#Simple UE5 console tweaks to make the game look sharper

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gilded rose
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Ever since the game came out, TAA has been a big issue. Even at high resolutions, enemies are hard to spot, and I believe TAA the cause of that. In this post, I want to suggest ways to improve sharpness without disabling TAA entirely.

Unreal Engine 5 allows tweaking TAA through console commands. Since TAA blends past and current frames, there's a setting that controls how much weight is given to the current frame:

r.TemporalAACurrentFrameWeight

By default, Into the Radius 2 seems to use:

r.TemporalAACurrentFrameWeight 0

This results in maximum blending — and maximum blur. In VR, this makes everything look soft and unfocused.

In my personalized GraphicsSettings.ini, increasing this value to 0.4 made a big difference. It sharpens the image while still retaining TAA’s motion stability:

r.TemporalAACurrentFrameWeight 0.4

This boosts the current frame’s contribution, reducing the heavy blur.

Another useful UE5 command is:

r.Tonemapper.Sharpen 1

Unfortunately, it doesn’t currently work in Radius 2. My guess is the game uses a custom post-process path (I see CM.r.Tonemapper.UseCMVersion 1 in the config)
What I'd Love to See:

A “TAA Weight” slider in settings, ranging from 0–100 (where 0 = r.TemporalAACurrentFrameWeight 0, least sharp).

A working “Sharpness” slider (0–2) tied to r.Tonemapper.Sharpen.

Even with frame weight set to 1, TAA still blurs during quick head movement — just with much less blur overall.

Thx for reading my ted "talk" on TAA.

flint plume
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Try disabling the experimental option in the graphics config, this may allow the second command to work

gilded rose
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I tried it but it didnt work

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also set the intensity 21 to really make sure it was on, but nope

bronze rock
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I agree, devs should definitely take notes on this, i wonder whos idea it was to start shoehorning TAA into every single vr game nowadays

gilded rose
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TAA is mostly fine if its configured right, its configured very poorly rn tho

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MSAA would look better but its soooo much more expensive to run

gilded rose
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It seems there is some sort of sharpening happening when switching textures from low to medium/high

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I have no clue what exctly its doing tho

dim nacelle
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This fucking guy is doing gods work

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Where do i drop these commands to test it out? Im confused on where are these supposed to go

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Also any chance to get them sacred Buusta configs for us mortals?

flint plume
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You can put them into the game graphics.ini or use a tool to enable the console(?)

gilded rose
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if it asks you to replace or skip, click Replace the file in the destination

dim nacelle
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are there any circumstances the settings (the file) would default back? I guess updates maybe?

gilded rose
delicate skiff
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This is perfect, finally the game is sharp, thanks a lot, I hope this will be in setting in time.

dim nacelle
gilded rose
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I think thats the name of the folder

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But yeah its in GraphicsQuality.ini

dim nacelle
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Oh ur right my bad

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