Silent Hill F

[wise rover]

Yeah, I think I could get used to 100nits as well, tbh.

I realized that a while ago, just need to give a few days to adjust.

But I overall like 200 nits for most SDR stuff.

it's nowhere blinding, though 😛

[fleet goblet]

I play games with 200 nits game brightness, but I find desktop stuff eye searing at 200+, so keep it at 5/100

[sullen mulch]

Ngl, the combat is ruining this game for me

Certified ass

[coarse gate]

how bad

worse than ff16?

[wise rover]

https://tenor.com/view/silent-hill-silent-hill-f-sandevistan-hinako-konami-gif-3131135365214721857

Is it really like this? lol

[steep copper]

Is it the same as sh2r?

[sullen mulch]

Might be the least I’ve enjoyed combat in a game in a long ass time.

[sullen mulch]

Sh2 was better

Which I still thought was kinda bad

[crimson sequoia]

Ehhh it's fine, it's nothing crazy, but I much prefer that to the endless and mindless bashing of SH2R, by far

[wise rover]

SH2R combat was boring AF.

Wasn't a fan of it.

[coarse gate]

I think it got the job done

not sure how you make it better

any more complexity and it probably just takes away from the atmosphere

[lyric silo]

My issue is that it’s way too easy. I’m never scared of a fight

[spiral badger]

also the amount of enemies makes the game lose so much of the "scare" factor, makes the enemies seem annoying rather than scary

[inner veldt]

yeah i can see 68, very faint but i assume that is because its close to absolute black

why do categories below 64 exist

how do you go below 0 nits

[stuck plume]

how far are you? At a certain point they start throwing a lot of enemies at you, and some of them you actually have to fight to progress

[sullen mulch]

Not very. I had one encounter resembling a boss fight and that’s pretty much when I decided they’ve made some bad choices lol

[ember pond]

My iphone only can see from 96

[sullen mulch]

Idk why a horror game needs to play like a soulslike but worse

[stuck plume]

there were definitely moments where I've had enough of those fights and near the ending there's a sequence where they just throw like 5–10 enemies at you at once

I ended up skipping most of those encounters because they were just annoying

[sullen mulch]

It’s boring but inoffensive. It’s much more of a focus here and it’s not good enough for that.

[stuck plume]

but some of them they force you to fight

I hate when they do that in horror games, everything would be fine without forcing so much action

[crimson sequoia]

If you're talking about SH2R, frankly as far as I am concerned, by doing something closer to what f is doing 😄

[coarse gate]

I’m on 13 pro and I can see 68

[crimson sequoia]

James being a power tank that can bash anything without stopping was not a good idea

[sullen mulch]

Sh2r was kinda similar, but it felt better and was more responsive. Killing enemies was unfortunately very formulaic, they didn’t have movesets that made combat interesting at all.

There’s a lot more going on here, but it feels so ass to play I simply can’t enjoy it.

[coarse gate]

Lights off and screen brightness max

[crimson sequoia]

How am I supposed to potentially dread an encounter and favor fleeing when I can fight without any drawbacks 😛

That was such a fundamental mistake of Bloober

[sullen mulch]

Every enemy has dark souls ass windup, input buffering is seconds long, stamina management feels awful, it’s just not working for me.

[crimson sequoia]

Sure, in SH2 you could also bash that crowbar as much as you wanted, by the combat system was shitty enough to make you not want to do that haha

[sullen mulch]

Take me back to tank controls, anything is better

[crimson sequoia]

SH2R offered no incentive to not fight

[wise rover]

Sadge

[lyric silo]

Same happens in f tbh

This girl feels like a superhero with a pipe lol

[crimson sequoia]

But you can end up without a weapon, and as much as it feels like they should be more fragile and the enemies more dangerous in order to even things out the way I'd like it, there is still something compared to 2R

[lyric silo]

I literally haven’t died in the whole game and fought every motherfucker there is xD

It’s REALLY hard to end up without a weapon. Just manage them a bit, explore and you good

They give you SO many items

I currently have like 5 medkits and 6 bandages lol

[crimson sequoia]

I do agree it's too much sometimes yes

[lyric silo]

They should’ve been more aggressive with the difficulty. The systems are good, but difficulty is just not tuned

[crimson sequoia]

Maybe a mod could even things out like I said, but in 2R you cannot do that because the combat system is just not made to take into account you being in an unfavorable position ever

[lyric silo]

And makes the systems feel pointless

[crimson sequoia]

In f you can tune it out, not in 2R, is my point more or less

[lyric silo]

Haven’t played SH2R so I can’t weigh in there

[crimson sequoia]

(It's miserable lel)

[lyric silo]

I am however enjoying combat despite the flaws. Just not like I would imagine in a survival horror game

[stuck plume]

where are you in the game right now?

[sullen mulch]

2r at least felt pretty good

But yeah the actual combat design was bad

[lyric silo]

Im 7hrs in. Don’t wanna say anything else since I don’t want spoilers

[sullen mulch]

F has the opposite issue primarily

[lyric silo]

I mean you’re fighting with a 16y old girl. Combat is supposed to feel sluggish. She doesn’t know how to fight and she’s not James (a grown ass strong man)

I think the combat actually represents the character very well in f. It’s just that it’s too easy

[sullen mulch]

I like sluggish heavy combat, this is just poorly designed 🤷

One of my GOATs is the original PSO lol

[stuck plume]

I don't want to spoil anything, I'm just curious where you're at because there's a point in the game where the combat really ramps up

[lyric silo]

Dunno, I actually really like the combat personally. I prefer it to the shooter style of resident evil for example by far

[lyric silo]

I just went thru the crazy || arm and wolf mask thing ||

But don’t tell me anything tho

[stuck plume]

Yeah, okay I'd say from where you are there's much more combat already

[lyric silo]

Yeah I’m fighting a lot

It’s just still very easy

[stuck plume]

honestly I died a lot even before that point so maybe I'm just bad

[lyric silo]

And I look at the enemies and instead of being scared of them I’m like “oh damn that’s an awesome design”

To me it’s not a scary/hard game at all. Just a very good atmospheric creepy game, which I love tbh don’t get me wrong

[stuck plume]

funny enough, I only realized around 70% into the game that you can do parries

[lyric silo]

In normal difficulty? You just do one heavy attack 2 or 3 lights and everything dies lol

[lyric silo]

I haven’t parried anything xD

I just do perfect dodges

But most times I don’t even need to dodge. I just bonk them hard

[stuck plume]

the highest that is possible to choose for the first playthrough, so normal I think

[lyric silo]

You can choose hard first time

[stuck plume]

I mean it's called "Hard" technically but it's above the "story" one

[fleet goblet]

and then lost in the fog for "very hard" puzzles

[lyric silo]

After playing once you can use hardcore I think

Im using the defaults

[stuck plume]

there's Story, Hard, and Lost in the Fog. I played on "Hard"

[lyric silo]

Don’t remember what’s the default tbh

[stuck plume]

Lost in the Fog is unlocked after beating the game

[fleet goblet]

story combat difficulty is the default

[lyric silo]

That’s what I’m using then

Naming for the difficulties is weird af

I’ll do the second run in hard. Wonder if it’ll make the combat better

[fleet goblet]

I'm playing on hard combat/lost in the fog puzzle and I doubt there's much difference with the combat apart from some HP bloat

I just abuse parries mostly

[lyric silo]

Yeah I’m guessing it’ll be HP bloat sadly

Which I won’t like

[stuck plume]

Story difficulty lets you recover both Health and Sanity at a Hokora (shrine) without using Faith (gained from trading in collectables). In other difficulties you'll need to use Faith and consumables to recover Health and Sanity.

Max Sanity will not decrease when attacked while using Focus in Story mode to deal extra damage. In other difficulties, max Sanity will be lowered if you're attacked while using Focus.

Being grabbed in Story mode will not decrease your max Sanity, but it will in other difficulties.

there are some gameplay differences but yeah probably mainly hp bloat

[lyric silo]

Oh but my sanity decreases when I’m grabbed I think. I might not be in story lol

[stuck plume]

do you have to pay for sanity at hokoras?

[fleet goblet]

I'm indifferent on the combat overall, but it's very video gamey and so I don't find myself getting immersed as much as I like to with these kinds of games

[lyric silo]

Yeah this does not seem cool

[lyric silo]

Noup. So im probably on story yeah

Fucking weird names for the modes man

[stuck plume]

well that sounds like "story" would be more for me lol

like it was fine for most of the game, but by the ending it was just too much unfortunately

the combat wasn't good enough to have so much action imo

[lyric silo]

Yeah this combat is NOT built to do action at all

[sullen mulch]

I might drop to story too lol

[crimson sequoia]

mfw I did well following the default difficulties lol

[lyric silo]

You can drop mid game?

