Cyberpunk 2077

[maiden oasis]

those fast travel ones are nice

https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/21149

combine that with ReLUX and you're in good shape

[weary tendon]

I was using that one for a bit but forgot to add it back after switching to 3077 and MO

Thanks for the reminder

I also love the E3 quadra

https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/7866?tab=description

The holo cluster is so cool

[jolly osprey]

i remember spending too much time getting v too look like the trailers

[maiden oasis]

I'm not into the E3 mods tbh

[weary tendon]

This is the only one i have

[maiden oasis]

fair

[weary tendon]

I might reinstall arasaka cyberarms because i miss my red gorilla arms

[maiden oasis]

I need to find a good tattoo I like

so many to choose from

[heady pebble]

I gotta get back to modded cyberpunk, I had to reinstall everything and CBA to redo it all it takes so long

[mild elk]

Hmm anyone else having problems making fg work in cyberpunk 2077 since the latest driver update ?

[worthy isle]

Nope. Works fine for me. Posting screenshots of your NV app or NV inspector settings would probably help.

[mild elk]

Can confirm it was indeed a driver issue. Clean Install fixed it

[jaunty river]

hoping a dedicated modder will one day rework the game's meshes to be a bit more high poly

[clear depot]

Would anyone like to share their preference for which HDR mode they use on the MSI MPG 341CQPX QD-OLED (or similar model), and why?
I've traditionally run True Black 400 because I like inky blacks, and recently been trying the recently-added EOTF Boost (with RenoDX, fog in Cronos the new dawn looks so much more realistic, and not just an eyesore, with EOTF Boost), but I get a lot of white flicker in firefox etc if I leave HDR on outside of games (which I have done previously with True Black 400 and got no flickering unless it's the usual VRR flicker), and I'm not sure I like the eyestrain that comes with overall increased brightness in or out of games.
My understanding is EOTF Boost was introduced to combat issues with Peak 1000 nits, so what does it do better/worse in your opinion?
I've started using Sammilucia's UltraRes to automatically switch HDR off for certain games, and I'm wondering if it's time for me to lean more heavily into using this to run HDR off for productivity/desktop, and have UltraRes toggle it on in games where there is a decent HDR/RenoDX implementation only.
I'm currently trying to get Cyberpunk looking its best, which is why I've posted here.

[fiery spire]

I have no idea how to fix your problem, but why would you use HDR on desktop? Just CTRL+SHIFT+B before and after gaming, that shrimple 🦐

[maiden oasis]

FireFox doesn't support HDR which is part of the issue

at least not on Windows

You can use this to fix the gamma issues within Windows when viewing SDR content within HDR. Toggle this off when playing HDR games though: https://github.com/ledoge/dwm_eotf

[high thunder]

How can I disable dwm_eotf? Should I restart dwm.exe?

[past locust]

restart explorer.Exe

snapshot on git plzzzzzzzzzz and default tonemapper psychov17

[clear depot]

I know, right! lol. I never understood much about HDR in the past, but I'm trying to learn more about it now. I've started using SDR for desktop and using Sammilucia's UltraRes tool to automatically switch to HDR on game start. I don't even need to Win+Alt+B anymore!

[clear depot]

https://github.com/dylanraga/win11hdr-srgb-to-gamma2.2-icm

I was experimenting with this the other day. Do they do the same thing?

[clear depot]

just thought I'd reply to my own msg here with what I found via MSI's EOTF Boost article, and the results from my Windows HDR Calibration in case its helpful for anyone else. p.s. I'll try to ease off the walls of text going forward! 😆
https://www.msi.com/blog/not-sure-which-hdr-mode-to-use-on-your-msi-oled-monitor-true-black-peak-1000-nits-or-eotf-boost

---

Windows HDR Calibration:

• True Black 400:
  (MSI: "certification standard established by VESA specifically for OLED")

Minimum Luminance: 0
Maximum Luminance: 450
Max Full Frame Luminance Test: 450

• Peak 1000 Nits:
  (MSI: "Peak 1000 nits is primarily for LCD displays")

Minimum Luminance: 0
Maximum Luminance: 1020
Max Full Frame Luminance Test: 1020

• EOTF Boost:
  (MSI: "EOTF Boost provides higher brightness than both Peak 1000 nits and True Black 400 / 500, making it suitable for a wider range of scenarios. In short, if you don't have specific requirements, EOTF Boost is suitable for out-of-the-box use and can deliver excellent HDR visuals in various HDR scenes")

Minimum Luminance: 0
Maximum Luminance: 620
Max Full Frame Luminance Test: 300

I'm gonna use EOTF Boost now I've calibrated it properly and see where I get to. It seems to be pitched as a best of both worlds.
Hardware calibrated to this btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ5opQzFgEM

[fiery spire]

I'm not sure how that tool works, but I've had some issues in games where if I turn on HDR after the .exe launched, HDR turns off ingame so I'd have to turn it on every time if I didn't turn HDR on in time. That's why i personally prefer manually but if that tool works well I might try it

[clear depot]

I think I've had similar things happen before. UltraRes switches as soon as it detects the game's exe and keeps HDR active until that exe is no longer running. I've asked Sammi if she can make it do the same thing for VRR so I can run desktop w/o VRR or HDR and have them both activate automatically on game launch.

[fiery spire]

ahh I see thats interesting, def gonna check it out then. Though why have VRR off on desktop, does it change something if its on? i genuinely dunno

[clear depot]

causes heinous VRR flicker in Libreoffice Calc (and some other apps) for me.

[fiery spire]

ahhh I see

[past locust]

Dwm eotf is better as it doesn't affect HDR content

Only desktop and sdr apps

[clear depot]

nice! Will check it out then.

[high thunder]

May I ask? Since dwm_eotf has no effect on HDR content, why turn it off when playing HDR games?

[past locust]

you don't ?

[hybrid pawn]

is it normal for the sky to look like this?

[maiden oasis]

looks normal to me

sky doesn't look too overblown, sunny out

looks about right

[hybrid pawn]

and the map is super pale now after downloading the new version

[vestal olive]

Map is just looks bad

[tame canopy]

^. there's also bloom at 50

[tame canopy]

map is an sdr lut, no solution yet, though might do something else later

i think bloom compounds hard

[strange spade]

not related to RenoDX but I "love..." how when closing out of the map with RTX on (at night) it just blows out the whole sky as if the sun was going supernova

[hybrid pawn]

yeah that's annoying

[maiden oasis]

try using HUD Painter's world map edit function

it can adjust the saturation and contrast

[hybrid pawn]

I just compared the old renodx I had vs the new psychov-17 version I downloaded and the new version looks super pale and blown out to me idk

I'll try adjusting the bloom on the new one

I'm super new to HDR so forgive me

[maiden oasis]

tbf, each of the recent versions has looked pretty different compared to the previous ones. Even going from PsychoV-11 to PsychoV-17 required me to change my settings quite a bit within Reno

the end result looks good though

[hybrid pawn]

old vs new

[worldly thistle]

Settings for each?

[hybrid pawn]

give me a second

[tame canopy]

contrast looks weak

and too bright, but haven't played the game in a while

[maiden oasis]

the sunny weather in the game just sucks tbh

it always looks like shit

For sunny weather I stick with the Drought weather from Nova City 2

has much better colors

[hybrid pawn]

how do you guys take hdr screenshots?

[maiden oasis]

ReShade

takes HDR PNGs

[hybrid pawn]

oh so I just need to set a bind in it?

[maiden oasis]

it's print screen by default

but I have it set to F10 to not interfere with the normal snipping tool

[hybrid pawn]

oh but it doesn't include the menu when you have it up

[hybrid pawn]

thx 😭

[maiden oasis]

all good

Vanilla Sunny vs Nova City 2 Drought

[tame canopy]

vanilla hdr luts have aces sdr blowout baked into them

the vanilla hdr is extremely cursed

[vestal olive]

At some point you should send a letter to Linus tech tips about showcasing Cyberpunks vanilla hdr all the time.

[hybrid pawn]

old version

new version

why does the old one look better

[tame canopy]

is that the cooked github version?

[hybrid pawn]

which one

[tame canopy]

the "old version"

[hybrid pawn]

I guess?

[tame canopy]

old version is replicating vanilla hdr, which is broken

new version tracks sdr

see pinned

[hybrid pawn]

so why does the new one look so pale and blown out?

[maiden oasis]

Try changing the LUT strength to 50. I see you have it at 80 for both

[tame canopy]

because vanilla hdr is overcooked

and the old version is adjusted to track vanilla hdr

cone contrast 70 on psychov will look like vanilla hdr

new version is here not github exactly for that reason, because old verison was matching broken vanilla hdr

[hybrid pawn]

https://klipy.com/gifs/monkey-confused-2

so what do i do 😭

[tame canopy]

set psychov to 70 cone response if your baseline is "look like Vanilla HDR"

if your baseline was "look like Vanilla SDR" then renodx would look cooked

but it's what you're expecting from the game

[past locust]

you can uncook it by pushing it on git and nexoose

[tame canopy]

i think psychov being 70 is an easy "HDR Look" button

[worldly thistle]

Lowering LUT strength to 50 would make it look less contrasty which he doesn't want

[worldly thistle]

Try LUT strength 100, highlights 50 then adjust cone response until it looks good. And change white point to D65 if vanilla looks too orangey after that

[tight jetty]

Download Sosuine´s mod to fix this

I don´t remember the name, but it´s on his Nexus page

[worldly thistle]

https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/23420

Forgot I was using this, but yeah its a must

[tight jetty]

Yeah, that´s the one haha

[tame canopy]

9 hours ago

[vestal olive]

I know

[tame canopy]

when ltt x renodx

[maiden oasis]

Don't forget your socks and sandals

[chrome zephyr]

Use this if you want to also fix the map issues in HDR due to the map LUT.

[novel hinge]

using this myself working great

thanks Cy

[high thunder]

Sorry, I don't really understand.

