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Another big Crimson Desert patch 1.04.01: many rendering fixes including FSR/RR quality, also XeSS Upscaling & FG. It also adds Apple’s RR-like tech. Is FSR quality better now? Read on to know this, and some exciting discoveries about this game’s weird rendering engine… 🧵

In the lower image (Displacement = High) those chamfers are more rounded. The stones in general look worn out, weathered: way more realistic. However, look also at the parts in red circles where we can see very odd changes of color. This is not intentional, it’s a rendering bug.

This was covered already by reviewers, like Digital Foundry showing how this interacted badly with DLSS/RR. The game was patched to improve those problems somewhat and also to add an option to control the level of Displacement because it still causes all sorts of artifacts.

So let’s go back… here I enabled FSR4.1: Top = AA-Only, Bottom = Performance. AA-Only looks great except the yellow region with the stone edge badly aliased, that’s because the grass moves a lot (possibly without fine-grained motion vectors? But even with MV it’s harder).