[raw rose]

if you die a lot

to the same enemy

[lyric silo]

That’s always the best choice for a first playthru

[lyric silo]

Ohhh gotcha

[raw rose]

im thinking of doing the same. hard mode is too much for me

[lyric silo]

Damn y’all really struggling in hard and I find story too easy. Yeah difficulty is not tuned for sure

[raw rose]

holy shit i got the area with a lot of small corridors and i cant

on hard its 2-3 hit and youre dead. is that the same in normal?

[lyric silo]

I think if given the choice this is definetly a game of vibes and dying ruins the vibes totally. So probably story is the best

[lyric silo]

Nah I can get hit 4 or even 5

[raw rose]

!

[lyric silo]

But also depends on what you upgraded

You can increase health. Use perks to increase it even more

And I have A LOT of heals so I just constantly heal when hit

I’m rarely low

[lyric silo]

Actually probably 3-4 is more realistic

[raw rose]

yeah, im gonna restart in story mode first, finish it, and then maybe try hard.

again

[lyric silo]

Same I’m doing

Puzzle difficulty is pretty good tho. I didn’t get stuck and they felt satisfying

I wonder how lost in the fog in both difficulties feels

They have trophies so I might attempt that. But could be frustrating

[sullen mulch]

it's both super easy and tediously annoying at times

when it's hard it doesn't feel like it's hard for the right reasons

so I'd rather it just be a breeze

[bright coyote]

hard is pretty hard in this game yes. some bosses I have to fight for like hour to beat them. also the last boss, way too op in my opinion, haven't managed to beat him yet, but I guess is that cuz I'm non console player and playing with pad is weird for me

I've heard that story is very easy and default setting should be set to hard but it's too hard sometimes

[bright coyote]

I think the best way to go is for stamina, it ends so fucking fast and when u get hit cuz it ended sometimes hurts a lot

[spiral badger]

Last boss isn't too bad imo, ||didn't even need the extra lives||, the ganks are pretty bad tho

[bright coyote]

well did u play on story or hard?

[raw rose]

i started a new game with story combat and the game is now too easy lol. i had a ton of healing items. enemies werent as agressive and gives you more time to do focus attacks.

im only at the scarcrow area though

[spiral badger]

Hard

[placid grail]

Where do I find the Ultra mod to enable 0.1 motion blur to stop the glitches?

[noble matrix]

https://x.com/rickbrewPDN/status/1971438983243796591

Rick Brewster (@rickbrewPDN)

Silent Hill f on PC has major crashing problems on GeForce 5090s. You may have read that to "fix" it you need to reinstall your GPU driver ... every time the game crashes. Or reboot your PC. Kinda sucks.

I found another solution that's much easier and way faster ...

X · Sep 26, 2025, 4:57 AM

Best method I've found so far.

[dim furnace]

https://discord.gg/FJ4HA9K8

[placid grail]

thank you

[gaunt terrace]

hi, anyone have an issue with the skin color has this red tint kind of thing? any suggestion to fix it?

im using the mod with the default settings on the vanilla ACES + UE filmic blend

[coarse gate]

do you have a save file before this scene

then I can see if I can reproduce the same error

any other mods?

[gaunt terrace]

unfortunately no, but this is a scene right after the second encounter with the fox mask

right after that scene, goes back into the village, then the skin tone is still red-ish like that

when i turned mod HDR into the most left option, the skin is back to normal. but, the dark areas became like the default again grey-ish

[gaunt terrace]

only the unlock fps on cutscene

[coarse gate]

and you're playing with default settings?

[gaunt terrace]

yup, no changes on the renoDX mod

[coarse gate]

is that scene a pre rendered cutscene

[gaunt terrace]

im not so sure, bcs i have the unlock fps mod on cutscene. but im thinking its a pre rendered

but i think this also affects gameplay

let me screenshot it

This is with the vanilla+, you can see that there is a slight red tone in the skin color

This is with the UE ACES tone mapper. The skin color is back to normal, but the dark area is grey like the default from the game

this is gameplay and not a cutscene

did the settings needs to be adjusted or is there any other things that i need to do?

[coarse gate]

oh

you're on an old version of the mod

that might be fixed now

https://www.nexusmods.com/silenthillf/mods/64

[gaunt terrace]

I see, ok will try it later tonight. To update i just need to replace the add on file with the newer one right? Thanks btw

Any recommended settings or the default vanilla+ is ok?

[coarse gate]

only thing I recommend is the new film grain if you like that

perceptual film grain at 50 strength

[limber sundial]

The game is good and is well, hard on hard difficulty but the problem it's that it's not scary at all, i'm at the end and never saw even one scary moment

[waxen trout]

It's creepy AF tho

I can't be scared in my age by stuff like that 👴

But I appreciate the creepiness

[coarse gate]

its hard for third person to scare me

[severe willow]

I thought sh2 remake had way scarier atmosphere than this.

[limber sundial]

RE9 looks way scarier at least

[hardy ermine]

I like the atmosphere but yea I think due to the combat system the game isn't really scary

especially the boss fights make it seem like I'm actually playing a souls like

But I still enjoy the game for what it is very much

[ember pond]

Reno is game changer for me
Can’t imagine japanese dev fucked this game with hdr

[inner veldt]

Because the combat is supposed to be bad, it’s supposed to be a last resort type of thing. It’s a fantasy about being stripped off of your power

[inner veldt]

How was ff16’s combat bad?

[inner veldt]

There is a difference like sanity loss when using focus/healing items etc.

[lyric silo]

Oversimplified repetitive combos

[fleet goblet]

I don't think that's the case here really, though. Slow motion perfect dodges, parries and special attacks don't make me feel fearful of combat or stripped of any power, they make me feel like a regular action video game character

[bright coyote]

just finished

great game, after those subtitles there is cutscene

[tepid reef]

How do i fix this unreal crash? This happened the first time i installed renodx hdr

maybe it's related to optiscaler/dlss?

[bright coyote]

im using optiscaler, and it worked for me

but i cannot mamage to work sh2r with optiscaler so it can be true for u

[cursive plover]

Reinstall driver

The game has an issue where shaders become corrupt over time

Why reinstalling driver fixes it

[stuck plume]

wait, did you actually beat the game? I'd agree if it were a normal horror game where you only fight occasionally and don't run into that many enemies. But later on they throw so much at you that it basically turns into a heavy action game

[bright coyote]

u can go to drivers folder and delete shaders...

[cursive plover]

There's a mod that fixes that by giving you more freedom

[cursive plover]

Reinstalling driver is easier and works better...

[bright coyote]

at last for AMD it worked where I was playing early battlefield labs

[bright coyote]

nah

deleting shaders is faster

[gaunt terrace]

i have installed the updated mod but unfortunately the same issue still persist

[cursive plover]

I literally go to nvidia app and hit reinstall and it does it in like 15 seconds

[gaunt terrace]

there is still kinda like a red tint in the skin

[bright coyote]

funny I had 2 crashes. at the end during final boss on the cutscene and one when fighting, but it was my driver crashing not game

[cursive plover]

Silent Hill games aren't really supposed to be scary imo. They are creey.

Although if you had a child play the game they would find it scary.

[bright coyote]

dirty install drivers is the dumbest thing that u can do. no wonder Ur game is crashing

[stuck plume]

honestly, I don't really get scared by games like this but I don't play them to "get scared". What I enjoy most is the unique atmosphere. I'm also curious what people who do want to be scared are actually looking for, because sometimes it feels like they just want jump scares and screamers, which I find cheap and kind of disqualifying for me.

[cursive plover]

You are a moron

[bright coyote]

nah. I'm telling the truth

[cursive plover]

I see your twitch account got banned. I wonder why

[bright coyote]

like almost everybody will tell u that for GPU u should always ddu first then install

[bright coyote]

talking to me?

[cursive plover]

https://www.twitch.tv/uremytoy

[bright coyote]

that's not my twitch

[cursive plover]

LOL

[bright coyote]

this is https://www.twitch.tv/uremytoy2

[cursive plover]

The account linked to your discord is not your twitch ?

[hardy ermine]

gottem lmao

[lyric silo]

That could be cool. But I don’t judge games based on the mods. (I still liked the game)

[bright coyote]

that account u posted was hijacked, and someone was using it to spamm some trash

so it got banned, a couple of years ago

[cursive plover]

Damn you let your account get hijacked? That's dumb. Use a better password.

[gaunt terrace]

fixed for the red tint using this method

[bright coyote]

someone, who is dirty installing drivers will teach me what to do?

like really?

https://tenor.com/view/hysterical-laughter-laughing-gif-25735842

[cursive plover]

You mean the thing that works ?

