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

[r3sistencia]

Автор сообщения: domi

Автор сообщения: Níðhöggr

It is because of filters. They're using post processing to make give it a cinematographic vibe.

You can disable the following settings in the menu to get back clarity:
Chromatic Aberration
Film Grain
Motion Blur
Vignette (optional)

It does look a bit better that way for sure but unfortunately that helps only to some extent..still looks totally unnatural and weird to me with all of these disabled.

Especially the shadows look terrible and textures sharp but lacking details.
Also make the male character look into the camera and pause the game and you will see his beard flickering like crazy.

By the way..does anyone have an idea what could lock my fps to 60?

I have it set to unlimited in the menu and didn't use any other tool to cap the fps but no matter which dlss setting I'm using I get only 60 fps max.

Hi, did you manage to unlocked the 60 fps? I'm having the same issue no matter the settings i put on.

[AlexintheVerse]

All i know is that on the 4080 the game looks amazing with DLSS quality, i leave motion blur enabled because some games like this it suits it. the game is meant to be soft and atmospheric not ultra sharp.
4k epic settings no issues, dlls quality, cap fps 60 and go.
Shadows set to high.

[Super confident]

Same issue for me , it looks terrible .

[domi]

Автор сообщения: r3sistencia

Автор сообщения: domi

It does look a bit better that way for sure but unfortunately that helps only to some extent..still looks totally unnatural and weird to me with all of these disabled.

Especially the shadows look terrible and textures sharp but lacking details.
Also make the male character look into the camera and pause the game and you will see his beard flickering like crazy.

By the way..does anyone have an idea what could lock my fps to 60?

I have it set to unlimited in the menu and didn't use any other tool to cap the fps but no matter which dlss setting I'm using I get only 60 fps max.

Hi, did you manage to unlocked the 60 fps? I'm having the same issue no matter the settings i put on.

The fix that was posted before to get rid of the sharpening should also work to unlock the fps cap.

I didn't manage to continue playing so I couldn't test but I guess it should work.

Here again the link:

https://github.com/Lyall/ClairObscurFix

[domi]

Автор сообщения: Super confident

Same issue for me , it looks terrible .

You should also try the fix from Lyall posted before, it helps alot.

Also if you have an Nvidia Card updating DLSS Version and using a new preset helps additionally.

I also use the engine.ini tweaks from:
https://www.nexusmods.com/clairobscurexpedition33/mods/1

I additionally manually changed the tonemapper settings in the ini file to 0 as someone else in a earlier post suggested.

With these tweaks the game looks significantly better in my opinion :)

[Yami]

Автор сообщения: domi

It's quite sad as when I started the game and checked the graphics menu I was so happy to see that the devs provide options to disable Chromatic aberration, Vignete, Motion Blur and Film grain.

Unfortunately that's still not always a given.
Only thing missing in that regard is a Depth of Field toggle.

However having options from the get go for the other effects is already a great thing.

So it's very unfortunate that now there is some upscaler or something else that's compromissing the image quality.

nexus mods has paks or inis for these fixes

[lyndonguitar]

I also noticed the same. very low reso looking at 4K maxed everyhing even at DLAA or 100% TSR

any fix?

[Merlin]

So glad I found this thread and yes I noticed the same. I bought it and was really looking forward to play it for the atmosphere. I am playing on 4k with a 4090 and while the framerate is not stellar what really put me off was the super blurry and noisy image. I really really hope this can be fixed or at least improved a bit and I do find it odd that none of the reviews I saw mentioned it at all.

[lyndonguitar]

I also noticed the same. very low reso looking at 4K maxed everyhing even at DLAA or 100% TSR

EDIT:
okay I fixed it somehow

I used the following (combined the suggestion of everyone here)

-Installed https://github.com/Lyall/ClairObscurFix (Having used his/her Metaphor fix i am familiar with his/her work)
-Updating DLSS to latest with DLSS swapper
-Downloading Ultimate Engine Tweaks (I used other versions of this mod also for other UE games so Im familiar again)
-Look at Engine.ini file from this mod and set r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=0

As for personal preference/hardware I'm using DLSS Quality. helps in performance and does not look much different than DLAA.

[Shadowlet]

Автор сообщения: lyndonguitar

I also noticed the same. very low reso looking at 4K maxed everyhing even at DLAA or 100% TSR

EDIT:
okay I fixed it somehow

I used the following (combined the suggestion of everyone here)

-Installed https://github.com/Lyall/ClairObscurFix (Having used his/her Metaphor fix i am familiar with his/her work)
-Updating DLSS to latest with DLSS swapper
-Downloading Ultimate Engine Tweaks (I used other versions of this mod also for other UE games so Im familiar again)
-Look at Engine.ini file from this mod and set r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=0

As for personal preference/hardware I'm using DLSS Quality. helps in performance and does not look much different than DLAA.

You know the mod already disables sharpening, right?

[domi]

Автор сообщения: Shadowlet

Автор сообщения: lyndonguitar

I also noticed the same. very low reso looking at 4K maxed everyhing even at DLAA or 100% TSR

EDIT:
okay I fixed it somehow

I used the following (combined the suggestion of everyone here)

-Installed https://github.com/Lyall/ClairObscurFix (Having used his/her Metaphor fix i am familiar with his/her work)
-Updating DLSS to latest with DLSS swapper
-Downloading Ultimate Engine Tweaks (I used other versions of this mod also for other UE games so Im familiar again)
-Look at Engine.ini file from this mod and set r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=0

As for personal preference/hardware I'm using DLSS Quality. helps in performance and does not look much different than DLAA.

You know the mod already disables sharpening, right?

That's true, however in the config file from the fix it's mentioned that the sharpening can still be adjusted through tonemapper sharpening. So if the value in engine.ini is not set to 0 (which it isn't in the nexusmod file) it might still be partially enabled.

[domi]

Автор сообщения: lyndonguitar

I also noticed the same. very low reso looking at 4K maxed everyhing even at DLAA or 100% TSR

EDIT:
okay I fixed it somehow

I used the following (combined the suggestion of everyone here)

-Installed https://github.com/Lyall/ClairObscurFix (Having used his/her Metaphor fix i am familiar with his/her work)
-Updating DLSS to latest with DLSS swapper
-Downloading Ultimate Engine Tweaks (I used other versions of this mod also for other UE games so Im familiar again)
-Look at Engine.ini file from this mod and set r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=0

As for personal preference/hardware I'm using DLSS Quality. helps in performance and does not look much different than DLAA.

DLSS Quality seems even to be better as of now.
DLAA seems even to look worse for some reason. Forgot to mention that in my post before.

And for the tonemapper, it is actually twice in the engine.ini from nexus mods. In case you didn't notice and if you want to turn it off completely you may set it to 0 both times.

[FatTM]

Автор сообщения: 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

It just looks like that, very odd.
Mods save the day though!
https://www.nexusmods.com/clairobscurexpedition33/mods/16

[kingpoets]

yeah i had to lower my resolution from 4k to 2k. there is a mod that fixed it. makes less sharpened and game looks great not sure if am allowed to link mod but its on nexus

[G Smith007]

Автор сообщения: Noelemahc

I am assuming you turned off the upscaler itself, right?

theres no option to turn it off. its built with it on