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[solar bone]

That fixed everything for me

[quartz flame]

playing at 4K cinematic preset with Native AA

0 upscalling

[solar bone]

So at silky smooth 20 fps

[quartz flame]

i dont get 60 fps but 46-50 with VRR its fine for me

[stray grove]

idk how you play sub 60fps even 60fps to low for me

[solar bone]

Native is ass most of the time cause it uses Taa anti aliasing

[quartz flame]

i can enable the FSR 4 but i think it makes the foliage looks a little worse in motion more blurrier so i have upscallers all off using the Native AA ( basically DLAA)

from amd

[thin kelp]

Probably could push 60 with lowering model to ultra and volumetric fog to high

[quartz flame]

using the one from the FSR 4

think its the same as the nvidia DLAA

[solar bone]

Which gpu

[quartz flame]

it kinda taxing it takes about 8-10 fps compared to native TAA

[quartz flame]

7900XTX

using the Int8 modded fsr 4

dll

[solar bone]

Interesting how well it runs the game

Still mad Nvidia didn't give the 5080 24 gb

[quartz flame]

its not always 45-50+ with native FSR

sometimes it drops to low 40

[modest hatch]

Not needed

Except somehow in avatar

[quartz flame]

but i put some LS scalling on top of that and it feels like 60+ now

[modest hatch]

You push plus 15 gb

[solar bone]

But I basically got my 5080 for "free" so I can't complain

[modest hatch]

Literally less than cyberpunk with path tracing , dlss p, and frame gen

Crazy

[quartz flame]

for me it crazy how little vram this game is using

[stray grove]

@modest hatch not needed ? i max out 16gb of vram in many game

[quartz flame]

its been literally made for 8gb gpus

[modest hatch]

VRAM or ram

[stray grove]

vram

[modest hatch]

I don’t personally idk

[solar bone]

It is very much needed in some games if you plan on cranking up things in stuff like U+

[modest hatch]

Played rdr 2, crimson desert, cyberpunk

[quartz flame]

and somehow still looks v sharp except the foliage sometimes can look a litle noisy and blurry sometimes not always.

[modest hatch]

All max settings

[stray grove]

@modest hatch rdr2 and crimson are not good example they dont hog vram i play modded cyberpunk im maxing out 16gb in no time not even pusing max texture

[quartz flame]

ya me to lol, i even manage to max out my 24gb vram gpu pretty often in my Skyrim Nolvus V6 mod pack playing on the ultimate preset with mostly 4k textures.

[stray grove]

@quartz flame ya nolvus gonna use all that vram

[quartz flame]

waiting for next gens gpus hope to get one with 32gb vram

[stray grove]

it max out my 5070ti pretty fast

even stalker gamma with bunch of visual mod use 14-15gb of vram lol its a 20 years old engine

[quartz flame]

ya its crazy i heard it even max out some 5090, in some busy cities they where getting about 30.5gb vram usage there 😂

[sleek veldt]

Anyone else get this noise?

[stray grove]

honestly i was shocked how fast i maxed 16gb vram the day i installed my new gpu so many game was close to maxing

[quartz flame]

some users i know said in the Nolvus V6 discord page they where getting about a little over 30gb vram usage sometimes.

[stray grove]

@quartz flame thats crazy

[solar bone]

And it still looks pretty bad lol

[quartz flame]

ya i was thinking maybe maybe to get a 9070XT just to have access on the FSR 4 and that Ray Regen denoiser

but after they leaked the FSR4 int 8 dll

no way in hell im gaving up my 24gb vram gpu for a 16gb now.

[sleek veldt]

????????????????

[quartz flame]

actually i hope to get a 32gb gpu next gen

[stray grove]

@sleek veldt whats up the game is a noisy mess of cours you got noise

[sleek veldt]

Just making sure

Thanks

[stray grove]

i stopped looking into the annoying stuff i wont enjoi the game if i keep focusing on how shitty some elements are 😅

[quartz flame]

from what i played so far 10h ,this game for the most part looks fck great, but i really wish they add a better dennoiser, sometimes it can looks a little blurry on the folliage when the wind blows in it especyally i noticed more.

[stray grove]

dont get me wrong i played 20h so far absolutly liking the game more and more but there so many visual quirk that annoy me ahah but it does look really good in some instance its just when you start focusing on the detail you see all the nasty stuff

[quartz flame]

ya true indoors also have the most probs sometimes with shadows flickering bad,atifacting

but outdooers especyally when its sunny bright day outside looks great

[stray grove]

ya but its mostly the lod pop in and distant lod look absolutly terrible

[quartz flame]

dont know what happend there why so many npc in column?

[quartz flame]

ya i dont focus on that at all

[stray grove]

oh i know i dont either but i know its there ahah

[quartz flame]

i watching mostly the folliage sometimes it looks v sharp but other time can looks a little blurry and noisy when wind blows into it.

[hardy owl]

Actually it looks great as long as there are no buildings around with low res shadows everywhere. We need better shadow LOD

[quartz flame]

ya think ur right on this

with some minor tuning this could be the best looking open world game arround think.

graphics wise i mean.

[tame vault]

If looks great to me, now RenoDX saved it

[hardy owl]

The problem is the track record of this company. Black Desert graphics issues weren't fixed. So let's see if they decide to do something here

[quartz flame]

sadly RenoDX for me it got bugged i had to unnistall the game, even after i unnistall the addon from reshade it still had completely mess up my game, it made it looks very pixelated and oversharpen.

this could be from win def also second day i started the game i got a not it deleted the addon file

so something maybe got mess up in that process

[stray grove]

@quartz flame exclude the CD folder from antivirus

[quartz flame]

i see at least here i see they working very fast, kinda impressive how fast they releasing fixed and adding new things.

like storage chest and other minor stuff

[quartz flame]

i did that but the second day i fire up the game it quarantined that file again lol.

[stray grove]

if you restore the file it should not pick it up again

[quartz flame]

i did restore the file at first ,then add it as an expection into win 11 defender

but second day i started the game it still flag it as a virus

win 11 defender its extremely agressive on the most minor stuff arround

[stray grove]

@quartz flame you added it as an exclusion like this?

[quartz flame]

hmm only the addon file i added there

not the game lol

i frg to add the game also

[stray grove]

try to add the whole folder

[quartz flame]

ya will prob try again next time will gave it one more chance with the game folder to added there.

done ^^

[stone comet]

Even lazor close to giving up on fixing LODs

We might be cooked

[quartz flame]

they optimized the game like crazy to work on 8gb gpus

game even on max cinematic settings at 4k native

barely using 8-9 gb vram

very rare to see this in 2026 lol

and somehow the textures still looks decent

thats why we have that pop in think

[stray grove]

@quartz flame what is impressive is how stable the framerate is though no stutter no drop nothign

[stone comet]

They went abysmally too far that it's come at the cost of visual quality

And since they slapped on denuvo it's even harder for them to reverse engineer this shit

[eager epoch]

How did u apply custom res for DLSS? DLSStweaks and NVPI wont cut it for me

[gilded plover]

i only use nvpi

[eager epoch]

For some reason it wont work for me, mind to share a screenshot of the config, I must be doing something wrong

[daring orbit]

i just tried k,m, and l for dlaa

[quartz flame]

ya true with so many npc on screen also.