[bright coyote]

looks like it doesnt

since game is crashing

[hardy ermine]

his password also works, ask the hijacker

[cursive plover]

True

[hardy ermine]

jk but on a serious note

if you really want to clean up your GPU drivers

DDU is probably the cleanest way

[cursive plover]

Well I A / B tested just reinstalling the dirty way and it solved the problem

So there's no need for that

[hardy ermine]

yea they both probably do the same thing

[cursive plover]

I was having an issue where there were flashing red lights everywhere which usually is a sign of a dying GPU

I tried multiple things and it kept occuring. Reinstalling the driver fixed it immediately.

[hardy ermine]

Yea I'm sure most of the time it does the job

[cursive plover]

Initially I thought it was one of my engine edits causing it or an unstable overclock

[hardy ermine]

just saying DDU is probably cleaner

as it gets rid of everything

[cursive plover]

and this uremytoy dude doesn't even have a 5090. 5090 users are the ones having the most issues.

[hardy ermine]

oh you're having those crashes

do you have HDR analysis shader installed on the game

[cursive plover]

My first crash was immediately after installing the renodx mod

[hardy ermine]

apparently HDR analysis shaders causes crashing

[cursive plover]

Reinstalling driver fixed it

[hardy ermine]

and I can confirm, after removing the shader I had 0 crashes

[cursive plover]

I noticed after installing renodx the game started precompiling extra shaders on startup

[hardy ermine]

I had crashes even after a clean driver install on my 5090

just in case it keeps happening if you have shaders installed try removing them first

from reshade I mean

[cursive plover]

My 2nd issue wasn't even a crash it was the flashing red lights

fixed that with another reinstall

[hardy ermine]

yea that's different

[cursive plover]

and then I had a random issue with crashing after rebooting into the game after playing a full day without an issue

reinstalled again to fix

So there's def something wrong with shaders in the game at least with the 50 series

[hardy ermine]

there is definitely a lot wrong with the shaders in this game yea

fortunately after removing hdr analysis the game has been very stable for me just the shader compilation hitches are annyoing me

[cursive plover]

Apparently the game uses 8x AF default

Imma manually set it to 16 in the engine file and see if that causes issues like the nvidia control panel method

[tepid reef]

I’m running it on a steam deck (lol, I know)

[cursive plover]

which file is that

I don't think i installed that

[fleet goblet]

shouldn't be forcing driver level anisotropic filtering on 5000 series in general, it's busted in many games

[bright coyote]

I've just read that previous driver - 580.88 should fix crashes on 50 series GPU

[cursive plover]

If anyone wants the motion blur intensity fix without having to download ultra plus put this in the engine.ini
r.MotionBlurQuality=4
r.MotionBlur.Amount=0.1
r.MotionBlur.Max=1

[inner veldt]

I mean if you wanted to then sure. I easily spent like 10+ hours in the training room making my own combos

[inner veldt]

I didn’t, I just finished the || scarecrows ||

[inner veldt]

??? Wdym dirty install

[stuck plume]

yeah, you're still really early, there are a lot more combat encounters later on

[inner veldt]

Even ddu tells you to not use their program for every driver install

[stuck plume]

that completely changes the whole point about "combat is supposed to be bad"

[bright coyote]

what?

where?

also now i noticed that in DDU u have option to delete shader cache, so its even better than finding it by urself

[leaden umbra]

I liked it a lot.

Any further combat systems and it wouldn't be a silent hill game and would have strayed WAY too far from the original.

SH:F has way more of a combat system and that's the biggest critique about it

It's not a silent hill game

Not that it's not good. Just that it's not really SH

[cursive plover]

Is resident evil 4 resident evil ?

[leaden umbra]

Some people think no. It's my personal RE favorite because it's so different. I'm not a huge RE fan. 4 is the only one i really like

So i would say it could be argued that it's too different. But at least canonically it was RE haha

[waxen trout]

But sh2r had too many combat encounters and kinda forced you to interact with the subpar mechanics

Both are not good in that regard for different reasons

The vibe is pretty similar though in terms of psychological horror and atmosphere

[leaden umbra]

I still think i wanna play this one, but it looks more like a souls lite type deal.

Which may not necessarily be bad

[weary dew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ajME2iCnsk

looks like a big step forward , much bigger then i thought from the gameplay trailers so far. will wait for this on PC after 1y probably , with better RT prob. and will all the updates to day.

PS users beta testers for the PC players

[worldly willow]

the leap in graphics is pretty impressive

this is both captured on PS5 i assume

[bright coyote]

well imo on pc it looks better

i mean tsuchima

[worldly willow]

i didnt really get to play GoT yet.. i was getting too frustrated with the dlss4 bugging out like crazy with any sort of volumetrics

[bright coyote]

it looks great

even that broken HDR for me looks awesome, even when i know its broken

[worldly willow]

yeah i think musa said making a reno for that is cancer or sumn

[bright coyote]

yeah i wish that would happen, but after he said that i dont think that ever will

so Broken HDR is all we have

still looks nice

[weary dew]

ya even Vanilla HDR in Ghost of T. looks better then the Sdr , i beat the game last year in HDR on my tv and lookd decent good for the most part.

not great but better then Sdr at least in that game.

[meager drum]

I 100% the game on PS4/PS5 so not really going to pick it up PC

From the dev blog they just did Reinhard per channel

[lyric silo]

Just finished the game, SO GOOD. Does anyone know if its worth to play more times for the extra endings or just searching them on YT is good enough?

[coarse gate]

I thought they did aces with smoothclamp and then inverse

[meager drum]

Infamous I think with "srgb10"

https://www.glowybits.com/talks/real-time_samurai_cinema/#/125

Reinhard per channel on custom colorspace (acescg/AP1 with adjusted primaries)

Ironically the bt709 per channel didn't blow out enough so they went to another colorspace so it blowsout faster.

Instead of adjusting the output of the sun

That's supposedly bt709 per channel

But that looks wrong to me

AP1

Their custom

No way the original was bt709 per channel. I don't believe it

White doesn't change based on color space

If anything AP1 should be yellower than bt709 since AP1 is D60 and bt709 is d65

My guess is they messed up their per channel Reinhard in bt709 and ended up just doing aces

Original image

I've never seen per channel add color to highlights

[coarse gate]

I saw srgbx in a shader name

In ghost

[meager drum]

I think I decompiled it for somebody, and it's srgb10 but from the dev paper it's supposed to be reinhard per channel

Infamous was an aces based lut

[coarse gate]

PsCopyToBackBufferHdrPqFromSrgbx_0x53EBE0F3.ps_6_6.hlsl

[coarse gate]

They said in infamous they didn’t use a LUT

They use an aces approximation that has even more per channel nastiness

Then they smoothclamp and inverse

[meager drum]

As mentioned above, we used a 3D color LUT for color grading in both games. These were authored for SDR TVs, so they assume an input range of [0, 1]. Since time and resources were limited, we didn’t want to have to re-author these LUTs to accomodate HDR output, nor did we want to switch to a different color grading technique for HDR mode.

We opted for a simple solution: we remapped the HDR tonemapped output to approximately match the SDR tonemapped output.

[coarse gate]

Ah ok

[meager drum]

It's what cyberpunk stole

They also had SDR luts based around ACES

[coarse gate]

Wait ya aces approx then LUT

[meager drum]

Stuff for consoles works differently. We honestly don't care about low end GPU

[coarse gate]

Can’t get over how hideous it looks

And it’s crushed to shit in HDR

[meager drum]

IIRC it's meant for 2.4 so crushed to hell in SDR too

[coarse gate]

And their mismatched gamma stuff means more per channel nonsense

[meager drum]

But the art director liked it!

Or just gave up on the engineers

Though the talk about tonemapping to 1.0, so many HDR is borked

[coarse gate]

The Rec. 709 OETF: A Cautionary Tale

At Sucker Punch, we’ve attempted to emulate the Rec. 709 OETF since Infamous 2, by using the console’s video-out hardware to apply a gamma curve to our sRGB output signal. However, the PS4 supports the automatic conversion of sRGB signals to the exact Rec. 709 OETF, so we decided to switch to that for these patches — following the standard more precisely seemed like a good idea!

The switch resulted in deeper blacks, which we thought looked good in the test scenes we examined on our TVs. However, after we shipped the patches, we heard reports from some users about “crushed blacks,” so we decided to investigate. It turned out that the TVs we were using for testing produced lighter blacks than the TVs some of our users were using. This, combined with the darker Rec. 709 OETF, resulted in much deeper blacks than we intended on some TVs.

