave the castle to Margaret of Anjou as part of her marriage settlement, and it was during Queen Margaret's ownership that the North Tower, also known as Queen Margaret's Tower, was built.

The most famous episode in the long and often bloody history of Tutbury came in the Elizabethan era, when Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned here, not once, not twice, or three times, but on four separate occasions. It was during her imprisonment at Tutbury that Mary was implicated in the Babington Plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I, a link that finally convinced Elizabeth to order her rival's execution.

Tutbury was besieged yet again during the Civil War. A Royalist garrison repelled an attack by Parliament in 1643, but in 1646 a heavy artillery bombardment forced the castle defenders to surrender.

Parliament ordered the castle slighted so it could not be used against them, but the 'slighting' of Tutbury was only partially completed, and the castle has never been allowed to become a complete ruin and was never abandoned.

The castle is composed of a pair of outer baileys flanking a D-shaped inner bailey. The oldest part of the castle is a Norman chapel, evident from foundations alone.

Apart from that, the oldest remnant is the early 14th-century gate tower in the inner bailey. There is a medieval herb garden laid out on the lawn, an authentic recreation of a Tudor garden, a beautifully preserved Great Hall, and the King's Bedroom. The tower that now tops the motte is not original; it was built in the 18th century as a folly.

Tutbury Castle is a popular destination for ghost hunters and folks interested in the paranormal. Several ghosts have been reported, including a figure in full armour who commands visitors to 'get thee hence'.

The spectre of Mary, Queen of Scots has been sighted on numerous occasions; not surprising perhaps, considering that she was held - and mistreated - at Tutbury. Popular TV shows, including 'Most Haunted' have filmed episodes at Tutbury Castle, and there are regular ghost hunting events in the evenings.

We came to Tutbury on a sunny afternoon in mid-September. You approach the castle up a curving drive to a fortified gateway, which gives access to the bailey. There is a rather incongruous modern tent erected inside the bailey for events, which rather detracts from the ambience. What is really striking is the sheer size of the castle bailey; the space is absolutely huge.

Directly in front of you is the original motte, with the 18th-century folly emulating a ruined circular tower. The motte offers simply stunning views over the town and the valley below. It also looks down on the King's Lodging, built for Charles.

One part of the King's Lodging is now a tea shop, but if you go through the shop and climb the stairs you find yourself in the museum, with artefacts discovered during excavations. There are a large number of coins and medallions, including several connected with Mary, Queen of Scots.

Beside the King's Lodging is the South Tower. Although the tower is roofless, you can climb to the top of the battlements, and look down inside the tower. What is most striking is the clearly exposed stone vaulting that supported the storage areas at the base of the tower.

I already wrote an article explaining the differences between FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) and Radeon Super Resolution (RSR) on AMD's side. And it's now time to compare NVIDIA's new DLDSR — announced Jan. 14, 2022 — with existing DLSS and DSR technologies. Here's what you can expect if you're the proud owner of a modern NVIDIA GPU.

Senior Editor Rich Edmonds has an excellent article explaining fully both DLSS and ray tracing, and I also wrote a piece explaining how DLSS compares to AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution. There's a lot of information to digest in those articles, and I suggest reading them if you're looking for a deeper dive.

Deep Learning Super Sampling, otherwise known as DLSS, is a new take on supersampling. It leverages artificial intelligence to boost frame rates while also boosting the visual fidelity of compatible games. Whereas DSR and DLDSR are downscaling techniques, DLSS is an upscaling technique.

When a game is compatible with DLSS, what you're seeing on your screen is first broken down into supersampled "perfect frames" that are examined by NVIDIA's neural network. It starts at a lower resolution and focuses on anti-aliasing, then focuses on sharpening the frame by adding extra pixels. NVIDIA's AI looks at these high-res perfect frames, compares them with upcoming normal frames, and repeats the process throughout.

DLSS ultimately makes your games look better while also taking some of the load off your GPU, upping frame rates at the same time. The rub here is that DLSS isn't available in all games, and it must be baked in by the developer. The list continues to grow, but it's still relatively small. You must also have an NVIDIA RTX 20- or 30-series GPU with dedicated Tensor cores for DLSS to work.

NVIDIA's Dynamic Super Resolution, also known as DSR, was introduced alongside Maxwell GPUs about seven years ago, making it the most mature feature here. It allows for frames rendered in the GPU buffer to be a higher resolution (up to four times more) than your monitor, to then be filtered down to fit the screen. The higher resolution makes for a better image, which translates even when you're filtering down.

DSR is handled at a driver level, and it's best used when your GPU has some performance overhead to play with. If your GPU is already working about as hard as it can to render frames at 1080p, making it render frames at 2K or 4K is going to cause a serious hit to frame rates. DSR works with all modern NVIDIA GPUs, and it can even be enabled alongside DLSS. You should be able to use DSR to some extent in most PC games, as there's not any special requirement to be baked in on the game's side (like with DLSS).

NVIDIA's Deep Learning Dynamic Super Resolution (DLDSR) is an upgrade to DSR, meant to make the process more efficient while resulting in the same end product. The method still renders frames at a higher resolution before shrinking them down to fit your monitor's resolution, but it leverages NVIDIA's potent AI and the Tensor cores in RTX GPUs to downscale images more efficiently.

NVIDIA claims that 4x DSR (rendering the frames at a resolution four times higher than your monitor supports) is about the same as 2.25x DLDSR, making it almost twice as efficient. This is meant to take some of the load off of the GPU. Because DLDSR relies on Tensor cores — the same ones used for DLSS — it will only be available in NVIDIA RTX 20- and 30-series GPUs. If you don't have an RTX card, you can still use standard DSR in games.

DLDSR will also work alongside DLSS, upscaling images before DLDSR kicks in for a higher resolution to be downscaled again. And like DSR, DLDSR is best used by those who have a GPU with some available performance overhead. You're still rendering frames at a higher resolution before downscaling them, and the hit to the GPU is the same.

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