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[low crane]

lmao

[daring orbit]

Definitely should post it on nexus

[crude marsh]

Ill have to find that place and maybe look

[lime bridge]

One of the only real problems is that Candle/flame right isn't balanced properly for it for sure. If that can be fixed in a good way it'll be peak

[daring orbit]

But i recommend turn off the comments, and bug reports

[upper sun]

Trying to do a puzzle at night with the exposure setting on is quite the experience

[crude marsh]

I can change candles and what not separately

[upbeat magnet]

Does the light fix all ambient lights? Player lantern, candles, fires, etc.?

[upper sun]

Also who the hell decided the "auto" lantern turns off at 3am :kewk

[upbeat magnet]

Oh nvm, I opened the conversation at the right time it seems lol

[lime bridge]

Would be real nice, certain building interiors like the bank in Hernand are almost entirely lit by candlelight and that's where you see the real issues as I see it

[crude marsh]

it does 2x to everything and 5x to fire

[upper sun]

Well actually with the normal exposure the game has its basically midday at 3am so i guess it makes sense

[upbeat magnet]

Oh shit nice, good stuff.

[wise flax]

I feel like maybe there could be a middle ground between the autoexposure on vs off?

Clearly off is too bright, but on is so dark even with the moon visible

[lime bridge]

Other light sources like the magic rocks are seemingly fine though

[upbeat magnet]

Thanks for the work on it, will give it a go when I tune HDR for my avp this evening

[wise flax]

It does look good though don't get me wrong

[viscid wedge]

i keep missing night testing. is there somewhere I can go 24/7 and try to notice a difference? Anywhere I go, the Disable AWB option isn't doing anything I can see when toggling it.

[crude marsh]

I can bump up candles specifically, lemme just throw some numbers completely untested out cause I am in bed

[crude marsh]

AWB is super drastic everywhere, unless it got broken

[daring orbit]

How tf is there going to be a middle ground between auto exposure on and off

[wise flax]

It makes this game feel like a horror game at night lol

[viscid wedge]

I guess its just broken for me

[lime bridge]

I was getting weird artificing on very distant objects through heavy fog with the sun/moon fix though. Had to turn it off for now.

[wise flax]

Idk maybe there's another setting I can adjust to increase skylight brightness?

[low crane]

middle ground would be neat

[lime bridge]

I was thinking that a 50% intensity option (if at all possible) would probably be a good compromise. Don't know if that would even be possible though

[crude marsh]

forge said its not, at least rn

things break

[wise flax]

Is there a way to adjust exposure contrast etc to brighten things up without borking everything else?

[crude marsh]

• Test to increase candles, idk if it works, I am going to sleep

[naive terrace]

Nice work, man! ty

[lime bridge]

just backup and replace? I'll test

[crude marsh]

they have some candles in lumens, like 6 of them

and some candles in nits

idk what is what exactly

[wise flax]

Hopefully you guys a way eventually I believe. The vanilla auto exposure makes night look like mid day, but for gameplay sake I don't know that I can handle pitch black.

Even if its not for me though it looks really good and atmospheric af

[crude marsh]

I tried increasing the intensity of the moon

and nothing happened so

sun and moon are in lux

some other stuff is in lumens

and other stuff is in nits

idk wtf this game is

[wise flax]

So you're telling me there's a chance?

[daring orbit]

Action adventure

[naive terrace]

This is reminding me of Cyberpunk 2077 weather mods that modified exposure

https://tenor.com/view/stewie-griffin-scarred-for-life-scared-for-life-scared-scarred-gif-9177602126956972419

[crude marsh]

I also made an ASI patch to increase the number of lights rendered

it patched but nothing of note seemed to happen

[upbeat magnet]

I wonder if the devs actually considered the proper use of each term.

[crude marsh]

I really really really appreciate UE5 a lot more now I tell you what

[upbeat magnet]

Lumens is light emitted, lux is light on surface

[low crane]

Before/after

[wise flax]

During daytime IAE is definitely more useable for me though.

[crude marsh]

so, right direction at least

[upbeat magnet]

Pretty sure nit is measure of light per unit area of surface or something like that

[plain fractal]

It will come back. Trust me

[crude marsh]

apparently the blue thing is a candle

[naive terrace]

for me, decreasing Adaptation Contrast makes my nights perfect, but day time is bright with washed out colors

[upper sun]

i had to do it the other way around xD had to increase it slightly for nights to actually be dark heheFurina

[low crane]

Actually i think the partciles and some candles dissapeard in the test

versino

[crude marsh]

Ill just have to go there tomorrow and test each light individually

[plain fractal]

I may have found a way to get DLAA working with HDR. I dont know if this is dumb but im using FSR native ingame and change the upscaler to DLSS via optiscaler. So far the black flickering bar is gone. Maybe the DLSS input/output for hdr is broken.

[pure sundial]

Has anyone noticed how messed up the shadows are from those cube lights in scholastone? I’m not sure if it’s just fg artifacting or if it’s just naturally messed up

the glowing blue cubes that are everywhere

[eager epoch]

Noticed something odd, I had this horrible boiling & sparkling all over (RR ON) than I went DLAA and switched back to Q it was all gone, perfectly clean, clear and sharp image, armor reflect as it should all boiling gone

[plain fractal]

I have to say, DLAA is looking really good with all the detail and the large draw distance. Cant decide between Cinematic lighting settings + DLAA or RR with DLSS balanced...

[daring orbit]

Im having that now

[crude marsh]

anyways, you folks have fun and will submit myself to more suffering tomorrow

[lucid thorn]

take care!

[low crane]

Love u

[plain fractal]

Good night, thanks for your work!

[pure sundial]

keep up the good work bro!

[wise flax]

Anyone else get random flashing, especially inside? It's like sunlight randomly leaks in from somewhere.

[dreamy field]

just curious, is the custom auto exposure needed alongside the light fix? or is it ok without?

[lucid thorn]

They're made for one another, you don't need it if you're not using the auto exposure thing

And you probably shouldn't tbf :p

[dreamy field]

fair, i've no clue if theres any bugs related to it or not, i just downloaded it cause i find the vanilla tonemapping, subpar (i hate ACES) edit: the addon itself lol

[lucid thorn]

Not that I've noticed but I'm just one person

[eager epoch]

Now its all gone, absolutely perfect, different game

[lucid thorn]

Basically removing/limiting the auto exposure exposed that most of the lighting kind of comes from it, rather than real lights, so things got super dark. The light fix just made lights stronger to compensate. There's also probably a small performance hit depending on settings, specs, etc

[whole shell]

what is the mythical autoexposure fix spoken of here

[pure sundial]

I’ve gotta try this when I get home that boiling happens way too often. Only indoors I’ve noticed

[worldly vapor]

in the new renodx theres a autoexposure setting

[whole shell]

yooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[lucid thorn]

You probably want the lighting fix too haha

[pure sundial]

@eager epoch do you play with hdr?

[upbeat magnet]

It’s dark

[worldly vapor]

looks kinda sick, but also too dark at times

[eager epoch]

Yes

[whole shell]

i love dark

i will live with it

[pure sundial]

Silly question we’re in the renodx discord

lol

[lucid thorn]

It's still dark even with lighting fix

[lime bridge]

you have to do anything specific to get that to work btw? I just got a "your game files are chalked" error

[upbeat magnet]

Never heard of her

[lucid thorn]

Nights are still dragons dogma

But you'll be able to see in buildings 😂

[low crane]

I just copy pasted them in

[dreamy field]

thanks for making this addon though, it makes the crimson desert, look like an actual desert, especially near varnia, the sand is just dull with the vanilla tonemapping, now i have beautiful sand i can hate

https://tenor.com/view/i-hate-sand-gif-2743302484875254134

[eager epoch]

My vid wont do justice, its all GONE

[pure sundial]

Really? Nights are only dark when it’s raining/overcast for me

[lucid thorn]

with auto exposure fix they're dark

[whole shell]

fantastic feline

[pure sundial]

Ahhh that’s awesome I can’t wait to give it a try

[naive terrace]

Yeah, too dark. For now, auto exposure is off for me. In HDR, it works fine, but I don't like how the game looks in HDR for now.

[dreamy field]

ty its my dads cat

[upbeat magnet]

Damn you guys are far as fuck. I literally have only barely gotten to chapter 4.

