Guild Wars 2

I recently started messing around with my sweetfx settings. This is what I came up with:
(SweetFx – Vanilla)

If you like it, here are the settings that I used:

Bloom:
BloomThreshold 22.55
BloomPower 1.446
BloomWidth 0.0242

LumaSharpen: default settings

Tonemap:
Gamma 1.0
Bleach 0.025

Vibrance:
-0.36

Curves:
curves mode 0 (LUMA)
curves contrast 0.74
curves formula: 3

Sepia:
color tone: 1.20, 1.10, 0.90 (RBG)
greypower 0.12
sepia power 0.32

Those are the basic settings. You can add smma if you want for anti-aliasing and dither to lessen banding.

I never used sweetfx before. Is it easy to use? Am i going to have any fps raise? Thank you.

seems like a super simplified ENB. Should be easy to work around with it.

Preferably, Anet would contact Boris and get permission to use his ENB setup as an optional plugin for “modders”.

Boris stated a while ago that he was unlikely to ever support MMOs with ENB. Frequent updates mean more work for him to keep it up-to-date (and greater risk of things outright breaking), bad graphics pipelines, distribution problems, etc.

It’s a shame though. In GW2’s downtime, I’m revisiting Skyrim. Took the time to get mods and ENB set up before starting a playthrough, and it’s looking pretty spectacular (for a 4 year-old game). I’d love to have the option to give GW2 the same treatment.

SweetFx is an image space modifier program that works with any directx9 game and older. It allows you to change multiple settings with respect to the rendered image.

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/sweetfx-shader-suite-download.html

ENB is a graphics mod for Skyrim, and other games, that intersects directX render calls and modifies them to allow for a great variety of graphical effects.

To put it in layman terms, SweetFx would be more akin to changing the settings on your TV or computer monitor. That’s the sort of chnges you can expect from it. While ENB has the capability to look like a different, more modern game, that’s how powerful it is.

Sadly enb is not compatible with GW2. So I tried the next best thing, SweetFx, trying to mimic my Skyrim’s enb config: Bleak by Akiro.

I have to say I’m very happy with the results. Of course it will never look like a real enb, but is the closest I believe possible. And there’s still room for improvement.

Though lightweight, SweetFx will still cause some fps loss if you have a low end video card. So I don’t recommend it if you are struggling to run the game at decent fps.

Here are more screenshots. They don’t do the config justice, though. You need to see it live in the game to really appreciate it.