Crimson Desert - CHECK PINS FOR ADDON

[plain fractal]

@crude marsh Is there something wrong with the 'disable auto white balancing' option? This is with all 3 auto exposure settings enabled, RR off and cinematic lighting. Or could this be caused by not using RR + max setting as the warning over the auto exposure stuff says?

[lavish pumice]

I heard its not possible? And if someone watches the recording without a HDR monitor they will just see normal colors?

[shut badge]

yeah that is what I meant, dlss 4.5 L heavily reduced ghosting on mh wilds for me

[viscid wedge]

Of course its possible.

[lavish pumice]

I wanted to show how good it looks to a friend of mine who list far away

[solar bone]

love the moon looking like the goddamn sun without auto exposure fix but becoming legally blind without it

[viscid wedge]

Old but still relevant. https://www.reddit.com/r/IntelligentGaming2020/comments/x4s8h4/how_to_capture_record_hdr_high_dynamic_range/

[shut badge]

improvements are very visible during sandstorms

[crude marsh]

wdym wrong, just disable the autoexposure setting probably, it doesn't universally work in all conditions rn

[viscid wedge]

If you upload to Youtube, they do kinda look like crap in my experience if watching in SDR.

[plain fractal]

Oh ok. I just noticed that there is a huge shift in white balance when moving the camera and looking around

[lavish pumice]

yeah so they have to sit next to me to experience this

[dawn fjord]

anyone elses windows flagging the reno add on for crimson desert as a trojan

[lavish pumice]

everyones

[dawn fjord]

guessing just gotta disable it until a new versionms out then

[golden scaffold]

Sun/moon fix is not coupled to autoexposure iirc

[karmic quest]

100? Isnt that too low

[smoky brook]

add the Reno file to windows defender exceptions

[lavish pumice]

the waaaatahhh

[worldly vapor]

woata

[tribal goblet]

Preset L and M are called rrlite internally

So I think they are trying to do that

[pine star]

In Reno DX mods for HDR, should one set the peak brightness to the actual 1% peak brightness of the monitor or to that of the 10% window? The difference can be a big deal. Thanks.

[pliant dagger]

sure

[outer furnace]

10%

[final imp]

I don’t get game brightness, I always set to what my monitor can achieve full screen brightness. In my case 300 nit. Is that not right I’m also setting peak as 1% 👀

[outer furnace]

basically do the windows HDR calibration, then in advanced display config (where you can set hz as well) see what it says for your nits, thats the value youre looking for @pine star

[vivid iris]

basically you set peak to whatever your monitor clips at in a 10% window test.

so windows hdr calibration app

don't worry about the actual nits of your panel, it's irrelevant

you're calibrating the content, not the screen

[outer furnace]

and "game brightess" aka paperwhite is subjective but 203 is an often used default value. if it looks too dim increase it, or decrease it if its too bright, can vary from game to game. in CD I like 250 but many are happy with the 203 default

[eager epoch]

This simple setting was day & night for me

[hollow kiln]

hehe and I've got my exposure set at 1.5 😄

[hollow kiln]

Is that the preferred approach instead of whacking exposure up?

[pine star]

Thanks guys. The actual 1% peak for specular highlights is not cut then, when I set the peak to the 10% value, right?

[hollow kiln]

I mean I kinda like slighlty nuclear highlights

[smoky brook]

Actually, I wasn't sure how the game brightness slider differs from the exposure one? I'm probably blind but what's the difference?

[mortal wolf]

generally it's been 10%, but tbh that's for TVs that usually have consistent 0% to 10%. monitors are a bit more all over the place

[hollow kiln]

Helldivers 2 highlights for example are gushingly good imo

[lavish pumice]

Can we change the DLSS quality % closer to 100%?

[outer furnace]

I dont know about that tbh, from what I can tell they do similar things but the HDR experts here will probably be able to tell the differnece lol

[lavish pumice]

These are my final settings I am totally happy with, just wow

[sterile sable]

no, devs seems to hardcoded values settings dlss for any % will result in black visuals

[outer furnace]

jup happened to me as well

[polar crow]

so what are best reno settings? I wont use autoexposure its way to dark but what else is good? Just turn on recommended minus autoexposure or is vanilla better

[final imp]

Bro holy shit I been using these mods for years and setting the peak and game wrong lmao

[dapper lake]

100% between this and RenoDX itself im actually somewhat happy to not mess about on my own now and just wait for updates

[thin kelp]

any tips for kde plasma calibration?

[neat tree]

the default values are the recommended, but you can also just make your game look how you like. Depends on the person and display

[outer furnace]

default settings are good, I personally turn off filmgrain and turn sharpening back up and autoexposure off in its current state

[dapper lake]

see @eager epoch 's NVPI settings earlier in the chat

[outer furnace]

so 99% RR works? I'll try

[dapper lake]

yes

and dlss

needs to be via CD NVPI tho

[outer furnace]

yeah but I got only black screen so far whenever I tried custom %

[hidden ivy]

I get artifacts when I set RR to 99%

[final imp]

Same

[outer furnace]

its not like 99% RR is usable though lol, I doubt even a 5090 could handle that at 99%

[dapper lake]

1440p on a 5080

[flat bear]

not sure what i did wrong but i dont have the tone mapping sliders on the RenoDX options

[dapper lake]

turn HDR on in game @flat bear

[steady stirrup]

I'm using a Sony a95L not sure what to set the settings in Reno for nits any able to help

[vivid iris]

I'm unfamiliar with how HDR works there, sorry 🙁

[thin kelp]

Tnx anyway for addons!

[flat bear]

lol im dumb, thank u

[dapper lake]

not getting any so far myslef

[karmic quest]

Would my 5070 ti be enough to run RR at 99%?

[lavish pumice]

Yes DLSS % cannot be changed:

Yep — I checked your local install.

Short version: probably no, not cleanly. Crimson Desert appears to use fixed DLSS preset buckets, not a free percentage slider.

What I found in your local config:

C:\Users\home\AppData\Local\Pearl Abyss\CD\save\user_engine_option_save.xml

Relevant bit:

Quality = 67%
Balanced = 59%
Performance = 50%
Ultra Performance = 33%
DLAA = AA/native-style option
So when you pick DLSS Quality, the game is literally storing:

_upscaleResolution → 67%
and the XML only lists those preset modes.

That strongly suggests:

There isn’t a built-in “Quality but 75%/80%” option
Editing 67% to some random custom value probably won’t be accepted by the game, or it’ll reset on launch

those are pretty odd percentages to be honest, i wonder how they decided on them

[worthy belfry]

thank u chatgpt

[wispy crown]

That are the normal percentages??

[karmic quest]

What about RR?

[lavish pumice]

openclaw

[karmic quest]

Or its linked to dlss anyways so both stuck at 67%

[lavish pumice]

ray reconstruction?

[golden scaffold]

https://youtu.be/ybSTkBBibVc?t=752

Check timestamp. This guy points out pretty bad blurring of textures caused by RR. Thought?

[karmic quest]

Yh

[eager epoch]

I get the same perf on the 5090 with 99 or otherwise cuz its just set the renderer pipeline in order

[golden scaffold]

Wtf is going on at 12:39?

And extra noise at 12:45

[eager epoch]

For DLSS SR yes for RR 99% seem to fix the boiling

[crude marsh]

the game baaaarely uses RTGI without RR so

its just gonna be pretty different

[sterile sable]

they are standart for presets, listed in nvidia docs

[lavish pumice]

for all games?

[sterile sable]

yes

[naive jackal]

Why is RR blurry in CD and not in Cyberpunk or AW2 though? Am i just not seeing it or is it just that poorly implemented in CD. Maybe my eyes are going to shit but i swear Cyberpunk and Alan Wake 2 RR at quality looks cleaner than quality in CD

[flint moss]

omg tysm

[lavish pumice]

hm okay didnt know

[crude marsh]

59% is non standard

[sterile sable]

i tried changing those values on next day of game release, it all resulted in black visuals. For me majority of boiling fixed if I toggle DLAA once and then change to quality

[crude marsh]

should be 58 but yeah

[karmic quest]

How often do you do it lol

[eager epoch]

Yes I red ur original msg about that, this is 100% works but than I wanted to make the change permanently so I wont toggle each time I boot the game and the 99% for RR fix it for me PERMENANTLY without any toggles.

[crude marsh]

RR 99% is absurdly expensive

pretty much nobody can run that

unless you are at a low res

[sterile sable]

ok I'll try it again then, because it was like first thing i tried and it resulted in black mess for me

[eager epoch]

If u set it to 100% it black screen, and only change in crimson desert profile otherwise in global it wont work for some reason

[golden scaffold]

I wonder if being on 4K is a blessing or curse because ultra perf looks pretty good, not as perfect as performance (which I would prefer to use and force sometimes) but if that is pretty close to native looking I guess it's a good thing?

[wispy crown]

Just different rounding since DLSS Balanced would theoretically directly sit at 58.5%.

