You can go the other way around too because that is how much you can control how your games look like. If afterwards you are still not satisfied I'd ask you to provide an alternative that others can consider rather than simply critizing the generally known available options. Please do a search of GW2 and SweetFX to see what I mean. While I agree that the image quality in AoC doesn't really warrant a use for SweetFX I'd say that other games benefit greatly from what is has to offer. Normally I'd concede to your vast knowledge of the inner workings of all things software/hardware related but in this case I just feel you are ill informed or perhaps blinded knowledge. If you turned down some in-game settings in addition to using SweetFX, then that would explain it. Adding additional post processing effects means more work for the GPU, and that should bring your frame rates down. But I don't really see the point of it.Īlso, getting a 10 frames per second increase by using SweetFX as opposed to the same in-game settings without SweetFX should be impossible.

If you want to grab an external program to make your game look worse, that's your choice. If you want to make everything brighter, then HDR as a post-processing effect is entirely the wrong way to do it, precisely because you'll lose so much detail. Look at the washed-out colors in the second picture of each pair, where you lose a lot of detail because broad areas get clamped to solid white.

I assume SweetFX is the second picture from each pair? I say that because it looks like it would be easy to generate the second picture from the first and impossible to go the other way around.

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