Miscellaneuous Gaming Suggestions for Best Visuals & Clarity

Just wanted to share some suggestions for noticeably improve Visuals & Clarity for all games:

• Avoid 30fps: especially on OLEDs, where those can results in exacerbated stuttering on camera movements and much increased input lag. Always choose locked (or unlocked + VRR) 60+ fps or even fixed 40fps mode (in-game) at 120hz (on the Console/PC) for much improved motion and input lag. Evaluate if using 120fps modes on Consoles as those usually come with noticeable visual downgrades (both in native resolution and visual effects or objects' removal from the game)

• Always disable Chromatic Aberration: it sucks on all games I tried so far. It will just distorce/destroy image clarity and quality mimicking old/crappy camera lenses

• Evaluate using Film Grain: when done right this could reduce/eliminate color banding along with providing a more cohesive and pleasant to look picture but sometimes game developers exaggerate it (like in Cyberpunk 2077) so you can evaluate turning it off in those cases except maybe in some horror games made to look "retro" or emulating a recording with '70s cameras (like Alien Isolation and similar)

• (Almost) always keep Motion Blur On: except when very excessive in some games when moving the camera. Usually it will just make motion more fluid and natural, especially when the blur is "per-object" and/or "full-scene" but well balanced and especially on OLEDs

• Always keep Depth of Field On: as it's usually well implemented and contribute to immersion and realism during dialogues or looking at objects up close

• Lens Flares up to you: it's true that our eyes are not doing that, only camera lenses, but in some games they make sense, even in first person (Cyberpunk 2077 with Kiroshi optics, Master Chief visor in Halo etc.) or they will just look cool regardless. Personally I always leave them On

• If you use DLSS4+ or FSR4+, always set in-game Sharpness slider to 0: this because the new upscaling techs, especially DLSS4 using Transformer Model, are now able to recreate a "better than Native" picture without adding artificial extra sharpening like the older models, thanks to hardware ML processing (using Tensor Cores). That said, most devs leave their in-game Sharpness slider (or DLSS/FSR/FidelityFX CAS sliders) to 5 or 50 as they probably tested their games with older upscale models which blurried the image (or they are just accustomed to them, like on Consoles) but this will create oversharpening artifacts (like haloing and flickering of fine details) when coupled with new upscale models. As a general rule, if you use any of those new upscalers, set in-game Sharpness to 0 to restore a correct/natural picture

Enjoy :)

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