[DX11] Help regarding Nvidia Profile Inspector (NPI)

[JHTrucker]

Is their a way to fix the flickering lights at night time and building/grass shadows at day time, I have tried everything but can't seem to find the solution
thanks

Shadows don't get AA applied to them and so the best way to reduce flicker is to increase their texture size.
r_sun_shadow_texture_size "8192" or 16384 if your system can handle it!

Other texture flickers are caused by "z fighting" when 2 textures are placed exactly on top of each other and both are trying to be displayed. Some building windows for example. SCS Mappers need to fix them, but never do.

Distant twinkling lights are a product of the new lighting system.
Our AA only works at maximum of 4x, if 8x worked then I'm sure it would help, but all settings above 4x just apply 4x to the image.
You could incorporate DSR 1.78x or the new DSR thing nvidia added for compatible gpus. Use the DSR info in the first post.
As of game version 1.45, it still doesn't recognise resolutions above your monitors native one and so you'll still have to match your windows desktop resolution with the game DSR one.

[JHTrucker]

Hi, i have on my left and right screen some blurry things by example my notifications. what can i do to fix this ? thank you

Q - My game screen is now blurry.
A - RE-CHECK NPI "Texture filtering - LOD Bias (DX) -0.5, -1.0 or -1.5.
Negative values increase sharpness, positive numbers blur.

OR

You may have incompatible settings in your NPI game profile, MFAA or FXAA for example.
Restore defaults for the game profile and apply just step 1 settings, then check the game.

Other than that I can't continue guessing what settings you may or may not have.
In the last 2 and a half years of having working AA (page 50 onwards) nobody has ever said their notifications are blurry.
Attach a zipped up game log and screen shots of your NPI settings if you need further help.

[AsKaiiiSeR]

Hi, i have on my left and right screen some blurry things by example my notifications. what can i do to fix this ? thank you

Q - My game screen is now blurry.
A - RE-CHECK NPI "Texture filtering - LOD Bias (DX) -0.5, -1.0 or -1.5.
Negative values increase sharpness, positive numbers blur.

OR

You may have incompatible settings in your NPI game profile, MFAA or FXAA for example.
Restore defaults for the game profile and apply just step 1 settings, then check the game.

Other than that I can't continue guessing what settings you may or may not have.
In the last 2 and a half years of having working AA (page 50 onwards) nobody has ever said their notifications are blurry.
Attach a zipped up game log and screen shots of your NPI settings if you need further help.

I found the problem it was a filter from nvidia. Thank you anyway

[JHTrucker]

Thanks for fixing your own problem! First post updated with your help.

Q - AA is working but somethings are blurry, for example, notifications.
A - Some Nvidia filters can cause image problems.

[kenworthfan]

Is their a way to fix the flickering lights at night time and building/grass shadows at day time, I have tried everything but can't seem to find the solution
thanks

Shadows don't get AA applied to them and so the best way to reduce flicker is to increase their texture size.
r_sun_shadow_texture_size "8192" or 16384 if your system can handle it!

Other texture flickers are caused by "z fighting" when 2 textures are placed exactly on top of each other and both are trying to be displayed. Some building windows for example. SCS Mappers need to fix them, but never do.

Distant twinkling lights are a product of the new lighting system.
Our AA only works at maximum of 4x, if 8x worked then I'm sure it would help, but all settings above 4x just apply 4x to the image.
You could incorporate DSR 1.78x or the new DSR thing nvidia added for compatible gpus. Use the DSR info in the first post.
As of game version 1.45, it still doesn't recognise resolutions above your monitors native one and so you'll still have to match your windows desktop resolution with the game DSR one.

Wow I tried the value, it's already looking much better than before.
Thanks for help JHtrucker

[black-coffee]

The best fix for the blurry textures is setting the Texture filtering quality to HIGH Quality in NPI.

[chaplindev]

@chaplindev - I think we have different ideas of what "blurry low res" looks like, I was expecting a much worse looking image.
But clearly you can see a difference between 1.45 and your previous 1.44 setup, hence your help request.
I'm not sure what more I can do as all the required settings are correct.

