It can't, but I have learned that you cant rely on devs to put needed visual features into games, especially old already-released games. And a mild denoising pr

It can't, but I have learned that you cant rely on devs to put needed visual features into games, especially old already-released games. And a mild denoising prefilter is a reasonably good universal way to help the hardware encoder, and they tend to be much better at preserving detail than the encoder itself.