While the Rec. 709 standard specifies a precise OETF, it admits (in a footnote) that in practice the OETF is adjusted to achieve the desired output when viewed on a TV conforming to BT.1886. (Scott Miller from Dolby claims that the actual Rec. 709 OETF is rarely used in practice — at least in film and television.) As can be seen in the graph above, the Rec. 709 OETF significantly darkens dark colors when combined with the BT.1886 EOTF, so before adopting the Rec. 709 OETF, make sure that this combination works well with your content. For our games, we ended up issuing a new patch with a contrast option that allowed users to switch to the old (sRGB-based) OETF curve.

I wonder if the high contrast mode in ghost is the same

[crimson sequoia]

I read that subsequent playthroughs let you find more documents, leading to more explanations regarding whatever is going on, and to other endings too

[lyric silo]

Yeah I read up on it and there’s not just documents. There’s new areas supposedly, new bosses, omamoris… like a LOT of stuff

I will give it a second go for sure

[frosty burrow]

Ballsy if true

[lyric silo]

For sure. I’m so hyped to see what is actually behind NG+ but for sure it ain’t your average “just do it again but carry progression” type of thing

Just the first run tho I feel is autoconclusive

[native juniper]

Guys do I have to change something with the sliders or are the default settings fine?

I have an LG C2 tv

[lyric silo]

Use default or the "match sdr" button imo

[native juniper]

Wouldn't that defeat using HDR to match in SDR?

[lyric silo]

Noup. It’s still hdr but with the original intended look intact

It will pop the same as defaults basically it’s not deactivating hdr or something like that

[native juniper]

I feel your pain

[wise rover]

Need to make an installer next, that does everything for you.

Not a horrible idea to get something cooked up and thrown on YT.

Something generic.

[coarse gate]

@dry hare has a video

what video should i link

problem is

it's so simple

the instructions I gave explain everything

[sullen mulch]

does nexus let you upload scripts?

oh wait you don't push your mods to main so you don't get snapshots

[wise rover]

Yeah

It's not a you problem.

It's a them problem.

I've seen your posts, they're very detailed.

But that can be an issue, too detailed.

And some people are just visual learners.

[meager drum]

I usually make the zips with the folder path

I have cyberpunk with x64/renodx-cp2077.addon64

Also, pinned/sticky posts are more important than description on Nexus Mods. People don't read descriptions, but will read a sticky before commenting (if it's short enough)

[coarse gate]

ya I had less complaints with ac shadows when I made a sticky telling people to stop ignoring the instructions

[sullen mulch]

big red box draws attention

nexus really needs to have a spot for instructions on the download page

the files tab I mean

especially with our mods, that tiny barrier probably causes people to go "I know how reshade works I'll figure this out"

[bright coyote]

From what I've noticed following this thread ppl tends to ignore pinned too. There was here plenty of guys asking why sliders are not working or if HDR should be on in game even if it's stated in the comment

[jagged moon]

Make sure you don't use ||red capsules|| or you'll be locked into the same ending you've already seen on the first playthrough

[dry hare]

Gaming tech does too

His kcd2 video

[weary dew]

Has anyone here tried Hdr on The Crew Motorfest on PC ? think it has raised black level on PC now.

and cant even use Lilium shader on it to test it ,because ubi. battleye blocks it

[bright coyote]

@coarse gate looks like this "dirty screen" is even in the begining of the game, at last for new game+

could ucherck pls?

[bright coyote]

also noticed that in some cutscenes filmgrain fucks up a lot, and had to turn it off

[hardy ermine]

what do you mean by dirty screen?

the lens dirt?

was there an option to turn that of in renodx?

[bright coyote]

look at the sky

it looks like the screen is drity

[hardy ermine]

yea lens dirt you mean

it's always there I don't think you can easily toggle that off

[bright coyote]

its not always there

[hardy ermine]

I assume one could find the shader and toggle it off

[hardy ermine]

it is it's just less visible in different situations usually

[bright coyote]

hmm ok

i havent noticed that in first build

[hardy ermine]

yea I don't think musa ever worked on turning that off

someone mentioned it's somehow coupled to Bloom

[bright coyote]

i mean

in first relase of this mod it wasnt there

[hardy ermine]

so in theory you could turn off bloom but it will obviously disable more than just the dirt lens effect

[hardy ermine]

I know but it was

he never worked on that

it was always there

afaik

someone correct me if I'm wrong

I can have a look with shader toggler to see if it can be removed that way

[worldly willow]

It’s just a lens filter that comes natively with the game as hartapfel said.. it’s not supposed to be touched by Reno

[coarse gate]

It was always there. I never touched it

[lyric silo]

Yeah I saw. The menu option for the endings tells you

[ember pond]

https://www.nexusmods.com/silenthillf/mods/115

[teal hatch]

I’m surprised there’s no rude mods yet

[rigid finch]

🥳 🥳 🥳

[weary dew]

ya me to ^^

https://tenor.com/view/ada-wong-separate-ways-dlc-resident-evil-4-remake-laser-hallway-gif-9623708429256853046

[raw fulcrum]

I thought this mod was supposed to fix color bending but i still see them in the fog in the distance - can anyone help me ?

[leaden umbra]

No because then it'll just get flagged by defender lol

Probably

[wise rover]

Depends on what it's doing.

Simple copy/pasting stuff is fine, which is all it needs.

[coarse gate]

That would require upgrading from fp11 bit to fp16. I wasn’t able to get that working but I’ll def try again before playing

Though I think it doesn’t work on AMD

[wise rover]

Floating-point formats.

wow

[noble matrix]

That forest area after the school is so cool.

[gloomy fulcrum]

To get rid of the dirty lens effet you have to add r.BloomQuality=0 in the engine.ini

[raw fulcrum]

and lose the bloom in the process haha

[gloomy fulcrum]

It didn't bothered me as much as the dirty lens

[wise rover]

That dirty lens effect is ... certainly a choice.

And it's there all the time, right?

[grand lagoon]

https://tenor.com/view/rezero-wednesday-smol-elilia-re-zero-gif-frederica-re-zero-rezero-frederica-gif-20586062

kindly reminder she's not even 16

[teal hatch]

didnt say i wanted them, dirty minded internet user

i said im surprised

[wise rover]

[weary dew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_chI70z1hg

Ubisoft cant take a break

[wise rover]

AC Shadows was gorgeous.

But why post in this channel? :p

[kindred nimbus]

ragebaiters on youtube still comparing vastly different games built on completely different engines huh

genuinely me whenever i see that shit in my feed

[weary dew]

Ya the engine are different ,but genre ,gameplay wise, they very similar.

I beat the game on launch from that 20$ Ubi+ sub

graphics was good and all ,but story meeh and characters the same 7/10 from me . A.C Oddissey was way better game think. Even A.C. Valhalla had more soul into it like .

[muted tiger]

try perceptual film grain

it's the only setting I changed, the defaults look good

[worldly willow]

I swear this shit doesn’t work for me

[kindred nimbus]

My feed is mostly just vibes now, after a while YouTube kinda gave up trying to ragebait me

You need to be persistent for the algorithm to pick up your taste profile

Like blocking videos like that but at the same time watching Alex jones podcasts is gonna fuck up your algorithm

[worldly willow]

What I would also like is the ability to completely hide channels when I’m searching for stuff ngl

[kindred nimbus]

You can add -channelname

To exclude channels

[worldly willow]

Like for example often I search for people uploading hdr games or renodx vids but I don’t really want to see stuff from people who consistently use cooked settings

[worldly willow]

My list would be too long

[kindred nimbus]

Ok never mind doesn’t seem to work reliably anymore

[worldly willow]

But good to know

[kindred nimbus]

I just tried it

[worldly willow]

Rip

Nvm

[kindred nimbus]

At least on the app it kept showing the channels I excluded as „you might also like“

Like what I specifically excluded this channel

How is that something I „might also like“

[worldly willow]

Maybe there’s a plugin for this shit on pc

Would be helpful

Like same shit when I’m searching for tv stuff

I don’t wanna see 10 ragebait videos from quantum tv

[kindred nimbus]

yeah it’s really hard to curate decent feeds on any platform

Because most of them are so heavily geared towards engagement

And you get people engaged the most through outrage

[worldly willow]

I suppose so, shits annoying af to me; just makes it harder to research

[kindred nimbus]

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/blocktube/bbeaicapbccfllodepmimpkgecanonai

[noble matrix]

Thar kind of trend hurt Star Wars Outlaws really bad and it's a pity how many people missed such a beautiful game. Well... Maybe I'm asking too much for that kind of target audience.