[daring orbit]

there is no point in m or especially l, for dlaa

[eager epoch]

For me even with RR preset K runs faster, 3ms latency against L

[quartz flame]

from what i saw so far some benchmarks on yt, all the upscallers including DLLS 4. 4.5 makes the imagine a little more blurry compared to DLAA

[gilded plover]

for M ofc there is, L is too heavy

the old transformer still has a bunch of artifacts with volumetrics n stuff

[daring orbit]

not for dlaa

[gilded plover]

shit looks awful

[scenic adder]

When using RR, it overrides the upscaling preset and uses its own

[gilded plover]

yeah but id rather run 90% M than 100% K

[daring orbit]

there is no artifacts in dlaa, maybe some ghosting

[gilded plover]

... there is

[daring orbit]

no there isnt i just did this for over an hour

[gilded plover]

perhaps not in this game kek

[daring orbit]

if anything m is a little noisy sometimes

[stray grove]

if you run RR set preset D it fix some issue that preset E has

[eager epoch]

I have terrible smudgy pixelated shadows in-doors even with DLAA and 4.5 L, only RR rectifies it. RR performance has to be improved

[stray grove]

@daring orbit isnt preset M better to use with performance or ultra perf? if your using quality or dlaa preset K is still the best looking and best performance

without RR ofc

[gilded plover]

there is no "better"

[daring orbit]

i think m is better for quality than k, imo

depends on the game

[gilded plover]

you can use M at any % level and it looks great

[daring orbit]

ue5 seems be made for upscaling, this game, no not so much

[gilded plover]

its just a matter of what is your gpu because its hard to run if you dont have like a 4080/90 or 50 series gpu since those have the accelleration for it

nvidia just wants you to use perf mode with M because older gpus get cucked and they dont want the shitstorm xd

[stray grove]

id have to try but i use RR anyway so preset D for me

[daring orbit]

i dont know whats going on with this game an the water reflections, with upcaling

[stray grove]

RR rain is absolutly borked

[eager epoch]

Wanted to test 77% but it just refuse to accept it

[gilded plover]

77 sr or rr

[daring orbit]

im talking about without rr, rr seems to fix the reflections

if i could run rr with dlss quality, id do that

[eager epoch]

It just make them sharper

[daring orbit]

but im not playing this game at 50-60fps

[gilded plover]

is there no FG?

60 base fps would be fine with me with FG

[eager epoch]

RR

[gilded plover]

okay

show nvpi

[daring orbit]

There is frame gen

But for some reason im not getting good results with it

[gilded plover]

not good as in

[daring orbit]

Low gpu utilization

[stray grove]

@daring orbit ? what ur gpu base 45-50 fps will get you really smooth gameplay with fg

mine loaded 100% even fg on

[gilded plover]

hm weird

[daring orbit]

Im.getting like 45-50x2

[gilded plover]

are you on some ancient driver

❓

[daring orbit]

I think so

[gilded plover]

could be that

[daring orbit]

Ill try that

In elden ring frame gen works great

[stray grove]

gotta update those driver lol

[stone comet]

Mine was hitting 70-80% before the recent patch now its maxing out

Really odd honestly

[gilded plover]

seems oge

[eager epoch]

I usually do this in DLSStweaks in all other games it works

[daring orbit]

I use optiscaler

[stone comet]

Get better results with it?

[daring orbit]

Idk

[gilded plover]

oh yeah optiscaler could work

[stray grove]

@daring orbit you amd?

[daring orbit]

No

4080

[eager epoch]

Tried, it wont work, so weird

[gilded plover]

https://tenor.com/view/stan-twitter-monsters-vs-aliens-speechless-what-i-do-what-we-gon-do-bout-that-gif-5698728855178858064

bros got that cursed setup

[stone comet]

I meant this if there's better results on CD at least

M/L fixing volumetrics is nice though

[gilded plover]

frfr

[daring orbit]

Are you using special k or something?

[eager epoch]

Well I’m getting pretty nice fps and latency so I guess someone decided I get enough lol

[eager epoch]

Nope

[daring orbit]

How can you tell that its not working?

[eager epoch]

Indicator shows me

[daring orbit]

Im curious how you check input resolution

I knew you can with special k

[stone comet]

The dlss overlay shows it no?

[daring orbit]

Oh i never use that

[stone comet]

Its a bit annoying but it does what its supposed to

[daring orbit]

Yea

[eager epoch]

Always 960p

[daring orbit]

What are using to see that

[ruby tusk]

can use dlss swapper or registry

[eager epoch]

dlssindicator

[daring orbit]

Alright ill see if new drivers help

[undone mica]

Holy you were right, chapter 7 was a banger

[daring orbit]

Huh yea fg definitely works better now

[eager epoch]

I moved to 575.79 from 581.94, its the best

[daring orbit]

I cant really say one way or the other

But at least fg works right now

[sly niche]

On what resolution do you guys play that RR is enjoyable? im playing on a 4k Monitor with a 4090 and im getting dizzy when turning the camera around

[daring orbit]

What's your fps?

[sly niche]

lemme check

[daring orbit]

Yea this seems like a good driver, but ill have to see some other games

Before i can say

[daring orbit]

Imo thats why its like that

43 real frames, with fg

Thats pushing it

[sly niche]

Yeah how else am i supposed to run rr? lol

[stray grove]

@daring orbit lastest nvidia driver really good immo

@sly niche drop dlss to quality or balanced lol

[daring orbit]

Lol dlss quality with rr is really good

[stray grove]

@daring orbit yea i mean 5070ti i cant run dlaa with RR no way 60fps frame gen on feel like shit

[stone comet]

Im able to run quality at 110-120 fg so cant ask for better

[sly niche]

I set it on Balanced but still 50 real FPS

[stray grove]

i can run everything maxed with RR dlss quality frame gen on at 2k and does not dip under 85-90 so pretty good

[daring orbit]

on a 4080 but im not sold yet on rr, dlaa with no fg and a 100 real frames, feels better than rr and x2 110ish

I mean whatever its not cs go

[faint swallow]

5080 here running rr on balanced and for the first time ever I bumped frame gen from 2x to 3x and I'm running around between 115fps to 130fps. I was quite surprised that artifacting or increased latency hasn't rlly been an issue running 3x as I'm not the biggest fan of frame gen in general.

[stone comet]

Fg is in a good spot nowadays

[daring orbit]

Im sure a 50 series card is better at fg

[faint swallow]

I've finally settled on rr over dlss 4.0 @ Dlaa as of tonight

[daring orbit]

Im not sure yet

[thin kelp]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-the-neat-part-you-dont-invincible-gif-27194608

[faint swallow]

I can't stand constantly switching all the setting Everytime I go indoors

[daring orbit]

I think i just want to play sekiro uw hdr at 130 real fps

[faint swallow]

Sekiro the GOAT

[daring orbit]

Yea its the best 3rd person combat

Khazan is underrated though

[stone comet]

Khazans aight i didnt enjoy the combat tbh

[daring orbit]

Huh i thought it was pretty tight

Good boss fights

[faint swallow]

Also id just like to throw this out real quick, I been on the RenoDX and Ultra+(I know Laz is in here) for a long time now but the level up with this one is really cool to see. Good stuff Jon and Forge, thank God for Reno and Ultra saving gaming!!

[stone comet]

Felt off to me so i didnt bother

Think i stopped after the lizard fight

[daring orbit]

Well it definitely gets more challenging

[stone comet]

Lazor close to giving up on this one it's actually breaking him LMAO

[daring orbit]

But its fair

[daring orbit]

That individual always says stuff like that for every game they work on

[stone comet]

Eh i dont care much for a challenge i dont usually have issues id rather it just be fun for me

Oh fair enough LOL

Ive never used a U+ mod tbh

[faint swallow]

Ya I've been following his comments in here lol. He's my guy either way 🤘

[daring orbit]

Well its good

Its like reno dx i always check if its available

[faint swallow]

If your into pushing graphical fidelity in games or even just seeing what real optimization can get you with improved visuals than your truly missing out by never experiencing what U+ team does. To me it's literally game changing stuff in line with how Reno fixes HDR

They mostly do UE5 game improvement

[daring orbit]

Yeah i asked about elden ring

They didnt like that idea

[faint swallow]

Game releases for me go, game drops, I start checking for Reno and U+ like an addict until they pop and then I play said game. Everytime

[stone comet]

Whats some substantial u+ games

[faint swallow]

They do dabble around in some other games but generally full mod releases and updates come exclusively to fix UE5 stuff.

