Any advice from Nvidia Profile Inspector users?

[Wridian]

While waiting for Raid Mode partners, I decided to read some community guides, and eventually saw one about using nvidiaProfileInspector to improve the graphics. The results looked nice so I decided to give it a try, but had to do some figuring of my own since the guide's image that included the recommended settings was missing. And apparently, I figured very wrong because the game crashed hard along with my wholse system as soon as I tried running it again. And after restarting, Steam didn't even think it was installed anymore, but that was easy fixed at least.

So is there anybody here who has successfully used nvidiaProfileInspector to bump up the visual effects without blowing their computer up who is willing to share the settings they used? After how wrong the first try went, I'm afraid to give it another shot on my own. Seems I didn't understand it nearly as well as I thought.

[Chillin]

if you want to bump up the graphics use reshade. check my screenshots for some before and after shots i took. its personal prefrance so you can customise the look to what every you want . https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197987907084/screenshots/#scrollTop=595.3333129882812

[Wridian]

Originally posted by Bboy4life:

if you want to bump up the graphics use reshade. check my screenshots for some before and after shots i took. its personal prefrance so you can customise the look to what every you want . https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197987907084/screenshots/#scrollTop=595.3333129882812

Does reshade add ambient occlusion and/or other extra shadows? That was what really sold me on that Nvidia Inspector guide's before/after shots.

[Chillin]

Originally posted by Lord Donovan:

Originally posted by Bboy4life:

if you want to bump up the graphics use reshade. check my screenshots for some before and after shots i took. its personal prefrance so you can customise the look to what every you want . https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197987907084/screenshots/#scrollTop=595.3333129882812

Does reshade add ambient occlusion and/or other extra shadows? That was what really sold me on that Nvidia Inspector guide's before/after shots.

yes along with a tone of other effects.

[Wridian]

Oh, cool. Guess I was wrong in thinking it was limited to sweetfx type color tweaking stuff. I'll have to check that out then. Thanks a lot for the advice.

[Chillin]

Did you not look at the screenshots i linked you? much more then color tweaks.

[Wridian]

I looked at them, but I guess I missed the ambient occlusion in them. Just looked like bloom and contrast sharpening and chromatic abberation and such. Though even that much makes it look nicer, so I'm still going to give it a shot.

One other question though - Sometimes the Steam overlay doesn't play nice with that stuff, and I do actually use it in this game. Have you had to turn it off while using rshade in your experience?

[Chillin]

Originally posted by Lord Donovan:

I looked at them, but I guess I missed the ambient occlusion in them. Just looked like bloom and contrast sharpening and chromatic abberation and such. Though even that much makes it look nicer, so I'm still going to give it a shot.

One other question though - Sometimes the Steam overlay doesn't play nice with that stuff, and I do actually use it in this game. Have you had to turn it off while using rshade in your experience?

clearly more shadow detail in one of the shots if you look aswell as depth of field it makes the game look a ♥♥♥♥ load better and no i have no issue with steam overlay being enabled.

[Wridian]

It took some tweaking to get the best combination possible of what I thought looked good and what didn't hurt the framerate too much, but I've got Reshade all set up and it's looking much better. Not only did I get the ambient occlusion I wanted in the first place, but I also got color and contrast improvement Nvidia Inspector probably wouldn't have covered. So thanks for the advice, Reshade was definitely the way to go.

As as aside though, just in case it helps anyone in the future, by default Reshade had RESHADE_DEPTH_INPUT_IS_REVERSED set to 1, which made ambient occlusion work incorrectly. Once I switched it to 0, everything was good.