✅RenoDX: MH Wilds

[magic nexus]

like this

[uneven arch]

Oh, change the diffuseraylength to like 500

So capcom set diffuseraylength to 0.1 because RTGI wasn't being used.

[uneven arch]

Btw, are you still using denoiser toggle mod? If yes, you can remove it since this already bundle with it

[thin fjord]

I gotta reinstall all my mods from a clean game

[uneven arch]

Oh? How come?

[thin fjord]

I want to install that texture lite mod and I don't remember what mods I have installed

want to start fresh

[uneven arch]

Ah, okay. What's your specs btw?

[thin fjord]

9800x3d + 4080 + 32gb ram

[uneven arch]

Very nice. I would love to upgrade my cpu, but I told myself let's wait a couple more years

I'm using 5950x

[magic nexus]

Nope I saw that you added it to this new mod so I removed the old one. Good work!

[uneven arch]

Tyty

[thin fjord]

been really happy with my CPU won the sillicon lottery with it.

[silk blaze]

I guess I cannot use the mod except for the denoiser portion like before. My game strokes out on my 10GB vram lol. I thought it was having all the RT stuff up but still drops to 4fps without it in random sections.

There probably will need to be some user friendly presets for 8 Gb and 10 Gb cards. Unless a video does get made of best stuff to enable without raising vram like crazy.

I think it might actually be me putting Texture quality/mesh quality to highest. I put it back to standard and the areas I stroked out at stopped.

[magic nexus]

That would definitely do it

[uneven arch]

Yeah, keep texture and mesh in standard for now. Have you tried the decompression mod and see if that free up your vram usage? Also, I think I need tell people they should do optimize in game setting first before start messing with this mod. Kind of hard to give recommendation when they provide vague specs.

[violet kindle]

May I ask which version of Reframework you are all using? I've noticed that even after deleting all mods, simply using dinput8.dll causes the game's reflections to stop working (both SSR and RT).

[uneven arch]

I think i'm using the latest nightly build. https://github.com/praydog/REFramework/actions/runs/24124181978/artifacts/6322877534

[violet kindle]

It's done, thx

[uneven arch]

You're welcome

[silk blaze]

I have not tried the decompression mod yet. As for my in-game settings I mainly run everything maxed except skies and grass.

[tranquil dawn]

do those settings change anything performance wise?

[silk blaze]

I do not think by much, maybe 3 frames but I do not remember off my head. I think the grass one savesa bit on vram but not too much. The sky I never look up so I rather save on performance.

[vocal marlin]

5090 drops from 75 -> 60 at max RT settings. Any optimized suggest settings?

[uneven arch]

Can reduce rt quality to high if needed. If you have LOD RT disable, go ahead reenable it because that can eat up performance.

[glad ridge]

I see you mentioned the texture pack lite mod in the description page, FYI the Real Graphics Options mod is now recommended/required by the creator of texture pack mod

before the Real Graphics Options mod was released we had to modify the config.ini file and make it read only

[uneven arch]

The HD Texture Pack Lite author did talk to me about the Real Graphics Option mod. The methods are different but the end result is about the same. So you can either use the Real Graphics Option mod or my method via config.ini and Stream Resident Target (still waiting for feedback on whether it's working) to uncap the VRAM. And yes, our mods are compatible with each other, though some settings overlap other than ReduceFGVRAM.

[amber blade]

I wonder if its time to torment the subreddit

[uneven arch]

The MH subreddit? Maybe you have better luck but people dismissed my mod because they were too focus on the AO saying it's flat and wrong lol

Wait, your pelico looks like Midna lol

[thin fjord]

AO should have haloing all over instead of subtle shadow from occlussion

not suprised by that take ngl

[uneven arch]

Yeah, it was pretty bad. If anyone saying anything positive, they get down voted for no reason lol

[thin fjord]

I guess for some people the noise adds "depth"

but AO is not supposed to be GI

[amber blade]

The game looks drastically different without fake shadows on everything

and even with the RT enabled it doesn't cast strong enough shadows to make up the difference

[magic nexus]

what AO settings are you guys using? I get quite a bit of haloing and disocclusion issues with the mod

[violet kindle]

I guess they prefer the right side (note the Face Light Leak) over the left side?

[uneven arch]

Yeah, it benefit image quality. If capcom officially release it, this how it'll look like. I'm sure people wont be complaining lol

[uneven arch]

You can use this setting for AO " SSAO full res, AOradius 1.0, DFAO OFF, Filter Quality Standard, Sample Quality High, upscaling filter off. Have to use RTGI to use RTAO"

[amber blade]

You should really update with some quality preset buttons to help people see the impact

Two important ones being Vanilla Default / Max

even better if you just hide all your current options behind an advanced mode toggle as per reno

some random test shots

I do wonder what settings the game changes when cutscenes play as aspects of the game do look alot better

and they are not pre-rendered

maybe something to look into @uneven arch

[uneven arch]

It's just a really good camera work, lighting, and motion capture. The mod did improve the cutscenes a little too

I mean it would be awesome to always have cutsenses quality though

I remember on another discord someone created some rigging/ lighting mod to take really great photo

[amber blade]

yeah its the lighting that stands out in the cutscenes

if its not a hidden flag they must be scripting fake lighting throughout the scene

though I can still pull off some good looking shit without it if I pause correctly. I could do a lot better if I could bind a button to instantly pause proper, the games kinda delayed

[amber blade]

Oh another useful thing following on from the profile thing, having a toggle mod on/off button (basically a vanilla profile toggle) would help people see the difference the mod actually makes

also before I forget, what setting causes/effects this @uneven arch - Reflections phasing in/out of existance based on slight camera angle differences. It's very distracting

that's something that has bothered the hell out of me for the past year

[uneven arch]

So I discover the engine have some limitation when it comes to displaying too much RT. If I unlock it, it'll be flicker hell

so not worth it. At least the mod allows to display more RT reflection

[uneven arch]

That's what default button for lol. Also, people can create a vanilla profile before making changes. That's what I was doing for screenshot

[amber blade]

The other games in the same engine don't seem to have that issue, you sure its engine and not something hardware could power through?

could be worth experimenting with unlocking to achieve a slightly raised limit

[uneven arch]

Yeah i'm sure but I can double check for you when Im free. The game Engine will struggle on which RT reflection to keep on display. So it will unload and load another reflection at a rapid rate which causes a crazy flickers

[amber blade]

I've finished up a batch of screenshots to torment reddit with (SDR ones because reddit conversion fucks up hdr ones) - what you think?

I think that'll be enough to sell your hard work don't you?