[zenith belfry]

Oblivion Remake

[daring orbit]

E33 is vastly improved

[stone comet]

Feel like my issue is i usually just play em on release 😭

[faint swallow]

Elder scrolls oblivion was a gnarly transform with ray tracing, uhhhh wuchang, uhhh honestly just all the UE5 games over the past year or two

[zenith belfry]

Wuchang with PT was great

[stone comet]

Ahh fair dont play too many ue5 games honestly

[faint swallow]

Check their discord out and all the games in their

[zenith belfry]

or wait not PT but hardware lumen

[faint swallow]

It's extensive

I'm having a hard time focusing RN but literally every UE5 game they touch is "WoW 😮" level stuff

[stone comet]

Swaggy thanks

[daring orbit]

I recommend black myth wukong

[stone comet]

Finished it ages ago LOL

[daring orbit]

Yea you could do ng+

Its way better with u+ and reno dx

[faint swallow]

I literally went back for a full ng+ just to experience wukong in U+ form

You just have to see what they do for yourself

[daring orbit]

That game got robbed

[stone comet]

I would've put rebirth and metaphor above wuking anyways even if astro didnt win

[elfin niche]

Hello! When i used renodx on add-ons need disabled generic depth and effect runtime sync? I ask for Crimson desert

[stone comet]

Yeah go for it

[faint swallow]

To each their own. I'm a certified souls and souls like junkie so to someone like me it should've been wukong but all good

Ya turn off depth and runtime sync

[stone comet]

Im sick of soulslikes at this point LOL

[elfin niche]

Ok thank you

[faint swallow]

I'm sick of almost nothing truly scratching my souls like itch the way fromsoft does but I get what you mean.

I just need more "difficult" games in my life. As I've started to get older, when I can pretty quickly out maneuver a game to become overpowered i lose interest quickly. Cranking difficulty setting to create spongier enemies doesn't do it for me either.

Anywho, have a good night everyone 👋

[hardy owl]

I wonder if the Reno team could add an option to make the sky darker at night. Its so bright

[quartz flame]

Think thats the game bugging out ^^

Nights are really dark in this game, compared to others.

[quaint cove]

Should HDR be turned on ingame or left off?

[stone comet]

Turned on

Usually for reno has to be

[quaint cove]

Thanks

[boreal thunder]

I love Fromsoft games but I can only play them once.

Unlike Nioh series which I always go back to

[stone comet]

Same im usually a play it once type too

Very few games i play through multiple times

[boreal thunder]

Yep. Too many new games these days

Backlog is insane lol

[thin kelp]

i usually beat all bosses and grab all achievments then leave for good

[narrow frost]

Me and some friends tend to play the "Seamless coop mod" for Elden Ring, every weekend or now and then.
You can do all questlines entirely together and shares progression for character/world for all players (it runs without EAC & has separate saves).
Can play the expansion as well, would totally recommend it. 🙏

[surreal arch]

is there a install guide for crimson desert somewhere ?

[gilded cloak]

Guys anything that should be redone after updating the game or will the mod work?

[surreal arch]

i installed the reshade with every addon whats the next step ?

[hardy owl]

You dont need every addon. You just need to install it, put this file that is pinned next to the exe of the game and then open reshade menu ingame and change settings as you please

[surreal arch]

i dont see the pinned file

[hardy owl]

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[surreal arch]

got it thank you so much

[gilded cloak]

@hardy owl should I update to the latest renodx file or is it fine to use the older one?

[narrow frost]

Depends on how "old" we are talking, I used the one from early yesterday.
The current new one has a lot more additions and fixes, personally would update it.

(I picked the one from RenoDX Github).

[gilded cloak]

Link to their GitHub please

[narrow frost]

https://github.com/clshortfuse/renodx/wiki/Mods

[gilded cloak]

Thanks a lot

[young pebble]

I liked previous version more, new one is too dark even though the settings are same

[zealous dock]

any chance we can adjust tessellation/parallax occlusion?

besides using the Model Quality setting

[novel jay]

They are adding a fix to the autoexposure in the mod soon. This will fix the bright nights.

[sand vector]

they are trying to reinvent the wheel on cinematic settings

[young pebble]

How do u guys capture screenshot in hdr? My screenshot are way overexposed

[narrow frost]

1. Steam Screenshots (does have pretty aggressive compression).
2. Reshade screenshot (check the reshade settings tab)

[neon whale]

If you use reshade and renoDX just press the reshade screenshot button

[narrow frost]

Took both of them a frame apart - Reshade is on the left (12.3mb - PNG), Steam is on the right (1.05mb - JPG).

[true dagger]

left is hdr, right is sdr

[hardy owl]

No way. Seriously? That's awesome

[zealous dock]

Steams "external copy" of screenshots also saves them as png, not just jpg

[eager epoch]

Yes you can use this mod:

https://www.nexusmods.com/crimsondesert/mods/1?tab=description

Effect #15 PARALLAX OCCLUSION MAPPING (LESS)

[zealous dock]

thank you, I'm gonna try that

[young pebble]

latest-autoex(off) -> latest-autoex(on) -> previous-version

[narrow frost]

This one is really good, nicer than seeing them visually pop-in.

[young pebble]

i like previous version more, all settings are same

[novel jay]

Autoexposure setting didnt make it into the latest build. That option only disables auto white balance currently.

[thin kelp]

ooh i need to check that

[young pebble]

oh thats why it making it too yellow

[faint swallow]

My god the auto exposure is driving me insane lol. I can't handle the whole screen dimming everytime I look at a cliff face even though it's mid afternoon on a sunny day in game.

[stone comet]

Are you using the new reno

[novel jay]

Yea it is awful in this game. Next build will probably have auto exposure fixed.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1469072401450012774/1485411912870133860/Crimson_Desert_2026-03-22_22-56-06.mp4?ex=69c316a5&is=69c1c525&hm=149fbdda9742a2b1e4af5d91e9e8d2dcc009126de860b9c4e0ede12f4feb2561&

[faint swallow]

Yes

[stone comet]

Its not as bad tbh

Was way worse before

[faint swallow]

Hmmm

Idk why I never noticed it until today and I immediately thought something was going on with my TV. I have an S90C that I modded to disable the ABL.

I will definitely wait until next build drops 👍

[hardy owl]

so the autoexposure is what makes the nights brights?

[novel jay]

Yes
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[eager epoch]

Nice set of features there, may I know if there is a way I can try out as well? I see some RT, SS Reflection and shadow improvments, where I can get those?

[novel jay]

That was just a video from Forge who is working on the mod. I was just sharing it.

[eager epoch]

ohh cool looking forword for that

[hardy owl]

HOLY SHIT

[oblique mango]

where to get and enable the hdr analysis ya?

[hardy owl]

do you know if its coming soon?

the fix I mean.

[novel jay]

I dont know when but forge mentioned earlier that he was close to fixing it. I'm assuming it will be in the next build to so maybe later today.

[hardy owl]

awesome, its crazy that the developers made so many mistakes

I was so excited for dark nights when I saw the Digital Foundry preview and so far nights have been so dissapointing

[covert ruin]

yeah same i thought it would be like dragons dogma

[novel jay]

Yea, thank god for the awesome people who fix these terrible mistakes from the devs

[covert ruin]

nights still look nice tho it reminds me of witcher 3 nights. not very realistic but it does have a fantastical feel

[hardy owl]

They look fine but it makes no sense that its 3 am and the sky is bright blue lol

in a game like this, night time must be immersive imo.

[covert ruin]

yep there are times where night looks like day time 😂

[faint bobcat]

Well they ctrl c + ctrl v'ed the sun values then slapped on a moon texture

No wonder the moon is just a white blob

[neon whale]

install the lilium HDR analysis

[neon whale]

what? for real?

[hardy owl]

is the fix for the nightime coming soon Forge? I am thinking to stop playing just to wait for it lol

[faint bobcat]

Had to reduce moon exposure by 1000x

To get it not to be a white blob

Peak

[faint bobcat]

Latter today

[plush parcel]

https://github.com/EndlesslyFlowering/ReShade_HDR_shaders

[hardy owl]

Thanks a lot man! I will donate another tip for all the wonderful job you are doing

[stone comet]

Peak, appreciate it

[oblique mango]

how to adjust the size?

[plush parcel]

In the Home tab you'll find lilium_hdr_and_sdr_analysis settings

[oblique mango]

found it thanks!

[plush flint]

Hey guys ! wich renoDX build is the last one ? github or the one pinned ? maybe they're the same ?

[plush parcel]

probably the same just take the pinned one

[plush flint]

Ok thanks, i have the one on github, but my grass look a bit.. oversaturated with recommanded graphic settings, is this intended ?

[nova cargo]

correct

[plush parcel]

grass is neon green in vanilla, you could apply a reshade mod for colors or desaturate

[analog root]

Just a question, do I need to run maximum settings for the mod work correctly?

[plush flint]

Ok will try the visual redux for HDR

[lyric acorn]

hi guys ! new here where can i find the download link - thanks !