[lucid thorn]

im still in chapter 3 😄

[dreamy field]

i just started chapter 7 but rn im exploring looking for gear and stuff

[upbeat magnet]

Well fuck me nvm

[pure sundial]

Chapter 7 has been my favourite so far really enjoyed it

[lucid thorn]

I've been super distracted going on adventures

[dreamy field]

i loved the end of chapter 6

[pure sundial]

I think it really picks up after chapter 4

[dreamy field]

though i noticed if you go into the supply camps i had black screens so I avoided going near the dude who says hell give u supplies

not sure if anyone else had that happen

[low crane]

Nevermind, Particles still there, just had to turn that blue thing

[pure sundial]

I didn’t have that issue

I only used the supply camp twice though might have gotten lucky

[lime bridge]

Hm, maybe because I have the Xbox PC version. Will try again later

[manic finch]

if the lantern was brighter, I could probably deal with riding a horse at night

[flat bear]

installed lettherebelight and my game is infinitely loading 😭

[upbeat magnet]

I wonder how fucked up this is going to be when I stream it

[lucid thorn]

I've been exploring in an area and found 2 pieces of an armor set, no idea where to find the next pieces but I'm planning on exploring more, I have ideas on where to go next

[cloud plover]

Not RenoDX related (forgive me), but I've been looking everywhere and I can't seem to find where they put the Supply Box? The one where missed items go to. It's been replaced by the Storage Chest and yeah if anyone knows where it is now

[worldly vapor]

https://tenor.com/view/byuntear-cat-mocking-gif-13935821400850516732

[dreamy field]

if you did the camp expansion, it should be by the provisions dude, just behind him

[daring orbit]

That individual that takes your money for the camp has all that

[viscid wedge]

if you're talking about in your camp, its on the minimap and just across the camp. you can see it from your tent but easier to just look at the minimap

[cloud plover]

The box with the provisions dude is just the personal storage, no? I'm looking for the Supply Box (or are they merged into one?) I'm not seeing missed items added to it though, or maybe it's possible I pick everything up (with the help of the dog?)

[viscid wedge]

they removed that concept, now its a personal storage which it always should have been

or maybe it stll collects things on its own, dunno

[pure sundial]

I thought the new storage chest was merged with the supply chest

[viscid wedge]

yes, its in the patch notes

[lucid thorn]

Both

[final imp]

It came back after alt tabbing and this time it did not go away after a game restart, but I restarted my pc and we back. We shall see how long we make it

[cloud plover]

Okay thanks guys for the clarification. Must've missed it when I read the patch notes

[golden scaffold]

I just figured out you can do additional special attacks using button combos with Y/B/X... Evasive, stab, deflecting... And it doesn't tell you anywhere.. feels nice discovering it by yourself. Already gives much more depth to combat

[wise flax]

Yeah there are a ton of combos for each weapon and hand to hand combat.

[golden scaffold]

Ok it does lol it's in the skill tree no idea how I have missed that

[lament nymph]

cept for the fights that matter like boss and shits , they combo u u dont get to combo them

the best u can do is parry and get 2 hits in

[upbeat magnet]

oh it doesnt embed

annoying

[pure sundial]

I was wondering why sometimes my light attacks would have a huge delay or never go off, turns out you’re meant to just hold r1 to light attack combo not press it repeatedly…

[viscid wedge]

take screenshots with reshade, they'll be HDR PNG's

[golden scaffold]

I think I ignored those skills because they were not upgradable. Completely skipped over. Didn't even know you start with them activated

[golden scaffold]

Yeah, I also just hold L1 as well to keep target lock...

[upbeat magnet]

know native keybind by chance?

[golden scaffold]

Maybe not the best idea for parrying tho...

[viscid wedge]

I think its printscreen but just open reshade, go to the settings tab, set the keybind and location to whatever you want

[upbeat magnet]

Too saturated? First pass on preset before adjustment on the AVP

wtf its dark as hell

[ruby tusk]

[viscid wedge]

if you're using mobile, click the screenshot

[upbeat magnet]

nah im not, looks fine on my end outside of disc lmao

this shit is so weird

[viscid wedge]

looks fine here too

[upbeat magnet]

oh, ok, that's good then

not sure why in disc it looks wildly dark on my end

[stray grove]

@upbeat magnet look good to me

too bright even 😅

[upbeat magnet]

yeah I was thinking it might be a bit too bright.

[ruby tusk]

It’s dark for me

[worldly vapor]

happens when gpu accel is off

[dire pilot]

straight up, I love the auto exposure and having to actually use a lantern at night

[warm idol]

yeah things are just way to dark inside now during the middle of the day, Inside the clothes store in the starting town its so dark, I can barely see the lady. But if I make adjustments, as so as I go outside, everything is washed out.

[viscid wedge]

is there someone currently playing where its mid afternoon and can tell me if the auto exposure changes do anything? i seemingly either keep missing nighttime... Toggling the option in reno is doing nothing for me during the day

or indoors (also during the day) so I suspect its just broken (for me)

[lucid thorn]

Do you know about the waterfalls

[lament nymph]

the new mod is alright but

[spark oriole]

i like the auto-exposure, but i had to drag the normal exposure slider all the way to the 100 to gain some visibilty back...

[lament nymph]

in the game there's a darkfog lantern which is supposed to be way brighter than the default one

now they all have the brightness

[lucid thorn]

Should probably let lazorr know, I don't think any of us knew about that

[fresh field]

someone give me some screenshots of LET THERE BE LIGHT so i can determine if i want more light

[viscid wedge]

should something be happening?

[golden scaffold]

Heh I do not, just reached ch3 and got my mind blown you can play as other characters with completely different kits... Now it really starts feeling more like BDO

[cosmic zenith]

until you want to do like any of the quests

[golden scaffold]

(I know you could reach ch3 much earlier but I've been busy doing other things in the game)

[lucid thorn]

Want to knooow about waterfalls :p

[cosmic zenith]

Also, whoever recommended switching the VA to Korean, thanks! I do prefere the korean Voice acting and lip syncing

[golden scaffold]

I think I rather keep it a mystery. The hint was enough 🙂

[lucid thorn]

Is that latest version

[lucid thorn]

Good lad 🙏

[viscid wedge]

renodx buid from today. wasn't doing anything. added the changes Laz made a few hours ago, still not doing anything.

i just need it to be flipping nighttime but I keep skipping it somehow doing these quests

[upbeat magnet]

Well we’re in business

[lucid thorn]

I think you're on an older reno

I think we had 2 today

Try updating it

[vivid iris]

anybody know where the shader cache is located for this?

[golden scaffold]

https://youtu.be/I7Ytd6LXTMQ?is=TkzCoaTwOqHAiwAn

Is he the only one that actually gets it?

From the very start that goddamn Ign review has sent the wrong message and it echoed trough the sphere

[viscid wedge]

man i'm trying to do this unarmed win streak thing and I guess I have some ability that likes to throw a kick in.. i keep getting disqualified

[fresh field]

probably yoru dodge

it has some ability on it that does dmg

maybe from the reed gloves

hitting O when you get hit lol

[viscid wedge]

I had gloves that would do an ability on dodge and had to take those off, this is something else. I do this backwards sweep with my leg knocking them over and it disqualifies me

[fresh field]

oh, you cant do a bunch of shit in that

cant do wrestling moves either

RKO that man into the sky and they said no way

[viscid wedge]

yeah but i'm not like.. actively trying to do anyhting lol. mostly just mashing Y and dodge

[lucid thorn]

How do we feel about this https://fixupx.com/i/status/2036578410143826382

NikTek (@NikTek)

A new mod for Crimson Desert has just been released that removes the Stamina limit for Gliding and Sprinting.
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FixupX · Mar 24, 2026, 10:58 PM

[fresh field]

sounds like it would break the game

[lucid thorn]

That's my thinking

[golden scaffold]

I see these as cheats

[lucid thorn]

But surely folks want it

[lucid thorn]

I agree

[fresh field]

yeah thats 100% a cheat lol

stam is a core mechanic

[viscid wedge]

cheats? its a single player game. let people do what they want if it brings them enjoyment.

[fresh field]

well it just breaks developer intention i guess

[cosmic zenith]

who cares

[viscid wedge]

yeah, it doesn't matter at all

[fresh field]

not saying its bad per say but i wouldnt use it personally lol

[burnt berry]

i could see the use out of making it a bit slower, especially with how big the map is would be nicer to be able to fly around it easier

[lucid thorn]

Btw not sure if anybody knows this, but I discovered it purely by trying, while gliding you can

• R1+L1 to make things glow
• R3+L3 to focus while gliding

[golden scaffold]

Well it likely doesn't affect your block stamina. It's just for running and gliding

[lucid thorn]

It's funny while flying cause it feels unintentional

[golden scaffold]

That sounds very useful I would probably never tried

[fresh field]

i had just found out last night that the lantern shows you abyss stuff in the world when held up and turned on

lol

[lucid thorn]

It does indeed

[fresh field]

i prob missed the tutorial on that

[paper oriole]

yeah torch and reflecting light are similar

[fresh field]

so how nice is the extra lights that lazorr cooked up?