[eager epoch]

It actually imorove perf, as odd as it sounds

[crude marsh]

it does not

unless its not actually running that res

rendering the game at 99% scale is pretty much just running DLAA

[eager epoch]

Its not, I can prove it

[dapper lake]

i cant prove it but things felt smoother ngl

[eager epoch]

Its not actually do 99% RR

[lament nymph]

this bounty is 2600 m away from the turn in spot

[sterile sable]

well, definitely going to try it tomorrow because I also wanted more permanent solution. Still cannot comprehend how devs are fail to read nvidia docs completely or decided to ignore it (and than fixed RR rain). I also cannot compehend game using only like 7-8 gigs of vram, I guess yeah you probably can "run" it on potato 1060 but I'd like to fill my 16 gb for less popins

[lament nymph]

x.x jesus

[crude marsh]

unless they are doing something absurdly fucked in the game, 99% RR == DLAA

[dapper lake]

99% of internal render res?

[daring orbit]

I thought i was setting a custom ratio with optiscaler, but i came to realize it wasnt actually doing anything

[eager epoch]

GEMINI PRO explenation:

The "boiling" and shimmering in Crimson Desert are caused by a fundamental flaw in the BlackSpace Engine’s render pipeline. Pearl Abyss placed the DLSS upscaling pass too early—likely before the final shadow and Global Illumination (GI) denoiser. This means the upscaler is trying to "guess" pixels from a raw, noisy ray-tracing output that hasn't been cleaned yet, leading to that jittery, boiling effect in shadows and foliage. Additionally, the engine uses "hardcoded buckets" (67% for Quality, 59% for Balanced, etc.); if you stay within these presets, you're stuck in the engine's buggy, flickering default path.
Setting your Ray Reconstruction (RR) to 99% works because it forces the GPU into a "Custom Resolve" path that bypasses those hardcoded buckets entirely. At 99%, the engine treats the resolve as a unique high-resolution pass, which effectively "resets" the GI pipeline and prevents the temporal artifacts that cause boiling. This actually improves your FPS lows and latency because you’re bypassing the engine’s internal software denoisers—which are prone to frame-time spikes and letting the dedicated AI cores handle the heavy lifting at a near-native 1:1 ratio. It’s cleaner, sharper, and much more stable for your high-polling setup.

[deft pulsar]

bro the pirate hat is absolutely useless

[dapper lake]

desperate for that armour but dude 1 shots me and i dont have freese resist lmao only cold resist

[deft pulsar]

the feather lights up to reveal a chest when you're like 3m from it

[fallen knoll]

are you talking about the rock dude in demenis?

just run past it and go in the cave

free loot

[wispy crown]

Can we not do AI? We have literally no prove of any of this actually happening. I feel like half the internet is just AI hallucinations nowadays.

[daring orbit]

Oh so we gotta run rr and dlaa 😆

[dapper lake]

nah the one that drops similar armour in hernand

big baloth

[hoary knot]

The actual dark nights are just not my thing, visually awesome, practically annoying

[fallen knoll]

oh thats a different armor

[dapper lake]

ive explored like 3cm of demenis

[fallen knoll]

thats the one in the frost

[eager epoch]

Only in RR not for DLSS upscaler

[karmic quest]

We just want to have the sharpness it was supposed to have. 😭

[dapper lake]

aye i just looked quickly at first my b lmao

[fallen knoll]

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

[daring orbit]

8 used to use ai to write proposals for my business, till i realized sometimes it just straight makes shit up

[fallen knoll]

try this

helped me in one phasing almost all the bosses in the game

[deft pulsar]

do people actually find these full sets or do they go on youtube "Dark Knight set location"

[dapper lake]

aye sorry i was speculating 99% was actually having RR do 99% of whatever DLSS' internal render was, so if at quality it would be running at 99% of the DLSS 67% kinda thing

[fallen knoll]

nah i found someone in youtube with the cape but the drip is unique to whatever i found

its a mixture of different armor in my case

[dapper lake]

oh its straight just gear check rn for me - not enough health specd, and need to find another source of cold resist to hit 10

[wispy crown]

Yeah I get that but Gemini Pro will not get you that sharpness. It can't look into the code. It just looks at anything posted online and takes it at face value.

[golden scaffold]

THIS.

This guy was playing BDO, and the IGN guy was playing dark souls

[eager epoch]

Im not sure it does that even, its not actually enabling 99% RR

[dapper lake]

I have not a clue i just like to spitball so well go with that haha

[fallen knoll]

if u can find this abyss gear, your resistance when u take food will shoot up beyond lvl 10

[kindred shoal]

What exactly is this mod doing to fix the shadows?

[wispy crown]

The funniest shit is when you say AI that you think it's something different and it immediately does a 180° and affirms you even if it's the most stupid shit ever.

[kindred shoal]

THe last time i was in the university it was a low res emmisive light shadow hellhole

[restive roost]

You know that RR uses its own upscaler preset and that if you force it to 99% its basicly running DLAA

[daring orbit]

It almost cost me like 500 dollars on this one job

[dapper lake]

looks like its time for me to get hunting then lmao

[eager epoch]

Gemini pro was right about that it seems cuz here I posted the before and after, in reality it looks much sharper (thats the before)

[karmic quest]

This sounds like gemini, that bitch will tell you otherwise even when you know it aint right.

[wispy crown]

You can ask Gemini about any problem in Crimson Desert and after it's explanation just say "Nah I think UE5 is the problem" and it will try to give you the most stupid explanation for why UE5 is at fault for Crimson Desert.

Sometimes it just legit prints out that it thinks Crimson Desert is running on UE5.

[golden scaffold]

everyone should watch this

[naive jackal]

Threat Interactive AI

[kindred shoal]

yea a lot of people are trying to play it like a souls game

[karmic quest]

I mean it has similarities..

[golden scaffold]

Yep big wrong. When I saw him do the grab and throw into down attack combo it immidiatelly hit me: this is like BDO. We just need to learn what the moves actually do

[kindred shoal]

it is similar in so much as it is a melee combat game generally

but that is about it

[karmic quest]

Tho Im confused what you mean by playing it like souls like, can't they invest in hp / stamina?

I still dodge, parry..

[kindred shoal]

i mena a lot of people appoach bosses nad combat in general like a fromsoft game in that they wait their turn basically

[hoary knot]

Nvidia just needs to release a Transformer Model 2 RR

[kindred shoal]

dodge, wait for attaks to finish, get a couple hits then back off

[karmic quest]

I mean yeah, I find no hit runs satisfying.

[golden scaffold]

Souls like is about hitting and rolling away and whittling down the boss it's the most boring slog of combat and the reason why I don't play soulslikes. I've played BDO for years which is all about combo fighting and stances, basically a fighting game of sorts but in 3D space

[naive jackal]

Why though? It clearly has a big ass moves and combo list more like DMC or Ninja Gaiden and plays much faster than SOuls into the bargain

[hoary knot]

You should try Sekiro then

[karmic quest]

If I stun the boss I just spam whatever combos I have.

[golden scaffold]

Yeah i may have wrongfully put it on my "another souls slop" list

[stray grove]

anyone else game feel less smooth with RR on with newest Nvidia driver like almost micro stutter? even above 100fps with FG on If i turn RR off it feel butter smooth

[naive jackal]

I've played and beaten Sekiro but i don't view it like other From stuff because it really is an action adventure closer to CD than Souls where you control a set character

[lament nymph]

yea I realized that

[hoary knot]

Sekiro is the superior Fromsoft combat, I will die on that hill. Even though I do massively enjoy Elden Ring and Dark souls too

[upper sun]

Hes right about the combos, but the pacing varies a lot based on the boss

[dapper lake]

new driver has cost perf in some games ive heard so its possible

[stray grove]

@dapper lake yea it kinda feel like shit now i think im gonna revert to previous one

[dapper lake]

595.97 is what im running

[wispy crown]

That's not even an unpopular opinion. Sekiro obviously has the best combat system

[dapper lake]

game ready

studio has issues apparently, flip of last time

[kindred shoal]

people are just accustomed to it now

some of the most popular fantasy adventure games in the last decade have been fromsoft games

and elden ring was huge

so people just transfer that over

hell even i did when i played sekiro

and that got me destroyed for a good while playing through that game lol

[stray grove]

@dapper lake im on 595.97 too right now but CD with RR on feel off i did not have that issue with previous driver ... weird gonna revert now and see if it make a diff

[golden scaffold]

Yep and I skipped most of those after maining BDO exactly in those recent years, any souls combat system was just too dull for me, not hating on the games but it all felt like 20 years behind

[naive jackal]

Then once you get used to how it plays it throws a Souls boss at you to trip you up (demon of hatred)

[stray grove]

595.79 was good immo it felt really smooth even with RR on

[kindred shoal]

i love the souls style

and i also have like 500 hours in BDO lol

BDO to me with the manual control setting plays like tekken

[golden scaffold]

But you get the difference

[lament nymph]

I will die on the hill that this game has okat combat except for the mmo style bosses

[kindred shoal]

yea i get what you are saying for sure

[lament nymph]

not well designed

[golden scaffold]

Its not about which one is bad or better, it's just that to me souls combat is too boring that's all (after really enjoying the heck out of BDO, it spoiled me)

[dapper lake]

sorry yeah youre right... im reading the version of the update i have waiting. Im on .79

[kindred shoal]

i mean at worst the combtin the game is as good as like 90% of the open world games we get

[lament nymph]

I have a choice of getting 2 sandwiches to eat or keep playing and die

die I guess

[fallen knoll]

Yeah i didnt like the fact you just gotta learn the pattern

[golden scaffold]

Btw how do you that down attack he does in the video?

