Watch Dogs - Ubisoft's Third Person Shooter

neoglow said:
Been playing around with SweetFX and WD and the difference is quite astonishing. Considering it just 'filters' the image, to me the game looks grittier and more realistic.

It seems there is a popular SweetFX preset made by piterrrxd called the Realistic Preset that is doing the rounds but some people are having problems using SweetFX on 64bit OS's, in particular Windows 8.1

I found a great tutorial video on youtube about how to install it using the SweetFX feature of RadeonPro. (It works with AMD and Nvidia GPU's) Ive been playing it on my GTX670's.

The youtuber JeZ tK has uploaded his SweetFX folder (not just the preset file) to link it into RadeonPro and his video explains how to set it all up. This folder contains the SweetFX made by piterrrxd. The links are in his video discription.

I have also linked to piterrrxd's SweetFX preset page but remember this is only the preset file and wont work with the method that JeZ tK describes in his video.

JeZ tK tutorial video also with gameplay:


Another video showing off piterrrxd's Realistic Preset:
(Yes, the video image is modded GTA 4 for some reason lol)


Link to piterrrxd's Realistic Preset page with screenshots:

http://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/1686/

I recommend this to anyone that wants to try and alter the look of WD and make it look more realistic. I think it mainly alters contrast, de-saturates the colours and makes the game lighting less yellow and more white. Give it a go and see what you think, the performance hit is very minimal maybe none at all.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, if you use this SweetFX preset, turn the ingame brightness right up to 90 or 95 otherwise the screen will be super dark.
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I posted screenshots in the high res screen shots thread using this preset and a few posters said the vanilla game looked better. (one guy, i'm assuming it was vanilla ice, even said it looked "whack", lol) They must be blind as it is absolutely stunning and actually makes the game look next gen and closer to the e3 2012 demo.
 
Heisenberg said:
I posted screenshots in the high res screen shots thread using this preset and a few posters said the vanilla game looked better. (one guy, i'm assuming it was vanilla ice, even said it looked "whack", lol) They must be blind as it is absolutely stunning and actually makes the game look next gen and closer to the e3 2012 demo.
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Thats strange, I think it looks 100 times better with SweetFX, Ive just spent an hour taking screenshots then realised I hadnt enabled 'overlays' in RadeonPro so all my screenshots dont have the SweetFX features, theyre just standard lol, damnit. Try again tomorrow night. Ingame though, I was getting some stunning shots.

As for performance hit Finners, there is none at all, not that I noticed anyway.
 
i just installed sweetfx i think the game looks better now! All i did was download sweetfx configurator from here http://sweetfx.thelazy.net/ download the previously linked preset, add the .exe file using the configurator then load the preset file (can just see things in the configurator being ticked and unticked when i click the preset file!) and then launch the game from the configurator. i assume i did this right and not just some placebo effect!?

edit - meh it isnt working, ill install radeonpro and have a proper go tomorrow!
 
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Theres just a couple of screenshots i took. Think it makes the lighting a lot nicer and takes away the blandness of it.

Heisenberg said:
Watch Dogs with some added SweetFX. Think it looks pretty nice, some of the lighting effects are great. Will post some more in the rain tomorrow :)

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Had a few crashes for me out of the blue today. Not too bothered tbh as the game has run out of steam. Just started act 4 and the story is woeful. Just kill/save the sister already, I couldn't care less! I just did one of the worst 'boss fights' ever too. Died a few times due to the controls really(it really showed the limitations of the cover system which I thought was good up until that point) and I hate the way you have to listen to all the audio again before missions start...I know it off by heart now!

Also, a lot of the gameplay has just turned in to shootouts, and of course some of the tedious Ubisoft staples have arrived right on schedule. This character called Default has just turned up, and of course they can't resist making the screen fragment all over the place at every opportunity for some reason:rolleyes:
 
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