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[lament nymph]

like these

[dapper lake]

weird i used one and it didnt change my inv space icr what one

[subtle sinew]

most of the time it's whatever your monitor is rated for or what you have it set to
some OLED monitors have a 400 nit and 1000 nit mode
you can try the windows HDR calibration tool to see where it clips

[manic valve]

Someone just released a mod that makes all the ingredients and bugs etc stackable

Maybe that will help with your hoard of treasures

[subtle sinew]

sounds like that could brick your save hard if a patch breaks it

[dapper lake]

Aye was just wanting to check the criteria it was using so i could match Rtings but if its based off clipping i can just leave it as standard

ive got 400, 1000, and eotf boost which supposedly helps

[viscid wedge]

Reno is going to read your peak brightness from Windows, which will be determined by the HDR Calibration tool. Just run the tool, answer truthfully and let it go

[subtle sinew]

yeah I would go by where it's clipping instead of actual peak nits

[manic valve]

I mean I have a GPU that could explode and burn my house down so I like living on the edge

[dapper lake]

windows is saying my peak brightness is 980 after calibrating and clipping at 460 so didnt wanna just accept that lmao seemed off for it to be nearly twice as high

[lament nymph]

I got the ulti fishing rod

[dapper lake]

ah think its just not updating it after changing preset from peak 1000 to eotf all good

[lament nymph]

which I don't do to begin with

[crude marsh]

nothing new

known that it doesn't work equally everywhere as the game biases heavily in different places and conditions

[summer tapir]

i get blocky shadows around characters with the setting set to recommended in advanced. Vanilla fixes it. whats that about

[crude marsh]

you are running an RT setting too low for BRDF

[naive terrace]

Alright, wellp I think I will turn off Auto Exposure, it makes nights amazing, but exposure gets too inconsistent during the day

[dapper lake]

ohhh so thats what that was when i turned RR off lmao

[crude marsh]

yeah I mean that setting especially made with having RTGI in mind

[summer tapir]

ill try turning brdf off, but it might happen with RR on too, i forgot

everything else is max. RR kills my crappy card

[crude marsh]

not RR just the bad RT implementation

but ye the "RR" setting

[summer tapir]

i have a bright bright tv, i set peak to 3300 nits

i dont see clipping so i should be ok

[manic valve]

you should try looking up the TV on rtings etc and see where they measured it

well, the old info should be there. rtings hides everything now

[summer tapir]

thats what i did 👍

[viscid wedge]

I can look

[pure sundial]

Way back machine helps with this

[manic valve]

A shame their old business model wasn't cutting it

[obsidian locust]

You can carry both over the same fiber cable if you invest in transceivers.
Can't remember where I saw said device, it was HDMI 2.1 and USB 3.0 over the same cable, but I opted to just run separate cables without anything fancy because the idea of replacing those transceivers on the ends every time a new HDMI or USB standard comes out, really didn't appeal to me 🙂

[rose jewel]

autoEX in day time is fookin insane

[lament nymph]

the art scene in this game sucks

nobles can't appreciate fine art

[lethal dawn]

Is the update from 5h ago needed? Don’t even understand the patch note lol

[vivid iris]

was supposed to prevent some antivirus from flagging it, some people are still having issues

[quasi gale]

Does in-game HDR need to be enabled?

[vivid iris]

if your shit is working no need to update

[vivid iris]

yes

[quasi gale]

Thank you. ^.^

[vivid iris]

let me write some better instructions....

[lucid thorn]

You right. Also you still playing?

Oh my god

I figured it a puzzle

The hint was not at all related to what I was doing

[vivid iris]

okay pinned instructions updated

[tawny oracle]

is there a github for downloading the mod?

[daring orbit]

The last update was a noticable improvement 👍

[cold tree]

it is not

[vivid iris]

yes but it's also available here in the pins

[tawny oracle]

alright, the one that fix av detection correct?

[lucid thorn]

I love the puzzles in this game

[hoary vector]

Sometimes they impress me, sometimes the answer feels very jank and I assumed it couldnt be the right way

[daring orbit]

Its a fun game, definitely not the most polished

Decent boss fights, thats whats important

[glossy scarab]

anybody got a lg 32gs95ue monitor for hdr settings? Sorry im new to all this lol

[wise flax]

I don't know what changed today, but I've been having a ton of super low quality textures and distant blob trees that weren't there yesterday.

[daring orbit]

I promise the blob trees have been there

[languid sleet]

Is it normal brightness to be changing on it's own? Seems to move between bright and saturated to dark and saturated without any obvious change in area or time of day

[wise flax]

Maybe it's specific areas with blob trees

Because I was looking for them near the starting city and didn't see any this bad until today when I explored further away.

[solar bone]

Hate that when the sun or moon aren't out the entire lighting system is just turned off

they really should've made something else a light source as well

[viscid wedge]

if you're alone in the woods, where else would the light be coming from?

[ivory sandal]

also the lantern exists

[solar bone]

not your pictures

[wise flax]

He more means the lighting system breaks without the sun or the moon to cast rays. I saw a reddit post about it earlier.

[tawny oracle]

is there any setting yo make the shadows/black less darker? on oled is very dark with default renodx settings

[solar bone]

they should be though?

depends on what you mean

if it's crushed blacks

[wise flax]

Shadows, Contrast and Adaptation Contrast if you really want to birghten them up. Default settings should look good on oled though it's supposed to be black.

[tawny oracle]

alright thanks for the answer

[vivid iris]

depends which default settings you're talking about I guess. The current defaults should be fine, but the old build where we defaulted auto exposure changes on had problems yeah

[ivory sandal]

imo less is more when it comes to this renoDX mod. I run basically default with the various bonus graphics options enabled (except sun disk size is 1x) and I keep autoexposure enabled. Gives good contrast but isn't excessively dark

also on an OLED here

[wise flax]

I still have to turn autoexposure off in big fights just for gameplay's sake, but it does look much better with actually dark nights.

[tawny oracle]

maybe is my hdr settings or calibration

[viscid wedge]

https://youtu.be/fAhxR-gMU_U Useful. HDR video, and should be able to see down to 68 changing without issue.

[solar bone]

make sure to look up a good guide on how to set up your monitor model

[vivid iris]

it should be less contrasty compared to vanilla by default at the very least

[gilded plover]

68 not necessarily but like 72/76 atleast, depends also on lighting conditions

[shut badge]

only other time reshade helped me is reducing the vignette in wo long

reshade really is just a renodx/shadertoggler machine

[native blade]

is there a fix for error 4551?

[viscid wedge]

ok maybe for some, yeah. In a dark room I can just see 68 blinking but I've spent the last 3 years screwing with this C2 to get it right.

[gilded plover]

yeah with my g5 i can see 68 in dark room just about as well

[tawny oracle]

my bad guys was my calibration that sucked

sorry for making u wasting time

[shut badge]

renodx&shadertoggler or blown out reshade preset that fucks up performance for some reason (it includes a broken ray traced ambient occlusion shader that doesnt even work)

[wise flax]

This game still needs some work. I just found a memory thing in black forest where I could not get it to trigger with lantern until I stood in a random corner.

[solar bone]

lets hope next patch will be more good fixes

[wise flax]

Yeah it's still super addicting flaws and all

[native blade]

:(

[viscid wedge]

exclude the game folder from your antivirus

[native blade]

exe folder or whole root?

[native blade]

i tried before but id did not go well i"ll try again now

[native blade]

still same :/

it was ok one or two days ago

[viscid wedge]

not sure what to tell you then

[native blade]

before the update

[viscid wedge]

i've got a process I've been following to ensure this goes smoothly. game folder has been in exclusions for the past week. I exclude my downloads folder temporarily when getting an updated file. download the file, drag to game folder, remove exclusion from downloads. play. hasn't been an issue since that first day.

