╟🎑reshades

[wispy rapids]

that is the fixed version for gamma

no need to update

[smoky atlas]

aight, thank you very much

[misty echo]

#╟🎑reshades message

prob my favorite reshade thus far

[smoky atlas]

thanks for the recommendation

[void musk]

can you send that in the chat? i can't find it anywhere

[velvet tree]

anyone got norfair's grim preset?

[placid falcon]

@smoky atlas zone reality

[brave shard]

hey man what's this reshade?

[green lake]

that one was broken

probably dont use it

[rigid pendant]

How do I path to tfaa without breaking everything in my reshade, I tried adding a path to the folder and screwed myself 💀

Also does backing up MCM values also backup my reshade settings ?

What's the best way to ensure I don't lose my preset if I accidentally screw myself again

[green turtle]

Daamn, how did you make the game look like that?

[green lake]

i forgor

game looks like this now

[placid falcon]

@rigid pendant nice

[limpid spoke]

where i can dowload vibrant reshade? can't find on moddb it

[tawdry folio]

i think Zone Reality has a dedicated one

[river tendon]

I installed some new Reshades, now I see some of the Shaders failed to compile showing in red. Any idea how I can make them all compile?

[wintry sand]

i was trying some of the reshades and now no matter what i do im stuck at 20 fps

like they dont move at all

no matter what i do

20fps

[cunning gazelle]

Depthalpha is the only one that should be red

[river tendon]

I have some other red too

[tawdry folio]

turn off reshade, restart your PC and see. twice i had gamma go from stable 60-70 to sub 20 for no apparent reason

[river tendon]

PhroZac Area X

[barren crescent]

Is there any tutorials/guides for how to reshade? (Please @ me)

[tawdry folio]

reshade comes pre-installed with GAMMA with around 10-15 presets

[barren crescent]

Gotcha, so how do I access them?

[tawdry folio]

in game press "home key" and load 'em in from a list

PgUp on the numpad enables/disables reshade by deffault, you should see the difference

[barren crescent]

Okay ty! Which ones would you reccomend?

[tawdry folio]

i actually use one which you have to install manually

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1162285292070379530

check pinned msnges (a pin icon up top)

[barren crescent]

Gotcha seems easy enough to get, so out of those which is the best preset?

[tawdry folio]

Core_v3 at the moment, if you are looking for a balanced ant natural looking image

and*

with TFAA

[barren crescent]

Is this a preset that comes with GAMMA?

[tawdry folio]

nope, its Norfair's

[barren crescent]

Ah, so is it a separate download then? Kinda confused.

[tawdry folio]

#1162285292070379530 message

[barren crescent]

Mkay, i'll play around with it then. Tysm!!!!

[barren crescent]

@tawdry folio Having some issues with the core v3

I dragged the 2 files into the bin, but when I click the drop down in the game I dont see it as an option

Nevermind found the option I think

I don't notice a difference though..

[slow star]

Press pageup

You have reshade disabled

[barren crescent]

gotcha

so how do I swap between the different presets like ghost, etc?

[slow star]

Also did you press the active to top button? Dont do that, you need to choose an antialasing method. I see 4 effects moved for some reason on your screenshot

[slow star]

You press the dropdown where the name of the preset is and click another preset

Only the presets you installed will be there obv

[barren crescent]

Yeah, that's mb was messing with it and didn't think it really did anything.

[slow star]

Yeah it screws up the order of the effects which is super important

Everything is on my pins btw

https://i.imgur.com/tl8uVs8.png

How to install and change presets.

what the effects do

[barren crescent]

Yeah I was confused about that part, in the zip all it had was 2 files.

[slow star]

All there

[slow star]

Well which one did you download

[barren crescent]

this one ^

[slow star]

If you downloaded core v3 its just one preset like it says right there

[barren crescent]

ahhh.

[slow star]

If you download pack preview4 its 4 presets like it says in it's description

[barren crescent]

I thought it was like a pack kinda thing, where the presets were in one

[slow star]

#1162285292070379530 message this link is pack 4 preview

It is

right there in the description of corev3 it explains.... corev3 is a single release.. the rest are packs.. with included preview images.

[barren crescent]

Gotcha, I'm sorry. I'm new to gamma and everything involving it 🙏

So I did the download right, I just fucked it up by selecting to bring them to the top?

[slow star]

Yeah, close the game and copypaste the .ini file again

[slow star]

And then read this image and toggle accordingly

You could toggle all of them ON except for drme for example (the ones in the image)
immerse aa
Quint_motionvectors
tfaa

adof is optional

[barren crescent]

alright cool, so this is where I'm at now.

[slow star]

Alright go to the reshade settings tab, and look for the "shaders location" section. Its near the top of the menu. There's a + button . Press it and it'll display a browser. Go into shaders>TFAA> click OK

[barren crescent]

think I found it, there were two + buttons.

[slow star]

Yeah that's good.
only for the effect search path, don't do it for the texture search path

Now go back to the main reshade tab and hit refresh

bottom of the screen

[barren crescent]

alrighty

[slow star]

and then toggle ON TFAA aswell

like this

you can also try like this. just try to see which looks better on your screen

[barren crescent]

Yeah I got it, now there's motion blur when I run.

[slow star]

look at the images

yellow ones

[barren crescent]

gotcha

[tawdry folio]

click on the MotionVectors/DRME, whichever you've got active, and its settings should be displayed below. There's a thing set to half resolution or half screen, cant remember at the moment. switch it to full res

it will help with the smudge effect

[barren crescent]

Is all 3 okay lol?

[slow star]

change to full res if you still see blurriness

And yes your list is now okay

You can toggle ADOF on, if you want depth of field

[tawdry folio]

no TFAA?

[slow star]

Oh I didn't see he didnt have it

[tawdry folio]

yeah, its not there

[slow star]

He didnt press refresh maybe

[barren crescent]

Its there

but on the bottom of the list?

for some reason

[slow star]

TFAA? or TAA

TAA is bad

[barren crescent]

TFAA

[slow star]

If it's TFAA, click and hold and drag it just above LUT

or right click tfaa, move to top and then it's less dragging around

[barren crescent]

Okay heres the list now:

[tawdry folio]

yeah, looks good

[barren crescent]

Awesome, ty guys so much!

[slow star]

For the other presets its the same thing, drag and drop in bin, and choose from the presets list> click Ok

[barren crescent]

I do have one last issue but if you're busy I can wait till later. When I downloaded the other packs like ghost when I try and use that preset instead it makes my screen black.

[slow star]

You didnt install the lut probably

the reshade-shaders folder it comes with

did you drag and drop that

[barren crescent]

Yeah, I'll do it again just incase.

[slow star]

Alright if you still have the black screen, let me know

[barren crescent]

Yup, works now. Tysm!!!!!!!!!!

[tawdry folio]

just to clarify things for you so you understand what you are doing: reshade needs 2 things to work; a preset, list of active effects, these are the .ini files with preset names. and shaders, the effects themselfs

[barren crescent]

Gotcha.

