#The Witcher 3

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tall merlin
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I just wanted K with bug fixes

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not something that looks like im running 1080p internal 50% of the time

gusty silo
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try L, its heavy though

tall merlin
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tested it and in the problem areas it looked 1:1, seriously any interior was so noticeably aliased

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literally looks like i turned AA off

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other times its very good though 😭

cold basin
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hmm preset L at balanced in witcher 3 actually doesnt look bad

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not even sure i can record that properly smh

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im already doing 30fps 125mbit bitrate

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looks nowhere close to what i see in game bruh

rugged nest
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I swapped realtime with the dev dll

cold basin
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what dev dll

rugged nest
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Its probably just more temporally stable in certain scenes (L)

rugged nest
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And set all Dlss presets to default

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You can switch real time between all presets with this

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Also activate the overlay to see the hotkeys

tall merlin
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isnt it like ctrl+j or smt

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gotta test this later

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ty

rugged nest
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ctrl+alt+]

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In my keyboard it was ctrl+alt+¿

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Seeing the realtime difference from K to M is insane

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Do it in a place with trees

rugged nest
cold basin
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rip i dont have swapper

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ok got the dll now

rugged nest
cold basin
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i just got swapper since theres a portable version

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didnt wanna install some shit

rugged nest
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Btw is display commander working for you with the non reflex cap?

cold basin
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i dont use that

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no clue

rugged nest
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Oh I thought you did mb

cold basin
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for witcher 3 driver cap works best for me

rugged nest
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Might try that

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Wanted to use native frames pacing tho since FG has shit pacing

cold basin
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driver is native

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has best pacing for me in witcher

rugged nest
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Native frames pacing means pacing the non generated frames

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Driver doesn’t do that afaik

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But I’ll try that

stark anvil
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Optiscaler’s reflex capping works really well for me. Weirdly display commanders is juddery

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Probably same thing as driver cap

rugged nest
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Yeah reflex cap on DC is always bad for me

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And the other one doesn’t always work well for some reason

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I’ll try optiscaler

cold basin
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it also auto caps to the gsync vrr reflex cap by default even if you set it higher

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like if i set 119cap it will still do 116

rugged nest
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I want to cap to 80fps

cold basin
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ok so cap under it

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where problem

rugged nest
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Frametimes are shit with FG and I get flicker

cold basin
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i run 100fps cap myself in witcher

rugged nest
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I guess I can try normal cap on Witcher

cold basin
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no probelms

rugged nest
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Maybe even RTSS

cold basin
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no...

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rtss sucks

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in witcher

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just use driver ffs

rugged nest
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Ok ok lol

cold basin
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K seems to have more temporal stability i think

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So K then L then M in terms of image stability

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i think the noise in the grass for example is what makes it look more oversharpened in M

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this dev dll is sick with the live switching, simplifies comparisons so much

tall merlin
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im gonna do a really high bitrate recording later comparing them in a couple different spots. idk how poorly discord compresses compared to youtube tho

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but i can put it on either

cold basin
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i think the video i put up looks good on discord no?

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125mbit 30fps

tall merlin
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oh i didnt even see that

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somehow

cold basin
tall merlin
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thought it was a photo im cooked

cold basin
tall merlin
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just woke up chill on me im just a vessel bro

cold basin
heady dune
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Honestly I don't know if it's because I haven't played in a while, but the game looks incredible, the fire! I don't even know which version of RenoDX I'm using, but maybe it's the last one you sent.

slate forge
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I play on DLSS Performance-4k

cold basin
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i mean

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watch the vid

slate forge
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Weird, the starting and final resolution must make a big difference for some of these models I guess.

cold basin
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K is still very much the most stable

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while m isnt good

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im dlss balanced atm

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M stays dogshit though

slate forge
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no joke

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I get the feeling M is very very specifically made for 1080p-4k upscaling or something. I mean on my end its a straight improvment and not even close

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if you would have told me a few months ago it was preset K quality mode I would have believed you

cold basin
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brother

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the res doesnt matter

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noise city

tall merlin
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i get that noise on literally all of the cloth banners etc in any interior

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really on everything

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L or M

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its so hard to ignore

cold basin
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yeah, M is the worst for me though

tall merlin
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walking around the game world M will look solid for a bit. go into interior like a brothel type jawn and there is insane noise on literally everything

cold basin
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L and K are close enough that i like using L

slate forge
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I did notice when I zoomed in on a guys collar I did see some noise (that'd i'd never actually see while playing).

At least on my screen the game looks significantly better overall. Better aliasing, noticeably better at preserving fine details like embers or specular highlights etc. I do see some noise when I looks for it though. Will have to play some more.

tall merlin
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i get the feeling its not the sharpness causing this instability

cold basin
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that noise is everywhere

tall merlin
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its literally insane

cold basin
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you just dont notice it yet

slate forge
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What I need to test mor is L for ultra performance. which after soem brief testing was damn impressive

cold basin
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L works at performance or balanced just as well

tall merlin
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go to the place where u meet the lady who helps u dream about ciri, in the room up top where she is is noise city

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damn near every material in that room looks horrible

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immediately resolved by swapping to K

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sad

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i expected a lot better

cold basin
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i need a preset L without the noise

tall merlin
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legit

cold basin
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then we are ballin

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cause the clarity improvements overall from M and L are great

slate forge
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Dlss swapper to test the differences easily right?

