Why does "Image Sharpening" (NVIDIA) not work in CS GO?

[76561198972094800]

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Who can check if "Image Sharpening" is working in CS GO or not?!
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[king candy]

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Първоначално публикувано от Happy Slaneshmas:

well whats your ingame settings for one as the ingame settings override any nvidia settings

I changed them. That's not exactly the problem. I think this setting (Image Sharpenning) doesn't work at all in CS GO. I want to know if it's true or not. I don't think I'm the only one with this problem. Most likely "Image Sharpenning" is simply not supported for CS...

well what do you mean "changed them" tell us the settings

[76561198972094800]

Първоначално публикувано от Happy Slaneshmas:

Първоначално публикувано от Bexa:

I changed them. That's not exactly the problem. I think this setting (Image Sharpenning) doesn't work at all in CS GO. I want to know if it's true or not. I don't think I'm the only one with this problem. Most likely "Image Sharpenning" is simply not supported for CS...

well what do you mean "changed them" tell us the settings

I tried all the ingame settings in "Advanced Video settings".

[king candy]

Първоначално публикувано от Bexa:

Първоначално публикувано от Happy Slaneshmas:

well what do you mean "changed them" tell us the settings

I tried all the ingame settings in "Advanced Video settings".

you can also change them trough the settings.ini file using notepad

[76561198972094800]

I just need an answer. does this function work or not in cs go... can check, who has CS GO ?

[76561198972094800]

can anyone check whether "Image Sharpening" works or not?

[Ancient Oldie]

Maybe you can ask your question in the hardware section.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/223300/discussions/

[76561198972094800]

Първоначално публикувано от Ancient Oldie:

Maybe you can ask your question in the hardware section.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/223300/discussions/

Thanks for trying to help. I think Image sharpening is not supported for CS.

[io]

Първоначално публикувано от Bexa:

Първоначално публикувано от Ancient Oldie:

Maybe you can ask your question in the hardware section.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/223300/discussions/

Thanks for trying to help. I think Image sharpening is not supported for CS.

you found a way to make it work image sharpering for CS:GO ?

[io]

I have work on older versions nvidia drivers

[76561198972094800]

Първоначално публикувано от rapist:

I have work on older versions nvidia drivers

No. CS not supported (driver 441.87). Perhaps this will be fixed in the future

[Tom & Jerry]

I actually searched the answer to this problem also :D. You are right. Probably its not working in cs go. Some people say that, it works with older driver versions, like 441.08 . I want to try that

[SIMPLEX > METHOD]

Precisely increase the clarity? Graphics Settings Only

[Jon Buscemi]

@bexa Did you try different drivers ?

[Sraigius]

Hey guys, i'm sorry for reviving a three month old thread, but I wanted to chime in regarding this topic.

Nvidia sharpening does not work for me too, but not only with CSGO but also with Left 4 Dead 2.
All the other games that are not using Source engine - they work perfectly fine with my universally good nvidia sharpening settings (30 % sharpening, 0 % ignore film grain).
I tried Nvidia sharpening with a good handful of games so far: Dying Light, Killing Floor 2, Far Cry 5, Road Redemption, Resident Evil 6, Resident Evil 7, Cold Fear (very old game from 2005, and even that one supports nvidia sharpening perfectly fine). All those games apply that 30 % sharpening and 0 % film grain without any problems, all the while providing a nice graphical enhancement.

So I think the problem regarding CSGO and Left 4 Dead 2 not applying Nvidia image sharpening settings could be due to engine (Source engine)? Just an educated guess you know, since two Source engine games did not worked so far, meanwhile all the other games that I tried worked flawlessly.

POST SCRIPTUM:

Image sharpening works with Left 4 Dead 2, but you must disable MSAA antialiasing. Does not work with CSGO in any way, shape or form.

[Sraigius]

After further investigation and playtesting, I can officially confirm that Nvidia image sharpening has been fundamentally blacklisted from use with csgo.exe .

In other words, there is no possible way for Nvidia image sharpening to work with CSGO, because it has been silently disabled on driver level (probably because CSGO is an esport game, and stuff like post-processing graphics enhancements such as Sweetfx or Reshade or ENB are not allowed and WILL get you VAC-banned 100 %, and since Nvidia image sharpening is essentially Reshade framework that has been embedded into nvidia drivers - official feature from graphics card drivers is not whitelisted, without any excuses).

But I can confirm that Nvidia image sharpening WORKS with Left 4 Dead 2 and presumably with other Source engine games that are not CSGO (we are talking about Half Life 2, HL2 episodes, Portal duology, Team Fortress 2, Black Mesa, etc etc). The reason why Nvidia image sharpening feature did not worked previously is because MSAA antialiasing automatically disables Nvidia image sharpening feature. But if you disable MSAA antialiasing - Nvidia image sharpening is going to work perfectly fine.

Go ahead and try it yourself, launch Left 4 Dead 2 or Half Life 2 or whatever, completely turn off MSAA antialiasing and apply some hilariously oversharpened setting (such as 100 % sharpening, 0 ignore film grain). After seeing proof that Nvidia image sharpening actually works, then you can set the sharpening to 25 or 30 %, which is my own optimal range.

But yeah, there is no possible way to make Nvidia image sharpening to work with CSGO. Disabling MSAA does not help either. Sorry guys.