[tawdry folio]

oh, and I do recommend going to the basic lighting settings in the in-game menu

and setting everything there to 1

for Norfair's stuff. or however you like it, really, but its calibrated for there values

those*

[barren crescent]

10-4

[tawdry folio]

enjoy, GAMMA with a good reshade is a treat

[slow star]

You technically could up the saturation slider, but it might deep fry the campfires and bunkers. My presets have a workaround for this, but make sure to tune it to your taste.
Thanks n0way by the way, for helping guys with this stuff

[tawdry folio]

not a problem, i wouldnt know what to do without help as well. thanks for making great, performance friendly graphical enhancements to a great game, in your spare time and for free. as far as hobby goes this is very generous

[slow star]

Thank you n0way.

[quick tendon]

Hi, my reshade doesn't have the TFAA effect. Should I download it from somewhere?

[wide dune]

How do I install reshapes I saw a video and a guy was using one called “hunter 2.0” and it looked nice

[slow star]

It's in this channel! Also comes with #1153770802819383346 I think

[wide dune]

Oh cool I’ll have to figure out how to download it after work

[rigid pendant]

Hey guys, thoughts on my reshade I've been working on the last couple days? Open to all feedback positive/negative/what you'd change, am kinda newb so almost certainly wouldn't have thought of your suggestion 😂

[slow star]

Looks good!

Don't know what's the bloom level you have, but seems fine judging from a single pic

[rigid pendant]

I spend a lot of time going back and forth with bloom just tweaking based off what ends up feeling too bright

Ambient light and bloom can be a bit insane together if you don't bring the levels down a bit

[rigid pendant]

Means a lot, your reshades are god tier S tier +

[wintry sand]

wich preset of the reshades u guys think is the best gameplay wise , seeing good the enemys etc et

[rigid pendant]

Just some more pics with a bit more diverse weather scenery

They're loading

[rigid pendant]

I feel like it's maybe a tad dark in the shadows but at the same time I feel like the darkness of the shadows is realistic. Not sure though

[slow star]

I think the levels are okay. Different from the rest of the roster of presets we have around in gamma

[rigid pendant]

The standard presets are all very bright I tend to notice

And kind of orangey

But honestly if you think the levels are fine then that's all I needed to hear

[kindred stratus]

When you first customize shaders be like:

Why le SKY SO BRIGHT??

[rigid pendant]

LMFAO

Using bloom HDR default is like instantaneous flashbang

And u have to figure out that the eye adaptation is making everything way too bright and just disable that shit

[midnight forge]

mmm how do i set reshades up or use someone who already has a decent one

[wide dune]

This looks fire fs

[kindred stratus]

Yeah im personally checking out the options I have for reshade, using hunter right now but it has (from what my eyes can feel) a mild blue hue to everything so I still need to adjust it

Haven't checked out stuff like norfair or milsim for that matter

[rigid pendant]

I have a gradient active that gets bluer the stronger I make it and warmer the less I make it and I find that's a good way to control the hue

It's naturally very warm so you just sort of tweak it with a colder hue til it feels right

God I love reshading, I'm enjoying it almost as much as just playing gamma

[kindred stratus]

Yeah I'm still adjusting the looks to get it just warm enough not to pierce my eyes

Outdoor it's alright, indoor and it gets fairly gritty

[rigid pendant]

Bottom left picture is like peak stalker vibes

Good job

[slow star]

Regarding the overall levels, it's a darker preset but obv. just preference.
Can only see a small amount of black crushing here but that's about it, yes.

[kindred stratus]

Haha thanks

[rigid pendant]

I think that's the beauty of reshades

U just sorta play it by preference

And keep tweaking

[kindred stratus]

Lol first time I tried to do reshade, I turned my game into Roblox cuz I'm certain I fucked up somewhere

Surfaces lost their texture, just clean raw matte

[kindred stratus]

I was like oh god this is horrendous

Deletes gamma, does fresh install because I didn't make separate modlist

[rigid pendant]

It's dark but I love the vibe of this setting

[rigid pendant]

I've done maybe 3-4 fresh reinstalls as a result of my genius

[kindred stratus]

Dark + 75% rainy days and cloudy weather : mood

I wonder if there's a mod that allows alteration for how often certain weather happens

[rigid pendant]

That picture I sent looks real to me if I squint 😂

[kindred stratus]

Also I want to tinker with weapon repositioning tbh

[rigid pendant]

Some people play with the spring grass pack from the aydins thing and omg Idk how they do it

It's like the teletubbies

[kindred stratus]

As it stands its kinda.. too far out to fit with the vibe I'm going for and style

But waaaay too much work lol

[rigid pendant]

Yeah ngl repositioning of wep would be sick

I just got an m4 and thing takes up half my screen

[slow star]

there's #1118909693813862492

[rigid pendant]

Is it stable

[slow star]

its just repositions

[rigid pendant]

Ah ok, I don't like adding anything at this point cause everytime I've tried to do anything I break my game

[slow star]

its in constant updating so the author always updates and fixes stuff

[rigid pendant]

And have sat there cursing myself as I have to manually readjust all my reshade settings

[slow star]

idk you might wanna check it out or not, but its there

[rigid pendant]

Oh, how can I backup my reshade settings that's a huge question I need to ask

Do I just do it like the mod list

[slow star]

you mean your preset?

[rigid pendant]

And change the name of the MCM values thing in m02

[slow star]

or the reshade menu ini

[rigid pendant]

Yeah the preset

[slow star]

The preset you gotta copy it and place in anomaly/bin and it won't get deleted
if it's in gamma/mods/atmospherics it might get cleaned when updating gamma

[rigid pendant]

Copy from which folder exactly?

[kindred stratus]

Shit IL have to check that out if it fits my aesthetic

[rigid pendant]

Also what's the difference between backing up your preset and the menu ini

[slow star]

gamma/overwrite/bin

[slow star]

I like it, it's out of the way and looks modern

[kindred stratus]

Guess il tinker with it once I'm home

[slow star]

the preset is just the assortment of effects and their settings, which everyone shares
reshade.ini is the settings of your reshade menu like effect paths, menu colors, hotkeys, pre-processor definitions, etc

[kindred stratus]

I got UGP installed for some more gun variety to tinker with and for screenies, but it seems to alter some economy related stuff like technician item prices so I might remove it soon sadly and make a new save.

[slow star]

reshade.ini would be like personal for yourself and not really necessary to share

[rigid pendant]

Right okay, so if you'd want to save your settings that allow you to path to tfaa and stuff like that you'd have to back up menu ini

Got it

[slow star]

yeah the install for the repos is basically, download from the drive a few weapon remodels it needs to have, and then the repositions themselves. done

[slow star]

yes

always backup that one before updating

otherwise it gets reset

[rigid pendant]

Also last question, but what's the simple way of sharing an .Ini for someone to download?

Do you just open the file in discord and they can just download it?

