GeDoSaTo - Downsampling from Infinity and Beyond!
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Yeah, i like CA, to be honest.
I mean it can get overdone at times, like any other effect.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, it seems to do the downsampling okay. (At least, I assume so. How does GeDoSaTo handle things if you've already set the resolution you're downsampling from as a custom resolution on your video card? )
I'll play with the settings a bit.
I'll play with the settings a bit.
Oh god, now I have to spend the next three months implementing a secret CA-detection component in GeDoSaTo which uses the latest in deep machine learning to recognize any shader which even remotely looks like it does CA and crashes the users' system.
I'm joking of course. I really don't like CA in almost any circumstance (the exception would be stuff actually seen through a camera, like a racing game replay), but I believe in people having the right to tune their graphics however they want 
Oh god, now I have to spend the next three months implementing a secret CA-detection component in GeDoSaTo which uses the latest in deep machine learning to recognize any shader which even remotely looks like it does CA and crashes the users' system.
I'm joking of course. I really don't like CA in almost any circumstance (the exception would be stuff actually seen through a camera, like a racing game replay), but I believe in people having the right to tune their graphics however they want
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I think I was able to run it at 4K fine (the engine is pretty well optimized), but the hud becomes miniscule and the mini-map is a little too necessary.
WarlockTheWise
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Metro Last Light has native SSAA options, why would you need GeDoSaTo?
Practically next-next-gen.
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[Asmodean]
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Yeah, you're right. I signed up for Flickr last night, So I'll be using that from now on. I'd generally only upload screens for comparison stuff. So I'd just go with the handiest host for whacking it up lol.
There's a few flickr screens below with default shader settings. I haven't gotten to some of the more interesting looking areas of the game yet, unfortunately, to capture there. But I ultimately think screenshots don't do shader effects much justice anyway generally. I think even Flickr messes the look of them up also tbh, from looking at them.
Edit: sorry if they're hard to see properly because of the size. I run 1440p native, and I didn't want to resize them, due to interpolation etc. Maybe best to save them and compare in fullscreen.
Effects off / on with default shipped settings
An extra one just showing an example of the options
And here's the latest version. If anyone happens to want it. I've been working mostly on the tone mapping last night. Trying to improve the mood and tone of it for this particular game. I'd still like to add a few more things, but this will do for the moment.
Edit2: I could also add chromatic aberration, if people wanted it. I can't do film grain though. I'd need a shader time param for that. I welcome suggestions for nice addition effects.
http://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls2...uls2/ajax/moddescription/?id=7&preview=&pUp=1
I'm trying to use this but my game won't start. I don't understand what's going on.
I'm trying to use this but my game won't start. I don't understand what's going on.
ENB and GeDoSaTo don't work together.
Slackerchan
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Probably because I am not a smart man and have no idea what I'm doing. I'm really just trying to take hi-res screenshots, not actively play the game. I love me some Metro but once you've beaten it 5 times there's not much else to do but pick and choose your levels and take (potentially) great pictures.
It's intentionally quite dark by default, I like to play that way. However, you can easily disable the postprocessing (in GeDoSaTo.ini, change "enablePostprocessing true" to false), or tweak it in more detail in the post.fx file.
My favorite feature of Gedosato is the toggle implementation in-game.
I toggle DOF on for boss fights and awesome vistas so I can take screenshots, off normally as the bokeh effect jacks up my GPUs to 99% utilization.
You can do the same to the post-process effects with num pad 4 if the area is too dark. I never do as I miss the color correction too much. Game looks washed out without Durante's profile.
I toggle DOF on for boss fights and awesome vistas so I can take screenshots, off normally as the bokeh effect jacks up my GPUs to 99% utilization.
You can do the same to the post-process effects with num pad 4 if the area is too dark. I never do as I miss the color correction too much. Game looks washed out without Durante's profile.
I actually do the same. Since I play at 4k now, full Bokeh is too expensive, so I play with the in-game DoF and just toggle on Bokeh for specific Vistas. With the improved SMAA performance I can normally maintain > 45 FPS at 4k with all GoDoSaTo effects except DoF on.
And if an area is too dark I use a torch or a light spell
And if an area is too dark I use a torch or a light spell
[Asmodean]
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Does anyone have a good screenshot of chromatic aberration?, as a reference. I've got it working, but I dunno, it doesn't look right. Just looks slightly blurrier ;p I can't get the colour shift right or something.
