✅Luma: Final Fantasy VII Remake

[frigid fjord]

maybe dlaa yeah

[austere quiver]

It does, but it seems to use the diet Switch 2 model like SW Outlaws

[frigid fjord]

maybe for rebirth they may need to use dynamic res and dlss

[left folio]

Yeah I see

Much much better that the shitty TAA on PC tho

[frigid fjord]

yeah that TAA is so blurry

[spice gust]

hey there im using the mod for ff7 remake and when using the hdr video option it makes the fmvs have pretty bad black crush

is there any fix?

[sleek imp]

I tried to edit the Engine.ini to increase shadow resolution
The only cvar that works is r.shadowminresolution “I dunno if typed correctly lol”
But the shadows flicker with GTAO enabled

[frigid fjord]

so if you use that cvar shadows flicker?

[frigid fjord]

on the latest version still has the black crush issue?

I will have a look

[spice gust]

yea

the fmvs kinda look deep fried ngl lol

[sleek imp]

Yeah
And strangely enough the regular cvar with maxresolution doesn’t have any effect

[frigid fjord]

does it have effect with luma off?

[sleek imp]

You mean maxresolution? No from my testing

[frigid fjord]

ok yeah I see the issue with the videos. must have fucked it up at some point

[spice gust]

nice

btw what is the performance cost of dlss transformer vs the other dlss vs native?

[austere quiver]

depends on the GPU you have

[spice gust]

i have a 3070 running 4k

[austere quiver]

Transformer is around 20% slower than CNN on the 30 series IIRC

[spice gust]

what about native?

[austere quiver]

Are we talking about Native Vs DLAA?

[frigid fjord]

there is a lot of artifacting and banding and deep fried look in bright scenes with autohdr

[austere quiver]

AutoHDR in the Rebirth mod looked fine IIRC

[frigid fjord]

I copied Musa's code from rebirth

[austere quiver]

I see

Maybe you could try ShortFuse shader?

[frigid fjord]

will try this

@lusty coral any idea how to fix this awful banding making this brighter just makes it worse ngl. don't think the issue is with autohdr

[lusty coral]

yes, u need to add blooming with a huge radius

[frigid fjord]

won't that ruin the image, might look fine when it's in the sky but it happens a lot in these videos and makes everything look crunchy

[lusty coral]

no

faint bloom

it's gonna add some color

but it's not gonna feel like much

other than fixing banding

[frigid fjord]

do we have a function to add that in luma?

[frigid fjord]

should I copy from the generic bloom shader that was implemented for bioshock and should I do it before or after autohdr?

[frigid fjord]

GTAO vs SSAO think I will just reduce the radius a little and it should be good.

GTAO vs SSAO vs None

[lusty coral]

Did u fix the matrix problem?

[frigid fjord]

Not really, couldn't figure out any issue

[lusty coral]

Ok. So the darkening is stable when rotating the camera?

[frigid fjord]

well. there is still that one roof tile that changes, just never figured it out.

[spice gust]

were you able to fix the problem with fmvs?

[frigid fjord]

Yes pushing the build now

[frigid fjord]

https://github.com/Izueh/Luma-Framework/releases

it's up in my branch, I have to head out. will update main branch and nexus when I get back

[spice gust]

awesome ty

[frigid fjord]

Did you try it?

[spice gust]

i havent im gonna try it rn

@frigid fjord is it ff7 remake or ff7 remake test?

[frigid fjord]

Remake

[spice gust]

aight the fix is good

[spice gust]

@frigid fjord i have this bug with chapter 3 where all the indoor locations are bright af LOL

[frigid fjord]

Huh. I'll check it out, thanks.

[sleek imp]

I had something similar when I used cvars to increase shadows resolutions if I set r.Shadow.MaxResolution to 8k and r.Shadow.MinResolution to 4k I get no shadow flicker but some parts of the game looks like the screen, while If I use r.Shadow.MinResolution only I get shadow flickering with GTAO

[frigid fjord]

I am going to need more info, I am not getting that issue

[sleek imp]

Game looks absolutely incredible, especially HDR thank y'all for hard work

[spice gust]

what info do you need?

i can record it in a bit

[frigid fjord]

any other settings, what specific place it happens.

[spice gust]

i dont have anything besides luma and an engine.ini

i can send the engine.ini over

[frigid fjord]

sure let me try that

[spice gust]

https://youtu.be/ZyBd53ym5mc?si=u__56Be2bg8Fyf7l

im using the dx11 engine.ini from the description of this

[frigid fjord]

let me test this

maybe it is the shadow settings in the egine.ini file, just like @sleek imp was saying. try commenting those out.

[spice gust]

oh ok lemme see

[spice gust]

deleting those lines didnt fix it for me

here is a vid of the issue

[frigid fjord]

can you do a recording. not too sure from here but this just seems like the game local exposure

[spice gust]

i can go in a different room where its really bad

[frigid fjord]

can you try without the engine.ini and deleting the reshade.ini as well?

[spice gust]

sure

ok that fixes it lol

i wonder what caused it in the engine.ini

[frigid fjord]

try adding the engine.ini back and delete reshade.ini as well and see if the issue appears again

[spice gust]

i just deleted all the shadows and lighting stuffs in the ini and its fine again

thanks for the help man

oh btw i saw you posted on nexus that your gonna drop a version with vanilla hdr thats less demanding? @frigid fjord

this version doesnt run bad or anything im just a framerate enjoyer

[frigid fjord]

I should test if it's really less demanding. Shouldn't be hard I forgot about that.

[spice gust]

ight awesome thanks for the great work again 🙏

[tidal tartan]

i forgot does rebirth have gtao ?

[frigid fjord]

I actually don't know. May be able to force it on with engine variables if it's UE 4.25

[jolly crane]

@frigid fjord Hello! Just downloaded the new Luma update (2.4) and really enjoying the option to switch between DLSS presets, but it seems much more stuttery (practically unplayable) than the previous one (2.3).

Just went in and deleted all old .ini files from the past updates to see if that was the culprit and still getting the same issue.