I'd assumeM

?*

[slow star]

Yeah they just download the file and put it in anomaly/bin

That's all

[rigid pendant]

Ez

[slow star]

Most ppl don't know about the TFAA thing so they always ask, that's all though

[rigid pendant]

I was going to use TFAA but my PC is barely holding onto the solid 60 at 1440p and using tfaa and the motion stuff lost me 10 fps over just using fxaa

Im using a 1080 still 😵‍💫

[slow star]

There's LUTs which some of us make for our presets which improve performance but it's a more advanced thing and you need to share another file then

[rigid pendant]

Fxaa with subpix turned way tf up looks good enough to me

Deals with the shimmering trees well enough

[kindred stratus]

Flexes 72 FPS in Rostok

On a new game

[rigid pendant]

In rostok?!

[kindred stratus]

Yeah I walked around a bit here and there, that seems to be the average I'd get if nothing wild is happening

Though to be fair my specs are of pretty above the average

If norfair reshade is as good as people say, I might squeeze more out of it

[rigid pendant]

Yeah ngl I'm surprised my 7th Gen i5 and 1080 are pushing a solid 60 with the reshade I'm rocking

[kindred stratus]

Full screen I get around.. 84 FPS, which is major boost but fuck that, I alt tab a lot lol

[rigid pendant]

But knowing ab the core issues with the engine my 4 core i5 from 2017 is actually holding up quite well

[kindred stratus]

1080, the chad of the old generation

Hell, still hold its weight to this day

[rigid pendant]

It's still surprisingly potent

Cause Im playing at 1440p

If I was barely scraping 60 at 1080p then that'd be a bit rougher

[kindred stratus]

Yeah if I'm really desperate I could go 1080 on 1440

But that'd be really sad lol

Also what is this TFAA I'm hearing about

I have no damn clue lol

[wide dune]

I use 1440p but I feel I don’t get that good fps even tho I have a pretty solid rig 3090ti and ryzen 9 5900x

[rigid pendant]

Best looking AA if you use with DRME or motion vector

But it's performance heavy

[kindred stratus]

Oh yeah AA, nah il pass lol

[slow star]

Yeah it taxes around 15 fps but it's the best AA hands down

[rigid pendant]

I lost 10-15 fps using it over just rocking FXAA for what I felt wasn't worth the hit

But

Going from 144 to 130 isn't as big a deal of dropping from 65 to 55-50 in my case

So if youve got the power and leeway, go for It

[kindred stratus]

I mean I guess itd be fine if u just photographing the zone, but playing with that which is definitely gonna tank below 60, il cry

[slow star]

By itself reshade just existing in your install takes 20 fps, no effects active

you remove dxgi and d3d9 dll's to remove it and 20fps+ instantly

[kindred stratus]

Truly a nuclear option, well, sort of

[kindred stratus]

What's yer AVG FPS in Yanov station and Rostok?

[rigid pendant]

So you gain 20 completely uninstalling on top of the 20 you gain completely disabling effects ?

[kindred stratus]

Mine is 72 Rostok, 43 Yanov

[wide dune]

Around 75-80

[slow star]

Some people already just play without reshade and toggle xray SMAA and AA x2. i tried it ~ With current atmospherics looking so good, you dont need reshade anymore, at least in 2k -4k resolution. I can play it raw like that

[rigid pendant]

So a 40 fps increase vs just 20 fps by hitting the home button to auto disable effects

[slow star]

Yes

Just move dxgi and d3d9.dll from anomaly/bin somewhere else and try the game out

[kindred stratus]

Yeah like base anomaly off what gamma is built on, honestly with some small rinkering, looks very respectable for a drastic performance increase

Tinkering with gamma atmos

[slow star]

have a fps monitor somewhere though, to check the frames

[kindred stratus]

Oh right no FPS counter lol

[rigid pendant]

When I first downloaded gamma I did all the framerate optimizations but then was sad my game looked bad

[slow star]

msi afterburner riva tuner or geforce experience has alt+R

[kindred stratus]

Goddamn I have half of that in Yanov bruh

[midnight forge]

how is the game at max settings without reshades?

[wide dune]

That’s crazy

[kindred stratus]

Yeah idk why my frames Hella tank in Yanov specifically

It goes back to normal outside thoufh

[rigid pendant]

It's the oasis

The oasis is fucking with your frames

Magically

[wide dune]

I Play a mix of max settings with some low ones and it looks pretty nice

[kindred stratus]

Lmao

I play with high density grass and size too

CANT SEE THE CATS DESTROYING MY ANKLES AAAAA

[wide dune]

Rip

[midnight forge]

i see ill have to take that into account XD

[rigid pendant]

I kind of want to try optimizing gamma with all the shaders mods and then just without reshade like norfair said

Just using vanilla graphics with hippo and enhanced shaders doing the visual work

Prolly get a pretty good looking game at like 100fps consistent

[slow star]

w/o reshade at 2k i get prob like 150fps and 4k 80 fps

[kindred stratus]

Personally grass is a big hit to performance, but imo it's kinda a big mood setting to have it at just the right volume

[rigid pendant]

Yep, it's also like hits a point where it feels like it looks good and isn't wrecking your frames beyond imagine

Somewhere around 60% of the density slider

[kindred stratus]

First time downloading gamma, set it to max lmao.

Load into game,
"Why the fuck is my FPS tanking"

[rigid pendant]

The magic number in vanilla anomaly was full density minus 6 ticks but I can't get away with that

[kindred stratus]

Literally me

[kindred stratus]

Yeah I think I'd probably be able to get around similar FPS if I tried to maximize performance without absolutely butchering visual

[kindred stratus]

If only the slider show actual values lol

[rigid pendant]

I dont really need more than 60 fps personally for a game like this though, so at the same time I kind of like 60 with insane graphics / immersion vs a higher frame rate with a worse looking game

Half of stalker is feeling like you're actually there

If you were to ask me atleast 👌

Make your zone as immersive as possible for your tastes

[kindred stratus]

I need to add the angry skies mod and see how that vibes with the shaders

Very angry red, and very blue reshade

Bam...

Porple.

[rigid pendant]

Porp

[slow star]

There's so many things that improve fps outside of settings for anomaly, it's baffling

[green lake]

something new

[slow star]

if y'all need some FPS quickly, close the game, go to anomaly launcher and set shadowbox size to 1500. Apply settings, close, open game and voila.

I got 10-20fps in 4k with that (Your results may vary though, IDK)

[rigid pendant]

Does it make things look worse?

[green lake]

yes

[wide dune]

L

[slow star]

Nah

[green lake]

wdym nah

it makes the shadows blockier

[slow star]

I run 1500 shadowbox on all my screenshots and i tune my presets for default anomaly, too

[green lake]

you're ona mega monitor

you dont count

[slow star]

so that's low grass density and short grass

[rigid pendant]

What counts as mega monitor

32 inch 4k?

[green lake]

his ginourmous ass monitor

yeah

if its super wide

[rigid pendant]

Might be able to get away with on 27inch 1440

I'll try

[slow star]

lmfao im on 2k dude doesnt know what hes talking about

[kindred stratus]

I mean shadowbox 1560 can definitely be covered with, I forgot the specific setting but it smoothen out the jagged edges of shadows

[rigid pendant]

So just change shadowmap from 2048 to 1536?

