Wtf 🤬- No HDR in The Blood Of Dawnwalker on PC, PS5 or SS/SX. I hate that we get so many Unreal Engine 5 games without HDR support. That was an easy game to make HDR analysis for😒 Being an Unreal Engine 5 game, we should be able to use the RenoDX UE Extended version to get good HDR into the game. But at this moment it doensn't work properly.

After all the controversy about NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 being a terrible AI slop, I played around a bit with the leaked DLSS5 version in KCD2. First off—what was leaked isn’t even remotely what NVIDIA originally presented. It doesn’t alter the geometry of the models or the appearance of the characters in any way. I repeat: It doesn’t alter the geometry of the models or the appearance of the characters in any way! What it does is take existing normal maps and create much better skin texture and facial detail (examples 6 and 2) than the lighting model in the game. It also looks a bit like an attempt at subsurface scattering and other advanced skin rendering techniques. But sceptics could say, that its just a fancy version of clarity and dehaze filters which have very similar effect. I often criticized the character artists’ work when certain faces in the game looked lacking in detail and plasticity, and they’d often show me that it looked fine on their computers and that the problem was with the lighting in the game. Well, now it looks right in the game, too! This is how those faces were supposed to look. The AI isn’t making anything up. Above all, though, it makes ambient occlusion look like it’s on steroids. You have no idea how terribly—and I mean really, really—annoyed I was that in KCD2 we couldn’t render shadows from hats, hoods, and helmets on characters’ heads, or even shadows from small details on character models (buckles, laces, pouches). DLSS5 does this, and it does it absolutely brilliantly! (see examples 1, 3, 7, 8, and 11). On top of that, it improves the rendering of shadows in hair (5), so they finally have the right density and darkness. It doesn’t do much in the environment, but interestingly, it lightens shadows in some places and renders textures within them, while darkening them where it makes sense (10, 12, 13, 14). So there’s a slight improvement here as well. It also renders shadows in grass and vegetation better. Which is definitely a good thing. For me, this is primarily an excellent photo realistic upgrade to the character lighting model. The “minor” issue is that it cuts the frame rate in half :) But its not the infamous AI slop we saw couple months ago. I see huge potential here for the future, and it’s absolutely great that even older games lighting could be improved this way.

The Blood of #Dawnwalker will receive a Performance Mode targeting 60 FPS on PS5, PS5 Pro, and Xbox Series X on Day 1 through the launch patch. On Friday, we answered your questions about console performance with what we knew we could confidently deliver at launch. Performance Mode was already in the works, but it was still being tested. We simply weren’t ready to promise it yet. We heard your feedback. It was clear how much this mattered to many of you, so we focused on finishing the next round of tests. Those results gave us the confidence we needed to confirm Performance Mode for Day 1.

الفارق واضح لصالح DLSS4.5 RR مقارنة ب DLSS4.0 حيث قللت من Ghosting و الصورة اصبحت حاده مقارنة بالضبابية التي كانت تسببها DLSS RR السابق (الحالي) التعريف راح يصدر هذا الأسبوع youtube.com/watch?v=Ua49BvNM…