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Nvidia Image sharpening issues help.

michty_me

michty_me

michty_me

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Coming from an AMD GPU in my desktop, I usually kept RIS on which made games like warzone look much cripser.
After having a good bit of discussion with some members on here, I've been trying to get it to work on my Nvidia GPU now but with no success.

My issue is as follows:

- Using Geforce experience to apply anything filter wise, I instantly lose around 35-40% performance and gain what feels like micro stutters. This is no use really. It does work though and even a 10-15% filter makes Modern Warfare look a lot better. I have all recording and other things switched off.

The consensus from Reddit, Nvidia forums etc is that Geforce experience can take a larger hit off performance but I didn't expect to lose that much from adding a simple filter. Most suggest to use control panel so off I went to play with sharpening in there.

- Using Nvidia control panel, If I switch on image sharpening, there is no visible change at all. Even if sharpening is put up to the maximum setting.

I am currently on the latest driver 461.40 with the latest Geforce experience, Latest windows update.

System is as follows:
XMG Core 17 laptop
Ryzen 4800H
RTX 2060 (Boosted 115W)
16GB 3200Mhz RAM

I've a 3080 waiting to go into my main system now so hoping I don't have the same issues with that but I'm guessing I will.
Any suggestions on what I can try to get it to work as intended?
 
Sharpen via Nvida Control panel doesn't work for COD/Warzone.. If you try to force it via a game profile, it messes up the lighting in Zombie mode. Shame really as the game without GE looks like ass blur
 
Neil79 said:
Sharpen via Nvida Control panel doesn't work for COD/Warzone.. If you try to force it via a game profile, it messes up the lighting in Zombie mode. Shame really as the game without GE looks like ass blur
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Well that explains why its not working in control panel then haha. I wonder why it doesn't and how do you force it in a game profile?
I guess I just need to try and figure out why I get such a huge performance loss using Geforce experience then. If it was 5-10fps then fair enough but dropping roughly 40fps and the stutters is a bit much.
 
Ok, Think I have it sussed with the help of Nvidia live chat. Changed a few things:

Added game to program settings in NVCP then set power management to prefer maximum performance.
They also requested I set max frame rate to 1000.

Then in global settings set the following

• Ambient Occlusion – Off
• Triple buffering – off
• Threaded optimization - ON
• Vertical Sync – Off

Then in Help menu on NVCP, Enable debug mode.

Go to windows settings->System-> Display-> Graphics settings
Switch Hardware accelerated GPU Scheduling ON.

Reboot

No longer losing 30-40fps and the stuttering has totally gone. You can't really tell the difference in the two pictures due to size and I think I had only put on a slight filter.

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That looks miles better. I'm really sensitive to softening and those two pictures is the difference between me enjoying the game or being really annoyed. I'm having all kinds of problems with nvcp/ experience. Like you said sharpening not working, for me in cyberpunk and other problems like 1x anisotropy looking really crisp and detailed compared to 4x 8x and 16x ( in fortnite) as it looks like dlss/ aliasing or something has been enabled and looks really soft. I am praying your fix sorts my problems out too :)
 
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It's worth a shot if it's the same issue that I was having. If that doesn't sort it, honestly just give the live chat on Nvidia a try. I was sceptical at first but glad I did now.
 
You shouldn't get that performance loss but i do find Nvidia Image Sharpening very finicky, for one you can't just turn it on and leave it because if you do it applies it to your desktop and then i at least get all sorts of weird image corruption on the desktop, you have to set it up per game profile.

'When it does work' it makes little difference, you would think this and RIS are the same thing, they ain't, not by a long way, I've given up on it, its just crap.

I miss RIS.
 
humbug said:
You shouldn't get that performance loss but i do find Nvidia Image Sharpening very finicky, for one you can't just turn it on and leave it because if you do it applies it to your desktop and then i at least get all sorts of weird image corruption on the desktop, you have to set it up per game profile.

'When it does work' it makes little difference, you would think this and RIS are the same thing, they ain't, not by a long way, I've given up on it, its just crap.

I miss RIS.
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Coming from AMD GPU's, I would agree that I will miss RIS too.
I gave up using Nvidia control panel settings as it wouldn't work with what I wanted. I was getting some weird effects with it switched on in control panel so have left it off in there since.

The above pictures were using the game filters on Nvidia experience which is a lot more noticeable. It did however take several hours to resolve the issues I was seeing and now only seeing a 5-8fps drop in performance when they are on. No where near as simple to use compared to RIS.
 
Yup, And all with no performance loss at all.
Unfortunately AMD's GPUs are too rich for my liking this time round and basically the reason I spent time trying to get this to work on my laptop was that I got the option of buying a 3080FE at MSRP so opted for that instead or the 6800/6800XT.
I did notice their Nvidia experience was in Beta so hoping that in the future it will become more polished.
I may give reshade a try too.
 
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