[kindred stratus]

Sun shadows iirc?

[green lake]

you were telling people you were on 4k

wdym

[kindred stratus]

Pretty much yeah, just need to alter some specific settings to blob out the shadows

[green lake]

oh you're using DLDSR

[kindred stratus]

Otherwise you will get crisp sharp shadows which is lmao moment

[slow star]

Yeah

And apply settings

[slow star]

You're trolling

[rigid pendant]

Im gonna see what fps I get staring in one spot without it, then close game apply and see the difference

if I cant notice anything, and I gain framerate

then its staying on

[green lake]

?????????????????

[slow star]

I have set a custom CRU resolution for 1k, and I playtest my presets on 1k, 2k and 4k, so yeah

[green lake]

i need to do that tbh

[rigid pendant]

This guy reshades

Talking about stuff I've never heard ab

Cru's

[kindred stratus]

Put grass size to max, best performance I assure you

pc instantly burst in flames

[green lake]

nvm

[rigid pendant]

Alongside 8x in game SMAA and HBAO on high right

[green lake]

my RTX 3060 doesnt even have DSR

[kindred stratus]

[green lake]

where the fuck is it at

:(

[slow star]

Remember though, stalker is heavily cpu bound, so you might be hitting your cpu cap instead of gpu and not notice a change sometimes

even if the performance uplift is technically there

damn you single core game!

[rigid pendant]

That's definitely what happens to me 99% of the time, I don't think I'll see a difference in much framerate cause I'm pre sure my i5 from 2017 is barely gripping for dear life

[slow star]

did you try the Core0 thing, kyrax?

there's a bot command for it iirc

[rigid pendant]

Yeah I do that everytime I open the game

[green lake]

core0 doesnt really do much

[slow star]

Gromov check it

[green lake]

atleast for me it didnt

[slow star]

It has to say DLDSR

[green lake]

i dont have that

[rigid pendant]

Honestly, it's a miracle my computer doesent just give up and turn off with reshades on

[green lake]

man

why aint I got DLDSR

this some bullshit

[rigid pendant]

Its hard to be mad about framerate when my computer is actually somehow handling gamma with all of its mods AND reshading on top of that

Meanwhile I get worse performance in sons of the forest

A game I paid 50 dollars for and is AAA

and has 0 mods

Gamma is surprisingly well optimized

[green lake]

does my rtx 3060 just not have DLDSR

or DLSS

[rigid pendant]

I can tell my cpu is pushed to its absolute max cause hitting home to disable the reshade effects only gives me 9 fps even tho the game looks like it goes from being developed in 2009 vs 2022

[wide dune]

I thought sotf was AA

[rigid pendant]

It's like a shockingly low fps difference in turning the effects on vs off

[rigid pendant]

Probably is

I was thinking triple A seems off for that company

Still more development power than a free mod pack

And shouldnt run worse than gamma

[wide dune]

Ya fs I run it ok but not good

[green lake]

wow

yeah i just dont have the DSR option in nvidia control panel

[rigid pendant]

I'd expect to get twice the framerate in sotf vs gamma

But instead I get less in sotf

[rigid pendant]

Why isn't this included in the framerate optimizations channel

Some chump who doesent care ab blocky shadows could desperately use that framerate

[slow star]

it should

check online

[slow star]

No dont worry, that's how it works. I sometimes dont gain any fps by toggling off.

[rigid pendant]

So ik disabling reshade is a massive boost, is disabling hippo/SSS and enhanced shaders like another 30 fps net gain?

Not that I'm going to do it but Im just curious what kind of a hit those shader mods have

[slow star]

Yes

like 40 fps

[rigid pendant]

Yeah makes sense tbh

I really like SSS tho

[slow star]

look this is 1080p. Still looks good imo. Its just ultrawide, but res is 2580x1080

[kindred stratus]

300 FPS stalker gaming??

[green lake]

yeah im looking up solutions rn

[slow star]

shadowbox 1500

[kindred stratus]

Now you can die from getting your ankles destroyed by cats with quadruple the frames

[north rivet]

How do you make the minimap work in that resolution?

[green lake]

ultrawide fixes

[slow star]

DART

#1169311822139105380

[rigid pendant]

Any non mini mappers here?

[green lake]

im updating my drivers nw

[rigid pendant]

Feels more immersive without it

[green lake]

i just have to update with studio driver

instead of game ready drive

[kindred stratus]

Damn, mister "open PDA every 3 seconds" over here I see

But yeah I would but it legit makes me check PDA every so often tbh

[rigid pendant]

I don't mind getting side tracked

Tbh

As long as I'm going in the general direction

[slow star]

no reshade, still looks good. up the sat a bit and done

[rigid pendant]

But yeah my PDA be getting USED

[green lake]

hmmm

[slow star]

I only use the pda sometimes, I play with hud off

[north rivet]

[slow star]

Only if im like super lazy-mode on

[green lake]

real

[rigid pendant]

How tf do you do anything with no PDA no hudb

Tho

[kindred stratus]

@slow star That your own reshade?

[slow star]

Yeh

[north rivet]

What reshade do you use?

[kindred stratus]

I mean it's possible, technically, but if health is prob the only real issue

[rigid pendant]

He literally said no reshade

I'm confused

😂

[slow star]

this screenshot is NO reshade

nothing

[north rivet]

thisxd, srry

[kindred stratus]

Comes with your user ltx? So I can try to see what settings you use for some of the graphical shenanigans

[slow star]

this is Core_v4 (v3 is available now)

[slow star]

yeah my user ltx is in my thread

[north rivet]

thx :D

[slow star]

I'll add to the pin

[kindred stratus]

Okay drop it here now

This is a threat

[slow star]

everything ou need to know is in the pin, so just read and you'll be set

[kindred stratus]

I will uh, personally, uh, come to your house and mown your lawn if you don't drop the v4

[green lake]

i kinda like making natural reshades

[kindred stratus]

[green lake]

no super color graded

sometimes the default game looks really good

all because of hippo

[north rivet]

what pin?

[slow star]

my thread's pin

[slow star]

lol

[kindred stratus]

[slow star]

It's not super different from v3. the difference will be elsewhere

you'll see when I drop P4

[rigid pendant]

Will it only appear here once I save my preset as a custom name or something? Cause currently I'm just using AtmosR but it's heavily changed

But don't see it in the bin folder

[north rivet]

this?

[rigid pendant]

Assuming cause it hasn't been marked a a custom preset yet

[slow star]

Here's Core_v3
#1162285292070379530 message
and P4 preview is here
#1162285292070379530 message

Dont download the others. outdated. less fps.

I'll update soonish next couple weeks. Just too busy with work nowadays

[north rivet]

ohh thx againxd

[slow star]

i repeat, everything is in the pins and the pack descriptions/readme's

dont make me sticker you with a check pins

[kindred stratus]

Proceeds to burn my pc down

[slow star]

Well good thing about presets is that they're modular so you can just tick off anything you dont like

Also, you can lower the intensity of color grading with the LUT.fx sliders.