[golden scaffold]

"if I'm gonna play valheim I'm not gonna complain about the lack of story"

Cohcarnage showing those reviewers where the problem is. They reviewed this game as if it's something that's not (based entirely on... What's on the cover art? Developers literally said this is not an RPG but it's a sandbox)

[viscid wedge]

it took me to day 3 of playing to figure that out. the glint from POI's was not super obvious unless you were looking for them

[fresh field]

i really only noticed it at night one time and was like , oh, ok so thats nice

[lucid thorn]

I thought it was only the twitch drop one tho

[viscid wedge]

both your sword glint and latern can do it

[lucid thorn]

That's when I noticed it

[golden scaffold]

How do you get your twitch drops btw? I connect my accounts and did the stuff but... How do you get it?

[lucid thorn]

I've seen complaints that the story isn't as good as witcher 3 or rdr2 and I don't even know when it was ever claimed to be

[fresh field]

i didnt think the W3 story was stellar, it was decent

[lucid thorn]

Oh, on twitch you go to the link and then link your twitch and select your platform - steam, epic, etc, and then it just gets added

[fresh field]

RDR2 story was amazing to me

[golden scaffold]

Yeah wtf when did they say said it's a story focused game. I expected SP BDO and it delievered exactly what I wanted

[lucid thorn]

I expected a sandbox adventure game and it's more than delivered

[viscid wedge]

ok i give up, will do this later

[golden scaffold]

Uh yeah I already did all that, but how do you get it in the game?

[lucid thorn]

Oh pause the game and click add ons or whatever

It's in the screen with options

[burnt berry]

is that the fist one

[lucid thorn]

Same place as preorder/deluxe items

[golden scaffold]

Yep so it's that I checked that and there was nothing :/ idk what could have gone wrong. I logged in with steam on the website andy steam is linked to twitch as well 🤷‍♂️

[low crane]

The more i play the more i realize that this is a masterpiece

[naive jackal]

@golden scaffold Iirc when they first switched to it being SP it was more story focused and something to do with the crimson desert always expanding and eating the world, then someone got forced out the company and they went full feature creep

[fresh field]

its really easy to get lost in the world

[lucid thorn]

Hmm. Double check the drops page and see if it says claim or anything

[golden scaffold]

Yeah ik we could have gotten a much better one

[fresh field]

which is great

[viscid wedge]

yeah. i'm only spamming Y and dodging but somehow i keep kicking and getting disqualified. (not wearing reed gloves)

[frosty fulcrum]

just when I think I'm done with an area a bunch of more quest pop up

[lucid thorn]

It's possible you have the skill where you dodge and then attack and it does a sweeping leg kick

[burnt berry]

its some weird attack when u knock them down, i just did like 3 or 4 attacks then stop let them recover and repeat and seemed to work

[viscid wedge]

THAT, thats what i'm doing.

[fresh field]

use R1/R2 attacks?

[lucid thorn]

Yeah, its tied to the dodge

So just wait a sec before you attack haha

[viscid wedge]

how do I turn that crap off lol

[lucid thorn]

I don't know if you can 😂

[viscid wedge]

wonderful lol

[fresh field]

just use regular attacks with R1/R2

[burnt berry]

the rules are so dumb, cant grab, cant kick can only do basic punches

[lucid thorn]

I've used it like twice in combat and keep forgetting about it

[viscid wedge]

I thought Y was punch?

[lucid thorn]

R1 is punch

R2 is also punch

But heavier

[naive jackal]

@golden scaffold I was thinking that with how well it's selling there will probably be a sequel that could be more story coherent but the issue they'll have is if any of the gazillions of features and mechanics are left out of the next game the fans will lose their shit, so they have to go bigger and try to be more story coherent, poisoned chalice if ever there was one

[lucid thorn]

I think y is kick

[viscid wedge]

I forget about nearly everything, this is happening by way of my mad button mashing lol

[fresh field]

y is punch if you have a weapon equipped but you can equip unarmed as a secondary weapon

and it has R1/R2 chains

[lucid thorn]

Yeah haha

[burnt berry]

i dont use half my abilties, i just spam the light attack + A (xbox controller) and do the whirlwind thing that geralt does, it clears out people pretty fast

[lucid thorn]

I have a bunch of skill points I've not used. I totally get it. I've pumped some points into stamina and some into glide and like one or two combat. I have a few unused points haha

[burnt berry]

Ive barely touched the spirit stuff, it seems kind of shit. Had to respec mid dungeon to get past a puzzle tho

[fresh field]

stamina seems like a good use of points

its so useful in so many scenarios lol

[burnt berry]

yeh stamina is just always worth

[fresh field]

also your points dont carry over to the other 2 characters

so saving points for them is also good

[burnt berry]

ive barely put any points into the other character, i jsut dont see the point when all my time is on kliff basically

[naive jackal]

focus is insanely good to max out

[fresh field]

i forgot it existed until i was scaling sheer cliffs lol

[burnt berry]

finally got one of the elements i need to actually try out

i still need to find some good looking armour

[viscid wedge]

welp, *now that i was hitting the right buttons... * 🫢

[lucid thorn]

Nah nah nah you haven't lived until you've jumped and hit R3 three times in a row

That's spirit baby!

[lucid thorn]

Also stuck in the water? R3 two or three times and you're good

[stray grove]

well i guess if i dont have hdr i cant use the new renodx fix right ?

bummer

[daring orbit]

Wrong

[lucid thorn]

Not unless you're role-playing that kliff had his eyes removed after the attack

[stray grove]

@daring orbit enlight me i can't see shit

[daring orbit]

Just turn off the hdr

Where you pick the preset in reshade

[stray grove]

on renodx addon you mean?

[burnt berry]

I didnt realising maxing his trust would get such good rewards

[stray grove]

@daring orbit well turn out im kinda dumb i forced a custom dlss res(70%) with nvidia inspector and its what was causing the black screen

[stray grove]

i totally forgot i did this ahah

[eager epoch]

Anybody have an idea why it requires a toggle to DLAA and back to DLSS Q for the game to look clean again?

[daring orbit]

yea i hear ya bro i got my own self induced issue im trying to figure out

[lucid thorn]

I dunno if it's just the lighting but holy shit you almost made me spit out my drink

[daring orbit]

im goint to try that

[naive terrace]

lol

[lucid thorn]

Crimson desert has taught me to be observant

[wheat elk]

https://tenor.com/view/pet-cock-gif-18847012

[daring orbit]

With rr on or off?

[lucid thorn]

Also I can't remember who said that crimson desert was generational

But for me it feels like it is, jank and all

[daring orbit]

God damn i swear my 2100 mod skyrim list loads faster than this shit

[lucid thorn]

I can't prove it, but there's something about these loading screens

[daring orbit]

And the lods and textures are 8 times better

[lucid thorn]

They should be able to load faster

[burnt berry]

be interesting to see how it is in a year

[wise flax]

Bitcoin miner?

haha

[burnt berry]

i still cant decide between RR And no RR, I get roughly the same FPS with DLAA cinematic as I do balacned with RR just worse image quality

[daring orbit]

Omg bro

Its like 2mins

[lucid thorn]

What's up

What to get into the game?

[daring orbit]

Yea

[lucid thorn]

Mines like 30 seconds

Maybe a minute max

But only whenever shaders cache

[eager epoch]

With RR, when I boot the game its just looks terrible (maxedout) the moment I swich to DLAA and back to DLSS Q (doesnt have to go into the game even) it all got fixed right there. It lasts till I exit the game

[daring orbit]

My game is freezing now all the sudden

[viscid wedge]

Ok I'm finally testing out "night". I toggle AWB on and off. Does this look correct? The toggle isn't doing anything.

[sick monolith]

post process low yes?

[low crane]

damn

[sick monolith]

i thought there were 3 toggles there. and no that seems to be not working

[viscid wedge]

fantastic. every other slider very obviously does something

Anyone else willing to check their reshade.ini and the status of these two options?

[ruby tusk]

AWB changes for me

game gets warmer

with it on

[viscid wedge]

i'm missing a lot of options

[sick monolith]

although i'm not sure if that's on or off.. i was playing around last night

[sick monolith]

just booted the game. it's on

[viscid wedge]

I manually set ImprovedAutoExposure to 1 and booted the game back up...