[vestal olive]

(Ignore the brightness) I made them just about the same

they are the same if I set higlights to 53 on the second one (almost)

math

[maiden oasis]

That poor game brightness and exposure settings

If your peak brightness is 1000 nits, I'm not sure how 500 nits game brightness doesn't outright blind you, but I'm assuming the ABL is kicking in so it doesn't make it as apparent.

I know you said to ignore the brightness...but my brain is like...I can't ignore it

[vestal olive]

@maiden oasis The nits values aren't accurate but the curve is the APL is a aggressive

[old cliff]

kinda bright would i need to lower exposure

[maiden oasis]

How did you take that screenshot?

[old cliff]

steam overlay

[maiden oasis]

That's in SDR, I recommend using ReShade

[old cliff]

it really is that bright tho

[maiden oasis]

https://www.hdrmods.com/HDR-Screenshot-Guide

but yeah something is definitely goofed up

can you post a screenshot of your RenoDX settings as well?

[old cliff]

nights are cool its just the sun comes out and scorched earth

ok

[vestal olive]

@maiden oasis @old cliff Steam does support HDR shots but it creates a separate image in a different folder and I think its avif

[maiden oasis]

it's in the list

Discord doesn't do a good job of handling HDR AVIFs though which is why I don't recommend it

[vestal olive]

yeh I know but its better than nothing if reshade isnt installed.

[maiden oasis]

The image previews will be goofed up unless you convert it to 8-bit AVIF

The only benefit is in servers that don't have the nitro level and you also don't have nitro

otherwise HDR PNG will just work better

[vestal olive]

[maiden oasis]

Try lowering your bloom and adjusting the LUT strength

[worldly thistle]

Is your tone-mapping midpoint set to 1 in the in-game HDR settings?

That looks terrible though, should not look like that with those reno settings

[fast mirage]

need off or on in game settings?

hdr

[maiden oasis]

HDR on in-game

[fast mirage]

thx

[maiden oasis]

https://www.hdrmods.com/Cyberpunk

Full Install guide 🙂

[steel fog]

try setting internal and external sampling encoding to vanilla, I followed setup guide but still get the washed out/blownout with it set to PQ

[maiden oasis]

is RTXHDR on?

that's one of the common things that causes the washed out issue

[solid matrix]

Does psychoV-17 use the same settings as 11?

[maiden oasis]

It adds one more, Cone Response, which is both saturation and contrast

When I switched from 11 to 17, I had to redo some of my settings because having contrast and saturation at 55-60 looks different with PsychoV-17 vs PsychoV-11

[solid matrix]

Thanks for the reply. Keep up the good work. Cheers

[maiden oasis]

🍻

[vivid radish]

how do you take hdr screenshot when using reno dx ?

[random wren]

Go to the settings tab and check what the bind is for taking screenshots

And chance it if you need

Change*

[steel fog]

Off in both global and program settings

[true arch]

Hello everyone.

I would like to ask for your help regarding a small problem in the hope that someone can enlighten me.

I just installed Cyberpunk with RenoDX and my brightness peak as well as my white dot is automatically calibrated on 80 nits for both and moving the cursors does nothing while on Crimson Desert RenoDX calibrates perfectly (470 nits for the peak and 115 nits for the white dot)

[maiden oasis]

I'm assuming you mean the overall UI brightness for the game? That can be adjusted with the in-game HDR Paper White setting.

[true arch]

No, I may have expressed myself badly. I'm talking about RenoDX parameters so

[tame canopy]

void OnInitSwapchain(reshade::api::swapchain* swapchain, bool resize) {
  last_is_hdr = renodx::utils::swapchain::IsHDRColorSpace(swapchain);
  if (!last_is_hdr) {
    settings[1]->default_value = 80.f;
    settings[2]->default_value = 80.f;
    settings[3]->default_value = 0.f;
    ApplyPresetDefaultIfUnset("toneMapPeakNits", settings[1]->default_value);
    ApplyPresetDefaultIfUnset("toneMapGameNits", settings[2]->default_value);
    ApplyPresetDefaultIfUnset("toneMapGammaCorrection", settings[3]->default_value);
    return;
  }

did you enable HDR?

[true arch]

Yes, HDR is activated

[tame canopy]

can you send the reshade.log?

are you mixing mods, like something that would block renodx/reshade from seeing it's hdr?

[true arch]

I use ultra +, nova city 2.0 and nova lut 3.0

[tame canopy]

it's incomplete? it's missing a bunch of log items

[true arch]

I had to delete the logs unintentionally while being in the game... so I went through a reshade reinstallation after purging the DXCache folder and everything works wonderfully. Thank you for giving me a little of your time

Ps: surely some kind of conflict by installing my mods as well as RenoDX at once even before opening the game for the first time

[maiden oasis]

Ultra+ and Nova City 2 work fine with RenoDX. I recommend both with my preset

same with LUTs

[true arch]

Thank you I saw your post with your presets I will read it before getting lost in the streets of night city 🙂

[true arch]

@tame canopy Hello, I'm coming back to you regarding the problem of peak brightness as well as white dot that is calibrated to 80 nits.

I did a clean installation of the game as well as RenoDX without any mod, and the problem still persists.

After a clean installation, at the first start of the game, RenoDX calibrates well. Only as soon as I leave the game, and reopen it, the problem reappears and RenoDX calibrates again on 80 nits in peak and white paper.

Disable and then reactivate the HDR in the game settings fixes the problem until the next restart

Here is the latest reshade.log

In spare time if you have a solution to correct this problem hoping that it can possibly help someone else potentially in the same case

[heavy quarry]

Hello, looking for the RenoDX addon with the debug graph. Don't see it anywhere obvious. Am I in the right place?

[worthy isle]

@heavy quarry Check the pinned posts. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1434377434022809610/1490559043012530246/renodx-cp2077.addon64?ex=69dfb389&is=69de6209&hm=9b0081b82d7ea6d9243c591e00bc369601a17b3018c2ff566a05ce02fbb7fda0&

[heavy quarry]

Thanks, for some reason the pinned posts weren't showing up for me.

[narrow harbor]

Anyone experience this?

This one OK tho

[maiden oasis]

oh so the new one works, guessing that other one was super old

[narrow harbor]

Isn't 17 the new one?

[maiden oasis]

PsychoV-17 is the latest one yeah

I was referring to the one you had an error with

wait...backup

[narrow harbor]

it's the 17 one

[maiden oasis]

so the PsychoV-11 works, but the PsychoV-17 doesn't?

[narrow harbor]

yes

[wise mirage]

It might be that the file got corrupted somehow. I had to download it twice - once as the file was immediately posted, and then again a few minutes later after the pin was finally made because my game wouldn't boot with the first file

[maiden oasis]

yeah that was my thought as well

corrupted file

[wise mirage]

While I've got you here Creepy, does RenoDX attempt some degree of UI masking?

I ask because while using RenoDX, there are these unsightly boxes that have been mildly peeving me that show up when gazing at truly blinding sources of illumination

[maiden oasis]

try turning off the in-game CA

or show me a screenshot of what you mean

[wise mirage]

Attempting to do so as we speak :3

[maiden oasis]

apoplogies for the guide being of two worlds. I got done updating it last time and Shortfuse posted an update like a week later

been too tired to take new screenshots

[wise mirage]

Here we go, I've just spent the past entirely-too-long trying to figure out why ReShade wasn't actually saving my screenshots, going entirely too far down an entirely abstract adventure into memory data only to find that the culprit has been ModOrganizer all along, tucking those files away into it's own little pocket dimension of illusionary frustrations.

[narrow harbor]

Re-downloaded and no REDEngineErrorReporter anymore but got this: [25604] | ERROR | Failed to load add-on from 'D:\Epic Games\Cyberpunk2077\bin\x64\renodx-cp2077.addon64' with error code 4551

[wise mirage]

In this screenshot, I have somewhat exaggerated the highlight saturation to illustrate the unfortunate unsightliness of these (at least so I presume) masking boxes that appear around UI elements

[heavy quarry]

Getting double captions on screens. Any idea what causes this?

[maiden oasis]

ahhhh, there's a mod for that

give me a minute and I'll dig it up

[maiden oasis]

does it happen with RenoDX removed?

guessing you have a conflict between two mods

[maiden oasis]

this might help, not sure if this is the exact mod or not https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/12700

if anything it won't hurt 😛

[wise mirage]

I'm fairly certain I have that mod installed!

[maiden oasis]

😄

gonna be honest, try asking in the Ultra Plus server instead. I'm really bad about remembering what bug fix mods are recommended for certain things

Vanstorm over there seems to have all those mods memorized

[wise mirage]

Good suggestion, thanks! <3

[brisk zodiac]

Creepy dont know if you're aware of this but the game has some goofy InkWidget limit. The higher res textures you try and force (which allocate the InkWidget budget) the more pixelated textures will become

general textures dont fall into this category

but advert textures do

street holograms

ect

[maiden oasis]

wasn't aware of that

[brisk zodiac]

Using those higher res textures procs the game to cull even further

so you get more pixelation

[maiden oasis]

[brisk zodiac]

Its like Crimson

Game has a 8GB cap

[maiden oasis]

oh god

[brisk zodiac]

you try running higher and it starts using lowe mip levels

texture mods literally cause the game to use more agressive culling

[maiden oasis]

damn

[brisk zodiac]

[maiden oasis]

well shit

[maiden oasis]

Is there a ReShade.log that got generated when this happened?

[narrow harbor]

Ah sorry after restart I redownloaded from pinned and it works!! Thanks!!

[maiden oasis]

😄

[maiden oasis]

so his issue was actually the vanilla film grain being broken

Cyanide pointed it out over in Ultra+

[weary warren]

creepy i followed your guide for reno and mod too but im having a problem when i load one save the color in the game seems washed out but after adjusting some setting and reverting back to normal ill fix it

[maiden oasis]

are you using my preset?

or just RenoDX

[weary warren]

your preset and nova city 2 ultra+ ecc

and reno

[maiden oasis]

ecc?