I'd only include it if I can get it complementing the game nicely, and not a gimmicky looking effect.
edit: nvm, scrapped that idea, it was just annoying me wasting time. Ended up doing a filmic cross processing effect embedded into the tone map settings. Looks quite nice.
Updated the shader here again. I'm quite pleased with the results. Looks great, all things considered.
I'd only include it if I can get it complementing the game nicely, and not a gimmicky looking effect.
edit: nvm, scrapped that idea, it was just annoying me wasting time. Ended up doing a filmic cross processing effect embedded into the tone map settings. Looks quite nice.
Updated the shader here again. I'm quite pleased with the results. Looks great, all things considered.
Okay, ran into my first issue just now. I had Shadowplay on while it happened. Figured I should upload the clip, maybe you can make sense of it. It sounds like I fell into the water and died at the end, but I wasn't moving the joystick.
I've put in a few hours with no problems at all, though. GeDoSaTo has been great for me so far. Not complaining, just wanted to share it.
I've put in a few hours with no problems at all, though. GeDoSaTo has been great for me so far. Not complaining, just wanted to share it.
VisceralBowl
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Just so people know if they go to try it, this tool does not work with the disc version of Call of Duty 4. I get a black screen that I cannot get out of unless I sign out/ turn off my PC.
ALT+F4 - Not working
Task Manager - Not working
Right Clicking the exe and exiting - Not Working
My other two monitors work just fine, but the primary one I have the game on is stuck until I sign out of my PC.
ALT+F4 - Not working
Task Manager - Not working
Right Clicking the exe and exiting - Not Working
My other two monitors work just fine, but the primary one I have the game on is stuck until I sign out of my PC.
These kinds of issues are the reason for the global hotkey. Pressing win+g should disable GeDoSaTo, thereby killing the game and returning your PC to working order.
Keep your existing ini file.
VisceralBowl
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No Windows key here but good to know.
Tried this out in Phantasy Star Online 2 using an alternate account, an account I only used in the past to try out different ideas for a character that I wanted to make, to check how the character would look in-game, since it's only possible to have 2 characters for free.
I didn't want to risk using my actual PSO2 account due to the anti-cheat tool the game uses, Gameguard.
Anyway, the result, from 4320x2700 to 1440x900:
The UI is really small when doing this though, because the game uses different settings for resolution and for UI scaling, which are limited at a max of 1920x1200 in the game launcher (I only got the 4320x2700 resolution by editing the game's configuration file, though I don't know what to do about the UI scaling settings).
Well, it's not like I'm going to use GeDoSaTo in PSO2 when actually playing anyway, because of Gameguard... ^^;
I didn't want to risk using my actual PSO2 account due to the anti-cheat tool the game uses, Gameguard.
Anyway, the result, from 4320x2700 to 1440x900:
The UI is really small when doing this though, because the game uses different settings for resolution and for UI scaling, which are limited at a max of 1920x1200 in the game launcher (I only got the 4320x2700 resolution by editing the game's configuration file, though I don't know what to do about the UI scaling settings).
Well, it's not like I'm going to use GeDoSaTo in PSO2 when actually playing anyway, because of Gameguard... ^^;
[Asmodean]
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Durante, I've a small request: is there any chance you could pop the post.fx compileShader function into a try/catch, for a future version or something?. If you wouldn't mind doing so, that is.
When I'm testing my code or whatnot, and I have a stupid typo or I'm testing something new, naturally the file fails to compile, but it just UHexception crashes the program instead of maybe outputting "failed to compile %s, ".fx" " or such.
It's not a big deal, but when you're testing stuff it's sooooooo annoying lol.
When I'm testing my code or whatnot, and I have a stupid typo or I'm testing something new, naturally the file fails to compile, but it just UHexception crashes the program instead of maybe outputting "failed to compile %s, ".fx" " or such.
It's not a big deal, but when you're testing stuff it's sooooooo annoying lol.
Nope. DS1 has a locked resolution so even if you did use this, it wouldn't render at the appropriate res.
Necromanti
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Which tends to look better, SGSSAA or downsampling? Downsampling from 3840x2160 to 1080p kills my framerate, while I get 60 FPS at 4x SGSSAA (using the Nvidia Inspector tweaks).
I'm sticking to the in-game DOF, as well, as the performance hit from GeDoSaTo's DOF is too much for me (while running 4x SGSSAA), and it seems to blur my character and trees in a strange way that makes me dizzy. While I am no longer at 60 FPS with the AO, it's better than the in-game option.