[sick monolith]

ok great it works

[viscid wedge]

the toggle still doesn't do anything lol. Ok, about time to wipe reshade and any config files and just start over

something is borked, nbd

at least I know now i'm not going crazy and it just wasn't working before

[dire pilot]

omg guys they unlocked path tracing https://www.nexusmods.com/crimsondesert/mods/114?tab=description

[plush kelp]

Does anyone else's game get grainy when you heavy attack? not sure what is causing this

[sick monolith]

should be a good combo to our nights

[sick monolith]

DLSS cant process the pixels fast enough

[plush kelp]

oof, that sucks

[stray grove]

@dire pilot path tracing my ass ahahah

[dire pilot]

all the posts are just saying it doesn't work lol

[stray grove]

ofc it doesn't ahaha

[dire pilot]

but how could the CD Mod Team with their very professional thumbnail lie to me?

[sick monolith]

preset E is named truthful shrimp

[fresh field]

so for RR in this game, is preset D or E better?

what does the game default to?

[dire pilot]

defaults to D, E has issues

in certain scenes, characters and objects will have floating shadows across them

[sick monolith]

need to see this. know an area i can test?

[dire pilot]

I've only seen it during cutscenes indoors or heavily shadowed areas like in a forest

but other people have reported them elsewhere

[ruby tusk]

apparently disabling DoF fixes this

in-game Accessibility settings

[dire pilot]

Huh, weird lol

[sick monolith]

the belt lamp seems like a good way to light interiors.. works well here cause the room is small

[vivid iris]

okay I took a closer look at some things and it made me realize that sdr should also have an FSR shader permutation. So for people playing in SDR with FSR framegen, a future update will have working CA and sharpening sliders

[quiet copper]

Interiors look too dark during daytime. Some of the candles are too dim at night as well. Slider for that awesome auto exposure option would be highly appreciated (and yeah i already using lazor’s increased lights mod) @vivid iris @faint bobcat

[daring orbit]

This is great i love this

[worldly swan]

What is that let there be more light thingy? Lighting mod? That would make the game even more demanding than max lighting setting?

[steel wolf]

It's used in conjuction with the reno mod. One of the options makes the nights way darker, so that compensates by making lights way brighter

[quiet copper]

screenshot to this

im playing HDR + ax settings + RR

[solar bone]

Jesus christ those flickering shadows are rough with windy weather

trees are gonna give someone a seizure

[worldly swan]

Huh? Makes the night darker? How?

[solar bone]

Loving the forest areas though

[steel wolf]

This top option "Improved Auto Exposure"

[solar bone]

Just be aware that you won't be able to see shit indoors even with Laz's fix

[worldly swan]

Ow

[karmic quest]

Yeah Auto exposure is fun but it has downsides.

[steel wolf]

Friend is asking if you can run the mod in SDR

[solar bone]

yes

[steel wolf]

How does it work? What do you set the peak brightness values to and stuff like that?

[solar bone]

to whatever you like the most

[daring orbit]

No it adds lights

[steel wolf]

Is there like a reccomended default settings similar to how it works with HDR?

[daring orbit]

Sorry i mean it majes tgem brighter

[lucid thorn]

The bosses in this game are wild

[mossy gust]

too dark for me sadly, can't even see 5 ft in front of me in this forest

[pure sundial]

even with a lantern?

[steel wolf]

You can with the lantern

but even like during hte day some of the interiors are very dark

[pure sundial]

Ahh I see

[steel wolf]

its like the raytracing has veyr limited bounces or something - so even if there is a window the rooms are still fairly dark

[lime crater]

what are ur current settings? we have the same monitor and was wondering for rference LOL

[fresh field]

https://tenor.com/view/cant-see-shit-gif-10340128

[lucid thorn]

its funny that hdr is killing it

I swear I can see fine

That didn't help

I tried

[hardy owl]

I just woke up. How is the autoexposure update from Forge? Worth it?

Gonna check soon ✅

[lucid thorn]

do you like darkness

[mossy gust]

put on sunglasses and play

[ruby tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/flashbang-gif-22572243

[lucid thorn]

We learned that a lot of the lighting is actually driven by the auto exposure, so there's also a mod to make lights more uh.. lighty. It has a slight performance hit cause of it, but it works great. Nights are actually dark, and interiors aren't blasting you

[hardy owl]

Yes

[lucid thorn]

It honestly makes the game feel a little bit like dragons dogma

[ruby tusk]

makes the game actually playable imo

[lucid thorn]

This games good man

[hardy owl]

That's what I wanted man, like I want nights to be dark. I hate when open world has bright nights it makes no sense

[lucid thorn]

It's also funny how good it is at making me realize I suck 😂

[lucid thorn]

Ye grab the latest reno version and the mod and you should be good to go

[hardy owl]

I see that Lazorr has pinned something about lights?

What's that?

[green gulch]

uhh whby is this detected?

false alarm?

[mossy gust]

yes

[daring orbit]

optiscaler was causeing major issues for me. had to quit using it

[pure sundial]

yup

[lucid thorn]

which issues?>

I've been running it to get fsr 4

[daring orbit]

For me when I used to to force preset k i started getting weird graphical glitches and stutters

But if its not an issue for you maybe it was something else, i just verified files, uninstalled, all good

[sick monolith]

do you know if it's possible to swap fsr 3 to fsr 4 without optiscaler?

[ruby tusk]

RenoDX is Life

[karmic quest]

Is that with the auto exposure

[ruby tusk]

yeah

All defaults/recommended settings

[karmic quest]

Tested how the same room looks at night?

[ruby tusk]

Nah but I can

[karmic quest]

Yeah would be interesting to see how it looks, it seesm that the room has limited light sources

[pure sundial]

nights look so much better now

[lucid thorn]

Don't think so

Or if there is I don't know

[karmic quest]

With no rain its very good lol

With rain it turns into a nightmare

[dreamy field]

the custom auto exposure is insane on a rainy night

[karmic quest]

.

[dreamy field]

makes it look like a horror game tbh

[karmic quest]

But the thing is, that is how it'd actually look like in heavy rain at night

Luckily all the stronger roaming enemies and the normal ones do fuck all to me so I can roam around without worrying.

[paper oriole]

@faint bobcat smooth terminator can cause this issue. fairly rare. Toggling smooth terminator off fixes the issue.

[pure sundial]

holy shit

[dreamy field]

"green cubed terminator"

[karmic quest]

Looks good, you also used the lightning fix too right

[dreamy field]

yeah

[ruby tusk]

yeah

[dreamy field]

not quite sure how to properly save it in an HDR format besides using jxl and saving as a png

[pure sundial]

I think reshade screenshots are in hdr

[stray grove]

kinda remind me of kdc1\2 thats how it should look on a rainy night

[ruby tusk]

I screenshot with Xbox Game Bar for jxr and then use SpecialK SKIV to convert

[dreamy field]

would that remove the banding artifacts on screenshots?

[paper oriole]

Actually, smooth terminator isn't the cause, because it can happen with it off, and then turning it on becomes the fix. Doesn't happen with renodx disabled.

[ruby tusk]

should work yeah

[dreamy field]

omk ty

[karmic quest]

Lmao riding a horse in KCD 2 at night was funny asf. The amount of trees or some random posts I hit that ended with me falling off🤣

[kindred shoal]

this is my first time usind renodx. am i supposed to be able to set peak brightness etc for this or is that not in every game? only asking because I saw it in one of the videos i watched

[stray grove]

kdc2 so good though sunk in 200h on first playthrough im gonna do an other one this summer

[ruby tusk]

yes

[pure sundial]

Just found out that you can screenshot in HDR from the NVIDIA overlay

[ruby tusk]

make sure your display is calibrated with Windows HDR Calibration App

[karmic quest]

Im at good 120 hours, have done all the main quests / dlc quests. Only side quests left over

[karmic quest]

Do you not get the permission error when enabling HDR with windows + alt + b

[kindred shoal]

ok let me run that again

[dreamy field]

might try that tbh, assuming its not too bad banding wise if at all

[ruby tusk]

No sir

[pure sundial]

ill upload a test

ahahaha

nvm

[soft timber]

Man it seems cool. But night time is so soooo dark that idk if it's even suitable for actual gameplay

[stray moon]

can I do that on win10 btw?

[dreamy field]

is it visually correct to use a peak brightness higher than my monitor? it helps with interior scenes being slightly too dark i noticed

[soft timber]

Is this with ray reconstruction? Is rain normal now with that on?

