Best Nvidia Freestyle Settings [DS2:SOTFS]

[Brolaire]

Make your game look absolutely amazing using Nvidia's new software called "Freestyle". More vibrant and sharp looking while having darker darks and lighter lights for a full range of realistic visuals. To enable, go into Geforce Experience, make sure it's fully updated, and turn on experimental features in the settings and turn on Nvidia Overlay. Now, while in game, press alt+f3 to open the settings menu for Nvidia Freestyle. Use this next album of pictures for examples and what settings to use.

https://imgur.com/a/IbO2a

All credit goes to u/-VempirE on Reddit for this fantastic album and settings.

Link to my guide about this: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1279622192

[Brolaire]

BWAHAHAH IM NOT BANNED TROLOLOL a écrit :

not to mention that nvidia trash gives you a single slider from preset effects. reshade allows you to tweak each shader filter to your exact specifications, and use any compatible shader filter.

You act like I'm saying reshaders are garbage and should never be used. Stop getting so defensive and angry and realise I'm showing an alternative to a reshade that is both user friendly and comes with a software most Nvidia users should have already, no need to download anything. You can tweak each individual setting to your liking and apply it or turn it off at any time. Get over it, or make your own post (not comment on my post) showing a reshade. All you have done is make yourself look like an idiot with 0 proof and just is prejudice against Nvidia. Calm down and relax, if people want to use a reshade, they will. If they want to use Nvidia, they will. That's the power called having an opinion. You have yours, and I have mine. Nothing you can do. Though your idea is guided by no proof or sense, you're entitled to your own opinion, as am I.

[Call Sign: Raven]

BWAHAHAH IM NOT BANNED TROLOLOL a écrit :

Brolaire a écrit :

@BWAHAHAH IM NOT BANNED TROLOLOL (Nice name btw. I assume all that you said is bait with that kind of name, but I will reply in case others don't see that)

1. Reshades are a literal alteration of files and memory in some cases. Which have a much higher chance of both bugs and visual glitches as well as getting banned for it.

2. Shadowplay isn't an overlay, I never argued that statement. This is in fact an overlay as it is just filters over the video on the DRIVER level. It's for the actual graphics card itself, its not doing anything to the game files themselves. And inherently, drivers do use DLLs, yes, but they do in every single game.

3. This is officially supported by Nvidia and Dark Souls 2:SOTFS (DS3 is also officially supported). And as far as I know, there isn't a single reshade that is officially supported by the game devs and the graphics card manufacturer.

4. I use both Shadowplay AND this filter AND use the Nvidia overlay streaming service and have never been banned a single time in any Dark Souls game. And I have 100's of hours in each.

So I don't know what to tell you man, not a single thing you said was true, so try it before you talk bad about it. Or wait for actual proof. If I get banned, you'll be the first person I let know, I promise that.

Edit: Reshades are a decent alternative for those who don't have a supported card, but this method I show you is a more improved way of doing it, that's all. I'm not saying Reshades are garbage or anything.

1: reshade adds a post process filter above the game. it does not do anything else.

2: no it dosent, it uses shadowplay. its part of the same framework. it works the same as ENB.

3: so was shadowplay for the first 2 months of the game, then it got disabled because it was causing bans. officially supported means absolutely nothing.

4: you cant use shadowplay to record or stream this game. havent been able to since 2 months after release.

im not sure why you think all these things, clearly its based off reading random articles, or worse yet Nvidias articles. but you are wrong. and this new nvidia hook looks like trash regardless.

Troll. Shut up.

Anyway, to the OP, thank you for replying regarding performance. I'm excited to try this out! I've been wanting a graphical overhaul for this game but didn't want to risk any softbans, so this looks like the ticket!

What funny timing, too! I was just drooling at the old footage of when Dark Souls 2 was first announced. Can't wait to try this thing!

Thank you so much for sharing it!

[Call Sign: Raven]

Also, Brolaire, your avatar is my desktop. <3

[Brolaire]

Harrison Ford a écrit :

Also, Brolaire, your avatar is my desktop. <3

<3

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Harrison Ford a écrit :

BWAHAHAH IM NOT BANNED TROLOLOL a écrit :

1: reshade adds a post process filter above the game. it does not do anything else.

2: no it dosent, it uses shadowplay. its part of the same framework. it works the same as ENB.

3: so was shadowplay for the first 2 months of the game, then it got disabled because it was causing bans. officially supported means absolutely nothing.

4: you cant use shadowplay to record or stream this game. havent been able to since 2 months after release.

im not sure why you think all these things, clearly its based off reading random articles, or worse yet Nvidias articles. but you are wrong. and this new nvidia hook looks like trash regardless.

Troll. Shut up.

Anyway, to the OP, thank you for replying regarding performance. I'm excited to try this out! I've been wanting a graphical overhaul for this game but didn't want to risk any softbans, so this looks like the ticket!

What funny timing, too! I was just drooling at the old footage of when Dark Souls 2 was first announced. Can't wait to try this thing!

Thank you so much for sharing it!

the "old footage" isnt actually any better than what we have currently. it LOOKS far darker because its a low resolution video of a CRT, and the brightness setting is turned all the way down. you can actually get the exact same lighting by just turning your brightness down to nothing. you wont get the same blurry mess of garbage that is completely indescribable, because thats all from recording a TV screen with a cell phone.

