Nvidia scaling and sharpening

[fenderjaguar]

Does anyone know a way of getting sharpening ONLY, on the latest nvidia drivers, without scaling on the GPU?

[Vulkan]

set image scaling to ON globally in the nvidia control panel , then set sharpening to 0%(otherwise sharpening will be applied to all games you play). go to program settings , add the game you want to add sharpening to, go to image scaling while in the program setting and set the sharpening to whatever you desire . https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5280/~/how-to-enable-nvidia-image-scaling

this is how you get sharpening ONLY without the image scaling feature being activated. NOTE- make sure you are playing at your monitor's Native resolution.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

NVIDIA 497.29 - WHQL - Win10/11 - 64bit - DCH
https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/184717

NVIDIA 472.12 - WHQL - Win10/11 - 64bit - DCH
https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/180557

NVIDIA 472.12 - WHQL - Win7 SP1 - 64bit
https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/180551

Be sure to do a wipe of all 3 brands of GPUs via the DDU app, via Safe Mode first.
Using an older Driver for stability purposes should be fine as long as you only use one as far back as maybe 6 months ago. Don't want to use ones much older as this may not work properly with newer and/or updated games that run better on newer drivers. Plus newer drivers also update your Vulkan API Runtimes don't forget.

When using DDU to wipe GPU drivers and reboot, its also a good idea that you also download and install the latest Motherboard Chipset Driver and install that as well.

Do not use the NVIDIA Image Sharpening options if you are running games outside your Native Screen Res. Or are using options such as DSR of any kind.

[ELK]

I used CRU 1.5.2 (custom resolution utility) to remove 3840x2160@60 (also under HDMI and TV resolutions on my display) so that my native resolution would be 2560x1440@120.

Windows copies your monitor's information (EDID) to the registry, and uses the registry for the information. CRU edits the registry.

I now use sharpening @ my desired resolution without scaling.

[_I_]

you dont need to remove it, in gpu control panel, pick the res under pc not tv/hd

windows grabs the edid from the display

[Garry]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.