[maiden oasis]

did you switch between HDR10 PQ and HDR10 scRGB when the washout happened?

[weary warren]

in postprocessing inside reno settings?

[maiden oasis]

in the game HDR settings

[weary warren]

no in the game i have only hdr10 pq

[maiden oasis]

ok, just curious

[weary warren]

i cant select scrgb

[maiden oasis]

you can't select it at all?

not that it really matters but that's curious

[wise mirage]

So you're saying that by increasing the quality, the quality gets worse?

[brisk zodiac]

The game has a hard limit on InkWidget budget

so you forcing higher res for stuff like ads

make the game cull more

causing further pixelation

yes

[wise mirage]

I understood, its just such a bizarre contradiction

[weary warren]

mmmm no

[maiden oasis]

so you can't see this?

wait...do you have HDR10+

if so turn it off

[weary warren]

no i dont have hdr10+

im outside right now when im back home ill check again

[maiden oasis]

[olive cloak]

based cdpr

[limber laurel]

scRGB does not work with FrameGen, if you have that enabled the option is not available

[brisk zodiac]

No I meant Crimson has a cap

CDPR doesnt

Well the game has caps for InkWidget and other places

but I dunno too much about the ins and outs

[weary warren]

yeah i have frame gen

[olive cloak]

based crimson desert

[maiden oasis]

oh yeah, forgot about frame gen

my poor 3090 can't use the good stuff

[weary warren]

im using optiscaler

for that

[maiden oasis]

ahhh

[weary warren]

3080ti

[maiden oasis]

I'm debating switching over to scRGB for version 2 of my preset. Fixes a lot of the banding issues that Soop's Converters has with HDR10

which are sadly necessary with Zen's shaders which I use in pretty much every game

[weary warren]

so the problem is i have hdr10 enable with your reshade?

[maiden oasis]

If you're noticing banding right now, disable the HDR10 converters

the preset will still look good enough

it will be a tad brighter and the colors will be slightly different, but it'll still be fine

the scRGB preset is going to be tweaked and isn't out yet. I have it posted in the U+ server for testing

[limber laurel]

In investigating this, I just realized the difference PQ vs scRGB makes. Too bad I've f'ed up my install so bad that my 5090 gets 45fps with performance without framegen 😵‍💫

[weary warren]

ok

[maiden oasis]

the other downside with scRGB is the Cyber Engine Tweak interface is washed out

as far as the actual vanilla game goes, I'm not sure I can notice much of a difference

[limber laurel]

Really? The colors less blown-out to me. But maybe I changed something else trying to get the scRGB to show up.

[maiden oasis]

are you using any LUT mods?

[weary warren]

vanilla for me lut 50% its too bright when im back home ill post a screen

[maiden oasis]

I'll keep testing both though in various areas.

[weary warren]

its not that bright obv its a screenshot problem but its a lot bright and color are washed out even on ui

the saturation in reno dont work on text and menu is normal?

[weary warren]

mmmm maybe its just the weather?

[maiden oasis]

I hate the vanilla weathers so much

I manually set weathers within Nova City 2 for all my shots

You can use the paper white setting within the in-game HDR settings to adjust the UI brightness

[heavy quarry]

Does anyone know what the flashlight mod is? I can't find the hotkey or it to save my life.

[maiden oasis]

which one?

there's a couple

[heavy quarry]

The one included in 3077. Everytime I press F the light goes on and off.

[maiden oasis]

If you're using 3077 ask over in the Ultra Plus server. That's where its supported 🙃

I stopped using that flashlight mod because it interfered with another input on my controller

[heavy quarry]

Ah, you're right. I meant to ask there. Apologies.

[maiden oasis]

all good, I post in both channels often so I get them confused sometimes too 😛

[remote stag]

just want to thank for this - first time using reshade for HDR because 2077 was just too much gray for me and it works really good even for noob like me - only problem was first time i installed some old one from 2024 before i find out this discord XD and in old one black were to crushed

only thing is map is washed out but i dont mind that at all

[maiden oasis]

try out the pinned fix here #1434377434022809610 message

HUD Painter also has an option to adjust the map contrast and saturation

[remote stag]

for game that have milions updates it really funny how many bugs you can still find , same like FSR4 when i turn on RT reflections i have flickering dots on some metal things pipes fence atd or some doors and it drives me crazy that i turned RT OFF xd

[remote stag]

I have MSI 322UP and i played with all those mods and dont really know which i prefer in witcher 3 i use TB400 and im happy , in 2077 i use 1000 ( i tried EOTF but dont see diff and some people say that mode is shit because it lock to some 600nits or something )

[clear depot]

EOTF max luminance shows as 620 for me in the Windows Calibration tool. I was using TB400 for years, and might go back to it myself. I think I prefer the overall result of TB400 , even if it does have a lower max luminance. Got a lot less eye strain with that too.
I haven't fired up Witcher 3 for ages. Still haven't completed it though, so will be returning to it at some point.

[remote stag]

Same eye strain is pain when you play at night with HDR1000 also my eyes are gone i litellary see nothing when i dont have glasses on XD but for some reason HDR400 in 2077 gave me more eye strain then 1000 ( but good thing is you can always lower to 800nits atd if 1000 is bright in the setting

[remote stag]

can i ask if i have Reshade on should i just ignore game HDR setting ?

[fiery spire]

do it according to Creepy's guide, info about this starts at 8)

https://www.hdrmods.com/Cyberpunk

[worthy isle]

@tame canopy any plans to expose the PsychoV-17 shader on git specifically used in CP?

[stark prism]

HI , in game hdr settings need to bo set to default or custom ? ( Not reno , in game settings ) TY

[stark prism]

Frame Gen dont work with RenoDx in this game ?

[remote stag]

guys RENODX should have PsychoV-17 tone mapper ? but i dont see it anywhere i see people here having psycho but i have just redodx

[fiery spire]

have you downloaded the latest pinned mod here?

.

[fiery spire]

it does work, I recommend following the guide I posted 3 messages above yours, it answers all your questions

[remote stag]

yeah find the problem i didnt download pinned one thx

[fiery spire]

no worries, theres a new slider called Cone Response, not sure what the default is, but 60 is what i saw recommended

its saturation + contrast combined i think

[remote stag]

only thing im not sure about is SDR EOTF Emulation: Recommend setting this to UI/Menu only - but dosent this litellary remove black and make it grey again ?

[fiery spire]

I honestly have no idea, theres prolly a reason for it but I dont know the technical details behind most of the settings

@maiden oasis maybe he will know, seems like someone who knows a thing or two about the guide 😉

[maiden oasis]

I hope so 😛

I said to set the SDR EOTF Emulation to UI/Menu only because things can get a bit too dark with it set to always on. This is especially true if you're using other mods such as Nova City 2 which makes the interior exposure a bit darker (hence why it recommends using night vision etc). The goal with HDR isn't to have the darkest black levels at all times. If you have ambient light in the area, then you should haven't complete darkness.

I used to have it say that if the game is too light in all situations to change it to always on, but I see that I removed that part. As with the rest of the settings in RenoDX, you're welcome to change whatever. I just tried to pick good settings to start with so people don't end up with blown out highlights, crushed shadows, etc.

But it can vary based on personal preference, LUT choice, other mods you have installed, display, etc

[remote stag]

yeah i now comparing it and it seems too dark when it ON for everything and even in menu only it still good

[maiden oasis]

tbh I thought about just ripping out the recommended settings and replacing it with screenshot comparisons with each slider in various positions.

[misty hill]

Hello! I have a few questions and was hoping to get some help.

When using the ultraVP preset, the max nits in Lilium's HDR analysis seem to spike excessively high.

Picture 1 (Normal state): Shows around 1400 nits.

Picture 2 (Zoomed in): Spikes up to 2783 nits.

If I uncheck the VP preset or switch to the ultraGame preset, it shows 540 nits, as seen in Picture 3. Is this the intended behavior?

Also, looking at Picture 4 (which is with the ultraGame preset), when I zoom in, it hits 1000 nits.

For context, here is my current setup:

Monitor: AW3225QF (using the "Peak 1000 Bright" mode)

Windows HDR Calibration: 0/540/540/0

Windows Auto HDR and RTX HDR are both turned OFF.

Mods / ReShade: Lastly, I have set the values in both RenoDX and molbbsoop_HDR_Converter.fx to 540.

Please excuse any awkward phrasing, as my English isn't very good and I'm using a translator. Thank you for your time!

[strange spade]

Im not sure if this is a thing that interacts with HDR or the mod itself but the latest drivers have cut my FPS almost in half and I was wondering wtf was causing it, and on a whim I changed the Nvidia App framegen setting on 2077 from Recommended to Use 3D App Settings and that fixed my FPS issue.

Im not really tech savvy but could it be that the new FG models mess with Reshade or HDR somehow? My bad if unrelated, but also hope this helps for anyone also having FPS issues.

[maiden oasis]

yeah don't use the VP preset, it's going to get replaced

just stick with the gameplay one. I'm testing out Version 2 currently

[minor compass]

bruh i just came back to this game to test Psycho V17, looks nice but for whatever reason i just cannot get FG to work now. like it's on in settings, just doesnt do anything. HDR10 PQ, not scRGB, @maiden oasis you got any idea in this?

i'm also using U+ to test the V4 thing that got released cuz why not

[maiden oasis]

turn off V4 and try FG

I think there was some issues with that

[minor compass]

unchecked the V4 box, loaded a save, still no luck with FG

also how does the sousine's PT mod compare to U+

[maiden oasis]

I haven't used it to be honest. With me being on the U+ team I don't have much reason to

I don't use FG so I'm not sure then.

[minor compass]

well fully removed U+ and didnt fix it, so idk anymore

[misty hill]

@maiden oasis Thanks for getting back to me. I really appreciate your work on this awesome preset!