[kindred shoal]

you just press light attack over a downed enemy

[fallen knoll]

Which part

The finisher?

[golden scaffold]

Yeah after they on ground (end of combo)

[paper oriole]

you can also elbow drop them with a+x (square+cross)

if you have the lariat unlocked.

[hoary knot]

I missed that the combat was basically a 3D fighting game, but now it makes total sense why I’ve been playing it like one… just mashing buttons and hoping for the best 😂

[golden scaffold]

Big stamina investment tho, opponent is already down not economic imho

[fallen knoll]

Its a finisher when their down

Its lmb + rmb in mnk

[paper oriole]

it has a huge area effect, and is the best way to push enemies back.

[golden scaffold]

So it acts like a down attack (gets dmg bonus) why not use the regular down attack? Unless you have too much stamina

[fallen knoll]

Was the boss kneeling on the ground

[golden scaffold]

Watch video he did a multiple chain stun combo with a grab throw

So he used the down attack finisher to gap close actually

[stone comet]

Blind into finisher is super strong as well

[kindred shoal]

Yo but for real what is it thatthis mod does for shadows that makes them so much less noisy?

[dapper lake]

@eager epoch call me crazy, but after using those settings, and even tho it doesnt seem to be working setting a custom dlss res too - the black bar flickers on DLAA have been gone for about half an hour now

NVM paused and theyre back

[golden scaffold]

(throw is used to throw boss back into arena)

[stone comet]

Also the late talent in green tree literally doubles all the spirit attacks you use

[fallen knoll]

Hol up im driving

[hoary knot]

You see so I have a theory on this, you know how most people play fighting games by just mashing buttons? I do this too, and though I understand the concept that if you actually learn the combos you can do some real sweet stuff, but typically, button smashing will get you there.

Souls combat is the antesis of this, you have to time rolls, and you can't just go in. So it FORCES you to be more patient and intentional, which in turn feels more rewarding to a lot of people.

[golden scaffold]

I wish I had a save for that boss fight so I could practice like this guy did

[lament nymph]

the people of this game refuse to call kliff by his name, instead " hey greymane" ... is that racist?

[kindred shoal]

the world design team is so cracked for this game. some absolutely insane hidden secret chests and shit

[fallen knoll]

No one knows his name

He didnt say he was kliff to the marquis either

[lament nymph]

[fallen knoll]

Ngl prpbably an oversight from back when this game was an mmo

[lament nymph]

then how are ppl sure they got the right greymane

[golden scaffold]

Yeah but if you try to mash in BDO it's completely over. You can kinda get away in fighting games but not there. That's why I liked it so much

[kindred shoal]

yo ucan mash to a certain extent i nBDO

when you get to like lvl 54

[golden scaffold]

And it's not like bdo was that complicated or hard to learn, just had to know the basics

[kindred shoal]

your mashing days are done or you are done lol

[fallen knoll]

My head canon is he is the only one with the sword and shield

And the shield is unique to him

[golden scaffold]

For sure. For all we know this story was stitched together in a few days

[steady orbit]

Renodx on nexus mods web. When guys, soon or no?

[fallen knoll]

The game replaces the shield u use in the cutscenes too

[paper oriole]

why does it matter?

[steady orbit]

Because i wait official renodx for this game

Last one is beta, right?

[paper oriole]

ok? The answer is most likely going to be "when it's done"

[outer furnace]

HDR is not gonna get better than this, they are just experimenting with more stuff they could add. if you just want improved HDR, might as well use it now

[steady orbit]

But i got virus today. I try it....

[viscid wedge]

Well it doesn’t go any higher 😉

[hoary knot]

I've mostly been button smashing in Crimson Desert, I basically have to have a whole lot of healing items to spam to win the boss fights, but it's doable

[lament nymph]

it's like u going around as a chinese and ppl call u "hey asian"

that's racist as hell ...

[golden scaffold]

More about the combat:

Keep note that light attack in CS cost no resources, they are FREE. So their drawback is they have the lowest hitstun value, so you should be using other attacks to extend combos

[paper oriole]

oof, ever heard of false positives?

[steady orbit]

No

[paper oriole]

actually no nevermind, you should wait.

[upper sun]

It hasnt been supposed to be an MMO for like 90% of its develoment time. Its almost 5 years ago they said it wasnt gonna be an mmo publicly. Back when they did that switch it was gonna be singleplayer with a multiplayer like GTA etc. So even there the story was already SP.

[kindred shoal]

I wandered into one of the other regions on accident and got my ass beat very promptly

[paper oriole]

You were doing the right thing by waiting. Wait a bit longer.

[steady orbit]

I try vamila redux hdr reshade on nexus mods today. Is very good. I can wait for official reno

vanila

[paper oriole]

Perfect! Have fun!

[steady orbit]

Anyone try any reshade mods for this game on nexus mods?

[tender terrace]

im guessing you didnt read the pin....?

[paper oriole]

dude, come on.

[karmic quest]

Ohhhhhh 100%

[paper oriole]

yes, tons are great, so colorful and vibrant! Pick the one that looks best to you!

[outer furnace]

no I prefer not to turn the game into Breath of the Desert

[paper oriole]

oh so you guys are doing this on purpose huh?

[modest hatch]

So apparently the dragon in CD has a real life hour cooldown time

Yeah I’m using mods for this.

[glacial maple]

Just got here. Am I missing an obvious link somewhere or do we just search through this chat to find the mod file?

[karmic quest]

Pins

[stray grove]

@glacial maple pinned

[dire pilot]

in more weird stuff, load a save where you're not Kliff and the game loads faster/skips the slow walk hallway

[outer furnace]

wdym?

[rotund raptor]

anyobdy know why the frame gen mod was removed from nexus?

[modest hatch]

Sox

How are yall finding the game

[modest hatch]

Why does it need a mod ?

[glacial maple]

thanks

[dapper lake]

allows 30xx and rdna 3 users to get mfg

[manic valve]

This HDR mod is very well done. Takes an already beautiful game and makes the HDR and lighting even better

[rotund raptor]

was trying to use 3x with my 4070ti

[steady orbit]

@manic valve which one?

[golden scaffold]

This has got to be Forge on one of their alt accounts trolling us He's been suspiciously quiet recently too

[manic valve]

RenoDX on Crimson Desert

Looks insane on my OLEDs

[fallen knoll]

Some systems are very much still mmo. Like the dragon having a cooldown. Not being able to wait time to progress when you send greymanes in missions, bear/dire wolf mounts that are temporary

And kliff sometimes just feels like a spectator in a mission

[modest hatch]

Oh I see

[fallen knoll]

Though around ch6 he started getting more snd more involved

But before that he has plain answers like: Aye, Alright,

[manic valve]

You can wait time

Just go to the bed and choose to sleep

[fallen knoll]

You can yes but you cant abuse it

[manic valve]

This game reminds me more of a CRPG like Witcher 3 vs MMO

[fallen knoll]

Plus if you fast travel it resets the fatigue level do u cant sleep

[manic valve]

I know the devs are MMO devs but it feels more like Oblivion or Witcher

[fallen knoll]

Not complaining just pointing out some multiplayer decisions

[modest hatch]

This game is like if BOTW was an MMO

[rotund raptor]

Link is more expressive than Kliff

[kindred shoal]

it is an eastern MMO studio making a AAA singple player game and it shows

[ruby tusk]

I was never able to get this to work, is there something else you gotta do ?
I have negative lod bias set to allow

[kindred shoal]

it feels similar to the AAA gachas like wuthering waves and genshin

[outer furnace]

hard disagree, those are actual RPGs, CD is more of an open world adventure game like the new Zeldas (the obvious inspiration) first and foremost. the actual RPG elements are very barebones and thats ok, devs never claimed they were trying to make an actual RPG

[fallen knoll]

yeah. i hope they keep making more singleplayer games though. Im afraid this might be the first and only lesson

[kindred shoal]

but not made as accessible as possible because kids are playing it on their phones

[kindred shoal]

and to be clear this isnt a bad thing. I think it is actually quite good but the beginning is very rough

and some of the system are like literally lifted straight from BDO lol

[round spade]

I'm confused as to where I can download the mod from. Thanks!

[modest hatch]

There is no way I’m just letting them limit MY dragon usage

[fallen knoll]

they are very well connected lore wise though

i cant believe i met marni and shakatu in this game

[lament nymph]

I've been doing fetch quests for 10 hrs straight

[modest hatch]

I WILL download a mod

[lament nymph]

this is brutal

[modest hatch]

You’re enjoying it

[lament nymph]

not really no

[modest hatch]

“I don’t like one piece after 300 episodes”

You like it bro. Just admit it.

[lament nymph]

this is worse than ff16 fetch quests, and that game was criticized for it

[rotund raptor]

Recruiting the graymanes never end either, its almost comical lol

[modest hatch]

Should I get that game

[lament nymph]

there are 37 greymanes, it will end

[outer furnace]

stop yapping and go clean some more chimneys

[fallen knoll]

bro i wanna recruit more i havent seen another greymane mission in a while

[kindred shoal]

I honestly just dont believe this cause that was the most sterile, lifeless and boring world imaginable

[lament nymph]

wait till you get to pailune, then the entire region ask you to get things for them

lemme check how many quests I done

[modest hatch]

I’m still in Hernand but I’ve been mostly exploring

Not rly doing quests much

[lament nymph]

besides antumdra, the rest are fetch quests

antumdra is actually fun cause u got to fight

[lapis smelt]

By mod you mean Reno? Its on the Pins!

