Death Stranding 2

[radiant light]

im ngl, if u play DS1 right now, you will be too burnt out of the genre to want to play DS2

[hazy sand]

recap it on youtube

[swift hill]

Trust me setups are bigger

[unique pulsar]

XDDDDDDD

Yeah

I haven't finished first one

[swift hill]

Not true for me

[unique pulsar]

I'll play that first anyway

[swift hill]

[radiant light]

im well aware about everything in the first game, its not enjoyable for me. i tried 3 times and put 4hrs into it and didnt like it

[unique pulsar]

But I could just play this and then play first one.

But it's a Kojima game.

[thin abyss]

Same. I just finished the 100% a few weeks ago

[unique pulsar]

It'd be stupid to do that.

Better to play DS first, and then this.

Cause Kojima.

[swift hill]

Okay so why are you trying this one out it’s basically the same game but QOL changes

[shadow wave]

I will wait for the reno before starting

I want to experience the game without HDR issue

[unique pulsar]

gotcha

[radiant light]

i put 90hrs into the second game and loved it

[fluid glade]

I think the pacing of the story is way better

first one was horrible in that regard

[radiant light]

i loved the second game, ive already played it fully on ps5 lol

[hazy sand]

the walking is too much in 1 to play this back to back ahaha

coming from a guy that loved one

[radiant light]

the bigger focus on combat, more gadgets and stuff for traversal, better graphics, etc made the second one more enjoyable for me

i just dont like DS1

[fluid glade]

yea but the second on will give you vehicles very early on

[radiant light]

ur not forced to use them tho

im prolly gonna use them a lot less on my second playthru

i just think if youre new to both games, trying to play all of DS1 then go straight into DS2 will be too much of the genre

youll be burnt out after DS1 and not wanna play DS2

[fluid glade]

can confirm

I played DS1 on PC and then DS2 immediately on PS5

and had to stop at some point

now I'm ready for the PC release haha

[wet rivet]

haven't actually even compared to sdr yet

so I gotta do that

[unique pulsar]

I bet, yeah. I'm about 10% in the first one, where you're about to unlock bike.

Maybe this weekend I'll actually sit my ass down and GAME.

[stray hamlet]

please dont skip 1 lmao just going to 2 is psycho behavior

[unique pulsar]

Like still need to finish RE9 first.

Yeah, I'm not lol

Just launched to see how it looks.

[hazy sand]

good luck! will be praying for you ahah

[unique pulsar]

They have recap, too.

Which I will watch, right after finishing the first one cause why not.

Question

Does the game uses your DS1's save files and stuff, with any 'decisions' you may have made in the first one?

[radiant light]

Tons of people have done it bro, relax

[stray hamlet]

no

[lyric beacon]

I didn't get far into the first game and I'm well into the 2nd one and enjoying very much without needing any sort of comprehensive overview

[unique pulsar]

Good, thanks.

[radiant light]

People can play games in a different manner than you, it’s fine

[stray hamlet]

no it's not fine actually

[radiant light]

Some people just hate the first game but really enjoy the second

[hazy sand]

dont be so dramatic! you can recap just fine

[radiant light]

Ok bro keep trying to force everybody in the world to conform to your world view

No one cares

Ppl play games to have fun

Death stranding 1 wasn’t fun for me

Death stranding 2 was fun for me

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[unique pulsar]

Always been sus'd about this, Kojima maintaining his database of losers.

But this is still better than Capcom asking my whole birthdate and then telling me it's not going to affect a SINGLE thing in the game (RE9) anyway.

[hazy sand]

Umer my advice is that if you like 1 go for it but if you start feeling bored recap and go for 2

[radiant light]

Are u calling people who play Kojima games losers

[unique pulsar]

No, I'd never do that.

[hazy sand]

just dont skip 2 cause you didnt vibe with 1

[unique pulsar]

I'm calling gamers, in their entirety, losers.

[thin abyss]

Nice hair bro

[unique pulsar]

It's less that I get bored, more that I get sidetracked/busy with other shit.

I've absolutely loved what little I've played of DS1 s ofar.

But yeah, if I couldn't handle it at all.

I'd just drop and play DS2 anyway.

[short charm]

where do you find it ?

[hazy sand]

path trace hair ahaha

[slow forum]

@wet rivet Can you release whatever the current build is? I don't mind playing with it even if it's beta.

[radiant light]

DS2 felt a lot more like metal gear than DS1 for me

[radiant light]

It’s already on GitHub

[hazy sand]

that sounds fair enough

[unique pulsar]

Also, there's always a community aspect of playing games at launch, too.

[warm osprey]

gotta say, I just tried the snapshot, and it looks so much better that what game offers out of the box

[unique pulsar]

Like discussing it as you play with friends and such.

[radiant light]

https://github.com/mqhaji/renodx/releases/tag/snapshot

@slow forum

[warm osprey]

RenoDX gives magical reaults once again

[radiant light]

Does this snapshot build fix the DLSS clamping @wet rivet ? Or will that be a later version

[warm osprey]

it does

[slow forum]

Thanks

[radiant light]

Epic

[hazy sand]

musa said native HDR is not bad, all i want is the clamping to be unlocked for now

[warm osprey]

well, my first comparison was the sun

[hazy sand]

what tv you playing?

[warm osprey]

and in native hdr it has like straight up purpleish/blue halo around it

[warm osprey]

LG G5

[wet rivet]

ya its fixed

[wet rivet]

ya the colors on highlights are weird

[warm osprey]

with the snapshot RenoDX - no such bs

[hazy sand]

any downsides to the snapshot at this moment?

[warm osprey]

testing just started bruh

[hazy sand]

ok ok

[short charm]

Is this a "deliberate aesthetic choice" by the developer?

[hazy sand]

treat me well

im on my period dude!

[warm osprey]

doesn't look like so in SDR

and in general it looks too wrong

[short charm]

Like the greenish sky in DS1

[warm osprey]

yeah

[hazy sand]

kojima intent

[wet rivet]

that wasn't deliberate

[hazy sand]

is all intent in 2026

[wet rivet]

its only there in hdr

its cause of their cursed inverse tonemapping

[swift hill]

No

[unique pulsar]

gib mod so I can make some comparison pics for my satisfaction.

[shadow wave]

is this the addon to be installed? And what reshade version?

[wet rivet]

#1478565961207644231 message

[wet rivet]

64

[thin abyss]

That view doesn't get old

[unique pulsar]

danke

[wet rivet]

game brightness around 250 somewhat matches vanilla defaults I think

[shadow wave]

Latest reshade ver?

[hazy sand]

so high?

[unique pulsar]

vanilla defaults is that, yeah

~282 in that pic I shared above.

[hazy sand]

im in dark room i will probably lower it to 200ish

[thin nest]

Always unless specified otherwise

[unique pulsar]

Also, it's not immediately green in sky as the game starts from there.

[wet rivet]

the actual value for vanilla paper white is ~412 but the way they fuck with contrast makes it dimmer

[shadow wave]

okay installed. Trying it now!