[uneven arch]

All of it are pretty sick

should upload some on nexus too

[amber blade]

you can use mine if you want

I have noticed the trans multi on reflections is rather high and lowering it massively helps the look of water

I've set it to 0.5

[uneven arch]

I think user can upload screenshot and I just approve it

[magic nexus]

I'll give that a shot. It seemed like it was working fine the other day and then it broke

[amber blade]

they could but my username on nexus isn't this one

[uneven arch]

All good. I know nexus have 8mb limit per screenshot

[amber blade]

If you half res my current ones they should be under 8mb

and then they still 2560x1080

[uneven arch]

I had to compress my png further to upload some screenshot

[magic nexus]

Like the difference in haloing here, could come down to time of day too

[amber blade]

Reddits limit is 20mb so all but 2 atm are within that limit

but I should be able to fix that

[thin fjord]

some of the AO is not even noticeable because the entire region is darkened unnecessarily

[sonic thicket]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2TLPswBTYY

Good video about PT in re engine

Seems theres alot to be implemented still

[uneven arch]

AO haloing does depend on the lighting condition but it was pretty it's noticeable in the dark spot for vanilla max setting

[uneven arch]

yeah i was playing a little earlier. Runs nicely

[uneven arch]

You're speaking the truth lol

[thin fjord]

re engine is such an interesting thing. quite the mixed bag

really cutting edge on some stuff and extremely poor in basic stuff

[amber blade]

hopefully this is something the expansion adds

[uneven arch]

I hope so too. AMD sponsor so we have to wait and see. AMD have ray regeneration so it's possible

[amber blade]

Crimson Desert is AMD sponsor too IIRC and that has RR

[sonic thicket]

Interesting how they have the lens distortion toggle in pragmata

[royal marsh]

And in consoles?

[uneven arch]

yeah, it's quite common in RE engines graphics setting except MHWilds(Not sure why)

[amber blade]

Prob something todo with the long development and the team in question not comunicating with others

hence why even though MHWilds is a similar style of RE Engine game to Dragons Dogma 2, Wilds Doesn't have the same RT as Dogma 2 or the ability for Path Tracing like DD2 has

[magic nexus]

that seems to have done it, thanks! It's still technically there but its a very small outline now

[uneven arch]

You're welcome. Much better result. Can continue tweaking ssao if needed

[amber blade]

I twinked a little more

[fading cape]

https://tenor.com/view/call-me-by-your-name-gif-11087397

twink?

[amber blade]

I'm messing with different AO ranges. The above is AO 10

[thin fjord]

incredibly funny typo

[magic nexus]

anyone see how this mod plays with it?
https://www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunterwilds/mods/4085?tab=files

its pretty cool for just villages

looks like voids been working in there

recognized the outfit and color tone as being distinctly yours

[silk blaze]

@uneven arch I guess a feedback to add is the ability to see which profile is loaded. Unless I am blind but I thought about it while going back and forth.

[silk blaze]

Did something change with the game recently in the past month. I play with 4.5 ultra performance L and the game looks so much blurrier now. I was checkign stuff in desert area and foliage looks bad now.

[thin fjord]

wow actual shadows that are not from AO haloing, this is great

[magic nexus]

yeah its pretty cool

[thin fjord]

does it work well? does it work with JoHien's mod?

[magic nexus]

I tried it previously but haven't tried it with his mod, might give it a shot later

[amber blade]

All my screenshots are with it enabled

[royal marsh]

Seeing this screenshot at 4AM i see Freddy Fazbear in the center

[uneven arch]

Yeah, it's a great mod. Too bad I notice night time in grand hub is that lights will switch off when you get further away from the quest desk.

[uneven arch]

Sure, I'll take that into consideration

[uneven arch]

yeah, no compatible issue with my mod

[magic nexus]

It kills/changes the ambient lighting a lot in general which is why I stopped using it

[thin fjord]

The shadow mod? I feel like it will look good with johiens AO options

[magic nexus]

Yeah the shadow mod, it changes properties of a lot of lights. Campfires, braziers, and such

The hub gets some sharp shadows but then most lights lose volume too

So it just goes from being a net win (minus performance hit) to a more preferential thing

That's also why I was curious about how it interacted with the RT GI

[amber blade]

There seems to be conflicts with it. At least during the day lanterns in the wastes camp didn't cast a shadow like they did before with the mod.

but that could be due to the RT using up the shadow budget with the shadows it is adding. But if it is conflicting maybe its something @uneven arch can look into.

[uneven arch]

actually, I'll take back on what i said. I'll look into it to see if it's possible lol

Hmm, everytime I increase the shadow budget, it crashes the game

Might be the reason why the Light Shadows Overhaul modder had to work with what's available

[thin fjord]

I remember someone mentioning for rise that it is hard coded read only memory or something?

May need to use a dll plugin to patch the memory early on boot

[amber blade]

I suspect its something the expansion will address. Capcom is going heavy on Path Tracing with their games now so maybe that'll extend to that.

[cerulean marsh]

Honestly seeing further performance improvements and graphical upgrades from the expansion would be really cool

I don't think my 9070 can tank path tracing but native RTGI AO and shadows would be nice

[magic nexus]

they have to know its the biggest deterrent for expansion sales, so id imagine they are putting a lot into whatever beta it will have to show off

[sonic thicket]

I also hope they change the party system. It was such a pain to use before finishing the main story.

[cerulean marsh]

If the expansion is anything like Iceborne they won't actually fix it, and all the expansion areas and what not are just going to be designed to work around the multiplayer issues

[thin fjord]

What do you mean, game was completely broken until iceborne

They added dx12 support and fixed so many bugs when iceborne came out

[cerulean marsh]

Well yes I just mean specifically multiplayer

Iceborne didn't retroactively fix any of World's multiplayer issues, some cutscenes were just watchable as a group instead of the way it was in world.

I genuinely have no clue why they don't just handle online the same way the handheld games have been for over a decade

[merry tartan]

World was sooooo hostile to playing with a group of friends.

[cerulean marsh]

4 man lobby, and just let cutscenes be watchable as a group. ITS LITERALLY IN THE GAME ALREADY

[merry tartan]

It’s a shame that they seemingly keep building these games so that playing with randoms is just kinda better until end game.

It’s at least gotten better

[cerulean marsh]

I would rather solo than play with randoms

[thin fjord]

Yeah it's rough, they really want to sell people on the high production story and don't get me wrong they have improved. But it has been to the detriment of other more important parts of the game.

[amber blade]

Start the event quest "Just What the Doctor Ordered" starting at area 8 and look at the right wall between zones. RTGI is noisy AF here. What settings would cause that @uneven arch ?

[uneven arch]

Hmm, maybe increasing gihistory could help that area. Which map is this though?

[magic nexus]

Their solution should just be making the story forced solo, easy

[amber blade]

basin. Just pick the event quest above to get the exact conditions

[uneven arch]

okay, I see it. I could include aggressivedenoise option next update if you want

increasing GI history can help at the cost of more ghosting though. I noticed on Pragmata, Capcom tune GI/reflection history depending on the location and zone. Like some area will be set to 64 and other will be 128 which is why people were complaining about ghosting.