[kindred shoal]

the problem with ff16 quests, beyond the nature of them, was that the game world was useless

made for nothing but walking across

[lament nymph]

and I'm so not over x.x

[lapis smelt]

FFXVI sidequests were decent, all of them had little stories

[outer furnace]

that is typical for final fantasy though

[lapis smelt]

The issue was as you said the world was absolutely pointless

[outer furnace]

even their mmo has a completely useless world for the most part lol

[kindred shoal]

ive done a lot of fetching in hernand but quite often i just see some shit across a valley and im just like

https://tenor.com/view/vince-mcmahon-intrigued-gif-27408103

lets take a wlalk lol

[fallen knoll]

honestly fetch quests in this game lead me to mineables and shit and whenever i do a fetch quest its straight to the smithy almost always

[kindred shoal]

i found my best weapon like that

[fresh field]

https://tenor.com/view/ali-fed-ex-fed-ex-va-nosey-gif-23309325

[kindred shoal]

whats even worse is i played FF16 on release

[flint moss]

Omfg I had my money in the bank and got the bug where total balance becomes 0 if its worth below 500... rip my 450s

[kindred shoal]

when the PC version came out they patched it so that whwen you complete a side quest, you can hold a button to teleport back to the turn it in instantly

you had to fucking god damn walk back

every time

at release

[modest hatch]

The lack of fast travel points is rly annoying

[wheat elk]

nah need True Color SCRGB smh

[modest hatch]

There’s this whole large village that doesn’t have a fast travel point in it or close to it

[hoary knot]

How come disabling hero lights is locked behind turning off white balance?

[paper oriole]

Nothing too negative, I just think that it isn't all too productive to be acerbic when someone is clearly new to this stuff. (replied to the wrong comment, but the right person)

[viscid wedge]

There are a ton of them (don't click if you don't want fast travel points spoiled)

[lament nymph]

you guys ...

[modest hatch]

Oh wow thanks, I’ll use this! I meant that village in the bottom left

[lament nymph]

idk if this is spoiling or not

but hernand is the good part of the game

it gets ... not good

the quest quality nosedive

[viscid wedge]

just use the site directly if you want https://mapgenie.io/crimson-desert/maps/pywel

[kindred shoal]

that sucks

you would think they would make the crimson desert the best part

[upper sun]

Yeah but these arent remnants from when it was supposed to be an mmo, because none of this wouldve been made or even decided by the time it was still supposed to be an mmo. Its more a result of MMO devs making decisions

[modest hatch]

But why would they do that ?!

🤔

[lament nymph]

I'm eating the worst sub I've ever had in years

no wonder it's selling 2 for $8

[modest hatch]

I am enjoying this game

It’s just that

I expected it to better

[lament nymph]

same

[modest hatch]

Kinda bummed cuz this was my most anticipated game after GTA 6 and the Witcher 4

[lament nymph]

I expected the combat to be deep, but like ... boss fights are the bane of this combat

[modest hatch]

At least those 2 games are definitely not going to disappoint

[lament nymph]

poorly designed all around

[modest hatch]

What chapter are you at

[lament nymph]

9

so I'm among the 0.1%

[modest hatch]

|| that black blob at the top of the institute was awful ||

||chapter 4||

[kindred shoal]

it is honestly exactly what i expected

except I didnt think they would actually have so many secrets and shit

hidden loot and all that

[lament nymph]

oh I like the secret caves and shit, tha'ts the good part

[kindred shoal]

i was on reddit

[modest hatch]

Found a legendary horse

[kindred shoal]

preaching

[modest hatch]

Tamed it

[kindred shoal]

do NOT expect any kind of decent story or characters or plot

or any ofthat

lol

cause the stor in BDO is legendary nonsense

[lament nymph]

I didn't expect any of that and I still find the story to be worse than AI written

[kindred shoal]

its just so dumb

[lament nymph]

[kindred shoal]

and told so poorly

but as a sandbox game for exploration and interacting with a ton of game systems BDO is one of the best

[lament nymph]

I was like ... maybe it's servicable to sell the world, turns out it was just nonsense

[kindred shoal]

this game so far has been like that but adapted for a singple player gameplay loop

[lament nymph]

remnants of the mmo stuffs fill other countries

[modest hatch]

You know

[lament nymph]

you can tell most of the dev time is in hernand

[kindred shoal]

im on chapter 5 and I actually think is Kliff was mute like Link it would be a step up lol

[modest hatch]

Witcher 4 isn’t gonna disappoint

Just saying

[lament nymph]

I don't trust any gaming company in 2026

mh wilds was supposed to be capcom magnum opus

look what happened

[thorn grove]

they prolly realized mmos are dead in the west midway through

[lament nymph]

it was their big franchise too

[modest hatch]

I trust rockstar and CD

I find it hard that CD will make a bad game after the cyberpunk launch disaster

[lament nymph]

I'm excited for that new gamefreak AAA game

so far it looks nice

[modest hatch]

Still waiting for Sony to announce the 3rd horizon game

[kindred shoal]

man

I dont like any of sonys open world games lol

horizon 2 almost made me tear my hair out

[lament nymph]

sony's graphics will always fill all the lacking parts for me

[modest hatch]

Sony makes a lot of 9/10 games IMO

[kindred shoal]

aloy and everyone she talks to think they telling the greates story eben spoken

[modest hatch]

Never a ten when it comes to open worlds

[kindred shoal]

plz shut up

[cold tree]

I trust rockstar too

[kindred shoal]

and tell me where the fkn bananas that you need are or whatever the fuck

[modest hatch]

lol haha

[lament nymph]

horizon 2 was so confident of itself that it releases on the same week as ... elden ring

guess whath appened

[cold tree]

https://tenor.com/view/gta-vi-gif-1019499856505387698

[modest hatch]

Bad timing ngl

[fresh field]

CDPR always drops the ball on every game launch but end up fixing the issues post launch.

I dont trust UE5 with W4 though.

[kindred shoal]

all the sony open world shit to me is like 6-7 out of 10

tbh

[modest hatch]

I like horizon games , especially the second one

[lament nymph]

I mean how many open world games do sony have

[kindred shoal]

horizon is mediocre as hellto me

I almost hate them

[paper oriole]

If I had to guess (and it is a guess) it's just the way it happened when forge was working on it. At first he added AWB then I noticed the hero lights being disabled, so I reported that to him. In the next update, he added a toggle for the hero lights, but it still had the dependency on AWB being disabled. I imagine this is something he could theoretically change, but I don't think that's very high in priority at the moment (or really that big a deal in general)

[kindred shoal]

horizons, ghosts games, days gone

[modest hatch]

Horizon 2 had good side quests, unfortunately the side actives were lack luster
Story was great too, as well as combat

[kindred shoal]

those mostly

[fresh field]

out of the sony open world games i liked Horizons the most.

Funnily enough spiderman, even though in NYC, is a really fun 'open world'

[modest hatch]

I liked the first one, didn’t feel like the price of the second was justifiable

[lament nymph]

horizons are bad game, looks nice, I agree, ghosts games are average games, I agree, days gone story is nonsense, I agree

[modest hatch]

If it’s at like 30 USD I might get it

[kindred shoal]

oh and spiderman

[modest hatch]

Have you played the second one

[kindred shoal]

not really crazy about those either

[cold tree]

Sorry if I'm blind or stupid but where's the link?

[lament nymph]

spiderman enemies are spongey, bad game, I agree

[kindred shoal]

though the first one had a good comic story

[viscid wedge]

wild take, but everyone has opinions i guess (about horizon zd being bad)

[lament nymph]

I like all sony games except for those

[modest hatch]

Horizon I noticed is a love it or hate it type game

[lament nymph]

especially their narrative driven linear games

[modest hatch]

I loved it personally

[lament nymph]

the last of us gameplay is elite, uncharted was nice, bloodborne ... not sony made but sony branded

[modest hatch]

Also you can not like it but TBF the story is very interesting

Uncharted wasn’t nice at all

[fresh field]

horizon is just a story about earth in the future when rogue AI's make us their bitch

[modest hatch]

It was spectacular

[fresh field]

its coming

[modest hatch]

The way it happened is interesting that’s the thing

[fresh field]

oh no i agree, i liked the horison story too.

[lament nymph]

the only thing I like about horizons are those zoids looking mecha animals

[modest hatch]

The second one vastly improved the combat and side quests

[lament nymph]

sony's open world titles are nice to look at

[fresh field]

also being able to fly was nice

[lament nymph]

but the world was lifeless

[flat bear]

anyone know what is causing this? this normal? (the textures brightening up)
https://streamable.com/t2k8g5

[modest hatch]

Yeah, DLC final boss was great too

DLC itself overall was good, not anything amazing

[kindred shoal]

the best gam that sony has released in the PS5 gen to me is Returnal

by a mile

[fresh field]

like 99% of all open worlds are lifeless. not enough juice to squeeze there.