[timid field]

i found that the antispecular antialiasing somehow breaks the terrain shadows

[plush parcel]

check pinned messages

[timid field]

i'll post an example when i can

[plush flint]

Do you guys have any recommandations for a reshade preset good for HDR with Reno ?

[zealous dock]

hmm, that does work, but I was hoping I could disable the tessellation while retaining the parallax.
I think the game normally uses tessellation for model quality Medium and higher, for Low it just uses parallax and for Minimum drops even the parallax.

this is "Model Quality" Cinematic + Shader Toggle vs Low vs Minimum
if you look at the wall and roof the Cinematic + shader toggle looks much closer to Minimum than it does to Low.
though using the shader toggle on Low and Minimum has no effect, so it's probably the game itself that disables the parallax when going to Medium and higher

[worthy kernel]

you don't need any reshade presets (that are often not compatible with HDR)
you can adjust everything to your liking within renodx itself

[stone comet]

"fuck the intended art style" and it's just removing any ounce of colour 😭

Deeply unserious

[jade kettle]

renodx now has pretty colors

[worthy kernel]

sharpening 100

[jade kettle]

the game is so blurry even with 100... usually in most games i have sharpen off completely but here i just...

[thin jetty]

Can this mod be used together with the ReShade preset I’m currently using?

[stone comet]

It has a certain bluriness innately but it doesn't look bad imo

At like proper dlss quality

[jade kettle]

its not bluriness from the game, its ray reconstruction artifacts everywhere making the image look... yikes

[rustic urchin]

why is the hair so ugly sometime the texture just goes poof

[stone comet]

Thats a diff thing

[crude marsh]

turn that sharpening off immediately

game uses an awful sharpening algorithm

use anything else

[jaunty zealot]

using save external screenshot as AVIF does help?

[worthy kernel]

isn't reno sharpening RCAS?

[true dagger]

this one in CD is the ingame vanilla one

[worthy kernel]

cooked

[true dagger]

i just have it on 0 and use Rcas shader instead

[crude marsh]

ye

[jade kettle]

look at the bottom of the screen the flora

whenever they move its like eye cancer

[karmic void]

I'm using RCAS, good morning Laz

[plush flint]

That contrast 60 and saturation 60 is personnal taste or recommended ? Mines are at 50 with reset

[lime bridge]

Yeah that setting has some scenes where it is obvious why they used it

[crude marsh]

50 is current

[fleet jacinth]

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrimsonDesert/comments/1s1q987/hdr_finally_worksgame_is_beautiful_af/

this guy got it working perfectly

[crude marsh]

"true color" cranks saturation to 1000

[crude marsh]

fortunately the entire screen is eye cancer here

[sharp moon]

i wish i could use it on sdr as theres no other mod giving opottion to disable shaepemning and other effects

[jade kettle]

dunno if any amount of modding can fix this artifacting

[crude marsh]

you can

[plush parcel]

maybe i'm wrong but i think you can

[plush flint]

Remember early Toussaint vibes in Witcher 3

[digital quest]

plasmaGuyHdr

[analog prism]

Is it just me or did the renodx mod mute the grass a bit (I really like this because it was oversaturated af)

[sharp moon]

i think this is new update i have tried the prwevious one and it doesnt work if hdr ios not on in game and i dont use hdr my monitor is normal high refresh ips panel

[crude marsh]

Jon said he fixed the SDR issue

[sharp moon]

k let me try this version. can i use it with special k?

[crude marsh]

the newest changes a lot of stuff in a good way

[analog prism]

do you have an example? I didn't change any settings yet like I usually do, just hit the recommended button

[digital quest]

Forge posted bunch of examples

but good luck finding it

[crude marsh]

should be able to? in the past SK had some issues with reno though

think it works ok now

[fleet jacinth]

it does yes

[true dagger]

its been working pretty good lately with my games that have reno

[hardy owl]

Has anyone noticed how bad evening looks in this game? I dont know if its autoexposure or what but it looks flat, light there is no lighting

[lime bridge]

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrimsonDesert/comments/1s11w6z/ray_reconstruction_shadow_bugcutoff_related_to/

I kinda assume this has been posted, but wow

[fleet jacinth]

yeah i noticed that 1 minute into the game

stupid stuff

[jade kettle]

i hate you.... i cannot unsee this

[faint bobcat]

working as expected

feature not a bug

thats their SSRTGI

that has been layered on top

[true dagger]

forge.fix when

i honestly started ignoring bullshit like this in this game, building pop in, rocks pop in grass pop in, they just dont give a fuck

[faint bobcat]

it might also be a contact shadow issue

I did see they will randomly draw in very close to the camera

fukkkkkkkk

I replaced all their slop sky scattering code

INNNNNNNAZZZZENNN COLOURS

[hardy owl]

Please show screenshots

[wispy crown]

I mean there's no direct sunlight so it's just illuminated by the sky scattering. I think it looks quite pleasing.

[timid field]

@faint bobcat Is it intendend to be like this? Specular antialiasing makes some parts "brigher"

[cyan flax]

i get this message when loading the game and no renodx addon loaded in reshade?

[stone comet]

Check your defender

[narrow frost]

Windows Defender likely quarantined/removed the addon.

[sterile sable]

as i was launching game

[faint swallow]

Forge did something change with auto exposure between initial release and current available build? I don't remember my whole screen dimming all crazy depending on where I'm looking originally...

[faint bobcat]

thats vanilla

I havent added any auto expousre code yet

[faint swallow]

As of rn I can't even play because the auto exposure looks like my TV has abl issues

Huh ok

[faint bobcat]

I will review

[swift charm]

the addoon not working after File recovery from windows defender

Reshade log
14:16:06:154 [16140] | ERROR | Failed to load add-on from 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Crimson Desert\bin64\renodx-crimsondesert.addon64' with error code 4556!

pls fix it

[crude marsh]

its defender

[neon whale]

Pls fix what lmao

[faint swallow]

Just fix.....plz.....ok?

Lol

[stone comet]

😭

[swift charm]

Yesterday I was playing normally today can't

[cyan flax]

i can confirm it was bitdefender that was removing and preventing it from working

[faint bobcat]

This is why we run raw

no AV tell me what to do

[neon whale]

[narrow frost]

Pretty wild how noisy RR gets with DLSS Upscaling, let alone the boiling effect with RT alone (rasterized is even worse somehow).

[crude marsh]

this is because they didnt use RR for denoising some of the GI

[digital quest]

Alternative is this

[narrow frost]

lmao 😄

[faint bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/i-used-to-pray-for-times-like-this-celebrating-gif-6529507804860980052

same weather and ToD but fixed

[narrow frost]

wtf

[crude marsh]

based

[stone comet]

I do like the white/grey glow but damn it kills everything else lmao

[faint bobcat]

they use some INNNNNAZZNEEE temporal reprojection for sky shaders

its why everything ghosts like a mf

[crude marsh]

not just the clouds?

[faint bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/zakir-naik-may-allah-forgive-you-because-i-wont-gif-25702260

[faint bobcat]

whole shader

the whole sky

[crude marsh]

but

why

[faint bobcat]

special sauce

optimsation

lets see if I can disable it

or just target clouds

[crude marsh]

I would pay to see how dogshit the clouds are without it

[hardy owl]

Man this looks so much more atmospheric. I cant wait for the mod lol

[faint bobcat]

what if

I replace with Aloy's Adventures Nubis cloud system

[stone comet]

Wot are those

[faint bobcat]

Aloy's game

whats it called

Horzion

[stone comet]

Ahhhh

[faint bobcat]

I can use their technique

[crude marsh]

Aloys Adventures lmao

[faint bobcat]

they have 3 papers on a system called Nubis

[stone comet]

Never played em honestly LMAO

[faint bobcat]

which is their volumetric clouds technique

[digital quest]

Aloy's game frenzy

[faint bobcat]

I tried the first game and fell asleep

I only care about the rendering aspect

[stone comet]

Thats cool tho at least

[faint bobcat]

which I can steal

(use)

[crude marsh]

I tried playing and then kind of hated her face and then the forced sharpening was so intense I couldn't take it

[faint swallow]

Laz you guys aren't working on anything for U+ and CD right?