[native blade]

i did not that and now im cursed

[round kettle]

I had to turn off my defender, download file, try to add exclusion causing windows to auto delete the file cuz it thinks its a virus, go to protection history and pick restore, then, again, add it as an exclusion then it works

[warm magnet]

how would I be able to use the noise fix mod and the no hud + effects mod together if they are both the same files

found my solution, thanks!

[lucid thorn]

Glad you got it working

[native blade]

even if its delete file i cant see them at the protection history thats odd

[lucid thorn]

I've turned kliff into a villain

Just assassinating people haha

[viscid wedge]

I hate how you lose rep when stealing things.. and no one knows

[lucid thorn]

Especially when they're bandit camps

[wise flax]

Or if you're clearing a bandit camp while they're alive it's not stealing, but as soon as they die or leave it becomes theft before you can finish looting...

[lucid thorn]

Yeah I just cleared out an area and looted a puzzle thing and it counted as stealing. Nobody was around haha

[viscid wedge]

how do they know!

let me just lie to myself in peace!

[wise flax]

Yeah all of the lockboxes are considered stealing. The one in the castle was a huge pita for me because there was always someone in the room and I got arrested...

[lucid thorn]

The one on the top floor??

[wise flax]

yep

[viscid wedge]

oh man, that gold bar in the fireplace of that one mansion up the hill from Hernand.. i waited in there for like 15 minutes learning the pathing patterns of the guards before grabbing it. just made it in time

[lucid thorn]

Man I waited so long for people to leave. There was 2 in there. Eventually one left, noble girl wouldn't leave. Looted it in front of her and had to flee the city 😂

[wise flax]

Yeah I honestly don't steal at this point unless it's a unique item or something.

[lucid thorn]

That's all I loot

[viscid wedge]

lioncrest manor, in the fireplace?

[round kettle]

FOr me I thought that too, but it was listed further down for some reason and not right at the top

[lucid thorn]

Lemme retype that

[viscid wedge]

go poking around at the fireplace on the ground floor 😉

[lucid thorn]

It was in the castle, but I'm in the manor rn haha

[viscid wedge]

lioncrest manor, just up the hill northwest of town

[lucid thorn]

Hahahahaha I got arrested

Tbh I shouldn't have run out the front door so that's on me

[wise flax]

Btw if you guys didn't know you can use your lantern on random guards or during fights and learn skills.

[viscid wedge]

lol

[wise flax]

I thought it observed automatically, but you have to have the lantern out for quite a few

[native blade]

bad news there is nothing to see xd

[lucid thorn]

Don't need the lantern!

[viscid wedge]

did anyone else have a random guy bump into you and pass you a note about being taxed?

[wise flax]

I did earlier to learn counter from a guard with a pike over his head

[lucid thorn]

You do have to pay taxes

Bro that castle robbed me

They took all my money hahaha

I'm at -5 silver

[viscid wedge]

i was confused because I didn't have anything in the bank. I had to go to the bank to pay it and it was 50 silver.. however they gave me a trinket that sold for 100

so pay your taxes!

[lucid thorn]

I'm at-5 silver I can't buy anything haha

[viscid wedge]

DAMN

time to go gold bar hunting lmao, easy 500 silver lol

[lucid thorn]

Well so I have that one bar I just stole

I kept it even tho I got arrested

Do I just deposit it into the bank?

[viscid wedge]

in the bank menu there is an option to convert 1 gold bar to 500 silver and vice-versa

[lucid thorn]

Ah there it is thank you

495 silver now

[viscid wedge]

lol

[lucid thorn]

Legit didn't know you could go into the negatives

That's hilarious

[viscid wedge]

same ha

I did go to zero briefly when I discovered the guy in my camp to give donations too (still don't really understand that system)

I thought I was giving him a bunch of copper, but it was all of my money apparently

[lucid thorn]

D:

Your camp does need the money!

Also when you get arrested they take your mask

[viscid wedge]

somehow I keep finding more masks in my storage box

i learned tonight that it won't even let you attempt to steal without one

[lucid thorn]

Yep you need a mask to steal

I tried looting a recipe off this person when I realized they took mine

I dunno if you noticed but if you aim your lantern at people you can see what's in their pocket haha

[viscid wedge]

oh yeah, I did notice that. and any lootable object for that matter.

like chest, cabinents, etc..

at least if there is something inside

speaking of places I felt bad stealing, Pororin Village is idyllic. fun little side quest getting in there

[warm magnet]

50 exposure.....🔥

[lucid thorn]

I like it there

[viscid wedge]

I want that as my camp lol

[lucid thorn]

I'd be down, it's cozy haha

[stray grove]

@warm magnet deep fried 😅 try 60

[warm magnet]

okay

it looks better in game trust

I like 55 a bit better its a good middleground between the 2

[stray grove]

would just look better if those shadow weren't so dark there those shadow are crushed

[plush kelp]

yall talking about ingame exposure or reno?

[warm magnet]

55 exposure fixed those shadows and looks almost the same so I'm going with 55

for comparison this is 55 in the same spot

[stray grove]

it's still crushed though you loose all the detail in those shadow

[warm magnet]

but 60 is a little too washed out for me though I'll keep going up by one

65 looks fine I guess

[stray grove]

@warm magnet you can adjust the shadow slider to make those darker while keeping your exposure a bit higher

[warm magnet]

turned the shadow slider down and put the exposure to 0.85

[fresh field]

is it just me or is the day/night cycles fucked? its 354 am and its light out

its like dark night at 830pm and sun coming up at like 3

or is this a consequence of reno and the dawn/dusk cycle?

[warm magnet]

now it feels too bright idk @stray grove

[stray grove]

whats ur highlight at

[warm magnet]

43

[stray grove]

gimme sec starting my game

you laptop ips pannel?

[warm magnet]

ngl I don't know

[stray grove]

probably you would know if hdr

[warm magnet]

oh yeah then its IPS I have no hdr

only sdr

[stray grove]

i mean ips support hdr but mine same im sdr

[warm magnet]

its like this part right here is too bright idk

👀

[stray grove]

ive been rocking those setting for past few hour

this game man

[warm magnet]

oh yeah that looks a lot better, thanks!

this damn smoke

[viscid wedge]

hey at least it isn't purple

[stray grove]

ahah purple smoke

they got some special dye in those log they burning

[subtle sinew]

it's a gender reveal party

[warm magnet]

That looks good 👍

[subtle sinew]

thanks :)

[stray grove]

that parallax fix not always that good @warm magnet look at the depth and detail on the wall to the right with parallax on its absolutely flat

i just realised that look ugly immo

[hoary vector]

Every so often i find spots like this. Not related to Reno or anything just annoying

[warm magnet]

yeah

[solar bone]

should turn your saturation down a bit

[stray grove]

@solar bone yea i kinda like it colorfull right now saturation at 53 ive been adjusting

[solar bone]

ah okay yeah it's a preference thing

[subtle sinew]

there's some real weird bugs with denoising in this game

[stray grove]

@solar bone yea lets say in other game i would go for less saturation but it does fit this game really well

[tall maple]

The lighting and detail in this game is really something.

[stray grove]

i would not go higher then that though

[warm magnet]

I took yours and I just put the saturation at like 43 with everything else the same as yours and I really like it

[stray grove]

53 versus 43 sat @warm magnet @solar bone you know what ur right i think i like right picture more with lower sat

[warm magnet]

yeah the lighting in this game with RR on is something else it looks really good

[hoary vector]

Hey why you talkin to my wife

[stray grove]

but it could be so much better the RR they using is prettymuch the lowest quality they could use

console RR

[subtle sinew]

really annoying bug hopefully one of the renodx wizards figures it out

[sick monolith]

https://www.reddit.com/r/radeon/s/GhAYJqzxfB

[subtle sinew]

Ignore the bad colors I had to tonemap hdr to sdr

[sick monolith]

Thoughts anyone?