I'm happy with how things look. I'm still debating whether the SSAO is worth the loss of a few frames.
I'm sticking to the in-game DOF, as well, as the performance hit from GeDoSaTo's DOF is too much for me (while running 4x SGSSAA), and it seems to blur my character and trees in a strange way that makes me dizzy. While I am no longer at 60 FPS with the AO, it's better than the in-game option.
I'm happy with how things look. I'm still debating whether the SSAO is worth the loss of a few frames.
Skyfireblaze
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I just tried ctrl+alt+o and it works fine on my end. Here's a shot of my Afterburner control panel to compare to your own:
Hmm I will check this later, thanks!
I've never even opened up the menu for adding a game to Gedosato, but just typing the word Titanfall seems comical to me.
You probably just created the profile, now you have to attach the titanfall.exe. This is all theoretical by the way as I have never done it before, I'm sure the process is detailed in the read me.
Skyfireblaze
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It might sound quite comical but he/she actually did it correctly if Whitelist mode is used. You have to write the name of the executable minus the .exe suffix into GeDoSaTo's whitelist.txt. And since the executable of Titanfall is named Titanfall.exe, simply writing Titanfall is correct, as funny as it sounds
It might sound quite comical but he/she actually did it correctly if Whitelist mode is used. You have to write the name of the executable minus the .exe suffix into GeDoSaTo's whitelist.txt. And since the executable of Titanfall is named Titanfall.exe, simply writing Titanfall is correct, as funny as it sounds
My apologies, then.
Durante designed quite the system if that is the case.
copelandmaster
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Just dropped in to say that the latest version, 0.4, is much more stable. Was able to play for several hours the other night without crashing.
Also, thanks so much for the Borderless fullscreen mode Durante : )
Also, thanks so much for the Borderless fullscreen mode Durante : )
Skyfireblaze
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He sure did!
Though I would assume that GeDoSaTo simply looks for the process name and goes from there, ignoring the .exe suffix.I accept your apology.
I still can't believe it doesnt work. Dota2 works right? and thats on source engine as well.
Skyfireblaze
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Well from what I heard Titanfall uses a heavily modified Source Engine so it's probably related to that :/
lostsupper
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Sick burn.
[Asmodean]
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For people that are using my recent VSSAO versions. I've noticed an error in the output, which was causing some ambient/diffuse reflections to be dim looking compared to how they should look. (weirdly enough). Some examples would be: Heide's Tower of Flame glowing windows, armor/weapon reflections.
I was using saturate() on the final output (clamping it), and it was the cause. I'd suggest updating to the latest version here.
I've also updated my other post fx shader suite to 1.40. Some comparison screenshots here.
I was using saturate() on the final output (clamping it), and it was the cause. I'd suggest updating to the latest version here.
I've also updated my other post fx shader suite to 1.40. Some comparison screenshots here.
Orthogonal
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Need advice on an upgrade. My 6870 is showing its age. I was planning on upgrading for The Witcher 3, but if I can run DS2 in 4K reasonably I will pull the trigger now. Can any of the reasonably priced high end single cards run DS2 at 4K, or do you need multi-card solutions for that.
I plan to be upgrading to a 1440p display and use GeDoSaTo for downsampling from 4K.
Maybe I am totally underestimating the cost of this.
I plan to be upgrading to a 1440p display and use GeDoSaTo for downsampling from 4K.
Maybe I am totally underestimating the cost of this.
I've been able to downsample from 4k on a 780 (EVGA superclocked series or whatever). Only lose 60fps at some fog gates and the outside areas of Earthen Peak for some reason.
Unfortunately I don't know anything about AMD cards.
Edit: I dunno if that is "reasonably priced' either, maybe I'm not helping.
Unfortunately I don't know anything about AMD cards.
Edit: I dunno if that is "reasonably priced' either, maybe I'm not helping.
Orthogonal
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DarkLiberator
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290 or 770. That's my recommendation. My 7970 is doing fine though, even at 4K in DS2.
Orthogonal
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Thanks guys. Didn't want to pull the trigger and fall short of expectations.
Shub-Niggurath
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[Asmodean];110739385 said:
I am using it, and I like it so much. Thanks for your work
EDIT: I was using your VSSAO v0.4 and I noticed the date on the file hasn't changed yet. Is that the corrected version you were referring to?