[worldly willow]

Hmm it’s available for Firefox too which is nice but apparently it has been broken in the past.. a lot of recent reviews on the Firefox one were about it not working anymore until it was updated

[granite pelican]

what about artistic intent

[coarse gate]

Idk haven’t played the game yet

But the lens dirt doesn’t seem to add anything good

[light ice]

Anyone using puredark's upscaler? For some reason, renodx menu is no longer present on my reshade menu

[wise rover]

Check the pinned comment's compatibiliy section.

[hardy ermine]

someone in U+ channel did a mod to remove it properly

oh yea I saw someone already forwarded it

[hardy ermine]

Yes, I use both and they work fine for me

[clear peak]

I can't think of a better pair of games where a comparison like this make sense. The games are similar in so many ways that comparisons are inevitable and ubisoft loses in most aspects.

[coarse gate]

Ya a comparison is pretty reasonable

If Yotei is anything like Tsushima then it is at its core basically a Ubisoft open world game

[coarse laurel]

Broken hdr god damn it

[light ice]

how do I install this?

[hardy ermine]

Put the contents into "SILENT HILL f\SHf\Content\Paks\ ~mods"

[kindred nimbus]

the comparison is not the issue

the implication and intended audience for this kind of content is

if this was a purely factual and neutral analysis and comparison then i'd have no issue with it

but its 99% of the time easy moneyfarm by grifters jumping on the ragebait bandwagon

[coarse gate]

I think it’s focusing on a lot of shit that doesn’t matter but I don’t see it as rage bait

[kindred nimbus]

well then it's maybe part of the 1% of the reasonable comparisons

i'm just talking about the general vibe around these types of comparison videos that are like "haha look one game bad other game good now get angry and get those engagement numbers up!"

but to each their own

[coarse gate]

It’s not a highlight reel of broken shit though

Like the cyberpunk vs gta comparisons

Like both games look impressive in the video

[kindred nimbus]

here is what i REALLY didnt miss about ubisoft games

i wanted to try the dlc for shadows

and of fucking course i'm logged out of ubisoft

why can't they have a background version of their launcher like ea has, where if you launch their game it doesn't open the full launcher but just the necessary programs for authentication and whatever

the remember me fuction is equally useless to the one from logging into my microsoft account

[lyric silo]

I just don’t play any games that require bullshit additional launchers aside from Steam. Login in ingame I don’t mind, forcing another launcher on me? HELL NAW

[bright coyote]

and somehow still everyone says ea launcher is bad not ubishit one. imagine every time I wanted to play ac 3 or black flag I had to login, no matter if I was already logged in I launcher or not. this was so fucking dumb

[kindred nimbus]

ubisoft is really the only one that is still so annoying

thats why i said usually the other ones have some kind of background services nowadays like ea and epic

that, at least for me, also properly close after exiting the game

[lyric silo]

Yeah, thankfully their games aren’t very good so I don’t feel like Im missing out at all lol

[leaden umbra]

Is this the one that completely disables bloom

This looks more involved so maybe not actually

The one I'm thinking of was an ini tweak

[coarse gate]

i think it just disbles the lens dirt

[leaden umbra]

That's good. Someone else either here or in U+ was suggesting to completely disable bloom, which disables the lens flare as well

but I didn't think that was a good trade-off

[obtuse marten]

New nvidia driver help with the 5090 crashing?

[light ice]

im on 5090 and haven't encountered any crashes. Just the visual glitches related to motion blur

[spiral badger]

Yo is the ng+ actually significant enough to make it worth replaying the game again?

[limber sundial]

yes

there is other cutscenes and obectives, like the sacred sword etc that lead to other endings that give you explanations of the story

with new documents to read and other rooms that was locked during 1st ng

and you unlock new difficulty for combat, but all depends if you liked the game enough and if you're satisfied with the 1st ending i guess

[spiral badger]

I see

The problem I have with replaying horror games is that you kinda lose the first playthrough magic, moreso compared to other genres

[limber sundial]

and final bosses of "good" and "true" ending are cool

[obtuse marten]

I'm replaying on my 3rd go around right now and enjoying the extra stuff. I got the normal ending and joke ending. working on ending 2 now

[coarse gate]

Starting the game now

[limber sundial]

just don't take red pills for other endings

[coarse gate]

Ah interesting

Just looked into it and apparently you get the same ending no matter what the first time

[coarse gate]

Have 2 of these in my fridge. They’re pretty good

[noble matrix]

I had the feeling consumables were related to the endings. Still on my first playthrough though.

[limber sundial]

first ng is always same ending, ng+ you can have 3 other ending "bad" "good" and "joke" but you need at least a ng++ for "true" ending it has to do with sacred sword sidequest each time and the fact you must not take red pills

[ember pond]

Even after watching all 5 endings, I still don’t understand what this game is about

[limber sundial]

https://www.reddit.com/r/silenthill/comments/1noxu6i/spoiler_silent_hill_f_story_plot_ending_analysis/?show=original that can help i guess, it's intersting

just did the "true" ending and just for the final fight it was worth it

[teal hatch]

can we not talk about the story in a mod thread

[stuck plume]

is there a non-mod thread

[teal hatch]

i dont know but i dont want to see that

[waxen trout]

At least tag for spoilers jeez xD

[bright coyote]

its written that there are spoilers there

[coarse gate]

ya it says spoilers right there who cares

[waxen trout]

I mean, ok, but there are like 20 messages if you scroll up that spoil stuff

I don't really mind that much

But, Discord has a spoiler feature, use it I guess?

[coarse gate]

oh shit i ignored those

ya those all need to be spoiler marked

well the words ||sacred sword|| should be spoiler marked

[noble matrix]

It'd be great to have a separate forum just for games like on SK or HDR Den Discord. Kind of like and archive just to discuss and maybe come back and rant form time to time when the game gets and update and so.

[teal hatch]

agreed

[worldly willow]

bro their annoying ass launcher alone is why i havent played any AC games recently.. up until origins i only played them on console so it didnt matter but now on pc i dont touch that shit

just let me launch from steam if i buy on steam

theres literally NO need for it to require a ubi launcher

especially for a fucking singleplayer game

[kindred nimbus]

It’s not just launching games either. I play mostly The Crew Motorfest from Ubisoft, but own it on Steam. Semi-recently there was a year 2 pass (some cars, new gamemodes, price was not an issue). The purchase went through on Steam‘s end, but Ubisoft launcher just wouldn‘t recognize that I own it. Their support was also just a daisychain of AI agents that kept passing me around to the point that Steam just refunded me even though I was waaay over the playtime limit.

It’s ridiculous how many issue their launcher has. I cannot imagine it is profitable, and if so it can‘t actually be worth it compared to just paying steam their cut and letting them handle the purchase and launching of their games.

Which they do anyway because I imagine a fair share of users already buy their games on Steam.

It’s like they’re paying twice. They’re paying steam their cut AND have to barely keep their launcher from shitting itself.

[worldly willow]

based valve

but yeah im so confused as to why they are doing this shit either

[weary dew]

https://x.com/geoffkeighley/status/1973389283240321123

Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley)

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is increasing in price by 50 percent to $29.99 per month from $19.99, as Xbox adds new benefits including Fortnite Crew access.

X · Oct 1, 2025, 2:07 PM

There's no way they this stupid !

MS losing the last 15% of goodwill people still had in them .

[noble matrix]

I think I have one year left of it that I bought through some Amazon India method thing. Just used it to try Oblivion Remaster, COE33, which I own on Stea, and some random CoD matches. Not worth at all.

[weary dew]

i got 1 month left , but from a promotion on a MS controller i bought last month . didnt use that code yet , but knowing that code worth 30$ now is pretty crazy

paid 65$ for the controller got a 30$ sub back

Orange

[weary dew]

u can sell it now worth 360 $

https://tenor.com/view/6m-rain-wallstreet-make-it-rain-gif-8203989

The new XBOX 360

Gamepass Ultimate sub 360$ per year.

[kindred nimbus]

as much as i wouldve loved for gamepass to succeed, subscriptions for games were such a dumb idea in the first place

but why in the silent hill f channel XD

[hardy ermine]

ah dude that offer was really good

now it's just not worth it anymore

[noble matrix]

Silent Hill f has lot of traction for sure. Haha. 4K messages in just a couple weeks. Never been a fan of the saga, so maybe that's why I had no idea there was so many people looking for it. But this setting has definitely sold me into it. Now I want more.

[hardy ermine]

did you play the remake?

[weary dew]

Just read last night the Bloober team is in full production to Remake Silent Hill 1 and should be ready to launch in less then 2years.

again on U.E 5

https://www.relyonhorror.com/latest-news/silent-hill-1-remake-in-full-production-confirms-bloober-team/

[noble matrix]

I want to take a look into how to dive into them. Remake looks fantastic but it's part 2 haha. I think I'm about to finish the 1st run of f and I want to NG+ to get more details. So far loving the game as a whole.