After a little bit more testing on my 5080 this only happens when Super Resolution is set to 'DLSS' (irregardless of preset). If set to 'None' or 'FSR 3' it works as normal.

[jolly crane]

This is also my Engine.ini for reference.

[frigid fjord]

Does changing the dlss preset work?

[frigid fjord]

Testing now

Ah is the weird memory leak that only ever happens when it gets compiled by git.

I really don't understand the cause of this issue

[frigid fjord]

try new version on nexus

[spare breach]

How do i enable DLSS perfomance? ive put r.DynamicRes.OperationMode=1
r.DynamicRes.MinScreenPercentage=50
r.DynamicRes.MaxScreenPercentage=50 in the engine.ini

[frigid fjord]

Yes

[spare breach]

not working with that in the engine for me fsr 3 is working just not dlss

[frigid fjord]

can you try 51 instead of 50?

[spare breach]

no change just goes to DLAA i think when i enable dlss

[spare breach]

when i set to none my fps is like 160 then when i enable dlss it goes to 70-80

[frigid fjord]

try preset F

[spare breach]

chaged my engine.ini to [SystemSettings]
t.MaxFPS=0
r.DynamicRes.OperationMode=1 // Turn Dynamic Resolution off (Forces DLAA) or on

Set the minimum and maximum resolution for Dynamic Resolution

r.DynamicRes.MinScreenPercentage=50 // Default 50
r.DynamicRes.MaxScreenPercentage=50 // Default 100

and it worked for some reason

the vram usage goes from 10gb to over 15gb whil,e playing through

[frigid fjord]

t.MaxFPS=0 made it work?

[spare breach]

[SystemSettings]

Resolution, Framerate, etc.

r.SecondaryScreenPercentage lets you adjust r.ScreenPercentage while mainting the UI resolution set by r.SetRes

Disables dynamic resolution (DRS is not for PC)

====================================================

t.MaxFPS=0
r.DynamicRes.MinScreenPercentage=66.7
r.DynamicRes.MaxScreenPercentage=66.7
r.vsync=0
This is what im using now it was capped to 120 for some reason with the old one and using loads of vram this one is only using 8.8gb at 4k in the slums

[frigid fjord]

I gotta test all of this, want to make a minimal engine.ini with recommended settings

[left folio]

Would be amazing

[spare breach]

Great work with this btw never seen this game look so sharp

[jolly crane]

Just tested it and everything works great! Thanks for the speedy fix and amazing project!

[frigid fjord]

More fixes coming

[frigid fjord]

should be stable now, test settings again with latest version if you don't mind

[spare breach]

yeah this one is working nicely

[spare breach]

only nitpick i have is the shadows on the face flicker more than vanilla

[frigid fjord]

Yeah shadows are just softer in vanilla. Because of taa blur and dithering

[jolly crane]

Firstly, tried the newest update and somehow you made the performance even better! I genuinely appreciate all your hard work on this mod!

Just a quick question about the sharpness slider while having DLSS enabled. It says the Vanilla setting is 0 and the default is 50, so is the slider in relation to the sharpness that DLSS adds with its upscaler or is it’s own Reshade/Luma sharpness filter?

I ask this because 0 is incredibly soft while 50 looks like more in line with the sharpness I would expect from a DLSS upscaled image.

[frigid fjord]

Honestly I should change that default I made it with dlss cnn in mind. Which is significantly softer.

0 is no sharpness

[frigid fjord]

50 or 30 is good depending on what resolution and what preset you are using

[lusty coral]

i guess now the DX11 version with DLSS can perform better than DX12 cuz you can get ~native looking 4k

at 1080p rendering?

[frigid fjord]

Yeah, looks so much better than native with the dithering fix too specially at lower resolutions

[jolly crane]

Wait so to clarify, is the sharpness slider to control how much DLSS sharpens your image or a Reshade external sharpening filter.

Essentially, would 0 (Vanilla) be:

An image with 0 sharpening AT ALL done by DLSS, ONLY upscaled
OR
An upscaled image with the default DLSS amount of sharpening (so that if you were to increase the sharpness slider, you would be getting additional sharpening ON TOP of what DLSS already does)

Sorry if my question is confusing I’m trying to convey it properly.

[frigid fjord]

It's a custom sharpening filter I apply myself after dlss already drew

0 is vanilla

[jolly crane]

Gotchu that’s exactly what I wanted to know 🫡 I appreciate the help

[frigid fjord]

anyone with in here with linux and this game that can test something?

[jolly crane]

If no-one helps before I get back home, I dual boot it and have a steam deck so I could you help you out when I get back in like an hour

[jolly crane]

Ok back home! lmk what you need

[frigid fjord]

just try running the game with luma and see if it crashes

if it does then try using proton tricks to install these msvcrt40 and vcrun2022

[jolly crane]

does it matter between these two ?

[frigid fjord]

first one

[jolly crane]

gotchu, testing rn

Ok, got both of these errors and then lastly a "Fatal Error" and the game never opened.

[jolly crane]

Gonna try to download the dependiecies now to see if that fixes it

[frigid fjord]

Did you run it with -dx11

[jolly crane]

No, completely forgot about it 😭 Just added it though and still getting a "Fatal Error" and game closed

[frigid fjord]

Don't you need to add dxgi to the override as well?

For reshade

[jolly crane]

Forgot about that too, just to make sure it should look like this right?

Ok, looks like i got it up and running! It seems that you need msvcrt40 and vcrun2022 to make it work otherwise you'll get a "Fatal Error"

[frigid fjord]

this is what I wanted to confirm

thank you

appreciate the help

[jolly crane]

No problem! After all you've done it's the least I could do

I was also even able to get Display Commander to work so I could inject reflex as well

[frigid fjord]

oh wow, it used to have issues with DC before, I gotta test it on windows.

[jolly crane]

Oh yeah, I meant to update from a while back when I was having problems with it too that it works flawlessly now on Windows with the new releases

[frigid fjord]

so for this game only thing that remains is to find better constant for GTAO. maybe try to figure out how to fix traversal stutters if that's even possible.

