Nvidia Freestyle Sharpening

Sharpening with nvidia freestyle definitely makes it look better but it also introduces some of the ugly halo effect when you re in motion and the taa kicks in harder to blend the pixels in motion especially on grass and vegetation.

Nvidia freestyle sharpening. So if you want to play around with. Nvidia freestyle has got a whole suite of filters one of which is sharpening. Add the sharpen filter included in the latest game ready driver as well as other filters to customize the look and feel of your game. Your preferences are saved separately for each game and applied for future sessions.

They then built it into the nvidia control panel enabling it for all directx 9 10 11 and 12 games in the game ready 441 08 driver onwards. Nvidia freestyle to me looks most similar to reshade s adaptive sharpen. Starting with game ready 441 41 they officially added nvidia image sharpening support for vulkan and opengl games too. Nvidia freestyle has a big advantage in that we can tune down the sharpening strength to around 20 which looks much better in this title and doesn t have as many oversharp artifacts.

Not long ago we introduced an updated image sharpening filter for nvidia freestyle. But there s also things like hdr toning and color vibrance all that stuff. Setting freestyle to 50 sharpening and many of the same issues crop up as with adaptive sharpen. Now we ve also made this filter a standalone feature built into the nvidia control panel enabling you to improve image clarity in all directx 9 10 11 and 12 games with just a few clicks vulkan and opengl is coming soon in a future driver.

Nvidia first introduced image sharpening as a nvidia freestyle filter.