CD is actually one of the worlds where it feels like there is always something going on but .. im still in the first area out of the like 5 or 6 in the game

[lament nymph]

you know who makes the best open world games since inception? Monolith soft's Xenoblade Chronicles X

the scale of that game was amazing

[kindred shoal]

talk about mmo quests lol

[modest hatch]

For me personally the 2 games that were able spark the Witcher 3 side quest feeling for me were KCD 2 and cyberpunk

[lament nymph]

you walking on foot you realize the world was huge, then you get the mecha, you are like the world is huge .... then your mech can fly and u realized there's more stuffs

[paper oriole]

The first two Infamous games were pretty crazy, especially the first at the time.

[lament nymph]

mira was massive

[modest hatch]

KCD 2 has some of the best side quests in any game ever

[hoary knot]

Thank you 👍, makes sense

[kindred shoal]

yea kcd2 was excellent

[fresh field]

KCD2 is great. Vast improvement over the first game in all regards.

CP2077 is also great. But another case of CDPR dropping the ball at launch and having to fix their shit in post

[lament nymph]

the only thing kcd2 does horrible is the combat lock on that didn't really improve over the 1st game

[fresh field]

of course the KING of fixing their shit in post is No Man's Sky

[lament nymph]

the npc interactions are cool

the quests are cool

[kindred shoal]

the onyl xenoblade i liked was the first one

[modest hatch]

I have high hopes for the Witcher 4

CDPR improved their management system and provided their improvement in phantom library DLC

[lament nymph]

just that henry is still not a knight after all this, narratively kcd2 doesn't really do anything

[fallen knoll]

healing in this game is so violent

[kindred shoal]

X was like an offline MMO more than this game

[fresh field]

anything involving open world and UE5 immediatly makes me worry

[fallen knoll]

wdym i jab someones stomach and boom they are healed🤣

[kindred shoal]

and 2 had the absolute worst characters possible

[viscid wedge]

they can keep GTA6, all I want is Witcher 4

[kindred shoal]

I could not get over that

[modest hatch]

My main issue was how the other attacks you learnt just didn’t feel intuitive to use

Despite there being many many others

[fresh field]

Once you learned the master strike, there was no point in using anything else lol

[kindred shoal]

all you need in KCD2 is the master strike really

[lament nymph]

look, kcd2 combat is like "you pick sword? you get the option to counter ppl which matters "

the other weapons are worthless to use

[modest hatch]

Literally top 3 games I played in terms of side quests

[modest hatch]

True

[kindred shoal]

I was stealth in KCD2 so i used the bow a lot tho

and that was fun

bow and my words

[modest hatch]

Understandable

[lament nymph]

still narratively kcd2 just shift the time period while the character stays constant

they didn't really grow in the sense

[dapper lake]

uhhhh

[modest hatch]

Didn’t play one so can’t say

[modest hatch]

Dude what are those materials

Are you cheating

[kindred shoal]

https://tenor.com/view/iasip-it's-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-dennis-dennis-reynolds-golden-god-gif-12293570807957443059

[dapper lake]

ive just had them doing the same shit for weejs

weeks*

[lament nymph]

... I forgot to test if kliff has armpit hairs or not

need to remove his armor and sleep

[fallen knoll]

if u keep sending them its ez to get way too much than u need

[modest hatch]

Oh I see

[dapper lake]

i hadnt noticed how high theyd gotten tbh ngl

[modest hatch]

Damn.

[lament nymph]

I still don't get what';;s the benefits of your greymane camp

I have like 300k in each resources

and my guys are still too weak to actually fight anything

[fresh field]

just another thing for you to do

[modest hatch]

Idk if you guys know this

[tall maple]

A few shots after setting the RR at 99%. Running on 4K DLSSQ, settings to max. The ray tracing looks clean AF!

[modest hatch]

But a senior quest designer at warhorse (the guys who made KCD 2)

Went to work in CDPR

👀

[fresh field]

my stutter senese are still tingling with W4

i hope they work out the kinks

[ruby tusk]

Did yall ever figure out if this is actually doing anything?

[modest hatch]

My PC is ready

[lyric aurora]

how do you set rr at 99 ?

[tall maple]

Not really sure but hey! I'm leaving these settings as is loll

[fallen knoll]

how do u set rr to 99%?

is this an nvidia only thing

[tall maple]

Nvidia Inspector, you need to create a profile of the game.

[ruby tusk]

Fair enough

[tall maple]

think so

[fresh field]

doesnt that cause black screens?

[tall maple]

Not at all. If you put DLAA, then yes black screen but at 99%, it's fine

[hoary knot]

The game had a profile already for me on the latest driver

[tall maple]

Sorry, yeah you are right

[lavish pumice]

nvidia inspector

or nvidia inspector revamped?

[lyric aurora]

can you show your settings in npi ?

[fresh field]

whats the performance hit for this

[ruby tusk]

so with that setting you're playing at DLAA or DLSS Qual?

[tall maple]

think its the normal one ? 2.4.0.34

[lament nymph]

tips for ppl that don't know but at the contribution shop, you can resell things to get exactly what you spent back

[golden scaffold]

So what are your conclusions? Should everyone do this? How to set it up? Any performance loss?

[lyric aurora]

you just do this ? then DLSS 4.0 or 4.5 in game ?

[tall maple]

Here you go!

[dapper lake]

force q level on custom too

[golden scaffold]

Btw I'm running on 4K ultra perf so idk if this applies to me

[tall maple]

Between 70-100 average on a 4090/7950X/32GB DDR5 6000. GPU is Undervolted

[viscid wedge]

Yeah I can't do that. 4k on 4090 is bad enough with RR on Quality

[tall maple]

DLSSQ, the 99% is for the Ray Reconstruction

[restive roost]

RR uses its own upscaler

[tall maple]

Solely depends on your hardware offcourse

[lyric aurora]

thanks ! but smooth motion ? and RTX digital vibrance is for what ? and a last question if i put dlss q in npi do i need to put dlss 4.0 ig ? or 4.5 ?

[lavish pumice]

4090 rtx on 1440p ?

[tall maple]

DLSS 4.0 in game

[lavish pumice]

% ?

[ruby tusk]

yeah just curious what setting you ran ingame

[viscid wedge]

the Quality setting is being overridden by whatever you do with RR.

[ruby tusk]

That's what I thought

cause its a custom quality now

[tawny ravine]

How bad is it actually because I'm running a 4090 with a 4k monitor too

[true dagger]

when i tried custom upscaling % crimson desert just ignored it, i checked with SK

[tall maple]

Smooth motion is for the 4000/5000 series I believe, it gives more frames or something like that ? RTX digital, I've read it's better got image quality, don't really know how to test it. Not sure about the last question.

[ruby tusk]

also heard this, that CD was just ignoring NVPI

[tall maple]

4K with Frame Generation offcourse

[pure sundial]

any reason you are using smooth motion instead of fg

[true dagger]

isn’t smooth motion just frame gen for games that don’t natively support it? shouldn’t be needed for crimson as it’s natively in the game

[viscid wedge]

Smooth motion is driver level frame gen, that is all. Unnecessary when the game has native Nvidia Framegen.

[ruby tusk]

yes

native FG is better

[viscid wedge]

yep

[tall maple]

using both but my FG seems to be ON by default. The in game option is OFF and if I put it ON it does not do anything.

[lyric aurora]

So i'm quite lost no point to use custom rr in npi if the game override itself right ?

[tall maple]

Did not know that, I will turn it off in inspector and activate it in game and see.

[hoary knot]

It does seem like CD just ignores the NV Inspector custom setting

[viscid wedge]

With RR on Quality mode and a combination of Cinematic and Ultra settings and framegen, only 60-70fps. Base framerate is so low that it doesn't "feel" great. However on Performance mode it feels fine.

[true dagger]

idk if they fixed it on the latest patch or not, but i tried it like 2 days ago and it wasn’t working, dlaa was just dlaa and dlss quality was just quality

[pure sundial]

I'm kind of confused at what you mean are you saying that enabling FG is doing nothing while you alread have smooth motion enabled?

shouldn't be using both at the same time

[viscid wedge]

It does

[tall maple]

I think that is what is happening yes

[neat tree]

if you check your internal render resolution with something like special k, you will see that changing the RR scaling ratio with NVPI does not actually affect anything

[hoary knot]

It just looks so much blurrier on Balanced/Performance RR :/

[true dagger]

yep, native fg is better than smooth motion

[tall maple]

ok, did not know that either Guess the in game RR is good then since it looks great.

[tawny ravine]

Damn that's rough. I thought that would be without framegen. But I guess you would need a 5090 if you want all the eye candy and the best image quality

[dapper lake]

its definitely changing something, i can actually make details out on my shield lmao

[true dagger]

your game still looks good tho, just keep it as is, i’d just turn off smooth motion and enable frame gen ingame

[neat tree]

In my testing i thought it was better as well but it turned out to be placebo i think

[viscid wedge]

RR isn't like it is in most games, its heavy as hell due to whats linked to it. Honestly, they whole DLSS stack was just done wrong in this game and we hope they fix it.

[hoary knot]

Can someone else check? I feel like turning on FG severely blurs the game on its own

[viscid wedge]

not seeing this, personally

[frail wyvern]

I can't wait to play this game. I feel like Crimson Desert is how Cyberpunk started and is now. I just want to wait for a few more updates before playing!

