FidelityFX CAS

[Draken/Eitan]

What is your preferred setting for this?

I have mixed feelings but maybe there is a % that universally like better.

[Nexus]

for me it is 50%, the 100% looks like Witcher 3 if u set the Sharpening to Ultra.. and i don't like it..

[LordDeimosIV]

It depends. For me I'm playing the game on a 4K OLED TV. I can't run the game at 4K60 with a 1080 Ti so I play at 1440p instead. Because of this the image appears slightly soft so I use CAS at about 35% to sharpen the image a bit. I used Reshade before the patch which also has CAS. Works pretty well. I wouldn't go past 50% though. It starts to degrade picture quality.

[Draken/Eitan]

Thank you for your responses. 😁 I will aim more for 35-50%

Originally posted by LordDeimosIV:

It depends. For me I'm playing the game on a 4K OLED TV. I can't run the game at 4K60 with a 1080 Ti so I play at 1440p instead. Because of this the image appears slightly soft so I use CAS at about 35% to sharpen the image a bit. I used Reshade before the patch which also has CAS. Works pretty well. I wouldn't go past 50% though. It starts to degrade picture quality.

I am guessing this is an LG CX, which I will have as soon as possible, to be honest. I was going to go for a Sony XG90 but I passed an electronic store today (didn't enter - covid-19), but even from the door, the image quality stood out!

[LordDeimosIV]

Originally posted by Draken/Eitan:

I am guessing this is an LG CX, which I will have as soon as possible, to be honest. I was going to go for a Sony XG90 but I passed an electronic store today (didn't enter - covid-19), but even from the door, the image quality stood out!

I wish! It's a 2018 Philips 55OLED803/12. It was Philips flagship for 2018 and I bought it at 50% discount during a sale in 2019. Great TV. Picture quality is amazing but gaming performance is average. The response time is okay but it's not a TV I would get for fast paced shooters. But for my use case which is RPGs and racing games it works wonderfully.

The LG CX is one of, if not the best 2020 TV for gaming. VRR support and hdmi 2.1.

[zXe]

5-10%

[Draken/Eitan]

Originally posted by LordDeimosIV:

Originally posted by Draken/Eitan:

I am guessing this is an LG CX, which I will have as soon as possible, to be honest. I was going to go for a Sony XG90 but I passed an electronic store today (didn't enter - covid-19), but even from the door, the image quality stood out!

I wish! It's a 2018 Philips 55OLED803/12. It was Philips flagship for 2018 and I bought it at 50% discount during a sale in 2019. Great TV. Picture quality is amazing but gaming performance is average. The response time is okay but it's not a TV I would get for fast paced shooters. But for my use case which is RPGs and racing games it works wonderfully.

The LG CX is one of, if not the best 2020 TV for gaming. VRR support and hdmi 2.1.

I am typically playing rpgs or action games (so... Tales of, Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider etc). But yes today I confirmed that the cx is going to be worth the extra month or so wait. OLED looks so much better than lcd.

[TheFluff]

Originally posted by Draken/Eitan:

Originally posted by LordDeimosIV:

I wish! It's a 2018 Philips 55OLED803/12. It was Philips flagship for 2018 and I bought it at 50% discount during a sale in 2019. Great TV. Picture quality is amazing but gaming performance is average. The response time is okay but it's not a TV I would get for fast paced shooters. But for my use case which is RPGs and racing games it works wonderfully.

The LG CX is one of, if not the best 2020 TV for gaming. VRR support and hdmi 2.1.

I am typically playing rpgs or action games (so... Tales of, Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider etc). But yes today I confirmed that the cx is going to be worth the extra month or so wait. OLED looks so much better than lcd.

CX is crap./ Check out QuantumTV on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axq-uphU0Jk

[LordDeimosIV]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf1bSseyyDE

[Draken/Eitan]

Originally posted by R3D-PO1SON:

Originally posted by Draken/Eitan:

I am typically playing rpgs or action games (so... Tales of, Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider etc). But yes today I confirmed that the cx is going to be worth the extra month or so wait. OLED looks so much better than lcd.

CX is crap./ Check out QuantumTV on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axq-uphU0Jk

I mean, this will depend on what I am using on the TV. PS5 appears to have a 32gbps limit and Xbox Series X (Maybe their nameology is confusing) has a 40 gbps limit. I cant have the tv beside the PC for the foreseeable future either. And it is only relevant for 4k120fps content which has yet to get a market foothold. Maybe next gpu generation. However, in terms of image quality, CX is standing out from walls of other high end tvs. I briefly got to compare in person.

Originally posted by LordDeimosIV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf1bSseyyDE

This guy is one of the sources I use for TV information. He managed to talk me out of settling for a Nanocell tv. And left me 50/50 with the LG CX vs Sony XH90.

Anyway, I have tested 40% FidelityFX CAS and this level looks best to me.

[EternalGaia]

Originally posted by zXe:

5-10%

This. For me 5% is enough to remove the blurriness that TAA adds. Anything higher than that will add unwanted sharpening. It's personal choice if you like it or not.

[DanielF823]

When I turn on TAA is any game I swear it makes everything look like a plastic toy... turning the sharpening up to 50% really seems to correct this for me!
I turned it up to 100% for.. reasons... and I thought it actually looked pretty good but still came down to 50% 😅
I am also blown away because the newest update seems to have also added like 40-50FPS (From 80 to now 120-140...math) and I am LOVING IT!!!!!!!!

[Draken/Eitan]

Originally posted by DanielF823:

When I turn on TAA is any game I swear it makes everything look like a plastic toy... turning the sharpening up to 50% really seems to correct this for me!
I turned it up to 100% for.. reasons... and I thought it actually looked pretty good but still came down to 50% 😅
I am also blown away because the newest update seems to have also added like 40-50FPS (From 80 to now 120-140...math) and I am LOVING IT!!!!!!!!

The new patch came in a few days after I upgraded my gpu, so I have no idea what kind of performance gains it gives - I'm locked at 4k60fps, which is the best I've ever had! But I'm glad you gained performance!


For the filter, I'm settling at 40%. Lower gets much softer but over 50% is a bit too harsh looking for me. But I like seeing that everyone has their own preferences.

[PhaseFourPrime]

On my 1440p 32" monitor setting it to about 30% seemed to look nice, 60% or more and everything looked like a pencil sketch.

[NeoRaider]

I am playing on 1080p monitor and everything higher than 1% doesn't look good to me. I don't know how to explain it but everything looks too sharp and burned out. Even 1% is enough sharpening for me and it makes picture much cleaner compared to TAA without the sharpening. Everything above 5% or 10% looks ridiculous and too much.

[LordDeimosIV]

Originally posted by NeoRaider:

I am playing on 1080p monitor and everything higher than 1% doesn't look good to me. I don't know how to explain it but everything looks too sharp and burned out. Even 1% is enough sharpening for me and it makes picture much cleaner compared to TAA without the sharpening. Everything above 5% or 10% looks ridiculous and too much.

If you already have sharpening enabled in the Nvidia panel then yes it's going to look bad. If you're not using TAA it's also going to look bad. The reason people use CAS is to sharpen an image if a.) you're using TAA which softens the image or b.) You're playing at a lower resolution than native (playing at 1440p on a 4K TV or monitor). Simply saying it's trash all round is silly and misses the point entirely. It's situational.