tall merlin
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get the dev dll

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and u can swap on the fly

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in game

cold basin
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dev dll:

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and turn on the debug overlay

tall merlin
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yea

slate forge
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Ultra performance looking "good" instead of just playable will be the long term success of this though I'd imagine.

cold basin
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who cares about ultra perf

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aint no one upscaling from 720p

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or even lower if you dont have a 4k display

tall merlin
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would always rather use dlsstweaks and force 40% at bare minimum if i absolutely had to but even then for that you'd need a good base output like 2160p

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would never go to 33%

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thats just absurdly low

slate forge
tall merlin
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i play 50% at 4k

cold basin
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yeah 50% is absolute minimum for me with 4.5

tall merlin
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but i am on an LCD and its slow so having the extra frames is always nice. 55% and onwards is the better place to be

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balanced territory

cold basin
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on dlss 4.0 K i was using balanced absolute minimum

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so new dlss bumped me a step down for what looks acceptable to me

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but yeah the noise is whack

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ohno i found a diff issue with Preset L now

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fucking snow flakes on skellige had pretty visible trails

weary socket
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I think I'll just stay with preset K for now, L and M clearly need more time in the oven with all the noise and oversharpening issues

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especially noticeable on foliage and hair in Witcher 3

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and in GTAO while using L or M, instead of just ghosting the contour of a rear of a car in motion, it just now "reflects" the whole rear of the car on the asphalt, surrounded by some black squared shadows

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cold basin
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lmao

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yeah i dunno

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probabaly sticking with k as well

slate forge
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Preset M for sure. Clarity is king. Either way, these new models have a lot of promise though. If they work out the kinks it'll something special. Played a few hours of Jedi Survivor at 4k Ultra performance and in-motion the game looks extremely good considering it's being rendered at 720p. Has some ghosting in edge cases and a weird bug where when you stop moving for 3+ seconds the the image degrades for a second before resolving again continually (wonder if that tied to the noise people see in some cases since people often don't move when benchmarking for stuff like this).

Despite that, the game ran about as smooth as it is capable of running I'd imagine so it's almost tempting to play the game like that (not quite good enough yet though).

rose whale
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I also generally like the new presets. Looks sharper but the highlights and volumetric stands out the most. Highlights don't look as clamped as before.
So i prefer a little bit of maybe oversharpening over the preset K

weary socket
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I really wish Nvidia would let us tune the preset sharpening ourselves at least a little

night yarrow
prisma bramble
woven yacht
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preset M on performance looks very good to me.

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the main issue is in games with RR

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It's significantly worse with RR on

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it looks they didn't update the RR preset

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strange that DLSS Balanced and Quality in the games I teste preset K looks better

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this preset M seems to be good on performance only tbh

elfin gyro
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i think preset M is made for performance specificly so thats probably why

woven yacht
rose whale
woven yacht
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that's why Preset M looks worse with RR on (cause essentially is not being applied)

proper valve
rugged nest
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I kid you not K looks blurry in comparison

heady dune
cold basin
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your candles n fire are deepfried sir

heady dune
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not to my eyes 😉

woven yacht
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what you learn in here is that when it comes down to fire and candles @cold basin knows something about heihachiPlasma

cold basin
clever cape
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Oh my god are those blacks crushed. I can't see a thing.

unreal badge
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invictus' nightmare is that someone installs mod Turn on the Lights to his game and sets it to automatically activate all candles/lightsources during night as he comes in range, so that he has to slow down and inspect each one in turn instead of playing.

(I use that mod this way, love it. But during earlier W3 plays, I enjoyed flaming up candles myself, but this fascination has passed away over the years.)

Demo of the "Turn On The Lights" MOD for The Witcher 3 Next-Gen, shown in 4K60 Ultra RT.

Download the MOD here: https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/7278

00:00 Intro
00:15 Demo Automatic Mode
01:09 Action Button
01:45 Changing Modes
01:54 Demo Manual Mode
02:45 Changing Range
04:50 Controls and Options
05:48 Saving Config settings
08:00 Outro

▶ Play video
torn citrus
torn citrus
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nvm i did it manually

stark anvil
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I might have to accept that I just need to drop textures to ultra 😩

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I don't even know what the impact of that will be like with hd reworked installed tbh

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I should get some comparisons I guess

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hm, difference isn't that large actually

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should see what the actual vram usage difference is like

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nope still having severe problems in novigrad

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maybe I can scrape by with preset K and no framegen

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wish a 5090 was a remotely sensible purchase for me right now lol

rose whale
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Which gpu do you have? Was a 4070 ti iirc?

rare scroll
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yeah nofpsgrad is awful specially with rt on

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decreasing npc numbers helps a little

unreal badge
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in case you haven't, you can lower the amount of background npcs spawned, I sometimes go down to medium

stark anvil
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Yeah I’m just also running into the vram bug the game has where if you hit 95% utilization you end up with a runaway problem until you reboot the game or restart the graphics driver

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And 5070 ti. I’m just pushing things too far with texture mods and rt improvements

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Have to pick what I want to give up

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Though I think ditching framegen might be enough

unreal badge
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my initial test with hacky framegen (AMD) on OptiScaler seemed great, but found that only while standing still... and couldn't actually play the game, not even ride on an empty Skellige island smoothly. So I disabled framegen again, but kept the DLAA -> FSR4 upscaling/AA. It seems to cost me less than 10 fps compared to game's regular FSR2 option. I get crashes with driver timeout every 2 or 3 hours, but that's the same without OptiScaler.