[jolly crane]

Yea GTAO has been pretty hit or miss for me so I just keep it off currently and I’ve just learned to live with the traversal stutters atp 😭

[frigid fjord]

If you know of particular problematic scenes for GTAO let me know

[jolly crane]

I gotchu I’ll turn it on and let you know of any weirdness I encounter

Another question is, would it ever be possible to implement FSR4 (specifically the INT8 model) like you’ve implemented FSR3?

I have another AMD handheld and while FSR3 does the job it still has some minor problems (boiling, ghosting) that I think FSR4 would clean-up

[frigid fjord]

When we do dx12 support

[frigid fjord]

You can use optiscaler with interop for now to replace dlss 4 with fsr4

[jolly crane]

Gotchu looking forward to it

[frigid fjord]

did FF7 looked like it was in the wrong color space or wrong gamma when you tried?

[jolly crane]

Are you asking about when I tried GTAO or FSR4?

[frigid fjord]

just in general some people were complaining about image being dim in linux

[jolly crane]

Oh, no personally I didn’t notice any issues but I didn’t test for long as my main way to play is Windows

[frigid fjord]

did you test in HDR by any chance? I think it might be an SDR only issue

[jolly crane]

Yeah, I only tested through HDR on Linux and it looked the same as Windows

When I get time later I’ll try SDR and let you know if I have any issues

[split isle]

This is how it looks like on steam deck lcd

With ingame dynamic range set to hdr

Sorry I meant, set to sdr not hdr

[frigid fjord]

do you have a custom resolution?

I mean a resolution higher than the screen resolution

[split isle]

Hello, using 720p resolution on deck. I just tried 1080p resolution and that fixed the colors.

[frigid fjord]

It fixed it?

So you set 1080 in the deck and in game both, right?

[split isle]

Seems to be the case but can't play at 1080p resolution on deck's 800p resolution. Bad performance and stretched look

[frigid fjord]

does 720p on both settings work?

[split isle]

I just changed the resolution from the ingame settings, no 800p resolution available. I'll try to force it via steam os properties, will let you know if anything works.

[frigid fjord]

If you want 800p you have to use lyalls fix

[split isle]

Thanks, I'll try that 👍

[frigid fjord]

I have to fix the issue with downscaling from a higher resolution

[austere quiver]

https://i.ibb.co/wNK3PxLN/image.png

This will shirley break mods

[frigid fjord]

Noooooo

Hopefully the output shaders don't change

[lusty coral]

they might have added DLSS

rip

and it's gonna be bad

[frigid fjord]

If they add it, I'll just do the dithering fix and HDR.

[sleek imp]

Are you planning to add your dithering fix to Rebirth?

[frigid fjord]

Not possible right now, rebirth is dx12

[spice gust]

damn your dlss implementation is actually hella nice lol i get good performance and theres no problems with the texts and menus like other mods

[frigid fjord]

thank you

[nimble tapir]

I doubt they’re going to add DLSS to this

[frigid fjord]

feel like it would have been part of the marketing

[nimble tapir]

Ya

[lusty coral]

If they are sharing progression, they might have upgraded engine version, and dlss

[lapis oar]

Some people here are hoping they add DLSS so might be an option to promote this Luma mod here
https://reddit.com/r/digitalfoundry/comments/1qivcvd/final_fantasy_7_remake_intergrade_switch_2_review/

[austere quiver]

I assume the video doesn't mention it?
Booo

[wispy zinc]

negative

he says the texture dither doesn't look too bad, but any time it's onscreen i want to gouge my eyes out

[austere quiver]

Well I've tried

Seems like everyone except John is allergic to mentioning Luma or RenoDX

[wispy zinc]

mods are evil

alex did mention he wants to cover reno at some point but >schedules and all that

[austere quiver]

Unless they have ultra grapix Ray Tracing in the name

Like the one for Bloodborne they covered recently

[wispy zinc]

yeah if the mod doesn't cast 2 billion more lights and have accurate shadows it's useless

[nimble tapir]

That’s kind of bs because they covered in record pace that dlc checker monster hunter wilds shit

I’m not saying there isn’t schedule conflicts

But clearly it is not a priority for them at all

[austere quiver]

HDR is pretty niche overall, so I'm not surprised that will guarantee more clicks
It is a business overall
But gamers are horny for DLSS and they love their upscaler comparisons, I thought that it would be a slam dunk for them

[tidal tartan]

doesn't matter if it gets click

the point is that it reaches out to more devs

since a lot watch their content

[austere quiver]

JP devs give zero fucks about DF

[wispy zinc]

i think alex probably wants to do a big video about it (and that's how it sounded like when he mentions the tech in Directs)
going really deep into what hdr is etc

[tidal tartan]

who cares about jp

lol

ya

man i've been dming some people on x/sky but i just get ignored

only my goat alex has answered

[frigid fjord]

It looks terrible on shadows and reflection at any resolution and looks awful in everything else not at 4k

[nimble tapir]

It looks realllly bad

I tried the demo out on switch 2 and holy shit

I said it here before but it’s bad

[frigid fjord]

I am surprised byt the amount of artifacts some people are willing to put up with

[austere quiver]

Mah sharpness tho

I've been raging about the new DLSS but everyone else on the internet is creaming themself because now every pixel is so sharp you can shave with it

Actual aliasing to be damned

[frigid fjord]

it's the same fight that we had with preset K

nobody seemed to care that it broke all transparent effects

[nimble tapir]

Besides motion stability i have no issues with the new presets

The sharpness I really don’t notice

[true spire]

Is this why rebirth has broken trees?

[frigid fjord]

With dlss shadows, trees and probably other stuff yeah

Should look fine with TAA tho

[true spire]

Yeah preset f is pretty ok too. k and m both breaks trees transparency

Also M is very oversharpened they should have a sharpening slider in the overrides

[frigid fjord]

ah K has issues with transparency in every game more or less

[spice gust]

preset k has terrible hair on rebirth

i rolled back to cnn models just to make it go away lol

[proud dome]

Today's update is seemingly a very minor one, no native DLSS implementation at all, but of course it broke Emoose's FF7Hook

[nimble tapir]

https://x.com/stealth40k/status/2014312278569480486?s=46

Stealth (@Stealth40k)

Naoki Hamaguchi says FF VII Rebirth & Part 3 are being developed for Switch 2 right now. The gameplay experience will be exactly the same as other platforms:

"There's not a huge amount of information I can share in terms of future games, but I can reassure players that we’re

X · Jan 22, 2026, 12:20 PM

[frigid fjord]

That's good. It'll sell very well

[frigid fjord]

Did it break Luma?