[north rivet]

sorry its only i dont speak english and this very difficult D:

[slow star]

No worries, just drop it in translator

or ask me but please read first if possible

Offtopic but I cant wait for this
https://youtu.be/EvuagRGwIsQ?si=1HFYpZt7BDI62bi_

[rigid pendant]

@slow star Say the preset I'm using isn't a new one that I made but just one of the ones that came with it but heavily changed, is there a way to copy the values of it to a new custom preset or something

Or do I just have to make a new preset and manually add the values from the default preset that I had

[slow star]

Yeah click the

[rigid pendant]

OH

[slow star]

put a name, and done

[rigid pendant]

Goated feature

Typically I would just tinker on my own to figure this stuff out but just wanna be safe

So now that preset should show up in the overwrite bin and then I can copy it to anomaly app data

[slow star]

Your preset path will be borked after you do this.
You need to:
1.find your new preset in gamma/overwrite/bin
2.move it to anomaly/bin

3a.then click the preset dropdown menu and you need to find your way back to anomaly/bin where your presets will be located.
3b.or restart the game

Yeah

[rigid pendant]

I closed the game and am going to copy it

To anomaly app data

[slow star]

Yeah move it

anomaly/bin, not appdata

[rigid pendant]

And then restart, and then once I'm in do I have to path to anomaly app data?

Isn't that already where it's patched?

Pathed*

Ok

Anomaly/bin

That's the move

[slow star]

here

[rigid pendant]

Right ok that's what confused me

ok so i changed the path in the preset from gamma overwrite bin to this

and I see all of them plus the custom one

So im good?

[slow star]

Yeah if you see your preset after you moved it to anomaly/bin, you're good

you can modify it and everything now, it'll stay there

[rigid pendant]

Ok so at this point I just need to backup the menu.ini but I swear I haven't touched anything in settings so Idek if I need to really

Still good to do it I think

[slow star]

Yeah for keybinds and whatnot. I modified mine quite a lot

[rigid pendant]

Yeah mine are pretty much default

Did you already tell me how to backup menu.ini, my brains fogging on whether or not you did

I think I just got clarification on the difference between that and backing up presets

[slow star]

reshade.ini in anomaly/bin, and just make a copy somewhere

[swift robin]

made a pretty lightweight reshade for the late autumn retexture

looks shitty in screenshot tho lol

i promise the corner isnt that dark ingame lol

[rigid pendant]

You are a good person sir, you do not owe anyone the help but we greatly appreciate it.

[slow star]

Good hunting, stalker👍

[slow star]

Meant to say minimap here

I agree that the hud is immersion breaking sometimes

[rigid pendant]

Okay Yeh I was genuinely confused how you were doing anything no mini map no pda

"find the duty soldier" norfairs like well he could be anywhere

Guess we'll start north

[kindred stratus]

If only health can be indicated through other means than just a hud

[kindred stratus]

I mean PDA would still defo be immersive cuz it's in world, just yeah, gotta disable quest markers so you know their general area, but you need to hunt them down yourself

[slow star]

I love that

[kindred stratus]

Oh no, Norfair Immersion mod incoming

Disables all irrelevant, immersion breaking HUD except for the PDA, which in and of itself is supremely limited to only map viewing and taking quests

judge your own health by how your character wince

[slow star]

Yeah

[rigid pendant]

I might be tripping but I think I saw a mod that integrated your health UI into a digitized panel on your exo suits wrist

Is that a thing in some mod

[slow star]

Radiation overlay is the same. I remove all overlays that give you info about that. It's better to suddenly hear your character start to cough. Obv geiger is a thing but still

[kindred stratus]

That would be so sad though lmao, only knowing the truth of your health when you are far endgame

[kindred stratus]

No more clicking sound unless Geiger is in inventory, only indication you are getting baked is literally coughing would actually be rad lol

[rigid pendant]

Ig that would be an issue...

[slow star]

Might be. There's FDDA styled animations for exo

Reminds me of metro ranger diff

[kindred stratus]

We goin full immersion with this one

But yeah as it stands its very possible still, just the only problem would be health viewing in some sense

[rigid pendant]

Honestly if there was a game to push the limits and boundaries of what is functionally immersive it's modded stalker

Functionally immersive is the key though, turning every single bit of info off just doesent work cause unlike real life you don't have actual senses helping you to distinguish situations

[green lake]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/fdda-enhanced-animations-medical-exo-anims

[slow star]

Yeah it still needs to be fun and engaging

[kindred stratus]

Inventory gets turned off hudwise, you just rummage hoping you got the right shit

[green lake]

this?

[kindred stratus]

True, still a limit I suppose

[rigid pendant]

Gonna be that yeah

So that's something extra

That's what I'd go for once I get an exo

[kindred stratus]

Sadly this doesn't actually show the health, just anim of you using stims

Iirc

[slow star]

Yeah it's a fdda anim

[rigid pendant]

Oh

[green lake]

yeah

[rigid pendant]

That sucks

[green lake]

still adds more animations though

for exosuits

[rigid pendant]

I wanted it to be a replacement for the health hud

[green lake]

that would be nice

[rigid pendant]

O well

[kindred stratus]

Yeah nah, gotta live with that

[green lake]

only would be usuable for exos

but yeah

i'd want a mod for anomaly that gives like

hold on

[slow star]

Probably the best way would be like Dayz. Where it says "My leg is broken" "I want to puke" "My arm is broken" and you don't see health

The screen turns gray and dizzy the less health you have, that's all

No direct hp % amount like Tarkov

and you can still use something like Realistic BHS from mirrowel to patch yourself up, if you want

[green lake]

something like open xray does

you can see the health on the watch

basically the hud is on the watch

in open xray gunslinger

would be cool if this got added into anomaly somehow

[rigid pendant]

Dayz has OP immersion for status effects

[slow star]

The worst feedback in dayz is when your guy says "My stomach feels funny." you're food-poisoned. Basically find meds or die

[rigid pendant]

Your character just bends over and fucking pukes

Nah

Worst is when you're running along

Nd the silence is broken by a maniacal laugh

And you just know

[slow star]

That too

[rigid pendant]

I remember the first time my DayZ character got Kuru

[slow star]

Need some crazy son of bitches in stalker

[rigid pendant]

Insane

[slow star]

like cultists from tarkov y'know, the whole zergrush stuff

[rigid pendant]

Ngl early DayZ standalone was some of the most fun I've ever had on a multiplayer game

In my entire life

[slow star]

I played it for quite some years and I agree

[rigid pendant]

Sadly didn't get to experience the Arma 2 Mod

[slow star]

Used to play Arma 2 dayz with my friends, lan party, we all brought our rigs to one of the guys' house and bunker up the whole weekend

[rigid pendant]

Yeah I mean it's like

The best game idea

And it still has mega potential

[slow star]

just mcdonalds and play for most of the day

[rigid pendant]

Yup

[slow star]

or BK, whatever, lol. its been so long lol

[slow star]

it does, just nobody executes it quite right

[rigid pendant]

Idk I used to love just running around that map and then youd crest a hill and be looking over a field

And you spot an airfield

That feeling was unmatched

[slow star]

Yeah

Especially when you didnt know the meta or the whole map

[rigid pendant]

Exactly

Back when Neaf was legit

And I'd just stumble across it

And be like oh hello

[slow star]

Did you ever see dayz origins ai?

