Primarily for Nvidia users as is, but options are available for AMD users too.
Confirmed working as expected still in new updates 1.2 through 1.2.4 **(see below) If needed here is a pic of my in-game DLSS settings. Shows as DLSS4 but on a RTX 3070 on test set-up. It is my current recommendation to disable RTSS overlay (seems extra sensitive to it at the moment) Enjoy the new massive update kids
**(re my experience with 1.2.4 update) I did a little testing this morning (been a while since I booted into the game been working on a VR project) updated to 1.2.4 etc Initially optiscaler was running and seemed to be working but actually wasnt doing anything 🤷♂️ What resolved it for me was this process....
(Make sure you have your Bin backup) Update game to 1.2.4 Totally *delete* bin folder (we are not going to overwrite, needs to be empty) Copy Bin backup back into install folder Reinstall this Mod
This may have been an issue specific to me and my install, but if anyone is experiencing similar its worth a go 👌 If you are not experiencing the above issue this does not apply to you 👍
Other things of note. If you experience choppiness even though you have high framerate, you have a few choices to make:
1) Super smooth gameplay, but with HUD flashing/moving/grindstone ghosting =
2) Slight choppiness but eliminates all issues with HUD and grindstone =
3) The middle ground option, grindstone ghosting is present, you will experience the occasional HUD flash and Reticle Ghosting but is almost as smooth as Option 1 with far less HUD flashing. I recommend to try values 3/5/9/11 These gave best results for me personally
This is just how it is at the moment 👍 FG Allow Async option does not help on my test system YMMV If you are not experiencing the described issues, this does not apply to you.
As one of the comment said, this really is black magic. I went from 90-100 fps to 190-200 fps everything maxed, Native resolution you name it. What a genius
😂 Glad you are getting excellent results 👍 All credit to cdozdil for his wonderful Optiscaler tool. All I really did was test, tweak and package I'm especially pleased because it continues to work with all new patches so far Thanks for your kind words
mod is awesome, boosted my fps and made the game playable on 1650m, i was expecting to have to manually install opti myself but when i saw this mod it made my life 20x easier so thanks for that
My game won't load when I follow the install instuctions. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. As far as I can tell, I'm follwing all instructions provided. Anyone else have this problem and solve it?
Frame Generation of any type is going to inherently add latency/lag.... The trick is balancing everything in a delicate dance with your hardware, graphics settings, resolution, refresh rate.... Hell even deadzones. ramps and sensitivity 🤷♂️ And thats before the differences from game to game. The defining major difference is us....people......gamers. Whats acceptable for Terry may be pure hell for Frank 👌 I personally have managed to dial in sub 10ms frame times with some decidedly average hardware by todays standards. I hope you manage to find what works for you 🙏
Hi, I lost with your mod - 3 hours, everything was just great. but then there were gaps at the edges of the screen and the hood flickered, as a result, I climbed through your answers here, played with the settings and nothing helps me + the game constantly freezes or crashes
version 1.2.4 gtx 1650m I won't be able to provide a screenshot with the optiscaler UI settings, because the game crashes while downloading and I rolled back the mod, returning the original bin folder.
I did a little testing this morning (been a while since I booted into the game been working on a VR project) updated to 1.2.4 etc Initially optiscaler was running and seemed to be working but actually wasnt doing anything 🤷♂️ What resolved it for me was this process....
(Make sure you have your Bin backup) Update game to 1.2.4 Totally *delete* bin folder (we are not going to overwrite, needs to be empty) Copy Bin backup back into install folder Reinstall this Mod
This may have been an issue specific to me and my install, but if anyone is experiencing similar its worth a go 👌
Does it work with reshade? When I want to install it, it tells me that another library already exists and cannot be overwritten. I need to use some effects from reshade to enhance the graphics and hdr.
Thank you, I did it. With my 9800x3d / RTX 5090 the game runs on G9 Oled at 5120*1440 180fps+ with experimental settings and DLSS4 Transformer on Quality mode. I'm using a few effects from Rabbit's Realistic Kingdom Reshade and HDR via RenoDX and it looks amazing. I was at a campsite next to the Apollo Preserve with the kids and the RV under the Trosky Mountains this summer and it looks like the real.
Hi, if you open the Optiscaler.ini (located in the same directory as your game .exe) with notepad or similar and find the following section.......
; Enables blocking of Steam and Epic overlays ; true or false - Default (auto) is true DisableOverlays = auto
As you can see by default it is set to auto which blocks the Epic and Steam overlays for compatibility. You can change 'DisableOverlays = auto' to 'DisableOverlays = false' for your own requirements. There is a very high chance that enabling the overlay will interfere with the Hud Fix portion of Optiscaler.
alright i have it - i turned it on to test it and everything is looking alright but only when i screenshot kinda hud health is getting buggy but after 5 secs is fixing by itself :P
Why does it disable Steam/Epic overlays by default? Do they interefere with the functioning of the mod somehow or can I safely enable them without worrying about breaking something?
