Guild Wars 2

Oki… ill try to disable broadcasting cause the video is the only thing i rly want from xfire.. if that cant work ill rather disable xfire and keep that injector beauty and at some point ill find a similar program. thanks for the fast response!

I disabled ‘in game x fire’ option and game runs fine now. No more crashes

I disabled Video and Broadcasting but i still getting GW2 Crash… This time though Worked when i did Disabled ‘In Game X fire’.. and ofc that makes xfire useless for me… so i guess ill have to uninstall.. thanks all for the try and help

edit : So can anyone suggest a similar program like xfire that is able to capture>compress and also upload my videos on youtube or somewhere? :P and ofc that can be compatible with this awesome injector! xD

Vangy.7403:

I disabled Video and Broadcasting but i still getting GW2 Crash… This time though Worked when i did Disabled ‘In Game X fire’.. and ofc that makes xfire useless for me… so i guess ill have to uninstall.. thanks all for the try and help

edit : So can anyone suggest a similar program like xfire that is able to capture>compress and also upload my videos on youtube or somewhere? :P and ofc that can be compatible with this awesome injector! xD

Overwolf.com and Raptr.com are the two that come to my mind. I don’t personally use them so I don’t know if they work or not w/ the injector, and I don’t know much specifics about the features, so I apologize if neither do what you want. But they are both moderately popular alternatives with some similar features.

@Vangy Well there’s Fraps… :P Also MSI AfterBurner. Gotta compress it yourself though.

@samfisher I am a big slacker when it comes to video…i want something simple and fast… so capture then take it to another program and then find it and upload it with youtube is very no no for me :P with Xfire i just press a button in game i record a bunch of vids and then with another button it compress and upload..so simple.. I already got Fraps and also xilisoft video converter and both are great…but its more than i want or willing to do when im playing :p

@TimeBomb ill check the ones u suggest…never heard of them before….

Btw i di tried , Fraps,Dxtory,Ezvid etc. The most simple is the Ezvid so far but what bugs me with it is that i cannot find any way to limit the upload tranfer speed and that is bad cause it caps my connection and lag the game…. if i could find a way to fix that then propably i could live with it instead of xfire..

btw if i remember right… Rift Had some ingame video capture that could work with youtube > uploading and everything…. think that GW2 team could pull that of at some point?

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GW2 Halloween is so awesome, sweetFX made it more awesome

My new wallpapers
3 shots with different settings though,now im using the settings from the last shot with increased SMAA,decreased saturation + vibrance,increased hdr and reduced bloom a bit+enabled ambient occlusion.
1 has a bit too much saturation + vibrance, 2 looked good in alot of areas ( but had no smaa at all enabled at that point )and looked a bit washed out in most areasAnd as screen 3 is now..its going in the right direction,im quite satisfied with these settings now in all areas.

i’m using the preset CelticWish uploaded. thank you Celtic.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/better-colour-overall-graphic-FXAA/page/5#post568360

imgur link

…to me these screen you all posted mostly look worse than standard client rendering, with few exceptions.

Mostly is about a shifted and compressed gamma, which naturally leads to more saturated colours (RGB represented ofc) , deeper blacks, more contrast and thus less dynamic range.

I do prefer much better the muted colours of the standard rendering than most of these experimentations, which i agree are funny to play with, but that rarely can bring something good.

PS: I’m a photographer, so my opinion is biased.

MrNobody.4357:

…to me these screen you all posted mostly look worse than standard client rendering, with few exceptions.

Mostly is about a shifted and compressed gamma, which naturally leads to more saturated colours (RGB represented ofc) , deeper blacks, more contrast and thus less dynamic range.

I do prefer much better the muted colours of the standard rendering than most of these experimentations, which i agree are funny to play with, but that rarely can bring something good.

PS: I’m a photographer, so my opinion is biased.

I think everyone here knows what SweetFx does,since they are using it,and you are not.So the explanation about what sweetfx does is a bit unnecessary.Thanks for your input though !

