In addition to launching the GTX 1660 Super right now, Nvidia’s newest GeForce driver brings some neat new options to their GeForce Experience app. Chief amongst them is built-in help for ReShade filters, the favored post-processing shader instrument that modders usually use to boost or change the general look of a game. Instead of ‘injecting’ or putting in them manually into every particular person game, you’ll now be capable to apply them straight from Nvidia’s Ansel or Freestyle overlays.
If that is the primary time you’ve heard of ReShade, then our associates at Digital Foundry have a useful explainer video on what it does and the way it works. In quick, ReShade offers you extra management over the look of a game. It’s notably useful for older games which may not have as many graphics choices as newer, extra fashionable games, for instance, and making use of the suitable filters can usually enhance a game’s total look, equivalent to including in anti-aliasing choices or sharpening options that clear up jagged edges and such like.
Naturally, there are some limitations concerned. Nvidia isn’t permitting sure ReShade filters to be utilized to aggressive games, for instance, because the filters can typically intrude with anti-cheat applications (similar to they did with ReShade filters beforehand). You’ll nonetheless be capable to apply all of the common Freestyle and Ansel filters to these aggressive games, in fact, however the variety of official ReShade filters supported by these games shall be restricted to 30.
Elsewhere, nonetheless, the sky is just about the restrict. All official and customized ReShade filters shall be supported by each Freestyle and Ansel, and also you’ll be capable to apply and tune them to your liking from the Filters menu in every Nvidia overlay.
Separate to the ReShade filters, Nvidia may even be including a picture sharpening instrument into their Nvidia Control Panel software program with this new driver, which could be discovered within the Global Settings tab within the Manage 3D Settings menu. It’s the identical instrument that was beforehand present in Nvidia’s Freestyle overlay, however can now be utilized to all DirectX 9, 11 and 12 games robotically (with OpenGL and Vulkan help coming quickly). Like its Freestyle counterpart, there may even be adjustable sliders to alter the depth of the impact, in addition to per-game profile choices.
