HELP - Settings Suddenly Greyed out???

[Shunuk]

I'm hoping someone knows how to fix this; - Serious replies only, please.

I usually always go into my settings and turn TAA off & FXAA on because I can't stand TAA's blurriness in RDR2.

I went in-game 2 days ago and realised now; TAA, FXAA and MSAA are all greyed out? They're the only settings that are greyed out, I physically cannot change it. (I play RDR2 on highest settings, every single setting I have is maxed out, so this isn't a system issue.)
TAA is automatically set to High by default and FXAA is off. I've tried to edit my settings in the rockstar folder via notepad but it does nothing, even after I've overwritten it and saved, ingame it still has the same settings greyed out.

I'm fully updated on DX12, I'm also up to date with my Nvidia Driver as well as everything else. I've never ever had this issue before, it's all of a sudden.

I now can't play the game because TAA is too blurry, even after I've done fixes from Youtube.

Pleaseeeee if anyone has a fix or any idea.
I really don't want to reinstall the game just for it to possibly not work & possibly lose progress, yadayada.

[Man o' War]

Try optimising the game in the Nvidia GeForce Experience settings.

[Shunuk]

Thank you for your reply, I tried that but it says FXAA, TAA and MSAA are all controlled by DLSS? I still cannot physically change it, even if I set my game to lower than optimal or above it, the settings still stay the same.

[Man o' War]

Sorry mate that was all I had.

There are some clued up computer guys on here, just hang on and hopefully someone will tell you what's what and how to get around it.

[AMD Ryzen 7 5200HX 2.9GHz]

You must click checkbox "read only" from config xml file properties so RDR2 cannot change it back, do your desired settings again and then save and click read only. Enter the game see what happens.

I never heard a game do this, like locking out the player from changing graphics settings, there must be something really messed up in your end, because this is absurd.

Make sure you turned off nvidia experience thing so it won't mess with your xml file settings,

[Shunuk]

Thanks again for the replies; I've tried this as well and it doesn't work. It's still unchanged in the game, it's literally just those 3 settings, everything else is adjustable as normal. This actually happened to me a couple of years ago but it somehow fixed itself, I can't actually remember how it was just one day suddenly fine.

I've looked around on Google and other people had this same issue in 2019 and 2021 because of updates either in RDR2 bugging things out, or their actual computer drivers. I'm going to guess it has something to do with a driver update, maybe Nvidia Experience messed something up because my game was fine 1 day, then the next after an update it was whacked out and because my RDR2 had updated as well, I wasn't sure which update had broken it.

Thank you for the responses, I'll most likely have to just reinstall the game after I've exhausted other methods.

[Damien]

Originally posted by Shunuk:

it says FXAA, TAA and MSAA are all controlled by DLSS?

Just TURN OFF DLSS and use what ever anti aliasing mode you prefer most, it's right there in the settings.

This topic and all it's answers made me sad :(

[Bad 💀 Motha]

What's this non-sense about DX11? The game only can use Vulkan or DX12, nothing else.

There is an option in the game settings that says Locked; just switch that to Unlocked.

[Tigeroo]

You cannot run DLSS with AA - among other benefits, it inherently handles AA.
So if any level of DLSS is on, it will grey out TAA, FXAA, etc.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You don't want or need AA. Put DLSS on Quality and it will be better and without a bigger FPS hit.

TXAA and especially FXAA are crap anyways. FXAA especially makes games look blurry as all F.

[Shunuk]

Thank you for the replies, everyone.
I made a typo in my post, I meant DX12* not 11, it's fixed now.

For me, I've always used FXAA because it looked crisper compared to TAA on my Laptop (don't come at me for running RDR2 on a laptop) - I also changed sharpening in Nvidia Control Panel so that made the game better for me as well but yes, I agree both suck when it comes to RDR2 and both look similar with blurriness without changes in control panel, I think.

*The issue was DLSS, it was disabling my settings and greying them out after a Nvidia driver update and before I figured this out, there is no way you can actually lock those 3 settings because they're above the graphic settings, you can only lock the advanced graphic settings as far as I know.*

I'm also not too well versed when it comes to things like this, I just play the games and that's that so if I seemed dense in this post, that's why.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

TAA hasn't been too bad. The key was changing its sharpness to 2.0

But yea with DLSS you won't and can't use that anyways since DLSS takes over.