[subtle sinew]

kinda hard to make out when the screenshots he provided are 360p

[stray grove]

@subtle sinew i was gonna say like what are those screen shot

240p

[warm magnet]

I genuienly don't understand how they could make dlss this blurry, I have never seen dlss look this blurry in almost any game I have played

[subtle sinew]

everything is grainy and dithered

DLSS is crap in and bowtied crap out

[hoary vector]

I only see the blur when I use RR. Without it it was fine. Sharpening helps though

[stray grove]

Rcas at 80ish with dlss quality at 2k and idk it look pretty good appart from far Lod

[warm magnet]

turning up sharpness does help a good bit

DLSS Q on dlss 4 with RR on so its DLSS 4 either way

[subtle sinew]

the thing is with high sharpness it takes the already soft faraway detail and gives it specks

[stray grove]

@warm magnet do you use reshade or something else i dont know why ur blurrinesss is so heavy

[warm magnet]

no only renodx and the other stuff

its literally the fact that I am using dlss q with dlaa its not blurry but it runs horribly so I have to stick with dlss q

[stray grove]

idk i use dlss q and mine look far from that

like not even close

[subtle sinew]

Worst place his been this boss fight so far
I had to disable RR and use dlss 4.5

the grass is just mush

this screenshot is with RR tho

[stray grove]

@warm magnet which RR preset you using ? just game default?

[warm magnet]

yeah

[stray grove]

do you have the grain effect turned on in renodx? it just look super grainy

[warm magnet]

my optiscaler settings are all off and only the mipbias and anistropic are on, also no I don't have film grain on

[subtle sinew]

the grain in his screenshot is from over sharpening

[stray grove]

@subtle sinew your right

[subtle sinew]

could try a depth based sharpen though I know Sharpen+ in the nvidia overlay does it

[warm magnet]

The only sharpnening I have is from renodx

[stray grove]

@warm magnet dont do mipbias -15

do like -2 to -8

[warm magnet]

okay

[subtle sinew]

I still wouldn't go over 30-40

depends on the resolution ofc

[stray grove]

@subtle sinew i mean i have 80 sharpening and in no way does it look that grainy for me

maybe cause im using 2k who knows

[warm magnet]

Im on 1080

[subtle sinew]

oh yeah that's it

[warm magnet]

is it less blurry now

[stray grove]

much better

[subtle sinew]

yeah

[warm magnet]

is that tower supposed to glow like that

[subtle sinew]

I would crank sharpness until you start seeing the grain in the distant trees or low detail objects

[subtle sinew]

I think so

[hazy geode]

I haven't messed with mip bias before. How do you know if you should increase or lower it?

[warm magnet]

well dammit theres grain on the trees sharpness on or not

I couldn't tell you with or without sharpness which is which

[subtle sinew]

I would move it until you can see the extra sharpness is making it noticeably worse

[warm magnet]

Thats the thing it looks the same to me

[subtle sinew]

Hey if it looks good to you that's all that matters

[warm magnet]

I put it on 50

oh look my bar

[subtle sinew]

I think you can make out some noise in the trees but I think it blends in well enough

[stray grove]

@hazy geode all i found mip bias to be doing is adding some subtle extra lod in far distance like grass you wouldnt see with it at 0

[warm magnet]

so maybe 45 then

is it only me or like my clouds are like shaking

[subtle sinew]

they are pretty bad in motion

[warm magnet]

I can send a clip of them

they look like they are just vibrating

[subtle sinew]

the game heavily relies on your upscaler to fix them

look at a cloud and let something pass in front of it and you can see it regenerating lol

[warm magnet]

https://medal.tv/games/crimson-desert/clips/mo3a2ZOODBTpuhNp4?invite=cr-MSxzRnAsNTQyMTA1NjU2

look how these clouds are just vibrating

no movement 😂

[subtle sinew]

that's dlss tryna hold this mess of a game together lmao

[warm magnet]

wtf lol this game is a mess why are those textures still low quality

like look at this

😂

[stray grove]

i mean you kinda have to stop looking at this cause your not gonna enjoi playing 😅

[pure sundial]

have fun un seeing it mate

[warm magnet]

I used to be able to until people started pointing out how much of a mess this game looked

[lucid thorn]

I stopped caring about it eventually

Games just fun

[warm magnet]

It is fun

[stray grove]

yea i dont really care about this anymore i just want to play ahah

[warm magnet]

And plus I can wait for some updates and graphical changes and stuff because they will have to eventually fix these things

[stray grove]

idk i would not set my expectation to high ahah

[pure sundial]

https://tenor.com/view/akakichi-no-eleven-bro-bad-news-i've-got-bad-news-for-you-hand-on-shoulder-gif-4737126791591033318

[warm magnet]

I still don't understand to this day why this mans jaw is so long 😂

[hardy owl]

I hope the RenoDx team can fix these lighting issues

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrimsonDesert/s/sM9BPxr0mY

[sleek veldt]

just looks best raining

I turned off VRR and my screen stopped tearing if anyone is experiencing that in the game

[vivid iris]

2026.27.03 (Test Build)

Use the other pinned build unless you want to try this out

• auto exposure solved? (not yet, RIP)
• SDR/HDR menu mode toggle, in case auto detection fails you

Please provide feedback on the auto exposure 🙏

[tall maple]

Thank you

[stray grove]

ive just noticed how bad the leaf ghosting is look at the waterfall

[hardy owl]

What improvements did you do to auto exposure exactly?

[vivid iris]

it's a different system entirely

it's actually very simple, I'm just limiting the max amount of exposure the engine can apply and there's a slider to tweak that to preference

won't affect bright scenes, those will look vanilla, but it lets dark scenes get dark

[hardy owl]

I see. I am actually quite happy with my actual setup, but if this improves the quality even further I will download it now 😁

[vivid iris]

if everybody says it sucks it won't be how it's done lol

[hardy owl]

Btw Jon I hope you can improve a little bit the dusk and dawn lighting in this game. It looks so flat and the game becomes uglier. I think Lazorr was checking that right?

[ruby tusk]

Thanks for the Update, Jon
Appreciate you and the team

[vivid iris]

that's not really a renodx kind of issue

[onyx vortex]

Do we still need the light fix with the new reno?

[daring orbit]

It certainly helps if you what to use the alternative exposure

[stray grove]

is it me or lantern super faded when pointing it now?

[earnest fox]

today i woke up and renodx in crimson not work anymore because my windows security delete some file and send
message me about that. Did i miss something?

[stray grove]

previous renodx version lantern

@earnest fox check protection history and allow file

[vivid iris]

hm, maybe the exposure value needs to be adjusted somewhere else

I see the same issue

[stray grove]

@vivid iris yea i tried to set it to 100 but still really dim

thanks for the amazing work btw

[rugged sequoia]

Thank you for the great work. It's much better. But could you raise the max value so we have more control to up the exposure at night if we want to? I'ts close to my sweet spot but not quite there yet.
And the lantern problem has already been brought up. It's very dark when raised.

[vivid iris]

will keep the previous build pinned for now

[rugged sequoia]

Thank you for all the hard work. I really appreciate it! Could you make a version with higher multiplier still? Maybe 50% or even a 100% higher than the current values? That would be awesome, I'd really love to test that.

[toxic horizon]

if i just play with renodx but turn the auto expore off, its still better than native hdr, right? auto exposure is waaay too dark for me at night

[vivid iris]

yeah

[vivid iris]

yeah the range isn't set in stone by any means

[mossy gust]

would there be a way to add a lantern brightness slider or is that not possible, i feel if the lantern was a tiny bit brighter or you could adjust dark power a little bit higher it would be perfect for me

[vivid iris]

this fixes the latern brightness issue

I also double the exposure floor by default so the adjustable range should make more sense

[mossy gust]

nice, thank you

[stray grove]

https://klipy.com/gifs/sunnyfication-3

@vivid iris right now

[tame vault]

Ooh nice. Your approach sounds exactly what I was looking for. Will try it shortly

Assume we should remove the lantern brightness mod?