[maiden oasis]

thanks 🙂

sorry about the confusion the VP preset. It was added more for fun but I forgot about how the peak brightness gets jacked up from it

I'll try and get the nexus page and guide updated later this week

[tight jetty]

I used both for a bit, and they look good

But Sosuine’s a lot heavier, and less configurable

Depending on your settings, you’ll need frame gen

[maiden oasis]

-# if they can get it to work

[tight jetty]

You’re evil dude hahaha

[maiden oasis]

just a tad

[tight jetty]

If all else fails, just do a clean still go the game and test without any mods

[minor compass]

yea something is def wrong, even without mods my FG doesnt activate

only having reshade+reno installed, but i doubt its that since nobody here said anything about it

[brave bough]

stop being the wrong color

[maiden oasis]

you're the wrong color, what you talking about

[brave bough]

nuh uh

[tight jetty]

we are all the same color inside

[strange spade]

Have y'all tried this?

[lilac jolt]

hello, why my game crashes after 30 minutes with renodx? gemini said it renodx fault after reading logs

[surreal folio]

Yeah I dont have any mods installed and my FG wasnt working either when I reinstalled the game last night. I went into the Nvidia app and set the Model Preset override to recommended and left the other two as the 3D app setting and that fixed it for me. No idea what causes it. Interesting to see it wasn't just me

[maiden oasis]

I wouldn't trust AI when it comes to anything related to HDR or ReShade. Can you upload your ReShade.log please

Cyberpunk can crash for a variety of reasons. It can crash just by entering the pause menu with a completely vanilla loadout with no mods

or by loading an autosave

chances are if the game ran fine for 30 minutes with RenoDX, then that isn't the issue

one of the things that usually gets me to crash is by fast traveling to japantown or downtown when I have my graphics settings cranked up when I do my screenshots. Fun times

[fiery spire]

especially not gemini lol

i dont think I ever got an accurate answer from it whenever I used it, even with the pro version (which I have cuz of college, wouldnt pay for shit like that)

[maiden oasis]

and tbh just telling us AI said RenoDX is the issue without providing anymore information doesn't really tell us anything. That's not something that could be used to fix the issue even if one were to exist

[tame canopy]

What logs is Gemini going to read?

You'd need to read crash dumps and Gemini doesn't have access to that

[lilac jolt]

okay guys i see now!

if issue persists i will send you logs, i reinstalled renodx

[sand root]

i barely trust myself, how can people trust ai made by someone else

[tepid galleon]

Deus Ex (2000)

JC Denton: No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera.
Morpheus: The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.

[olive trench]

Vanilla vs PsychoV-17 (custom)

[maiden oasis]

been trying Cone Response at 70 for a few shots, not bad tbh but might be a bit too intense for me to use all the time

[maiden oasis]

RenoDRT vs PsychoV-17

[tame canopy]

70 is basically Vanilla HDR. Probably the look they wanted

[olive trench]

Vanilla HDR VS PsychoV-17 (I tried Cone Response 70, with Lut strength 50, Lut scaling at 40, highlights 55, D65 white point, compared to vanilla, it looks awesome)

[tepid galleon]

thanks for sharing

[granite bear]

When I switch from RenoDRT to Psychov-17 nothing changes thoguh for me

[solar flume]

I can't really nail down cone response for with psycho v-17, 60 looks and above looks great at night but during the day i find the shadows too harsh with anything above 50. Any recomendations. I'm currently at a compromise on both with around 55.

[tame canopy]

disable 2.2 gamma correction if you have it on

[solar flume]

first time hearing of that. is it a renodx setting? Can't find it

[worldly thistle]

EOTF emulation. You can also try lowering LUT scaling

[solar flume]

oh right eotf emulation is ui/menu only, yeah i actually lowered lut scalling it seems better. I think its just the style of the game. I notice sdr looks pretty much similar.

Just checked LUT strenght is 55

[maiden oasis]

also keep in mind the weather used will definitely influence it, same with LUTs

vanilla sunny just looks rough when compared to the Nova City 2 weathers

anytime I get it I immediately switch to something else with weather switcher 😛

[tepid galleon]

I only have a TrueBlack I think 400 display, which has 3 primary HDR modes: peak brightness off, low or high.

• off is most "accurate": can see dark stuff and discern all shades/gradients of dark stuff in all tests, but requires pretty much a almost completely dark room to enjoy properly, otherwise display seem too "dark" in general
• high is OUW MY EYES, MAKE IT STOP
• low is default and seems best compromise when you don't or can't wanna go near completely dark room light

EOTF emulation is kind of best or similar to when used with off or low, from my understanding/experience. If your room/display is too bright, you might not enjoy it, even though it would be more "accurate". No use having different shades of dark when all you can make out is, "it's dark. All dark. Too dark. Everything is dark!! curses!"

[solar flume]

wow lucky, i only have a bunch of random HDR modes which is almost the same thing and a peak 1000 mode, which is painfully innacurate

[solar flume]

I just play in standard HDR, not the brightest, but plenty brigh in a dark room. I agree the highlihgts are not stunning or wow, but you get so much good things with a 4k OLED monitor that im not complaining

[mellow quail]

anyone use the advanced path tracing mod?

[violet fulcrum]

you mean ultra plus?

or reference path tracing?

[maiden oasis]

I think they mean Sosine's new mod

[maiden oasis]

you mean this? https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/28401

I use Ultra+ for path tracing improvements, among other things. Not sure how compatible that mod is but I think some people use both.

[mellow quail]

this one

https://github.com/codecrafting-io/AdvancedPathTracingCP2077

[kind gulch]

Use ultra plus instead

[mellow quail]

better?

[kind gulch]

Yes. Generally if a mod supports ultra plus you can't go wrong to use it. They are much more thorough in testing than many authors (memories of lazorr going through doors thousands of times to reproduce an oblivion crash lol).

A lot of other similar mods tend to either do nothing or just be ripped from ultra plus anyway (sousines is fine but u+ does a lot more)

[violet fulcrum]

yeah ultra plus is much better

it has an advanced form of path tracing as well

PTNext

[rancid pumice]

Anyone have a real fix to the map being washed out? I tried HUD Painter but it only seemed to make it worse. Not the biggest deal, but it would be nice to fix.

[glad dune]

#1434377434022809610 message

and a photo of a monitor at an angle, mr. beast-like

[novel hinge]

This will fix it

[rancid pumice]

Thanks. Will try this out.

[maiden oasis]

The MapLUT Begone is pinned here now as well 🙃

[novel hinge]

sorry didn't realize that 📌

[maiden oasis]

all good lol

[proven vine]

is psychov17 supposed to be way brighter than vanilla tonemapper? like vanilla kinda crushes blacks but psycho17 just completely lifts the blacks for me, in the badlands at night it looks almost like day

[jolly osprey]

play with the LUT scaling

renodx matches the sdr grading

[plucky adder]

are you guys seeing higher peak brightness on hdr analysis than set? i have 800 set but it's showing 1200 often

its looking awesome this psychov17

[maiden oasis]

if you have some of the sliders increased too much from the default settings, especially contrast, then you'll notice a sharp spike in peak brightness

[plucky adder]

it was the lut i was using, the preem 3 was going over alot. the settings were stock

[maiden oasis]

oh wow

was the LUT strength at 100?

I tend to stick with ~50 strength anytime I use a LUT. I did see Preem LUT 3 is pretty bright with PsychoV

[plucky adder]

this helped, one question if i may, do you use ultra+?

[maiden oasis]

I sure do

I'm actually a team member over there

I also have a new version of the HDR Guide done, just need to push it https://www.hdrmods.com/Cyberpunk-WIP

I still need to remake my Reshade one which I'm separating from the main guide

[plucky adder]

awesome. i love the work you've done. Have you seen a bug with pt stopping and starting when you move away or close to a lightsource? i notice it in PL near the elevator

[maiden oasis]

are you using the PT shadow fixes mod?

[plucky adder]

yes

[maiden oasis]

which PT version are you using?

[plucky adder]

next v4, but it also happens with 21, altough less apparent due to more ambient lighting

[maiden oasis]

so with V4, have you been grabbing the latest updates in the channel pins over in U+?

V4 had some teething issues at first

If you are using the latest version of U+ from that Cyberpunk channel and are still having issues with V4, then I would encourage you to post anything about your issues, screenshots etc so Sammi can take a look at it

but post those over in the Ultra Plus server 🙃

Personally I use PT20 for gameplay and V4 only for screenshots

just to get that FPS boost

[plucky adder]

i can't post the clip there

[maiden oasis]

I'll give you permissions, just ping me over there in the Cyberpunk channel please

[plucky adder]

last snapshot on git seems to be very stable on the analysis tool.

[maiden oasis]

unless ShortFuse pushed the PsychoV version to GitHub, then that's still the older version that only has RenoDRT

RenoDRT is going to worse compared to PsychoV, especially in the neon signs

I just checked, it's still the RenoDRT version

[plucky adder]

I thought he removed it

[smoky minnow]

game feels too dark, guys what I'm I doing wrong?

monitor is LG C3 oled, maximum brightness is apparently 800 nits

using vanilla LUT, tone mapping midpoint 1

game does look brighter with exposure of 2, but from creepy's recommendation it seems too big of adjustment?
@maiden oasis sorry for ping, any ideas?

[plucky adder]

i have the c4, should be similar

[plucky adder]

tv backlight maxed out?

[maiden oasis]

peak brightness of the HDR Converters should match what you put in for RenoDX, but tbh you should adjust how the HDR looks before applying any preset

that's actually something I should note in my guide

try setting Cone Response to 70

updated guide that will be pushed later this week, I need to rewrite the ReShade one which is why this hasn't been done yet 🙃

https://www.hdrmods.com/Cyberpunk-WIP

[smoky minnow]

:w

ops

[smoky minnow]

setting cone response makes the game even darker

[maiden oasis]

I think there's something up with your display

because to me those shots you uploaded don't look bad

not great, but perfectly normal 🙃

I would set your display to HGIG mode if it isn't already

[worldly thistle]

They look a bit dim for 300 game brightness maybe

[maiden oasis]

perhaps, but I wouldn't call them dark per se

I would double check to make sure all the game's HDR settings are what they should be

[smoky minnow]

just turned on HGIG, funny it makes my monitor even darker. and my settings match whats in the screenshot

[maiden oasis]

[smoky minnow]

what do you mean?