[weary dew]

cant wait ^^ Silent Hill 2 remake was great think , except the traversall stutter 🤬

[hardy ermine]

oh yea silent hill afaik is always a story in itself so it doesn't matter that it's part 2

I also haven't played them before the remake since I was too little back when it first came out haha

[noble matrix]

Want to play and finish AW2 now as well. f sometimes reminded me to it and it's been on my list for a while, specially now being October... Might give up and buy it even if it's not on Steam.

[kindred nimbus]

there are some recurring elements like the hallucinogen from silent hill f also appearing in other games

but mostly disconnected final fantasy anthology style

[hardy ermine]

you reminded me I haven't played the DLC yet

might be finally time

spooktober

[weary dew]

They in full production for Silent Hill 1 remake now. thats already oficially confirmed by the Bloober Team.

😅

[lyric silo]

Souce: My mom told me

[lyric silo]

Why are you sending Xbox stuff to a Silent Hill f subforum? lol

[weary dew]

Think is legit and makes sense to , Silent hill 2 remake was a commercial success , and Bloober Team already confirmed they on full Production working on Silent Hill 1 remake now.

[weary dew]

ya ur right , but still this Xbox game pass subject is everywhere online now if u didnt noticed ^^

even the Game Stop Company trolling them now , for that extremely dumb move . theyr sub went from 16$ to 30 now in last 14months . thats pretty insane . i cancel mine today .

anyway to much out of context sorry !

[crimson sequoia]

Hell on Earth lol

[coarse gate]

They refuse to read

[worldly willow]

Some people are just a different breed

I’ve seen wild shit on nexus

[stuck plume]

honestly, the Cronos IP isn't exciting for me to get why they'd even want sequels. Plus, I don't think the sales were that great either

[bright coyote]

there will be no sequel

they've said that a little time ago

[heady zenith]

pretending they sell games there

[tepid reef]

Hi, I hope anyone here can help. I successfully put renodx hdr into this game but it’s flickering now when it wasn’t before, which is bizarre

Same problem I had with mirror’s edge.

[weary dew]

ya from what i heard they sold arround 200k units , thats hmm so so , but for a 2A title think its still fine , anyway that game its very underatted think, with some QOL updates its actually a good game.

[weary dew]

What gpu u have ?

also very important ! u need to disable all the other shaders u have installed before ,or after u added this RenoDX addon

[tepid reef]

Amd

I only have renodx installed too

[weary dew]

usually it flickers badly and artifacting on screen when u have other shader installed

[tepid reef]

I have optiscaler and renamed the reshade add on to d3d12.dll, both load but flickering all over the place lol

[weary dew]

think the optiscaler its the culprit here

they even said in the description ^^

unnistall the optiscaller and should work fine think after.

[tepid reef]

🙁 will have to decide if i want hdr or performance for this game then lol

[weary dew]

u can use the game upscallers thou , dont need the optiscaller to inject the FSR 4 dll

i installed FSR 4 in DL. The Beast without the optipscaller and it even shows in the game menu i have FSR 4.02 now , u can change in game from FSR 2.4 - 3.15 and 4.02 u have all in the in game menu, without needing to use the Optiscaller.

[noble matrix]

Man I loved this game. Just finished my first run. Eager to play it again and get more details.

[weary dew]

same with Silent Hill F , u can add the FSR 4.0.2 dll without needing to use the Optiscaller .

[weary dew]

Nice , how it was ? compared to Silent Hill 2 remake ?

I beat S.H 2 remake but didnt manage to play this one to much . but from what i saw online , S.H . 2 remake was def. more scary .

[noble matrix]

It's my first Silent Hill game haha..

[weary dew]

ahh ic

So far i like the graphics from S.H. F the combat seems kinda weird , lacking thou .

[noble matrix]

It gets creepier. The setting though... I just loved it.

[weary dew]

Nice will def. play to ! i always like'd horror , survivor games.

[noble matrix]

Yeah. It's not complex, it's not much bit it's enough. The less time fighting more time contemplating and feeling the scenery. I ended up enjoying it though. Maybe it can shine more in the new unlocked difficulty.

[noble matrix]

They wer enever my kind honestly. Resident Evil and the likes did never catch my attention. But this SHf felt different since the moment I saw the trailer.

[weary dew]

I see i beat most of R.E games to ^^ the remakes i mean. didnt manage to play the original ones.

u should Def. Try S.H. 2 Remake to , if u liked the F , that game has better combat .

I also really enjoyed The Callisto Protocol even many people hated that game ^^

[tepid reef]

Forgot to mention I'm on a steam deck lol so I’m not sure if that makes any difference

[weary dew]

ya diff story on steamdeck thought u where on PC ^^

[bright coyote]

im using optiscaler with this game

i justi nstalled it as d3d12 and its running fine, reshade is still dxgi

this game has issues when motion blur is disable

[tepid reef]

is that on windows?

[weary dew]

ya

[tepid reef]

I might have fixed it! turning the motion blur on and turning fg off looks like it might have solved it lol

[weary dew]

nice ! ya heard some other people talking about that to few days ago . and uremytoy said the same thing earlier ^^

[grand lagoon]

This game I cant...It's a downgrade over Dead space on every aspect

I can see why some people like it though....But definitly not the best horror game out there

[weary dew]

ya Dead Space was better overall gameplay wise , but the atmosphere in Callisto Protocol was great thou/graphics also , even the combat i enjoy it , took some time to get used to it at first , but after i really like it.

[full dagger]

I loved Dead Space, Callisto and Cronos was great too. I finished Sillent Hill f but i loved more Sillent Hill 2 Remake, Blobber Team is workimg now on Silent Hill 1 remake, you from Romania?

[noble matrix]

Alan Wake 2 Deluxe Edition for 20€ on Epic store. Perfect timing.

[waxen trout]

It's only on Epic anyway, isn't it?

[lyric silo]

Sadly yes

[worldly willow]

just give it to me on steam

im not buying on EGSlop

[lyric silo]

AW2 is the only game I’ve bought in epic. It’s so good that it’s deserved imo

In the end epic did finance the whole thing

[worldly willow]

i can agree with that, but i just want it on steam..

ill even pay full price if i have to

[fleet goblet]

likely never going to happen since it's actually published by Epic and not just one of their paid for timed store exclusives

[wise rover]

Well, that. And also the fact that Epic actually published it and funded the overall project.

I have zero issues with them keeping stuff like that exclusive, it's the other BS that really tilts me is all.

Albeit, good consumer practice would be no exclusives, and other stores.

But Sweeney gonna Sweeney.

[fleet goblet]

I'm store agnostic at this point, I'll buy the game wherever it's cheapest

[wise rover]

I'll buy Steam, even if slightly more. But if it's not available, and I really like the game, I'll buy elsewhere.

AW2 is the only exception I've made to date, every other Epic exclusive, I haven't bothered touching.

[gloomy fulcrum]

For a Ubisoft game you might as well buy it in the Ubi Store since even on Steam it requires Ubi Launcher (except for AC Shadows iirc)

[hardy ermine]

same

but it is indeed very annoying

[wise rover]

AC Shadows runs a 'lite' version of the launcher in background, but doesn't enforces any install and such. It's neat, and looks like what they'll be doing going forward.

But yeah, for Ubisoft stuff, you can also just get it from Epic/Origin etc wherever cheapest.

Since once redeemed on Ubisoft Launcher, you can launch it from there without needing EGS.

[worldly willow]

https://tenor.com/view/tomatothink-gif-23324294

[teal hatch]

i love running all the processes /s

i would buy every game on gog if i could tbf

[noble matrix]

I did not buy earlier because of EGS, but faced it won't be on Steam anytime soon if ever.

[lyric silo]

Will never be in Steam

[kindred nimbus]

i used to be like that for a while but after basically every major publisher has returned to steam i'm focusing on my library there

[inner veldt]

i think im close to the end of the game and i 100% agree with you now

it sours the enjoyment so fucking much

[coarse gate]

did i make a mistake by choosing hard difficulty

[inner veldt]

You can change difficulty after dying three times

The game genuinely went from great to tedious so fast

With forced combat encounters up the wazoo

[onyx void]

how is the story

[inner veldt]

It’s intriguing

But very bottom heavy I feel like

[raw rose]

did you like the combat on hard? if you didn't then you're gonna want to go story mode if this is your first run

[coarse gate]

I’m at the part after ||she gets pushed down the stairs|| and I’ve enjoyed it so far

[raw rose]

then you'll probably like the rest of the game. i got to a little further than that and went to story mode because the combat in hard was too much.

