Quote Originally Posted by Larirawiel View Post
With my howto you will use the "actual DLSS". It is so, since DLSS 3.1 the DLSS DLLs support a passthrough mode and the Nvidia App enables it. The DLSS DLLs, which come with FF14 will just redirect all API calls to the driver DLLs. And if you have the newest driver installed then the DLSS version will also be the newest.
Where did you get the idea that setting a driver level override for DLSS settings/models is referred to as "actual DLSS"? That it is highly misleading. Calling some driver settings "actual DLSS" implies that the alternative is "not really DLSS".

This is so weird I am suspecting you don't really read what you respond to. Again, the question is specifically "what does actual DLSS mean, and how is FF DLSS not actual DLSS" the question was not "how do I override DLSS settings".