[pure sundial]

Its because turning on RR has such a massive perf hit, I have a 5070 ti 9800x3d playing 3440x1440 and I cant hit base 60 frames unless I go dlss perf

[tawny ravine]

Ya that's what I'm hoping for and why I haven't bought it yet. They didn't release the game in quite the best state really

[pure sundial]

like a 30-40 fps hit for me turning on RR, but I refuse to play without it

[hybrid geyser]

Is it just the custom things in NVPI that doesn't work in game? or does changing anything at all in NVPI for CD get overwritten in game.

[viscid wedge]

On the other hand, i'm having a blast just using RR + Performance (1080p internal render) and getting a smooth 90-100fps

[pure sundial]

forgot to mention everything on cinematic too

[golden scaffold]

It makes it even more necessary if you use improved autoexposure as it was designed with RR in mind

[pure sundial]

yeah absolutely

[golden scaffold]

Improved auto exposure is just so good. Just any regular scene looks better. No more jarring unnaturally strong contrast. Entire game just feels so natural now. It fixes the main problem of the game that wasn't just a HDR/tonemapping problem (too bright and too dark at the same time everyone is saying)

[pure sundial]

game objectively looks like dogshit with no rr

[hoary knot]

You think Nvidia will release a Transformer 2 version of RR eventually?

[tawny ravine]

Yeah from what I saw if you care about the actual look of the game and aren't blissfully ignorant RR is a must

[golden scaffold]

Trashformer™

[frail wyvern]

https://klipy.com/gifs/transformers-optimus

[naive jackal]

@viscid wedge Same, i hated the game in the first 10 hours and had some crash out moments on the steam forums over it. But it turns out that the meme is true with this one, it does get better after x amount of hours, i've pulled two back to back all nighters on it lol, haven't done that with an SP game since Morrowind

[tawny ravine]

And how does it look with Performance?

[pure sundial]

What resolution Guilty?

[neat tree]

you can confirm this does not work by setting the scaling very low and you will not see a difference. I just did this myself

[viscid wedge]

sat back in my chair on my 42" display, great, honestly.

@pure sundial 4K

[dire pilot]

to quote the eternal meme, once it clicks, it clicks

[pure sundial]

3440x1440 dlss perf is way too blurry for me but I use RCAS which helps a lot

[viscid wedge]

💪 I wish I could do that, adulting sucks lol (also i'm not sure if i could anymore lol)

[tawny ravine]

Nice glad to hear that

[dire pilot]

I do hope they fix the upscalers cause man, even at 88%, RR looks rancid and blurry

[neat tree]

you cannot modify the RR scaling with outside tools like NVPI

[fleet prawn]

Am on the verge of whether to buy the game or wait for more patches, what's currently broken with DLSS?

or RR

[pure sundial]

I think someone mentioned that modifying the RR scaling in NVPI doesn't actually change anything

but I haven't tested so I'm not sure

[neat tree]

correct

Ive set it to 33% and it still looked the same

[viscid wedge]

you can try but no one has been able to actually get it to stick. The game seems to be ignoring any modifications there.

[tawny ravine]

Considering how fast they are pumping out patches maybe best to wait a few weeks? That's my plan at least

[dire pilot]

it's weird because the Nvidia overlay says preset E, 88% but yeah, it doesn't look any better

[naive jackal]

@viscid wedge wasn't sure if i could anymore either, been many years since, last ones like that for me were release week Morrowind and when i was raiding in WoW.

[viscid wedge]

You can verify the render res with SpecialK or enabling the DLSS indicator

[fleet prawn]

Yeah just curious whether technically the game is in a good state already or not.

[tawny ravine]

Well I'm pretty sure Forge was on the path of losing his sanity multiple times so take that as you will

[dire pilot]

the game runs, doesn't have a lot of gameplay bugs, it's just technically very weird - I'm still having a great time

[viscid wedge]

This.

[pure sundial]

Gameplay wise I think it's in a good state, lots of graphical issues/decisions they made that hopefully they fix not sure if stuff like that bothers you or not

LOD's are absymal

[lavish pumice]

things to imporove on the game, but im having a blast

[neat tree]

just dont expect a compelling story

[dire pilot]

I haven't even really touched the main story, I'm just doing the side quests for the houses and those are fine

[viscid wedge]

I'm only on Chapter 4 and I have no idea whats going on with the story

[fleet prawn]

oh yeah I've been seeing on gameplay videos that small stuff pops in all around you, looks quite distracting

[novel kayak]

Story is so irrelevant just like how it is in breath of the wild. Games more about the sandbox and exploration

[pure sundial]

It's very annoying because the game looks amazing at times but things like that are very hard to un-see

[viscid wedge]

i'm fully ok with that, too

[naive jackal]

The problem the game has technically is that DF did glaze the hell out the lighting which has turned out to have some issues. And from how it looks a lot of people probably expected The Witcher or Elden Ring, but it's a sandbox mishmash of so many different openworld games plus Capcom/Team Ninja combat system.

[novel kayak]

Same

[dire pilot]

the way everything works together leads to very silly or amazing emergent gameplay that's super satisfying

[crude marsh]

the lighting barely exists lmao

[strange crow]

where i can download the latest version plz ?

[ruby tusk]

pin

messages

[median kindle]

can anyone guide me on where to download RenoDx for crimson?

[fleet prawn]

Yeah honestly I do not expect a good story from most open world games anyhow, totally fine if it's non existant, just looking for a game that has solid progression and somewhat challenging combat

[strange crow]

dont see the pin message

[jade flame]

Check pins at top

[pure sundial]

pinned

[ruby tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/boy-aint-no-way-wow-gif-22526930

[dire pilot]

the bosses waft back and forth violently between very cool and jesus what the hell

[outer furnace]

@mods pin this

[median kindle]

sorry im new to discord

[frail wyvern]

Reading is hard

https://klipy.com/gifs/shocked-reading

[ruby tusk]

no you not

[ruby tusk]

muh fucka

[crude marsh]

discord needs like, a channel banner options with flashing colors

[median kindle]

https://tenor.com/view/waltergotme-gif-18867690

[fresh field]

before you enter channel it makes you acknowledge that the pin exists

then you can enter

[viscid wedge]

to be fair if you're new to this kinda thing, pins may not be something you've ever experienced. I've been there, so i'm happy to tell them to check the pins, its probably not obvious your first time.

[crude marsh]

but yeah it has been a lifelong issue

[viscid wedge]

It wasn't for me

Yes, the channel should require it upon first entering. Problem solved

[shut badge]

27600 messages in this thread and half are prolly asking where the download is

[crude marsh]

I've tried multiple ASI patches, runtime hooks, bunch of changes to game assets

NOTHING WORKS

[crude marsh]

[shut badge]

God forbid I tell a little lie

[median kindle]

thats still a lot lmao

[ruby tusk]

nah you're probably right

download isn't enough

need more key words

[median kindle]

so is it the "let there be light" link?

[pure sundial]

That's a separate thing you should download if you plan on using the auto exposure fix in reno

[viscid wedge]

nope, the addon64 file. just prepare yourself for weirdness when your antivirus freaks out

[shut badge]

I feel like this mod is the one that changes the most stuff out if all renodx mods so thats prolly why its the most popular one

[crude marsh]

I like how the latest pinned reno is

SLOP DROP 4

[shut badge]

I've been using renodx for a while and im surprised it just now got this popular

[crude marsh]

[ruby tusk]

me too

Waiting for SLOP DROP 5

before GTA 6

[crude marsh]

its the only thing that can change the graphics so far

[viscid wedge]

lol yeah I'm sure that isn't confusing anyone

[golden scaffold]

you see, this is why the vanilla autexposure sucks and I hated it so much, look at this:

it's broad daylight. on second set of pictures you can see how bright the day is when I look at the sky with both the fix on and off.

but the moment you look away, towards ground, or at the rocks that should be reflecting the sunlight - why the fuck is it only 100 nits, as if a big fucking cloud came above? it makes no sese

thanks @faint bobcat the goat, this fix is the best thing ever. vanilla exposure makes NO sense at all it was so annoying

[fleet prawn]

been telling ppl about renodx on youtube and reddit since a long time ago, finally time more people discover it 😄

[warm magnet]

I tweaked my settings a bit and I think it looks pretty good, but I would like some feedback to see how I can make it look even better

[lament nymph]

woah

[viscid wedge]

curious, what is the final resolution here and what upscaling level?