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still, Novigrad might kill my system now... tries

pulsar radish
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Anyone know how to deal with the shadow pop in? I think it's related to RT shadows?

stark anvil
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doesn't 100% solve it but makes it better

rose whale
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Witcher 3 sure is so demanding hope witcher 4 performs better lol

slate forge
tall merlin
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personally i just restart it when it happens, it takes at least an hour usually for me so im not too bothered

rare scroll
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is this the issue where if your native resolution is 4k and your card has 16gb vram it starts leaking

cold basin
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the highlights on the top of the grip with the bear on it look alot better and cleaner with 4.5

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im so unsure what i prefer

cold basin
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the puddle has MUCH better specular highlights

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the diff with igni embers in the environment is crazy

rose whale
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Compare 4.0 with 4.5 with geralds actual armour

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Night and day as well

weary socket
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I still will take a more stable image over the noise/sharpness city that is preset M

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🤔

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plus I've noticed that parts of UI ghost even more on preset M compared to K (at least in my testing in Witcher 3 and GTAO)

cold basin
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Im using M at 70% rn

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Pretty happy actually with that

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Gonna see whether or not I’ll run into issues

night yarrow
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cuz i feel its not a game made with taa in mind

cold basin
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L has issues

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sadly

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ghosting and some particles like candles breaking

night yarrow
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nah just pretend it doesnt exist

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just like everyone copes with k

cold basin
night yarrow
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we now cope with L

cold basin
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Im still unsure, i hope they soon come with a 4.5 preset for quality and DLAA

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and not leave us stuck with this for another year now

night yarrow
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M is too sharp i think

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exposes more aliasing

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not a big issue in this game

cold basin
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yeah thats why i use it with 70% scaling rn

night yarrow
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at least

cold basin
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seems alright

night yarrow
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i stick with L quality now

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(for games that it works

torn citrus
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M/L is just so much better in witcher 3 rn

night yarrow
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ya

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because like i said

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its not made with taa in mind

cold basin
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switching from M to F in the dev dll is crazy

night yarrow
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cyberpunk is a shimmering hell with L or M

torn citrus
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K blends the grass and the vegetation a lot, M/L doesn't.

night yarrow
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F should only be used with DLAA

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even at quality its super blurry

cold basin
torn citrus
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comparing ultra performance with K, M/L is also crazy

cold basin
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K has like no aliasing which is nice

night yarrow
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wtf

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ultra performance

torn citrus
night yarrow
cold basin
night yarrow
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#🎟️clubroom message

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here

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K completely killed specular reflections

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but it provided THE best aa

torn citrus
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I know, I remember when I was comparing preset E with K, and I can tell you I was confused why K blended the grass and vegetation

night yarrow
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it treats stuff thats not aliasing as aliasing

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and smoothes things

torn citrus
night yarrow
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i always dont like K

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but tbh

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in tw3 its not bad

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because tw3 doesnt have volumetrics

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which is the weakest point of K

torn citrus
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haha yeah, I tested bf6 br mode, and the game looked smooth with K and switching it to M/L made it look much sharper, and all the effects look distinct, and the difference between overlayed effects is clear.

cold basin
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the specular highlights

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peak

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the eyes actually look alot better because of that

night yarrow
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ya k kills small specular details

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it just treats them as aliasing

cold basin
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F does too

night yarrow
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all old dlss presets do that

cold basin
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yeh

night yarrow
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its just K does it more

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its quite bizzare tbh

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we never got correct hdr highlights in a lot of game ?

cold basin
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Seems so

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Either that or the games hdr highlights were designed around TAA/pre 4.5 DLSS

torn citrus
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TAA still clamps HDR highlights

night yarrow
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it depends

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in hitman it doesnt

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but all the old dlss presets do

prisma bramble
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time to load up RETURNAL

night yarrow
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except F

prisma bramble
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I think it only includes F j k l m

torn citrus
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yea, kind of sucks that it doesn't have E

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F was for Ultra Performance originally

night yarrow
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tried returnal myself

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i think L/M looks good there

rose whale
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By the way, when comparing DLSS in terms of shimmering, keep in mind that Witcher 3 has its own issues

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Setting antistropic filtering to 16x in the driver menu reduces it a little

gusty silo
night yarrow
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not just particles

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literally all small size details

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though E also does that to some degree

gusty silo
night yarrow
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no frames

gusty silo
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Use DLDSR and M 50% instead I mean

night yarrow
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the cost of L/M is based on interal res

gusty silo
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To minimize sharpen issue

night yarrow
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its not an over sharpen issue tbh

gusty silo
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Dldsr and use smoothing at 100% so no extra sharpen filter I bet would balance it out

night yarrow
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because its basically on no taa image

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absolutely no extra sharpness should be applied

cold basin
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With Fg

gusty silo
cold basin
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DSR also makes MPO go poof

gusty silo
night yarrow
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the new models...might need some blur filter

cold basin
night yarrow
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maybe fxaa from reshade

gusty silo
night yarrow
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you can try that

gusty silo
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Your name is red

cold basin
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Im on 4090

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Cuh

gusty silo
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Well who cares about mpo if it makes M look really good

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I'm just saying try for science

night yarrow
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seriously

cold basin
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You do that

night yarrow
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if you just want a smooth/blur filter