[bright coyote]

steam, epic, ea ubishit

its all the same shit just different name

[bright coyote]

story is too easy ppl say

and in ng+ hard is much easier 😄

[inner veldt]

I enjoyed it by that point too, it’s the last 2 levels that were crazy

[bright coyote]

in ng+ game differs in some places a lot. at this stage of the game || you didnt have your arm||

this is rather hard part 😄

[weary dew]

Ya from Ro . seems we have the same taste in Horror games then ^^

[coarse gate]

spoiler tag images pls

[bright coyote]

i did>?

[coarse gate]

oh nvm

I must have clicked it without thinking lmao

[bright coyote]

not a huge spoiler though

[crimson sequoia]

Is the last patch preventing other people from launching the game with SK through SKIF too?

[wise rover]

Lmaoooo

Ironically, you posted the spoiler instead of him.

[wise rover]

Oh no

[crimson sequoia]

[wise rover]

SK patch or game patch?

[crimson sequoia]

Game

[wise rover]

I see SK got a new one now to prevent crashes

[crimson sequoia]

Ach indeed

Just got fixed

[inner veldt]

I think I’m gonna take a break from this game and not do ng+ rn

I alr think it should’ve been shorter and the atmosphere is so incredibly oppressive

[coarse gate]

I tried upgrading resources to fix banding but it wasn’t working

I’ll try again

[coarse gate]

gonna make SDR eotf emulation and scaling both per channel

the by luminance with chrominance restoration doesn't handle dark blues well

the otherworld uses strong blue color grading

the match sdr button also doesn't set lut scaling to 0

though i dont think any of the LUTs I've seen so far are raised anyway so its fine

[coarse gate]

small update:
https://www.nexusmods.com/silenthillf/mods/64?tab=description

Update:

• changed default settings
• added gamut mapping (probably won't make a noticeable difference)

[waxen trout]

Just finished the second playthrough

This mod makes the game look great

[harsh wharf]

Yeah I'm getting to see the first areas again with this, RCAS, and ultraplus and it looks great

[grand lagoon]

Do you guys still get crashes after not launching the game for a while ?

[waxen trout]

Nope all my crashes were due to AMD undervolt

This game is really sensitive when it boots up

[grand lagoon]

I do have an udervolt but it is stable in 100% of my games. I believe the 5090 is known for having crashes in this game specifically

[waxen trout]

Yeah both the 5080 and 5090

[vale whale]

Did you figure out a fix? Or does anyone know how to use UE FSR FG without crashing? When I open the journal, the games crashes.

[dim furnace]

add r.FidelityFX.FI.UIMode=1 to engine.ini, needs to be 1 or journal will crash

[coarse gate]

someone mentioned film grain doesn't work with fsr fg

[dim furnace]

it won't crash the game but yeah the generated frames will be broken with the procedural film grain

[quasi berry]

@coarse gate might integrate rcas in future ? 🙏

[coarse gate]

I can add but it won't work for anyone forcing fsr frame gen through the ini

[vale whale]

You're a real one, thank you so much! It worked.

[harsh wharf]

It would still be good to be able to put it underneath the grain pass.

[coarse gate]

Ya that’s the only place I can put it

[coarse gate]

https://www.nexusmods.com/silenthillf/mods/64
added rcas sharpening

[gloomy fulcrum]

Stupid question: do I have to just replace de .addon file or should I just uninstall reshade for that game and do a clean install with the new file?

[coarse gate]

you can just replace the old addon file with the new one

[noble matrix]

Townfall looks like a DLC for f maybe?

[weary dew]

Seems so ya ^^ but not sure yet.

[leaden umbra]

There was no DLC for SH2r was there?

[woven sky]

townfall is a different game

[coarse gate]

updated with improved tone mapping
https://www.nexusmods.com/silenthillf/mods/64

[grand lagoon]

Goat

Still no fix for the 5090 crash tho I might just stop playing altogether

[bright coyote]

Buy better GPU👍

[quasi berry]

what's that crash ? 5090 only ?

[fleet goblet]

I wonder if everyone with the 5090 crashes is undervolting and the game is just temperamental with it even if "it's stable in everything else", because I completed the game without a single crash on mine without an UV

[fleet goblet]

📸 caught in 4k

[worldly willow]

[grand lagoon]

I also tried without an UV and it still crashes so yeah

you're wrong

it's ok tho I'll just wait for a patch

[grand lagoon]

5080 users are also concerned about that

funny how one person here with a 5090 doesnt encounter crashes, therefore think every other poeple must do something wrong

cringy behaviour

[worldly willow]

50 series complete shitshow

4090 goated

[worldly willow]

could also be driver, theres so many broken nvidia drivers

[round pumice]

My stock 5090 is still crashing, I gave up trying to play the game until they patch it.

[worldly willow]

im still on a july driver on 4090 so far that is rock solid

[round pumice]

Yeah, I tried downgrading but it still crashes. I don't want to reinstall my driver every day to play the game though. I wish there was some acknowledgement of the issue from the devs or nvidia

[grand lagoon]

I rollbacked two drivers before and still doesnt work

[grand lagoon]

I found a fix if you're interested, it's only temporary but it seems to work without too much trouble

[dim furnace]

Any driver past the 577 branch has potentially a ton of issues

Vertex explosions, crashing, shader corruption, etc

[grand lagoon]

yes but this driver and the ones before are unstable in my UE games so I cannot use it

this is really sad to see nvidia releasing bad drivers so frequently nowadays

[dim furnace]

usually it's the newer drivers that are much more unstable

[spiral badger]

gotta disable fast startup

[worldly willow]

doesnt necessarily mean anything going just 2 versions back, im like 6 drivers behind

[round pumice]

I tired 577, I'm sure disabling the gpu scheduling thing works but I don't want to micromanage temp fixes for games.

[indigo owl]

I had 0 crashes with my 5090. Stock settings and newest driver

[round pumice]

must be nice

[worldly willow]

4090 0 Crashes on 580.88 and 576.22, forgor what i had before

[grand lagoon]

crashes happens once you shutdown the computer and play the game again

[indigo owl]

I do have that disabled. Maybe thats part of why its stable for me

[fleet goblet]

I've got fast start up disabled, too

surely that can't be it?

[grand lagoon]

On reddit it seems like poeple who disabled fast boot dont experience crashes

I'll give it a shot

[sullen mulch]

any chance you've got a comparison? If only because I'm interested for borderlands lol

[quasi berry]

I do run my 5090 undervolted. I also get RHI crashes, but it’s like once every few hours, so it’s still playable somehow ...

But it doesn’t show up until the latter half of the story—maybe the plot grossed it out 😂

[weary dew]

i run my RX 7900XTX heavy undervolted also , and the 5800X3D with -30mv undervolt , dont rem. when i got the last crash on this pc , think last summer in 2024, in cp 77 with a mod that my game didnt like it.

the coding on nvidia drivers lately with 5k series at least , seems was made with AI only ^^ they prob. fire most of the devs. that did the heavy work and QA testers before. AI only now for coding and testing.

[worldly willow]

Vibe coding at NVIDIA goes crazy lately

[coarse gate]

don't have any good pics, just one i took to make sure it wasn't broken

I used ghostwire to test it

before ACES was overexposed

old aces / fixed aces / sdr

[coarse gate]

https://www.nexusmods.com/silenthillf/mods/64?tab=files

• adjusted tone mapping and gamut mapping

[fleet goblet]

did you change your mind with this (or fix something)? I see scaling still defaults to by luminance with chrominance

[coarse gate]

I changed it to channel and then back to luminance with chrominance after I fixed something

luminance gamma correction can still make dark blues go super saturated, I think the only way to fix that is to use a better color space than oklab

[chrome breach]

Which one is better for a YouTube Thumbnail?

[waxen trout]

Is this the Street Fighter 4 VS sign?

And IMO the 1st one

[chrome breach]

Honestly I don’t know

[worldly willow]

I like 2nd more actually but 1st probably gets more attention

[weary dew]

first one on the left i mean lol i mess up ^^

[placid grail]

are the screen tearing glitches that occur with dlss fixed with newest version?

[heady zenith]

@coarse gate I'm starting my run with Silent Hill F, when you have time would you mind to share your Renodx Setting? I would love to compare with mine

[coarse gate]

100 game brightness, 100 ui brightness, perceptual film grain at 50 strength. Rest at default

[heady zenith]

What's the difference between Perceptual and Vanilla?

[coarse gate]

Vanilla is just the regular film grain which afaik is just there in the title screen and that’s it. Perceptual is shortfuse’s film grain. I have it apply everywhere

They apply the film grain on highlights and not just dark regions which isn’t how film grain works

[heady zenith]

I've saturated a bit highlight and Saturation. But I'm at the forest in the beg. Later on of dark places gonna pop up too much?