[smoky minnow]

thanks for your help, I think I'll just crank up exposure lol. also dogtown black market is quite a dark place in the first place I guess, I'll test it again once I get to other locations

[maiden oasis]

yeah sorry, this is a bit of an odd case for me and its hard for me to test in-game at the moment as I'm in the middle of redoing my modlist

😅

[smoky minnow]

yeah no worries, thanks for the detailed guide!

[plucky adder]

the most clear one is preemlut 3 with shadow boost 3, but i'm using fuji with exposure and shadow raised, looks good too

[wanton badge]

https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/18138?tab=files this mod Light version looks so much better than vanilla bloom

[maiden oasis]

doesn't work with ENV mods

hard pass then 😛

Nova City 2 is so essential to my setup

so I would hate to remove it just for a bloom fix

do you have any HDR screenshots of it with Reno?

[wanton badge]

I returned my hdr monitor unfortunately so no

Just finished the game

won't be playing itr again

[maiden oasis]

returned it?

[wanton badge]

dead pixel and flicker, ktc m27t6s ips china exclusive version

[kind gulch]

I'll never understand playing a game through and not playing it again... nothing wrong with it mind you, but just totally outside my ability to understand

[maiden oasis]

meanwhile I still haven't finished the game

[fiery spire]

not a lot of games have actual replayability after beating the game, so i dont really get this sentiment

[maiden oasis]

that's really up to the end user though

a lot of people like replaying games

a game doesn't need a new game+ mode to be replayable

[kind gulch]

I don't understand needing replay value X D as creepy said its an individual thing

[maiden oasis]

I like replaying the same story sometimes just like rewatching a movie again

[kind gulch]

Same!

[maiden oasis]

plus a game like cyberpunk has so many mods, so that is a reason in of itself to play it again

[fiery spire]

yeah I get it, for me personally, I dont see myself replaying any game anytime soon cause there are a lot of good ones out there I still havent played so there would be no time lol

[kind gulch]

Games i enjoy are fairly rare so that's probably part of it, i don't have that issue

Though them being rare is its own issue X D

[maiden oasis]

I have lots of games but always come back to the same few

[kind gulch]

X D

[fiery spire]

my backlog is crazy huge, this game being one of them lol

[wanton badge]

game's ass, usual cdproject, cool story, cool music, bad game design

'although gotta admit

thge gameplay was much better than witcher

[wanton badge]

and I didn't like phantom liberty story

[kind gulch]

That's...an opinion i guess

[wanton badge]

yea I bet you really enjoyed having random useless loot in your inventory constantly clogging everything

the game really needed that

[maiden oasis]

guessing you loved Skyrim and Fallout 4 as well

useless loot indeed

game is wonderful once you mod it though, and it's a visual paradise

Cyberpunk is the most Bethesda type game that Bethesda hasn't touched...besides Fallout New Vegas

[wanton badge]

man I love fixing the game myself and spend hours trying to figure out which mod conflict despite conflict detector saying it's all good

[kind gulch]

Wow, you're pretty unnecessarily negative... it's ok for people to like things you know, even when the aren't perfect or have flaws

[strange spade]

2000hrs on my end, only mod I ever used/use is RenoDX 😅

[strange spade]

Pay em no mind, chronically online people tend to take offense to people liking things they don't... For some reason? lol

[maiden oasis]

https://tenor.com/view/gold-member-austin-powers-there-is-no-pleasing-you-cant-please-you-mike-myers-gif-16272843

meanwhile me taking my fancy screenshots 😛

me playing dress up simulator

[brazen whale]

Hey which lut order do you all recommend?

[wanton badge]

Gotta admit the truth Id bomb arasaka irl

[maiden oasis]

depends on which LUT you're using, but vanilla load order at 50% strength is good enough usually

I've tested a lot of LUTs with RenoDX and the one I would recommend now, besides the vanilla LUT, is Real Colorr IV https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/16156

I used to recommend Preem LUT 3 but it's too bright even at 50%

[undone compass]

nova lut 2.0 pure is really good also

[serene summit]

Are you still using scaling at 100 percent or did you bump it down for vanilla lut? Using your beta V2 setup which looks fantastic. Also, does increasing Zen Sharpen to .3 from .2 ok? Just wondering if it would effect the overall brightness and the need to adjust AutoHdr. Thank you

[maiden oasis]

I keep LUT scaling at 100

[serene summit]

Thank you

[maiden oasis]

You can adjust the Zenteon Sharpen as desired, I just tried to stay a bit conservative with the settings.

For the AutoHDR tonemapper you just need to enter in the peak brightness and maybe adjust the highlight saturation

[serene summit]

Thank you!

[maiden oasis]

I should note that I am using Cone Response at 70 now

that adds an extra bit of oompth compared to using it at 60

all depends on how much of the HDR look you want

like I'll crank of the Contrast Normalization within Azen PreCorrect sometimes and it looks nice

[serene summit]

Nice!!! Yes, saw your post about making it as a meme lol. But I'll be sure to try it out later.

[maiden oasis]

hehe, me and my memes

[serene summit]

The extra bump in contrast does make it pop, in a desirable way. Looks natural too instead of cartoonish.

[maiden oasis]

yeah the contrast normalization is a really special shader effect. It's basically taking the local contrast shader but not doing the sharpening. It's wild

[serene summit]

Do you still need local contrast if your bumping up the contrast normalization?

[maiden oasis]

that's entirely up to you. I think the local contrast in this preset is subtle at this point, it can add a little bit of depth to the textures but I'm not sure if its entirely necessary

but then again, none of this preset is necessary 😛

but its super fun

btw, this is just using Azen Precorrect and Local Contrast in conan exiles. Shows you how powerful it is

[serene summit]

I appreciate your work. The HDR guide helped a lot. Setting Saturation in-game to Zero should be placed on a bill oard somewhere though lol

[maiden oasis]

yeah I'm hoping to get the updated ReShade guide done this weekend but we'll see 🙃

[serene summit]

The side by side is night and day. A new guide too? Before your updated 3077? Lol.

[maiden oasis]

I'm separating the main renodx guide from the reshade one

so that the one pinned here won't have my reshade stuff in it

and it'll make the reshade one more streamlined

https://www.hdrmods.com/Cyberpunk-WIP

this is the updated RenoDX guide without my reshade stuff

[maiden oasis]

you mean Ultrapunk

[serene summit]

Yes, Ultrapunk haha. And your updated guide helped me get everything set up again. I always come back to see the work of the community. Psycho-17 is ridiculous, PT 20 V4 looks just as good as Next, and your HDR preset is the icing. 3077 still holds up well too.

[maiden oasis]

https://tenor.com/view/army-of-darkness-evil-dead-ash-groovy-gif-25791428

[serene summit]

Haha! Was chill talking with you. Again, I appreciate your work. Take care.

[kind gulch]

Same here

[pale jackal]

Hey guys sorry if this is the wrong place to ask for help but I just downloaded reno from github and it seems I'm missing the psycho tab. Am I downloading the wrong one somehow?

[fiery spire]

Download the pinned from 25 days ago

[maiden oasis]

WIP guide no longer needed. Primary guide updated.

[split lichen]

Give me visual guide 🙏, best visual but gameplay friendly. No gameplay mods🙏

[plucky shell]

i am too dumb for getting the newest build with psycho 17 tonemapper. i got the sticky one from 02.11.25 but it doesnt have this tonemapper. any help?

[fiery spire]

02.11.25 ?

this is the latest one, its from april 6th 2026

[primal sonnet]

What are yalls ultra+ settings? I've been using pt20 med for performance, but im wondering if there's a better option for the same performance. Getting 50fps avg on 4k dldsr on 1440p screen with dlss performance

[primal sonnet]

You guys should force preset E RR sith dlss swapper

[primal sonnet]

Override fg in nvidia app preset B and make sure HAGS is on and DSC is off

[tepid galleon]

So what you're basically saying is, Force-users should stick to the Sith preset?

[maiden oasis]

Preset E has better motion clarity but more banding

I prefer D myself

[primal sonnet]

Oh I guess I dont notice it as much since im downscaling with dldsr

[primal sonnet]

The dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be..... unnatural

[primal sonnet]

dlss M with the ultra+ denoiser is also good sometimes

[maiden oasis]

if you don't have Nvidia sure

but I'll stick with RR 🙃

[alpine egret]

Curious, what is everyone running in terms of other visual mods here?

I have the standard suite of LUT Switcher, upgraded textures, fake lights no more, PT optimizations, etc.

I have been testing out the Nova LUT 3 HDR LUTs, am liking Nova LUT 3 (2.0 5600k).

But, I’m not sure i’m happy with the color grading? GITS is pretty good but feels too purple

[alpine egret]

I find that most of the Ultra+ tweaks create tons of noise and just generally degrade the image and can conflict with other mods

I typically recommend just using AdvancedPTControl from github

[noble willow]

none

[worthy isle]

I typically recommend not listening to this guy.

[alpine egret]

😂

[strange spade]

I just run vanilla with renodx because I think all luts look 'off'. And yes I am aware im in a very small minority on that take LOL

[maiden oasis]

Just wait until Nova LUT 4 HDR comes out 😉

Been testing it and it looks really good

[maiden oasis]

If you downloaded the recent version of Ultra+ then yes V4 can have some issues, but overall using it with PT20 mode is pretty nice while also being good with performance.

For visual mods I basically reference the 3077 guide https://www.nexusmods.com/games/cyberpunk2077/collections/lv4wpp, the modlist itself is no longer supported but the mods it has listed are still worth checking out. We're currently testing a new visual / bug fix modlist called Ultrapunk which hopefully will be out soonish

[alpine egret]

Will do

[maiden oasis]

this was taken with it #🖼️gallery message

[alpine egret]

Looking on my system, seems last time I tested Ultra+ was in November. I’ve tested it out many times before that but I always end up uninstalling. It’s not like I don’t know what I am doing. It always turned my game into a noisy mess and I get quite a lot of ghosting and smearing.