[whole shell]

nyet

[pure sundial]

Feels like dragon's dogma 2 if you've played that

[karmic quest]

😭 whenever I set up the windows hdr profile it keeps popping that error when I switch from Hdr to sdr and sdr to hdr

[ruby tusk]

Yes

[soft timber]

Funny enough I own it but never actually played it for more than 3 hours due to the stuttering lol

[pure sundial]

ahhh

do you have to convert jxr images to png somehow? renaming doesnt let me send it in discord

[stone comet]

dogma 2 couldve been so much more 😔

[dreamy field]

yeah its with RR on dlssfg and so far its fine, on performance too but any lower and rain breaks

[stone comet]

also just setup reshade screenshots the keybind is right there

[soft timber]

Oh ok awesome. I'm using dlss balanced with rr on myself. It's only rained twice but I haven't seen it with this new auto exposure

[dreamy field]

its terrifying at night

[lime bridge]

This game 100% deserves the reviews it has been getting regardless of if the reviewer "gets it" or not. It is a technical mess with an incoherent story/writing (it isn't just that it "isn't good," part of it genuinely seems like a bot wrote it to me) and quest design so bad in places I literally have laughed out loud at how absurdly basic some "quests" are. It's a Ubisoft game with a bunch of other systems layered on top in a very questionable way.

That being said, I like the game and enjoy my time with it. I just don't get why people have a problem with the review. If anything it is lucky to be above a 75

[kindred shoal]

hmm still nothing in my settings for nits

[karmic quest]

Atleast ubisoft games look amazing

[soft timber]

Tbh I personally think the exploration is astronomically better than any Ubisoft game. I also think the gameplay is better.

I think of it as a breath of the wild or shadow of war type game you don't really play those games for the story. And breath of the wild only has maybe 3 cool side quests. But the gameplay systems/exploration is so good in those games.

That's kinda how I view this game

[soft timber]

Such an understatement. That's the one thing they have going. Assassin's Creed shadows looks phenomenal.

It's such a shame too because Ubisoft used to be so good.

[lime bridge]

I have yet to se anything that is more thanmarginally better than something liek AC Odyssey but I'm only in the first of the 5 regions still

[kindred shoal]

I mean a lot of ubisoft games are reviewed mid 80s lol

[soft timber]

Assassin's Creed used to be one of my absolutely favorite gaming series

[kindred shoal]

Shadows was an 81

[soft timber]

Unity was the last one I truly liked

[hardy owl]

The latest ubisoft games look great but they are soulless, avatar, shadows and even the star wars game, boring as heck

[lime bridge]

Same, btw I have hundreds of hours in AC games tbh

[soft timber]

I just find it to be a cardinal sin that parkour is reduced to what it is now

[hardy owl]

Crimson desert has soul

[lime bridge]

Anvil runs great as well for how it looks

[kindred shoal]

this is what I have in my reno box when i pull up reshade. It looks almost completely different than the video i wartched lool

[karmic quest]

More games should use the anvil engine, its goated

[soft timber]

And the decimal engine. If only

Death stranding 2 and horizon forbidden west look absolutely gorgeous

[dreamy field]

btw is there any intended exposure value for the in game HDR settings or is it preference?

[karmic quest]

Like ubisoft game I can launch and not worry about some weird shimmering n shit, I can just enjoy it

[pure sundial]

Probably the setting it's on by default

[stray moon]

could you help me rq, any guide says you need at least another win11 device you can connect to the monitor, is it possible without that?

[karmic quest]

AC Odyssey to this day i find to look amazing

[hoary knot]

How old is the video? And are you planning to use HDR?

[solar bone]

i love how absolutely fucked clouds are in this game

[kindred shoal]

yea im using hdr

[inner latch]

hey guys where i can download the mod? sorry new in discord

[kindred shoal]

or want to I should say

[karmic quest]

I disabled hdr when I installed renodx

[ruby tusk]

Actually, I forgot, you can't on win10

sorry

[hoary knot]

Then make sure HDR is set on in the in game settings, and not HDR 10+

[stray moon]

ok ty, had my hopes up tho not gonna lie

[dreamy field]

might be dependant on the DLSSD (RR) preset, you could try forcing preset E or D, ive no clue which the game uses by default but i think E helps with cloud issues

[kindred shoal]

ok so reno needs HDR to be on in game?

[hoary knot]

Yes

Or at least this one does, some don't

[stray moon]

worth switching to win11 just for that feature?

[ruby tusk]

Up to you

[soft timber]

Man idk why a lot of games do this. But I'm talking to this kid outside and when he speaks his voice echos as if we're in a big empty room.

[kindred shoal]

ahh ok thats different than RTX HDR and stuff

[lime bridge]

This game would benefit a ton if they ever actually update Ray Reconstruction to the 4.5 transformer model

[ruby tusk]

No but this one is mainly balanced around HDR currently

[hoary knot]

Yes, RTX HDR is just like a filter basically, RenoDX is true HDR, and if a game already has HDR it improves it.

[inner latch]

guys please, where i can get the ini file?

[karmic quest]

Fingers crossed they do

[ruby tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/check-pin-discord-check-pin-gif-1835998338632614419

[kindred shoal]

got it got it

thanks guys

[dreamy field]

RTX HDR isn't the greatest HDR implementation, better than nothing if special k or renodx have incompatibilities but otherwise i wouldnt recommend it, it has a fairly decent fps impact too

[ruby tusk]

I'd just use SDR at that point

[blazing ledge]

for the fps impact you have to use NVTrueHDR, pretty easy to use

[dreamy field]

it can look alright with forcing specific settings in nvpi but overall i don't like RTX HDR

[kindred shoal]

rtx hdr is.... aggresive lol

it can look really good in certain game though

others not so much

[hoary knot]

RenoDX is a bit different for every game. There's "universal" versions too for Unreal Engine and Unity games, but for individual games that someone makes a plugin for, the settings may be different, and some require HDR on or off in game. Best to always check what the mod developer says.

[hoary knot]

I like bright highlights though 😭. I can't play in SDR anymore

[kindred shoal]

SDR is dead to me lol

[blazing ledge]

unless the game has alot of bright elements (like 2D games has alots of UIs) HDR is my new norm now

[hoary knot]

I lost a friend group because I refused to play any games that I couldn't put SOME TYPE of HDR into..

It wasn't the only reason, but it was one of many that they stopped talking to me

[modern onyx]

You need some chill bro…

[blazing ledge]

https://tenor.com/view/whet-what-ew-can-you-not-stop-gif-9908266

them:

[wheat elk]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-rough-buddy-avatar-the-last-airbender-zuko-gif-17596756

[hoary knot]

I realize my sarcasm did not come through text.

[stone comet]

LOL?

[modern onyx]

Sarcasm? Nah bro

it wasn't sarcasm

[wheat elk]

lmfao

[karmic quest]

I remember using special k for ac shadows to unlock cutscene fps on launch, never knew it has also hdr stuff

[karmic quest]

It aint that deep, sdr also good

[lime bridge]

Another Auto Exposure on/off comparison

[dreamy field]

yeah its HDR is pretty good and usually works in most games, not always though

[solar bone]

it's great until you walk inside a building

[lime bridge]

Well any building primarily lit by candles yeah. Some interiors look fine enough but it is enough along with the overly dark night at certain times it is hard to blanket recomend

[dreamy field]

turning up the in game exposure kinda helps with the interior brightness

[hoary knot]

My fat orange cat turns black in interiors, it's strange

[vestal flicker]

To be fair, I do still prefer left to right. But it is admitedly perhaps a bit overdone.

[lime bridge]

do the cats also loot for you I assume? I tried to adopt a fat one earlier and it didn't work for whatever rason

[solar bone]

fat cats are your master

you work for them

[gilded plover]

thad shid a lil too dark

[vestal flicker]

Well... Lean cats are pretty much the same tbh😅

[lime bridge]

I don't really think so in that example. But at a certain point scenes like that are going to be monitor dependent. I think it actually looks like an ancient ruin lit by fires vs. a Halloween strobe light fun-house

[vestal flicker]

I completely agree. It might be a bit overkilled in that particular case, but I think the general vibe of the darker interior feels more convincing.

[lime bridge]

The flames don't impact the lighting enough even in a scene like this (there are way more drastic examples though)

[karmic quest]

True, maybe we can adjust the autoexposure a bit

So its not as dark

[lime bridge]

As of now trying to do so breaks things (that's what I read here earlier)

[karmic quest]

Surely our precious modders will find the perfect middle ground

[lime bridge]

but supposedly there are also ways to get specific light sources to be brighter as in the Pin so they may be able to get a good solution

[karmic quest]

I believe

[karmic quest]

Oh you havent installed that yet?