MrNobody.4357:

…to me these screen you all posted mostly look worse than standard client rendering, with few exceptions.

Mostly is about a shifted and compressed gamma, which naturally leads to more saturated colours (RGB represented ofc) , deeper blacks, more contrast and thus less dynamic range.

I do prefer much better the muted colours of the standard rendering than most of these experimentations, which i agree are funny to play with, but that rarely can bring something good.

PS: I’m a photographer, so my opinion is biased.

I’m not a photographer, but I have similar knowledge.

I haven’t installed it, but I think it makes the game look a lot better due to the increased contrast. I think the game could benefit from some microsharpening or other treatment to get rid of the grey hazy tone it can take on at times. I am too afraid of being banned, but I would like to have JUST that feature alone.

This image that was posted looks really good: https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/16903/Screenshot5950.jpg It’s a subtle change that makes a difference.

Unpredictability.4086:

MrNobody.4357:

…to me these screen you all posted mostly look worse than standard client rendering, with few exceptions.

Mostly is about a shifted and compressed gamma, which naturally leads to more saturated colours (RGB represented ofc) , deeper blacks, more contrast and thus less dynamic range.

I do prefer much better the muted colours of the standard rendering than most of these experimentations, which i agree are funny to play with, but that rarely can bring something good.

PS: I’m a photographer, so my opinion is biased.

I’m not a photographer, but I know technical details and such, so I have similar knowledge.

I haven’t installed it, but I think it makes the game look a lot better due to the increased contrast. I think the game could benefit from some microsharpening or other treatment to get rid of the grey hazy tone it can take on at times. I am too afraid of being banned, but I would like to try just a sharpening feature.

Don’t worry,you will not get banned.The mods have seen this thread,if this was a bannable offense they would have responded in this thread and said it was,and then close the thread.Wich they still didn’t do.You can safely use this (And if i’m wrong and a mod sees this message ,please respond and say it is or it isn’t against the rules to make it clear once and for good ).

I’m sure this thing works for people but this really didn’t worked for me. All it does it adds contrast / brightness and some others things. I, atleast, can already just go to my monitor settings and choose “graphics” either than standard setting and it does almost the same.

But thanks for still telling about this thing

MrNobody.4357:

…to me these screen you all posted mostly look worse than standard client rendering, with few exceptions.

Mostly is about a shifted and compressed gamma, which naturally leads to more saturated colours (RGB represented ofc) , deeper blacks, more contrast and thus less dynamic range.

I do prefer much better the muted colours of the standard rendering than most of these experimentations, which i agree are funny to play with, but that rarely can bring something good.

PS: I’m a photographer, so my opinion is biased.

I don’t think one needs to be a photographer to form an opinion about any picture just how you don’t need to be a professional chef to appreciate good food.

For all i could know your photography could be the worst i have ever seen.

Timze.7980:

I’m sure this thing works for people but this really didn’t worked for me. All it does it adds contrast / brightness and some others things. I, atleast, can already just go to my monitor settings and choose “graphics” either than standard setting and it does almost the same.

But thanks for still telling about this thing

I keep hearing people saying that and yet ignore all the option SweetFX gives you.
If there is all that is…how about you fiddle with your monitor settings and get us some screenshots to compare? after all that is all Sweetfx does right?

Would love to see your screenshots.

Timze.7980:

I’m sure this thing works for people but this really didn’t worked for me. All it does it adds contrast / brightness and some others things. I, atleast, can already just go to my monitor settings and choose “graphics” either than standard setting and it does almost the same.

But thanks for still telling about this thing

You’re not able to make the game as sharp with only your monitor then with using sweetfx,same goes for basically every other setting…You are also unable to use SMAA with your monitor settings,and you are unable to use Blooming,hdr,dpx,luma sharpening, or most other settings in sweetfx..Please people,use it first before speaking.