[crude marsh]

have you seen me post in here for the past 4 days

[jaunty zealot]

there are 2 options, png or jpeg xl. jpeg xl is smaller files, but i can see it better brightness tho. whats best hdr wise, keep png or use jxl?

[faint swallow]

I didn't see anything pop up initially but I haven't snooped around recently

[crude marsh]

I have been trying but this game is just

actual pain

everything has to be reverse engineered and they made it very difficult to do so

and everything is also very poorly made

[faint swallow]

I just didn't know if you were just contributing to anything over here or going crazy working on something with U+

[crude marsh]

I did release a modding tool for unpacking and repacking files though

which has resulted in some mods so

consider that U+ contribution

[faint swallow]

Lol

Roger

[thin jetty]

is there any way to make it work on SDR?

[dire pilot]

I thought you were meaning the Lego Horizon game and thought wow those must be some good clouds 🙃

[hardy owl]

I am using the RDR2 camera mod which is great. Probably it was made thanks to your tools?

[crude marsh]

ye at least spark them getting made pretty quickly

now folks are releasing better browsers and stuff

which is cool

[stone comet]

Super sick stuff yeah

Camera mod alone is goated

[analog parrot]

guys, you have any idea why the game displays only one of two dldsr resolutions? Only 2.25x, not 1.78x. that's weird

no matter what I do, the 1.78 one doesn't show up in the game options

[crude marsh]

try typing it into the config file

[analog parrot]

ok, let me find the path

[flint moss]

Camera mod is great, hope the zooming issues on horse gets fixed

[flint moss]

Have also been wanting 1.78x, haven't found a solution unfortunately. Hopefully custom res mods comes soon

[analog parrot]

oh OK, so it just isn't supported for some reason

[flint moss]

Seems that way yes

[crude marsh]

I believe someone had said typing into the config might work but idk

[analog parrot]

only one way to find out

[rocky umbra]

Eh -- XeFG working hard 😅 Detects the whole damn thing as a UI

Expected?

[tight crest]

you can also just do this

[digital quest]

Last time I seen another cursed hud detection like this was CP2077

[narrow frost]

Looking good, very cinematic. 🙂

[ocean onyx]

Expected

That is what they consider "hudless" in all FG methods

Only includes the entire hud

[narrow frost]

Speaking of HUD, it would be really cool for a mod that lets you change when certain HUD elements are hidden & shown on screen.
Knowing all the pain the devs here developing RenoDX has gone through, can't imagine that would be easy let alone possible due to the engine?
I have absolutely no experience with this game engine, and it definitely seems troublesome.

[faint bobcat]

We dont have access to such cbuffers in the UI shaders

we cant do dynamic hiding

[narrow frost]

So its a all or nothing, correct?

[faint bobcat]

We can add a UI toglge

off or on

[gleaming marlin]

To each his own but that Shit looks like The Sound Of Music. I like 55

[crude marsh]

unfortunately people still think HDR is supposed to look like RTX HDR

what if

we cranked contrast and saturation to 100

THIS IS SO HDR BRO

[scenic adder]

Only 100? That's weak

10,000 minimum

[stone comet]

To be fair the obsession with IRL accurate colours is just as insane

The fuck do you mean you hate any type of colour

[crude marsh]

tastefully applied colors

[stone comet]

53-55 is chill tho for sure

[viscid wedge]

Cool 50 / Vivid mode gamers

[smoky brook]

can we pin ts until it's added to reno

[faint bobcat]

;
; Resource Bindings:
;
; Name Type Format Dim ID HLSL Bind Count
; ------------------------------ ---------- ------- ----------- ------- -------------- ------
; __3__35__0__0__SceneConstantBuffer cbuffer NA NA CB0 cb21,space35 1
; __3__35__0__0__ExposureConstantBuffer cbuffer NA NA CB1 cb34,space35 1
; __3__1__0__0__InjectEmitterLodLightRootSignature cbuffer NA NA CB2 cb0,space1 1
; __3__37__0__0__worldPositionSpawnBuffer texture struct r/o T0 t20,space37 1
; __3__37__0__0__gpuLodLightInfoList texture struct r/o T1 t32,space37 1
; __3__39__0__1__g_manyLightsDataCounterBufferUAV UAV byte r/w U0 u19,space39 1
; __3__39__0__1__g_manyLightsDataBufferUAV UAV struct r/w U1 u38,space39 1

Can I force local light LODs here????

me wonders

@crude marsh

They have a InjectEmitterLodLightsCS

[narrow frost]

That's why I always tend to put RTX HDR last when comparing them, while Auto HDR is better its not far off (in a bad way).
Are essentially filters, its like using Reshade and enabling "fakeHDR" - bumps the contrast/saturation - doesn't mean its in a good way lol.

[analog prism]

I was actually so surprised how much better the game looks with the sharpening removed.

[stone comet]

Sharpening is the bane of this games existence

[hardy owl]

I disagree. LOD is the ultimate issue

[stone comet]

Nahhh i just ignore it

[crude marsh]

is this related to all of the lights appearing to change constantly

[finite anvil]

Hi, I have a question. Why does the mod also seem to affect the colour/hue of the game?

I know I can change it, but any reason why the default setup changes the hue?

[crude marsh]

because the default is ass

[finite anvil]

that doesnt really answer anything

[crude marsh]

vanilla does some bad things

like using ACESv2

bad white balance

wrong colors for fire

among other things

[scenic adder]

By default, the mod changes the tonemapper and some other stuff, hence the difference. If you prefer to use something closer to the original, basically every change should be configurable in the menu

[finite anvil]

I'm aware I can change it, I was just curious over why the recommended setting goes for a warmer tone. Thanks

[faint bobcat]

so it does appear they atleast somewhat fixed that issue. The shaders changed with 1.0.0.3 update that handled that and the flickerin on grass and co is all gone

lights disappearing is just abysmal LODs

[hardy owl]

They are telling you why, the modders themselves think it looks bad lol, what else do you want them to say

[faint bobcat]

let me see what I can do in this shader

[crude marsh]

turning off the white balance takes a lot of the overdone blue out which is one of the more significant changes

all of the lights in the game are pink in vanilla which is incorrect

vanilla also manages to be both crushed and significantly overbright

this swaps the entire tonemapper out to something different that doesnt have so many issues

among fixing some other things individually

[finite anvil]

That comment of mine you are quoting literally implies "I understand"

and ends with a "thanks"

[stone comet]

Its an answer if you dont care about the specifics

Which in this case he clearly wanted to know more

[crude marsh]

in terms of the final version of reno, it is still up for changes

the final version is also going to be capable of changing a lot more like auto exposure and the sky

the moon

[faint bobcat]

Jon specifically added a vanilla preset button for this reason, if you prefer vanilla hues and all but just want a better tonemapper use that

[hardy owl]

Do you think the vanilla autoexposure is bugged? The footage from Digital foundry showed darker nights in general

[crude marsh]

autoexposure clearly doesnt work well so

[faint bobcat]

its not bugged

its working as expected

DF only showed one area

that was dark

thats it

that doesnt mean anyuthing

BDO also has 'dark' areas

that just crush to shit

[crude marsh]

as expected is still bad though

[hardy owl]

Well they implied that the game had darker nights in general as a feature

[faint bobcat]

DF also glazed how the game is the pinnacle of graphics

just ignore what they said

[narrow frost]

The answer to your question, mainly cause warmer is closer to the accurate perception of white colour from the light coming off your screen, compared to blue which results in colder looking colours that in turn causes the rest to look inaccurate (cinematic-like).

[hardy owl]

True. Their credibility is getting worse everytime

[final imp]

Dude I was watching df video and they didn’t mention any of the issues and talked about it like it’ll be graphics of the year

[faint bobcat]

We have access to game shader code and can see everything, DF only has the unreliable narrator that is Pearl Abyss dev team

not comparable

[dense raft]

Why does dsr feels laggy? Getting 90fps but "stutters" like crazy

[hardy owl]

Alex didn't criticize almost anything, he didn't mention the LOD issues or the problems with Ray Reconstruction etc.

[viscid wedge]

normal DSR? I mean you simply increased your base render resolution. Is that 90fps with Framegen on?

[dense raft]

Using dlss perf no framegen

[crude marsh]

well, its more like they only built the GI to work with ray reconstruction but yeah lol

[viscid wedge]

If you use normal, old school DSR, you're simply increasing your base resolution so performance will drop. Naturally.