[rigid pendant]

Nah

Whats that

[slow star]

those bots were insane

reminds me of stalker misery

hold up

[rigid pendant]

Is call of misery even worth checking out in 2023?

I kind of want to experience it...just so I can say I have

I tried playing misery and gunslinger etc before but the optimization just wasn't there and anomaly felt more and more appealing

I really liked what gunslinger was doing though

[slow star]

You should, yeah

Just for the experience

[rigid pendant]

All i remember from misery is that the difficulty in every aspect was pretty much maxed out

Used too many meds?

Die

Stepped in puddle

Die

Burer sees you? Die

I was getting my ass kicked

[slow star]

the dayz origins ai, idk if it was the servers we used to play in, but they were just insane. laser you from 300 or 400m instantly , through vehicles and everything. kinda stupid actually sometimes. idk if i can find a good video about it, kinda a niche game

[slow star]

Yeah it was

i like gamma way more in that aspect

the progress is constant

[rigid pendant]

The difficulty in gamma feels less bullshit

Misery difficulty is from the fact that it's like

Well

Bullshit LOL

[slow star]

Yeah it's the difference between artificial diff and well done

[rigid pendant]

It's like man why am I dead from using 2 med kits

I'm overdosing?

How ??

Every medkit in misery is laced with street fetanyl

[north rivet]

i think i forgot something xd

[slow star]

in what sense?

[rigid pendant]

Did you download his reshade?

[slow star]

You need Dart too

to fix that ugly ultrawide map

[north rivet]

yepxd

[slow star]

but what are you referring to specifically with this

[north rivet]

idk i see it the same as before

[rigid pendant]

Is he just trying to download your reshade and get his to look like your screenshots?

[slow star]

I think so

let me see the reshade menu, take a screencap with Shift+S+Windowskey

[rigid pendant]

Your reshade by default will look like your screenshots right ?

[slow star]

Yes, the screenshots from the respective preset, ofc

[rigid pendant]

Yeah

[slow star]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1162285292070379530/1169750827427180585/Norfair_CORE_V2_Hippo_v2_2023-11-01_15-44-05.png?ex=6568ff5a&is=65568a5a&hm=3be376f8dab92291cba45d1c20b5084718aa6ff7d8f5228c15cd6df9a30b003b&

this is core_v3 default

[north rivet]

me?

[slow star]

winter aydin and adega

[slow star]

yes

[wide dune]

How can I get that? Or v4 if that’s ready

[slow star]

Oh you only have two effects active. The preset has like 10

Weird

[north rivet]

dam

[slow star]

From here #1162285292070379530 message
and ead the pin

v4 is not ready, couple weeks P4 full pack will be released. huge update

[slow star]

Can you tell me real quick how you installed the preset?

[wide dune]

Bet thx

[north rivet]

copy and paste in the carpet bin anomaly

[slow star]

Wait a sec are you on gamma?

[north rivet]

yep

[slow star]

bc I already see your effects list don't have like 50% of the effects included with gamma

Take a screenshot of your reshade menu settings tab

top of the screen you'll find the tabs

[slow star]

this is really weird, you only have a couple of effects total in your install

do this

[slow star]

!k98

[void depot]

@north rivet
1) Go in this folder: [YOUR GAMMA FOLDER]\.Grok's Modpack Installer\G.A.M.M.A\modpack_patches
2) Copy these four folders (check pic)
3) Go to your Anomaly folder
4) Paste these four folders (check pic)
5) Overwrite/replace all if asked
It won't delete your save files.

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1098945649929617478/1110295790104092753/tk98.jpg

[slow star]

After you do this, paste my user.ltx again

and set your preferred resolution when you restart the game

[north rivet]

ok

[slow star]

Close your game when doing this though

This is one of the screenshots from Manoza, he's rocking Inverno + core_v3 on this image. looks pretty darn good

His own user.ltx

[north rivet]

this not remove my config?

[slow star]

Back up your user.ltx

Change it's name to backup.ltx or smth and your user config will be safe

that's all

[north rivet]

this?

[slow star]

Yeah

[slow star]

Way better

Now, do this

[north rivet]

xd

[slow star]

Go to the reshade settings tab, and look for the "effects search path" section. Its near the top of the menu. There's a + button . Press it and it'll display a browser. Go into shaders>TFAA> click OK.
Then, go to main tab,switch to another preset and switch back to this one. TFAA will appear.

Oh wait you're already on 22fps

nevermind, tfaa is gonna lower it

[north rivet]

XXDD yep 22 fps

[slow star]

Well

do this

see the list ,activate the first effect

immerse antialaising

if you need more, look for CMAA or FXAA and activate them. play around with it, those aren't as FPS taxing as TFAA.

The other two things you need is a better user.ltx or grass settings in general, and DART

Open the console and write these commands. after each one press enter.

r__detail_density 0.3
r__detail_radius 120
vid_restart```
after you do this, press escape 4 times slowly, like, pause unpause your game basically.

those grass settings i just sent you should be optimized for your setup, but it's a wild guess I just took.

[north rivet]

yep, look nice but my drop fps 💀

[slow star]

Yeah that's how reshade works

Do what I said above though

and you might not even need reshade

but do exactly as I said, dont press anything else between the steps or you'll crash the game.

[north rivet]

its ok?

[slow star]

Yes its okay but remember to press escape 4 times slowly, unpausing and pausing your game a couiple times afterwards

do not press anything else between pausing and unpausing

this is a bug with the engine, you do this or the game crashes later

[north rivet]

ok

[slow star]

nothing bad with crashing though, just a waste of time restarting the game lol

[north rivet]

yep i see

[slow star]

nobody wants to restart their game each time they change grass😂

There

that's better.

At least imo.

You can play with the grass height setting if you want.
r__detail_height 1.2

you currently use 0.95 but you can try even higher, like 1.2 and THEN you can lower the density even more.
r__detail_density 0.4

[north rivet]

yep

[slow star]

And vid_restart to see the changes

After this, I recommend you disable one of these two reshade effects for additional 10 fps

just trying to squeeze some extra performance

[slow star]

in this pic i had grass pretty high I think. Like 1.2

as long as you dont have incredibly dense grass it's okay, but at the end of the day, its just your preference

[north rivet]

dam, If I put that my fps explode

[slow star]

Oh okay

Go back to 0.9

you should have some gamma-default presets that are pretty resourceful though. IDK if you have them on the list but Manfred's and AtmosR are good

If you want to compare fps between presets

[north rivet]

xd without anything

[slow star]

Oh okay so it wasn't actually that bad, reshade

Did you lower your shadowbox in the anomaly launcher to 1500?

