Fallout 4

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About this mod

This will improve your HBAO visuals with a simple ini tweak, giving better shadows and more details to small objects, clothes and skin.
While also improving your performance with +5 fps!!!

Includes blur-free and sharp TAA settings too!

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After lots of tweaking of the INI files, I have found some very good settings for the HBAO.
They affect much more than the vanilla HBAO settings, they play well in motion, they work very well generally and they even improve performance!!
On my laptop with GTX 1050 and i5, I get around 5 fps more with those settings, depending on your hardware you may get more or less of a boost, please leave a comment. 
It's a must have IMO

EDIT: I have some new settings in the Comments sticky post, maybe those are even better. Please try them out if you like and report back!

Better HBAO
Just add/replace the HBAO section with this in your Fallout4Prefs.ini in My Games/Fallout4:

[NVHBAO]
fBackgroundAOViewDepth=8000.0000
bBackgroundAOEnable=1
fDepthThresholdSharpness=100.0000
fDepthThresholdMaxViewDepth=8000.0000
bDepthThresholdEnable=1
iDepthClampModeEnum=0
fCoarseAO=0.7500
fDetailAO=0.1000
fBlurSharpnessProfileBackgroundViewDepth=1.0000
fBlurSharpnessProfileForegroundViewDepth=0.0000
fBlurSharpnessProfileForegroundSharpnessScale=1.0000
bBlurSharpnessProfileEnable=1
fBlurSharpness=16.0000
iBlurRadiusEnum=1
bBlurEnable=1
fPowerExponent=6.0000
fBias=0.2000
fRadius=0.5000
bEnable=1

And remember to activate bSAOEnable=1 under [Display] in Fallout4Prefs.ini also. Disable SAAO in your ENBSeries, if you use that probably.


Another setting I have tweaked a lot is of the TAA.
I have managed to remove ALL blur when moving around while keeping it sharp and crisp, I highly recommend trying those out too!!

Better TAA, blur-free and sharp:
In Fallout4.ini add/replace this under

[Display]
fTAAPostSharpen=0.4
fTAASharpen=1.5
fTAAHighFreq=0.6
fTAALowFreq=0.5
fTAAPostOverlay=0.4


ENJOY!!

(The files i uploaded is of my personal INI files, they are made for 30FPS gameplay. No need to use them, but you can download it to endorse :) I would appreciate it)