[unique pulsar]

hacks on hacks on hacks, figures.

good to know.

[rotund salmon]

if you're doing comparisons, remember not to use DLSS without Reno, because it's broken in HDR like in your pic there

[unique pulsar]

Good thing then it'll show that broken state, too.

[radiant light]

I hope nixxess releases a patch soon

[nocturne flint]

Does Reno actually patch the DLSS issue?

[radiant light]

And fixes the DLSS for native hdr

[unique pulsar]

What's broken, that brightness is clamped with DLSS?

[radiant light]

Yes Reno fixed it already

[radiant light]

Yeah it clamps at like 350 lol

[unique pulsar]

Right, figured.

Okay

Thanks for the heads up, @rotund salmon

[wet rivet]

haven't set up highlight saturation slider yet

[unique pulsar]

Had it on DLAA but I guess everything-DLSS is broken.

[wet rivet]

honestly don't even need that slider

[shadow wave]

UI brightness seems to be impacting not just the ui

[unique pulsar]

Much better now with PICO.

Man, Kojima don't need no fucking DLSS 5, amiright or amiright.

[radiant light]

There is a bug with the snapshot build and the ui brightness slider

[short charm]

Do you fix the greenish highlights with saturation or with tonemapping ?

[wet rivet]

changing game brightness with anything other than dlss also has a warbly effect

it takes a second to settle

then it works fine

its cause the brightness is scaled before AA

and the AA works by using the previous frame

so the TAA history gets messed up for a second

[sturdy aspen]

Wtf is up with those ground textures, looks horrible.

Straight up PS2 game

[thin nest]

xd peak

[radiant light]

I don’t recall them looking that bad on ps5

And man even with a fast NVMe and DirectStorage, I still get a bit of loading stutter occasionally

Never got that on ps5

Consoles still win in the storage response time/speed department

[fluid glade]

I absolutely agree lol

[hazy sand]

i dont think PC ever matches PS5 performance on any of this games

[hazy sand]

DLSS 5

[unique pulsar]

they are what they are, everything is maxed out and PICO.

[fringe harness]

do you think that this game is better on controller or m&k?

[hazy sand]

even RT?

[hazy sand]

Dualsense please!

[fluid glade]

it's a pretty cinematic game so controller it is

oh yea dualsense support is awesome in this game

[cerulean wyvern]

This game doesn't have any RT at all, which makes it even more impressive

[fringe harness]

yeah ok thats what i thought

[unique pulsar]

Good shout, launcher didn't put that on.

[fringe harness]

i played the 1st one on mnk and i kinda regret it haha

[fluid glade]

yea haptics and trigger is insanely cool with the game mechanics here

[pine crag]

Are cutscenes locked at 60fps? I get a huge stutter when it goes from 60 to unlocked when he we first see Sam

[radiant light]

Why does ur game look like that

[unique pulsar]

This is with RT maxed.

[lapis scarab]

Sharpness slider only goes to 5, not to 0, classic Nixxes port...

[unique pulsar]

ionno, all maxed out here.

Native AA and all, too.

[unique pulsar]

You can take it to 0 in-game.

[solemn osprey]

Any camera stutter when panning the camera with a controller? The first game needed a Lyall mod to fix it.

[fluid glade]

the game could use some local contrast tbh

[unique pulsar]

Seems smooth, but I don't have VRR on rn. Slight hitch but I think that's just VRR.

[lapis scarab]

Doesn't seem to work. Or is it just a display bug? Somehow the rendering looks off with DLSS.

[thin abyss]

Got my code aswell. Gonna hop in when Reno is done

[glass sage]

Has the update fixed the flickering shadows? If anyone has made it that far, didn't really start happening till further into mexico.

[fluid glade]

dlss is bugged

[wet rivet]

BETA 1

• completely untested
• needs testing to make sure the brightness slider works with all the AA/FG modes
• still having that issue with that one opening video when fragile narrates. setting the ui brightness slider higher than game brightness causes the video to become darker and vice versa
• dechroma slider hasn't been set up yet

[unique pulsar]

Oh, DLSS idk. With PICO it goes to 0.

[radiant light]

ok tahts a bug with my phone actually

[fluid glade]

HDR is capped at 300 nits if you don't use renodx

[wet rivet]

capped based on the brightness slider

[thin abyss]

Oh perfect

[radiant light]

This is what I saw @unique pulsar lmao

[unique pulsar]

bruh

lmao

Tap on it

[thin abyss]

Yeah mine is like that too

[unique pulsar]

HDR will load.

[thin abyss]

I need to click on HDR images

[unique pulsar]

It's an HDR PNG 😄

[fringe harness]

is the same than the snapshot no?

[thin abyss]

That might just be normal on mobile

[steep perch]

You guys using pico or dlss or fsr?

[glass sage]

tapping on it still washed?

[unique pulsar]

Yeah, it's normal for iPhone to not show HDR like that in preview, yo uhave to tap on it.

[radiant light]

ya ik its fine now and on my pc i just was confused lol

[radiant light]

newer than snapshot, likely has some improvments

[unique pulsar]

Android?

[glass sage]

pc

[wet rivet]

its newer

[cerulean wyvern]

Oh this game has RT? I thought it didn't. Maybe it's just the PC version?

[radiant light]

mine looks fine on pc

[glass sage]

weird

[radiant light]

it was added just for PC, yes

[fringe harness]

ah ok got it tyty

[cerulean wyvern]

For the HDR PNGs to work on PC, you need to use a browser based on Chromium, like Google Chrome. Firefox won't work

[unique pulsar]

Is it 'dark' or just washed out?

[glass sage]

oh im in the app

looks great there

[unique pulsar]

Same, I'm in app, too.

[glass sage]

lol

[unique pulsar]

Discord is Chromium.

App works fine.

[glass sage]

good point

[unique pulsar]

Close like this, and launch again.

See if that helps.

[glass sage]

that second one looks fine

[unique pulsar]

That's cause it's tonemapped to SDR

Close and restart Discord like that, if you had driver restart or something, Discord app can fuck up.

Like this is HDR PNG as well.

[glass sage]

that one looks fine also

first one still washed /shrug lol, not a big deal

[wet rivet]

newer

[unique pulsar]

Odd

Seems like fine for others, right?

[steep perch]

Is this with mod or native?

[unique pulsar]

Native.

Just running around to see native before slapping mod on and never taking it off.

[shadow wave]

Fucking beautiful

[glass sage]

I have rtx hdr forced, wonder if that is messing with it

[unique pulsar]

Then it would mess with every pic, not just that one.

They're all captured same way.

[glass sage]

true

[unique pulsar]

Try closing Discord from tray and launching again

[warm osprey]

btw, they fixed the stuttering in cinematics

[unique pulsar]

See if that helps.

[radiant light]

oooh

[warm osprey]

in 1.0.48 camera changes now work fine

[fluid glade]

niiice

[glass sage]

That's what i did.