I can give it another try tonight, though.

I’m wondering, is there a rough set of known incompatible mods? I don’t believe I have any which should interfere but, might have an old ini tweak downloaded from forever ago

[maiden oasis]

from the Nexus mod page

[alpine egret]

Sorry, I should have specified other than listed there but thank you, I appreciate it

[novel hinge]

Did you test it with Reno on or without?

[unkempt cloud]

Hello ShortFuse, just curious, why do you not uodate the mod on nexus anymore?

[tame canopy]

defaults are very different. so still need to build a "match broken HDR" button

or just not and dump wip here

[maiden oasis]

I did both

but obviously using it with Reno is better 🙃

[novel hinge]

Can’t wait then, cause I couldn’t get it right with Nova 3 and Reno

[maiden oasis]

Vanilla vs Nova LUT 4

[novel hinge]

I see it handles blue much better now

[novel hinge]

This one much better

[maiden oasis]

the reds are much better

per Cyanide:

Vanilla shifts magenta to red and green to yellow.

those were all using the 6500K color temperature version of Nova LUT

[novel hinge]

I can see that too

[primal sonnet]

yeah but it looks too green. if i run vanilla lut i at least adjust the colors with a tonemap fix

[smoky minnow]

where did you get this nova lut 4?

I only see these ones on nexus

[maiden oasis]

it's not released yet

I'm one of the testers for it

[smoky minnow]

ahh

do you know roughly when it will be released?

[maiden oasis]

with Cyanide it could be in two days, two months, or two years

[smoky minnow]

LOOL

[maiden oasis]

he has multiple projects going on at any point in time

[chrome zephyr]

It’s done but I just have to find the time to pack and upload. 😅 ETA this weekend.

[maiden oasis]

https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/11622

now apparently 😛

This isn't the LUT switcher pack, just the base LUT so don't pick any LUTs within LUT Switcher when using it.

that version will be coming soonish

[quasi sphinx]

Hi, I'm using an LG OLED (BX) and like others, I've found the image looks too washed out with SDR EOTF off with raised blacks and insufficient contrast, but when you turn it on it can crush shadow details when the other sliders are at their defaults. I ended up doing 65 shadows and 75 LUT scaling with EOTF on which seemed like a decent balance, but I'd be interested to hear how other users have been attempting to thread this particular needle. If the goal is to maintain a proper black floor whilst also maintaining shadow details, what are the best settings for this?

[iron nymph]

Hi Richie, I know what you mean. What are you using for Cone Response? That adds quite a punch to the picture, and I personally use 65 over the default 60 after a lot of testing. I found 70 too strong in a lot of places, but 65 was just right.

I also use Lut strength at 50 but considering 60. That also adds a bit of contrast, so I personally feel that makes up for the lack of SDR EOTF black that in other games i always find myself missing (BG3 is a good example)

I personally don't chase pure blacks though and tweak for an image that looks good in all conditions with enough contrast that I'm satisfied.

i.e. this is enough black for me

Any more and i start losing detail

especially if you zoom in on the dark corners there, you'll see it's just enough to see detail and that imgea is more than punchy enough IMO

I spent like 3 days just going back and forth between minor slider differences and my job today was to decide whether i want lut strength at 50, 55 or 60 xD

[worthy isle]

Haven't had much time with NovaLUT 4 just yet, but from what I've seen the color improvements are quite nice. The debug graph for Nova in reno using PsychoV defaults, shows the bottom half of the tone curve being majorly crushed we'll have to keep an eye on that. Doesn't seem fixable even by raising shadows as I've had to do with other luts.

[iron nymph]

I'd also note that in a lot of cases there's just enough light in the scene for things to not be pure black, like the boxes on the right here. That looks good to me. If you look at other parts of the image you can see the blacks are still there where they should be. But that's just my take..

Increasing cone response definitely gets rid of the washed out look but i wouldn't go over 70.

Hope that helps and sorry for the spam xD

[maiden oasis]

Crushed? tbh Nova LUT 4 is lighter if anything when compared to other LUTs

I use it with Cone Response at 70 and nights look perfectly fine

[maiden oasis]

SDR EOTF set to UI / Menu only, Cone Response 70

that should get you most of the way there

LUT Strength 100 with Nova LUT 4, 50 for other LUTs

[iron nymph]

Welp, guess i have to restart all my testing because Nova Lut 4 looks really good and i'm debtaing using it over vanilla 😭

[worthy isle]

I noticed it feels lighter in general but pay attention to the debug graph. It's crushed hard lol

[chrome zephyr]

Yeah, it's definitely not crushed.

[maiden oasis]

which debug graph?

[worthy isle]

I'm so confused then as to what that curve shows

The tone curve available for use in renodx.

[chrome zephyr]

Unless I packed the wrong HDR version. 😅

[maiden oasis]

rutro raggy

[worthy isle]

😄

[chrome zephyr]

Remember what I said last night, Creepy? 😛

[maiden oasis]

😛

[chrome zephyr]

But I doubt that's the case. I just pulled the files from the same pack I sent you.

[maiden oasis]

well my screenshots are what it should look like

[chrome zephyr]

I'd need to see what you're referring to, @worthy isle. If you can share the graph and screenshots.

[worthy isle]

Already loading up my game as we speak lol

[chrome zephyr]

I also uploaded the pack to the LUT Switcher page.

[minor compass]

might have to go check out nova 4 after 4 months cyberpunk break..

[maiden oasis]

do it man

[maiden oasis]

like you know how I didn't really care for Nova LUT 3 and could never get it to look right with Reno? Nova LUT 4 is the only LUT I like using at full 100 strength

[worthy isle]

Vanilla LUT / Nova 3 / Nova 4 (All with the same settings in Reno, Lut scaling makes the crushing worse so I left it off). @chrome zephyr

[chrome zephyr]

Ok but did you actually play with in game at night? 😛

[worthy isle]

Phew... I'm just pointing out what I saw in the graph. That's all man.

I'm not tyring to cause shit here.

[chrome zephyr]

No no, I completely understand!

And I appreciate that.

[worthy isle]

What I've seen so far it looks fanstastic, as usual!

[maiden oasis]

yeah trust me, you're good 😛

[worthy isle]

I just noticed nights are pretty damn dark so I went investigating

[chrome zephyr]

But I did have to do some black floor adjustments to stop the darkest shadow details from fading into nothingness.

[worthy isle]

@tame canopy are we interpretting the debug graph right here?

[chrome zephyr]

Probably to do with the ENV exposure.

Long story short: when I tested the final HDR LUT in game, the shadows were lifted and soft and there was a disconnet between the darkest elements so I adjusted it by eye until it looked right in game. The LUT might not look perfect through the eyes of tools but it's what I did to get it looking good to me in game.

I can share the original version with you, if you want it.

[tame canopy]

You can turn off the LUT strength and see

Vanilla HDR LUT is a stretched SDR LUT

[worthy isle]

But am I correct in assuming things are getting crushed when the curve terminates before it touches the bottom left corner?

[worthy isle]

That's fair, and no worries. Haven't even really had time to play with it yet.

[chrome zephyr]

Yes, you would be correct that the lowest values are clamped. They didn't register in an of the darkest scenes so I pushed it up until I could see it.

[worthy isle]

I have such a terrible HDR display anyway, the raising of blacks should be a blessing in disguise lol

[tame canopy]

Kinda, but it's a log graph. So there are constraints to what you see. The first 10 % horizontally is usually nothing. What you want to avoid is black lift

Compression near black is fine tbh

[worthy isle]

Gotcha and that does make sense. Yeah I remember reading something about log C3 and how it doesn't even register black until like .092 or something.

[minor compass]

@maiden oasis do you have any specific setup for reno with Nova 4? im testing it rn, liking it with cone 70

also for whatever reason, this time FG actually works lol

@chrome zephyr it actually looks great during the day damn, i am a sucker for the warm tone of vanilla cuz i feel it fits night city well but i like nova 4 during day a lot, excited to see during night too

[chrome zephyr]

There is a temp pack available for LUT Switcher, if you want warmer.

[minor compass]

hm i didnt see that, i installed the lut switcher version through MO2 but i only saw Vanilla, Vanilla Dogtown and Nova LUT 4 in switcher

[chrome zephyr]

I just uploaded it. 😄 And it's on the main LUT mod page (sorry).

[minor compass]

ahhh ye i see it, ill get that

now im back in the fking cyberpunk feeling i might just replay it again..

didnt even finish Pragmata yet

[chrome zephyr]

If you wait a little longer, I might have this available by the time you replay it. 😛

[minor compass]

ohhh ye i forgot you were doing the garage thing

if that gets in that'd be sick

[tame canopy]

AgX isn't a colorspace. it's raised lift to make it blowout to white earlier. if you want color you don't want AgX

oh, that's for @chrome zephyr ^

[chrome zephyr]

It’s just luminance mapping vs color, I know. But color management didn’t have the same ring to it.

[maiden oasis]

Cone Response 70 with my updated preset 🙃

also LUT Strength 100

[maiden oasis]

you've been teasing that for a while

-# even us testers don't have access lmao

that's going to be awesome when it comes out

[alpine egret]

Changelog refers to it as the “Nova Lut 4 Standalone Switcher pack”

So, it’s not compatible with the switcher rn? Just disable any selection and install 4?

[maiden oasis]

the LUT Switcher pack got updated

on both the LUT Switcher page and Nova LUT 4 page

my comment was correct when I wrote it 😛

[alpine egret]

ahaha yeah I JUST saw as I read further from Cyanide, oops

thank you!

[maiden oasis]

no worries 😄

[amber patio]

generally never been a fan of modded LUTs for cyberpunk but I really do prefer this new one to Nova 3 lut or vanilla, looks impeccable with Nova city 2

[dusky hull]

i agree

[tame canopy]

i really need to unaces the vanilla hdr lut, but hdr lut is double ACES so double color

[unkempt cloud]

It's been released?