[proud dome]

No idea, only looked at the Steamdb file list and checked NexusMods

Doubt it would have broken anything else though

[broken ore]

I was testing out remake earlier, and was noticing the huge frame time spike that was reproducible in the slums, does it happen in other areas of the game?

[frigid fjord]

worst area is the wall market

can you check without the mod as well?

[broken ore]

Yeah, I'll take a look, I don't think the luma is causing the traversal stutter tho

[frigid fjord]

not it's there in the game unmodded, might be a bit worse in dx11 although no shader compilation stutter in dx11

[broken ore]

Yeah I'll take a look at dx12, I was messing around with NPC pop-in + fps cap in the slums to fix it because there is one spot that produces a massive spike

30fps cap actually "improves" it but the spike happens a second later in the same spot

[frigid fjord]

there are some setting people use to improve it using custom engine variables. but ymmv and currently engine mods are broken due to update

[broken ore]

looks to be the same dx11 unmodded/modded, and dx12

[frigid fjord]

yeah it has to do with asset streaming, some test show dx12 is better. But even then the problem is always present.

[broken ore]

Im testing dx12 rn

a 30fps is good

but I can reproduce a frame time spike

with shadows + textures high

that I dont get with both low

[frigid fjord]

try using dxvk and see if that helps

sadly not compatible with luma

[broken ore]

cant seem to get dxvk to be working

actually nvm

needed to add d3d11 as well

yeah dxvk is the same

oh wait wth dxvk is actually better

[frigid fjord]

yeah the holy grail

I have been meaning to ask some of the devs what optimizations could possibly cause this, so I can add it to luma

[broken ore]

yeah I'm running 120fps and I still can't produce the stutter in the same spot from dx11/dx12 at 30/60

lose HDR/DLSS tho, and you still get initial cache stutters using dxvk

[frigid fjord]

you can get HDR back with SK/Reshade/Liliums dxvk fork

but you do lose dlss for sure

[sleek imp]

One of the things that helped in my case, particularly with f80h’s 4k texture pack (which I think is mandatory for this game) is using some cvars to optimize texture streaming
The game still stutters regardless but it’s much worse with the texture pack

You can find them here

https://github.com/marcValdz/FF7-Rebirth-Optimized-Clarity

it’s for rebirth but you can use them in remake aswell

And I believe there’s someone on nexus who used similar cvars and claims it reduces stutter

[frigid fjord]

cant use any of that at the moment, update broke ff7hooks

[sleek imp]

It’s called Stutter-Free Seamless Gameplay on Nexus

[sleek imp]

That’s sad, hopefully emoose updates it asap
I finished the game couple of weeks ago

[frigid fjord]

also fixed the flashing shadow issue with gtao

going to push these changes

[sleek imp]

DLAA Model M vs TAA

those cobwebs looks really bad in motion with TAA

[frigid fjord]

this game looks really bad in general with TAA

[sleek imp]

I know, before your Luma release I had to downsample from 5K DLDSR to 4K just to have some good IQ but it was still bad too and performance intensive

Some shots I had, with DLAA Model K and Ultra GTAO (plus f80h texture pack)

[jolly crane]

Unfortunately it seems this update has broken compatibility with Display Commander (DC) 😭

I just get a fatal error every time I try to use DC's addon but Luma on it's own still works

[frigid fjord]

Maybe the reshade version upgrade?

Idk I changed nothing regarding the rendering pipeline, not sure why it would break now compared to before

[jolly crane]

Oh no sorry I didn't mean the Luma update but the new FFVII hook

I think thats the culprit because Luma still works by itself and if I revert to Luma 2.4.2 DC still doesnt work

[frigid fjord]

Oh yeah people mentioned that some cvars don't seem to work either

[jolly crane]

Yeah I’ve noticed that as well because I had a CVAR that disabled AO and that’s being completely ignored now I think

but my Dynamic Res cvar still works

[vale dew]

@frigid fjordwhat did you do to the hdr to improve it in 2.5?

[frigid fjord]

I changed the tonemapper, it's more in line with what Musa does on hsi newer mods.

test build also has a bunch of sliders

hasn't been merged to main repo, but yeah

[vale dew]

just using the defaul in 2.5 nexus and it looks really incredible

ff7re looking really good in preset L, clouds hair has never looked so good

[frigid fjord]

Preset L works really well in this game. M has some issues with fine details like fences

[vale dew]

i agree, L has been the most stable

i wish we could force cutscene models during gameplay

look at that incredible hair

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/778887485400154132/1464814385896886353/SKIV_Snip.png?ex=6976d634&is=697584b4&hm=612e41da10589fd41b1ccf8c056eecfe72b243536c06eb010b27bf77ab097679&
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/778887485400154132/1464814387066966118/SKIV_Snip.png?ex=6976d634&is=697584b4&hm=e4a9b935171efb95a15867b4eec7291e6c23414d533c2201a4ad9ba0540da64a&

K vs L, dramatic improvement to his hair and eyelashes and skin texture

[true spire]

Are these rebirth models

[vale dew]

https://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasy7remake/mods/1334

i dont have any mod on for the others in these scenes

theres one for tifa too from same person

and i have the general texture pack

and the mods were before rebirth actually :P

[true spire]

Ahh thanks

[vale dew]

https://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasy7remake/mods/1685

[true spire]

Yeah I have this one

[vale dew]

thers an ever bigger one recently apparently

https://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasy7remake/mods/1977

havent tried it

thats a lot of space

[sleek imp]

I have finished the game using this collection except the one that changes the eyes and hair of the characters

[vale dew]

what did you think

[sleek imp]

you need to use cvars to optimize texture streaming otherwise the game will stutter more

but I don't think you can do that till emoose update his mod

[sleek imp]

I think it's a must, the game has PS2-era textures especially the environment

but as you said it's alot of space, the game with all the texture pack is 300gb+ lol

[vale dew]

he did today :)

[vale dew]

thats insanity, ive got the other texture pack installed and 4k60 fmvs, and my installs at 144 GB

doubleing that again is insane

[sleek imp]

ikr lmao but honestly this game deserves to experience it the best it can be

I don't know, M has better hair than L and that's all that matters to me lol

[sleek imp]

@vale dew you can use the textures cvars here to improve texture streaming if you download the pack

[sleek imp]

L is more stable but less detailed than M, also M has more pop?