[rigid pendant]

Making me feel thankful for the drops to 50 fps

[slow star]

Same man

[rigid pendant]

How do u survive a boar attack at 20 fps

[north rivet]

blessed

[rigid pendant]

I think I'd just lose

[slow star]

I used to drop to low 30's in rostok until I lowered my ZCP population to 0.3

[slow star]

there's a guy around here that plays with 2fps

Used* to play, he got a new rig

no kidding

[rigid pendant]

Jezus

[north rivet]

xddbefore I played with 35 fps

[slow star]

that's a slideshow at 2fps.

[rigid pendant]

Wait so u changed stalkers population factor from 0.45 to 0.3?

[slow star]

Yeah I changed a few things that boosted my game quite a lot

[north rivet]

idk what that is

[rigid pendant]

Hmmm I like having a good populated world though

[slow star]

ZCP to 0.3, but it's not linear so the lower you go it gets extremely lonely in the zone

[rigid pendant]

Is 0.3 still feeling like a decent population?

[slow star]

The other factor is "Dynamic Despawner" in MCM and you can hard-cap the amount of stalkers in your active level. Like hardcapping it to 40 or 30.

[rigid pendant]

Mines at 40 so maybe 35

Nice balance

[slow star]

It turned from a warzone to some fights here and there sometimes, bases are around 5 or 7 random guys and full guards

but i turn my mutants to a lot. i like mutant gameplay

[rigid pendant]

Mutants on default are good for me

Yesterday I ran into what was just bad luck

Black chimera 2 bloodsuckers a psysucker and a little gnome guy all chasing a dutyer

I spent an hour trying to save him

Wouldn't give up til I killed everything

[slow star]

Well you close the game, open anomaly launcher from Mo2, click the shadowbox resolution on the left, set to 1500 and click apply on the right. open game and done

+fps

[slow star]

lmao

[grave rover]

I'd like a good reshade that will choke my system and possibly cause a fire, any pointers? hahaha

[rigid pendant]

Honestly reshades being installed at default is where most of the hit comes from, default reshade vs insane reshade kinda runs the same give or take 10 fps

Atleast for me

Norfairs confirms that's just kinda how it works

[slow star]

yeah

[grave rover]

I've seen some super impressive pics but no idea what to do there, was just curious if any one had some crazy profiles for the re-shades to try out.

Like I want melting GPU reshade levels hahaha

[north rivet]

lower the resolution to 1920 x 1080 and 35/30 fps its ok i guess

[rigid pendant]

Try core v3 from norfair,

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1162285292070379530

[slow star]

You can try Hunter Reshade if you want
#╟🎑reshades message it's really cool

Lots of people use it for Yt vids

some others use Phrozacs

[rigid pendant]

There's like a million different ones, I made my own reshade just tinkering with different effects

[slow star]

Yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIRNAO_XPh4
Here's a video. go to the last chapter, caj talks about reshade

[grave rover]

Ah, that v3 looks nice. As does the hunter. I'm seriously torn between what to try lol. I've never really messed with the reshades much til GAMMA. I always ran just regular anomoly. Curious what I could pull off with a 3090/7900x for the most part.

[slow star]

timestamp: 6:07

[slow star]

most ppl just collect them all and change around depending on the mood

[rigid pendant]

You could pull off a lot

With a 3090

[slow star]

With that rig, reshade is the least of your worries

[grave rover]

Appreciate the video link, gonna look into that for sure and get a more in depth idea here.

[slow star]

just 20 or 30 fps which is nothing at that point

[grave rover]

As I said I've never messed with reshade til now lol well besides YEARS ago and i forgot since then on another game.

[slow star]

basically running most presets with max settings is easy with that

[rigid pendant]

I play with this

On a 1080 at 60 fps

[slow star]

I'm actually making a special version of Core which is called Core X , intended for maxed out rigs

[north rivet]

[grave rover]

I do like that, I dig the deep colors of the grass and such too.

[rigid pendant]

I'm actually very proud to say that is my own creation from hours of staring at bright lights and shadows dragging meters to figure out what they're doing 😂

[grave rover]

I'm at 3440x1440, my ONLY issue ive found so far is grass density for some reason. The setting that tanks everyones pc 🤣 Other than that, Im gonna mess around I guess. That video helps get the jist of it. But as for the one you got there @rigid pendant I love that look!

[rigid pendant]

Grass density at about 70% for you should be fine tbh, with rendering distance at 130. Most run it at 110 but with your rig I think you can appreciate a higher rendering distance on your grass

[grave rover]

Oddly enough, Density is an issue, no idea why. Right now, I have it sitting around 60fps stable but if the density is default value, it taaaaanks the fps.

[wide dune]

I should turn mine down then ^

I Play with a mix of max and med settings with about 75 fps

[rigid pendant]

try with your meters like this, see if its enough grass for you

its an optimized level while still having what feels like a densely grown landscape

[wide dune]

Bet

[grave rover]

I might have render distance maxed, I forget, I cant really get in the game just yet to mess around lol. Had a mishap with the mods, and having issues with some mod in particular to do with a "take item" animation it says. You guys got a default modorganizer profile for GAMMA? I tried the default method mentioned for the GAMMA launcher to reset it but no luck.

[rigid pendant]

if grass rendering distance is maxed youre probably losing like 90fps to that

[wide dune]

I habe my grass density like 75-80%

[rigid pendant]

most peoples sliders for grass rendering distance dont go past where mine is

so if yours is MAXED then its rendering grass across the entire zone 😂

ur in cordon rendering the grass in zaton at that point

[wide dune]

I’ll turn that down then lmao

[grave rover]

thats probably my issue

[kindred stratus]

yeah honestly grass is probably 30% of what makes the stalker look really nice and alive imo, shame it also really drives your performance into the ground

[rigid pendant]

you only need to render what you can actually see

remember that

[wide dune]

If it ever gets cold in your room just turn all grass sliders to max and grass shadows on and you won’t be cold anymore

[kindred stratus]

like no grass stalker is like, so pitifully barren and sad lol

[rigid pendant]

gaming

[wide dune]

Gross

[kindred stratus]

oh god

burn it

[rigid pendant]

LMFAO this was someone elses picture and someone commented "eeeeeew"

and the guy was like man this is the only way my game works

[wide dune]

Lmao

[rigid pendant]

and brother responded " it is your choice to stay with this pc"

[kindred stratus]

looking at that picture made me feel like my long hair just bursted in flames

[wide dune]

Play-doh gameplay ^

[rigid pendant]

think about how easy it would be

to fight enemies

LMFAO

a pack of dogs in the "grass" off to the right there?

oh no

[kindred stratus]

Is that Rostok or something

I can't even recognize cause of how fucked the geometry is

[slow star]

just tried zr 0.3, looks great

[grave rover]

this one feels like a John Wick moment waiting to happen

[kindred stratus]

did you have additional texture mod installed?