[steep perch]

? Is this different from the leak version

[fluid glade]

downloading now

[burnt zealot]

Holyy CPU usage

[warm osprey]

yes

[radiant light]

yes it is

[burnt zealot]

cant get over 40fps

[steep perch]

Oh

[radiant light]

leak is 1.0.45

[warm osprey]

no

[fluid glade]

45

[warm osprey]

leak is 1.0.45

[radiant light]

you cannot expect to run this game at 60fps on a CPU weaker than a PS5s

yeah my bad

new version is 48

[radiant light]

you need at minimum a Ryzen 5 3600 for 60fps

[burnt zealot]

7600x should be fine

[radiant light]

well if ur playing on linux that might have some overhead too

a 7600x should not bottleneck this game to 40fps whatsoever

[burnt zealot]

usually is like 2% maybe overhead

[glass sage]

anyone know where the save file would be?

[radiant light]

i have a 5800x3d and can do like 90fps+

[radiant light]

check documents folder, or %appdata%

[wet rivet]

still having that issue with that one opening video when fragile narrates. setting the ui brightness slider higher than game brightness causes the video to become darker and vice versa

[analog mantle]

speaking of different DS games, I HATED first one 😸 hoping this one will be somehow different

[radiant light]

@glass sage its documents

[radiant light]

i hated DS1, put 3hrs into it, but i loved DS2 and put 90hrs in on ps5

[glass sage]

oh, well that was an easy one. Thanks!

[radiant light]

DS2 feels more like metal gear ngl, i love the combat

[analog mantle]

that's what I'm hoping for too, funny enough I heard some friends say they loved first one but hated 2nd one

which doesn't make any sense to me

[radiant light]

and being able to choose how to attack bases, guns blazing or stealth, etc

[hazy sand]

time for some new friends!

[radiant light]

well thats the thing, the first 1 was a lot harder and more challenging with a biggfer focus on the walking and traversal

[warm osprey]

the opening video is too broken tbh

[placid totem]

i have high hopes for 2

1 was a masterpiece

[warm osprey]

I think it might even be unfixable

[radiant light]

DS2 went more into combat and gadgets and made the walking a bit easier, its more accessible, but if u loved the firstr one for the reasons why other people hated it, u might not like the second one

[analog mantle]

sounds good, I hated traversal in 1

felt like ball torture simulator

[radiant light]

yeah i really enjoyed the second one

[analog mantle]

and the little shit kept crying

[radiant light]

brooo this new patch is 30gb are u jokikng 😭

[hazy sand]

the game is so cinematic too

[radiant light]

from leak version to steam version is a 30gb difference

[lapis scarab]

It uses asynchronous shader compilation, should get lower after a while

[warm osprey]

it's 2gb tho

[hazy sand]

you walk to see the next cut scene

[radiant light]

whatever, alteast i dont need to download all 97gb lol

[radiant light]

tell that to steam

[warm osprey]

you had some broken files probably

[radiant light]

it verified all the leak files and now its updating whats different

[warm osprey]

or it's a bug

[radiant light]

ya prolly lol

it was a random torrent

[warm osprey]

ah

[hazy sand]

the torrent is 95 i think

[warm osprey]

makes sense then

[radiant light]

it was 113gb for me lol

[glass sage]

same

[radiant light]

wtf lol i had like 40 files before this

[hazy sand]

but torrent was release after launch

[radiant light]

no it wasnt

well, not the one i used

[hazy sand]

the one im talking yes

[glass sage]

you talking about scene

[hazy sand]

was after launch

[radiant light]

the game leaked before launch

you could play it 2 days ago

thats what i am talking about

there were multiple torrents for that version

[hazy sand]

the one i have is post launch and is 95

[radiant light]

which came from the unencrypted steam preload

[radiant light]

ya thats prolly the 1.0.48 version and migth be compressed or something

[glass sage]

yeah that's what i started with, which is why my cope is shadow flicker is fixed now 😄

[radiant light]

mine was portable so it was the raw game files

[burnt zealot]

ah, of course.

[radiant light]

im hoping the loading stutter is fixed

[hazy sand]

most likely will decompressed

[radiant light]

shaders should mostly compile on main menu

[glass sage]

i was getting that too actually

ps5 was rock solid

[radiant light]

ya

[warm osprey]

I don't get any stutters for now at all

[radiant light]

the storage pipeline on the PS5 is really top notch

[warm osprey]

buttery smooth

[radiant light]

u can tell eveyrthing is fully optimized, nothing can take IO time from the storage pipeline

so everything arrives on time, no stutter

whereas on windows directstorage has to fight the OS for CPU time and can have random stutter

[warm osprey]

DirectStorage is about bypassing the CPU completely

it doesn't fight OS for CPU time

this is the magic of it

[hazy sand]

but is seems the games dont work well with it

i remember ratchet was a mess

[radiant light]

well, its fighting something, because there shouldnt be any stutter at all if its working as intented

[hazy sand]

i had to take the file out

[radiant light]

but something along the pipeline has a hitch or a stutter and causes the asset to not get delivered in time so ur game lags

maybe its just cuz the SSDs are slower on PC, mines only pcie gen3, idk

but the whole claim of "it works just as good as on console" isnt that accurate

its like 90% as good

[warm osprey]

it's not about the pcie speed

[radiant light]

i know that s not the bottleneck

[warm osprey]

it's about random read low queue depth latency

[radiant light]

but im wondering if thats a contributing factor

[warm osprey]

and there is a solution, but it's dead at this point

[radiant light]

because maybe pcie gen4/5 ssds have a higher queue depth, etc

[warm osprey]

this is not how it works 😭

and no, they don't have faster random reads/lower latency at low QD

[radiant light]

bro, i dont know how it works, thats why im saying im not sure how you can improve the expeirnece on pc

[warm osprey]

with a superior drive technology

[glass sage]

i've got pci e 4x4 nvme and still get the stutters here

[thin abyss]

Snow are you getting stutters?

[radiant light]

what can you replace a NVMe SSD with

[warm osprey]

non-flash solid state memory

[radiant light]

i got some in the intro with the leak version ,idk about current steam version yet

[thin abyss]

Alright bet

[radiant light]

ok thats not happening for consumer storage devices anytime soon so whats even the point of talking about it

and thats literally not the issue?

because, the PS5 and series X dont have the stuter problem lol

[warm osprey]

it already happened tho

and ended

[glass sage]

same, it's not bad but noticeable occasionally in the first couple hours. Leak version too not released version

[radiant light]

their storage pipelines are perfectly optimized, they work fantastic, DS2 never had traversal stutter on my PS5

so why does it happen on PC?

they should be more than capable of making directstorage just as good as the storage pipeline on the ps5/series X

[radiant light]

ya so its not viable lol

[warm osprey]

it doesn't on my PC tho

[glass sage]

My dumbass assumption is because it's a unified piece of tech

everything can be optimized

[radiant light]

thats the problem bro

its inconsistent

[warm osprey]

fair

[radiant light]

the whole point of directstorage was, everyone on PC should get the same fast SSD experience as gen9 consoles

that hasnt happened

games with directstorage on PC perform worse than their console ports in storage-related tasks

and there is often stutter or weird slowdowns and other issues on games that use directstorage, never on console

i rly wish they could fix it, and idk where the issue could be

maybe its hardware related, maybe its all just software related

[glass sage]

numerous issues it seems

Maybe steamOS can save us ;D

[radiant light]

not for us on nvidia gpus....