The mod really makes the cherry blossom pop though

[sonic thicket]

Even pragmata has some unused settings like radiance caching that improves PT performance

But it seems it crashes frequently in a specific area in the game

Probably why it wasn't implemented

[thin fjord]

probably the engine code isn't finished?

who knows

[uneven arch]

I did tell lazorr about the shadow resolution. My pragmata mod is already done. Just gotta fill out nexus info which takes time.

[magic nexus]

damn youre fast

[silk blaze]

I thought it was just me I didn't even recognize the place for a while. Mine looked like this.

Mod / Default / My settings after resetting

I had the diffuseraylength unchecked. I guess setting to 500 did the trick.

[magic nexus]

yep thats the ticket

i thought it was some other mod at first

[silk blaze]

I had to keep resetting to default and load my profile again to fix it.

I am not sure if there is some sort of performance hit in the long run or not.

[uneven arch]

Does it happen when you first boot up the game?

[silk blaze]

I didn't check but I can later when I'm home to see if it does. I was just teleporting there when I noticed the issue.

[silk blaze]

So I tested and the issue is there on a game boot up. I had the option unchecked. Once checked with 500 the issue is gone with a restart and without.

[uneven arch]

Okay, great. I thought I somehow overlook when testing.

[silk blaze]

I have specular length off so I am not sure if that has any effect on stuff I have not seen yet.

[uneven arch]

Specular ray length off is fine. The game engine control that for you.

[silk blaze]

Alright 👍

Btw is there a separate thread channel for your mod. I feel like this mod sorta took over this chat

[thin fjord]

Reno moved to the reno discord so I think it's fine

[silk blaze]

It did for the most part but most of the reno talk still happens in here lol.

No one ever used the https://discord.com/channels/1161035767917850784/1300713599978700841 channel and the talk stayed here.

[uneven arch]

tbh, I didnt know about the gaming forum lol

[cerulean marsh]

Gotta say JoHien

Loving the mod (This cutscene actually looks good with the Raytracing tweaks)

[fading cape]

oh wow that looks completly different

[uneven arch]

yeah, I rewatched a few cutscenes and quality definitely improved

[uneven arch]

Alright, so if we're going to do preset, I may need some help. That seems to be the number one request but I feel like it's going to be hard depending on people hardware and in-game settings

[cerulean marsh]

Probably just like a no rt "improved" and then one with rt if it's not too much work

[fading cape]

wish the story was actually good

I wanna replay the game but it's not worth it

[uneven arch]

Can always wait until they announce the expansion to get into the mood

[sonic thicket]

Iirc they said they will announce it this summer

Maybe at Summer Games Fest which is June 5th

[magic nexus]

seems like just defaulting RT GI and RT AO on with the ray length at 500 or whatever is a good start, since those are pretty free. Probably move the shadow settings to one setting since if theyre different they cause big framerate drops (unless that can be fixed)

those RT settings seem like the more essential use case for the mod in any case

[uneven arch]

Yeah, I'm thinking of doing that since I did that for Pragmata. Something with the newer engine causing weird shadow issue

[magic nexus]

im about to fire up the pragmata one now

[cerulean marsh]

Yeah turning the ray length up to 500 really sealed the mod for me

When I initially turned on the rt stuff I wasn't all that impressed but I guess that's because Wilds' default rt implementation is fairly limited in terms of what it actually applies too and it's sample length. I wish there was a way to get RT shadows actually working and a proper way to rework all the light sources in the game to behave nicer with rt in general

[thin fjord]

oh it seems that there is an overlapping mod with yours @uneven arch

but finally testingg your mods what do people here recommend from testing

[amber blade]

which one?

[thin fjord]

I think it's different tho the Real Graphics Options or whatever

[amber blade]

yeah that does similar ram stuff

[thin fjord]

any recommended settings for high resolution textures? and GI with the mod?

[amber blade]

if the screenshots I posted few days back look good to you I can go grab mine shortly

[thin fjord]

yeah please

[amber blade]

since this is easier than taking screenshots

May want to mess with GI history to fix noise in some areas but I not messed around with that yet

[thin fjord]

how do I force the game to go above 12GB ram

[silk blaze]

This is what I have been running so far on a 9800X3D / 3080 10Gb / 3440x1440 / DLSS 4.5 Ultra Perf L / High Res texture / In-game settings at the highest

[thin fjord]

does it look good to have both ssao and rtao on?

shouldn't it only be one or the other?

I also can't ever seem to get it to use more ram always hovering around 12 but it constatnly reducing LOD like it's running out of vram anyways

[fading cape]

damn wasn't that one of the main things the mod was trying to fix?

[uneven arch]

@thin fjord Have you gone into the config.ini and adjust the StreamingVRAMSizeHighest? Just put this number since you have 16gb - 17179869184

[uneven arch]

I'll say it's a personal preferences but best setting for me at least is what I posted above this chat "SSAO full res, AOradius 1.0, DFAO OFF, Filter Quality Standard, Sample Quality High, upscaling filter off. Have to use RTGI to use RTAO"

[thin fjord]

Rtgi looks broken without rtao. Folliage looks shining bright

So I guess use both

[uneven arch]

Yeah, I think it's a requirement to have RTGI and RTAO lol.

lmk if you have any other questions

[thin fjord]

Will test again to see if I can get the game to use more vram instead of swapping assets for lower quality ones

[fading cape]

Good to know when i try it ty

[thin fjord]

this game just won't let me go above 12gb

[uneven arch]

Hmm, odd. I'm guessing you already set to something like this?

Just to see if we can get above 12gb

Do you have the hd texture lite install by chance?

[thin fjord]

I do

[uneven arch]

Still not going above 12gb?

[thin fjord]

it isn't, actually got a message from SK saying the quota is 12gb

so the limit might be set elsewhere?

[uneven arch]

Hmm, I wonder

[thin fjord]

still not going above 12gb but now setting shadows to high doesn't hitch a lot reset those settings

seems to be working as intended more or less now

[uneven arch]

What happen if you run the game without SK?

[thin fjord]

let me try, I only ran SK to check the vram in real time

[uneven arch]

I'll see if I can find any information on SK that limits vram usage

[thin fjord]

SK doesn't limit it just warns you I think

but I think it's working correctly now

[uneven arch]

Oh okay, I thought maybe there was some setting I wasn't aware of

That's awesome you got it working. I should really update this mod though lol. I gotta combine the shadow quality/resolution because of the memory leak and lag

[thin fjord]

this and reno just looks amazing

[uneven arch]

Seeing void changing preset with reno is pretty awesome

[amber blade]

tweaked settings again using other peoples settings as reference to figure out what does what and what eats performance. I think this is finally it.

[amber blade]

From my testing Shadow Quality High performs better than Shadow Quality Standard by a significant margin. Anyone else?

[thin fjord]

this noise not solveable in any way?