[crude marsh]

why is there vignette

[warm magnet]

DLSS quality and its 1920 x 1080p

[pure sundial]

I pretty much look for reno whenever I play a new game that has HDR

[crude marsh]

why dont you look for it for games that dont have hdr

[true dagger]

look at the cloud in the distance

seems like a reno bug

worth the sacrifice tho

[pure sundial]

I didn't know that Reno was also used for games that didn't have native hdr I always assumed it was a fix

[fleet prawn]

yeah same, even if the game has a native HDR implementation there's usually a renodx mod out there

[zealous dock]

just what is wrong with this game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg5-zSL1jC0

[crude marsh]

nah reno upgrades SDR path to HDR too

[pure sundial]

ahh I see

well most games I play tend to support HDR anyway

[crude marsh]

its basically the holy grail of HDR gaming

[naive jackal]

Thanks to you guys we actually have HDR in PC Nioh, really irritated me that team ninja updated the playstation to version to have HDR but not the PC version

[pure sundial]

I first came across Reno when modding cyberpunk a while ago

[golden scaffold]

here's the craziest part:

most games are actually done in HDR deep at the engine level. but then they are clamped to SDR output by developer decision. Reno intercepts that message and tells the engine "no, do not clamp to SDR, render it in it's original form" before it even gets to your GPU! it's why it's not a reshade

to see some spectacular upgrades look at games like Kena Bridge of Spirits, originally only an SDR game, but it's assets have incredible HDR detail. it was just locked away

[warm magnet]

I am still tweaking my reno dx but it looks pretty good already, its my first time using reno dx so idk if its that good (dlss 4.5 Q FG 2x max settings RR ON)

[crude marsh]

looks a bit saturated

but otherwise ok

[fleet prawn]

don't think DLSS 4.5 exists for RR right? Or did something new come out

[hoary knot]

Any chance we can have auto exposure on at night, but not in the morning 👀

[crude marsh]

nah RR is 4.0

[warm magnet]

what isn't that ray reconstruction right?

or something else?

[pure sundial]

The game settings will let you select dlss 4.5 while RR is enabled but it's actually DLSS 4

[crude marsh]

yeah ray reconstructiion models are still 4.0 models

[warm magnet]

ok

[true dagger]

reno gives such a different vibe wtf (Reno/Full Vanilla)

[crude marsh]

its not intuitive

[warm magnet]

I turned it down ad now it looks a little too desaturated

[crude marsh]

how bout somewhere in the middle

just a little less than what you had

[pure sundial]

tbh I can never go back to SDR gaming

[fleet prawn]

if there is no renodx for SDR games I force it with specialK, no way am I playing on SDR

[pure sundial]

Or RTX HDR if the game is online

[naive jackal]

Can't be helped with some games, especially old goats like og FF7 of Fallout 1&2

[hoary knot]

There are some RenoDX mods that add HDR to a game that didn't have it

[covert ruin]

yeah i use rtx for marvel rivals and i think its fine as a last resort

[viscid wedge]

yeah between RTX HDR or SpecialK, i've played absolutely everything in HDR, no matter the age.

[pure sundial]

yeah same here

[naive jackal]

does RTX HDR still have a chunky performance hit in some games?

[fleet prawn]

Always felt like RTX HDR made text appear overly bright, maybe it's better these days idk

[golden scaffold]

game brightness = 100 with autoexposure fix off and on

[pure sundial]

I really cannot stand these LOD's

[viscid wedge]

Even the updated UT2004 from a few weeks or months ago

[covert ruin]

are you guys keeping auto exposure on or off?

[golden scaffold]

it sucks so hard making things too dim when they shouldn't be and nuclear winter skies when you're inside. of course i'm never turning it back on (yes as in i'm using the fix it's goated)

[naive jackal]

Admittedly i haven't used RTX HDR much since it came out, something always looked off about it to me, but i remember when it launched some people were taking a 5fps hit in some games and others were saying they were taking a 20fps hit in other games

[fleet prawn]

what in the... Are textures bugged perhaps or something? The buildings in the background legit look like a bad painting

[lucid thorn]

I really wanna know the performance impact

[pure sundial]

I don't know it's been like this since I got the game

[lucid thorn]

Just low lods in distance

[golden scaffold]

meanwhile reno these days afaik has almost no hit since they cleaned up the code

[pure sundial]

It reminds me of when I used to play PUBG on my RX 480 in 2017

[viscid wedge]

in the usually older or easier to run multiplayer games where I've used it.. with a 4090 i'm not noticing.

[pure sundial]

playdough buildings

[crude marsh]

RTX HDR is a joke, absolutely do not use it

performance hit for meme HDR

[viscid wedge]

I mean, its the only option sometimes. I enjoy it better than nothing and have since it came out

[true dagger]

i only use this in CS2 and pubg tbh

[lucid thorn]

Just ask the folks here, they'll make an alternative

[ruby tusk]

Yeah I will never use that shit

rather use SDR

[median kindle]

what effects do I install when installing ReShade?

[crude marsh]

none

[fleet prawn]

Oh man, say what you will about UE games but at least there we can easily tweak some LOD stuff through a console

[pure sundial]

Really? I feel like it looks better than SDR

[viscid wedge]

which won't play nice with anticheat, which is why its useful

[pure sundial]

but I'm no expert

[lucid thorn]

Is there a reshade or anything for crimson desert to remove that
Aim dot

[naive jackal]

@viscid wedge I miss the days where i could just buy flagship cards, think the last ones for me were the 8800GTX for around £450 and GTX280 for around the same on launch, it's been 70 and 70 Ti class cards since

[lucid thorn]

Maybe multiplayer games were a mistake :p

[viscid wedge]

it 100% does to me, and i'm the only one I've gotta please!

[pure sundial]

haha for real

[crude marsh]

it just crushes super hard and cranks contrast/saturation

[ruby tusk]

yeah

remember only you have to look at it, so if you like it, go for it

[crude marsh]

ye

[ruby tusk]

I don't have to look at your monitor

[lament nymph]

you can buy flagship cards now

[lucid thorn]

We call that a realistic reshade

[lament nymph]

just more money

[lucid thorn]

:p

[naive jackal]

It's that i can't afford them now lol

[lament nymph]

same

[violet cobalt]

should I install both LetThereBeMoreLights or nah?

[lament nymph]

I'm too poor for this shit

[pure sundial]

Off topic but has anyone here noticed that going above 400 nits peak brightness causes artifacts in highlights when using smooth motion?

[crude marsh]

if you use reno autoexposure

just one of them

[pure sundial]

Not with this game just in general

[violet cobalt]

yeah my current build my lantern is an atomic bomb indoor

[lucid thorn]

You never found success with the lods right?

[violet cobalt]

idk what to do 🙁

[viscid wedge]

with the game having FG natively, I don't think most people would be using smooth motion?

[crude marsh]

uh there is a file for that.....

[pure sundial]

I meant that in general I don't use smooth motion with this game

but yeah off topic this is a crimson desert chat

[ruby tusk]

if he did, we'd all be celebrating

[viscid wedge]

Oh, yeah I've never used it at all lol

[crude marsh]

#1469072401450012774 message

[warm magnet]

Wow. Just wow. This looks great! RenoDX really saved the day

[lucid thorn]

Wondered if he had any progress since last we spoke. I want to take a look tonight, poke around the files

[violet cobalt]

thanks you're the goat man :))\

[ruby tusk]

Ah yeah I get ya

[crude marsh]

I have made progress aka tried several more things and nothing ever works

[median kindle]

do i need to change any settings at all or does RenoDX just do its thing

[pure sundial]

This is one of the changes that I am highly anticipating

if it's possible

[ruby tusk]

Best I've found so far is the Mip Map Bias change with Optiscaler

but that's not exactly fixing LODs lol

[crude marsh]

I am fairly certain that everything is just baked into level data

[pure sundial]

Idk how people can play the game and ignore the LOD's

Wish I had that superpower

[lucid thorn]

It's entirely possible

I was also curious if the camera had anything to do with it

[crude marsh]

I set 32000 assets LOD0 distance to 999999 and it uh

slightly improved things

[ruby tusk]

Another decent change for textures imo is turning off Parallax Occlusion , removes these jagged steps on edges

[pure sundial]

do you have any screenshots?

[elfin patrol]

Screenshots for ants

[naive jackal]

It's so messed up that Pearl Abyss stocks dived because they missed an 80 metacritic score by 2 points when the game sold 3 million copies in its first week

[warm magnet]

why is my lighting updating so slowly for some reason?

[lucid thorn]

It climbed back

[worldly vapor]

[fresh field]

gotta please those stock holders

[strange crow]

1.25 exposure is fine for oled ?

[lucid thorn]

Were you just running your app in cli and basically find/replacing?

[warm magnet]

I have to have that super power because more high quality LODs would cook my pc like a meal

[stray grove]

lil bro tweak more contrast is too heavy your character way too dark for day time

[naive jackal]

True but you'd think stocks guys would be more insterested in the amount of copies it's selling instead of the metacritic score

[warm magnet]

I have it on the default recommended settings

[crude marsh]

with changes and without I think

[stray grove]

@warm magnet your still using your reshade though arent you?

[warm magnet]

no

[crude marsh]

doesn't help they were captured at different tod

[warm magnet]

it killed all those files to it

[crude marsh]

for comparison so

[eager epoch]

Now thats how it was supposed to look, WOW, took me days to figure this up, hope devs will fix it, this beyond me how could they missed this simple thing and release the game in such state… Also it only works under crimson profile, moment I try to set it in global it wont cut it but maybe its only “me problem”

[stray grove]

@warm magnet just adjust color grading slider on top

[warm magnet]

it says there are no files found in the preset

[warm magnet]

adjust what

[pure sundial]

Does look a lil nicer but yeah the castle at the back still looks so ass

[crude marsh]

its so minimal

[pure sundial]

yep

[novel kayak]

Yeah IMO auto exposure ON is way too dark at nights but turning it off is probably too bright. Anyway for a slider or in between value?

