Disable bloom/blur

[Querm]

I'm running the game at 1080p with dlss AA/native. I find that the game almost looks amazing but the bloom/post processing effects ruin it. Make it constantly look hazy and blurry when it could look amazing if it was more crisp. The sharpening setting causes distortion on distance environments so that's not a fix. Anyone know of a way to disable individual AA things like bloom?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3426333120

[Foxbyte]

here's a mod to disable bloom but idk if there's anything yet for blur

https://www.nexusmods.com/kingdomcomedeliverance2/mods/105

[Querm]

Originally posted by Foxhunt:

here's a mod to disable bloom but idk if there's anything yet for blur

https://www.nexusmods.com/kingdomcomedeliverance2/mods/105

Yeah I just tried essentially that via a console command but it's not really the bloom that's causing it I guess. it's just some ♥♥♥♥♥♥ hazy post processing effect that they for some reason think looks good

[deek]

Create a user.cfg in the game's directory and put 'r_HDRBloom= 0' in there to disable bloom. The SMAATX options are a culprit of blur. When you're not moving. they're fine, but as soon as you make a move, they blur the image. There's a night and day difference between SMAAx1 and SMAAx1(or x2)TX. I use SMAAx1 with a reshade that has DLAA on top to combat some of the aliasing and it does the job for the most part

[Querm]

Originally posted by deek:

Create a user.cfg in the game's directory and put 'r_HDRBloom= 0' in there to disable bloom. The SMAATX options are a culprit of blur. When you're not moving. they're fine, but as soon as you make a move, they blur the image. There's a night and day difference between SMAAx1 and SMAAx1(or x2)TX. I use SMAAx1 with a reshade that has DLAA on top to combat some of the aliasing and it does the job for the most part

So I'm a dumbass for not catching onto this until now, but all I did was disable the nvidia dlaa under "technology" and then used smaa 1tx for AA and while not perfect it's a lot more crisp except when moving as you said. now trying to decide between the two

[deek]

Originally posted by Querm:

Originally posted by deek:

Create a user.cfg in the game's directory and put 'r_HDRBloom= 0' in there to disable bloom. The SMAATX options are a culprit of blur. When you're not moving. they're fine, but as soon as you make a move, they blur the image. There's a night and day difference between SMAAx1 and SMAAx1(or x2)TX. I use SMAAx1 with a reshade that has DLAA on top to combat some of the aliasing and it does the job for the most part

So I'm a dumbass for not catching onto this until now, but all I did was disable the nvidia dlaa under "technology" and then used smaa 1tx for AA and while not perfect it's a lot more crisp except when moving as you said. now trying to decide between the two

Both TX options are bad imo. I'd go with SMAAx1 and inject AA through Nvidia panel if I had an Nvidia card. Seems like the best way to go if you can handle a few jaggies. I prefer it over the blur

[Querm]

Originally posted by deek:

Originally posted by Querm:

So I'm a dumbass for not catching onto this until now, but all I did was disable the nvidia dlaa under "technology" and then used smaa 1tx for AA and while not perfect it's a lot more crisp except when moving as you said. now trying to decide between the two

Both TX options are bad imo. I'd go with SMAAx1 and inject AA through Nvidia panel if I had an Nvidia card. Seems like the best way to go if you can handle a few jaggies. I prefer it over the blur

SMAA 1X is the best game option IMO. I can deal with it, a little jagged. I have hit or miss luck with the nvidia options. Some games they don't seem to work, I'll have to try it here at some point

[Raein]

Image looked weird to me as well but turned out it's not bloom or PP but old ♥♥♥♥♥♥ DLSS. Try switching to the newest version released with 5 series, helped me a lot. This upscaling tech is finally getting somewhere

[deek]

Originally posted by Querm:

Originally posted by deek:

Both TX options are bad imo. I'd go with SMAAx1 and inject AA through Nvidia panel if I had an Nvidia card. Seems like the best way to go if you can handle a few jaggies. I prefer it over the blur

SMAA 1X is the best game option IMO. I can deal with it, a little jagged. I have hit or miss luck with the nvidia options. Some games they don't seem to work, I'll have to try it here at some point

Same with AMD's options for me. Reshade should help. Reshade's DLAA Plus then some CAS sharpening on top gives me good results on SMAAx1.

EDIT - FXAA.fx works better than DLAA after some tweaking. Gives a clean image and minimal jagged edges

[Zilla]

The exact opposite is happening in my case, playing this after stalker 2 is like moving from a cardboard box to a 37 million dollar mansion. the game is insanely crisp and in my opinion looks better then half the blurry unreal engine slop being made today.

[Querm]

Originally posted by Zilla:

The exact opposite is happening in my case, playing this after stalker 2 is like moving from a cardboard box to a 37 million dollar mansion. the game is insanely crisp and in my opinion looks better then half the blurry unreal engine slop being made today.

Yeah I made the mistake of buying Stalker 2, it was like the third UE5 game I've purchased and I'm not buying another one. They are pieces of ♥♥♥♥ that rely on AI GPU upscaling and ♥♥♥♥ to look decent and run like ♥♥♥♥. This game looks great, the problem was mostly that I was using DLAA. It looks pretty crisp otherwise

AND I can get like 120-144 fps with a 4080 super vs like 60-70 real fps in UE5 games

[deek]

Originally posted by Zilla:

The exact opposite is happening in my case, playing this after stalker 2 is like moving from a cardboard box to a 37 million dollar mansion. the game is insanely crisp and in my opinion looks better then half the blurry unreal engine slop being made today.

100% the game looks 10x more crisp than the oil painting that is S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2. Its just the blur in motion (not motion blur) with the SMAATX settings is worse than it was in KCD1, at least for me on 1440p

[Myztkl©-Kev]

I don't mind the bloom for the most part but it sometimes doesn't render properly and makes entire trees look grey. When it works properly though the light bloom coming through the tree canopy can look really nice.

[Squilliam Tentacles]

r_HDRBloom=0
r_DepthOfFIeld=0



paste into your user.cfg file in your game folder. save. enjoy.