[onyx vortex]

so I'm noticing with psycho tone mapper the sun looks like it's eclipsed

[vivid iris]

what settings are you using?

image looks kinda goofy like you might have set peak lower than game brightness 😅

[stray grove]

@vivid iris that new fix work for lantern ..exposure gotta be set pretty low to make night dark but it work i have it on 15 right now 3am ish in game

[onyx vortex]

reno settings? I just clicked recommended and adjusted exposure to my preference

[vivid iris]

can you take a screenshot of the UI?

[onyx vortex]

OH, nevermind. I accidentally lowered my highlights too. Back at 50 fixed it

[stray grove]

@vivid iris still something off with new version lantern work when pointing but to make night dark i gotta set exposure to 1 or 2 and it make the lantern light when holstered barely visible

[vivid iris]

1 or 2 is so dark 😭

[rugged sequoia]

Awesome! Thanks for the fast fix!

[stray grove]

@vivid iris il test again

[vivid iris]

this slider is a multiplier on the base exposure value. Setting it to 1 is the same as multiplying the number by 0.02

[stray grove]

i compared to previous and ya 3am should not be that dark ahah 15-20 exposure seem more accrate

[vivid iris]

would force it to be comically dark

I'll have to consult with forge when he's up but as of right now what I'm wanting to do is add this simple exposure fix as an option since it's safe, then he can keep adjusting his more complex one

[tame vault]

Sorry @vivid iris - is the intention with the new approach for us to remove Lazorr's lantern mod?

[vivid iris]

no

[stray grove]

3 am with 20 exposure think 20-25 a good range

[vivid iris]

25 is equal to 50 on the first one I posted

I'm liking the current value as a default tbh, any darker and it's simply not friendly to people without calibrated screens

[gritty steppe]

Hello, I'm getting this error: Failed to load add-on from 'D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Crimson Desert\bin64\renodx-crimsondesert.addon64' with error code 4556!

[vivid iris]

windows defender is blocking it

or some other AV

[gritty steppe]

I already made an exception to the whole folder

[stray grove]

@gritty steppe check your protection history and allow file

and uninstall any other AV then the windows one if you have 😅

[gritty steppe]

I already did, I only have windows AV

[stray grove]

uh idk then i only had to allow file once and been switching version without an issue

[vivid iris]

I honestly might default it even higher

[stray grove]

@vivid iris whats the current default?

[blazing ledge]

wasn't there a RenoDX AV tutorial somewhere?

[gritty steppe]

that would be extremely helpful

[vivid iris]

kind of a meaningless number but 4

think I'll make it 6

[vivid iris]

so the equivalent of 75 on the slider right now

[blazing ledge]

try adding the addon64 file itself

[vivid iris]

can still tune down as much as anybody would want

[stray grove]

@vivid iris yep just comparing between both again previous one i had 75

gonna try 4 and 6 on new one

[gritty steppe]

the whole steamapps folder has been added as an exception

[stray grove]

15 did look to bright for 3am😅

[gritty steppe]

now I'm getting this

[vivid iris]

sorry I meant the underlying number in the code. The slider is an abstraction

[stray grove]

@vivid iris 😅

[gritty steppe]

Even if I try to install the addon from Reshade the option to select it is grayed out

[vivid iris]

that's normal, it can't be installed in the reshade installer

try reinstalling the addon

[gritty steppe]

I already did 🙁

3 times

I'll just play with HDR off

[sleek veldt]

Game really is easy as you want it to be

[junior cobalt]

HDR-cucked by Microslop smh

[sleek veldt]

none of these boss battles have been over the top

[jolly isle]

ngl I just used the autoinstaller

[stray grove]

well just had my first crash in 30h or so CTD with no error ahah

[vivid iris]

ah, sorry. It's gotta be an antivirus thing, just hard to say without knowing your system.

[jolly isle]

ReshadeHDRInstaller

[vivid iris]

2026.03.27

• reworked auto exposure (simpler system that just clamps the max multiplier, with a slider for user control)
• add SDR/HDR menu mode override in case autodetection fails
  changed the default again and setup the slider so it can't literally turn the screen black

LIGHT FIX STILL RECOMMENDED

ANTI-VIRUS FALSE FLAGS MAY DELETE/PREVENT THE LOADING OF THIS ADDON, YOU MAY NEED TO ADD AN EXCEPTION

[jolly isle]

win11 marked the .addon64 as a trojan, I had to go into security center and manually approve it and then redownload it

[vivid iris]

last build for the night

[gritty steppe]

I only have Windows Defender, and I already allowed the file and added it to the exceptions, I went into the addon properties and unblocked it, I also set the crimson desert exe to run as admin

[stray grove]

thanks @vivid iris !!

[gritty steppe]

I'll come back in a couple of days, maybe someone experiencing the same as I am will find a fix

[stray grove]

@jolly isle time ? exposure ? 👀 i gotta stop tweaking the stting and just play the dam game haah

[jolly isle]

idk the time I had hud off

[junior cobalt]

exclude downloads folder and CD folder from defender temporarely

[jolly isle]

settings were "Recommended" with exposure at 1.25 and using the light fix

LOL

lmao

windows defender decided to re-flag the file

[solid marsh]

i got a 5070ti. what are your graphics settings with a more ore less similar gpu right now for most quality and still ok frames?

[vital bay]

i had a tag here who was it?

[jolly isle]

went to launch the game and it slurped it up before I could even approve it again and crashed the game

[stray grove]

@solid marsh i got 5070ti your 1440p?

[solid marsh]

i am currently running native on 4k

got an lg C1 as display

[stray grove]

@jolly isle i though mine did too since my game crashed first time in 30h but nope no flag ahah

[gritty cape]

which one is better? Nadia dldsr’s own sharpening or RCAS sharpening

[gritty steppe]

this was it! it's working now

[vital bay]

cinematic everything + lighting max, 1440p, dlss balanced, fg x2, RR on, depth of field & motion blur off in accesibility tab, 4070 ti super which is about 5-10% lower perf than 5070 ti, i got around 100 fps, with VRR on no stutters

[gritty steppe]

I was missing to exclude the downloads folder

[solid marsh]

did you avoid 4k for a reason?

not much difference?

[vital bay]

i can do 4K with dlss perf or ultra perf, however the upscaling destroys particle and other weapon effects. Other than that it looks similar

[pure sundial]

Cinematic everything + lighting max + RR, 3440x1440, dlss balanced fgx4

[errant echo]

Never enjoyed that mutch copy/pasting the same file again and again into a "bin"folder, tysm for your work !

[solid marsh]

is this the best go to right now or just all max because you can? had weird effects with rr and the tessellation - visible on the roads especially

[stray grove]

@pure sundial hows the latency FG x4 ? i tried X3 and could not do it

[vital bay]

fgx4 probably adds huge amounts of latency and dlss fg artifacts

[gritty steppe]

hmm, I noticed that when I use the Ator's orb abyss gear the whole screen becomes grainy, could it be because of this? I'm running 4k, DLSS 4.5L, quality, RR on, everything cinematic, lighting max

[stray grove]

@vital bay my though exactly

[solid marsh]

i see! i am trying to make the game look best but i don't have too much time at hand to try all settings combinations - thats why i am curious what you guys are running

[pure sundial]

Well I don't notice any increase in performance dropping settings from cinematic to ultra, below ultra missing out on the visual gains. RR is the main thing that tanks performance but the game looks terrible without it so it's a must have for me. RCAS helps a lot too for sharpening with DLSS balanced

[vital bay]

there's a bug with some particle effects, affecting the Nature's Echo skill, if you have that you're probably seeing heavy fizzle whenever you do the RB+A or Heavy attack autocombo

someone made a mod for it on nexus mods, based on the shaderToggler

[solid marsh]

what is rcas?