[thin fjord]

as in lower fps cost?

[amber blade]

much

my 60 locked with fg drops to the 50's

[thin fjord]

will have to test with fps counter

[magic nexus]

i think thats the one big problem spot still

you can disable the denoiser and itll stop but then it fucks with the lighting

[thin fjord]

it's way less noisy without rtgi

[uneven arch]

Did you have lightoverhaul mod install?

[uneven arch]

I haven't really tried standard or high

[amber blade]

well standard for some reason massive performance drops compared to high

maybe the setting is in reverse order?

[uneven arch]

Ah, it's probably a memory leak. I'm going to combine them soon like Pragmata. Also, I figure out how config streaming vram because I was messing around to get a real time reading. idk if want to take the thunder away from the real graphics options though. I did notice his latest update he used the formula I provided for the config ini lol. Glad I can assist him

[thin fjord]

It's disabled in ref

[uneven arch]

I can take a look in a bit but is it morning and plenty condition?

[thin fjord]

yeah

[uneven arch]

Okay I see it. No worries, I'll get that updated soon

[thin fjord]

wow

incredible

[amber blade]

That looks like the issue I was also having in basin. Yay

soon all that is left will be for @merry tartan to put down Crimson Desert for 5 minutes and bless us with the new psycho

[merry tartan]

I'll have you know I'm in the metro exodus mines rn

[amber blade]

Well come out and giev Psycho

[uneven arch]

maybe im still new to this but what's psycho?

[amber blade]

the name of the latest tonemapper being used in RenoDX

its really good

[thin fjord]

I wonder if psycho would be that big of an improvement. Regrade preset looks so good

[uneven arch]

Damn, looks awesome

[thin fjord]

the autoexposure stuff is super interesting tho

[amber blade]

the prior versions of it were not too far from what we have now. It's a big leap.

RenoDX for Crimson started with the prior versions

the preformance cost problem has since been resolved

[thin fjord]

well only Jon and Ritsu can read the mess capcom made so we going to have to wait on them to update

[amber blade]

yup

at the least we got this to look forward to for whenever the expansion drops

[fading cape]

psycho has been in reno for months

the older version

[fading cape]

one of these days the trackmania mine will return

[merry tartan]

[uneven arch]

@merry tartan Off topic but are you a big fan of PSO?

[merry tartan]

Yeah

[uneven arch]

Nice, I did enjoyed PSO,PSO2 Based, and PSPortable 2. PSO2NG really ruined it for me though lol

Alright, StreamingResidentTextureTargetSize should work correctly this time. No need to mess with config file

Now I gotta create a preset profile.

[thin fjord]

only played PSO on the psp and tried NG but man did it suck

heard that years after release still barely any content for the game

[uneven arch]

Yeah, idk why went open world route. A lot of area are pretty bland

[silk blaze]

I think that is what I mentioned before. Johien responded with this #1347155473266114580 message

[uneven arch]

Yep, I got that taken care.

[silk blaze]

[thin fjord]

for the presets I think you can have two one with rtgi and one without

[merry tartan]

ngs is weird, cause I genuinely think it's some of the best PSO in terms of environment and enemy designs. Music is also really good. The combat feels awesome too. The game is just utterly let down by all of its backing systems, which is critically important for a looter. Those systems cheapen all the things it's actually doing pretty well.

like the original PSO is one of my favorite games of all time, and on paper it's super rote by modern standards. It has a paltry amount of truly unique content and an extremely simple loop both in terms of moment to moment gameplay and long term objectives. But it manages to make all of these components satisfying enough that it doesn't matter.

I think every subsequent pso game got progressively worse at keeping its systems inherently engaging, but ngs is just a different breed lol.

[thin fjord]

og pso is a great game, I was always more of a monster hunter guy but man that game really was special

they should go back to that quest based system that it pioneered

[merry tartan]

Monster hunter to me is the closest modern thing to the original pso

I wish pso didn’t immediately move away from having such a deliberate combat loop

[thin fjord]

it was heavily inspired by PSO, sad to see that PSO no longer carries that DNA

talking about sad things, the Khazan team being canned is another tragedy

the best combat of that kind in a game outside of monster hunter

[merry tartan]

I need to pick that up sometime

[uneven arch]

You guys have any suggestion with preset names? So I'm going to create two preset for now. Non-RT Starter and RTGI Starter. Idk if those a good preset name though lol

[amber blade]

Vanilla (what the game normally uses) / Basic (Non-RT Starter) / Recommended (RT-Starter)

then have the custom profiles ontop of that.

[uneven arch]

I think default button is enough for vanilla. It reads the game engine setting first start up to use that as the baseline

[amber blade]

The default button would be better to restore the defaults of the current profile

would also be a good idea to move profiles to the top of the mod

[uneven arch]

Oh, but I already somewhat completed the mod lol. Just tweaking some info. I'll consider it for the next next update since it require moving codes around

[amber blade]

having profiles at the bottom is like walking into a building, ordering a big mac without knowing its a Mcdonalds

[uneven arch]

I guess if I do that, I can add collapse button to be less clutter

[uneven arch]

Hopefully I can get this release today. Here's a enhanced contact shadow under certain condition. Left is default contact shadows and right is Enhanced. I'll say MHWilds did a good job compared to other RE Engine Titles when it comes to contact shadows lol

[thin fjord]

nice

[uneven arch]

https://www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunterwilds/mods/4269 Okay, new update is out. Report back to me if there's any bugs lol

[amber blade]

no need to credit me for suggesting two words in the english language but I apprechiate the thought

Ok that new shadow setting you added does wonders

The sand finally looks like sand

also either you fixed a setting or changed something but I am not getting RT popin when changing camera up/down now

[violet kindle]

Unchecking 'Stream Resident Target' will report an error

[uneven arch]

Hmm, I gotta look into that. Does it happens after restarting?

[violet kindle]

Restarting makes it disappear.Using the ResetScript button under ScriptRunner also makes it disappear.
Checking and unchecking again will cause the error to reappear. Already uninstalled real_graphics_options.

[uneven arch]

Okay, I'll definitely will check it out when I'm free. I guess I overlooked when testing out

[amber blade]

upon testing the small object culling disable you use either doesn't work or is not as effective as what real graphics options is using by setting it to a value. I put that mod back on and instantly got more grass to show up on the title screen.

may have something todo with how DLSS presets/FG are a hidden quality modifier

https://imgur.com/XzJfyIK

[fading cape]

not the piss filter on wilds

🥀

[uneven arch]

@violet kindle Okay, it was a tiny silly error on my part. let me fix it and release it

[uneven arch]

Interesting, I think someone mentioned about lowering upscaling quality will reduce the draw distance or something

Alright, updated the file again on nexus.

[amber blade]

yeah enabling framegen lowers vram cap and upscaling increases object culling / lowers culling distance. Pretty big difference for me as I run at ultra pref with framegen on atm.