[vale dew]

yeah youre right yuffies hairs much better there

i swear none of this is ever cut or dry lol

[paper rover]

I noticed that K had better hair in some cases than both M and L.
Here's an example with Yuffie's hair. Sorry for washed out screenshot.
https://imgsli.com/NDQyNTU0/1/2

[sleek imp]

Here's another one, you can tell which is which

[paper rover]

is the one on the right L?

[sleek imp]

yeah there's no one solution that fits all, maybe with preset Z lol

[sleek imp]

correct, it missing some hair strands

[vale dew]

looks like M left and L right

[vale dew]

particles in the back are better with M though

[paper rover]

Yeah, I would generally say I prefer L in most scenes but the missing hair strands is an issue.
And then there's the issue of L and M being really heavy at 4K DLAA compared to K. But then K has issues with fog and volumetrics....

🙃 no clear cut winner.

Still all much better than the TAA though. I had to use DLDSR before Izueh showed up

[sleek imp]

Here's another comparison K>L>M, M is the best most pop and most hair strands plus the particles in motion flickers with L

K>L>M (spoiler tagged just in case, don't click if you didn't finish the DLC)

I kinda wish I hadn’t finished the game last month lol

[austere quiver]

Something funky happening with shadows on the building in the background with L

@frigid fjord Galaxy brain idea: add gaussian blur slider/toggle to take the edge off from the new models

[frigid fjord]

Interesting, but if you add it to the entire screen it wouldn't look good I think

[paper rover]

You mean through the chain link fence? Yeah, that did stick out to me when changing back and forth, though both looked pretty stable.
The sparks coming off the exposed wire on the power pole also seem to be brighter, or at least have visible bloom, with L & M compared to K.

logartmq's screenshots above make the difference in the particles really clear.

[austere quiver]

A bit of blur to bring it in line with the CNN models would be enough imo

[austere quiver]

K is basically clamping the bright/high frequency detail hard to avoid aliasing, new models don't but aliasing is back

[frigid fjord]

We had sharpness sliders before for the older models now a blur for the new ones

Does lilium have a hdr aware blur 😂

[austere quiver]

@quiet vigil we need reverse CAS

[sleek imp]

just started playing Rebirth, why character models look like they have eczema? aside from the dithering I'm surprised that it's much smoother than Remake

[frigid fjord]

yeah they were forced to optimize better for open world for sure

[spice gust]

hey does the new update not use reshade anymore?

for the mod i mean

nvm im stupid

[frigid fjord]

Was it not loading properly?

[spice gust]

i had an older version of reshade

then i went to the nexusmods page and the tutorial didnt have reshade so im like oh shit they removed it? LOL

[fiery hound]

Is there anyway to get dynamic res to actually work? Seems like no matter what my resolution is always pegged at the value from r.DynamicRes.MaxScreenPercentage

[frigid fjord]

Gotta report this in the ff7 hook mod

[paper rover]

I was having similar issues. I eventually settled on this which was fairly responsive without having too many obvious drops in resolution on my system targeting 120fps at 4K with DLSS (model K or M/L).

The values are largely based on FFVII Rebirth's default values (taken from emoose's cvar dump for Rebirth) with a little bit of testing in game + trial and error tweaking by me. I don't know how well these values will work on other systems with different specs, but you can tweak as needed (https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/dynamic-resolution?application_version=4.27). As far as I could tell, most of these commands are recognised by Remake too:

r.DynamicRes.CPUBoundScreenPercentage=100.000000
r.DynamicRes.CPUTimeHeadRoom=1.000000
r.DynamicRes.ChangePercentageThreshold=2.000000
r.DynamicRes.FrameTimeBudget=9.0
r.DynamicRes.FrameWeightExponent=0.900000
r.DynamicRes.GPUTimingMeasureMethod=0
r.DynamicRes.HistorySize=16
r.DynamicRes.IncreaseAmortizationBlendFactor=0.900000
r.DynamicRes.MaxConsecutiveOverbudgetGPUFrameCount=2
r.DynamicRes.MaxScreenPercentage=100.000000
r.DynamicRes.MinResolutionChangePeriod=8
r.DynamicRes.MinScreenPercentage=50
r.DynamicRes.OperationMode=2
r.DynamicRes.OutlierThreshold=0.000000
r.DynamicRes.PausingDenied=0
r.DynamicRes.TargetedGPUHeadRoomPercentage=5

Just a reminder that you will need to have FFVII Hook updated to the latest version following the recent patch.

[frigid fjord]

nice, thanks for sharing. will pin this information

oh I guess I can't @lusty coral would you be so kind?

[lusty coral]

Todowhat

[frigid fjord]

pin the comment above with the dynamic res tweaks

[frigid fjord]

just for future reference

[paper rover]

No problem. Hopefully it works well for others too. I only tested it on one system so I imagine people running with less GPU headroom might just have it sit at the 50% min res I specified. But I suppose that's easy enough to tweak.

[fiery hound]

Wow really appreciate your reply mate. So this just targets whatever fps is set in the game menu? Is there a command for setting whatever fps target you want (specifically for rebirth, remake I can do 120fps problem)

[paper rover]

No, this is set to specifically target 120fps since I'm trying to override the game's default behaviour (I think a very early patch back when the game first came out turned off dynamic res for any target frame rates above 60, so setting to 90 or 120 via the in game menu means no dynamic res).