[karmic quest]

. Check these, one is with off vs on I think with the lightning fix

[ruby tusk]

Left is vanilla

[lime bridge]

I tried once and my game didn't launch

[signal basin]

bruh HDR destroyed my life, left a hole in my wallet, my family, my friend, my gameplay, and now i can't take SDR anymore

[karmic quest]

SDR is not that bad wdym

[vestal flicker]

No I agree. I cannot go back either😂

[signal basin]

i was tryna make a better sarcasm

[stone comet]

Imagine my shock when my white pets did that lmao

[signal basin]

i mean i'd take HDR over SDR any day unless the game is very eye searingly bright it's like Inverse Tone Mapping

[abstract hawk]

[karmic quest]

I need to find that fat orange cat.

[hoary knot]

He's my Garfield

[karmic quest]

Hwhere did you find it kind sir

[wraith sorrel]

i wannaaaaaaa

[karmic quest]

Does the cat eat the flying mail bird too?

It lands on the same shoulder

[hoary knot]

He was at the fishing hut to the right of the camp, facing out towards the river for me

[karmic quest]

No wonder its fat

Maybe I can find a fat horse in some field

[stone comet]

I found some forest breed ones in lioncrest manor and it just disappeared forever now 😭

[tawny ravine]

Jesus that's one fat cat

[solar bone]

the fat cat does absolutely nothing

i got my trusty bulldog sir slobsworth picking up my loot

he's a good boy

[modest drum]

He think he thragg

[real idol]

@crude marsh I'm using your mod along with the new update to the addon and the lamp is not bright enough. Can you please make it a bit brighter when its not held and is just turned on. On the other hand, when its held up, its way bright like in the vanilla game so maybe that could be toned down a bit. Other than that really impressive lighting overall. Very good job

[karmic quest]

I forget to spawn my doggo

I got the one from || greymane sidequest ||

[stone comet]

Theres a white jindo at the stable above your old tent

Looks pretty cool

[karmic quest]

What is a white jindo lol

[real idol]

Also getting these purple smudges all over the screen at random. Don't know whats causing them

[karmic quest]

I tamed legendary horse yesterday, almost broke my elite controller cuz of it, I was going insane trying to tame it.

Luckily I cheesed next to a water source so it just kept spinning in the dame direction

Barely had enough stamina left and wouldnt have tamed it yet again

[real idol]

Dude I spent an hour just doing that yesterday. lol. Never doing that again. At the end had to repec to get more stamina

lol

[karmic quest]

I drank some potion

Gave me +64 stamina

Without It I'd not had enough for sure

[real idol]

It wasn't enough for me. I tried that as well

[karmic quest]

I have 0 in spirit, 4 into health, 4 into stamina, next Im going to invest all into stamina and gonna explore tomorrow to find more of those cores

[real idol]

Damn thing loved going into the woods where I couldn't see it.

[karmic quest]

It took me 3 tries just to chase it around and running out of stamina 😭

I was about to give up to even try and ride it

[real idol]

I couldn't keep him out of the woods. On my final successful try I got him out of the woods and he was so far away but in the end he managed to get near a couple of trees to screw me over. lol.

They really need to fix the camera. Just like use that diablo camera thing where things like this dissolve away and dont obscure your view

[sick monolith]

has anyone tried fsr input to dlss output in optiscaler?

[real idol]

@vivid iris Any idea what this is? Is it realated to the addon or the lighting mod?

[hardy owl]

It's amazing how much better the game looks with this mod. Nights are incredible. Thank you so much to the whole Renodx team

[vivid iris]

Probably the brdf stuff? Not sure

[stray grove]

Reno team killing it i finally got to test today update and game allready look so much better

[narrow frost]

Out walking the dog, getting some coffee. Then time to hop on.

[golden scaffold]

What's new in the V4 mod?

[stone comet]

Auto exposure, moon/sun stuff, sky stuff

[stray grove]

holy flashlight now

interior lightning and night in general look so much better now

light source feel way more natural

[real idol]

So it’s coming from the lighting mod then?

[hardy owl]

This is how the game should look at night. Dark

[vivid iris]

No I mean you should try the different brdf options in Reno.

[golden scaffold]

Yes but not crushed like I see the SDR streams

[stone comet]

Just a breed of dog, husky-lite tbh

[real idol]

It’s the same with with all of the options in Reno though

[stone comet]

Problem is it's linked to actual lighting so you're literally blind 💀

[vivid iris]

Gotcha. I’m not sure. Try the vanilla preset button

If that fixes it then figure out which option is responsible.

If not then yeah idk made the lights mod

[karmic quest]

Has anyone tried this mod? https://www.nexusmods.com/crimsondesert/mods/114 like some state that some settings are not actually cinematic but High and like the fact enabling RR does not enable PT?

[stone comet]

Ive noticed people getting these yellow/purple blocks but personally havent seen them yet

And im using everything weirdly enough

[stray grove]

@karmic quest RR and PT are 2 different tech and i would not trust this mod for 1 bit

[real idol]

It’s still there with vanilla. It’s not there constantly just shows up randomly and good test is when you lift up your lamp the icon where you can do precise jump turns purple as well

[karmic quest]

Thought so

@stray grove this one too ``` Cinematic Graphics Preset

Pushes ALL 11 quality settings to the hidden Cinematic tier. Vanilla “Ultra” caps Lighting, Water, and Volumetric Fog at “High” - this unlocks the real maximum. ```

[tame vault]

I feel like I want something halfway in between auto exposure on/off. Not sure if that's possible?

[stone comet]

It says it tweaks LOD???

[stone comet]

Try the new mod in pins

It adds actual lighting back

[stray grove]

@karmic quest its all bullshit that mod doesnt do shit ahah

[analog parrot]

Yep. Maybe just a little bit less dark

[stone comet]

Without insane auto exposure

Check pinssss

[karmic quest]

Yeah I thought like wtf is hidden cinematic, we see it in game, how is it hidden lol

[stray grove]

@karmic quest most comment are saying it does not work too ahah

[stone comet]

Looking at the posts most of the shit in there it doesnt work lmao

[stray grove]

@stone comet its kinda those famous engine.ini for ue5 game mostly placebo and bullshit created with AI 😅

[stone comet]

Yeah lmao

[stray grove]

good old snake oil

[stone comet]

And it just looks like they stole the mod from uhhh the camera mod guy too

[karmic quest]

I hope at some point there is actual mod that fixes LOD and allows us to increase draw distance so it does not look like Im riding into a paiting

[stray grove]

@stone comet yeea i saw that

[stone comet]

Has 0 credits listed and it doesn't even work

[stray grove]

i thrust the reno team they allready improved the game so much with today release

[karmic quest]

Havent tried the lightning fix yet gonna try after work, hyped asf

[worldly swan]

alright just tried the new renodx version with auto exposure, yes way too dark indoor, like to be 33-50% brighter then it would be perfect maybe...

[karmic quest]

Try the lightning fix in pins

[stray grove]

@karmic quest it's really dark but it just how natural light would be from a flame light source at night i think its really accurate look way better immo

all i did was adjust the color grading slider a bit to my liking

[karmic quest]

I used to be in the army and doing night watch in forests, it really should look like this.

🤣

Like its so pitch black you only see like 5m ahead

Bless the Renodx team

Tho I haven't tried indoor, I've read that even with lightning fix its still too dark

[ruby tusk]

That Auto Exposure is crazy

[stray grove]

i just went inside the tavern and an other building and it look perfect immo at night with the fix

@ruby tusk look so good with it on

[karmic quest]

I will try it on my monitor when Im at home

Could be the monitor variance

[stone comet]

Very possible

[karmic quest]

I dont have crushed blacks

[stone comet]

I think peak 1000 crushes blacks more but like even then it was too dark

[karmic quest]

I run true black 400

[stone comet]

Yeah that doesn't have as many issues with that

[carmine stump]

I want exactly this, but everything else untouched at night for example

[stone comet]

I might just boost up my gamma on nvidia panel and call it a day

Problem is auto exposure is linked to all the lighting so it's not easy to adjust it for em i imagine

[karmic quest]

Its also alot more consistent than hdr 1000

[regal tundra]

Would anyone like to share their Reno setting

Or is everyone on default. I am using hdr 400 TB

[karmic quest]

Im running default reno, only thing I changed was the sharpness a tad bit

[stone comet]

Im default just saturation at like 53-55

[karmic quest]

Gonna try increasing saturation a bit too, but so far default already looks amazing

Someone had godly hands making it

[gilded plover]

Jon and forge cooking as per usual

[stone comet]

Reaaaal

Lazor goated for the lights too

[ruby tusk]

don't forget about Fuse

[faint bobcat]

This seemed to be happening in vanilla as well

Some users were getting yellow tiles

[stray grove]

is it me or reflexion looking better too?