[amber blade]

also confirmed, the RT popin from camera shift comes from the ray length being too long. Keeping it to 200-300 and it seems fine.

[amber blade]

https://imgur.com/JPNOgjF

[uneven arch]

@amber blade Okay, that was easy. I found the culling while in ultra performance upscaling

I guess I can add on the next update

[amber blade]

nice. Check Framegen for Vram stuff too

[uneven arch]

Oh, you mean like the real graphics option? I checked it out last time and it seems it decreased GI quality

Oh okay, I was somewhat right.

So pretty much it's doing that. I dont think there's a way to reduce fg vram unless you switch preset or reduce generated frames

[amber blade]

I was going by the mods description / name of the option. I just saying whatever image quality reductions FG adds disable them also.

its really dumb the game does this in the first place.

[cerulean marsh]

Okay it seems like there's a bit of weirdness with contact shadows on skin with this latest update.

I'll try to get a picture of it if I can but it looks kind of similar to the discoball artifacting people were finding in the forest

[cerulean marsh]

It has seemingly vanished

[uneven arch]

Okay, let me know if you see it again. You can always untoggle contact shadow if it's distracting

[lethal dove]

Hi guys, I was testing wilds rehydrated with renodx with a friend of mine, neither of us has ray tracing on but my fog slider works and his does not.
I saw on nexus mod and here in the server that the fog slider should work only with ray tracing on, so it should not be working for me right?

[thin fjord]

same gpu vendor?

btw @amber blade @uneven arch either of you get massive slowdowns when opening the equipment change or the blacksmith?

[lethal dove]

yes

[uneven arch]

So I believe the game is trying to revert back to the in-game setting every time you visit the inventory box/camp or blacksmith, but my mod prevents it from doing that. That may be why the game had a slowdown.

It was pretty annoying when I first started modding for this game until I figured it out.

[amber blade]

sounds like you have disable post processing effects or similar disabling the fog. Sliders don't work if another mod changes the thing reno is trying to change.

[robust phoenix]

sorry guys, is special K needed? been a while since i used renodx

[cerulean marsh]

No, just reshade

[cerulean marsh]

and reframework

[robust phoenix]

are there benefits for using special K with reno tho?

also, what mods do ppl recommend to have the perfect visual experience?

[cerulean marsh]

Graphics enhancements and RenoDX are really all you need

and maybe Camera Light remover

[cerulean marsh]

Special K benefits in the ways that it normally does, Frame limiting, some fine control over rendering settings that you don't normally get but nothing that benefits the other graphics mods in any meaningful way

[robust phoenix]

also, what about performance? game seems to run worse than it ran for me before all these patches. is texture compression needed still?

[thin fjord]

probably because they made shader pre-compilation worse, should get better.

I use the decompressed version of this texture pack
https://www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunterwilds/mods/3214?tab=description

[robust phoenix]

thank you!

[thin fjord]

@uneven arch saw that someone mention fixing dithering pattern in the nexus comments. no way to do that unless you fix the shaders manually

I know some games use a dithered pattern to overlay multiple LoD meshes when they are transitioning, they also use it to soften shadows and for semi transparent materials. likely too many shaders to patch

[uneven arch]

Which comments did you see that?

[thin fjord]

even if you expand the distance the pattern will still be present in a lot of places

[uneven arch]

Ah, yeah. It's not easy

@thin fjord maybe you can tackle this issue lol

[thin fjord]

no easy way to do it in dx12 games

[robust phoenix]

https://www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunterwilds/mods/4222?tab=description

does this mod work with the enhanced graphic one?

[thin fjord]

they mostly do the same thing but Johien's has more stuff

[robust phoenix]

gotcha

also you guys running any presets?

[thin fjord]

I use the RT preset

[uneven arch]

@robust phoenix lmk if you have any questions

[robust phoenix]

will do! Its just its been so long since i played, i'm having to set up everything again, and i remembered the game looking better and running better for some reason.

[uneven arch]

Official HD Texture DLC pack got downgrade. Luckily, we got HD texture pack lite mod

[robust phoenix]

since its a fresh install i might have to look at dlss stuff too

i remember i tweaked a lot wiith the presets and version

wich is currently used most by you guys?

[robust phoenix]

i put that in yeah

but yeah, if you guys have any recc on presets for reno dx and the mod, i'd be grateful

and dlss too

in use a lg c4 42

800 nits capp i think

[thin fjord]

I use Regrade preset on reno with dlss preset M 4k performance

[robust phoenix]

gotcha

thanks friend, it honestly looks much better already.

[late marten]

I noticed that RenoDX breaks the colors of my in game photos, is that fixable ?

Every picture i take with photo mode looks super dark and uncolored

Even when removing RenoDX the pictures i took with RenoDX remain the same

[fading cape]

use reshade screenshoots

[amber blade]

don't take them with photo mode

[uneven arch]

Looks great!

[amber blade]

@merry tartan done with metro exodus yet? 🤔

[merry tartan]

yeah

more or less anyway

[amber blade]

so whats distracting you now?

[merry tartan]

kind of inbetween stuff right now

well, CD got updated so have had to fix that

your ping is making me make a list of things I want to do though lol

[amber blade]

well I know something that isn't going to be updated for a long time

so you can be assured it's a one and done

and look how good it is now without psycho

[merry tartan]

the short list that came to mind

Add Psycho proper to MH Wilds
Fully fix bloom and try out proper Psycho in The Witcher 3
Work on Dishonored 2 Luma
Work on Titanfall 2 Luma
Remain in Crimson Desert purgatory probably
Update Trackmania mod

[amber blade]

I like the top of that list

[merry tartan]

lol

I've been putting off trackmania for ages

that mod is completely broken these days

I probably should do that one

[amber blade]

https://klipy.com/gifs/cross-arms--k01KRH616ZVJX4APYRVKQ9XKDRP

[merry tartan]

I could quickly slap in a psychov17 option with no tuning

just as a build for discord

[amber blade]

I'm mostly curious as as the difference

tunning would be nice ofc

[merry tartan]

the do it proper it's a fair amount of work

because it needs to replace the current system, not augment it

[amber blade]

slap in would still allow a toggle to the current rite?