If you wanted to set a different target, you would have to change the "r.DynamicRes.FrameTimeBudget=9.0" command. In this case, I have it set for 9ms. Normally you would set it to the frametime you are targeting. For example, I wanted 120fps so I would be looking at a target of 8.33ms. But for whatever reason I didn't get good results with r.DynamicRes.FrameTimeBudget=8.33, but I found bumping it up to 9ms was perfect. Fortunately, you can change it in real time while the game is running, so dialling it in only takes a few min of running around and testing.

There are a couple other values to tweak, but starting with r.DynamicRes.FrameTimeBudget is probably your best bet.

Is there a particular target you want to set?

[fiery hound]

Yeah I was thinking 70 when I get back into rebirth, I find the jump between 60 and 70 pretty big subjectively

[paper rover]

It's the same command for both rebirth and remake, so if looking for a 70fps target, I would start with a value of r.DynamicRes.FrameTimeBudget=14.3 and slowly increase it using the in game console. If you have FFVII Hook installed, you can open it by pressing the ~ key on your keyboard. Basically, just try 14.4, 14.5, 14.6 etc until you can see the resolution changing in accordance with what's happening on screen and the frame rate you are getting.

I would recommend having the DLSS indicator on screen as that will give you an exact read out of your internal resolution and will help you know when it's working or if you have too aggressive of a value. Besides that, the only other value you would probably want to tweak is r.DynamicRes.TargetedGPUHeadRoomPercentage=5. You can read the link in my earlier message if you want to know what exactly these commands do and the propepr way of tuning them.

[fiery hound]

Fantastic thank you. Appreciate you taking the time to share your findings

[paper rover]

No worries, hopefully it actually works 🙃

[fiery hound]

This is giving me mad stutter in Remake unfortunately

simple scenes like this should be totally smooth normally

but seems to be stutters coincide with the dynamic res changes

Don't have this issue with the vanilla dynamic res in Rebirth

[paper rover]

Hmm, sorry to hear that. I haven't noticed any crazy stutter that I could attribute to resolution changes personally, I even went back in with RTSS to check a similar scene. There are going to be some slight blips in the frame time graph due to the changing frame rate, but what I see in your screenshot is much worse than I would expect.

Are you capping the frame rate in a particular way? Vsync on/off?

The overlay you have seems to suggest you have plenty of VRAM free, so I don't think that is an issue.

[paper rover]

Do you have any other things going on in your Engine.ini file? Any high res texture mods?
I'm hesitant to suggest you a bunch of dynamic res cvars to tweak as I don't want to waste your time, but you can alter the duration over which the resolution changes as well as how long the frame rate needs to have dropped before the resolution change kicks in.

[paper rover]

Just FYI, in case you want to match the vanilla values from Rebirth exactly, here are the default cvar values taken from Rebirth. No guarantee that it will work properly in Remake (different game and all), but you can still try.

[fiery hound]

Nope I tried it with otherwise blank engine.in and same thing.
Just got Vsync on locked to 120 and game will go into VRR when it dips under.

[fiery hound]

Ok yeah I'll try this but probs not going to mess with it any further

Vrr always gives me weird judder in this game for some reason. Edit: ok vrr is actually fine with display commander fps cap I think I just had some weird shit in my ini

[frigid fjord]

Very quirky game

[paper rover]

No, I don't think you forcing Vsync is the problem here. I also have to use driver level vsync in this game under DX11 and it's working just fine for me.
Sorry, no clue as to why it's stuttering so bad. My engine.ini is otherwise blank too, apart from the dynamic res stuff above. You could tweak the cvars and min/max res till it sits just right, but you're probably just better off sticking to a static resolution and letting VRR do its thing. Too much hassle.

[left folio]

Hi everyone!
Can someone send me his Engine.ini file with dynamic resolution enabled please ? I couldn’t get it work, I’m stuck in DLAA no matter what I try

[frigid fjord]

Remove the
r.DynamicRes.OperationMode=1

Seems the behavior changed after the latest update

[left folio]

Thx!

[paper rover]

Looks like the game just got updated, exe is now at 1.0.0.7. No patch notes yet, but it seems that some bonus consumable items were added in game. Luma still seems to work fine, but FF7 Hook will need to be updated again...

of all the things they could have patched... some free MP heals and revives

[frigid fjord]

isntead of porting back some of the switch optimizations

[spice gust]

is this gonna break mods 😭

[true spire]

Reflections in shinra building have been broken since Intergrade came out on ps5. but no we will add useless free items as update that everyone forgets to claim.

[strange shard]

How can I force a DLSS quality setting without using DRS? It's buggy as hell

I just wanna use performance@4k, also using DRS does all sorts of weird shit like unplugging my Bluetooth devices

[fiery hound]

Just set min and Max ini values to 1920x1080

[strange shard]

Yeah I followed the instructions on Nexus but I was getting this BT disconnecting issue that seems to be related to DRS for some reason, so I was wondering if there was any workaround

[frigid fjord]

bluetooth disconnects when DRS is on? does it happen even when you don't overwrite the default values

game has DRS on by default

[strange shard]

I haven't been able to test the game much, I had my mouse disconnecting and reconnecting like crazy only after launching FF7R and a quick search on Google brought me to someone reporting that it was caused by DRS. Since the last time I played I didn't have this issue and I disabled DRS I wanted to test it without it (but with DLSS on since I'm on a higher res display now)

Been playing a bit today and it seemed like it was working fine but I might need to test it during a longer session

I still think it makes no sense that DRS is causing that but it only happens when I launch the game, I'm not even using it, I'm on controller

[frigid fjord]

unfortunately the only way to allow upscaling is to use the engine dynamic resolution feature

[strange shard]

Yeah I figured as much I'll see if I can find the cause of this

[tired kraken]

Hey guys, I have a question: is the HDR in this mod the same as the HDR from ShortFuse on RenoDX GitHub, or are they two separate things ?

[tidal tartan]

it incorporates renodx hdr fixes yeah

so this is better by virtue of having dlss and other features

[tired kraken]

Ah I see, thank you. DLSS is truly amazing to me, it makes games look more beautiful, much sharper.