[fleet jacinth]

should tell you much you can trust "reviewers"

you have to find the crazy people in discord to know the truth

then again.. better to be ignorant

[faint bobcat]

they have _maxLodIndex_lodLightFlag

and a flag that skips some lighting

what if

maybe I remove le flag

and we get perfect light LODs

wouldnt that be a sight

[crude marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/doubt-press-x-la-noire-meme-x-button-gif-19259237

[narrow frost]

Surely they were just dumb, and forgot to undo it.

[faint bobcat]

this might be it

this contains draw distance block data

lets see

it might blow up the game if increased

[spring oasis]

Anyone else noticed that loading is very quick (2-3 secs) if you stand on waypoint to teleport (skips teleporting animation)? Anyone here can guess whether it is possible to mod the game to skip fancy but pointless animation?

[faint bobcat]

ahh @crude marsh

So the game can only support 32768 lights in the manylights buffer. Once full all additional lights are silently dropped.

[viscid wedge]

I have not noticed that, but I've never tried. Now i'm quite curious.

[faint bobcat]

shit buffer gets overflooded

[jade kettle]

crimson desert ue5 when

[faint bobcat]

so they randomly drop lighting

peak

[spring oasis]

yeah, stand directly on a waypoint, and teleport to other waypoint, you'll get black screen instead of animation, and it will be very quick

I wouldn't be suprised if they have some stupid dependency on FPS during loading animation that gets skipped with black screen loading

[mortal wolf]

@faint bobcat you needed this still?

[faint bobcat]

yes

ty

unfortunately, shadows are cooked at source in the shadowmaps themselves

we need 8192 to fix

[stone comet]

Ive never done that but that just sounds annoying LOL

[faint bobcat]

not 1024 like vanilla

[faint bobcat]

do you have decomp.exe with working SV_ShadingRate?

I have some shaders that cant decomp because of it

[mortal wolf]

one moment please

[faint bobcat]

[outer furnace]

https://giphy.com/gifs/travolta-VWZUOQ2jPGviE

klyff when a random hobo hands him a note for the 28883215th time

[spring oasis]

example of quick tp

[hardy owl]

are the shadowmaps really 1024 with cinematic settings? holy hell

[viscid wedge]

what, not even that stun locked state after you arrive where you can't move for a few seconds

[spring oasis]

imagine how hard DF would've glazed this game if they actually didn't implement the teleporting animation... they would've said how ITS LIGHTNING QUICK

[spring oasis]

exactly, just stun lock is longer than the black screen tp

[viscid wedge]

thats wild. Well, until there is a mod to remove the whole animation (assuming that it can be), in most cases it will still be faster to TP normally if you're far away from a fast travel point

[rough granite]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-many-months-later-three-weeks-later-waiting-so-much-later-gif-16351997

I promise guys, release soon, one more shader

[swift charm]

is the addon working right now?

[viscid wedge]

Since friday, yep

[faint bobcat]

their motion blur is the following

1. per object motion blur
2. camera motion blur
3. background defocus blur

[lyric aurora]

Btw thanks @faint bobcat @mortal wolf and @crude marsh for helping us

[faint bobcat]

dont thank me

thank Pearl Abyss

for such a dreadful game

[crude marsh]

I saw a bunch of motion blur in the render passes

[fleet jacinth]

thank you @pearlabyss

[crude marsh]

At work rn though

[fleet jacinth]

hm, they arent in this discord.

[deft pulsar]

can we just keep per obect motion blur and nuke the others

[fleet jacinth]

they could learn a lot if they were

[hardy owl]

I think the game is actually great, its just the technical aspect that sucks

[narrow frost]

Should invite them!

[fleet jacinth]

i wonder how many devs are here, cant be many

gotta lose the ego to take advice from discord users

[deft pulsar]

I think that too, then I remember that I played Skyrim on PS3 and I feel better about it

[narrow frost]

That was quite a unique experience ngl.

[zealous dock]

wtf?
how can it be that quick?
when I load a save, even if it's the same one I just loaded, it takes almost a whole minute

[fleet jacinth]

he skipped the forced animation

[deft pulsar]

I think the engine can manage those fast loading times but then again, they kneecapped it for HDD support maybe?

[faint bobcat]

lets see

I am jumping betrween tasks

like a child in a candy store

only this is the slop store

[lucid thorn]

Imagine them watching these guys rip the game 😭

[swift charm]

it's work yesterday but today After the addon was removed by Windows Defender, I couldn't get work it in any way.
Turn off windows defender
reinstall Reshade
reinstall the addon
and still have same error the addon not loading with 4556 code

[narrow frost]

Allegedly.

[deft pulsar]

only you're the technician that needs to fix the broken ac unit and not the child buying the candy

[faint bobcat]

[spring oasis]

stand on a waypoint and teleport to other waypoint as i did in the video and it will be as quick for you
perhaps someone will figure out how to fool the game to skip animation always

[neon whale]

he mentioned both

[lucid thorn]

He also mentioned the no rain thing

[viscid wedge]

you need to add an exception in windows security for the games directory. If you download the addon again, sometimes if you're not quick it'll nab it right in your Downloads folder. I found having your downloads folder and the games bin64 folder open next to eachother and just being quick with it was fine. if not, you may have to temporarily add your downloads folder to the exception list as well.

If its not removing the file from your games directory and you're still getting an error, thats unique to you.

[deft pulsar]

I'm just guessing here, but maybe in the early stages of development you could only tp from one waypoint to another?

and not via the map

[crude marsh]

it should be feasible I think recalling the renderpass config

maybe I can just release a mod that nukes some post processing....

but reno be doing that already so

[golden scaffold]

I would say it's more likely there was no TP at all as it was meant to be an mmo and BDO doesn't have it either. I'm still kinda surprised we have one at all. They have always had a strong stance against TPing

[flint moss]

Ngl im actually loving the game, started seeing past all the jank

[lucid thorn]

Same

Positives outweigh the cons to me aha

[golden scaffold]

It actually seems to be getting better and better as opposed getting less good and tiring over time (Witcher3)

[deft pulsar]

I am too but I do wonder if it would have been worth waiting a couple of months for the most polished experience

[viscid wedge]

Oh, jank aside i'm fully addicted. I only just started chapter 4 last night after 35 hours so i'm taking it real slow.

[golden scaffold]

That's always what I do, but this time I was just too hyped as a former bdo junkie

[swift charm]

my friend and i have same error and we try to exception game folder and Downloads folder and try to Download the addon directly on game folder and still same error

[golden scaffold]

It always is

But the thing is..

[spring oasis]

in BDO they had a heavy monetary incentive to not allow tp, to upsell you on horses

[zealous dock]

yeah, it is.
teleported from the abyss to a part of the map I haven't even been to in this current session and it takes 3 seconds.
loading a save from that location while already there takes 48 seconds.

[golden scaffold]

A lot of my friends are super into playing this game rn. Missing out on talking about it as you all experience it would be a shame

[viscid wedge]

Very unforunate.