[pure sundial]

Feels fine tbh, I play on controller so that may be part of it. I also have my game locked to 168 fps (175 hz monitor) that helps with latency

[vital bay]

@gritty steppe https://www.nexusmods.com/crimsondesert/mods/199?tab=description this is the mod to fix it

try it, maybe it fixes your problem too

[pure sundial]

Robust Contrast Adaptive Sharpening, it's in RenoDX, just a much better method of sharpening than the standard DLSS sharpening

helps the game not look blurry going below dlss quality

[stray grove]

@pure sundial gotcha but why use fgx4 if your pushing such high frame rate allready?

[gritty cape]

What rcas value are you using

[pure sundial]

my base fps is around 60 lol

not a high framerate at all

[stray grove]

@pure sundial truee

[pure sundial]

if I could hit my refresh rate at 2x framegen I would be happy

[pure sundial]

1.00

But it's really personal preference

[stray grove]

@pure sundial yea i got 144hz monitor but im not trying to hit that i got base fps 50-70 depending of area and run FGx2

[pure sundial]

yeah that seems solid

[gritty cape]

What’s your screen size, maybe bigger screen needs greater sharpening.

[pure sundial]

34 inch

3440x1440 same ppi as a 27 inch 2560x1440

[stray grove]

FGx3 tbh does not feel to bad on the rtx5*** series

[pure sundial]

Is the lantern brightness issue previously mentioned also fixed with this version?

[vivid iris]

Yes

[pure sundial]

thank you

[pure sundial]

Yeah I'd normally prefer to not use 4x but it makes the experience a lot nicer for me and the amount of artifacting feels the exact same as 2x which is weird normally it's significantly worse

I wonder if it's got something to do with me setting this in NVPI

[stray grove]

is that nvidia inspector?

[jolly isle]

Good lord daytime rain looks so awful

its semi-bearable with no upscaler but that means no RR

even with DLAA the daytime rain looks awful, and that drops me to like 28fps with RR on

[karmic quest]

Not that bad imho

[kindred shoal]

Man fighting at night with the fixed darkness is wild

[faint bay]

Hello im new here I have one question how long will it take to get the final version of the mod, because if I understand correctly, it's still in beta?

[jolly isle]

excuse me what?

[stray grove]

@faint bay its just a work in progress

[pure sundial]

yah

[stray grove]

@pure sundial i dont even have that in mine lol

[pure sundial]

I use a different fork, nvpi revamped

[karmic quest]

Not what it looks like to me

[faint bay]

But will I get a good result, or is it better to wait for the final version?

[pure sundial]

https://github.com/xHybred/NvidiaProfileInspectorRevamped

[gritty steppe]

it did fix my problem, you are a legend

[kindred shoal]

the results are already pretty damn good lol

[stray grove]

@faint bay its allready way better then vanilla

[vivid iris]

Hard to say when we’ll stop iterating. I’m personally close to done with it (if only because I don’t want more complexity to maintain with updates) but I know forge wants to keep working on it.

[stray grove]

@faint bay like i dont think anyoe here would go back to vanilla

[jolly isle]

1440p max settings, ray reconstruction on, DLSS4 set to DLAA

[vivid iris]

If you just want post processsing sliders and better hdr, mod is “done”

[pure sundial]

yeah they need to fix that shit

[vital bay]

happy to help! :)) I didn't make the mod though

[faint bay]

Ok ok thx

[pure sundial]

I think it's ray reconstruction destroying the rain

[karmic quest]

I run Shadows on Ultra, rest is Max, RR on, DLSS 4.0 Quality + FG X2

I'll send a picture once I get daytime rain

[jolly isle]

its 100% RR causing it

disabled it and the static-y fizz sparkle on everything wet is gone

[pure sundial]

I hate that ray reconstruction is basically needed for the game to not look like dogshit but theres a massive perf hit and it destroys the rain

lose lose

[vital bay]

try the same fix posted above, it fixed pixel fizzle for some cases other than the one's addressed in the mod, maybe it fixes this for you as well

https://www.nexusmods.com/crimsondesert/mods/199?tab=description this one

[rose jewel]

autoex off \ on that is BY FAR the best fix well done @vivid iris 👍 there is even a new slider to adjust the autoexp try it everyone

[jolly isle]

seems like it does

[karmic quest]

Would this conflict with renodx?

Or not

[vital bay]

nope, its a separate tab

[plush flint]

Don’t think so

[karmic quest]

Alr, ty

[vital bay]

yey

[jolly isle]

I already have a shadertoggle file

[pure sundial]

fuck it I'll give this a try thanks man

[vital bay]

then edit the shadertoggler.ini yourself and do a manual merge

[vivid iris]

Oh it’s just a shader toggler thing, that would be trivial to add to Reno as well

[karmic quest]

You can add it ?

[vivid iris]

Wonder what knock on affects it has though

[karmic quest]

Would be handier than having like 3 seperate tabs

[plush flint]

For those who plays in 4K :
DLSS performance with Optiscaler Output scaling at 2,50 (Lancsoz3 method) looks better than my DLSS Quality, and save a lot of fps

[stray grove]

@vital bay pretty sure that fix was added to no hud shadder toggler in todays update

[vital bay]

as far as i've tested it since yesterday, nothing tbh

[vivid iris]

I can check tomorrow

[jolly isle]

the PBR/Parallax fix has a Shadertoggle

[stray grove]

@karmic quest update your no hud shadder toggler im 100% ssure that noise fix was added to it

[vital bay]

well, it didn't have it yesterday, whatever works for you guys, important part is just getting the problem fixed

[GTGroup16_VertexShaders]
ShaderHash0=86024513
AmountHashes=1

[GTGroup16_PixelShaders]
AmountHashes=0

[GTGroup16_ComputeShaders]
AmountHashes=0

[GTGroup16]
Name=Noise Fix
ToggleKey=570425344
IsActiveAtStartup=True
HoldMode=False
HoldInverted=False

[stray grove]

@vital bay yea think he added it today there was an update and i have the option now

[vital bay]

err

[pure sundial]

Is there any conflicts using opti with reno?

[plush flint]

None !

[pure sundial]

awesome

I'm not playing at 4k but might give it a try

[stray grove]

https://www.nexusmods.com/crimsondesert/mods/1?tab=files heavy attack noise fix in this too now

[plush flint]

Some guy here use it at 1440p and was happy with his results, should worth a try !

[vital bay]

wait, if you're referring to this line: SWING TRAILS (HEAVY ATK) - REMOVES FIRE/SMOKE FX [UP ARROW]
this does more than just fix the problem, it also removes all fires and smoke fx

which is terrible

[stray grove]

@vital bay

check the 2nd toggle isnt that it?

i removed the other one

[plush flint]

What’s the purpose of the parallax shader ?

[vital bay]

maybe the guy just didn't update the description of the mod in nexusmods 😄

[pure sundial]

For optiscaler you have to rename the dxgi.dll right

[plush flint]

Yep, d3d12 works fine for me

[stray grove]

@vital bay yea who knows the line your refered above was an other toggle option which i removed!

[pure sundial]

legend

[vital bay]

honestly you can just check the ini yourself and compare the shader hash to the one i just posted

if its the same then it's the same fix

[thin kelp]

yup, i've gone with winmm

[stray grove]

@vital bay yep same fix just compared

[vital bay]

awesome

[jolly isle]

is it not this setting?

[stray grove]

@jolly isle i changed keybind

[rose jewel]

autoex ON (slider switched to 25 ) 💯 \ OFF..