[crude marsh]

not rn no

[eager epoch]

Btw your rebar is not enabled, when I enable REBAR it gets me nice gains

[warm magnet]

theres a whole lot of stuff right here and I don't know which to tweak I don't like a lot of sliders

[stray grove]

@warm magnet contrast mostly in color grading

dont touch anything bellow the color grading section

maybe just sharpnesss thats it

[warm magnet]

Is this good

[hoary knot]

What color grading settings you guys use in HDR?

[stray grove]

@warm magnet those top slider are not default

[warm magnet]

I clicked vanilla settings idk

[pure sundial]

Yeah which means barely anything has changed

[eager epoch]

Yes but the current HUD mod for it is bugged

[warm magnet]

@stray grove Is this better though I turned down the contrast

[crude marsh]

fwiw setting RR scale doesn't do anything

[ruby tusk]

Yeah I noticed

[ruby tusk]

I had a feeling it didn't

[eager epoch]

DlssInspector wont show it

[crude marsh]

its the debug view that says the scale RR is using

[stray grove]

@warm magnet i sent you some file in click disc

[warm magnet]

ok

[paper heron]

hey guys i have reno and i just downloaded the candlelight mod are there any other ones released here? i saw forge showing off some cerazy graphics

[eager epoch]

I know but in this game it doesn’t show it

[novel kayak]

Auto Exposure On vs Off.. like this is too crazy dark haha

[ruby tusk]

turn your headlights on

[pure sundial]

nah

[crude marsh]

idk man, RR doesn't work independently of SR

it does all of the upscaling too

[pure sundial]

at least it looks like it's night

[paper heron]

what abt unhooking rr from lighting settings

[novel kayak]

Even with the lantern on its SO dark still. It does look like night but it looks like the moon is turned off its not natural at all

[median kindle]

what are these square shapes around characters?

[true dagger]

reno actually gives the game a sunset looking feel

[crude marsh]

RR is different deeper in the engine level, not related to menu lighting settings

[pure sundial]

Do they go away if you turn off FG

[crude marsh]

IIRC squares are related to running one of the reno options + a lower in game setting

[paper heron]

this game has no fucking sunset. its either beautiful sunny day or night time, and the transition between them is this ugly grey unlit flat looking lighting, dusk and sawn are usually the prettiest in open world games but in here its completely missing?

[median kindle]

its already off

[pure sundial]

oh

lmao

[lucid thorn]

Turn off max lighting

Go down to ultra

Or cinematic

[eager epoch]

BRDF if I recall correctly

[crude marsh]

its cause it switches to purely environment lighting without a light source more or less

[pure sundial]

But that means disabling RR

[languid sleet]

Does anyone else have delay in the character's speech animations versus hearing the audio? So irritating

[paper heron]

hmm i see

[lucid thorn]

Indeed, but we can't narrow it down if he doesn't

[pure sundial]

.

[lucid thorn]

What's your dlss setting too

[median kindle]

DLSS 4.0 on balanced

[lucid thorn]

I ask because I ran into that earlier when running fsr quality and max lighting on an unrelated test. Moved to cinematic and it worked as expected :p

[eager epoch]

Tried to play with the BRDF Diffuser, its 100% fixable from the reno UI

[next spire]

Do I have to turn ingame HDR off? Or is both supposed to be on?

[lucid thorn]

Can you see if quality changes anything in that case? If we need RR we gotta play around with some other settings

[worldly vapor]

both on

[median kindle]

i think changing the lighting to ultra instead of max worked

what about the neon green folliage how do I get rid of that

[lucid thorn]

Is that contrast? What does it look like?

[median kindle]

it did get a lot better but for some reason my eyes are still sensative to it. It feels like my eyes are always trying to adjust

[warm magnet]

Is this Crimson Desert or Elden Ring wtf

[crude marsh]

@faint bobcat this is the smoking gun

Here's what the weather sequencer files control:

Atmosphere / Sky

_sunSizeAngle, _sunDirX, _sunDirY — sun position and size
_sunLightIntensity, _sunLightPreset — sun luminance (references lightpreset.xml)
_moonLightIntensity, _moonLightPreset — moon luminance
_directionalLightLuminanceScale — overall directional light multiplier
_rayleighScaledHeight, _rayleighScatteringColor — Rayleigh scattering (sky blue)
_mieScaledHeight, _mieAerosolDensity, _mieAerosolAbsorption, _miePhaseConst — Mie scattering (haze/glow around sun)
_atmosphereThickness — atmosphere depth
_scatteringAlbedo — single-scatter albedo
Clouds

_cloudBaseDensity, _cloudBaseContrast, _cloudAlpha, _cloudAltitude, _cloudThickness
_cloudCirrus* — high-altitude cirrus layer
_cloudFlow, _cloudSeed, _cloudContrast, _cloudScrollMultiplier
_cloudPhaseConstFront/Back — cloud light scattering
Fog

_heightFogDensity, _heightFogBaseline, _heightFogFalloff, _heightFogScale
_volumeFogScatterColor (sunny only)
Weather State

_cloudiness, _humidity, _windSpeed, _windDegree, _rain
Post-processing

_exposureCompensation, _fixedExposureValue, _exposureLowPercent/HighPercent
_toneMapMode, _toneMapParams*, _localToneMapping*
_colorGradingEnable, _colorGradingFilename — LUT-based color grading
_lensFlare*, _filmGrainRatio

[faint bobcat]

MEDIEVAL RDR2: The Game 5

• Added stuff
• Added fixes for said stuff
• Set all graphics sliders to default to off
• Fixed Auto Exposure final final test final (game now uses a "fixed" histogram value that then gets modulated by RenoDX rather than the previous method of game feeds dynamic data, then also gets modulate. Should in theory help to stop cases of giga crushed scenes. All night scenes should match in brightness all caves have the same exposure and so on
• Going from the above, AE has now been slightly adjusted to be less darker and has a "Dark Power (outdoor)" slider, if you want darker nights and interiors go lower and vice versa
• SDR fixes for crushed black floor
• Added RCAS sharpening TY Lilium
• FSR + SDR sharpening and chromatic aberration sliders should now fully work hopefully

https://github.com/OopyDoopy/renodx/commit/12b659fae9c4263a2b98bce30b78d1aeb85c50da

Latest commit is here

[warm magnet]

@stray grove ITS HERE

[pure sundial]

Will there be an issue if I already have RCAS or will it just overwrite that

[fresh smelt]

my game wont close fast enough!

[eager epoch]

Thank you so much!

[true dagger]

just disable it and use the one in reno

[subtle sinew]

[pure sundial]

alright

[faint bobcat]

This is built into the postprcoessing shaders

rather than reshade

results should be a bit better

[pure sundial]

Legend thank you

[warm magnet]

can I install this new version with the game open or do I have to restart my game this sounds dumb

[lucid thorn]

Holy 🙏

[shy brook]

Just in time for me to get home and play all night

[lucid thorn]

Amazing work as always lads 🙏

[pure sundial]

close game

I love it

[true dagger]

may i ask why set all graphics sliders to default off?

[plain fractal]

Thanks!! Is it still recommended to use the lighting mod from Lazorr? Or does the Dark Power slider fix the overly dark indoor scenes?

[covert ruin]

also wondering this

[vivid iris]

Easiest way to deal with compatibility issues

[ruby tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/denzel-training-day-gif-16743259178450786472

[vivid iris]

Renodx is also generally about staying fairly vanilla friendly so it makes more sense to default to this. There’s still some stuff being adjusted by default.

[final widget]

Ayyy

[fresh smelt]

can hear the shaders building

[vivid iris]

Still the recommended preset button

[warm magnet]

https://tenor.com/view/the-wait-is-over-call-of-duty-warzone2-we-dont-have-to-wait-anymore-no-more-waiting-its-finally-here-gif-27104922

[lucid thorn]

Shouldn't be an issue for folks not running RR right? 👀

[quaint cove]

Should light fix be used with this or original files?

[pure sundial]

so real

https://tenor.com/view/laptop-smoking-smoking-laptop-laptop-on-fire-fire-laptop-computer-smoking-gif-27155816

[median kindle]

does anyone know if vanguard will ban me for having reshade with full addon support even though I didnt apply reshade to valorant?

[pure sundial]

I wouldn't risk it personally

[plain fractal]

I think the light fix is still a good idea because the game tries to do the indoor lighting via exposure and the fix attempts to do 'real' lighting via increased brightness from light sources

[true dagger]

this is with the new version at night, looks great i'd say

[crude marsh]

reshade installed separately does not matter

[pure sundial]

Do you have the light fix as well?

[true dagger]

currently yes

[lofty quartz]

looking like Blood & Wine

[pure sundial]

sweet

looks great

[faint bobcat]

which sliders when disabled, fixed this

[true dagger]

maybe ill test in the future without the lights mod, but i think rn it rly looks great ill have to see

[true dagger]

ah fuck i just switched between Off and Preset #1, if i get the weather again ill tell you

[fresh smelt]

moon slider

damn you guys went all out with this one
nice work

[flat bear]

thank u guys

[covert ruin]

is blowout meant to be at 0?

[final widget]

holy shit goop

[true dagger]

100

is default

[covert ruin]

thanks