[glass sage]

D:

[warm osprey]

so, like 85% of PC gamers

[thin abyss]

Oh nice we got Psycho

[fluid glade]

seems like shaders really are compiling in main menu

would be nice to see the progress

[burnt zealot]

maybe when NVK driver is done

[rotund salmon]

they look the same. This isn't perfectly lined up or anything, but PS5 Pro vs. PC

[spare socket]

low res of that performance mode really masks the low res textures

[tight stratus]

@wet rivet Just terrible UI ghosting 🙁

[glass sage]

I wasn't getting that at all, weird

did you update the dll?

assuming nvidia

[warm osprey]

DLLs are latest in this game out of the box

[wet rivet]

I didn't notice any ui ghosting but I wasn't really paying much attention

[glass sage]

it was 3.5.2 not .3 wasn't it? I might be misremembering. Not that it's much different I'm sure

[wet rivet]

using default dlls

[glass sage]

I'll check now just redownloaded

[warm osprey]

they are exactly the same as the latest Streamline version DLLs

each of them

[chrome heart]

DLSS fg has shit tier distortion around UI

[warm osprey]

same

[glass sage]

it's 310.5.2 latests I have is 310.5.3

once again, not that it makes a difference I guess

[warm osprey]

there are no major issues with UI

[tight stratus]

Is there anything that can be done? Like r.Streamline.TagUIColorAlpha=0 in UE games

[glass sage]

I agree

[radiant light]

Idk I don’t see any ui ghosting

Maybe I’m just oblivious to it

[wet rivet]

someone get some good comparison pics with shreek greens skies

[steep perch]

is that in mexico?

or main map musa

[placid totem]

this game is soo bright

[warm osprey]

there is a day difference between release of these versions, .3 allows to use RR in CUDA applications, other than that it's the same stuff, they didn't even bother uploading it to Streamline repo

[warm osprey]

are you playing with DLSS without RenoDX?

[glass sage]

Thanks for the knowledge, this is stuff I don't learn or see. Not that I'm looking hard haha.

damn, flickering is still really bad. Womp

[wet rivet]

idk only played a tiny bit, I saw it in videos

[normal sleet]

I'm waiting for musa to fix the major issues before I even buy the game, I have become an addict

[wet rivet]

maybe

[tight stratus]

It would be just wonderful

[warm osprey]

are there still any actual major issues?

bete release looks gorgeous imo

[normal sleet]

The intro video? At least that's what it says in the notes

[radiant light]

thats like 20s at the start tbh, its not a huge deal

and that might not be fixable

[warm osprey]

I wouldn't call that a major issue, it's a video, not a cutscene/gameplay

[placid totem]

yes

[warm osprey]

then you get broken HDR

[glass sage]

in between c1 south and the villa is a forest, lmk when you all get there if you have flickering too. Curious if it's just me with this issue.

in mexico

[normal sleet]

Does reno behaves with dlss?

[warm osprey]

and it looks tolerable anyway

[placid totem]

im playing with sdr rn, with hdr it looks very dim

i prefer this

[warm osprey]

this time Reno fixes HDR+DLSS usage because apparently Nixxes can't

[warm osprey]

there are game brightness sliders tho, both in native hdr and Reno

nobody forces you to keep them at default

get all the brightness you want

[vale quest]

i think it's dim for him due to the clamping bug

something he was unaware of

with reno it's fixed

[warm osprey]

true

[placid totem]

i think ill download reno and try out hdr

[vale quest]

or maybe i'm wrong

[placid totem]

👍

[warm osprey]

it looks so good

[vale quest]

yeah hdr is just broken with dlss without it

you have to use pico or fsr

otherwise

[warm osprey]

I just tried 400 nits game brightness (I'm in a bright room), looks amazing ngl

[placid totem]

what monitor have u got?

[warm osprey]

LG G5

[placid totem]

i have the 272urx (4k 240hz 27" qd oled)

[normal sleet]

wait so if so HDR with dlss is broken? Even with reno?

[warm osprey]

Reno fixes it

[placid totem]

its the pinned one right?

[normal sleet]

Oh ok I was a bit confused lol

[vale quest]

yaya reno fixes it

[wet rivet]

is anyone at a part of the game with fires or explosions

[warm osprey]

Beta 1

[vale quest]

Porter Majima probly tried hdr without reno and got the broken image hence why it was dim

[wet rivet]

gonna change the mod defaults

80 shadows and 2.2 by luminosity eotf emulation

[normal sleet]

How's the stutter? Anything to report?

[warm osprey]

definitely much better than the leaked version

I had a lot, now none, but other people still have some

[normal sleet]

I'm fine with some stutter, it is what it is, as long as it's not obscene

[radiant light]

Sweet

Steam users always win

[placid totem]

leaked version was a stuttering a lot, release is fine

[normal sleet]

Fuck it I'm buying rn, I am too impatient

[placid totem]

good

[warm osprey]

there are some lightning bolts quite early in the game

will try to find fire

[thin abyss]

Fuuuuuck

[wet rivet]

some people were complaining about a vram leak

idk if that's true or just 8gb user malding

[warm osprey]

do you have ReBAR enabled?

[radiant light]

What GPU do u have?

[normal sleet]

Kojimbo you better be worth the 80 euro I'm giving you

[thin abyss]

In BIOS but not through NVPI

[wet rivet]

there was one guy on hdr den who cried about nixxes not supporting 8gb vram in horizon fw

[thin abyss]

3070

[radiant light]

U shouldn’t need to enable it in NVPI, newer games enable it themselves

[thin abyss]

I'm the malding 8gb user

[radiant light]

Damn

1440p?

[hazy sand]

I hope he's doing well ahahah

[thin abyss]

3440x1440 DLSS Perf

[radiant light]

Damn

Might need to drop some settings down

[thin abyss]

This didn't happen in the leak and I was on higher settings. I'll figure smth out

[warm osprey]

I wonder why the game crashes like that

usually not enough VRAM just leads to heavy stuttering

because it offloads to RAM

[fringe harness]

the ui with FG is terrible no?

[warm osprey]

not noticeable for me

have seen much worse for sure

[radiant light]

I hope they didn’t regress in some areas

Or maybe they adjusted vram usage to reduce stuttering and performance but now it needs more vram

[placid totem]

i really hope its as good as the first one 🙏 kojimbo dont fumble the story

[tight stratus]

It's very noticeable to me

[normal sleet]

I have faith, I've liked literally everything I've ever seen of this game

[fringe harness]

also like screen tearing where te ui is

[tight stratus]

yes

[thin abyss]

Might have just been a one-off, idk. I'm in exclusive fullscreen now and it didn't crash

[fluid glade]

UI ghosting only happens with dlss fg

xefg + vsync so far works best for me

[steep perch]

did musa release the hdr mod?

