Dishonored 2 film grain is bad, need help disabling it

[PieSappinMyCake]

i dont like it and its the only thing that gives me significant fps drops, is there any way AT ALL to disable it?

[Semipalmated Plover]

138 hours in Dishonored 2 here and never seen anything that looks remotely like film grain, and i've not seen anyone else mention it either. Are you sure you're not mistaking it for another effect or artifact?

[PieSappinMyCake]

Originally posted by Semipalmated Plover:

138 hours in Dishonored 2 here and never seen anything that looks remotely like film grain, and i've not seen anyone else mention it either. Are you sure you're not mistaking it for another effect or artifact?

well it is somewhat subtle, but i could tell the difference in fps, because i turned the fxaa from highest (txaa) to lowest fxaa and no fps change, but lowest fxaa looks like poop, however turning it all the way off, i saw the filmgrain gone and a big fps increase. i believe the film grain is tied to the anti-aliasing, because in the menu it called it post-processing fxaa. i dont have a bad rig btw, 1,500 dollar comp

[Semipalmated Plover]

Originally posted by PieSappinMyCake:

Originally posted by Semipalmated Plover:

138 hours in Dishonored 2 here and never seen anything that looks remotely like film grain, and i've not seen anyone else mention it either. Are you sure you're not mistaking it for another effect or artifact?

well it is somewhat subtle, but i could tell the difference in fps, because i turned the fxaa from highest (txaa) to lowest fxaa and no fps change, but lowest fxaa looks like poop, however turning it all the way off, i saw the filmgrain gone and a big fps increase. i believe the film grain is tied to the anti-aliasing, because in the menu it called it post-processing fxaa. i dont have a bad rig btw, 1,500 dollar comp

So it's artifacts from the FXAA sharpening setting you're seeing probably, not film grain.

I have the game's anti aliasing completely turned off and use Reshade to inject SMAA and a sharpening filter as well. It looks amazing and has a higher framerate at the same time. I highly recommend it.

[PieSappinMyCake]

Originally posted by Semipalmated Plover:

Originally posted by PieSappinMyCake:

well it is somewhat subtle, but i could tell the difference in fps, because i turned the fxaa from highest (txaa) to lowest fxaa and no fps change, but lowest fxaa looks like poop, however turning it all the way off, i saw the filmgrain gone and a big fps increase. i believe the film grain is tied to the anti-aliasing, because in the menu it called it post-processing fxaa. i dont have a bad rig btw, 1,500 dollar comp

So it's artifacts from the FXAA sharpening setting you're seeing probably, not film grain.

I have the game's anti aliasing completely turned off and use Reshade to inject SMAA and a sharpening filter as well. It looks amazing and has a higher framerate at the same time. I highly recommend it.

what method did you use to inject it? the methods i have tried didn't do dink

[Semipalmated Plover]

I just used reshade's own in-game gui to select SMAA and Lumasharpen filters. There's a guide on the reshade site.

For SMAA i had:
edge detection type - color edge detection
edge detection - 0.010
max search steps - 98
max search steps diagonal - 40
corner rounding - 99

I set the toggle key for each filter to Scroll Lock. That way u can just press scroll lock to enable and disable the whole effect and see the difference.