[paper oriole]

pretty sure that was my report as well, and I never had it in vanilla, but I just played for 2-3 hours and it only did it once

[neon whale]

is the first image vanilla?

[subtle sinew]

these textures tho...

[paper oriole]

the yellow tiles happened when I was sending you the hero light video.

but maybe it's from the new patch, since I never played that without reno. Anyway, not a massive issue, just reporting what I can.

[stone comet]

I still havent seen them and have quite a few hours in

Im practically max settings if that makes a difference

[paper oriole]

talking to me, or cytho?

[analog charm]

@crude marsh

[stone comet]

Just in general

Since ive legit not seen them even once

[paper oriole]

...Are you talking about the low res textures he posted, or the yellow/green tiles I'm talking about?

[stone comet]

Oh the coloured tiles i meant lmao

[paper oriole]

thank you 😉 Yeah I'm fully maxed out, do you have rr on?

[stone comet]

Yepppo

I only have dof off as well in the accessibility part

[paper oriole]

super weird!

so far, for me it's mostly happened at the smithy.

[stone comet]

It is hella weird

[sick monolith]

what's the optiscaler hotkey? insert?

[ruby tusk]

Yeah, RenoDX turned Off

just has RCAS and Clarity Soft Light

actually I might've turned those off too for the vanilla shot, can't remember now

[neon whale]

MAN THAT'S REALLY TERRIBLE

oops caps

[ruby tusk]

yeah vanilla is slop

[naive jackal]

@karmic quest Doesn't the game already have cinematic settings without using a mod?

[ruby tusk]

What'd you change here?

[jaunty zealot]

Is it the same for steam screenshot? it uses png as well, using external screenshot, even tho it's pretty compressed still. like, win photo just doesnt read png hdr meatadata at all?

[karmic quest]

It does Thats why I found that mod sus asf

[paper oriole]

the claim is that the cinematics settings aren't the real cinematics settings. That there is a higher inaccessible setting this is unlocking.

I'm not saying this makes the mod legit, but that's what is being claimed.

[karmic quest]

Posts claimed most does not work

So its not legit

• they are stealing existing mods from other modders with no credit

[analog charm]

forcing mip bias through optiscaler. it fixed death stranding 2 too

[paper oriole]

I've seen the posts, and it's very likely there are issues or that the mod is an outright fabrication, but it could also just be broken in the current build. I don't think either of us can be conclusive about this, unless you've taken a look at the code yourself.

[rough granite]

any chance to make aiming with the lantern less crazy bright? there is a massive disparity between the lantern at belt and aiming with it

[ruby tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/my-man-my-man-hd-my-man4k-gif-23532578

[karmic quest]

What does it do

[ruby tusk]

look at the images

[real idol]

This is also the major issue I’m running into as well. It’s so dark at night that I can’t see well with the lamp at belt and raising it causes a flash bomb and gives me tunnel vision

[karmic quest]

Not seeing a difference on phone thats why im askin

[ruby tusk]

Oh my b

basically get some texture/detail back

[karmic quest]

Hmm

So Renodx + optiscaler could be the way?

Could fix dlss 4.0 becoming blurry?

[stone comet]

Check pins for light mod

[karmic quest]

Has anyone else noticed the vram memory leak?

Like I go from 5.7gb - 5.8gb anf after like 3 hours im at like 8 already

[rough granite]

thats still the thing, aiming with lantern causes a massive light

[real idol]

Sorry, what am I missing here? That’s how I installed it in the first place

[stone comet]

It didnt feel as insane when i installed the one from lazor

So dunno

[subtle sinew]

interiors look so good

[rough granite]

tested without and definitely something in Lazorr edit made the beam too bright

[flint moss]

I swear the banker is ripping me off on my investments...

[karmic quest]

Rob him

[real idol]

Have you tried turning on the lantern at night where its pitch black

[stone comet]

At work rn so will try again but the entire world just wasnt as pitch black anymo

[jaunty zealot]

ERm, is he trolling, or straight up shitting on us?

[flint moss]

Already did so ig we're even now xd

[karmic quest]

Yeah I'm robbing him too

I dont trust that mf

Would be funny if you could actually do bank heists and it'd affect the city economy lmao

[real idol]

you have to turn on auto exposure fix as well

[real idol]

can you send a screenshot of your settings, the lamp still looks very dull though

[subtle sinew]

gotta get sleep but I can send it tomorrow
not sure what you mean with the lamp cuz my character lamp is turned off

[real idol]

That’s be great. Thanks. And try turning on the lamp. It’s very dull when it’s on the belt and is blindingly bright when raised

[subtle sinew]

I think I experienced that too yeah

[real idol]

If there is some light around, it’s hard to tell even if it’s on sometimes

[neon whale]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybSTkBBibVc love this kind of videos

[worldly swan]

doesn't improve anything, TBH just lower whatever renodx do to the game night system by 50% may just fix it, I assume everybody would still get darker night without the need for another fix to fix indoors

[neon whale]

not about the recommendations, but the fact that you can actually see what impact each setting has

[glacial ether]

rain

is non existent for me, could the addon be the cause

(and i dont have RR on)

[neon whale]

is your particle effect quality setting set to max?

[glacial ether]

Yeah, everything is cinematic and particle is on max, also i can only see the rain when there is a light effect (my lantern, the green effect from spirit stuff etc)

[stone comet]

I think theres certain things that affect the rain

Forget what they are

[glacial ether]

i may have found the problem

[stone comet]

Ahhh yeah unlucky

Amd skill gap fr

[glacial ether]

disregard that, i turned it native still the same issue lmao

[paper oriole]

got blue square this time, collecting the rainbow!

[rough granite]

actually not sure, I tried native and to edit some values and remained the same hmmm

I think its the autoexposure which make it feel worse, as with it disabled everything is brighter, and when turning on lantern its bright but not a huge lot brighter

now that the world and even the lantern at rest is darker, activating it feels a lot more brighter, not sure if that could be improved by @faint bobcat (making the lantern activation a lot less bright with Autoexposure fix)

[tulip imp]

For anyone irritated with Microsoft's aggressive ML AV detections for reno - you can add an exclusion that should work for any reno .addon you download from Discord.

In an elevated Powershell run: Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath 'D:\Downloads\renodx*' Obviously replacing D:\Downloads\ with your own downloads directory.

You should now see the entry under virus & threat protection exclusions, (Win+R): windowsdefender://Exclusions

Will ensure there's no future false detections for "renodx" files that land in your downloads dir. This is the preferred method over marking the download as an "Allowed threat", because doing that will allow any Trojan:Script/Wacatac.B!ml type detections on your machine to be ignored, regardless of if the file originates from reno or elsewhere.

PS is a requirement as you cannot add the "*" wildcard for a folder/file via the standard add an exclusion method in the UI.

Also great work on the mods, game is gradually becoming more playable a monitors distance away.

Don't think I've ever played a game more developed with TV gamers sat 6ft away in mind. Soon as you're sat 1ft infront of your monitor the illusion becomes blindingly obvious and their aggresive optimisation techniques fall apart fast.

[hardy owl]

Some textures need work yeah. Hopefully someone can upscale them at some point

[thorn grove]

this guy is the GOAT, was waiting for this vid

[vital bay]

man is anyone else encountering an issue where image quality is dropping dramatically in overcast weather?

[analog charm]

btw forcing x16 AF shows an even bigger difference

[vital bay]

i dont know what is up but my game went from looking stunning to.. having ps2 textures, blurry vegetation, just.. blur everywhere.

[native fable]

Where is the download link for RenoDX Crimson Desert addon?

[woven ore]

what settings?
mine is too dark

[sick monolith]

press L1 for lamp

lamp(left) is working as it should outdoors.. indoors will be a spotlight

[ruby tusk]

I do that in nv control panel but for some reason the mip map bias wouldn't work for me

[paper oriole]

mip bias through nvpi

set negative lod bias to allow

[subtle sinew]

basically cranked exposure to 2.0, highlights at around 52 or else highlights get muddy

game brightness is also fairly high since I'm on a 2200 nit monitor

[quaint cove]

Is outside not crazy bright now?