[stray grove]

@jolly isle ya this one you posted is the good one

[vital bay]

i think so, mate i have the other mod, the one i posted 😄 pedro is using this one

they both do the same thing though, pedro just confirmed

[stray grove]

@vital bay the one he posted i the noise remover and the one you posted is the one that remove fire and smoke

[vital bay]

so turn that on, then test with your heavy autocombo or the RB+A ability

[stray grove]

(not talking about the mod u using thouggh)

its getting confusing 😅

thats why i removed most of the toggle

[vital bay]

i just wanted to make sure you DONT use the one that removes fire and smoke, as that one has the wrong shader

XD

[stray grove]

@vital bay yep make sense i saw the description too and was like nopee dont want this

[gritty steppe]

So this addon making the night very dark is how it should be, right? the sky looks great now, but omg now I do need to use the lamp

[jolly isle]

well its not raining now

when I reloaded the save

so I cant tell if it works

[gentle cedar]

Think this latest build is great. Able to much better fine tune how dark it is with the new slider.

[stone comet]

its not ideal no, the problem is they depend on the entire worlds lighting on autoexposure (not a good thing)

[pure sundial]

which diffuse brdf version should I be using?

[jolly isle]

#1469072401450012774 message

[vital bay]

afaik the pirate area in the lower left has some rain most of the time?

[stray grove]

i mean night should be dark when the only light source is from flame and moon

[jolly isle]

Combined with this and the custom auto-exposure makes night just

[jolly isle]

I have no idea what that means.

[stone comet]

nights should be as dark as long as its playable, before it wasnt 😭

[vital bay]

ah, you've just started 😅

[jolly isle]

Im in chapter 4

[vital bay]

ah, you've mainlined the main story without going for sidequests 😅

[jolly isle]

Im at 20hr played

[vital bay]

im at .. 65

and still in the first area, however i've explored all of it

[jolly isle]

I've done a handful of sidequests

but they kind of suck

I like the little mini games though

[karmic quest]

What is that even, I dont remember installing such mod unless its somewhere in renodx mod

[jolly isle]

archery, pistol shooting, arm wrestling, brawling, etc

[pure sundial]

Fuck that archery minigame

[stray grove]

@karmic questhttps://www.nexusmods.com/crimsondesert/mods/1?tab=files

[karmic quest]

Ah

[jolly isle]

I just ||switch to mouse aim when I do them||

[vital bay]

some are good, some are bad, imo, none are too annoying tho, and some of them get you to some pretty cool bosses and rewards

[stray grove]

@karmic quest i mainly use it for hud toggler the parallax toggle and noise toggle

[jolly isle]

I did one on accident by clearing out a brewery or something, and now some purple reward to clear a stronghold with a boss but its super far away

[vital bay]

lower left of the map has a dock-like area with pirates, a pirate ship and a fish captain, for example

[vital bay]

if you take the bounty posters, most of them take you to new areas where there's even more quests

[jolly isle]

I just dont really care about mining so I didnt do it

[stray grove]

are yall still using sword? ive been enjoying the martial art combat going full mma ahah

[jolly isle]

[jolly isle]

I use the rapier

[stray grove]

thats where im heading now ahah

[jolly isle]

with upgraded stab skill

[stray grove]

@jolly isle been liking the longsword or dual Axe too

but wrestling move are just so funny

and the dropkick

[jolly isle]

two handed weapon is somehow lower damage and so slow

[junior cobalt]

Would it be possible to clamp auto-exposure changes or give us 2 sliders for max and lowest?

[vital bay]

yeah im using a longsword

[jolly isle]

havent found a good two handed that does more damage than my sword

[vital bay]

the heavy combo string is amazing tho

[onyx vortex]

what I mostly use. 2h weapons just hit different

[vital bay]

the hound is nice, it's a 2h you get from one of the sidequest bosses, a wolf guy

[cursive mica]

what is up with the rain in this game everything looks blurry af

[jolly isle]

yeah but it looks cool too

[jolly isle]

we just had a long convo about this

[vital bay]

@jolly isle this is the hound longsword

[cursive mica]

haha my bad

its so bad it makes me want to wait for a mod

daylight looks great though

[vital bay]

use either this or this to fix it: https://www.nexusmods.com/crimsondesert/mods/1?tab=description https://www.nexusmods.com/crimsondesert/mods/199?tab=description

[jolly isle]

RR off, or those mods

basically the only good fix for rain looking like trash

[cursive mica]

thank you ill try the second mod

[jolly isle]

nohud also has another fix

not for rain

[gritty steppe]

so what auto exposure number do you have guys? I like nights being darker than vanilla but not horror game dark, so I set it at 80

[jolly isle]

Parallax fix

Fix on

Fix off

[stray grove]

@jolly isle idk how i feel about parallax fix anymore i realised it make a lot of the wall look flat though

[vital bay]

what am i look at?

[jolly isle]

look at the ground textures

rocks and such

[vital bay]

ah, i see

is it screwing with the water fx tho?

[jolly isle]

the textures look worse and they look less shadowed

the rocks

without the fix

same with rock walls and such

[stray grove]

look at this

[jolly isle]

but it messes with buildings I guess

oof yeah

[vital bay]

o wow, tesselation is gone

[pure sundial]

makes it look so flat

[stray grove]

@jolly isle like it does look good till you realise it take the depth out off every wall and such

[jolly isle]

it makes natural textures look much better

and makes buildings look flat and awful

jeez

thats pretty bad

[stray grove]

exactly

i kinda stopped using it when i realised

[jolly isle]

the ground looks so smeary without it though

and the canyon walls look so good with it

[stray grove]

@jolly isle i knowww

[jolly isle]

[stray grove]

good thing u can toggle on\off that fast ahah

[jolly isle]

I'm sure you can tell which is which

[pure sundial]

Well I've tested output scaling, the image is blurrier than without it and a performance hit with it set to 1.5

like 6-7 fps hit

doesn't seem worth

[spark oriole]

yeah i found it blurrier as well, 2x at 3440x1440, dlss qual

[pure sundial]

worth downloading opti for the mipmap bias tho

yeah im on 3440x1440 too

[vivid iris]

Test build does exactly that for darkness, and bright areas remain unmodified

Hard to gauge what the max would be unlike darkness

Part of what made the more complex system messy

[stray grove]

@jolly isle first one got parallax ahah

[jolly isle]

dusk such a mood

[rough granite]

where is this fix? is fixing meaning disabling their parrallax mapping tech?

[jolly isle]

yes

[rough granite]

ah sad as we do lose depth on it at the same time

[jolly isle]

Harder to notice on terrain and rocks since they aren't flat squares like buildings

and it makes terrain and rocks look so much better

[ruby tusk]

Yeah I like it cause it removes that jagged aliasing on the edges of rocks that looks all blurry

[karmic quest]

Bro is almost playing in 2d 🤣

@rough granite btw, the prod80 is like 6 year old with no updates, u sure it works as it should?

[stray grove]

@karmic quest got those 2D wall 😎

i just toggle it off when i go in town now ahah i like the 3D wall

[karmic quest]

I rather get some shimmering than seeing those 2d walls

Fuck that

Tho I get no shimmering at all only on shadows but that can be due to how terrible LOD is in this game..

Like I walk into a town its just a clusterfuck

[stray grove]

@karmic quest check the edge of the rock wall and such the edge are super jagged and if you turn parallax fix on it remove the jagged edge

[gritty steppe]

The inventory UI seems a little distorted, the icons on the bottom left cannot be seen now

[stray grove]

but then you have 2D wall

[shut badge]

shadows are one of the few common issues in this game that I dont have any problem with

but I think thats only because I just set it to cinematic

the transition between close and distant shadows isnt jarring on cinematic

[karmic quest]

I've tested all shadow quality settings and ultra has provided me least problems

[stray grove]

Man i haven't had a single crash with this game for 30h and now i got 2 crashes tonight 😅

game just close no error 🥲

[stray grove]

@ruby tusk is that rdr2 ? 😎

[karmic quest]

Has anyone tested the new test build jon posted?

[stray grove]

@karmic quest the one im using now

[karmic quest]

And you getting crashing due to it potentially?