Texture filtering - LOD Bias (DX) ----------------- '-1.5000' <-- increase to -2.0 or -2.5?
But that will sharpen the whole image, too high and it'll look awful.

Or use NCP game profile sharpening options on/off.

You could test other Antialiasing compatibility (DX1x) values: https://roextended.ro/forum/viewtopic.p ... 616#p46616

Thanks, @JHTrucker, for helping me before with mirrors AA, now I've another concern that I would share:

I need to know if I am crazy or somehow understand why the following may be happening:
My computer with Vsync=1 is able to process the game at an average of ~65 FPS with a minimum at night cities of ~50 FPS. Trying some VSync settings to have a Tear Free, I have set VSync to 1/3, this value on my monitor (144Hz) it is 48 FPS.
Considering that normally I never go below 50 FPS I should have no problems with flickering or stuttering, however, since I set the VSync to 1/3, in areas of high graphic loads where I used to go down to ~50FPS now I go down to ~35FPS something that I can't find an explanation for. Is VSync related?

[JHTrucker]

I need to know if I am crazy...

@chaplindev - Yes vsync related.
When you drop below vsync point it'll drop to the next vsync level. Example 60(1)->30(2)->20(3)->15(4) or 144->72->48->36.

I think that at 144Hz that means the data sent from gpu to monitor is sent at 144Hz regardless of sync value used and so it might work out better to slow it down. My monitors are 60Hz from 2009 and so I can't prove this stuff!

Try this, rather than running your monitor at 144Hz & 1/3 vsync, set it to 100Hz (if you can) & 1/2 vsync for 50 fps

From you previous log you can use these:
00:00:02.054 : [disp] Mode 143 - 1920x1080 (32bpp) [50Hz]
00:00:02.054 : [disp] Mode 144 - 1920x1080 (32bpp) [60Hz]
00:00:02.054 : [disp] Mode 145 - 1920x1080 (32bpp) [59Hz]
00:00:02.054 : [disp] Mode 146 - 1920x1080 (32bpp) [99Hz]
00:00:02.054 : [disp] Mode 147 - 1920x1080 (32bpp) [119Hz]
00:00:02.055 : [disp] Mode 148 - 1920x1080 (32bpp) [143Hz]

I don't know if your monitor is G-Sync or not, if it is look here: https://roextended.ro/forum/viewtopic.p ... 155#p46155

OR

NPI set Vertical Sync to 'App control'.
NPI set Vertical Sync Tear Control to 'Adaptive'.
Game vsync=2 & 100Hz
Then it'll only tear if it drops below 50fps

[chaplindev]

I need to know if I am crazy...

@chaplindev - Yes vsync related.
When you drop below vsync point it'll drop to the next vsync level. Example 60(1)->30(2)->20(3)->15(4) or 144->72->48->36.

I think that at 144Hz that means the data sent from gpu to monitor is sent at 144Hz regardless of sync value used and so it might work out better to slow it down. My monitors are 60Hz from 2009 and so I can't prove this stuff!

Try this, rather than running your monitor at 144Hz & 1/3 vsync, set it to 100Hz (if you can) & 1/2 vsync for 50 fps

From you previous log you can use these:
00:00:02.054 : [disp] Mode 143 - 1920x1080 (32bpp) [50Hz]
00:00:02.054 : [disp] Mode 144 - 1920x1080 (32bpp) [60Hz]
00:00:02.054 : [disp] Mode 145 - 1920x1080 (32bpp) [59Hz]
00:00:02.054 : [disp] Mode 146 - 1920x1080 (32bpp) [99Hz]
00:00:02.054 : [disp] Mode 147 - 1920x1080 (32bpp) [119Hz]
00:00:02.055 : [disp] Mode 148 - 1920x1080 (32bpp) [143Hz]

I don't know if your monitor is G-Sync or not, if it is look here: https://roextended.ro/forum/viewtopic.p ... 155#p46155

OR

NPI set Vertical Sync to 'App control'.
NPI set Vertical Sync Tear Control to 'Adaptive'.
Game vsync=2 & 100Hz
Then it'll only tear if it drops below 50fps

You definitively are saving my gaming experience, thanks!

[tgmmgt]

Sorry. I cannot view the attached file.
update: I see it, thanks