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just use reshade fxaa

cold basin
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Hell nah

gusty silo
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Why are we against trying things for science

cold basin
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Fuck outta here

night yarrow
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i just cope with L

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just like everyone coped with K

cold basin
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I just test whatever is viable to me xD

gusty silo
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Why do I keep getting plasma'd 😭😭😭

night yarrow
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and enjoy the sharpness

cold basin
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I mean I can test but my FPS is already struggling with M and 70% scaling with just 3840x1600 UW

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Can barely keep 100FPS with FG on

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Higher res to upscale to certainly won’t help

night yarrow
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time to buy a 5090 lightning

cold basin
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For the cheap price of 5000€

night yarrow
cold basin
night yarrow
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dldsr also has its own cost

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take 1sec to verify with optiscaler's output scaling option

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you dont need dldsr

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with a game have dlss

cold basin
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Lol really

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I’ve never used optiscaler

night yarrow
cold basin
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Sounds cool

night yarrow
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real time presets change

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just like the debug dll

cold basin
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Damn

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Im out here with the debug DLL like a bozo

night yarrow
cold basin
gusty silo
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😭

night yarrow
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plus relfex limiter and rcas and vsync toggle with fg

cold basin
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Yeah I don’t need any of that

night yarrow
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you need the limiter no ?

gusty silo
night yarrow
gusty silo
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Nah, DC has better options

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Sync to frame present with reflex > just turning on Nvidia reflex limiter

night yarrow
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is there any difference

gusty silo
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Yes, game dependent, but it makes frame pacing extremely good

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Required to fix certain games like Clair obscur

night yarrow
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do you judge pacing by frametime graph

gusty silo
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I judge pacing by moving my camera and using my eyes

night yarrow
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fine

gusty silo
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I can't stand judder

gusty silo
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Especially since I use 3x mfg a lot of the time if it doesn't get the pacing right it's awful

cold basin
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Yeah understandable

gusty silo
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I sure hope the witcher 3 rumoured expansion upgrades streamline so we can use MFG

cold basin
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I bet with good pacing 3x is actually super usable

cold basin
gusty silo
cold basin
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Hopefully LG will be on the 240hz grind for their TVs by the time we have 6090s

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(They won’t)

gusty silo
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HDMI 2.2 wen

cold basin
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Not even that with DSC should
Be fine on 50 gen and newer

gusty silo
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Do any LG tvs support dsc

cold basin
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Yes?

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How do you think they do 165hz lol

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Black magic

gusty silo
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Double HDMI input idk

gusty silo
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Yeah 4k144 is limit of 48GBPS

cold basin
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Yeh

gusty silo
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So then it's just a panel limitation then

cold basin
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More like their processing shit I bet can’t handle 240

gusty silo
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The lg c6 looks like a good upgrade from C1 though

cold basin
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Since lg uses same processor for 2 years though i guess 2028 would be earliest for potential 240

night yarrow
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even the c2 is

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c1 has no color boosting

abstract tulip
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I wish he moved onto Cyberpunk

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there are so many low poly meshes in that game that would really benefit some treatment from master Halk

heady dune
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I drop a new mod guys for ayone using controller 😉

night yarrow
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and the input lag is a lot higher

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more than 50ms at 120fps

tall merlin
rose whale
cold basin
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ohno i hope this isnt first signs of savegame corruption or sumn, i just had Geralt not appear anymore in the inventory screen, even saving and going back to main menu didnt work

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had to fully restart the game

night yarrow
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well i actually like the new presets so far

cold basin
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Truly a sharp™ enjoyer

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but yeah i agree

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the longer i use it

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the more i like it

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im still using the dev dll

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switching back to K a lot for comparisons

night yarrow
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could never knew that there are so many small highlights in games

cold basin
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eye opening

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felt like putting glasses on

night yarrow
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L is really expensive though

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L with quality is like 5% faster than F with DLAA

tall merlin
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starting to come around to the new models too

rare scroll
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TI was right all this time, so many details lost because of the blur

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as always the goat is a head of his time

tall merlin
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No it's not "optimized".
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︀︀It's just running on top end 2026 hardware & Nvidia is taking advantage of modern gullibleness by NOT labeling the 59fps footage resolution (it's not 4K).
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︀︀The "4k Path Tracing" the video title references is fake 4k upscaled from low res dlss.

Quoting Peter (@PeterP_1985)

People saying "unoptimised".
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︀︀Native 4k with Path Tracing at damn close to 60 fps, is optimised

**💬 16 🔁 8 ❤️ 160 👁️ 10.1K **

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"fake 4k"

torn citrus
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I will touch TI

night yarrow
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everything is fake by his standard

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no game renders everything at native res

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if a game did that then its just stupid unoptimized trash

quiet sandal
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GIGGGGGA BASSSED

night yarrow
quiet sandal
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Metaphor was based all along?????