[merry tartan]

yeah

one sec, I'll just throw it in

gimme like 20-30 min probably

cause I'm ngl I'm also curious 🤷

[amber blade]

I'll do a few comparison shots when you are done to fuel your curiosity for the full thing

though I do have things quite tuned so comparison will be a little wack

but if psycho without tuning looks better than the old with tuning, that alone is pretty nuts

[fading cape]

https://tenor.com/view/inefablejuly-man-pretending-to-be-asleep-opening-an-eye-gif-15442806798944116401

[merry tartan]

adap has been very patient

[fading cape]

lol I’m just messing around it’s really not a big deal you can do it whenever (obviously)

Unfortunately you’d probably be making it for only a few people

[merry tartan]

in a sense I'm almost glad the last mod is broken now cause it was slop

[fading cape]

Though there is a big mod scene for track mania with openplanet I wonder how interested they would be

[fading cape]

Lol better than vanilla that’s for sure

Or it was before it broke atleast lol

[merry tartan]

build will be a bit scuffed in terms of the color grading, too lazy to set it up to apply correct curves before it goes into the LUTs

how much this will matter, not sure

probably not much considering the black raise normally

[amber blade]

I'm sure you'll fix it later

[merry tartan]

forgot how bad these LUTs are

looks awful, can't just plop this in like this

might just have to do it right, so the time estimate was wrong lol

[amber blade]

no rush

not like the game is going to suddenly update and break all your hard work

[fading cape]

Forgot crimson desert isn’t the only fucked up game

Big mistake

[merry tartan]

should have known I wouldn't be able to just let sloppy code sit if I knew about it

I made a silly mistake in SDR

[fading cape]

wilds was one of your more recent mods too lol

[merry tartan]

a lot of it is just that I wrote the code in a way that's hard to maintain

confusing myself a lot right now

(at the time I thought it was easy to maintain)

[fading cape]

i was kinda thinking that when i saw the code you showed me when you were tryna help me out with a mod lol

what'd you change that was probably just a person by person thing

[merry tartan]

tbh it's more that I didn't write the code that way. I just didn't use very descriptive variable names and it caused me to mess up an input into the LUT

also had a lot of duplicate code in one of the shaders because I didn't feel like rewriting it to be better

[fading cape]

ah the classic should've pseudo coded things better problem

which ig makes up for not using descriptive names

even when i try making descriptive variables i forget anyway so i just started writing whole ass paragraphs in psuedocode if i might need to look back at it

[uneven arch]

Nice, looking forward to the proper psycho update. Hard to go back to the vanilla HDR lol

[fading cape]

will be interesting to see how it stacks up to the old one

in a actual game

haven't played much of the new games it's in already

[merry tartan]

psycho will be tuned on vibes, fuck their post-tone map LUTs

will post build soon

[merry tartan]

it probably needs some more tuning

[thin fjord]

oh total replacement? I was expecting a toggle for comparison in test version at least

but let's see

[merry tartan]

oh I should have worded that better

it's an option

it's just a complete replacement for everything the game does tone mapping wise.

something about colors is looking off though and idk what that's about

[thin fjord]

ah makes sense

[merry tartan]

I guess it's just cone response doing cone response things. Usually just kinda free to apply to games with per channel filmic tone mappers

[thin fjord]

yeah a bit deep fried, reds a bit too saturated

[merry tartan]

yeah it's weird cause that's usually what psycho does well...

[thin fjord]

blowout helps

[merry tartan]

feel like I've got a messed up color space somewhere but I just can't find anything like that

[thin fjord]

going from regrade preset then switching to psycho V and lowering blowout to like ~15-20

looks good more or less

[merry tartan]

yeah I was actually going to make that the regrade preset but decided I'd rather just change it if I'm actually going to spend time tuning it

[thin fjord]

Vanilla+(ReGrade) vs PsychoV

[merry tartan]

I need to figure out this color issue. Depending on area and time of day it can be pretty bad.

[merry tartan]

alright guess LUTs are more or less required unless I can figure out what conversion might be happening inside of them

so psycho is more or less a display mapper here which is not exciting

[fading cape]

seems like ur tryna avoid luts. Ig it's makes things more subjective?

or is it a performance thing

[amber blade]

so that'll be why the change isn't really much atm? Slightly higher black is what I'm seeing.

did some tweaking since noticed slider interaction drastically different.

I'll work on it some more later

[merry tartan]

The magic of psycho is the working space mostly. The idea is to apply the same kind of changes but in that working space.

Basically I just need to experiment with them more

[thin fjord]

LMS magic

But yeah you would need to somehow figure out how to get only the grading from the lut

[merry tartan]

yeah the color grading options are totally different with psycho

[odd pilot]

I like the witcher part

[fading cape]

damn you got rid of the neutwo tonemapper?

wanted to compare to the new to the old one lol

or is that vanilla+

old psycho looked very similar to neutwo and same here with vanilla+

oop wrong server

[amber blade]

the old psycho got replaced, Vanilla+ is neutwo

[uneven arch]

@amber blade did you find any area with weird looking rocks or material that doesn't look right?

[uneven arch]

I found a setting that should fix specular tracing when is RTGI enabled on certain material and armors.

[amber blade]

the materials or the shadows?

[uneven arch]

Left is Vanilla setting, Middle is the current mods, right will be on the next update

[uneven arch]

Any so I can check it out lol

[amber blade]

Do the event quest vs the 10 star rompollo

the path down to his area and the area 8 start in the basin tends to be funky

[uneven arch]

okay

[amber blade]

The area 8 cave in the forrest can also cause some funk

[uneven arch]

Glad I went back to check out some setting after discovering them on RE9 and Pragmata

[amber blade]

me too

water in general btw tends to break the most

the reflectiveness makes it look unnaturally white sometimes

turning it down fixes it but breaks reflections

[uneven arch]

I gotta check out water reflection later

[fading cape]

looks better

adds a lot of miss shadows too

like in the grass

and on the left of the forge

ngl i tend to like non rt setting more after fixing the denoiser reflections

[amber blade]

its most noticable on the NPC's boots

[uneven arch]

Yeah, the guardian outfit looks correct now lol. I wonder guardian outfit is coming back like MHWorld

[amber blade]

it prob will as defender gear when the expansion drops

[uneven arch]

thanks for correcting me. yeah, defender gear

Scarlet Forest basecamp

[uneven arch]

Left ExpensiveShader OFF and Right is ON

@amber blade I might be blind but I couldn't find the funky area in Basin and Forest area 8 lol

[amber blade]

#1347155473266114580 message

That wall between the area 8 camp and the rompollo nest is very noisy and looks wrong lighting wise

[uneven arch]

Oh, did you turned on aggressive denoiser?

[cerulean marsh]

I don't know what it is but I've been getting crashes on Wilds a lot more frequently

Nothing seemed to change between driver updates and never had any issues before. Its kind of really annoying

Seems to have started again after reinstalling the better graphics stuff

Not sure why since it never used to be a problem, always crashes during the network stuff, if it doesn't crash I get a network error

Ah its a TDR issue

I seem to have found a way to work around it, but I'm still concerned about the underlying cause

[amber blade]

the v2 was on, rest off

[uneven arch]

Okay, you can enable that toggle and it'll help in those situation where you see a lot of noise

[uneven arch]

That's odd. No overclocking or undervolt right?