[ruby tusk]

Yeah I'm using it

I haven't crashed ever with this game

[karmic quest]

Same

Well I did fuck something once when it wasn't launching

[pure sundial]

what res/dlss preset?

[karmic quest]

I somehow managed to ctrl + z my folders so it was fine after

[ruby tusk]

3440x1440 DLSS Q
Cinematic + RR

[pure sundial]

you normally play quality or just for the screenshot

[ruby tusk]

normally play qual

[pure sundial]

ah

hows the frames

[ruby tusk]

for pretty much every game

around 100

[plush flint]

Wow latest reno build, only color grading working, everything else do nothing, any ideas ?

[pure sundial]

you have a 5090?

[ruby tusk]

4090

[pure sundial]

ahhhh I see

same res and settings but I average around 65 with dlss perf

5070 ti

🥹

[ruby tusk]

Ah okay, I mean it's just how they did RR in this game tbh, that's a great card

[pure sundial]

yeah I've been very happy with it until crimson desert dropped lol

[ruby tusk]

Haha yeah

[karmic quest]

My big ahh axe in AoE is a menace

• the spirit that does the same attack I do on RT

Crazy damage

Found one hella good 1H sword by chance

Learned that exploring a house with alot of markers is a worth it try

[rough granite]

works very well for me, it give just the right boost of shadows during nights / interiors, and fade during day time with Luma fade

[gilded plover]

lol this is super random but i watch your videos

[jolly isle]

night so good now

[plush flint]

Can you share your settings ? The latest build of Reno does nothing for me with the auto exposure..

[stray grove]

first boss fight and getting my ass kicked wtf is that guy move like i can't even move when he get ahold of me ahah

[plush flint]

There is a f***ing delay with the evade and the counter, it’s awful

[jolly isle]

I clicked Recommended and then set exposure to 1.25

[plush flint]

That’s not the latest build of Reno ?

[jolly isle]

I think its from last night

idk?

[neon whale]

quick question: why set RCAS as sharpening and then set it to 0?

[jolly isle]

idk I clicked recommended and then set exposure to 1.25

[plush flint]

The last build was tonight

[stray grove]

@plush flint its so aweful wtf

i cant even move when he grab me ahha fuck

[neon whale]

RCAS is good, increase it a bit. I thing default is 0.500 in the lilium RCAS shader

[young pebble]

Bosses are easy, u have infinite health basically

[stray grove]

not when this one grab you i cant even heal or anything when he does then he just spam attack ahah

[pure sundial]

If only I could run this game on DLAA

[velvet cliff]

same

game instantly looks like a oil painting filtered when just lowering down to Quality

[stray grove]

@pure sundial turn RR off 😅 jk

[jolly isle]

[ruby tusk]

correct me if I'm wrong but pretty sure reno devs said it's better to just raise Game Brightness instead of exposure

[velvet cliff]

with over shoulder cam mod

[molten wind]

So you guys say the newest version ruins the quality of HDR?

or "recommended" and exposure to 1.25 is enough?

[hollow barn]

is Display-Commander or Ultra-Limiter better for use with renodx

[stone comet]

for this game/psychov at least yeah

[ruby tusk]

No, I think people seem to be pretty happy with it

[worldly swan]

So now suddenly my weather keeps recycling back to greenish cloudy / rainy, how can I fix this? Before it was mostly sunny, is this caused by renodx somehow?

[vital bay]

@vivid iris sorry for the ping, with the new version of the mod should i revert the light fix? 011 files i mean

[sharp moon]

theres no fix for the flat lighting at times?

[stone comet]

Could be if they feel better about it now

[jolly isle]

I've heard its because of how the game actually uses the sun and moon as light sources

[karmic quest]

Dodge find gaps

Ez

Dont even need the wind grasp or whatever

[dense raft]

If auto exposure is on then the light fix is needed

[quiet copper]

Using the latest version and auto exposure finally start to work nicely! Great job! One thing maybe noticing that when shining lantern it’s intensity is lower when not shining it. And yes im using 011 light fix from Lazorr @vivid iris i saw you had separate version with fixed lantern brightness when it’s shining. Was that fix included in the last version?

[stone comet]

without the light fix the lantern is much brither while holding it up on the new reno

[stark arch]

anyway to make this game not a blurry mess? even with dlaa i think shits blurry

[neon whale]

can't really do much. the game is made with duct tape. you can try using RCAS to add some sharpening

[shut badge]

do you use rr

dlss 4.5 doesnt look soft at all

[covert ruin]

nvidia really have to update RR

[unique horizon]

that new Auto Exposure with slider still no good on my HDR 600 IPS panel, but I am very happy with the experience with it just OFF

[true dagger]

i tried DLDSR and if you got the spare perfromance for it, i recommend it as it rly improves the sharpness

i tried 3440x1440 DLSS Quality -> 5160x2160 DLSS Perfromance, and the game looked waaay sharper

but i also went from 105 fps to like 75-80

so with that input lag it just felt bad, so im staying on my native res for now with dlss quality, even tho it looks kinda blurry

[true dagger]

if pearl abyss would have implemented dlss correctly the game would actually look normal. I wonder if they'll fix it since its an AMD sponsored game

[rocky umbra]

95% of the GPU space - itd be pretty stupid not to.

[true dagger]

i agree, but i guess time will tell

[worthy kernel]

what's with this "RR is not implemented correctly" thing going on

[true dagger]

people say that they put DLSS wrong into render pipeline

[worthy kernel]

is there any evidence of this

or is it just reddit schizophrenia

[pure sundial]

John Desert

[rocky umbra]

haha those reddit experts...

[true dagger]

i mean the game does look like a blurry garbage going lower than dlaa

[stone comet]

lazorr alone has been blasting how dogshit their implementations are

[true dagger]

yep

[hardy owl]

I found something really interesting @crude marsh @faint bobcat when using opsticaler and increasing rendering scale, the misalignment of screenspace displacement maps gets much better and there is less flickering.

[stone comet]

Sorry didnt mean RR specifically but like pmuch everything else

[true dagger]

i dont mind how the game looks on dlss on my machine tbh, but ive never seen a game look like this in DLSS Quality on my monitor, even cyberpunk looked better at balanced, in some cases even performance but i avoid that one

[karmic void]

Cyberpunk looks wonderful compared to other PT games

you can't compare it as it was bad

[pure sundial]

I agree I can't play this game without RCAS

I love reno so much

high res textures would go a long way

[weary tangle]

Yes, it is a pain to see a constant 8-9gb VRAM usage

[pure sundial]

more like 6 gbs for me

[weary tangle]

Even worse

OpTiMiSeD

[pure sundial]

its nice until you realise all the sacrifices made for the vram usage to be so low

[rocky umbra]

Still waiting on that mod to crank up the vram usage.

[pure sundial]

I got 10 gbs to spare

[rocky umbra]

same.

[true dagger]

yea i got about 17 spare

[pure sundial]

sheeesh

[true dagger]

and the 5090 users here prob even more lmao

[pure sundial]

PA should just drop an official high res texture pack

[ruby tusk]

uses like 9 out of my 24

[pure sundial]

But whenever devs do it its normally like 150 gb more than a modded texture pack

I'm sure someone is out there right now AI upscaling texures

[stone comet]

found an entire engineering machine with notes scattered around how to tuse it

[rocky umbra]

Are textures even exposed like that?

[crude marsh]

some textures are, meshes are fairly painful

I tried modifying all of the trees and making all of the LODs LOD0

but wouldnt render correctly

I used like 13-15GB VRAM in this game somehow

[glad vessel]

It would be nice if they could increase the draw distance in a future patch for people with higher VRAM

[karmic quest]

How much rcas u runnin

[crude marsh]

from what I have seen of the draw distance its all baked into the assets to an extent

[pure sundial]

100

[glad vessel]

Oh okay, ty! I have literally no clue when it comes to this, but it's amazing how much you guys have figured out already

[crude marsh]

Ive spent quite a while trying to figure out how to change various things and basically havent been able to make anything work 🙁

[ruby tusk]

[crude marsh]

I can change the lights and all the heightmaps for displacement

thats about it so far

[vital bay]

not sure you've seen but someone did find a shader to toggle off that fixes a good amount of the pixelated fizzy stuff. https://www.nexusmods.com/crimsondesert/mods/199?tab=description This guy initially, and it also got picked up in the no hud mod. So far this fixes pixelated rain, water & screen effects.

