Q8 as a tutorial for an enabling a feature that allow image sharpening.

 

I saw this elsewhere but remain skeptical. The NVIDIA control panel already has a variety of settings for you to play around with 3D why hide it or is it already in there. Maybe its my eyes but I could not see any alleged improvement in sharpness!

Tried it, nope, didn't do a thing, the bad AA and shimmering is something Laminar is going to have to fix themselves.

This tweak works for me. It does 1/2 of what I use Reshade for, which is:

• 1. Sharpness increase - Replaced by Image Sharpening trick from Q8Pilot
• 2. Color saturation increase

So how can I increase the color without messing without increasing it for the entire Windows experience? Any tricks?

Then I can stop using Reshade and submit many more bug reports.

 

Increase the sharpness effect in a simulator that has bad AA by default ? 
Great tip.
It's the perfect recipe for creating popcorn.

I wondered what you meant by popcorn.

Yep. If it's those little splotches that appear on the horizon where reflections should be, popcorn is there but I can ignore it. Overall it seems better. Time will tell.

Hi,

Just tried it, looks okay. Will give it a once over after family leaves. 

You can also just head into "Adjust desktop size and position" and switch scaling to "Integer Scaling", then it changes Image Scaling to Image Sharpening. No need to mess around in the registry.

12 minutes ago, Sethos said:

You can also just head into "Adjust desktop size and position" and switch scaling to "Integer Scaling", then it changes Image Scaling to Image Sharpening. No need to mess around in the registry.

It maybe depended on what version you are using. I my case I am still on version 536.23 and have not the needed to upgrade until things got more stable since that release or feature needed. So that procedure does not work in my case. What version nvidia driver are you using?

Unfortunately this "trick" creates weird effects, like the "Block / Wall Clouds" that used to plague XP12 weather depiction and were somehow solved.

I tried it and stumped into the most weird and really annoying Stratus cloud depictions I had seen so far. It turned out to be due to the "Sharpening setting" in NCP... Turned it off and all back to normality.

@jcomm Changing the nvidia sharpness parameter does not cause "wall clouds". 😉

My Xp12 is all default, no scripts or nvidia modifications.

Yesterday while I was flying over Thailand I saw some famous XP12 bugs in latest 12.0.8 RC3:
- Wall clouds. 
- Squid ink rain.
- Very bad sawtooth antialiasing (the anti-aliasing degrades considerably when the plane is photographed in front of the wall clouds).
- The omnipresent dark panel.
All these bugs depend exclusively on XP12, not on Nvidia driver changes, and will hopefully be fixed ( 🤞 ) in the upcoming 12.1 release. 

 

@efis007 thx for the important info !

I can no longer Edit my post, otherwise I would change what I wrote there 😞

Edited December 27, 20232 yr by jcomm