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He should review

night yarrow
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ya

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true 4k game

quiet sandal
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culling??? wtf is this shit

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Real life doesnt cull

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the objects are always there

night yarrow
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real life sun is billions nits

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its just a white blob to our eye

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wtf

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sdrlets were right

cold basin
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man this is peak gaming right here

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why the fuck is every single thing on the sea a goofy ass smuggler cache with 15 drowners

night pond
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CDPR devs tortured us with skellige

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it isn't even proper POI

cold basin
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they didnt even bother putting all the shit on the Progress on the path checklist mod

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i now know why

night yarrow
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its just ubisoftslop copy

cold basin
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they really thought: damn Ubi making them good games

quiet sandal
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let me post the meme

night yarrow
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Polishslop

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cp2077 open world is even worse

quiet sandal
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Witcherlets still cant refute this

night yarrow
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nah gowr is fine

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the skills is unlocked based on the weapon level

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which generally scales with main game progress

clever cape
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I might have missed a thing or two... this was a TW3 dedicated thread a few days ago. Now everyone is dumping on the game. I'm so lost😅 ...

quiet sandal
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duality of gamers

torn citrus
tall merlin
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it always is

torn citrus
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oh yeah i got blocked too

cold basin
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but like

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i am currently on my 14th smuggler cache back to back

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im losing my mind rn

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especially because they ALL have these fucking drowners

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my crossbow doing like 10 damage

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have to shoot each bitch 3-4 times

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actually crashing out rn

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cold basin
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this is actual slop game design

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yes gib me 9 bajillion smuggler cashes pls

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and make them all maximum annoying to loot

hollow burrow
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so don't loot them

cold basin
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my ocd wont lemme

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skill issue

rugged nest
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Took me 3 business days to do them all kekpepehands

dim wyvern
# cold basin this is actual slop game design

I guess they wanted people to be able to discover points of interest organically wherever they went/sailed, and didn't intend on people going to every POI, but then the decision to show all ? kind of ruins that organic sense of discovery.

cold basin
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Could’ve made like shipwrecks underwater and stuff like that

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I think I used the faster boat mod in Skellige last time I played through the game to help with the POIs

cold basin
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Boutta just spam kill all cheat on these smuggler cashes

stark anvil
cold basin
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No I’m underwater

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The drowned dead die in like 2-3 hits, drowners in 4

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Super annoying

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The sirens are chill

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The get one hit when the grab the boat

gusty silo
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Of course it's gonna be bad if vrr is off cuz it's using vsync at display cap

night yarrow
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do i have to turn off vsync ?

gusty silo
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It should be 116 or 115 if your displays 120hz

night yarrow
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no i was at gsync cap

gusty silo
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How much mfg

night yarrow
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here

gusty silo
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What was the latency when you just used reflex

night yarrow
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this is with that method, 52ms

gusty silo
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There should only be 1 additional frame of latency, which would be 14ms at a base of 69 fps

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Did it at least fix the frame pacing for you

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Because Clair obscur stutters and judders in other modes

night yarrow
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well i didnt get judders with reflex

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maybe thats related to mfg ?

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let me try 3x

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well 3x is like 90ms+

gusty silo
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Idk y you're getting like 4 frames of delay each time

night yarrow
gusty silo
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3x mfg at 225 gsync cap so 75 fps base

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And never have any issue with timing parries

night yarrow
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no idea then

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maybe a mfg issue

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this game always runs ok-ish for me

proper valve
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proceeds to do it even worse in 2077

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Anyone know how to stop the game from triggering display sleep after a few minutes? KEKW

tall merlin
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check ur gpu hotspot temps

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use hw monitor

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not ur average temp but ur hotspot

woven yacht
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hi @cold basin would u mind sharing with me your Reno settings and also some good mods you have tested in TW3? ty

rose whale
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Damn wish I could use that with my 5070 ti. He even added wind effects to tends and such

woven yacht
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wait, nevermind 🙁 doesnt work under water

rare scroll
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get the one shot damage crossbow mod

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i use it when i dont want to deal with flying enemies

cold basin
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I tried the pheromone thing

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Thought I was gonna do a big brain play

cold basin
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I think I saw the same video, seem to recall they wanted player to be able to stumble on things to loot, maybe they originally weren't supposed to be all marked on the map as "to-do lists".

cold basin
woven yacht
cold basin
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the mod comes with the numbers from the main description page, a bit too high. There were more reasonable numbers posted in the comment section,

Let me check what I ended up with... and yeah, I believe 1.0 would mean "vanilla" speed. My values (I mainly dislike the swimming slowing me down, but something sprinting without Roach is nice too).

sprintingSpeed = 1.2;
swimmingSpeed = 1.3;
divingSpeed = 1.5;
(run unchanged at 1.0)

cold basin
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yeah i think the modpage says everything is set to 1.6 to default which if 1.0 is baseline is a bit crazy lmao

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the boat thing is goated tho

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ill just set it to 3x vanilla i dont even care

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got the Bugatti boat

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ive already won all boat races anyways

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it's your 100 % run, you can always slow down and enjoy the experience next time XD

cold basin
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maybe not the bestest of ideas to do 100% run for first playthrough but whatever

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Luckily, the urge to 100 %ing is not among my problems.

cold basin
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rip cant use the player speed one

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bunch of script errors

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and i cba to debug that nor have the knowledge how to fix it without breaking stuff

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boat speed will have to do

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lol and that boat speed mod doesnt work it seems, atleast i dont feel like its any faster

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and i have it set to 24 instead of 8

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works for my controller. Are you on mouse & keyboard?

cold basin
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controller

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hm. Check the posts, author said game cannot handle more than around twice as fast. And it only affects the speed that you can get when "sprinting" with the boat, not the regular movement. For my Xbox controller it is when holding A button.

cold basin
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yeah i mean ofc im "sprinting" too xd

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i think i installed it wrong, im not sure im supposed to just put it in the mod folder like the folder structure suggests

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sprinting mod maybe imperfect in some way, but the boat one ought to be faultless. Ah. Think I know.