[wet rivet]

Pinned

[steep perch]

thanks mate

[sterile orchid]

Hmm so there is heavy stuttering on camera cuts with DLSS frame gen on. And FSR/XESS frame gen feels weird, like if It isn't even working.

But so far the hdr mod looks great

Tried enabling smooth motion but the game crashes to desktop

[glass sage]

I had the same experience

had to turn frame gen off for cutscenes

[sterile orchid]

There should be an option to only enable frame gen for gameplay like Ac shadows

[thin abyss]

Nah happened again. Fuuuuck

[warm osprey]

on the latest game version?

or are you still on the leaked .45?

[sterile orchid]

Steam version, didn't preload since I don't like Steam decrypting

[warm osprey]

weird, the first day patch completely solved that issue for me

try leaving the game in the main menu for a few minutes

[steep perch]

Bit of a dumb question when loading up the hdr mod and going to the reno preset. Do I need to chnage anything or just enable the preset?

[sterile orchid]

Just enabling preset will be fine most of the time, but you can fine tune the sliders to your liking (please don't make it deepfried and post on nexus as "realistic" reshade)

[steep perch]

Cant stand those

[sterile orchid]

90% of those are oversharpened overexposed with extreme contrast, maybe my eyesight is bad but real life doesn't look like that

[knotty bobcat]

are deadzones fixed in DS2 btw? Cause in 1, even on lowest deadzone setting I seem to have a default 25% deadzone I cant remove

very annoying in gunfights

[raw crown]

Pico or DLSS guys?

[knotty bobcat]

DLSS

with the beta renodx build

[raw crown]

Okay. Will try the Mod.

[steep perch]

Which looks better pico or dlss?

Fsr seems over sharpenerd

[raw crown]

Which GPU?

[wispy crescent]

neither

Decima jitter FXAA

is best

[raw crown]

If Nvidia, DLSS I guess.

[covert hawk]

can anyone disable sharpening

i can only reduce it to 5

it shows the rest of the bar being accessible but if i turn it lower it just stays at 5

[sage minnow]

does the game have grain that cant be turned off?

[tight stratus]

Even in the new version?

[runic field]

If u apply pico, set it to 0, then set another scaler it stays at 0, no idea if that’s just ui or it really gets disabled - optiscaler can be used to override sharpening

[sterile orchid]

DLSS at 5 sharpening doesn't seem oversharpened to me, at least I can't spot haloing

[covert hawk]

Lmao

I'll try this

[wet rivet]

BETA 2

• still having that issue with that one opening video when fragile narrates. setting the ui brightness slider higher than game brightness causes the video to become darker and vice versa
• dechroma slider hasn't been set up yet
• adjusted defaults

can probably go on nexus

[thin abyss]

What are the new defaults

[wet rivet]

click reset all

shadows is 80

eotf emulation is now luminance

[thin abyss]

Bet

[wet rivet]

ok that bug with the broken scaling when ui and game brightness aren't the same value also happens on the calibration menu

[warm osprey]

is this closer to SDR or other reason?

[radiant light]

what dlss preset u guys using?

might do M or L

[fringe harness]

im on L

[sterile orchid]

M, L is too heavy

[warm osprey]

I'm on L, DLSS Performance

[wet rivet]

no the purist preset is sdr, I think sdr looks a little crushed at times

[tight stratus]

it doesn't necessarily have to look like SDR

[stray hound]

L performance @ 4K, I did switch back to K, but I don't like how smeary it is w/ particles

[warm osprey]

I guess I just subjectively like Shadows 80 less

[warm osprey]

preset L really does work well particles, and DS2 is full of them

[warm osprey]

of course it doesn't, I'm just a little surprised by the new default

[hazy sand]

is this above 250?

[radiant light]

bro the sharpness slider ingame is literally broken 😭

5 is in the middle, u drag it to the far left, it stays at 5

then u put it back to the middle and its at 8 😭

[chrome heart]

Mnk vs controller for this game?

[wet rivet]

what do you mean

[radiant light]

controller is prolly better

[hazy sand]

the default UI

[fluid glade]

if you have dualsense, definitely use dualsense

[hazy sand]

i havent installed yet

[fluid glade]

otherwise mnk is fine

[wet rivet]

what is 250

[chrome heart]

Am on dualshock since I don't actually own a console

[hazy sand]

the brightness

[wet rivet]

oh the defaults are just 203 in the mod

[fluid glade]

then personally I would suggest mnk just for the aiming

[wet rivet]

250 somewhat matches vanilla hdr at default settings

[fluid glade]

but it's a cinematic game so controller should be more cozy

[hazy sand]

oh thats perfect for me 203, so wont haver the issue with the cut scene

[chrome heart]

Am wondering if I can set up my wooting for analogue movement inputs

[wet rivet]

what does 250 have to do with that

[hazy sand]

you said that if i increase above default is the issue no?

[earnest skiff]

personally for death stranding 1 I used both I use controller for walking/driving and mnk for combat

[wet rivet]

the issue happens if game and ui aren't the same value

so if both are 250 it works fine

or if both are 100

[tight stratus]

And when you choose Vanilla in Reno, is it actually Vanilla?

[hazy sand]

oh i see now, so if i leave them 203 both, should be fine correct?

[wet rivet]

its vanilla but with dlss fixed

[wet rivet]

ya

[hazy sand]

sweet!

installing now

lets see what the world brings!

[radiant light]

can someone explain why this is unsupported

cmon bruh

[hazy sand]

ur immersion dont break changing like that?

[thin abyss]

I used mnk for the firing range stuff

The auto aim was strong enough for normal combat for me

[hazy sand]

i havent played a game with mouse and keybord since half life 2 in 2004 ahaha

[thin abyss]

Damnn

[hazy sand]

been pc player since then but always prefered game pad

i guess im a piece of shit ahaha

[thin abyss]

LOL

[shadow wave]

I use dualsense for this game and I adjusted the sensitivity to 70 (both vertical and horizontal). 65 for aiming. It feels better for me

[earnest skiff]

kinda at first but I just despise shooting with controller I dont like auto aim

[wet rivet]

https://www.nexusmods.com/deathstranding2onthebeach/mods/8

[thin abyss]

Downloading for the boost

[earnest skiff]

[hazy sand]

yes. i feel you! have you tried TMR controllers?

like bitdo etc?

[radiant light]

bro DLAA and DLDSR looks insane

man discord really compresses screenshots, i can see so much detail in the rocks

[earnest skiff]

unfraternally not I use the switch pro controller

[thin abyss]

DLAA and DLDSR bro? I'm so jealous

[hazy sand]

my DLDSR dont show in nvidia panel for some reason

[earnest skiff]

looks real af

[hazy sand]

even if im at 4k 120

[radiant light]

if u have a high end OLED it wont work czu u need DSC enabled on ur monitor

[shadow wave]

I want to try this. May I see your DSR settings?

[radiant light]

i just turned it on nvidia control panel

[hazy sand]

yes!