Cheers for the fantastic mod, will never play without it!
On some systems Overlays and Optiscaler at the same time flat out stop certain games running altogether, on others they will run together but can interfere with the Hud of games (introdruce more flashing/artifacts)
You can re-enable the overlays and experiment with the Hud Fix Limit values. Good luck and thanks for the post 👌
I very rarely really use the steam/epic overlays unfortunately I mainly have mine set up so it doesnt flash if I'm using for example RTSS overlay...which for me is...
Vsync on 120 fps limit FG Hudfix on 5 FG allow Async on FG Extended on
I shall try it. Regardless, it's not a big dealbreaker. I will take double FPS over overlays everyday and twice on sunday. Thanks once again for responding and for this awesome mod <3
That 120 fps is actually 60 fps. When you disable mod. It look much more smooth at lower fps. So this is just about nubers not actual performace increase. That counter is fake. Tested many times. 60 fps without this mod look same smooth as 120 fps with mod. Probably better image quality but thats it. When you disable that hud fix. It is smooth as it should. But hud is broken.
I understand your frustrations if you havent garnered the results you were looking for, I would however beg you to refrain from describing this mod and/or Optiscaler as 'fake'...to be blunt...that is just silly 🤷♂️ I could explain that the injected frames are not shown in the in-game overlay and why and how.....but I don't really see the point ...does that mean RTSS, Nvidia Overlay and HWinfo FPS counters are all 'fake' too? 🤔
There are literally thousands of people that cdozdil's brilliant work has helped with many games, and many, many people have found this particular mod helpful to their KCD2 experience.
Again I'm sorry that you didn't get the results you wanted.
(Have you installed the 1.2.1 hotfix for a known performance issue? Also there are many different numbers to try in the hud fix limit box...some work better than others. odd numbers seem to work best...I thought the sticky was pretty clear personally)
Damn it....I just can not resist trying to help you! 😔😂
turn v sync on in your game settings, turn hud fix on and set the limit to 5,9, or 11. test which of the three removes your hud ghosting. turn fg allow async off. turn on render preset override on, set it to preset K, click apply changes, only once, if you click more than once, game crashes. click save ini at the bottom. restart your game done
i shared the same sentiment as you, 60 fps looked way smoother than the choppy 120 fps, but these settings completely fixed it.
This.... otherwise id be enjoying this mod as well.. id rather run at 60fps with good reshade luts instead of the dumb framerate countering removing all of that.. please author help us
In the Optiscaler UI there is an option 'FPS Overlay' As the description page of this mod states, this is where you can change or turn off the FPS Overlay.
I am having a slight issue. I'm not sure if it's from this mod or something else in the game but whenever I interact with something like a book, or enter a conversation with an NPC once I am out of that activity, the frame gen basically stops but is still active which causes an odd juddery situation. Once I open the Optiscaler menu and disable then re-enable the frame generation, it is resolved. Any ideas?
Thanks for the post and sorry you are having issues. Can't say I've heard of or experienced this one I'm afraid, although I think I experienced something similar when testing Optiscaler with Witcher 3 Next Gen update previously. From what you've said it does sound like this mod isn't playing nicely with some part of your setup. Or maybe you have another mod somewhere thats interfering? Am I understanding correctly, its every time you enter any interaction, regardless of how long game has been running etc? Are you able to uninstall this mod and confirm that resolves the issue? (If you need assistance removing, even if you no longer have your original backup, just ask 👌) Thanks again.
What values appear in the game settings are simply your available, or selected desktop refresh rate. Will work fine with 144Hz, alternatively you can try changing your refresh rate within windows display options 👌
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Primarily for Nvidia users as is, but options are available for AMD users too.
Confirmed working as expected still in new updates 1.2 through 1.2.4
**(see below)
If needed here is a pic of my in-game DLSS settings.
Shows as DLSS4 but on a RTX 3070 on test set-up.
It is my current recommendation to disable RTSS overlay (seems extra sensitive to it at the moment)
Enjoy the new massive update kids
**(re my experience with 1.2.4 update)
I did a little testing this morning (been a while since I booted into the game been working on a VR project) updated to 1.2.4 etc
Initially optiscaler was running and seemed to be working but actually wasnt doing anything 🤷♂️
What resolved it for me was this process....
(Make sure you have your Bin backup)
Update game to 1.2.4
Totally *delete* bin folder (we are not going to overwrite, needs to be empty)
Copy Bin backup back into install folder
Reinstall this Mod
This may have been an issue specific to me and my install, but if anyone is experiencing similar its worth a go 👌
If you are not experiencing the above issue this does not apply to you 👍
Other things of note.