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you put the 2 lines from the text file into your own text file. It lives under documents > The Witcher 3: it is called dx12user.settings

cold basin
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yeah i thnk so too

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the mod is just zipped in that way so that the Witcher 3 Mod Manager can deal with it and add the user.settings from the mod into your own settings file. However if you install manually, you copy > paste the lines yourself, it is not described on the page, shame.

cold basin
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yeah

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pretty dumb

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but this boatsailinggear line doesnt even exist in my dx12user

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that's normal, it has a hidden default value. you can just add it

cold basin
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ok i just added it to the bottom like that

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hope works

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sad that 2x is cap

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wanted to be zoomin around the watah

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aww hell yeah it works

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we boutta do all caches with this one

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that and kill all command when i see drowners i cannot be fucked to waste my time on that

cold basin
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WHY TF IS THERE A LVL 48 ARCHGRIFFIN IN SKELLIGE

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bro im level 30

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wym

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like hello

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ok somehow he wasnt even that strong

cold basin
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almost done

proud cloud
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youre crazy lol

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i only do them if theyre in my way to someplace

stark anvil
proud cloud
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imagine if they put waterproof candles in each location

cold basin
proud cloud
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at least you get a lot of money from them

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those grandmaster upgrades are so expensive in blood and wine

cold basin
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i have like a million items now as you can tell by the carry weight

cold basin
proud cloud
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is this your first playthrough?

cold basin
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yesnt

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i have started one playthrough in 2023 where i put like a hundred hours in

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but i didnt even get to skellige there kek

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shit was interrupted cause i got a autoimmune disease and couldnt play for 2 months atleast

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also couldnt really remember much of it after i was okay

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for the map. If you highlight for example the greyed-out smuggler caches in the legend and press the left trigger (the one that makes Geralt block with his sword) you can activate and deactivate stuff showing on the map. There are 2 symbols per category, so for 100 % it might help to simply deactivate the greyed-out POIs you already cleared.

cold basin
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wait wat

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bruh

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i did not know that

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i was always thinking i want to have some custom filter

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but there wasnt any mods for it

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I only found out because it was on a mod's description.

cold basin
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guess thats why

unreal badge
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you can set to ALL and then disable what doesn't interest you

cold basin
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bruhhhhh

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ive been playing so long without knowing that

unreal badge
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it was True Exploration mod, he even writes that most people do not know this feature of the map 😄

cold basin
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why couldnt they add a tooltip like all the other controls at the bottom

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is there anything you do with the 30000 mutagens that you acquire throughout the game?

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i have a ton but they are also worthless to sell kek

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no spoilers pls just yes or nah

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xd

rugged nest
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You can use them but you dont need a million

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If u wanna know how lmk

cold basin
rose whale
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Looking for a mod which enhances the bad motion blur of the game. Any suggestions?

quiet sandal
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Nada

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Jon wanted to rework it

cold basin
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anyone have a clue why this one wont pop for me? been running around with ursine gear for like a while now, got both swords and full armor

rare scroll
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the crossbow is probably the one missing

cold basin
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oh bruh theres witcher set crossbows

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i did not know

cold basin
proper valve
rose whale
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cold basin
abstract tulip
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The runewright will take them all and some despairge

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Greedy bastard

cold basin
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ZAMN heihachiPlasma

cold basin
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Using preset M or L disables RR in games that support it, right?

cold basin
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i think its the other way round

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if a game has RR it will be dlss 4.0 because it wasnt updated yet

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havent experimented with it yet though, just based on what ive heard from others

quiet sandal
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RR = (its own) SR + Denoising so doesn't matter whatever is set for SR, RR takes over

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tall merlin
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0:00 Intro
0:25 Oblivion: DLSS 3.8 vs 4.5
2:45 DLSS 4 vs 4.5
5:44 vs Native 1440p
6:48 DLSS 3.8 vs 4.5
8:04 DLSS 4 vs 4.5
10:41 vs Native 1440p
11:48 3.8 vs 4 vs 4.5
12:43 KCD 2: 3.8 vs 4.5
14:38 DLSS 4 vs 4.5
17:29 vs Native 1440p
19:18 DLSS 3.8 vs 4.5
20:49 DLSS 4 vs 4.5
21:46 DLSS 4 vs 4.5
22:48 DLSS 4 vs 4.5
23:46 CBP: DLSS 3.8 vs 4.5
24:38 ...

▶ Play video
cold basin
tall merlin
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skip in a bit

cold basin
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also i really dont get using perf mode at 1440p ngl

tall merlin
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i immediately skipped in

cold basin
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yeah haha

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i did too

tall merlin
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yea i agree but the difference is pretty crazy still

cold basin
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yeah

tall merlin
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after i updated nvpi and forced M that way and opted into beta (?) i'm not having even 5% of that noise i was having before

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it looks really nice, minimal artifacting

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performance hit is noticeable now though even with M

tall merlin
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idk, the way i forced it day 1 was with nvpi but it was giving me insane noise in everything. day goes by and i updated nvpi for dlss 4.5 and also opted into the beta features on nvidia app and i tested the same spot and it was completely gone and im yet to see noise remotely comparable. it wasnt dlsstweaks because i uninstalled that completely to test and this is all thats changed

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regardless it actually looks like it should now

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its really noticeably better

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i wont be able to go back to K

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that video u sent was insane, of all the specular highlights

cold basin
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Getting robbed of highlights we never knew existed

tall merlin
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literally

cold basin
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fellas

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should i start Hearts of Stone now? Im lvl 30 and currently active main quests is isle of mists where i recruited all possible allies but i havent travelled to said isle

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i know that this is like a breaking point for many quests to fail so i thought this might be a good time to start that dlc

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ofc no spoilers Please

dim wyvern
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Pretty much in the same spot as you, although I haven't finished recruiting everyone, felt like a good time to start HoS.

cold basin
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yeah ive done like everything already in preperation kinda

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completed all quests that can potentially fail etc

dim wyvern
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In terms of the flow of the story I reckon it would have been better placed earlier in the story, but it is an expansion so I get why it is more of a late game/post-game thing.