[radiant light]

1.78x i think

u can do 2.25x for even higher quality

thats native 4k downscaled to 1440p

looks rly nice

[hazy sand]

i have s95f

i have to go to service menu to disable dsc

and im lazy

for that

[hazy sand]

you meant i need dsc disable?

[shadow wave]

Im unable to enable it

[radiant light]

yeah

[radiant light]

that is not DLDSR?

[shadow wave]

where?

[radiant light]

this under global

[hazy sand]

rudeeeeee

[shadow wave]

ah okay, global then

[hazy sand]

this hurts!!

but i aint going to no service menu today ahaha

[radiant light]

mines just in the regular osd idk why u need service menu

well i have a monitor actually thats prolly why

[radiant light]

if ur already at 4k, im ngl its kiknda pointless

do you really need to render ur games at 6 or 8k and downscale to 4k?

[hazy sand]

cause s95f is the tv

you have monitor

[radiant light]

u can try dldsr 2.25x with DLSS 4.5 ultra performance lol

that would probably be 1440p input res upscaled to 8k downscaled to 4k

[shadow wave]

yea I guess not.

[radiant light]

whcih could get better quality than 4k DLAA

[hazy sand]

which monitor you have snow?

[rotund salmon]

that's a lot of sharpening. The smoothness slider is an inverse sharpening slider with DLDSR, so 100% is the least amount of sharpening (not entirely absent)

[radiant light]

ohhh wtf im stupid

[pine trail]

quick question guys, can i inject dlss frame gen with optiscaler or is it still in the works?

[radiant light]

msi 271qpx e2

[radiant light]

why do u need to

what are u trying to accomplish

[pine trail]

trynna crank it

[radiant light]

dlss frame gen on amd?

[pine trail]

im on a 3060

and i like to max out at 1440p anyway

[pine trail]

and dont mind the input lag as much as most people do

[radiant light]

honestly bro just use XESSFG

its better than FSR frame gen and is natively built into the game and works on a 3060

[warm osprey]

damn, gotta say, shadows sometimes really look quite checkerboarded, like a really low ray count RT shadows

[pine trail]

ill try it

[light parrot]

Does the hue shifts slider work?

[warm osprey]

I wonder if they are going to improve this somehow

was this a case on PS5?

[pine trail]

are the new nvidia drivers good? last ones kinda sucked for requiem

[knotty bobcat]

shouldnt have any issues

i have a question, how much does DualSense add to the game, Im near the end of DS1, soon to play DS2 with Xbox controller rn, am I missing out?

[radiant light]

the adaptive triggers and haptics are super nice in this game

[knotty bobcat]

i asked somewhere else too but didnt really get any answers, hope its appropriate here

[radiant light]

but u need a usb cable to get the best haptics on pc

[knotty bobcat]

what do they exactly compared to traditional rumble?

[radiant light]

the adaptive triggers work wirelssly tho, and u feel tension when u pull them

[radiant light]

u know how iphones can simulate the click of a home button with haptics? its like that but in a game controller

[wet rivet]

haptics are crucial

[radiant light]

so u can feel raindrops hitting the controller and other cool stuff

it feels really nice

[knotty bobcat]

i have android haha

[radiant light]

way more precise and accurate vibrations than an xbox controller

which is just a spinny motor

[knotty bobcat]

interesting thanks

[short charm]

haptics is working with xbox controller in Horizon FW. Is this the case in DS2 ?

[radiant light]

you have normal vibrations

you dont have haptics

when you use an xbox controller for a ps game, it still has vibrations ofc, but its not using haptics

it doesnt feel the same at all

the xbox controller vibration feels much different than if u used a ps5 controller

[pine trail]

is it THAT much better? im getting fomo over here

[radiant light]

yes, its a lot better

the haptics in a ps5 controller is like a speaker, it can literally play tons of differnt materials and feelings in the hapticds

[warm osprey]

adaptive triggers alone should give you fomo

[radiant light]

the xbox is just a generic buzzing

[warm osprey]

they are amazing in both DS games

[radiant light]

are ur adaptive triggers working with a usb cable @warm osprey mine arent

[warm osprey]

yes, they work both wired and wirelessly for me

[short charm]

Yes, maybe not the same as dualshock, but you get nice weird vibrations with triggers i never felt in another game when you use bow

[radiant light]

thats normal for xbox

xbox has a second rumble motor in the triggers

some games use them, some dont

[knotty bobcat]

same haha tho I dont really wanna spend money on a controller ill use for 3 games maybe but im tempted

[radiant light]

thats still not haptics, and its very basic compared to ps5 haptics

[short charm]

This is true, but its sad dev doesnt use this rumble motor more often in the xbox controller trigger. I only know 1 game, HFW. And this is really good. I don't really need a 2nd Sony controller just for this

[radiant light]

theres quite a few games that use them

but i dont know if they actually work on pc

[short charm]

I didn't test those games

[fringe harness]

is the same as beta two?

[wet rivet]

slightly different i think

[runic field]

Had to disable it, it keeps buzzing so loudly 😂

It was nicely tuned in forza horizon 5, not the case with ds2

[opaque wedge]

downloading now. curious to see how it looks compared to the ps5 pro version

[pine ginkgo]

So what's the current suggested upscaler? PICO til the dlss hdr issue is fixed?

[fluid glade]

dlss issue is fixed with musa's mod

[hazy sand]

was about to ask

my adaptive trigs not working

[radiant light]

idk mine arent working either

[glass sage]

No

[hazy sand]

🙁

i'm annoyed ahaha

[ionic kindle]

if you have the controller disable as an audio device none of the dualsense stuff works. At least that was my problem

[hazy sand]

oh the dual sense works pretty well and speakers

is the triggers

i feel shit

[chrome heart]

well fuck, the game doesn't like me using analogue keyboard inputs with a mouse

[radiant light]

damn why does distant stuff look so shit

theres all these shimmering black spots

[pine trail]

xess fg isnt working at all and fsr looks like garbage

any tips?

[hazy sand]

let's uncapped this cut scenes please

[radiant light]

idk, even if u use optiscaler to get dlss frame gen to work, dont bother, its got frame pacing issues and feels laggy af even at 120fps

wtf is this

[pine trail]

Nvm the reset fixed it

But it is skipping a lot of frames

Jesus

[radiant light]

man the ps5 version of this game is kinda a lot better

[fluid glade]

?

[radiant light]

ive encountered like 5 bugs so far, the frame pacing is worse, even 60fps on PC feels laggier than 60fps on console

this is not a great PC port, im not happy with it so far

[fluid glade]

huh

[hazy sand]

i can't share this sentiment

[radiant light]

how do they make such basic mistakes like clamping brightness when DLSS is enabled or have issues with the world not loading properly

[fluid glade]

it's been great for me so far

[radiant light]

at 120fps with dlss frame gen it feels choppier and less smooth than 60fps on console imo

[fluid glade]

definitely a better experience than PS5 just for the image quality alone

[radiant light]

somethings off with the frame pacing

[hazy sand]

i don't use FG ever

maybe that's why?