[cerulean marsh]

None of any kind, wondering if maybe I just had the settings cranked a little too hard, turned basically everything I could up to max. I set up a TDR delay for now and that seems to push through whatever the issue is

Disabled all the second bounces and reduced the range a bit since I can't really tell the difference between second bounce and no second bounce and it looks fine with a bit of extra range I don't need GI influence from another stratosphere

(Even though it looks pretty)

[uneven arch]

True, if you can't see the difference, you can lower it down. What's is your specs btw?

[cerulean marsh]

core I7-12700f 9070 32gb ddr5 ram (3500 instead of 6000 even though my sticks can handle it cause my mobo cannot 🙁

Honestly it handles raytracing pretty well, not getting 60 native but I really can't feel any extra latency with frame gen on and the ghosting is very minimal unless I'm trying to find it. Makes for a pretty nice experience though sometimes frame drops still happen a bit when there are several hunters on screen

from hit effects, not just them being there

I'd say it looks pretty damn good (I forgot I had filters on in photo mode)

[uneven arch]

rx 9070 xt is a good card. You can try the latest reframeworkv2 and see if that helps.

[thin fjord]

wow the AO looks so much better

[uneven arch]

Yep, it was the work of specular tracing lol

I didn't know you did HDR mods for MHRise Izueh. Maybe I can see if there's anything to improve for that game

[sonic thicket]

I remember trying to make a mod to fix the lod range in that game, no luck

And shadow distance as well

Its pretty short even on highest settings

[cerulean marsh]

Non-xt might see about trying a different re framework build

[uneven arch]

Could be hardcoded like the other RE Engine games(REVillage for example). I'll check it out at some point

[uneven arch]

Oh, my mistake lol. Still good a graphics card.

[thin fjord]

Would be huge, that game is visually cursed. The biggest issue to fix is the small render distance for shadows

There is a circle of shadow that follows the player and it sucks

[thin fjord]

It is, hard coded on read only memory from what I understand from someone who tried

May need to do a reframework dll plugin to patch the memory

[uneven arch]

Dang, that may be future project. Currently trying to unlock RE9 PT menu for AMD(probably hardcoded too) but no amd card to test out lol

[cerulean marsh]

If I had RE9 I would test for you

But no monies 😔

[uneven arch]

i appreciate the thought

[pine cedar]

really hate why capcom still wont add lens distortion setting for wilds while re9 and pragmata both has the options to turn it off

[cerulean marsh]

I don't even know why they include it

I don't know a single person who likes it

If they keep it on its because they can't tell that its on

Though maybe these options were added for those games because they see all the lens distortion remover mods for wilds

[thin fjord]

it's also an action game, why use this cinematic filters?

like I can understand the dirty lens and distortion a little bit in re9

[magic nexus]

i guess in this you could say that it's to replicate the digitized view he'd have from his helmet

and it fits a good bit better in scifi

[pine cedar]

yea but in wilds it looks bad af

the clarity difference between lens distortion off and on in wilds is huge

[elder veldt]

Hey, I've been using RenoDX on Monster Hunter Wilds and I'm trying to dial in the settings for my PG32UCDM OLED.
My monitor has two HDR modes. Gaming HDR sets peak brightness to 1000 nits, and True Black 400 sets it to around 470 nits when calibrated through Windows HDR.
With Gaming HDR and the default RenoDX settings, the colors look great. Fire from monsters actually looks red and vibrant, like in the Rathalos screenshot. The problem is the shadows are too bright.
With True Black 400, the shadows look much better, but peak brightness drops to 470 nits and the colors lose that punch. It ends up looking closerto SDR, but bright elements like fire don't have that same impact.
Was wondering if anyone could help me out with my settings cuz I got no idea what I’m doing 🙂

*the screenshot is from the mod page showing how it looks in HDR… not my game.

[thin fjord]

true black is just way more accurate in these monitors you can maybe ask for calibration recommendations in #🖥️tvs-and-monitors search for your monitor name maybe. other than that all you can try to do is adjust the grading with reno

[cerulean marsh]

It always annoys me that samsung monitors just don't use the same names for things as pretty much every other manufacturer

There, to my knowledge isn't any true black mode on my G60 oled

And I have no idea what the equivalent would be

[magic nexus]

theyve all gotta be just a little bit unique

[amber blade]

That is the difference between true black and higher hdr modes, its why they are different modes. You can't have dark shadows and brightest lights at the same time. Pick your preference and tweak settings accordingly.

My screenshots should look good for you on the True Black mode as that is what my monitor is also.

[uneven arch]

You guys think I should have the option to disable reflection or just have that option as a preset only?

[magic nexus]

I think if someone's using the mod they're using it for the rt features so its hard to see the use for an option

[uneven arch]

Got a few requests but I think I'll just have it as a preset. Don't want to over add too much options because I'll get more user asking questions lol

[uneven arch]

Also, gotta look into how to prevent certain gpus going over the vram budget.

[amber blade]

Could you fake it by lying to the game about the cards actual Vram then letting it overflow but it isn't?

[uneven arch]

Could be worth looking into. Reason why I need to prevent from overflow is because I got a few comments mentioning their game became stuttery especially in scarlet forest and oilwell basin camp.

[uneven arch]

Okay, I had a friend do a VRAM stress test on his 2080 Ti 11GB and my VRAM safety margin seems to be working. He used to have stutter issues in Oilwell Basin because the game was using all of his VRAM budget, which would then dip into system memory.

[amber blade]

eta?

[uneven arch]

Hoping sometime this week. If it's not this week, next week for sure lol

I still gotta create more presets

[uneven arch]

https://www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunterwilds/mods/4269?tab=files Alright, finally released the update!

@amber blade

[amber blade]

👀

time to redo all the settings AGAIN....

[uneven arch]

Now I can only hope they update the engine whenever the expansion comes out.

[amber blade]

Capcom are heavily pushing RT in their games, makes sense they would update Wilds for that

@uneven arch I'm getting textures loading and unloading when I am standing still even without moving the camera

something is borked

seems to be the StreamingResidentTextureTargetSize setting

[amber blade]

some of the above turned out really good

I still think I need to tweak reno more now though, nights are very off

[uneven arch]

what's the vram usage?

[amber blade]

up to 15.3 out of the 15.7 the steam ui is reporting

I'm getting a lot of textures reverting to lowest quality ones That wouldn't happen before in general

[uneven arch]

Hmm, what other mods you have?

[amber blade]

loads but didn't have issues with your last version

I'm fiddling with the LOD settings section, turning that stuff off is making things better when before turning it on made things better

yeah textures as I run around a camp unload a lot when they wouldn't before

Running up/down the forrest camp triggers it consistently

[uneven arch]

Do you have real graphics option mods enabled?

[amber blade]

no

wait, maybe

[uneven arch]

Have that disable and let's see if it gets better

[amber blade]

That seemed to be it. I can still get it to happen but no-where near the rate it was happening

may want to add an incompatibility warning

was compatible previously

[uneven arch]

Okay, thanks for letting me know.

