Looking weird?

[domi]

I don't know if there is an issue on my side but the game looks super weird to me.

I'm not making this thread to bash, I'm sincerely wondering if there is something wrong on my end or if anything can be done to improve the image quality.

For me it looks a bit like if the game is rendered at a very low resolution, then upscaled and on top an intense sharpening filter is added.

However it's making the image looking just weird as there are not enough texture information to sharpen the image properly so it just looks oversharpened. For example the hair looks very low quality and even a bit pixelated.

Just to be clear, I disabled already all the blur effects, though I double checked as even after disabling it, it kinda looks like there are some sort of post processing effects like it in place.

The resolution I'm using in fullscreen is 4k and in borderless window for some reason the game shows 8K resolution which I can't change even though my desktop resolution is 5120x2880. So that also seems to be off. But even with borderless it still looks similar..

Another issue is that I can't change resolution in fullscreen at all. Whenever I change it, it immediately reverts back to 4K

[Halo-of-the-Sun]

For anyone hating the oversharpening, setting tonemapper sharpening to 0 instead of 0.5 seems to help inside the engine.ini file. The file isn't present by default, so I'm using the Ultimate Engine Tweaks mod on Nexus Mods.

The sharpening line is present twice, so use 'Find' under 'edit' to make sure you set both of them to 0, then set the file back to read-only once saved. It hasn't completely fixed the graininess, but it has absolutely made it more tolerable for now.

[Backlog Boy]

What worked for me was:

Updating DLSS to 310.2.1 with DLSS wrapper
Setting Anti-aliasing to Low
Setting Global illumination to Epic
DLSS on Quality

With these settings it looks good to me.

[Grottenolmklopper]

You are right on the part that it's oversharpended. The game uses a strong sharpening filter.

If you want to improve the image-quality, then google dlss-swapper. I'v noticed that that most games even now, still ship with old upscaler versions. Even though we have newer versions of dlss, fsr and xess.

You can use the programm to swap between any version of upscaler thats build into the game.

[domi]

Originally posted by Backlog rat boy:

What worked for me was:

Updating DLSS to 310.2.1 with DLSS wrapper
Setting Anti-aliasing to Low
Setting Global illumination to Epic
DLSS on Quality

With these settings it looks good to me.

I did these too and it looks better for sure but it still doesn't look like proper 4K to me.
There is still some sort of upscaling or Blur that causes the image to look weird.

But it's better I agree with that.

[Nico]

Got to the scene just past the harbor and I'm noticing the exposure is all wrong as well as soon as the lighting swaps from sunlight to moonlight. It looks underexposed, not sure if anyone is having that issue as well.

Toggled all post processing options, and not much changed.

[Kobal]

Fixed:
I hope this helps others. I had the same over sharpened look. Even the menu looked off. I found a fix for my setup.

For me the issue was running an Ultrawide monitor. The game has an FOV issue on Ultrawide. I did not notice tell I started talking to people and it was cutting off there heads.

After installing the fix for my aspect ratio, all graininess/sharpening went away.

Bonus, it also removed 30 fps cap in cutscenes.

File can be found here https://github.com/Lyall/ClairObscurFix?tab=readme-ov-file

[Themightyred92]

https://github.com/Lyall/ClairObscurFix/releases/tag/v0.0.3

Disables sharpening

[Shady Harbinger]

The game is good but I seriously think the developers are blind.

[1nVICTUM]

try anti aliasing low / post process low / dlss balanced or quality. looks ok on my 4k display but i think theres just some heavy sharpening going on that we cant turn off

[tankanidis]

turn off motion blur

turn off depth of field

turn off film grain (unless you like it)

set post processing to low

change it to quality 100% in the option thing i forget its name

turn off vignette (unless you like it)

This will make it look good without the 'weird' you mention

edit: if you have ultrawisde monitor you have to use the github mod to fix things otherwise it will look off

[1nVICTUM]

Originally posted by Themightyred92:

https://github.com/Lyall/ClairObscurFix/releases/tag/v0.0.3

Disables sharpening

this works, thank you

[domi]

Wow just did a quick test, will do more later but indeed from a quick look it seems to help a lot.

The Shadows on the face from the hair are still kind of bloky and noisy but the overall look is so much better now as the ugly sharpness is gone and the image looks much cleaner.

funnily enough I use Reshade in most games and even here now to sharpen very slightly as it's a totally different way of sharpening if using a proper filter and looks very nice along the FakeHDR Filter in my opionin.

It helps to counter the blur in most games a bit and if done properly(!) only enhances and points out some nice details without messing up the whole image like the way of the sharpening this game uses by default.

While still some things like shadows should be improved, the game looks actually quite pretty now with this fix and the other ones mentioned before.

What are the thoughts of others here? Do you also find it better with the fix and which areas still need improvement?

[SomeGuyWhoLostHisTacos]

Originally posted by Themightyred92:

https://github.com/Lyall/ClairObscurFix/releases/tag/v0.0.3

Disables sharpening

This worked beautifully

[shadow82]

Originally posted by Themightyred92:

https://github.com/Lyall/ClairObscurFix/releases/tag/v0.0.3

For anyone playing on GamePass download the Steam version of this fix and just put the files in ..\Content\Sandfall\Binaries\WinGDK instead of Win64. Works like a charm.

[tankanidis]

Can anyone upload side by side of default sharpened vs ofscurfix de-sharpened so people can see easily what the difference is?

Please and thank you