[coarse gate]

Ya there are areas with strong blue color grading

Will probably look oversaturated

[heady zenith]

Ok, thanks

[heady zenith]

@coarse gate started Silent Hill F. The combat tough...

But great atmosphere!

[coarse gate]

I play on hard difficulty and like it so far

||Sakuko|| boss fight was pretty fun, though it was maybe a little too long. beat it on my 2nd try

[heady zenith]

Yeah, I'm playing on Hard too, but animations are questionable

[coarse gate]

if you like souls games then this should be very familiar

its very weighty

[heady zenith]

I love souls, but I mean...Was not expecting that

[coarse gate]

was frustrating at first but its clicked for me

i still have some difficulty accurately judging the reach of my weapon

[heady zenith]

Yes, it is somehow difficult to find the range, or maybe inconsistent?

Anyway, it looks pristine with your Mod, I'm really enjoying it

[coarse gate]

moving attacks don't have extra reach like souls

would probably make it too easy though

[heady zenith]

Yes but dodging is deceaving the "heaviness" of the melee

I don't know if I make sense, it's too spacey, it's like you are floating

[heady zenith]

Ahahahahahah

[coarse gate]

she dodges pretty far

i think if the game were any harder it wouldn't be as fun

so I'm fine with how it is

[heady zenith]

She is almost Wuchang! 🤣

[fleet goblet]

I was fine with the combat to begin with, but that side of things really started to drag for me in the latter parts of the game

not in terms of difficulty, it just got a bit monotonous

[onyx void]

so now that everyone has beaten the game a few times

how is the story?

[waxen trout]

It's pretty good but yeah you have to beat the game like 3-4 times to fully understand it

Which is kind of a chore due to the late game "gameplay"

[raw rose]

i just finish the game a third time and got the "real" ending. the story is even better. it would have been even better if they fit all that in one playthrough.

[waxen trout]

Definitely

[grand lagoon]

I really disliked the story at a certain point with a kitsune if you know (without spoiling much) maybe a new run will make it better we'll see

[harsh wharf]

people acting like the combat shot their dog are legitimately being crazy...outside of a single room on your first playthrough

i'm almost done with NG++ and its the most interesting SH has been in years

and the combat could be fixed if they moved a single thing from NG+ to NG (rabbit charm for counting out of perfect dodges)

then IMO find some way to speed up getting the NG++ ending by skipping sections

its the kind of thing where you can see exactly where the mistake is, and a modder could fix it in like 20 minutes, and no game that can be made that much better, that quickly is truly bad to begin with

[weary dew]

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

[odd pawn]

thank you for making this mod. I LOVED it and the game. what an experience. a must play for sure

these are the custom settings I used for most of the pt

I like to use prods filmic tonemap sometimes to give it that extra HDR punch (with 1.3 linearity it's not too harsh)

[coarse gate]

what does it do

is it just contrast

[odd pawn]

it's simpler toggling the filter than messing with the reno sliders

its like a contrast curve yeah

[coarse gate]

it might throw off peak brightness

[odd pawn]

but needs linearity at least 1.3 otherwse it's too agressive

[meager drum]

almost definitely would

[odd pawn]

yes it bumps speculars its why i reduced my target to 1800 nits

but toggling that makes the shrine scenes incredible. could maybe do same with reno sliders but again, the tonemap filter is a 1 click toggle

[meager drum]

https://github.com/prod80/prod80-ReShade-Repository/blob/master/Shaders/PD80_03_Filmic_Adaptation.fx

isn't swapchain in bt2020 pq?

[odd pawn]

oh and game brightness 120-130 is more than enough imho

[meager drum]

it's almost definitely just moving everything in BT2020 PQ as if it were BT709 SDR sRGB

[coarse gate]

ya

[heady zenith]

@coarse gate during cut scene, I get some audio glitching transition: cut scene/real time. Have you noticed it?

[coarse gate]

idk i have a poor attention span

the game is a little stuttery according to df

[heady zenith]

It is with me sometimes...

You know what I really don't like about this game presentation? Can you see those "stains"?

[coarse gate]

there was a mod somewhere

to remove the lens dirt

i think it was just a pak you place in one of the game's folders

[heady zenith]

Yes, got it, I'm gonna try it out. Thx

Will it work fine with Reshade?

[coarse gate]

don't see any reason why it would conflict

most likely just replaces the texture

[odd pawn]

I had no performance issues running the Fix add-on (60fps cutscene) and reno, did you install the add-on?

[heady zenith]

No, where can I find the 60fps cutscene add on?

Regarding stutters, those are clearly traversal stutter and even some Shader Comp stutter. So, gotta live with them

[odd pawn]

I think it's called SilentHillFix on nexus it's a Reshade addon

[heady zenith]

So, tomorrow gonna try this plus dirt lens removal. Anyway locking the game at 60 has some minor improvements to Traversal stutters

[odd pawn]

Interesting I had it locked to 60 at first than to 80 and had near zero stutter traversal or otherwise in both cases. But you have to keep motion blur enabled to prevent the graphical glitches

[heady zenith]

Man, how you managed to achieve zero stutters is a mystery to me. I don't think it is even possible tbh, been trying anything and the only way to mitigate the traversal was locking the game to 60. Even Alex of DF couldn't eliminate the stutters. Actually there are some area I can even replicate the visible Shader Comp. Stutter (I also play on an high end system: 5090/9800X3D)

[waxen trout]

Locking to 60 made it almost entirely stutter free for me as well on Linux

1440p 7950x3d/9070xt

[heady zenith]

Interesting

[onyx void]

on linux I think I can see why

fozzilize handles the shaders

and 60 might be enough to get rid of the traversal stutters on a 7950x3d

[waxen trout]

fossilize is only when you do background shader compilation, isn't it?

GPL using ACO (mesa's AMD shader compiler) is insanely fast

Basically I have shader precomp turned off for like 2-3 years now

[heady zenith]

No way

[hardy ermine]

lmao

[worldly willow]

💀💀💀

[heady zenith]

Unlocking cutscene and removing lens dirt, the game now with Renodx Mod is really good

[bright coyote]

https://www.nexusmods.com/silenthillf/mods/213

https://www.nexusmods.com/silenthillf/mods/222?tab=images

kek

[heady zenith]

I didn't download the dirty feet mod I swear 🫣

[bright coyote]

right

I believe you

https://tenor.com/view/sure-nodding-disbelief-friends-ross-geller-gif-16596956776751194090

[heady zenith]

https://tenor.com/view/margot-robbie-feet-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-off-topic-dirty-foot-gif-16143607

[raw rose]

https://www.nexusmods.com/silenthillf/mods/203

[fleet goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/cj-sekiro-gif-23480678

[dim furnace]

Lore accurate CJ

[onyx void]

yea idk how its stutter free for you

[coarse gate]

just updated my drivers and had some stutters

[worldly willow]

Driver updates clear shader cache I’m pretty sure

[coarse gate]

ya

i'm sure its shader comp

it was only stuttering during the first combat encounter

[worldly willow]

[odd pawn]

I got hdmi black screen dropouts on any driver since September (581.X), it got so bad it started happening on 580.X drivers as well which were fine before. After yet another ddu i went back to 572.83 (march) and continued playing on that since then, good performance no stutter no gsync flickers and I just don't see a reason to even attempt updating anymore it was dropping signal on both my C2 and S95F but now it's fine again on this old driver and it runs nice too

Not even a 60 lock, ingame fps unlocked, but locked to 80 in nvcpl and vsync off, no issues. If there was any traversal stutter at any point it must have been so minor I don't remember it, basically it was not affecting my experience

[teal hatch]

probably s95f fault

[odd pawn]

Why would it be dropping signal on C2 as well? But yeah, its very likely. Its like it kept talking to it even when it was off and it kept detecting/redecting it, resetting the driver, that was my suspicion as well

[teal hatch]

shrug, gpu faulty?

[heady zenith]

The game has more stutters in later areas, I'm having traversal stutters more often now

[waxen trout]

Quite possible Linux makes it better?

Proton fixes Elden Ring stutters for example

But game's UE5.4 IIRC so traversal stutters should be minimal

Unlike SH2R where it was a stutter fest

[heady zenith]

I'm quite sure

[waxen trout]

As I said above, AMD's shader compiler on Linux is blazing fast (when it works properly)

Sometimes it might skip a shader or 2 lol

[heady zenith]

I swear, the last 5 years or so, mostly because of UE, PC gaming has been hideously infected with the "stutter virus"!

[onyx void]

I still had insane stutters with a clean cache