[north rivet]

do you know how to fix it? and thx for the help with th reshaders

[kindred stratus]

that doesn't have the signature too clean that ZR normally has

[slow star]

#1153770802819383346

[abstract pivot]

is this a good grass settings? I have i7 9750h and a 1660 ti. I usually have them on 2/3 clicks, 75 render, an 0.7

[slow star]

i think i had GTR toggle on before it :p but it's mostly ZR

[kindred stratus]

oh yeah that's what i thought

[slow star]

fix... what? The ultrawide stuff?

[kindred stratus]

tho doesnt that give pretty heavy hit with fps?

[slow star]

Download #1169311822139105380 and toggle it on

[kindred stratus]

i avoided it cause last time it tanked my frames when i messed with it

[slow star]

Not really, everyone says Oh my god gtr is so heavy but I get literally the same fps

[kindred stratus]

hmm, i suppose il give it a try again

dont remember it being in built with gamma though so guess moddb it is

[slow star]

No yeah GTR is a large mod

it's on moddb

im using the 0.2 beta normal one, not the optimized

[kindred stratus]

aight, il try it out when im home

i need to remove some mods, like UGP and whatnot anyway so time to reinstall some texture stuff again

[rigid pendant]

It is but like, if your grass settings are giving you fps that's more desirable for you then that's fine, though if you feel like your grass is popping in a lot, maybe upping the render from 75 to 90 or 110 could be good

[kindred stratus]

oh i didnt even see that msg lol

was too focused on the zr pic

[north rivet]

Thx for all

[slow star]

if you ever need more fps just... do this guys. easy fps

/s

[abstract pivot]

I think the one that eats ur frames are the density

[kindred stratus]

LOD looking lit

[slow star]

Frames through the roof though!

[rigid pendant]

Yeah but render distance will also affect frames, but I can't stand things popping in so I keep rendering high

[slow star]

Cant complain about the sticker-like textures if im spinning so fast

[rigid pendant]

Things popping in are the absolute peak of immersion breaking

I don't stutter at all on gamma surprisingly

My fps isn't high but it's consistent

Which is such a W

[wide dune]

Same

[kindred stratus]

70 or so render for grass is fine still, ive tested it on occassion and never really notice the grass popping in but any lower it starts becoming a real issue

[rigid pendant]

Having a consistent 50-60 instead of it floating between 40 and 80 is just

[wide dune]

Never drop below 65 fps

[kindred stratus]

density and size i normally do 50% and 0.8

[slow star]

I use height 0.95, density (command value) 0.2/0.15 , radius 130/150 nowadays

[rigid pendant]

Fluctuations in framerate is by far the worst, low framerate is one thing but being at 80 that constantly drops to the 50s is almost worse than just having a consistently lower framerate

[wide dune]

I agree^

[kindred stratus]

respectable, i can imagine it giving decent life still without too much of eating into performance

also how much frames you're getting in that ZR pic

[slow star]

Like 60 or 70

it's only 2k screenshot after all

[abstract pivot]

heyy Norfair, luv ur reshades man!!

[slow star]

Thanks!

[kindred stratus]

eh i play literally at 2k anyway so anything above 60 is perfectly fine

[slow star]

Yeah. altho this is the only game where I accept 60 tbh

elsewhere it's jsut, cmon, give me more

[kindred stratus]

me and my cities skyline 2:

[abstract pivot]

core v3 after psy emission looking pretty hot

[kindred stratus]

please, dont drop below 60... AAAAAAAA

[wide dune]

Unless I’m on tarkov or stalker I’m the same way I would like to have at least 80fps

[slow star]

Well, heres' the thing, 0.2/0.15 density is actually pretty high. it's super dense, combined with tall grass

[rigid pendant]

Literally this, I'm like damn I'm getting 60?! With reshade?! And 400+ mods?! I'm like damn baby

[kindred stratus]

0.2 density is on the high spectrum?

oh wait you're using command value

[slow star]

Yeah i think it surpasses the bar settings

0.15 is like 120%

or smth

[rigid pendant]

Yeah can't handle that

LOL

[kindred stratus]

yeah i had thought u meant like 20%

on bar

[slow star]

I dont recall right now i just use commands and do vid_restart to see the changes instantly

[kindred stratus]

cranks bar to 120% for my pc

pc goes up in flames

[slow star]

the command lets you go past the bar

[kindred stratus]

i still want to see the cats attacking me thoo

[slow star]

alright here's the value
this is density 0.22

Was wrong

it's like 85%

[kindred stratus]

oh yeah that's still defo serviceable to a degree, albeit without a doubt couple notch higher than mine

[slow star]

Yeah

Actually too high dens looks bad imo, because the grass starts to repeat

like you can see multiple stacked textures facing the same angle

i like to see a little bit of the ground

now, people that play with winter mods are chilling quite literally. just decrease the density to 30% or smth because "grass is buried in the snow" and gg

[kindred stratus]

yeah i imagined that it'd start behaving in odd and unintended ways, so i prefer to have them be pretty prevalent in size but toning down the density

[kindred stratus]

idk how to feel about inverno as thing stands but it does seem cool as a winter zone aesthetic

[slow star]

I prefer Late Fall myself

it's in-between , some snow, some dirt

[rigid pendant]

My face when realize I gain 5 fps from disabling mask overlay

[wide dune]

W

Keeping it on tho fs

[slow star]

damn mask and it's shaders!

[rigid pendant]

Can't afford to

It's the difference between me being at 60 and 55

I'm at that point where

The budget is real for frames

[wide dune]

I See rip

[rigid pendant]

If it was the difference between 70 and 65

Or 65 and 60

I'd prolly say F it

But dipping into the 50s is what I'm trying to prevent if I can

[wide dune]

Ya that’s fair

[kindred stratus]

me when going fullscreen gives a whole 10 fps but alt tabbing would be a bitch :

[rigid pendant]

It doesent give me that much for some reason

Borderless runs the same as full screen for me

[kindred stratus]

yeah im not tech savvy enough to know what constitutes how much frame you'd get from doing full compared to borderless

[wide dune]

I Play borderless bc alt tabbing is cancer when fullscreened

[rigid pendant]

Ngl I just accept that when I'm in the zone I don't alt tab

I'm in the zone

Literally

[kindred stratus]

though ik that it is mentioned full screen does allow, idk, your hardware to fully dedicate its resources for that one window focused on

[wide dune]

And I use 3 monitors so I’m alt tabbing alot

[kindred stratus]

so maybe its doing some background shit, that i do have a lot running, and force them to be idle or somethin, dunno

[wide dune]

If you go into task manager you can set the game to high priority or real time so make your pc use more specs for it

And if you play on windows you can set your pc to ultimate preference mode if you put a commands into you CMD

[rigid pendant]

Gamma is defaulted to high

In task manager

Atleast for me it is idk why but I've never had to change it

[kindred stratus]

same, it is always so for me so its prob something else doing it for full screen

[wide dune]

Have you done this^ @rigid pendant