[The Fight Queen]

Brolaire a écrit :

SPICE a écrit :

I literally cannot say enough good things about this addition from Nvidia.
It literally breathes new life into every game you play!
Both Ds2 & Ds3 almost feel like brand new games to me now!
Especially Ds3!
Ds2 never had too much of a problem with colour vibrancy but definitely lost detail in it's murkiness which this feature fixes to no end.
(As well as finally giving you the ability to make the game look almost exactly as it originally looked in that now infamous IGN gameplay reveal).
How ever Ds3 on the other hand was just greys and browns every place you visited until now!
You don't realise all the colours that are being used in the game thanks to the devs slapping a grey filter over everything but with the right settings used in this feature the game pops like it never has before!

I do need to tweak things a little further as i feel things are somewhat too overblown and dramatic colour wise now but the detail and vibrancy this game can behold is truly almost breath taking!

Anyway here are my examples: https://imgur.com/a/OPhSV
Hope you like :)

(Big HUGE thanks goes out to OP for letting us all know about this feature otherwise I might never of found it for myself)

I'm very pleasantly surprised! I appreciate your gratitude, but I'm merely a messenger spreading the word. Nvidia has an entire list of currently compatible games with Nvidia Freestyle on their website if you care to try it with any other game. Hope you enjoy and I'm very glad I was able to show you this feature and how much joy it has brought you.

Well regardless of just being a messenger I thank you once again for this gorgeous addition to gaming having been bought to my attention! Now if I can just somehow figure out how to stop the Nvidia Overlay from screwing up my controller deadzones every time I turn it on then life with Nvidia will once again be golden bliss lol

[The Fight Queen]

BWAHAHAH IM NOT BANNED TROLOLOL a écrit :

Harrison Ford a écrit :

Troll. Shut up.

Anyway, to the OP, thank you for replying regarding performance. I'm excited to try this out! I've been wanting a graphical overhaul for this game but didn't want to risk any softbans, so this looks like the ticket!

What funny timing, too! I was just drooling at the old footage of when Dark Souls 2 was first announced. Can't wait to try this thing!

Thank you so much for sharing it!

the "old footage" isnt actually any better than what we have currently. it LOOKS far darker because its a low resolution video of a CRT, and the brightness setting is turned all the way down. you can actually get the exact same lighting by just turning your brightness down to nothing. you wont get the same blurry mess of garbage that is completely indescribable, because thats all from recording a TV screen with a cell phone.

BWAHAHAH IM NOT BANNED TROLOLOL a écrit :

oh ALSO, this is not "just an overlay" in the same way that shadowplay is NOT "just recording". theres a reason both only work with certain games:

they both work the same way as ENB, they use a DLL to hook the programs shader loop and insert shaders. so yes, this WILL end up getting you banned on ds2. thats actually the reason they disabled shadowplay from working with certain games (this one included), because they didnt wanna get sued for getting people banned.

You are wrong buddy and wrong on multiple accounts in this conversation but let's just take the two most obviously wrong statements as is quoted above.
So first things first: This is not a shader, this is simply a filter that goes over the top of your game like an instagram filter.
If you want proof of this, notice how when notifications from steam or anything else pops up on screen, their colour will of also changed to that of your filter options as well as any other image you bring up on screen over the top of your game.
I don't think anything else needs to be said on that one, you are clearly wrong.

And onto your explanation as to why the game doesn't look like it's IGN reveal, well sorry buddy but you are inherently wrong again!
The Devs themselves have come out to flatly apologise for the lies they told in that gameplay reveal and stated that although the game could look as amazing as it did in aid reveal, it would perform very poorly on consoles and anything other than your most high end of PC's at the time and even then the game would still stutter, have frame rate drops and crash in loading screens etc.
So they had to take all the detail out of the world in order to get it to run smoothly and got rid of the lighting engine they were using as it had a huge impact on performance in places like The Gutter and Black Gulch.
Please do your research properly before spouting out nonsense to people because you will be called up on it and you will look foolish!

[TrueArchery]

Been using Shadowplay since launch lol, it doesn't get you banned.

[Final Journey]

Ignoring the bs thats going on here, all I can say is that it looks terrible.
While I agree that Ds2 isn't really a beauty, it still looks much better than this garbage filter .

[Brolaire]

Xeiv a écrit :

Ignoring the bs thats going on here, all I can say is that it looks terrible.
While I agree that Ds2 isn't really a beauty, it still looks much better than this garbage filter .:bbtcat:

Fair enough. To me, this filter just makes the game look sharper and less dull/blue tint. But I understand not everyone will like it. Maybe you can tune the settings to your own liking!

[Call Sign: Raven]

Hi, so I tried it this morning, but the overlay wouldn't open when I pressed Alt+F3. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

[Brolaire]

Make sure Nvidia Overlay is turned on and so are experimental features inside the Gefore Experience software. Then you make need to restart the game/computer for the changes to go into effect. Let me know if that works for you.

[Call Sign: Raven]

Okay, I'm dumb. I forgot to update the driver, and after I did, I forgot to restart. Restarting helped me to enable the overlay.

So...what settings do I use? I don't seem to see that in the guide, unless I'm missing something.

[Brolaire]

If you click on the picture album, the imgur link, look at the very first picture. The settings are to the left all on the one screen shot. Just click the setting you want to change, add it to the list to customize it, and use the values shown in the very first picture. You edit Adjustments, SpecialFX, Exposure, and Color. All those need to be added to the filter list and edited.

[Call Sign: Raven]

Sounds good. I'm about to check it out, but it might be worth your time to clarify that in the guide!