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Doesn't really feel like there is a good time given the urgency of the main quest story. I guess you could say the same for most side quests and stuff though.

cold basin
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yeah that urgency of main quest is the only thing

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but whatever atleast i can enjoy the rest of the main game story without any interruptions after that

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since BW youre supposed to do after the story

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from what ive read

dim wyvern
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I guess, Geralt doesn't know he is about to start an expansion worth of stuff, from his perspective it is just another contract.

cold basin
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i cant really read much on that since im giga careful to avoid spoilers

dim wyvern
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Same

cold basin
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yeah i think ill just do HoS now fuck it

dim wyvern
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I, of course also decided now was a good time to start a new playthrough of Cyberpunk

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But you have convinced me, I'm jumping back in for HoS too Nodd

cold basin
rugged nest
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And then DLC

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HoS is basically like a big side quest while Blood and Wine serves as an epilogue and must be played last

cold basin
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yeah

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also it fits tbh

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because like

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even tho main quest is technically urgent

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||ciri is technically safe and will continue to be until she is "rescued" from that island||

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atleast as far as i understand

cold basin
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Bro that fucking ||toad|| is crazy

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Homie beating my ass on deathmarch fr

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Didn’t know I’m playing Elden ring over here

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also effective against these in B&W

cold basin
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But like

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Bro 2 shots me

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Basically playing no hit run

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And like almost all attacks stun me

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Finally bruh

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Took like 30mins atleast

rare scroll
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bro doesnt know whats coming next kekw

cold basin
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Ya, you can play HoS during or after basegame. Some of its enemy types and bosses are kinda wild, I think it was a goal for both DLCs to offer more "true" boss fights/challenges. Luckily, there are still counters to everything. Currently in a HoS only run, I spent so much time hunting down the Oriole potion before finally feeling confident enough to start the ||toad|| fight.

The funny bit is, I collected viper armor before as well, from Immersive Gear Rewards (find it early) + More Witcher Set Bonuses (change its properties) mod. And it basically seemed to ||make me immune to poison anyhow, so Oriole never triggered, bahaha. Still, it took a while to beat toady.||

rose whale
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Preset M gigachad

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c'est pas parce que t'es alsacien que MOSIEUR HOMER n'est ps français

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@steady viper dit kekchose ptin

rugged nest
rose whale
rose whale
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Finally

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No more coping

rugged nest
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He clearly didn’t but we’ll go with that as cannon

steady viper
ancient oar
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mdr fdp

slate forge
weary socket
stark anvil
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we love SDR

prisma bramble
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howmany lighting mods are there

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the mod links to another mod

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which links to another lighting mod

stark anvil
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a lot

weary socket
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and all of them seem to have somewhat raised blacks 🙁

stark anvil
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a lot of them probably use some nasty values for the tonemapping

weary socket
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while in the meantime it just works™ with RenoDX

cold basin
cold basin
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cold basin
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Oh xD

weary socket
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I ended up just using vanilla and staying away from any lighting mods, none of them look right with HDR imo

cold basin
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Ah good to know

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I was tempted bunch of times to try them but yeah

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Prolly all look ass cause they’re not made for actual hdr

stark anvil
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When I’ve tried them I don’t feel like they look better or worse cause of HDR. Maybe less sat correction is desirable with lighting mods but that’s about it.

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If they’re designed with clipping as an important part of the look I mean…yeah I guess that’s just not gonna translate.

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I think most of them should work well since the bloom rework

tall merlin
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the old benis looked good but took the style of the games lighting completely out of the game so i stopped using it after a few months and went back to vanilla and ive stayed there

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idk why people say its an eyesore. it does lack in a lot of areas but it does what it sets out to do pretty effectively id say

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vanilla that is

stark anvil
cold basin
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hm?

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just sdr vs reno?

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or what you trying to show

stark anvil
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just posting screenshots

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just vanilla hdr vs reno lol

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no shortage of that but I still enjoy seeing the improvement

cold basin
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smh i got spoilered by dio for that fight by a video he posted smh

stark anvil
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lol

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stark anvil
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oh lol

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that's from the dyeable armor right?

cold basin
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hmm crossbow aint dyable though

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but yeah dyable armor seems aids

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ive installed a few texture mods for all the witcher armors to fix this

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this what i meant when i said getting spoiled

stark anvil
cold basin
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could be i suppose

stark anvil
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I'm not totally sure

slate forge
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worst named mod of all time, but should fix that issue. Just turns off AO checkerboarding. Has performance cost but shouldn't be noticeable if yo uare on a higher end PC

cold basin
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it doesnt

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it helps but still has a bunch of cases where these rt reflections are cooked

slate forge
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Haven't seen a case as bad as that screen in years

cold basin
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i mean

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im using ray bleach

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and you seen how bad it looks for me