[subtle sinew]

it surprisingly isn't

at least not on my screen

[sick monolith]

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrimsonDesert/comments/1rzp0h9/crimson_desert_broken_dlss_explained/

is FSR correctly implemented or just the same as DLSS?

does anyone know?

[sly vigil]

First sentence made me laugh. Digital Foundry are the biggest fucking corpo shills on YouTube. They didn't see it becasue they didn't want to or they're incompetent as usual

[tawny ravine]

The DLSS5 glazing video might be the worst video they ever put out

[sterile sable]

if anything but native aa looks like this then yes

[sterile sable]

however If I turn on DLAA once and then switch to DLSS quality it becomes 10 times more stable. It dissolves to shimmering pixel mess somewhat when moving only

like some sort of caching takes place

[deft pulsar]

going simply by image quality it probably is

FSR4 int8 quality looks horrible

[sick monolith]

probably correct or nah?

[deft pulsar]

probably isn't implemented correctly aswell

I tested both FSR4 int8 via dll swap and with DLSS inputs

both resulted in a blurry mess at the quality preset

the only playable setting is Native AA or DLAA

[sly vigil]

It's an AMD sponsored title what did you expect

[deft pulsar]

lmao amd has nothing to do with it

Pearl abyss cant read docs

[sick monolith]

he just said fsr looks incorrect

[sterile sable]

not a white blob anymore

[sly vigil]

let me blame AMD for no reason

https://giphy.com/gifs/fwcGzF1l2cILe

[deft pulsar]

trust me I love blaming amd as an amd owner

[sick monolith]

yes in exchage for a black sea of trees

[deft pulsar]

but this time it's just pearl abyss fucking things up

question is

how fixable is it

I suppose it's not that hard fix

just move upscaling lower in the pipeline

[thin kelp]

any of folks here on linux?

[pulsar bramble]

But the moon is bright ... that's way to dark ^^

[clever rapids]

im curious. if i wanted to keep sdr but remove chromatic abberation and film grain only would the mod work for this ?

[sly vigil]

Fixed an issue where screen quality appeared abnormal when activating FSR Ray Regeneration or DLSS Ray Reconstruction.

they did that at least

[sly vigil]

yes that's what I do

[sick monolith]

FSR 3 input > DLSS 4.0 K output 100%

[clever rapids]

can you eli5 how to do it ? i mainly just want to remove those and also reduce sharpness. im quite pleased with sdr for now

[sick monolith]

NO upscaling

[ruby tusk]

forgot I had it on clamp. thanks

[sly vigil]

open reshade, go to the reno tab and lower the settings to 0 for CA and Sharpening

[deft pulsar]

dlss inputs are supposedly better

[clever rapids]

i think im being dumb. where is the download ?

[clever rapids]

ah yes. i was being dumb. i thought i clicked pins and didnt see anything lol

[deft pulsar]

this with the mod for increasing light sources?

[sly vigil]

https://giphy.com/gifs/senor-chang-4PJhao7x3hAK4

[ruby tusk]

2am btw

[sly vigil]

nearly 11 here Im gonna make brunch, play for a bit then go gym

[deft pulsar]

looks great to me

[sick monolith]

yeah but the DLSS is in the wrong position in the pipeline. That;s why I asked if FSR is in the correct position

[deft pulsar]

I know I know, that's what I'm saying. DLSS inputs are supposedly better and its in the wrong position in the pipeline. That makes me think FSR inputs are equally as fucked

if not worse

[woven ore]

if i used DLAA i got this top blackbars

[subtle sinew]

Known issue

[karmic quest]

Is it better than using Optiscaler?

[blazing roost]

do you need to install any for this hdr mod?

[dense raft]

Love the work you guys put in with RenoDX🙏 and auto exposure is nice but too dark for my liking 😅 any tips on tweaking other settings to make it brighter and still have a correct image?

[slow sonnet]

I use everything except auto exposure, with exposure value set to 0.50. Seems to work fairly OK.

For all I know I'm blotching the whole scene though :x

[obsidian locust]

Use SKIV instead

[rough granite]

@mortal wolf do you think Reno could add an exposure slider for each "levels" (high / midtone / shadow) similar to https://github.com/prod80/prod80-ReShade-Repository/blob/master/Shaders/PD80_03_Shadows_Midtones_Highlights.fx ?

I would like to lower exposure of highlights to see more details e.g. on rock during the day, but I dont want to lower the exposure of the whole scene or make it harder to see at night

[flint moss]

check the light fix by lazorr, brightens up the dark rooms

[ruby tusk]

blast exposure to 2.0 and raise highlights to 52

[karmic quest]

Is that how it looks with those settings from ur pics?

[sterile sable]

from my testing this line of patchnotes is useless, nothing changed

[ruby tusk]

Yeah

[worldly swan]

Not related to renodx but I saw on reddit someone said there is already a mod that decouples ray reconstruction from the max lighting setting, anyone here knows the name of the mod?

[crude marsh]

whatever it was didn't work afaik

[ruby tusk]

Doesn’t work

[crude marsh]

also the whole max lighting thing is very misleading

[ruby tusk]

Yeah

[crude marsh]

RR is not related to specifically max lighting

is its own thing

[ruby tusk]

ReSTIR, RTGI, etc

[lucid thorn]

Every comment says it doesn't work

[clever rapids]

game locks you to max lighting if you enable RR currently.

[worldly swan]

I know but the game forced us

[crude marsh]

yes but no

[sterile sable]

better but it brightens daylight too a bit, I guess we'll need something inbetween, current auto-exposure is too dark, while game default it too bright at night

[lucid thorn]

:p max lighting isn't "max lighting"

[crude marsh]

RR is turning on something much closer to RTGI

thats why only RR has GI

[robust gorge]

i open the game today and i cant find the renodx tap at the reshape why?

[crude marsh]

AV

[ruby tusk]

Yeah

[karmic quest]

Hopefully there's a patch coming that gives the middleground.

[ruby tusk]

Just gotta let the boys cook

[worldly swan]

Btw remind me, does RR work in Cyberpunk without Path Tracing?

[true dagger]

yes but very noisy

[crude marsh]

I forget if it does in cyberpunk but pretty universally in any UE game you can use it with whatever

[karmic quest]

I trust em

[crude marsh]

basically the devs just need to rewrite their entire renderer and all of the raytracing to not be a cluster fuck

and make a performant engine

simple

[digital quest]

But Lazorr you dont get it. It is not UE5, its a custom engine. That is automatically good regardless of visual output

[crude marsh]

[stone comet]

Stutterengine5 or randomslopengine 1 pick your poison

[worthy belfry]

Hi my name is ue5 and I am an engine

[stone comet]

At least re engine exists

[crude marsh]

when 1/16th rays per pixel is very expensive, you may have done something very poorly

[worldly swan]

I'm just trying to understand why PA locks RR with Max lighting setting in this game, I thought max lighting = path tracing comparable to other games, and that I thought RR needs path tracing to work.

[faint bobcat]

Source 2

with prebaked lighting

[dense raft]

Actually this worked much better than blasting exposure. Thx ❤️

[digital quest]

Re engine denoiser exists too. It just exists. It fails to denoise anything

[stone comet]

Prebaked lighting in 2026 enjoy your 500gb game 🔥

[crude marsh]

RR is tied to sampling a ray per pixel and enabling restir

its the only way this games lighting works

and is why its much more expensive

[stone comet]

With some changes re9 dont really see much noise honestly

[crude marsh]

RE9 was a noise fest with pathtracing in RC

they had some fuckery going on with IBL and not using enough samples

[digital quest]

It was noise fest without PT too so they removed RT from RC in PS5 Pro

[crude marsh]

but in relative terms it was pristine lol

[stone comet]

LOL

[digital quest]

You wont have noise if you dont have RT

[stone comet]

Fairs

[faint bobcat]

Noise free fix for CD

[digital quest]

[daring orbit]

Theft in this game is so much bullshit

Dumbest system ive ever seen

[crude marsh]

my whole map has been red cause I have a 1 cent fine

why does my horse have a 3m radius of knocking people over

[scenic adder]

Secret Abyssal technology

[daring orbit]

Hit boxes are all messed up

[karmic quest]

Is it simple tho 😭

[gilded plover]

this what games gonna look like in a few years before they put DLSS 5 on top

[crude marsh]

naw they cut corners and mish mashed like 5 different techniques, both archaic and semi modern

and made everything minimum quality/size everywhere

and are missing some hardware acceleration

[karmic quest]

How likely devs are to fix this tho

[crude marsh]

0

[karmic quest]

😭

[faint bobcat]

#Grok Make me a quirk Godot / Unity based indieslop game