[radiant light]

even 60fps no fg feels shit

idk

it feels weird and laggy and choppy

and even with dlss ultra performance it dips below 60 to 59 or 58 a lot, or up to 61

weird

[fluid glade]

what specs are you playing on?

[hazy sand]

original game? or crack?

[radiant light]

5800x3d and a 4080

original game on steam

[fluid glade]

that's weird then

[radiant light]

1440p 240hz OLED

it should be running flawlessly

[fluid glade]

so far the game runs fantastic for me

dlss aside

[radiant light]

what do u guys have for low latency mode set in nvidia control panel

[hazy sand]

mine too

i have it off

[thin abyss]

Idk how much it matters but are u on the latest drivers

[hazy sand]

i don't use that either

[radiant light]

yeah im on latest

[thin abyss]

Hmm

[fluid glade]

I have it on the ultra setting

[radiant light]

mine should be working fine

ill try a 60fps cap with no frame gen

[hazy sand]

show turn vsync on

[fluid glade]

why are you using fixed refresh

[hazy sand]

on control panel

[fluid glade]

at 100fps

[radiant light]

vrr flicker

but even with gsync on before it felt laggy

[hazy sand]

don't leave that as app setting

[radiant light]

it didnt seem to make a difference, at 100 or 120fps

[hazy sand]

if you have vsync off on control panel will feel off

[fluid glade]

yea but then you should be vsynching and at halve refresh rate or 1/3, 1/4, etc.

[hazy sand]

turn off in game

[radiant light]

it doesnt even let me turn it on ingame with frame gen lol

and i thought the vsync toggle in nvidia control panel only rly worked in opengl games

[hazy sand]

oh with frame gen you can't

[radiant light]

half vsync feels way worse than what i was doing before lol

[hazy sand]

but in control panel needs to be on

start there

[fluid glade]

nope usually you should combine gsync + vsync for reflex to work properly

[radiant light]

and with fixed refresh and 120fps cap in gow it feels great, same with RE9

but ill try gsync

[fluid glade]

no not half vsync

if you have fixed refresh rate for the image to not be choppy you either need exactly the fps your monitor can handle

or half

or 1/3

1/4

etc.

[radiant light]

ya, i was using 120 before, i just set it to 100fps once to test

it felt the same at 120 and 100

on my 240hz display

so thats not the issue

[fluid glade]

are you holding 120fps steady?

[short charm]

In Dying Light the Beast, it was stuttering like crazy. Then i did enable vsync in nvapp, and all stutter are gone

[radiant light]

it was close but thats part of the problem

[hazy sand]

start with turning vsync on at the control panel

[radiant light]

its locked 120 near the start but dips to 119 or 118 whenever i start moving

[fluid glade]

honestly just turn on Vsync and gsync and remove the limiter

[radiant light]

idk why it cant just sustain locked 60 (fg to 120)

[fluid glade]

should be fine

[radiant light]

i wish there was an ingame fps limiter

i like consistent frametimes, i dont like my fps going all over the place

[hazy sand]

capping might be the issue too

but that vsync needs to be turned on

[radiant light]

ya this game is just dumb, even with a 60fps cap and dlss ultra performance, it still dips to 58 or 59 a lot

[radiant light]

its on, it still feels like shit

[hazy sand]

at control panel??

[radiant light]

ill try no cap

[hazy sand]

uncapp it

[fluid glade]

this should feel good, at least for 60 fps it should

[short charm]

low latency mode can introduce stuttering isnt it ?

[radiant light]

i know it should lol, thats why im annoyed

i dont have an issue in other games

GOW 2018 feels smooth as butter

[short charm]

you can ask in specialk discord, he solved the ugly frame pacing in AC Shadows

[radiant light]

even at a steady 70-80fps with no cap it doesnt feel smooth, it feels weirdly laggy

[hazy sand]

did you try putting ur display settings at 120?

not 240

[radiant light]

my frame times are inconsistent, even with quarter vsync enabled in game (aka 60fps cap), my frametimes go between 8-15ms constantly

dropping to 60 or 120hz makes it feel even worse

weird

[hazy sand]

on the control panel?

[radiant light]

i changed my monitor panel refresh rate

wdym in the control panel

[hazy sand]

yes

that what i mean

[radiant light]

ya, didnt help

[hazy sand]

ur refresh rate

[radiant light]

i tried both 60hz or 120hz, they both felt even worse than 240hz

[hazy sand]

you are stressing me out ajajaja

but that frame time graph is off

[radiant light]

i know lol, its shit

its a perfectly flat line in other games

idk, its probably a game bug

[hazy sand]

let me bc check mine

[light parrot]

'

feels fine for me

And that is with Nvidia Reflex on

[shadow wave]

turned off both RT options. I just can't see their visual differences vs off but I can see the their noises. Wish there was RR in this game

[pine trail]

anyone figured out which settings actually make a difference in visuals and performance? trying to optimize

[shadow wave]

turning RT off (very high / high instead) gives you performance boss without visual impact at least to my eyes

[normal sleet]

Only way I'm able to get smooth frametimes is with vsync, I've tried limiting fps with rivatuner, special k, nvidia app, everything stutters, fucking nixxies man, also why isn't there an in game frame limiter????

[dim yoke]

Is RenoDX out for this ?

[velvet trench]

Could be the same issue with camera movement that DS1 had, Lyall fixed it in DS1

[chrome heart]

game smooth for me

[dim yoke]

Thanks Musa !

[normal sleet]

idk with vsync the problem disappears, unlocked + VRR is the second best option, but trying to manually limit fps results in constant stutter

[gray drift]

Getting crazy ccamera panning stutter too. Even tho frame time graph is flat

Fixed using in-game half refresh rate cap.

v sync

[hazy sand]

adapt triggers do work!

[swift hill]

How good is this port?

[uncut gull]

do you use dsx for haptics? just bought a dse for this game

[wet rivet]

I’ve just been using it plugged in without DSX

[hazy sand]

works fine with usb

haptics are wild here

you feel all of it

[normal sleet]

Same, graph is flat but stutter is always present unless vsync is enabled and fps hit vsync cap

[hazy sand]

is ur gsync enabled at control panel?

[raven gulch]

Why does this game stutter like crazy at the beginning

[hazy sand]

just a thought

there's a check box that sometimes resets itself

[normal sleet]

Yep, everything is enabled, shit just stutters, with vrr is not super terrible but any fps cap that isn’t vsync makes it stutter terribly

[raven gulch]

same, i tried running off RT and still the same

[gray drift]

The banding is pretty bad. Could use some of that Custom grain that was used in RE9

[normal sleet]

This isn't he first time i've encountered this problem with a nixxies port btw, how are they not able to make something as simple as an fps cap work is beyond me

[hazy sand]

we talking about micro stutters right?