Man, so many of you have awesome settings for this, it’s hard to choose. Big thank you to everyone doing hard work on trying to find the best settings and then sharing with us!

here are mine: Only a little bit of saturation increase + sharpen + aa. Looks wonderfully =] I turned off pp effects in game to even further increas crispness of the image.

Mickey.4207:

MrNobody.4357:

…to me these screen you all posted mostly look worse than standard client rendering, with few exceptions.

Mostly is about a shifted and compressed gamma, which naturally leads to more saturated colours (RGB represented ofc) , deeper blacks, more contrast and thus less dynamic range.

I do prefer much better the muted colours of the standard rendering than most of these experimentations, which i agree are funny to play with, but that rarely can bring something good.

PS: I’m a photographer, so my opinion is biased.

I don’t think one needs to be a photographer to form an opinion about any picture just how you don’t need to be a professional chef to appreciate good food.

For all i could know your photography could be the worst i have ever seen.

Thx for the compliments, you must live with that idea then as i won’t show any of my pictures to not link my id to a game id.

But aside the personal judgements you’d like to point out what i mean instead is that while the tool is good i’ve so far rarely seen a good utilization of it, while they mostly end up in experimenting shadows halos and over-saturation, and being the latter surely a defect in any image.

Normal GW2 rendering apply a tonal selective desaturation, vibrance and muted colours.
This is in the design intent, for purposely resembles a water colours look.

original images from (presently Licensed as CC-Attrib):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fieldsofview/8135502229/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/calliope/533865397/

PS: @Mickey.4207 people says i’m also a good cook (italian food FTW!), but that is not true i’m too lazy, anyway as any person you could ask for making a delicious meal you don’t need thousand exotic and strange ingredients, but only choose the right ones in the right quantity, and then give the meal a good name.

QSatu.1586:

here are mine: Only a little bit of saturation increase + sharpen + aa. Looks wonderfully =] I turned off pp effects in game to even further increas crispness of the image.

imo disabling post processing removes a huge beauty in the world since it can affect every area so differently.

I would leave Post Processing on if it wasn’t for the bloom.

This pretty much sums up how I feel about HDR/Bloom in general.

all these super saturated pictures make me wanna throw up

You can control the saturation…. that is how i do it. Even i am not fan of saturation but good thing about Sweet FX is that you can control how your game looks.

SweetFX has to go for me /: It doesn’t work well with MSI Afterburner OSD which I use to record. Enabling the option to be compatible with modified Direct3D binaries/libraries does not help either. Oh well, it looked good while it lasted ):

Dan.3814:

I would leave Post Processing on if it wasn’t for the bloom.

This pretty much sums up how I feel about HDR/Bloom in general.

This is so true. The game looks better with PP off, but you lose some of the original intent of colors.

we just got an answer in the german forums:

Alicse.9854:
Als, ich kann von der Verwendung nur abraten, auch wenn die Grafik kitten zweifelsohne besser aussieht. Der Support schreibt dazu wie folgt:
“Hallo,
vielen Dank, dass du dich an das europäische Support Team gewendet hast.
Leider ist es im Fall SweetFX Shader Suite nicht möglich dieses für Guild Wars 2 zu verwenden, da es die unerlaubte Modifikationen am Spiel verursacht.
Sollten weitere Fragen oder Probleme auftauchen, stehen wir dir jederzeit gerne zur Verfügung.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
GM Anni
NCSOFT Kundenbetreuung"

That was the answer on a support-ticket.
Basically they say, that SweetFX would do forbidden modifications and you should not use it.

I still hope for an official answer from a community manager who’s in contact with the devs, because even if it’s an answer from the community support it doesn’t mean it’s 100% correct (we know that SweetFX doesn’t manipulate anything in the Game which would give us an advantage, don’t we?)

You won’t get an official answer more than what we’ve already seen. ArenaNet has been known to say something isn’t allowed while implying that you won’t get banned for it. It basically means that they don’t recommend you do it and they won’t support it and potentially anything else that goes wrong with your client if you are using it.