[flint moss]

Right, I've never had that before. Usually it starts off strong and then just goes downhill, usually im bored after 50h. Im at 40h now and im just liking it more and more

[lucid thorn]

Agreed

[golden scaffold]

You can say that but they literally gave out free divine horses eventually. It's not hard and it was never hard to get a good horse in the game at any point. The horse endgame is expensive and is only a kind of unnecessary thing like legendary crafting is in GW2 it's literally just vanity

[flint moss]

Same pretty much after 40. Still have like half of hernand left to explore

[lucid thorn]

Like this https://x.com/i/status/2036236189540536341
I ran into those last night. I was at night so I never saw then paint, but there's actually a second way to push these things

Frittata (@thicc_stick_boi)

and people told me "there is no yellow paint in this game"

X · Mar 24, 2026, 12:18 AM

At night I noticed there was a little uh.. Symbol? Feet high. So I kicked it and it also worked. Added a funny level of world building

[lyric aurora]

@faint bobcat just a quick question if you have a mn to spare can you go on wuwa chan ? i post a bug i have with reno i tried a bunch of things but nothing work.... thanks dude

[golden scaffold]

Not allowing you to TP stood the test of time as a major design decision that infuenced how the game plays, and it was never about the money making. Money making is mostly on enhancement and cosmetics

[neon whale]

I actually refunded it. don't want to pay 70 euros for an early access game

3 patches and they have been fixing so much stuff

[golden scaffold]

BDO being the only mmo I know of that does not have a TP is actually what makes it so different in a good way. It doesnt feel right to have it in CD either although it seems on the conservative side. They should totally have given us storage boxes from the start that was just weird

[lucid thorn]

This is a take

[golden scaffold]

It's a fair take. Get it later on discount when it's actually patched up

It does feel like early access can't deny

[lucid thorn]

Oh definitely a valid take, sorry if I made it sound otherwise

[lucid thorn]

Feels more like old school game design than early access, but maybe there's a crossover :p

[golden scaffold]

Definetely needs patching up, playing any game early is ussually making a slight disservice to yourself

[lucid thorn]

Yes absolutely

I remember witcher 3 and constantly lighting torches

[deft pulsar]

technical side feels early access, but seems so broken idek if they can even fix it tbh

[lucid thorn]

Before they fixed that haha

[deft pulsar]

gameplay side aside from a lock-on system and proper mount taming doesnt need too much work imo

[lucid thorn]

Imo it's more that it's designed for low end hardware more. Yeah there's obvious things we're poking at trying to brute force but they did it so a wide range of systems can run it at decent performance, it's all a trade off right?

[golden scaffold]

I'm watching Asmon doing the devil of reed field in ch3 I'm not even there yet, but this feels and looks so peak brings me back to bdo in all the right ways. Something about the world design and atmosphere I love so much I can't describe what it is

[stone comet]

Sorry to hear you have to watch asmon

[lucid thorn]

This is the first game in awhile I've genuinely found myself just walking around :p

[narrow frost]

The melee auto lock-on and the game deciding who it targets is a bit frustrating at times.
If it had a manual lock with lets say joystick click, and whichever is closest to your crosshair/character would prioritise the lock.

[lucid thorn]

Game design in different parts of the world is funny sometimes

[flint moss]

Asmon shits on the game constantly but seems addicted nonetheless lol

[golden scaffold]

Almost made me pull my hair he completely ignored dlaa and/or RR just runs the game raw and plays in crushed SDR nobody can see shit at night lmao

[deft pulsar]

yeah but a greatly optimized game is supposed to scale with hardware

[viscid wedge]

he's gotta shit on everything, thats kinda his schtick

[golden scaffold]

Yeah it's triggering to watch him play as usual as well but there were many funny moments

[deft pulsar]

kneecapping max settings for wider support is pointless

[golden scaffold]

He didnt even turn on RR he's just rawdogging the game

No dlaa

Nothing

"looks fine" "it's a little dark"

[lucid thorn]

There's definitely some decisions but the game does have moments where it looks good Imo

[deft pulsar]

I agree, thats why it sucks. So inconsistent

sometimes it looks amazing, sometimes it's PS3

[golden scaffold]

Somebody that actually had horrible takes was Moist.

"I haven't done any adventuring in my adventure game. This game sucks"

Bruh

[lucid thorn]

Mr critical?

[golden scaffold]

Mhm

[lucid thorn]

Damn I thought he was cool

[golden scaffold]

He should just uninstall and not force himself to play a game he doesn't enjoy. He has a tendency to speedrun games this is just not for him

He's all about "beating games" is from what I figured

[lucid thorn]

This is true for a lot of folks

Ah yeah good luck doing that I guess

[stone comet]

No hes just genuinely ill

He can't read

For asmon that is, i dont think ive seen critical play games tbh

[golden scaffold]

If you want a good streamer I think CohhCarnage might actually be kinda real deal

[lucid thorn]

Cohh has good moments

[golden scaffold]

Seems he understands good parts and people that hate/love it well

[lucid thorn]

He's also making a game

So he might be a little more aware of some nitty gritty stuff

[golden scaffold]

Yeah and that looks dope too

I think Cohh is kinda what pirate wanted to be.

Shots fired

[stone comet]

Cohh is super chill, maximillian i think as well

[flint moss]

Honestly its crazy how many are calling the game trash and are shitting on those that enjoy it. Just let people enjoy something and stop being a bitch

Internet has fried their brains completely

[lament nymph]

I call the game trash, I don't stop ppl from enjoying it, I am

[lucid thorn]

Pirate is an odd one haha

[lucid thorn]

Can confirm

[lament nymph]

a game can be garbage and is still enjoyable, they aren't the same thing

[golden scaffold]

While I think someone like Cohh might have the best takes and best stream to watch if you wanna be serious about it but honestly, I prefer to watch "the junk food" stream which is Asmongold.

Total dogshit at the game, doesn't read anything, trying to bruteforce everything, rage baiting viewers, doing everyting wrong and behaving like a goblin, I mean come on, it's fucking hilarious

[lucid thorn]

I'm not big on streamer culture unfortunately 😂

Also crimson desert now at 3 million sales

[golden scaffold]

I so hope it does well and we get more

[vivid iris]

Sdr and hdr have similar saturation levels, you’re probably using a super uncalibrated SDR mode. Theres a saturation slider in renodx if you really want to amp it up.

[golden scaffold]

Yeah I lowered the default Reno saturation to 50 it's enough for me, wtf you mean there's not enough colors?

[narrow frost]

168k concurrent players on Steam alone (205k 24 hour peak).
Its really good, especially when comparing to a big title such as RE9 which sold 5 million in 5 days.

[lament nymph]

those reshade on nexusmods would help u get realistic real life colors confirmed

[golden scaffold]

It's either their SDR or eyes that are cooked. HDR out of the box can't be more wrong than sdr?

[golden scaffold]

You can get true HDR10!

(whathever that is)

[golden scaffold]

The best part is reviews went from mixed to mostly positive, this patch was big and it's looking brighter now

[fleet jacinth]

yeah what exactly is hdr10+ in this game even

[golden scaffold]

Ok so what it actually does is if you have HDR10+ gaming TV like Snamsung it reads your TV's nits and sets it to the right value that's it

Now enjoy the cooked native HDR

[narrow frost]

It went from 50% positive (mixed) in the first 24 hours to 74% (almost very positive) now.

[golden scaffold]

I did my part and chimed a positive in. This game shouldn't be on mixed. The control complaints are valid but it's not a 6/10 for that

Gothic had janky control as well but it still is and always was a masterpiece

[thorn grove]

the patch was nice QOL changes but not really that big

[fleet jacinth]

this frickin pop in and LOD is driving me nuts

[thorn grove]

its more like people spend more time after their 2h negative review THIS GAME SUCKS and started to have fun

[stone comet]

I think 6 or 7 is a completely fair score

[golden scaffold]

They've done quite a lot considering it was just days after release - during weekend

[lament nymph]

this is a 6.5 game

[thorn grove]

bait

[golden scaffold]

Bad bait

[lament nymph]

I have lots of criticisms

[tawny ravine]

From what I saw and heard the start of the game is just pretty badly made and doesn't make much sense. Probably what caused most negative impressions

[viscid wedge]

There is a lot wrong with it, but its still fun. Nothing more really needs to be said.

[ocean onyx]

6.5 is barely a bait

[lament nymph]

I'm 51 hrs in

[golden scaffold]

Am I the only one not having this issue? Ever played BDO? It's like 3x worse at least. I was completely used to it so CD seems like a huge upgrade

[lament nymph]

I believe I'm more objective than most when it comes to the quality of this game

[ocean onyx]

I play ps1 games and the lod in this game is about as bad

[fleet jacinth]

its a lot worse than almost any game out there

[lament nymph]

graphical shittiness aside

[fleet jacinth]

saying its better than the absolute worse isnt giving it a lot of credit lol

[thorn grove]

so you have two camps, one is like WOW this game is fun!!! and the other one is like 'this is the worst gam ever, ps1 games are better'

yeah i think I know which side is more accurate.