If you experience choppiness even though you have high framerate, you have a few choices to make:
1) Super smooth gameplay, but with HUD flashing/moving/grindstone ghosting =
2) Slight choppiness but eliminates all issues with HUD and grindstone =
3) The middle ground option, grindstone ghosting is present, you will experience the occasional HUD flash and Reticle Ghosting but is almost as smooth as Option 1 with far less HUD flashing.
I recommend to try values 3/5/9/11 These gave best results for me personally
This is just how it is at the moment 👍
FG Allow Async option does not help on my test system YMMV
If you are not experiencing the described issues, this does not apply to you.
Glad you are getting excellent results 👍
All credit to cdozdil for his wonderful Optiscaler tool.
All I really did was test, tweak and package
I'm especially pleased because it continues to work with all new patches so far
Thanks for your kind words
Enjoy!
Frame Generation of any type is going to inherently add latency/lag....
The trick is balancing everything in a delicate dance with your hardware, graphics settings, resolution, refresh rate....
Hell even deadzones. ramps and sensitivity 🤷♂️
And thats before the differences from game to game.
The defining major difference is us....people......gamers.
Whats acceptable for Terry may be pure hell for Frank 👌
I personally have managed to dial in sub 10ms frame times with some decidedly average hardware by todays standards.
I hope you manage to find what works for you 🙏
Could you provide a little info
Game version
GPU
screenshot of your graphics settings (section with DLSS etc)
Screenshot of your optiscaler UI settings
Cheers, I will do anything I can to help you sort it out 👌
gtx 1650m
I won't be able to provide a screenshot with the optiscaler UI settings, because the game crashes while downloading and I rolled back the mod, returning the original bin folder.
Initially optiscaler was running and seemed to be working but actually wasnt doing anything 🤷♂️
What resolved it for me was this process....
(Make sure you have your Bin backup)
Update game to 1.2.4
Totally *delete* bin folder (we are not going to overwrite, needs to be empty)
Copy Bin backup back into install folder
Reinstall this Mod
This may have been an issue specific to me and my install, but if anyone is experiencing similar its worth a go 👌
*added to mod first post*
Have a look on this page, look at 4th post from cdozdil
https://github.com/cdozdil/OptiScaler/issues/177
Also there are guides/comments in this thread, the seach option seems to be working again now 👌
Hope this helps
; Enables blocking of Steam and Epic overlays; true or false - Default (auto) is true
DisableOverlays = auto
As you can see by default it is set to auto which blocks the Epic and Steam overlays for compatibility.
You can change 'DisableOverlays = auto' to 'DisableOverlays = false' for your own requirements.
There is a very high chance that enabling the overlay will interfere with the Hud Fix portion of Optiscaler.
Cheers for the fantastic mod, will never play without it!
You can re-enable the overlays and experiment with the Hud Fix Limit values.
Good luck and thanks for the post 👌
I mainly have mine set up so it doesnt flash if I'm using for example RTSS overlay...which for me is...
Vsync on
120 fps limit
FG Hudfix on 5
FG allow Async on
FG Extended on
Don't really know what else to suggest I'm afraid
There is nothing forcing anybody to use this mod.
I understand your frustrations if you havent garnered the results you were looking for, I would however beg you to refrain from describing this mod and/or Optiscaler as 'fake'...to be blunt...that is just silly 🤷♂️
I could explain that the injected frames are not shown in the in-game overlay and why and how.....but I don't really see the point ...does that mean RTSS, Nvidia Overlay and HWinfo FPS counters are all 'fake' too? 🤔
There are literally thousands of people that cdozdil's brilliant work has helped with many games, and many, many people have found this particular mod helpful to their KCD2 experience.
Again I'm sorry that you didn't get the results you wanted.
(Have you installed the 1.2.1 hotfix for a known performance issue? Also there are many different numbers to try in the hud fix limit box...some work better than others. odd numbers seem to work best...I thought the sticky was pretty clear personally)
Damn it....I just can not resist trying to help you! 😔😂
turn fg allow async off.
turn on render preset override on, set it to preset K, click apply changes, only once, if you click more than once, game crashes.
click save ini at the bottom.
restart your game
done
i shared the same sentiment as you, 60 fps looked way smoother than the choppy 120 fps, but these settings completely fixed it.
As the description page of this mod states, this is where you can change or turn off the FPS Overlay.
Can't say I've heard of or experienced this one I'm afraid, although I think I experienced something similar when testing Optiscaler with Witcher 3 Next Gen update previously.
From what you've said it does sound like this mod isn't playing nicely with some part of your setup.
Or maybe you have another mod somewhere thats interfering?
Am I understanding correctly, its every time you enter any interaction, regardless of how long game has been running etc?
Are you able to uninstall this mod and confirm that resolves the issue?
(If you need assistance removing, even if you no longer have your original backup, just ask 👌)
Thanks again.
Will work fine with 144Hz, alternatively you can try changing your refresh rate within windows display options 👌