[maiden oasis]

[unkempt cloud]

Nice!

[iron nymph]

man this game looks good

i don't even get artifacting or bad input lag with 3x MFG so it's just a solid 140 fps with ultra plus, and after spending a few days playing with renodx i'm happy with the picture

[undone compass]

damn that looks good path tracing i assume?

[iron nymph]

Yeah it's using Ultra Plus PT Next set to High, though that's a realtively minor improvement, the base PT and Ray Reconstruction does the heavy lifting.

For RenoDX settings I'm using Cone Response 67, Game Brightness 230, Vanilla LUT at 55 Strength

[remote karma]

Looking so forward to that!!! 😉😇

[tepid galleon]

On my, uh, "DisplayHDR True Black 400" monitor, I love/must have SDR EOTF Emulation: on (not just menu/ui); with that, it seems enough to put Cone Response at like 65 (maybe even leave at 60, gotta play around some more). I'm really unqualified to make any statement about these matters, just want to say that I absolutely need to have that setting "on" for my enjoyment/taste. Appreciate all the tips and guide updates!! Added Nova LUT 4 yesteday -- this hurt my eyes, had to also add Nova City 2 weather stuff. Now seems "perfect". 😮 😮 😮 Had been playing vanilla before that.

RenoDX: off | SDR EOTF Emul: on + Cone Resp. 65 | SDR EOTF Emul: only ui + Cone Resp. 70

[maiden oasis]

yeah its normal to have different settings depending on your display / personal preference 🙃

Nova City 2 + Nova LUT 4 is super nice

[iron nymph]

Nova City 2 was great except in "fixing" the exposure of the game it also made me lose the magic of feeling like sunlight was really bright. yes it's annoying when it constantly corrects the exposure and i can see how that's definitely annoying for some people, but waking up to sunlight pouring in from the window felt a lot more satisfying to me than the comparitively flat lighting with nova city 2

On paper it's better and I understand the vision, but in practice I personally just lost a bit too much of the "magic" i felt from cyberpunk having that overexposed look in some cases.

[maiden oasis]

I can't stand the sunny weather even with Nova City 2

I much prefer the dusk/dawn/night look over a bright sunny day at noon

it just makes everything look too flat

[iron nymph]

Oh yeah the nights were fantastic

I miss those 🙁

I wanted a vanilla vibe from this run though which is why i opted to keep it simple, I think next time i'll try nova lut and city.

[formal cypress]

@maiden oasis Thank you for the install instructions! Not clear about the following - "10) Extract the contents of the ZIP folders to the reshade-shaders folder located in the /bin/x64 folder within the Cyberpunk 2077 installation." Should the Azen-main folder appear in the /reshade-shaders folder? Or, do I extract the contents of the Azen-main folder to /reshade-shaders (so, the Azen files appear in the /reshade-shaders/Shaders and /reshade-shaders/Textures folders?

[maiden oasis]

fair question

just merge the shaders and textures folder within the Azen Main folder with the existing reshade-shaders folder 🙂

[formal cypress]

Thank you! I did this for both Azen and ShortFuse.

[maiden oasis]

😄

[formal cypress]

MapLUTBegone no longer necessary? I ask as I don't see it pinned.

[maiden oasis]

it's the most recent pin in this thread 🙃

but yeah you still need it

[formal cypress]

Instead of bugging you, I should have searched for it 😉

[maiden oasis]

lol all good

if something could be noted better in the guide please let me know

I swear its a never ending battle trying to make things as clear as possible

[formal cypress]

I hear ya... I've had to write a few instructions docs for tech install stuff at work... always seems clear to me... but, I always get questions. Haha. Your instructions are terrific. The only thing that threw me so far was the extraction process.

[maiden oasis]

gotcha, maybe I'll rework that part in the future

I've asked Zenteon to upload those to the ReShade installer, and he said that he planned on it at some point

that would make things much easier. I would rather not have people download shaders for a preset, but there's nothing out there that can replace PreCorrect

[iron nymph]

Ok.. nova lut 4 with color switcher pack is making it extremely hard to favor vanilla

some places like konpeki plaza just looked a litttle too cool and off from what i feel was the intended vibe, but that problem is solved with a warmer version of nova lut 4

it looks so damn good and natural. I guess i have to take another break from playing to do a few days of comparison again xD

[maiden oasis]

yeah I can't recommend the base game LUT anymore

[chrome zephyr]

NC2 was designed to fix first person vehicle exposure and a few extreme situations but now that we have Nova Optics and NCVN, I may go a different route with NC3.

NC2 vs NC3 WIP lighting fixes (but still lacks the exposure adaptation).

[kind gulch]

Big improvement imo

[remote karma]

These fixes are similar with relux fixes, right?

[iron nymph]

Looks great 🙂 I didn't mean to sound overly critical, I love the weathers from night city, especially the nights. Holy smokes they look good!

[iron nymph]

I'm currently playing around with the color temp pack in nova lut 4 and that's been great. I think having played cyberpunk a lot at launch, I have nostalgia for the original vibes the game gave me, constantly changing exposure and all =p. Relux is also fantastic. I much prefer less fake lights with PT and the overall look of those interiors that are included.

[strange spade]

I'm kinda coming in late but, as someone who despises luts because I think they all look so desaturated that it looks like v is about to pass out from blood loss lol, is this new nova one any different?

And sadly I can't view the pics up there cuz my Internet is so bad right now that opening those pics crashes discord 😅

[unreal valve]

guys i cant see anything in the badlands at night, im meeting panam at midnight and there are two people sitting in a car talking and i cannot see them at all
is this normal?

[maiden oasis]

that image isn't in HDR, make sure you're using ReShade to take the shots 🙃

[amber patio]

I would just try it, it is pretty much Nova 3 lut but with highlights and exposure fixed. Yes there is a bit of desaturation on my LG C5 panel when compared to vanilla, but it looks more correct in my eyes, also removes the ugly brown/green tint that the vanilla game has that becomes especially noticeable on nights and dark interiors. (I've only tested the LUTs with Nova city 2 Env installed)

[strange spade]

I might honestly, I love colors in games and 2077 with path tracing is just drenched in color, it looks awesome to my eye, and luts kinda 'kill the soul' of night city for me.
but on the other hand, I played this game for 1700hrs, viewing it through different glasses sounds kinda neat.

[chrome zephyr]

Kill the soul? 😅 Vanilla HDR already did that to vanilla SDR.

But 1700 hours is a long time to be set on a single look. Definitely time to experiment.

You could always try [Mexico](#1198976262765564018 message).

[strange spade]

i was (and still am) high and dramatic lol didnt mean to come off that harsh heh

[chrome zephyr]

I'm not bothered by it. 😛 I've heard my fair share of LUT hate over the years. It only helps me improve.

[maiden oasis]

I mean hell I flat out say not to use another one of Cy's LUTs now with RenoDX 😛

Preem LUT 3

but Preem LUT 4

man can dream

I think Cy should make some more meme LUTs

[celest silo]

When it mentions Lilium’s RCAS in the guide, is that something found in reshade setup or is it entirely different

[maiden oasis]

click the drop down box in Step 4

[celest silo]

Ah yeah I literally did this, don't know how I forgot

Also worth asking but, is there anything I should check off here

[maiden oasis]

I wouldn't. If you want to use a ReShade preset with it I made one that uses the latest Nova LUT 4

my preset has RCAS built into it

-# well I guess you could check off RCAS but

https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/28191

but you don't need to use it at all, just thought it was worth mentioning 🙂

[celest silo]

Appreciate it

[weak fiber]

Is psycho v17 the one i should use?

[snow canyon]

@tame canopy@maiden oasis Hi there, I hope this is the right place to ask questions. I have been using your online guide to setup Renodx for Cyberpunk, thank you, I would be comp-letely lost without it. In my game the PsychoV-17 tone mapper just isn't there, along with a few other settings. I 100% downloaded Repo Build from the discord link as suggested in the guide, the one posted on 11/2/25, and I tried the github and nexus versions as well, all the same. Any idea why mine is different. Is there a newer one or has it been changed? I have managed to get it looking good on the Reno tone mapper so I enjoy the game, but any assistance would be much appreciated.

[minor compass]

#1434377434022809610 message

you need this one, it’s pinned

[snow canyon]

@minor compass Thank you mate

[olive cloak]

yes

[calm hedge]

https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/29190?tab=posts&BH=3
Are you guys able to use this mod with SK/reshade/renodx stack ?

[strange spade]

so I tried out nova lut 4 and does this look 'correct'? I feel like something is off or its not talking with renodx too well?

im just using reno and nova lut 4 btw

[worldly thistle]

Looks right

It will look 'off' if you're used to vanilla

[strange spade]

It looks pretty okay, but the afterlife looks kinda gross, looks like those transparent green lego pieces lol

[minor compass]

im using what creepy recommended, i think off the top of my head its Cone Response 70, lut strength 100, blowout 0, for nova lut 4 ofc

[maiden oasis]

yep

and you can pick the color temperature of the LUT to fine tune the look

[tame canopy]

looks ITM because highlights are white

[worldly thistle]

I do still prefer vanilla, just use vanilla if it looks better to you

[strange spade]

CN at 70 def made it look a LOT better <3

still not a fan of how the afterlife is so green but everything else looks pretty nice

i kinda dig the vanilla, blue/green lighting a bit more

[minor compass]

is that outfit vanilla or mods?

[amber patio]

The afterlife glass in particular is a "bug" from vanilla game, which "Ultra Plus Best Performance and Visuals for Everyone" fixes.

They have a comparison image on nexus

[strange spade]

NPC at the afterlife, so honestly good chance its unavailable for V

[strange spade]

oh ya I know about the glass issue, but my issue is more with the color :p

[strange spade]

and to add to this, CR70 def fixes my main issue since without it dark areas seemed a lil 'foggy' and white

[chrome zephyr]

Mine doesn't look that green. 😅

[strange spade]

Share me your secrets 🐱

[chrome zephyr]

I have no idea why. Could be the weather mod (or just vanilla) that has different grading overrides in that sector?

