Skyrim Special Edition

This Reshade includes sharpening through 2 shaders. However there's no "one-size-fits-all" for sharpening, some users need more than others depending on their setup and their preference for how the visuals should look.

Adding More Sharpening

Here's a few things you can do. You can combine many of these too.

1) Oculus Quest/Quest 2 users: enable Link Sharpening. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njQeS1lFM4A. I highly recommend doing this - one click and everything looks crisper.

2) Adjust sharpening in the Glamayre shader. See Tweak Guide (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/articles/3752) for details on this

3) Use FSR. https://github.com/tappi287/openvr_fsr_app has a graphical frontend to make this easier. Look up the resolution that your headset needs to fully avoid blur caused by lens distortion correction (on the Oculus Quest 2, this is 5408x2736). If you're rendering at a value lower than that, that can cause blur which FSR can fix. There's a sharpness parameter which you can adjust. Also try the Nvidia Image Scaling option, it's sharper from my experience.

4) As of v2.0, the VR CAS Color shader is included in Glamur, but turned off by default. This is because I don't expect it to be necessary in most setups after you do steps 1-3 - but if that doesn't work for you, feel free to turn it back on.

5) Adjust your TAA settings to make it less strong and reduce blur. See https://old.reddit.com/r/skyrimvr/comments/h8skem/adventures_in_taa_tuning/. This may add more aliasing so it's a tradeoff. I do not recommend to turn off TAA completely, foliage will shimmer too much.

6) If using an ENB, toggle Bloom to see if you'd prefer it off. It does blur the image.

7) (Ideally this shouldn't be necessary after doing (2), but let me know in the comments if you still felt the need to do this): Download VrVision and copy over the PD80_05_Sharpening.fx shader and its settings. This will cost extra performance, though.

Reducing Sharpening

If the image looks "grainy" you might want to do this.

Open the Reshade's settings with the Home button. Uncheck "Performance Mode", which will allow you to adjust the shader parameters. There's sliders for sharpness in both the Glamayre shader and the VR CAS Color shader - try reducing those to see how it looks.

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