[frigid fjord]

it's a bit different from the SF renodx

but it's based on it

[broken night]

my god this mod is fantastic

hefty performance hit when playing at 5160x2160 with DLDSR but worth it honestly

doesnt break pre rendered cutscenes when using with Lyalls ultrawide mod unlike the normal RenoDX

great job

[lilac lynx]

can anyone share their cvars for the 4k texture mods? I'm a bit dum

[last prism]

It's all snake oil, more or less none of them improved anything

[frigid fjord]

I think you can try the P40L0X engine stuff maybe, only person who actually seems to test the stuff he puts out. no idea how it all interacts with luma

[fiery hound]

P40L0X is the most snake oil of all lol

[frigid fjord]

it is?

oh well nvm

can only trust U+ with ini tweaks

[lilac lynx]

I just followed the link posted earlier in this thread and everything seems to be running great, of course I have no benchmarks from before so it very well could be snake oil, thx for input

[tired kraken]

Has anyone encountered this issue? Sometimes I run into this situation where my game suddenly goes to a black screen.
I’m only using the Luma mod with HDR and DLSS K enabled. The screenshots I took show the screen gradually turning black, I just experienced this.
All images were captured using ReShade.

[frigid fjord]

Are you using the nexusmod version?

[tired kraken]

Yes, I am

I’ve finished the main part of FF7 Remake. The black screen issue did happen, but only once. But I just started playing Yuffie’s part and I’ve already run into it twice LOL.

So, if I may ask, do you mean that the mod on Nexus isn’t the final version, right?

[frigid fjord]

It is the most stable version. I gotta check this issue

It's probably some missing post processing shader

Very weird issue, does it go away if you restart?

[tired kraken]

My apologies for late reply

[tired kraken]

Yes, it does

Since I started playing the Yuffie arc, the first time this happened to me and the second time were about two hours apart. Maybe I'm just unlucky; I'm currently playing the game, and if it happens again, I'll let you know.

It happened again haha, and I'd only been playing the game for about 20 minutes. So I guess it seems to happen pretty often LOL

Luckily, I was still able to access the menu to save the game before restarting

[sleek imp]

Finished the game recently including Yuffie DLC, never encountered any issue

Maybe something related to Engine.ini

[tired kraken]

Yeah I dont know

Anyway that's not very common, I just played for another two hours and didn't have any problems, it seems like it's hit or miss.

And it seems that the problem only occurs on my side LOL.

Its ok I dont mind too much because this mod is really cool, so I'll trade it off haha.

At first, I was worried my graphics card was about to die because it looked quite similar to those artifacts in the VRAM failure case

[robust thistle]

hey guys, the mod is working well, do you think using the HD project mod alongside luma would be of any use ? since DLSS already upscales textures

[frigid fjord]

No issue

Works well with it since you can run the game at lower resolution tos Ave some vram

[robust thistle]

also I have a color issue with HDR compared to SDR, SDR have more vibrant are "bluish" dark colors, HDR looks a bit grey in comparison, any idea why ?

SDR/HDR

[austere quiver]

That's you screen

The colors between SDR and HDR in this game are virtually identical as they use the same LUTs

IIRC

[frigid fjord]

I plan to revisit the HDR at some point, but I thought it was pretty faithful to SDR

[robust thistle]

I don't have this issue with the stock HDR of the game without luma

[robust thistle]

is there any way to use luma only for dlss and keep stock HDR ?

[austere quiver]

My bad

[frigid fjord]

I think I was adding that at some point but I think latest git build is broken atm

[robust thistle]

okay I downloaded your test version to have access to sliders, adding a bit of saturation seems to be enough, I'll just try to get the SDR colors back by eyes 👍

[frigid fjord]

the latest one from github?

it works?

[robust thistle]

from this one https://github.com/Filoppi/Luma-Framework/releases/tag/latest-420

[frigid fjord]

nice surprise to me, I did a bunch of changes and didn't test them

[robust thistle]

hmm well I just restarted the game and all settings were changed randomly so I guess it's not really working

[frigid fjord]

the settings reset?

[robust thistle]

changed to random numbers

before/after a restart

not a huge deal I can just reset everything and bump saturation back to 60 but no idea why it changes to random values

[frigid fjord]

I will make sure to test it and fix that at some point, want to make some changes to the HDR as well. but trying to finish FFXV first

[robust thistle]

ah I think it's just cause it tried to read the older reshade.ini from the stable build which I had not deleted, sorry I'm not used to these kind of mods

also I get some errors when launching the game but it still launches anyway and everything works, all good I guess

[frigid fjord]

yeah those are probably just warnings for testing purpose, not always an issue

[robust thistle]

thank for the mod it's already insane, the HDR saturation was just cherrypicking :) may I just ask what you think is the most stable "test" version so I can have the saturation slider and play the game without too much trouble ?

[frigid fjord]

I think the nexus build may allow to set some of them manually trough the ini. but it has been a while so I don't remember which build was most stable it is usually the nexusmods one

[robust thistle]

I added ColorGradeSaturation=60 to the ini and it seems to work, thank you !!

[tired kraken]

Hi guys, I found the afternoon sky in this scene to be a bit strange. When I tried it with RenodX’s native HDR, the sky looked normal.
I had to take this picture with my phone because screenshots taken with ReShade don’t clearly show what I’m trying to point out. I also have the exact save file if anyone wants to test it directly.

[tired kraken]

Another one, shadow look weird, artifacts. Restarting the game didn't fix it either. Happened on both nexus version and github version

[frigid fjord]

Why do the screen shots not show the issue?

[frigid fjord]

This is there without reno/Luma from my testing

[frigid fjord]

The gradient is fucked up?

Like a weird rainbow?

[tired kraken]

When I pressed the PrintScr button, a flash of light appeared, illuminating the entire sky and obscuring what I wanted to say.

Man sorry for my english >.<

[frigid fjord]

No worries, I understand

What are your peak and paper white set to?

[tired kraken]

My peak is 800, and paper white default 250

[tired kraken]

Ah I see

[tired kraken]

When I use the github version, I can fixed that by lower the LUT Strength. I have save file at that scene, do u want it ?