[crude marsh]

shaders are one thing

[rough granite]

this is just turning off a shader, not much of actual modding the game

[real stag]

woah dude

this looks amazing

very much looking forward to playing this after DS2

[hardy owl]

Does this mod in particular fix the rain being pixelated too?

[pure sundial]

I'm using it right now, I've noticed a slight improvement but altogether it isn't much better

i'll post a screenshot next time it rains

RR is still killing the rain

[hardy owl]

It doesn't rain very often in the game so its hard to check these improvements

[sharp moon]

what framegen works best in this game? like for 30 series card

[karmic quest]

Damn

[pure sundial]

yeah would be cool if someone made a mod that lets you switch the weather at will

[karmic quest]

Can we blame denuvo for this

[crude marsh]

partially yeah

[hardy owl]

Lazorr said that denuvo is a big reason yes. What a shame

[crude marsh]

game devs also intended to make it a pain in the ass

they did their own obfuscation and custom stuff too

[vital bay]

yea

[karmic quest]

Wish there was a way to remove denuvo fully 😭

[vital bay]

also effects seen through glass windows

[karmic quest]

These guys deserve full access

[hardy owl]

Did you see my message about the screen space displacement being kinda fixed with opsticaler rendering? I was surprised to see this

[crude marsh]

wdym by optiscaler rendering

[pure sundial]

are you able to get a short clip next time it rains because I'm barely seeing an improvement

[naive jackal]

@viscid wedge I just switched to mouse for the archery contest, the NPCs were f'ing prefiring a lot of the targets -.-

[pure sundial]

They fuckin hit the target with a reaction time of like 5 ms bro its insane

[hardy owl]

Remember that yesterday a guy found out that increasing the render thing in opsticaler gives almost DLAA look with less performance? You told me it was something similar to DLDSR

[pure sundial]

output scaling is what you are referring to

I tried it earlier it just made the game blurry

[rocky umbra]

But thats FSR1 .. is that really any good

[hardy owl]

Correct. Sorry I an not english native speaker and its hard to remember all these terms.

[crude marsh]

its pretty simply just upscaling to a higher res via DLSS

[pure sundial]

All good

[crude marsh]

and then downscaling that

using a method such as FSR1 or one of the other downscale methods

[dense raft]

The reworked AE version is already a HUGE improvement thank you Jon 🙏

[hardy owl]

So doing this makes the screen space displacement less visible. I noticed it yesterday while playing. Just wanted to let you know that

[crude marsh]

that method does tend to result in less noise

[hardy owl]

This nasty effect

[pure sundial]

Output scaling off Dlss performance

Output scaling on set to 2.00 (6880x2880)

[regal tundra]

Sorry i asked this question yesterday but never checked the responses.... When a new version of the addon comes out do i need to redownload the file, or does the addon just follow the source destination?

[pure sundial]

if you compare this part of both screenshots its blurrier with output scaling

also a bit of an fps hit I don't think it's worth

[normal lion]

Why are you guys using optiscaler over DLDSR in this game?

[faint bobcat]

texture pack from you when sir?

[pure sundial]

Why would you use DLDSR when you can just use DLAA

[crude marsh]

DLDSR tends to be superior to DLAA in the majority of games

better image at higher FPS

this game thoguh idk

[pure sundial]

Ah interesting

[normal lion]

Its relatively well known that dldsr + dlss is superior to dlaa

[true dagger]

u have to redownload manually

[crude marsh]

granted in most new games especially with DLSS 4.5, DLAA is pretty much just a useless performance sink

has kind of been that way for a while though

this game just special

granted I still wouldn't use DLAA over RR

[pure sundial]

yeah I agree with this

I tried no RR and DLAA and it isn't worth it

As for people using optiscaler idk, I heard that output scaling was good so thought I'd give it a try, don't see the hype personally

[hardy owl]

I have a 4090 and I get 20 fps with DLAA and RR at 4k lol

[vestal flicker]

@weary tangle Wait. Wait wait. Are you Halk Hogan ?

[crude marsh]

basically just reduces noise

[pure sundial]

lmao

[crude marsh]

with RR, output scaling can reduce boiling

[hardy owl]

The legend, I love his Witcher 3 textures

[pure sundial]

Is it significant enough to be worth making the image blurrier than it already is

[weary tangle]

I'm a different Hulk, but i am actually into texture modding as well. 😄

[hardy owl]

For which games have you made texture mods? Out of curiosity

[tawny ravine]

So no mod support probably ever 😭

At least not official

[normal lion]

So is the light fix still required with the latest version of reno?

[pure sundial]

if you use the auto exposure setting

[vestal flicker]

Well, all texture modders are nobility in my eyes ! Some are arguably royalty though😂 🤑

[weary tangle]

Cyberpunk, discord only though

[karmic quest]

is there a fix to my white horse looking black

[hardy owl]

The rock textures in Crimson Desert definitely needs some love. Although I dont know if its possible to mod textures yet

[vestal flicker]

Maybe get a black horse ? It might turn white😅...

[weary tangle]

Yeah, almost everything looks like 1k at best

[karmic quest]

It doesnt really bother me, fits the theme better, but my horse is like a chamaleon now, white during the day, black during the night.

Kinda cool actually

Tho the color changing happens when i shine my lantern directly

Could be the lantern changing colors or smth

[daring orbit]

It doesn't require anything, its just changing light parameters to compensate for darker interiors

[pure sundial]

cinematic textures btw

[vestal flicker]

It's not a bug. It's a feature. Magic horse.

[normal lion]

Yeah I know I meant to ask if its still relevant since apparently we have a slider for the auto exposure now

[hardy owl]

Hopefully we can see in the future some texture packs

[daring orbit]

Yea definitely still relevant

[faint bobcat]

512x512 to 1024 for most of the textures is what I saw in devkit SRV views

[hardy owl]

And 1024 shadowmaps 💀

[pure sundial]

512 lol

yeah im hoping too

[vestal flicker]

What the hell😅 ? Is that even legal ?

[pure sundial]

im sure someone will figure ito ut

[faint bobcat]

runs on 8GB vram

[daring orbit]

If you use the alternative exposure, you will still have much darker nights and interiors, imo the light fix still looks really good

[pure sundial]

Do you think the low res textures has something to do with the game originally planned to be an mmo and they just never decided to get around to changing them

[hardy owl]

I have to give them credit though, even though some textures are not that great, the world is massive, literally. And with no loading screens.

[daring orbit]

I figured it was way less than 1k just looking at this game

[normal lion]

Alright thanks!

[daring orbit]

And also the size of the map, and the game is only like 100gb

Should be like 300 lol

[crude marsh]

their paz files dont seem to use a ton of compression either

[daring orbit]

I want at least 2k texures

[vestal flicker]

I mean sure, but thats a low texture setting. Medium at most. I don't see why you couldn't just scale down higher resolution texture for lower settings. This is just a slap in the face to a mainly pc based audience.

[hardy owl]

Same.

2k for a third person action game looks great

[pure sundial]

I heard some fucky stuff happened in development leading to some weird choices which is why the story feels so disjointed

[crude marsh]

I usually turn up my CSMs to 6k, or at least 4k

1024 is a joke

[daring orbit]

The clouds look terrible

[pure sundial]

lol yeah they get all pixelated and morph in real time, terrible to look at

[crude marsh]

clouds are like

[daring orbit]

Or just low low resolution