Hmm, have you ever looked out of a window and wondered if it's raining or not?Anti Aliasing options are definitely BAD for this demo. I didn't even notice it was raining outside until I disabled TAA. The blurriness is so bad, that the rain gets blurred out to the point that it isn't there anymore (even at 4k). Also, blood and wet surfaces are not shiny anymore, and that with the lack of rain destroys the atmosphere.
FXAA + TAA (or TAA alone):
SMAA (or No AA or FXAA):
The rain for me, is what made all the difference to create the atmosphere. This is obviously just a picture, but actually seeing the rain outside the window makes a huge difference.
I tried Reshade with LumaSharpening (and later with AdaptiveSharpening) but neither are strong enough to bring back the rain or the shiny surfaces.
I don't mind the blurriness either, but missing components of the atmosphere that were clearly meant to be there just because TAA eliminates them...?
Of course, SMAA or FXAA don't work at all. Jagged edges everywhere and they are very distracting.
I really don't think CAPCOM will fix this for the final release, but I really hope they do.
If you don't adjust the calibration options you get elevated black levels.
I didn't check it in the game, but I remember thinking that it was impressive how much more realistic the rain effects looked on the title screen when I enabled TAA vs any other anti-aliasing option.
It was a really stupid idea.
If you don't adjust the calibration options you get elevated black levels.
Black is at 16 rather than 0, and bright objects will never be white.
If that looks correct on your display, you need to calibrate your display.
I didn't check it in the game, but I remember thinking that it was impressive how much more realistic the rain effects looked on the title screen when I enabled TAA vs any other anti-aliasing option.
It was a really stupid idea.
You must calibrate the display settings for this game!
I will add that having examined the calibration settings more in-depth, I actually think that Rec. 709 profile is useful in this game. If I recall correctly, RE7 did not have the max/min brightness settings, which are critical for this.
Default settings:
Calibrated sRGB settings:
Calibrated Rec.709 settings:
Note: you absolutely must leave the "film noise" setting enabled to prevent posterization/banding in the shadows.
I brightened up the shadows in the Rec. 709 screenshot with the setting on/off for comparison:
You also have to set the minimum brightness one step lower than it requests, so that the pattern disappears or else the brightness calibration will not work correctly.
The settings used for sRGB are:
The settings used for Rec. 709 are:
- Maximum Brightness: 1 below the maximum
- Minimum Brightness: The lowest setting
- Brightness: -6 from center (5th marking from the left)
- Maximum Brightness: 1 below the maximum
- Minimum Brightness: The lowest setting
- Brightness: 1 left of center (10th marking from the left)
Thankfully, you can disable it with a trainer.
Use MSI Afterburner overlay, shows up just fine in shadow play recordings.
Yeah, that would've been a better option too, because then I could have like... frametimes and other metrics on there. I thought about that too and maybe leaving that "monitor" chart thing open so I could just scrub through that and look at the lows and any "anomalies."
Ooh, I'll have to look into that.
Wait, doesn't this suggest that demo is operating only in limited range? Maybe elevated blacks are caused by a bug after all...
Man, its a huge bummer how these AAA games are completely dropping the ball with HDR.
If I had to guess, it's probably like that so the game is still playable on displays which are not set up correctly by default; either that or it's a result of the game being built for HDR.
That's really bizarre. I don't remember encountering a game that - if not respecting driver/console output format - at least doesn't offer a setting to choose between limited/full range. I'm pretty sure that wasn't an issue in RE7.
I can definitely see the rain with TAA enabled and 1.4 resolution scale @ 3440x1440. Make sure to try to adjust the brightness settings accordingly, might be the culprit.Anti Aliasing options are definitely BAD for this demo. I didn't even notice it was raining outside until I disabled TAA. The blurriness is so bad, that the rain gets blurred out to the point that it isn't there anymore (even at 4k). Also, blood and wet surfaces are not shiny anymore, and that with the lack of rain destroys the atmosphere.
FXAA + TAA (or TAA alone):
SMAA (or No AA or FXAA):
The rain for me, is what made all the difference to create the atmosphere. This is obviously just a picture, but actually seeing the rain outside the window makes a huge difference.
I tried Reshade with LumaSharpening (and later with AdaptiveSharpening) but neither are strong enough to bring back the rain or the shiny surfaces.
I don't mind the blurriness either, but missing components of the atmosphere that were clearly meant to be there just because TAA eliminates them...?
Of course, SMAA or FXAA don't work at all. Jagged edges everywhere and they are very distracting.
I really don't think CAPCOM will fix this for the final release, but I really hope they do.
It's the only game I know of which has black/white level adjustments available in SDR at all, so the fact that it defaults to 16 (and can be raised to ~31) is not too surprising to me.
It's a shame that black/white level calibration is not available in HDR, you only have settings for peak brightness and paper white, so you're have either SDR with proper contrast after calibration, or HDR with raised blacks.
I think because it would have made the VRAM amount go over.