While the third party policy posted by Gaile is quite vague in regards to the legitimacy of many third party applications, these graphic filters aren’t one of them. It’s blatantly not a violation; it’s not bannable. It modifies nothing more than the graphics. Furthermore, it doesn’t modify any of the client files in the slightest. There has been no one banned for using this. They have posted in this thread and some similar ones vague messages that usually point back to the third party policy.

The german Rep is wrong. It doesnt modify anything in the game. All it does is enhance the directx gfx using its own directx runtime.

I just love sweetfx, it makes the game look incredible! I dont use the SMAA tho, i use nvidia inspector for SSAA and SGSS and sweetfx for sharpening and better colors.
Also i doubt this would get u banned, i will continue to use it if i do get banned over this then so be it i couldnt go back now that im used to sweetfx

left side of screen is normal, right is enhanced:

MrNobody.4357:

Mickey.4207:

MrNobody.4357:

…to me these screen you all posted mostly look worse than standard client rendering, with few exceptions.

Mostly is about a shifted and compressed gamma, which naturally leads to more saturated colours (RGB represented ofc) , deeper blacks, more contrast and thus less dynamic range.

I do prefer much better the muted colours of the standard rendering than most of these experimentations, which i agree are funny to play with, but that rarely can bring something good.

PS: I’m a photographer, so my opinion is biased.

I don’t think one needs to be a photographer to form an opinion about any picture just how you don’t need to be a professional chef to appreciate good food.

For all i could know your photography could be the worst i have ever seen.

Thx for the compliments, you must live with that idea then as i won’t show any of my pictures to not link my id to a game id.

But aside the personal judgements you’d like to point out what i mean instead is that while the tool is good i’ve so far rarely seen a good utilization of it, while they mostly end up in experimenting shadows halos and over-saturation, and being the latter surely a defect in any image.

Normal GW2 rendering apply a tonal selective desaturation, vibrance and muted colours.
This is in the design intent, for purposely resembles a water colours look.

original images from (presently Licensed as CC-Attrib):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fieldsofview/8135502229/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/calliope/533865397/

PS: @Mickey.4207 people says i’m also a good cook (italian food FTW!), but that is not true i’m too lazy, anyway as any person you could ask for making a delicious meal you don’t need thousand exotic and strange ingredients, but only choose the right ones in the right quantity, and then give the meal a good name.

What about the various screenprints in this thread which are not overly saturated?

I admit, many which have been set up by someone who was inside at the time will turn out to be extremely saturated when you go outside, but there have been many different setups posted here and many screenies which are not oversaturated.

You cannot simply provide screenshots of one single combination of settings and say that it’s not what you personally prefer, especially as there are so many completely different zones in the game which look different under the same settings.

Sweet fx is not much different from changing settings with nvidia inspector etc.

Blackwolfe.5649:

Sweet fx is not much different from changing settings with nvidia inspector etc.

If you can even come close to the Sweet Fx please post it because i know about nvidia inspector and i doubt it can do same stuff as sweetfx.

Feel free to post the screenshots.

Mickey.4207:

Blackwolfe.5649:

Sweet fx is not much different from changing settings with nvidia inspector etc.

If you can even come close to the Sweet Fx please post it because i know about nvidia inspector and i doubt it can do same stuff as sweetfx.

Feel free to post the screenshots.

Im not talking about the quality. Im talking about the fact that its about as harmless as nvidia inspector when it comes to how it affects the game. This as an argument for the “Yes, use it, you wont get banned” against “No, you’ll get banned”.

Blackwolfe.5649:

Im not talking about the quality. Im talking about the fact that its about as harmless as nvidia inspector when it comes to how it affects the game. This as an argument for the “Yes, use it, you wont get banned” against “No, you’ll get banned”.

Pretty much this. As was already stated, their stance on third party is they do not, and will not support it. However, Third party programs that change game files or give the player an advantage are clearly against ToS.

That being said, Black is right. He meant no offense and there is no reason to get defensive of sweetfx vs nvidia as that is not the point. Childish reactions are not needed.