[amber blade]

np

enjoy the test shots above

I think the two I took in the basin came out the best surprisingly

[uneven arch]

I wonder if my vram safety margin is conflicting with that mods.

[amber blade]

perhaps. It is trying todo similar things

[uneven arch]

Specular trace and expensive shading are doing a lot work for basin

[thin fjord]

what reno settings are you using now with psychoV

[amber blade]

currently this but I still need to work on it

[thin fjord]

you liking psychoV over neutwo?

[cerulean marsh]

I might have asked this before but the download says to delete the Graphics enhancement profile folder fgrom MonsterHunterWilds/data but I have no idea where I would find that

Ah, only if present

Missed that part

Yeah I'm noticing texture bugs too

Otherwise the update is good. Though I do think I would prefer the aggressive denoiser off in the presets. Ghosting might not be as bad for nvidia users but on an AMD card the aggressive denoiser brings back the after image trails from when the game launched 💀

[amber blade]

its far better when tweaked correctly based on what I've done in Crimson Desert with it.

I need to play with it some more though

[uneven arch]

After image trails? Does it happen during gameplay?

[cerulean marsh]

Ghosting, particularly in dark or shadowy areas

[amber blade]

btw @uneven arch the thing is happening again, much as before

very frequently with the roof tent texture over the wastes main camp

that is unloading all the time now, it never used to

[uneven arch]

Hmm, is your vram usage around 15.3gb still?

Maybe I should reduce the vram safety margin.

I should had more tester instead of one person lol

[amber blade]

up to yes, tends to be in the 14's

I messed with the streamingtexturetargetsize option again and I noticed it keeps happening even if I lower it from 16 to 8 or so

but so far has stopped happening when I set it to 2, vram usage unchanged

The test I am doing is running up and down the length of the wastes camp. Either the sheet above you unloads or the rack next to the blacksmith does

[uneven arch]

okay, let me change the value and I'll send you the file to see if that helps

I'll DM you

[uneven arch]

It might be MaxGIHistory under Diffuse GI section. Can reduce it by half from 64 to 32 to see if it helps

[amber blade]

So the fog setting doesn't bug out the rocks all the time now but after a certain time of day they do

though it doesn't stand out as much as before

wait nevermind, I checked behind me

[uneven arch]

I wanna test it again. Plenty and daytime right?

[amber blade]

yeah

[uneven arch]

I tried your hdr setting and it looks fine

oops forgot to change game brightness but rock still looks fine

[amber blade]

set the fog to 0

its set to 45 as this problem happens when you go +5/-5 from 50

[violet kindle]

"streamingResidentTextureTargetsize" works as long as it is checked. However, the numerical value of the option seems ineffective. For a 12 GB RTX 5070, no matter what value you set, the game will only use about 8 GB of VRAM. That said, it does completely resolve the previous issue of running out of VRAM and falling back to system memory.

[uneven arch]

@violet kindle are you experiencing a lot of pop in?

[violet kindle]

No, except for occasional texture loading delays

[uneven arch]

did you try 1.6.1? idk if it'll improve the experience but I need some feedback

I reduce the vram safety margin so it should be less aggressive. If this doesnt work out well, I may have to rethink this through.

[violet kindle]

On a 12GB graphics card, version 1.6.1 uses around 300MB more VRAM. The only noticeable pop-in occurs here:

[uneven arch]

Ah okay. Are you using any hd texture pack by chance? Also, on v1.5, did you experience stuttering?

[violet kindle]

I do use the High Resolution Texture Pack Lite.
As far as I remember, I didn't run into any stuttering on version 1.5. That said, I haven't played MHW much lately, and when I did, I was only fighting Arch-Tempered Arkveld.

[uneven arch]

Understandable. If you can test by running around scarlet forest area 12,13,15,17 and Oilwell basin camp. Those seems to be the common area on user telling me they experience stuttering

[violet kindle]

I ran back and forth between Areas 12 and 13 in the Scarlet Forest. I hit a bit of stuttering once during the Downpour weather, but passing through the same spot again didn't cause any issues. Running between Areas 15 and 17 was fine.
I also had no problems running between Area 4 and Base Camp in the Oilwell Basin

[uneven arch]

Thank you for testing. So it does seem to help

Now I need some 8gb and 10gb users to do some testing lol

[amber blade]

Test Shot

even though the lower fog slider borks some things, overall its worth it

[thin fjord]

are you using the reno slider or the ref mod one?

[amber blade]

reno slider

Problem is now midday/plenty and similar look great, night/fallow looks rather bad atm

not sure how to solve it

[cerulean marsh]

Honestly if I were you personally I'd actually bump shadows down to below 50, turn up contrast by a point or two and lower your overall brightness to 200 nits instead of 300. Game will seem pretty dark at first but your eyes will adjust. 300 base brightness to 600 peak isn't a huge dynamic range and as far as I know not usually recommended?

The reduced dynamic range could be what's making your nights and fallow look bad. I think mine look great, but bright areas still pop for me. But I also left all the local exposure sliders at default because messing with those settings seemed to totally mess something else up that might make one scene look really good, but totally obliterates picture quality in others

[uneven arch]

Nice nice. I'm now trying to catch up on this game. Trying to get Lagiacrus Sapphire drop is hell

[fading cape]

i just spent 30 minutes refreshing sos lol

[uneven arch]

Same, and I keep resting at the camp to see if I can spawn guaranteed drop but no luck lol

[thin fjord]

I have so many, I did the Lagi + Rathalos event quest so many times for armor spheres

that and the carver food

can usually finish that quest in about 7 minutes

[uneven arch]

Lucky lol

[thin fjord]

can't trade in MH sadly or thankfully

[sonic thicket]

They'd probably crack down harder on mods if you could

[cerulean marsh]

Reshade is making my monster hunter crash

Oh. Not this time apparently

[uneven arch]

Mhwilds expansion announced!

[fading cape]

well we got more content

weird lil summer games fest trailer

sky island

kushala

lao shen long

[uneven arch]

Yeah and Lao Shen is back!

[alpine tree]

And new Mechanic it seems for all weapons

[thin fjord]

Lao is such an odd choice

really odd to pick two of the most hated monster for a trailer. but I respect it

[fading cape]

People like Lao?

Seems like

[thin fjord]

I can confirm nobody liked fighting Lao

they like the callback to him maybe

[tender frost]

I just hope they focus ramping up the roaster number compared to base game with a lot of returning elders instead of focusing too much newer large monsters. Ideally both new ones and lots of elders at the same time but if I had to chose; I prefer more returning elders over less new monsters

[thin fjord]

there is usually more returning monster in the expansions than in the base game

[tender frost]

I really hope so man, base game roaster is the one of the weakest ones in my opinion. There are some new bangers, sure but too little in proportion

[uneven arch]

Bring Nami back please. I love the armor set