LUT Strength Slider*

[frigid fjord]

Yeah lut strength 0 makes it so that the game lut is not applied at all

In vanilla hdr the sky is fully covered which is lut strength slider 100
But I guess in some sky boxes that breaks

[tired kraken]

Here mate, I think I got it ^^

I have to disable Snipping Tool Print key shortcut on windows

[tired kraken]

It seems so, it looks like suddenly two or three patches of morning sky have been inserted into the evening sky scene.

[frigid fjord]

I tried to do a compromise and set it to 92 so the sky boxes would be visible. But I think it's better to cover them fully

[austere quiver]

Ye, I've looked into this yesterday
Lowering LUT strength also raises black levels at least in some areas

[frigid fjord]

I plan to revisit the toenmapper in this game at some point, but I guess setting lut scaling to 100 for now should be good enough

[robust thistle]

what's the command in reshade.ini to change lut strength ?

[frigid fjord]

[Luma]
CustomLUTStrength=100

[noble condor]

InvSSTS is gonna be merged into the repo

so you can inverse aces

expensive though

[lusty coral]

but u can't really

invert aces if it's bundled with grading

well if grading was b4 ACES, in the code that built the lut, then maybe

then you get the raw color correction

and can re-apply a diff tonemapper

[lusty coral]

what for?

[noble condor]

It’s needed for exp shift

For games that use aces with a midgray other than 4.8

[tiny remnant]

idk why, but I needed r.DynamicRes.OperationMode=2 in order for drs to work

[frigid fjord]

I don't know either, don't know how ff7hooks handles that stuff

[tiny remnant]

I saw pumbo recommend using 8 jitters for native res

Does that mean I should leave r.TemporalAASamples at 8 instead of 16?

or am I misunderstanding something

[tiny remnant]

note to self

do not ever try to launch the game with special k

it just spams fatal errors at me now

[tiny remnant]

so for some reason optiscaler was killing g-sync

and if you try to have ff7hook with luma it just crashes unless if you use an asi loader(the one bundled with ff7rfix works just fine)

[austere quiver]

Never had this issue

[tiny remnant]

damn

I don't think I installed anything else

[austere quiver]

I only have FF7hook and luma from the injector mods
So it's either optiscaler or SK messing something up
My bet is the latter, as I had nothing but problems with SK in this game

[frigid fjord]

did SK update the addresses for their patches? the game got updated at some point and it broke ff7hook

not sure if Kal did the same

[proud dome]

SK used to work fine for me up until latest patch, I doubt Kal will update it as he used to own the game on Steam but doesn't have it anymore

[tiny remnant]

I don't remember why I tried using sk

I was trying to check something

[tiny remnant]

note to whoever wants to use drs

it does work, but you need to use unreal's limiter

and for whatever reason on my fixed refresh laptop alt tabbing causes it to get stuck on the minimum resolution

[tiny remnant]

and you missed one cvar
r.DynamicRes.PausingDenied = 0

[tiny remnant]

also it kinda ends up being a little stupid if you're cpu bound

[frigid fjord]

gotta change the frametime budget settings as well

[tidal tartan]

@frigid fjord

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1416525217370734702/1509699657779908768/SPOILER_ff7remake__2026-05-29_01-02-07_11.png?ex=6a1a20df&is=6a18cf5f&hm=a643703609b3ecd5a4fe3a35663b7df6fe021deed361515774f6897e26d2e7da&

wth fsr4 int 8

looks a bit oversharpened ?

woops nvm

user error

lolol

forgot there is a sharpen slider

[frigid fjord]

oh nice nice

gotta do some fixes for ff7, but still caught up with the patcher

someone found a bug with the dithering fix breaking some volumetric lights

[cyan lantern]

Does luma require generic depth and runtime sync to be enabled?

[tiny remnant]

nope

[cyan lantern]

Ok cool. Also is there something about this way of injecting dlss that is more intensive than normal? Because performance mode is hammering my gpu nearly as hard as dlaa

[fiery hound]

IIRC you need to set your internal resolution through the unreal engine ini.

Or if you're already doing that then could by CPU limited in towns

[cyan lantern]

Yeah I set it to 50% in the ini and checked that it was working with the dlss indicator.
Even though I'm undervolted it's almost maxing out the gpu wattage 😆

[twin turtle]

@frigid fjord have you considered adding the functionality into the addon to write to the engine.ini to setup/fix DRS?

you could add a framerate cap into the mod too that it works with

r.DynamicRes.OperationMode=2
r.DynamicRes.FrameTimeBudget=frametime budget
r.DynamicRes.MinScreenPercentage=50.000000
r.DynamicRes.MaxScreenPercentage=100.000000```

[austere quiver]

DRS in DX11 is just busted though

Seems to hover around 1620p

[twin turtle]

was working for me with engine.ini adjustments

[austere quiver]

Haven't tried the frametime cvar tbf (not with remake at least)
But I can already run the game comfortably at a flat 4k

[frigid fjord]

now that I know some actual reverse engineering I could do it yeah.

[twin turtle]

shortfuse already has some code like that for oblivion remastered

[frigid fjord]

shouldn't be too hard to find the address and set those variables. Special K has code for it too.

[twin turtle]

it's pretty nice to lock to 120 fps for me

[frigid fjord]

but SK code is outdated, doesn't work on newer game versions

[austere quiver]

fair

[twin turtle]

SK writes these cvars to the engine.ini and it seems to work

[frigid fjord]

I thought SK changed the frame_time budget live base on its own frame counter

but not sure

[cyan lantern]

Any other mods recommended? I got the fov one because the default might be the worst I've ever seen

[frigid fjord]

texture one

[cyan lantern]

Hmm I saw that one but not sure my 12 gb vram is enough

[frigid fjord]

might be an issue yeah

thsi game eats vram

[twin turtle]

Is there a new one or are you talking about that old delisted one?

[frigid fjord]

The HD project one

Is it de listed?

https://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasy7remake/mods/1685

[twin turtle]

Ah I guess it got reuploaded