The video is fragmenting so hard, don’t know if I like the idea to use AI on such a classic
I have some experience with both retro gaming video upscaling and general upscaling (older content from the 2000s and earlier).
The reason why it’s “fragmenting so hard” is that the author decided to go with 4K. I am guessing the resolution of the source video is at or below 640 x 480. With such a low resolution, you don’t want to go beyond x2 upscale (1280 x 960). But the author went with what seems like 3840 x 2880 which is not viable for a source resolution below 640 x 480.
Here is an upscale of the Caesar 3 intro that work pretty well (its relatively low resolution because the source resolution is very modest as Caesar 3 was released in 1998).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwJVHbryKO0
/End nerdy rant
The original intro video I think was like…430x320 or something resolution.
So yeah, stretching that to 4k is never going to look good. its the same problem the CnC Remaster team ran into trying to upscale the original mission intros, old games used very low resolution videos to fit on their disks and not take a super computer to play and that is part of the charm for sure, often lower than the resolution the game itself would be expected to be played at, and theres just not enough meat there to stretch it beyond resolution doubling.