[lament nymph]

so far I get that the greymane is a mercenary band, that's about it, are they an ethnic group ... erhh not sure ... a gang? not sure ... but they are treated too well to be just mercenary

lots of story beats don't make sense

[ocean onyx]

Yeah, ps1 games are better

[lament nymph]

like in rdr2 u know right out ur scum

[thorn grove]

for every 1k people there is one autist

[lament nymph]

lots of ps1 games are better than this game, just from a gameplay perspective

[fleet jacinth]

there are some absolute bangers on the ps1

this isnt better than the best ps1 games ofc but im enjoying it

[stone comet]

Idk how you can think it's a gang when from the start you have multiple people in your group helping out people without expecting anything back lol

[golden scaffold]

Well the story is ultimately that got the short stick, as we know it was supposed to be phoned in right before the game came out

[lament nymph]

I mean we are killing ppl without expecting anything back too

[rough granite]

Graphics, maybe ( 🙂 ), gameplay, errr find any form of "action RPG" on PS1 it will definitely not be such a great modern experience

[golden scaffold]

I think they just bundled all the mmo side quests they had in a few days to make a main story out of it since the original one got deleted

[lament nymph]

then one day we trying to get the gang back, another day we dealing with cosmic forces like the abyss

the story makes no sense

[viscid wedge]

Someone said a few days ago that the story is just a backdrop to support the exploration and discovery. Its just kinda happening.

[lament nymph]

then the story makes you think no wonder the greymane got scattered, they are all incompetent

and very unlikable

kliff is just a yes man, a child has her goat stolen? hell yea I'm getting the goat back

[golden scaffold]

But there was supposed to be about something else completely. They just dropped it and phoned in what we have now, because their lead got fired or something. That Reddit post

[golden scaffold]

We shouldn't think too much on it because it just got phoned in they did what they could like in a few days maybe

The real store we'll never get is gone

[lament nymph]

considering this game was 15 years in development

[ocean onyx]

They got the story from the same place as the paintings

[lament nymph]

but yes I give this 6.5 out of respect for the scale they are trying to built

good ideas, horrible execution

and 6.5 doesn't include the bad graphics

once you get to the far end you realized how much more they planned but ultimately left unfinished

questlines end in nowhere

[golden scaffold]

They just literally tied in the side quests into the main story after the original plan was scraped. I'm like 100% on that. Explains why you start with the arm wrestling and the beggar. Those were side quests, it makes no sense

[lament nymph]

well at least those have like reasons ... like u need coins and arm wrestling are for $

also kliff gets brain damaged is why he learns what most stuffs are

and he says yes to everything

the man can't ever say " ugh Im not doing that, doesn't seem like my business"

[golden scaffold]

Oh so that's your explanation for knowledge system? Yeah I guess..

[lament nymph]

lots of nice ideas here and there but there's nobody to shoot down the horrible ideas

I feel like the dev team doesn't want to offend whoever the director are

thus making this a disjointed mess

[lucid thorn]

First two chapters are slower and a little disjointed. Starts almost like an mmo before it just opens like a flower

[pure fiber]

is the mod unstable on AMD gpus?

[golden scaffold]

This part of the game is actually cinema. Can't wait to get there. Sorry for bad quality

[lucid thorn]

I went there early!

[pure fiber]

my friend with 7900 XTX is having crashes with renoDX

[lucid thorn]

Don't do that

[tawny ravine]

I mean the leak from an employee does say exactly that xD

[lament nymph]

@golden scaffold except the grass only move in a radius

[golden scaffold]

Peak pearl abyss sloppa

[lucid thorn]

Flowers do that too I dunno if you notice, I got jump scared by flowers getting erect whenever I walk by

[lucid thorn]

I'm on a 7900xt and haven't 🤔

[lucid thorn]

I think they realized that nobody wants to do it and they just wanted people to try it 😂

[lament nymph]

I'm stealing gold bars from ppl at a national park

[lucid thorn]

Hardcore

[pure fiber]

is there an update to the mod for the latest update, perharps that's causing him issues 🤔

[lucid thorn]

Check pins

That's the latest

(I've been here for a bit I'm good at this)

[pure fiber]

👍 sent it to him

[lucid thorn]

Good luck!

Also make sure he's on latest drivers I guess

Crimson desert got drivers like day 1 for amd

Whereas Nvidia had them early

[pure fiber]

yeah he said he's on the latest drivers

[lucid thorn]

Ah good good

[pure fiber]

he was not getting crashes prior to the latest CD update

so weird

[lucid thorn]

Oh, strange. Did he do anything to trigger it

Prior to the last update I was getting a crash to desktop every time I turned in hdr or frame gen

[pure fiber]

Nope just randomly gets a "driver" crash, and seems like it doesn't happen with RenoDX off

and framegen is off too

[pure fiber]

oh

[lucid thorn]

I turned them on manually thru the config. I dunno if they fixed that or not hahaha

[lament nymph]

this game has no goldman sachs or something, the banks in this game have horrible investment strategy

[pure fiber]

he siad he played like 9 hours with renoDX before the update without crashes weird lols

[stark arch]

game looks much better with reno. Is DLSS without RR useable yet? the RR performance was terrible

[pure fiber]

yeah reno makes most games look much better imo

[stark arch]

this is one of few games i just turned off because the visuals were so cooked

[pure fiber]

I don't have my TV rn : (

it's under RMA

sadge

can't play xD

[mental dune]

If they optimise the visual bugs and pop ins, great visual game

[lament nymph]

didn't know about this drama

yea this makes sense

[tawny ravine]

These are the full statements from people that worked at PA

[burnt dew]

Daytime looks insanely good, evening and nighttime looks atrociously terrible. I really don't understand why the vegetation gets so smudgy and pixelated when the game gets dark

[stark arch]

anyone played with the camera mod? is it useable?

[lucid thorn]

Imo I love all the times of day except for when the sun is behind clouds cause everything looks kinda muddy

[lament nymph]

idk about good, this looks okay to u?

[lucid thorn]

Looks fine to me

But I'm way too easy to please

[pure fiber]

bad denoiser

game is RTXed

[icy dragon]

I can't even start the game because it crashes when loading in

[lucid thorn]

Folks here have had positive experience with it

[burnt dew]

3840x1600 DLAA with or without RR looks shit, shadows still boiling in most scenario. Only dldsr 2.25x with RR alleviate this but performance say goodbye

[pure fiber]

a lot of RTX games have that look sadly

the light can look a bit smudgy

[final imp]

has anyone been able to get dlss overides to work? setting custom super resolution scaling gives me a black screen loading into game

[jade flame]

The overrides in NVCP or NVPI do nothing.

Tried with Optiscaler and it gives a black screen.

[mortal wolf]

"people"

[viscid wedge]

Everyone who's tried setting a custom scaling factor has reported that it either isn't respected once in game, or black screens.

[sick monolith]

you can only change preset letter in nvpi

[final imp]

Anyone tested RR preset?

[viscid wedge]

Some people have forced E, otherwise you get default D.

[final imp]

feels like it's always better with whatever they choose default between the two

[sick monolith]

only change these 2 to whatever u like

[deft pulsar]

i'm trying to install optiscaler + optipatcher to spoof DLSS inputs, would it cause issues with Reshade and Reno?

[mortal wolf]

em-dash and always grouping phrases in sets of 3

[viscid wedge]

only one way to find out

[deft pulsar]

lmao

[narrow frost]

D is default, E is the other alternative.
I have ran E for the past few days and honestly have a hard time telling the difference.
But its supposedly better.

[deft pulsar]

i'll let you know guys🙏

[sick monolith]

use anwave to download the latest dlls globally

[ocean onyx]

Em dash is very common in writing in other languages

A lot of English translators end up scrubbing them out because it looks weird to English speakers

[burnt dew]

I have this weird "pixel grid line" especially during conversation on preset E, what resolution are you running at?

[tawny ravine]

Well their account were linked to their LinkedIn or something like that so it's legit according to Koreans

[boreal thunder]

Anyone else experienced “brightness pop in” after the patch ? Like objects pop in but with sudden brightening or darkening

[narrow frost]

1440p, I haven't seen a grid line personally so not sure.

[sick monolith]

why dlss though? it has wrong implementation at the moment?

[narrow frost]

Its the newest preview of NVIDIA Profile Inspector.

it has a new UI etc.

[robust gorge]

where i can down the mod?

[viscid wedge]

https://klipy.com/gifs/check-the-pins-kowalski-1

[boreal thunder]

For the next two days I will be traveling and will have to dial back from my 5090 S95F to my 4090 laptop with IPS screen 😭

[narrow frost]

Yeah, it looks very neat. 🙂