Ray Tracing - Ultimate Immersion (for 4.01 - pop-ins fixed )
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-Minor tuning to Ambient Occlusion intensity.
~Ambient occlusion now matches the Standard/3090ti preset but uses 4 times more rays for accuracy.
-Minor tuning to grass distance/density.
RTX 4090/4000 v0.5.3 changelog:
-Reduced Ambient Occlusion intensity and added more to the grass.
-Reduced fire shadow resolution to prevent visual bugs.
-Improvements to Ray Traced water and reflections noise.
~[Experimental] Ray Traced water should now better match your sky mods. Specially visible at night. May also work with the Darker Nights mod.
~Ray Traced water now shows more small objects.
-Added a bit more intensity to sunlight.
-Increased tree render distance.
-Added some experimental changes that should help with texture quality and overall stability.
The HD Tree LOD Billboards mod was tested with this version and is now a recommended mod. See the mod combination in action below.
https://imgur.com/a/SVDbzHN
Phazer should be updating the 3090ti preset soon with his own changes/fixes.Updated in 0.6.1- Shadow Pop-ins nearly 100% eliminated without completely tanking performance,
- Mesh Pop-ins nearly 100% eliminated without completely tanking performance,
- RT AO adjusted for performance (with no visual downgrade)
- RT AO adjust for tree and plant, more clear, give more of a "wow" in the scene
- Draw Distance/etc Adjusted to fit with the pop-in fixes / performance
- Various technical adjustment to maximize FPS without any visual impact.
I changed the config to 3090ti and am at 145-150 fps stable with DLSS. Hopefully the visual quality is not worse than vanilla RT.
it was set to 8 in the 4090 config. I reduced it back to 2 to get >144 frames.
Try using DLSS auto instead of performance setting and I think you will notice good increase in fps while the image quality also improves.
Performance impact is brutal on 4090 though, played at 4K DLSS Quality before with around 100 - 110 fps with Framegen and with this mod I had to lower DLSS to Performance and get between 70 - 100 fps now. But the visual difference is night and day, so to me it's worth it!
Also to note, in description it says " Your settings in "graphics" will show "low" for many setttings", but on 4090 version I only had shadow quality on low, and on 3090ti it's only texture quality is low. Is that correct, or are my settings somehow broke? :D
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-dlss-dll/
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-dlss-3-frame-generation-dll/
If you can, please also let us know what CPU you have. I tested this file on a 4090 with a 13700k at 5160x2160 with DLSS balanced and FG on. Thanks
Edit: You can also reduce the sharpness by going into the .ini file from the mod and changing the following.
[PostProcess]
DLSSSharpness=0.20000
to
[PostProcess]
DLSSSharpness=0.00000
I was asking about graphical settings mostly due to the fact that only one of the settings is being set to "Low" using the mod, as I was expecting to see more of them as such. But if its all good, then all good :D
To add, I'm using the standard version on 4.04. Simply added the ini file to the instructed location.
Would be great if someone could confirm if all the tweaks are still being used even if the in game graphics menu still shows ultra+.
The game just shows the setting it that mostly closely matches the settings in the .ini, and for setting that is not in any vanilla presset, it will show "low".
There is a way to test that the file is actually loaded, edit the .ini file with a text editor, and add this:
Find this section
[Rendering/RT]And add this
EnableLightingOnlyMode=trueAmbientLightingOnlyMode=true
Then the game will render the world in a greyish way without textures, this is a lighting debugging mode.
I'm pretty sure some of it, like the RT settings, are working - my FPS is lower and I can tell the reflections are clearer.
What I'm unsure about is the rendering or foliage settings that are included as like you said, when they are set to a value which isn't a preset, it should display as 'Low' in the in game menu. For some reason, for me, all the settings in game keep showing as Ultra+, which may indicate that these settings aren't taking effect.
What I've done for now is install the ini file as instructed, then copied some of the settings in your preset to the dx12user.ini file (mesh, LOD, grass, and foliage render distance plus a couple more); found in the documents/The Witcher 3 folder. Now some of the in game graphics settings are displaying as 'Low' as expected.
I partly installed it to try and solve an issue I'm having. I haven't noticed any shadow or plant pop in but I have rocks/stones/pebbles popping in when going along paths, mainly in Velen. I suppose these are meshes maybe? Unfortunately, it still seems to occur with the RTX 4000s version.
Do you know if this is specifically tied to a certain ini tweak or something?
Just to add, my settings don't turn to 'Low' in the graphics menu. I think the mod is still working as my FPS is slightly lower but can you confirm if it can still be working without displaying settings as low? This is with Standard version on 4.04
Thanks again for this, looks great if trying to max visuals!
and, can I use this mod without the HD Tree LOD Billboards ?
It is nothing to worry about, although it you change any in-game settings (like change low->ultra) you will use the game's vanilla settings, for that item, instead of those from the .ini,
And yes, you CAN use it without HD Tree Billboard, technically, but it will not look nearly as good, the settings are optimized to use that mod.
does the 4090.ini file too heavy for my end?
The game looks gorgeous with this mod btw..
EDIT: I found out the issue is likely not because of the VRAM/RAM load, but DLSS seems broken/not working properly. Updated to the latest DLSS.dll and now the game runs smoothly 70-100 fps maxed out with FrameGen On combined with This Mod.
FPS drasticaly dip down around 30-50%, and my GPU workload became lower to 150w-200w on 99% usage (usually 300w ++ most of the time with 99% usage). Then if want to load a saved game after this issue occured, it became much2 slower to load than the initial start. So I have to restart the game to get it back to normal.
Weirdly, this happened after 2 days playing with your mod with no issues. And I haven't installed any mods since then.
If you have such issues
use the other file, it is tested on a 3090 ti, looks pretty much the same, but with more FPS.
If you get performance issue from the 4090 file, use the "Standard" file for 3080-3090ti, it looks almost the same, and runs smoother.
RTAOIntensity / "ray tracing ambient occlusion intensity", something along those lines,
I don't recall how specific they are, but lower values, means the ambient occlusion will not make occluded areas as dark, hence the contrast thing,
(Or maybe it is higher values)
you will have to experiment, and there is a list somewhere, here on nexus, that describes most / many of the params, find that.
To be clear, this .ini file is for Ray Tracing ON only, it was tuned specifically for RT, for non-RT, it will look "random" = we have not idea, probably bad.
cheers :)
Phazer
Also, what do you guys do in your game to fix the yellow hair on Geralt with RT that happens under certain lighting conditions, and also the mismatched colors with HW beard and hair on Geralt?
in the end, it is just extended graphics settings, and even we often didn't know what things did, until we ran the game; I have a background in amateur graphics programming, so I know SOME of the terms and techniques engines use, which helped, but mostly it is a product of experimentation, and the co creator actually knows much more about how all the settings work, ask him for details. :)
If any of you could make a new/adjusted version, that still hides most pop-ins, yet can run on more modest GPU/CPUs, that would be great.
We are very happy you enjoy it,
cheers, phazer.