[normal sleet]

yeah constant microstutter, most noticeble with slow camera panning

[raven gulch]

I tried DLSS Ultra Performance with all low presets with 4090 and still stuttering, yeah it's more obvious when panning the camera

[pine trail]

okay so i got framegen to work tolerably, frame pacing and stutters are fixed but im getting some flickering, anyone fix this yet_

[normal sleet]

I REALLY don't want to play with vsync lag but I guess I have no choice atm

[raven gulch]

So it's a VRR/Gsync issue? Cause I have that on as well

[normal sleet]

I guess? I honestly have no idea, I was just playing rdr2 this morning, fully unlocked and vrr worked like it always did, it's just some games that can't behave with unlocked framerates

[raven gulch]

It's not VRR, the game just doesn't want you to run a frame-rate that's not capped

Tried no VRR/Vsync, the game still stutters until I use the half refresh Vsync setting

[normal sleet]

Yeah can confirm that half vsync or full vsync fixes the issue for me as well

[rose marsh]

that's so weird, with nv panel it really has to be set to 1/2 refresh rate to eliminate stutters, but putting the interval to 1 in optiscaler makes it run at full refresh rate and there's no stuttering

also native xefg/fsr fg with reshade gave me a lot of vrr flicker, but dlssg to xeFG in opti is okay 😄

[rose marsh]

oh and in that scenario nv reflex works well

[low timber]

i notice there's a godawful stutter in cutscenes

[normal sleet]

I don't have the vsync option, mmmm

[pearl harbor]

Is the DLSS bug still present in the release build?

[rotund salmon]

Yeah

[rose marsh]

are u using opti 0.9.0-pre11 ?

[normal sleet]

I guess not

[timid mist]

r/fucktaa worst take on DLAA

Like do you even bother booting up the game with DLAA?

[warm spade]

https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/s/Sg2IidcC2Z

Interesting DLAA take from op in this thread

[raven gulch]

hi, which hotkey should you use to get this ui? I haven't used optiscaler before

[knotty bobcat]

I mean you shouldnt expect people to have brain on that site

this for example:

exhibit B

[rose valley]

any anti cheat in the game?

[rose marsh]

it's INSERT by default

[raven gulch]

thanks

[rose marsh]

also if u want to use it along with renodx, put reshade64.dll in the game dir and change this line in optiscaler.ini to LoadReshade = true

[raven gulch]

sadly but i think this fix doesn't work for me

do you have vsync on in the nvcp?

[rose marsh]

it gets a little bit less stuttery but still is sadly 🙁 disabled in nvcp here

[raven gulch]

yeah looks like we'll have to wait for a fix

[rose marsh]

it's much better with sync int set to 2, but you get 1/2 refresh rate fps and no vrr

[steep perch]

9070xt

[raven gulch]

I submitted them a ticket, hope they fix it with the first patch

[hexed bloom]

Part 1 in bonkers, Recap was interesting though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBozU1LiT9A

[placid totem]

Hell yeah

[dusky dawn]

wonder why the reno hdr is not working

is like not being detected on the reshade

wtf?

[warm osprey]

have you placed it next to ds2.exe?

[raw crown]

Use FSR

[raven gulch]

i'm now playing this game at a capped 40 with motion blur on

ngl i haven't played in this kind of setting for a long time, actually feels quite cinematic

[dusky dawn]

0 [20520] | ERROR | Failed to retrieve ImGui function table, because the requested ImGui version (19250) is not supported.
18:58:15:070 [20520] | INFO | Unregistered add-on "RenoDX".
18:58:15:070 [20520] | ERROR | Failed to load add-on from 'D:\games\death stranding 2\renodx-deathstranding2.addon64' with error code 1114!
18:58:15:072 [20520] | INFO | Redirecting CreateDXGIFactory2(Flags = 0x80000000, riid = {1BC6EA02-EF36-464F-BF0C-21CA39E5168A}, ppFactory = 000000395AFFE0A0) ...
18:58:15:380 [20520] | INFO | Redirecting D3D12CreateDevice(pAdapter = 00000218C83D1D80, MinimumFeatureLevel = b000, riid = {189819F1-1DB6-4B57-BE54-1821339B85F7}, ppDevice = 000002ED54BCA538) ...
18:58:15:381 [20520] | INFO | Searching for add-ons (*.addon, *.addon64) in 'D:\games\death stranding 2' ...
18:58:15:381 [20520] | INFO | Loading add-on from 'D:\games\death stranding 2\renodx-deathstranding2.addon64' ...
18:58:15:382 [20520] | INFO | Registered add-on "RenoDX" v0.2026.319.1634 using ReShade API version 18.
18:58:15:382 [20520] | ERROR | Failed to retrieve ImGui function table, because the requested ImGui version (19250) is not supported.
18:58:15:382 [20520] | INFO | Unregistered add-on "RenoDX".
18:58:15:382 [20520] | ERROR | Failed to load add-on from 'D:\games\death stranding 2\renodx-deathstranding2.addon64' with error code 1114!

[hushed leaf]

Is there a renodx mod for Death Stranding 2? And can it be used with DLSS?

[pale delta]

Yes

https://www.nexusmods.com/deathstranding2onthebeach/mods/8

[hushed leaf]

OMGG THANK YOU

[reef copper]

still a very early version, right?

[hushed leaf]

THANK YOU MUSAAAAAAAA

[steep perch]

Feel like its to over sharpened

@wet rivet sick work btw on ds2 hdr mod. Looks sick bro

[fluid glade]

I feel like the game has this weird camera bug it had on the first game as well

sometimes just random choppiness

I remember it was there in the first game and lyall had a fix for it

[covert hawk]

Sharpening slider is bugged rn too

[earnest skiff]

I just bought Dualsense because of what yall been saying
Do I need a program for adaptive triggers and haptic feedback to work or just plug it in?

[fluid glade]

should work out of the box, on PC usually you have to have a wired connection though

bluetooth usually only supports adaptive triggers, though not always

[earnest skiff]

nice

ok dualsense kinda insane you can feel the little rocks you're stepping on hello

[unique pulsar]

mhm

DualSense best controller!

And games that take advantage of it, particularly Sony's first-party ones, they really really shine.

[supple thorn]

big corpos intentionally not using hall effect/tmr sticks so controller sticks will eventually drift and you'll have to buy new ones = never-ending cycle of planned obsolescence, even though I value those features that dualsense brings, I'm not willing to spend money on a company with such practices.

https://youtu.be/-H4-12ON40Q

[earnest skiff]

I was hesitant at first cuz of the price + already have a controller but I guess it was worth it

[earnest skiff]

I still use my 8 years old switch pro controller on pc to this day tho it randomly starts drifting for like a whole minute with every gaming session then stops lol

[supple thorn]

yeah, Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft are all using non-HE/TMR sticks for planned obsolescence reason, they quite literally found a glitch that gives them huge money just by not using a more advanced technology.

[unique pulsar]

It's the best one out there feature wise, Sebile should match it but it's nowhere to be found. I'm assuming it'll drop with the new Xbox now, and hopefully better first-party support and all.

If a game has DualSense, I never play without it.

But on PC, it's kind of a PITA for all features, you need to use it wired.

🙃

Don't like playing wired but have to for DS features, beggars can't be choosers. Be nice if one day we don't have to.

[covert hawk]

yep. I only purchase tmr