[maiden oasis]

I can see what it looks like in my game

[chrome zephyr]

Almost looks like the saturation was boosted. 😬 Or is that the way the HDR was converted to SDR?

Should look closer to this.

Still very green, though, you're right. I might shift it slightly to cyan in the next iteration.

[strange spade]

yeah yours looks way better

inside especially

[chrome zephyr]

ReLUX would change it even more. I don't have it installed right now.

[strange spade]

so my Afterlife looks weird, but how about these? Are the colors way too vibrant?

despite what may be some color funkyness, im loving Nova4 🙏 forget all that shit i said earlier lol

[chrome zephyr]

Yeah, they look very vibrant. Are you using ENV Tuner or Nova Optics to boost saturation?

[strange spade]

only Nova and Renodx

[chrome zephyr]

Interesting.

[strange spade]

lemme open the game real quick and ill post my reno sliders, maybe i missed something

[chrome zephyr]

Saturation is at 55 but I'm not sure what's normal. Creepy would know better.

[strange spade]

@maiden oasis ill give ya a pizza if ya could check this for me ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ🍕

[maiden oasis]

yeah I'm updating my mods now

I typically leave saturation at 50

[strange spade]

Ah my b 🙏

[strange spade]

I messed around with lut strength and left pic is 0 and right is 100, could this be whats making my game so green?

[chrome zephyr]

LUT Strength should never be 0. I'm assuming that means there's no point in having a LUT installed in the first place. 😄

[strange spade]

Game still looks different to vanilla with it at zero, but maybe that's something else.

[chrome zephyr]

The reason the greens are shifted more toward yellow is to ensure that the iconic game items retain their correct color. Things like the Porsche Cabriolet would look green instead of yellow if I didn't do so.

[chrome zephyr]

Yes, because you're removing the vanilla LUT and showing raw output.

[strange spade]

Gotcha

[chrome zephyr]

I'm not liking that green now. 😅 Stand back while I prep Nova LUT 5...

Try adjusting your saturation in Reno, though.

[strange spade]

Those pics are from setting it back to default 50. Still a bit green no?

[maiden oasis]

some people mess with LUT scaling, though I feel like that slider needs much more fine tuning to be of use

I personally don't touch it though

I'm loading up the game now

[smoky minnow]

anyone finding the game very noisy with PT

I'm using ultra plus, and it seems the denoiser stops working after some time

[maiden oasis]

Nvidia or AMD?

[smoky minnow]

nvidia

5090

[maiden oasis]

are you using ray reconstruction?

or NRD?

RR Clean within Ultra+ is what I use, I also have it set to Preset D

[smoky minnow]

path tracing is ray reconstruction right?

[maiden oasis]

Nova LUT 4 no other ReShade

[maiden oasis]

no ray reconstruction is your denoiser

you pretty much have to use it with path tracing or else is super noisy

with my preset

which honestly just increases the local contrast a bit

[smoky minnow]

I'm using rr clean, but I see a lot of shimmering

[strange spade]

That's honestly pretty close to my green I think. It's just your glass isn't borked lol

[smoky minnow]

if you look at her clothes its got all sort of dots on it

[maiden oasis]

yeah I use the Ultra+ glass fix

[strange spade]

i might give U+ another look then, I remember i used it a year back and didnt like it for some reason

[maiden oasis]

use the one on the nexus, not the beta hosted in the U+ server

the beta has some new features that still need work before being released

[strange spade]

so does this ultra plus also change color in any way? or can i use just the glass fix?

[maiden oasis]

I don't think it changes the color, though the PT settings you pick will affect the look of course

[maiden oasis]

PT20 on fast is best for performance, PTNext is pretty good too

increasing the quality is what affects the framerate the most

[strange spade]

do all these options come with the fixed glass?

[maiden oasis]

the fixed glass is just a checkbox

[maiden oasis]

what is going on with your setup 😅

[smoky minnow]

soooooooooo many dots X_X

[strange spade]

srry im asking so many things but one last one i promise, which one do you use?

[maiden oasis]

PT20 on fast for gameplay, PTNext on insane for screenshots

[strange spade]

dude why alex look like she was left in the microwave 30sec more? 😭 💀

[maiden oasis]

I'm on a 3090 though, if you have a newer card then PTNext is probably fine too

[strange spade]

i think ill just run PT20, its prolly still gonna look better than vanilla PT

[maiden oasis]

yeah it will

[strange spade]

and yeah I got a 4070ti super, ill see how hard PTnext hits first 😅

[maiden oasis]

look at the message on the very top

[smoky minnow]

yeah I know it says vanilla but idk why it switched to it

it was RR clean

[maiden oasis]

not what I meant

if you ever see that reload a save before further troubleshooting

some Ultra+ settings need a save reload to fully apply

[minor compass]

i'd use both quality settings at Insane in your shoes, i do so on my 4090 so 5090 will do it no problem, i also had a few visual bugs with V4 so maybe V3 is the safer choice for now, also try restarting game if reloading save doesnt get rid of that message

[smoky minnow]

doesn't make much of a difference it seems

day is a lot better than night, but I still see the big black and white dots when things moves

[minor compass]

i remember my friend had this bug on his 5090

[smoky minnow]

like these dots here

[minor compass]

for whatever reason his RR was forced off in the game's graphics settings

this is def that the game's not using RR for denoiser

[smoky minnow]

I don't see any ray reconstruction setting

[minor compass]

in graphics

[smoky minnow]

only path tracing toggle

[smoky minnow]

ahh fuck

it was turned off

[minor compass]

should hopefully fix your issue

dont expect RR to be perfect it will have slight ghosting sometimes/smearing, but its def way better than NRD or vanilla denoiser

[smoky minnow]

looks so much better

thanks a lot!

[minor compass]

np man should be much more playable :D

[short moon]

Is Liliums RCAS shader supposed to increase my max nits inside the analysis tool? With RCAS off I sit perfectly between 1000 to 1050 but when I toggle it back on my max goes to 1100-1200

[maiden oasis]

yeah that can happen, especially if you crank it more

on the default luminance mode you shouldn't really notice it

[amber patio]

I've noticed it slightly alter the color as a byproduct of superior path tracing, this is a comparison in one of my fav spots early on in cyberpunk (misty's shop), 1st img is Vanilla 2nd one is with Ultra plus on Next v4, Medium preset. You be the judge but I personally love that the fluorescent red on his face is gone and the gold on his wrist is way more grounded.

[amber patio]

color kind of exaggerated cuz of converting the screenshots to sdr but whatever

[maiden oasis]

speaking of which, why would you need to convert them?

the full HDR images can be uploaded here

[amber patio]

I dont have nitro and nvidia captures a almost 40 mb jxr image, and I'm kinda lazy to look up how to screenshot with reshade

[maiden oasis]

you don't need nitro when the server has it

ReShade takes HDR PNGs by default, print screen is the default hotkey but you can change it to whatever

or use SKIV to convert the JXRs to HDR PNG

https://www.hdrmods.com/HDR-Screenshot-Guide

[amber patio]

@strange spade

[amber patio]

SKIV is very useful thanks for recommending it

And that hair thing is yet another bug in the vanilla game that a mod fixes 🙄

[iron nymph]

Not sure if anyone knows the answer to this but in LUT switcher, there's Vanilla and Vanilla - Dogtown. That seems to imply that the base game has a separate LUT which it uses when you're in dogtown. However, I'm in dogtown (just started and ||rescuing president myers||, and when i apply the dogtown lut with lut switcher, it clearly shows that the game is still using the vanilla lut even while in dogtown. Does the game apply the dogtown lut at a later point, or only in certain areas?

It's bothering me because i play with the vanilla LUT, and want to make sure that if the game is supposed to be switching to the dogtown lut, that it's doing that properly. I'm not using LUT switcher to apply any LUTs but just using it to observe the behaviour of the vanilla game and i'm confused as to why it doesn't seem to be applying the dogtown LUT when in dogtown.

[maiden oasis]

That's a question for @chrome zephyr

[chrome zephyr]

Are you using NCVN and/or a weather mod?

[iron nymph]

I'm using enhanced weathers, I wonder if that's preventing it from loading the lut properly?

[chrome zephyr]

To answer your question, yes, the game does apply the Dogtown LUT through envparams in Dogtown to counter the Dogtown env tweaks, which has different values than the rest of NC. If you have LUT Switcher installed and no LUT selected, it will switch on its own, as needed.

The weather mod most likely nulled the Dogtown env param to make the weather consistent throughout NC and Dogtown. You're not missing out on anything except raised shadows in Dogtown.

[iron nymph]

Yeah this is what i was expecting to happen, but what i'm seeing now is that loading the dogtown lut looks different, so the game doesn't seem to be loading it

[chrome zephyr]

Again, it's most likely the weather mod and it's for the best. Don't lose sleep over it. Minor changes and for the better.

[iron nymph]

Thanks, that makes sense. Though the dogtown lut does seem to remove some of the green and change the colours, so i want to get the intended vibe and experience

[chrome zephyr]

I don't think they intended to change the vibe or experience but were just countering some questionable env choices with the LUT. 😄

[iron nymph]

I basically just want the vanilla experience, so if it's adding weathers to the cycle that shouldn't be able to appear in dogtown i don't want that either. I'll look into it and do some testing

I hate my brain sometimes lol

[chrome zephyr]

Let me just say that I have thoroughly tested envparams and LUT and Dogtown with its own LUT and envparm vs Dogtown without the envparam and with the vanilla LUT are nearly identical.

You would have to compare Vanilla LUT without Dogtown envparam with Dogtown LUT with Dogtown evnparam to see it but there are minimal differences.

[iron nymph]

I mean i do see less green on a lot of the concrete surfaces if i manually enable it so i was just afraid they had some sort of artistic direction i was missing out on, but if what you're saying is that enhnaced weathers is already nullifying the envparam then i guess it's kind of moot