Has anyone mentioned SweetFx Configuration?
http://sweetfx.thelazy.net/

It’s the same thing but makes it gives it a GUI; might make it easier to edit the settings.

Edewen.8304:

Blackwolfe.5649:

Im not talking about the quality. Im talking about the fact that its about as harmless as nvidia inspector when it comes to how it affects the game. This as an argument for the “Yes, use it, you wont get banned” against “No, you’ll get banned”.

Pretty much this. As was already stated, their stance on third party is they do not, and will not support it. However, Third party programs that change game files or give the player an advantage are clearly against ToS.

That being said, Black is right. He meant no offense and there is no reason to get defensive of sweetfx vs nvidia as that is not the point. Childish reactions are not needed.

And there is no need to overreact either. I don’t see what is so childish about asking someone to post their screenshots for nvidia inspector. His post was very vague and anyone would think he is talking about the quality effect and not Anet’s stance on third party programs.

The only person who is getting defensive here is you. I have used nvidia inspector and i was wondering if i missed something and he was able to tweak it to get the same effects.

So take your own advice and calm down.

I tried this and things do look much better. I do hope that I’m not going to get in trouble for using it though.

For those that use only SweetFX for SMAA like I do, you may want to look at the original injector instead:

http://mrhaandi.blogspot.sg/p/injectsmaa.html

Hopefully Anet puts this antialiasing technique into the game as an official option.

Moderator.1462:

Hi everyone,

Here you can check out policy regarding third party programs. If any program you install should violate this policy, please uninstall it and refrain from its usage. Thanks for helping us keeping the game an enjoyable and friendly place.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Policy-Third-Party-Programs/first#post354869

So they destroy our fps, make the game look like crap, and we can’t even fix your mess? blasphemy I say.

invizo.5408:

Moderator.1462:

Hi everyone,

Here you can check out policy regarding third party programs. If any program you install should violate this policy, please uninstall it and refrain from its usage. Thanks for helping us keeping the game an enjoyable and friendly place.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Policy-Third-Party-Programs/first#post354869

So they destroy our fps, make the game look like crap, and we can’t even fix your mess? blasphemy I say.

Well, there is nothing in that particular quoted link that actually states we can’t use this program. It doesn’t do anything to do the game, so it’s safe to use. I’ve been using it for ages now. Can’t even imagine not using it…

I just tried the game again WITHOUT sweetFX, and it did look a little bitty and washy. That’s torn it, I would hate to have to go back to vanilla graphics now. They where fine until I used sweetFX.
Arena.net want to incorporate this into the game, it would save them a lot of work.

I am trying different settings but no changes are happening i got fullscreen mode and Anti aliasin disabled

Make sure you do not have anything running that has overlay (fraps and xfire are two of the most common ones).

Rustypipes.6238:

Make sure you do not have anything running that has overlay (fraps and xfire are two of the most common ones).

Nothing of that

If you are running DX9 hardware there is an option in the settings to turn on the rendering for it, otherwise it’s default to work with only DX11.

I love these amateur “graphics mods” these days.
They increase constrast to hilariously exaggerated levels, to the point the game looks like a cartoon, and call it “The Ultimate Super Mega P00nzor Hax of L33tskillz Graphix skillzors!”.

Rustypipes.6238:

If you are running DX9 hardware there is an option in the settings to turn on the rendering for it, otherwise it’s default to work with only DX11.

This Hardware is running DX11

Red Falcon.8257:

I love these amateur “graphics mods” these days.
They increase constrast to hilariously exaggerated levels, to the point the game looks like a cartoon, and call it “The Ultimate Super Mega P00nzor Hax of L33tskillz Graphix skillzors!”.

I understand what you mean, but imo the general game is a bit washed out and could use some contrast. The other big win with Sweet if the settings are correct, is you get a cleaner AA option then the in game version. Stills also don’t do overall justice, I just know with this game and others, injectors just allows you to add a bit more punch.