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you told me to swtich to non dyable armor

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kek

slate forge
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so it's that or a combo of that and the better reflections mod

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that may be the cause for the armor but not the crossbow, I never get that blueish hue anymore

cold basin
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ive not really had any more issues though since switching to non dyable armors

slate forge
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If I had to guess the crossbow would be the AO checkerboarding

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armor may be diff though for sure

stark anvil
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it's not

slate forge
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I mean sure. I've just never had it happen in a way I have found super noticeable or bothersome in a very long time.
also I have pretty heavily tweaked RTX settings at this point so I can't even be sure what all could improve it just know that the AO checkerboarding is 90% of it

prisma bramble
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Could someone be a babe and give me a recommened list of visual mods to use if i were to play again?

slate forge
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There's also Improved RT Reflections and Shadows, Improved Shadows (they tweak seperate things), and turning off AO checkerboarding with a .ini.

proper valve
cold basin
cold basin
tall merlin
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interesting

rugged nest
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Does this work?

tall merlin
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not sure how far along it is but it does seem to work to some degree

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insane though

rugged nest
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Seems cool

woven yacht
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how do I get rid of outdoor fog in TW3?

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after I modded the game I can't understand why I notice this close range fog which is irritating

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also sometimes I see this fog pretty much everywhere

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and sometimes I load the save and it's nowhere to be found

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and I also notice if I go to a place with fog then this fog kinda follows me for sometimes in other areas

woven yacht
cold basin
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bruh worked instantly with the griffin set

night pond
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What was the general consensus with DLSS 4.5

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I haven’t had time to test it

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I’m at 3440x1440p

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So it model M or L balanced better than K quality

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Or is it overly sharp

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Seeing a lot of discourse on it online and it seems to differ game by game

night yarrow
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M is the overall best

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make sure you disable all of the sharpening methods

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@cold basin you were right bro, L has more artifacts (not just in this game), i switch to M now

gusty silo
ancient oar
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i’m using performance M on 3440x1440, been pretty happy with it over balanced K

stark anvil
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Even with the new models I still don’t like anything below quality mode at 1440p

ancient oar
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i honestly haven’t tried it with balanced or quality with M, is it worth it?

stark anvil
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I’ll put up with balanced mode if I have to for performance, but I’d rather play at like 40 fps or something unless it’s a mouse and keyboard game

ancient oar
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i’ve also seen some people prefer Dlss performance with L instead of M on 1440p

gusty silo
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Just see for your own eyes

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simplify your life, buy AMD, am got no troubles whatsoever with model selection feelsAmazingMan

stark anvil
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Their mode designators for the models have much more to do with total pixels at an assumed 4k

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I think anyway

gusty silo
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It's to keep people from crying online that preset M decimated their fps when they use it on quality or dlaa

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The presets will always look better the more data you feed them, and I agree that 720p is too low for me

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I will also agree that it's pretty crazy how acceptable things do look though at only 720p, (ultra perf 4k or perf 1440p)

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Especially for those with weaker gpus, nothing wrong with playing like that anymore

ancient oar
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i’m just testing it in W3, i’m on a 4090

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balanced preset K 130 fps, performance M 140

night yarrow
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i use M quality in everything now

night yarrow
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id imagine the shimmering would be bad at 1440p with lower quality level

woven yacht
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funny enough the best looking games with prest M and DLSS performance are UE games from my testing

gusty silo
night yarrow
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but im going to buy a 1440p one

gusty silo
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With 4k just slap it on perf and call it a day imo, unless you have a surplus of frame rate available still

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I guess with the 4k120 tvs, you can get away with 4k qual easier

night yarrow
gusty silo
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4k performance is higher than 1440p quality

night yarrow
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screen is also larger

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with makes aliasing more noticeable

gusty silo
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you can always sit further back then hehehe

night yarrow
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also not everything is scaled by dlss

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still prefer higher internal res personally

gusty silo
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Regardless, 4k performance at 1080p is higher quality than 1440p quality at only 960p

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And surely people don't need to use dlaa on 1440p

night yarrow
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with the new presets

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dlaa is completely useles

gusty silo
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Even at K dlaa was wasteful

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My next monitor will hopefully be an ultrawide 4k, even a 5090 will struggle at that res though

night yarrow
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i liked preset F dlaa

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M quality is only like 10% faster than F dlaa

gusty silo
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Id take K quality over F DLAA anyway, but with M now you just gotta find the framerate somewhere

night yarrow
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i run my 5090 at above 3.2ghz daily

gusty silo
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That's a +400 core?

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You must have some very nice silicon lotto

night yarrow
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+405 vs FE model

gusty silo
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I've got +200, I could push a little more but def not 400, I don't want any instability if I can help

night yarrow
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which model ?

gusty silo
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Fe

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Memory's maxed out

night yarrow
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FE cant flash bios

gusty silo
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+3000 I think? Whatever the unlocked max is

night yarrow
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the FE bios can suck in some apps

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like steel nomad

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not sure if thats the case in games

gusty silo
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+200/3000 worked for daily for I guess a year now?

night yarrow
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+4000 is the limit for xoc bios

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above 4000 requires certain gpu models

gusty silo
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Doesn't happen often but I'll admit I pucker up a little bit if I see it hit 600w

night yarrow
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preset L DLAA i get 900w in some games