Help with AA and Sharpen Filter: Best one & best settings to "fake" upscale

[Platos]

Currently im upscaling Anime with 2 Models in a row (LD-Anime Compact + FutsuuAnime Compact). But because this takes very long, i'am searching for a filter-method, which does "filter-up" the upscaled Anime only with one model (ld-Anime Compact). So that i dont have to use the second model, which takes very long time.

I already tried out a bit and i get decent results. Here is a comparing of LD-Anime Compact, LD-Anime comapct + FutsuuAnime Compact and LD-Anime Compact + Filters: https://imgsli.com/MTc2MDYx

I used this filters:

- Thin- and Darken GLSL A4k (in Hybrid Vapoursynth-line) with 0.4 and 1.3 strength and HQ
- Then DAAMod (in Hybrid Vapoursynth-line) with Nsize 8x4, NSS 256 and PScnr old (need help with that)
- Then CAS GLSL (in Hybrid Vapoursynth-sharpen) with "better dialog" and "accurate"

Rest ist default.
My question is now:

What do you think i can optimise ? Like use another AA or another Sharpener (no aWarpSharp or similair pls). Did i use the best of it's class ?
Or the specific settings in the filter (like in DAAMod: Ist it better to have a low-number NSize ? Is it better to use PSCNR "old" if you want to have best possible quality? Is it better to use more NNS ?)

So to clarify: i want to reach the quality/sharpness, of the LD-Anime Compact + FutsuuAnime Compact picture

I would really appreciate your help.

[Selur]

Have you tried AnimeSR?

[Platos]

Have you tried AnimeSR?

Tried it now but it gives me 0.5FPS on an 1080p source ( i do first ld-anime compact from 720p to 1080p).

I want to avoid using FutsuuAnime Compact, which gives me (at the same source) also only 0.4FPS. It is another source than i used in other threads, where i got more fps. I dont know why actually. Different sources but both has 1080p input and on the one i get 4.1FPS and on the other i get 0.4FPS. Strange. it's 10 time slower but same inputresolution.

You know any method without models (they are mostly slower than filter/ non-AI Stuff). Or do you think, sth. on my settings (for example on DAAmod AntiAliasing is optimize-able ?).

AnimeSR crashed when i use Tensor btw.

[Selur]

AnimeSR crashed when i use Tensor btw.

Works fine here, but eats lots of vram,.

Settings are always optimize-able.