Yeah he should disable it. Looks like shit.
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Watch_Dogs original graphical effects (E3 2012/13) found in game files [PC]
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In fact, I'm using now a new DOF preset that works better because focus your crosshair zone when aiming too.
Cuban Legend
Member
Yes, someone on Guru3D made a version that also has the crosshair DOF on the driving, cover, and aiming cameras!
i dont remember his name but the file is called: v0.7+fixBossDoF.zip
Sweet. On second thought, though, I forgot your mod's like a GB and takes a while to upload, so don't worry about it, it's just a minor change. I've backed up my exe just in case their patch breaks the mod, too.
Hmm, is it possible to enable DOF only when in profiling mode? That seems like a decent way to go about it (as it would simulate the fact that your focusing on your phone rather than the environment).
I'm kind of unsure why they didn't do something like that in the begin with. DOF doesn't seem to have any serious performance hit and it is always enabled when driving with the cockpit anyways.
I'm kind of unsure why they didn't do something like that in the begin with. DOF doesn't seem to have any serious performance hit and it is always enabled when driving with the cockpit anyways.
Betta Lines
Member
What's thread worthy about it?
Betta Lines
Member
It looks like a video of someone playing Watch Dogs as far as I'm concerned, only the colours are slightly off and I can't see far enough into the distance.
I will never understand why people think having DOF on constantly for the main camera to blur things out at such small distance makes it more attractive while playing. This fix pretty much just does two things, implement headlight shadows (the headlight shadows look different from normal shadows btw) and the constant DOF. I don't u derstand how people are going ga ga over this claiming it improves it 10 folds and makes it similar to E3 footage when it clearly doesn't.
Also sweetFx made it look horrible, something's wrong when you could barely see anything in the city of Chicago.
Also sweetFx made it look horrible, something's wrong when you could barely see anything in the city of Chicago.
KojiKnight
Member
I'm not a fan in most cases... People making games look more 'realistic' but often at the cost of playability (see Skyrim, where caves literally became too dark to see in) baffles me in play. That said, just to set up some pretty screenshots? Sure why not. It's just further proof that we're in the uncanny valley and sooner or later people will get tired of "not quite right" or "so realistic it hurts" and go back to actual stylization.
For now what TheWorse modifications does:
Enable headlight shadows.
Enable lighting in rain drops.
Enable an alternative bloom method.
Enable constant bokeh DOF with config per camera.
Three options for camera distance.
New values for shadows, reflections, pedestrians density, rain drops density, LOD distance, geometry culling distance and colorgrading.
In short, a few of those values are absolutely work in progress yet. It's not a "Enable E3 quality" like some people claims. But he's now tweaking reflections, reducing bloom, adjusting lighting parameters and bringing back ambient fog and anamorphic lensfrares to achieve a similar look to E3 demo. How far he can get, we don't know for now. A few people have changed DOF values to achieve an overall better feel while playing, setting the dof focus on the center of screen very quickly.
I'm waiting for ubisoft patch to analize how many changes they apply to the game and how modded files affect to them. If nothing wrong happens, I will release a configurator tool based on TheWorse modifications and maybe other people too combined with my stutter fix to put over ubi patch.
Could someone please pm me the Gamerprofile.xml ?
Can't believe I forgot to back it up & changed a few too many things to ultra and 'pc' and now tis a little too bright/strange.
Would really appreciate it.
Maldo - Loved your Crysis 2 work
Keen to see what you do with this puppy should the update not make things anything more difficult etc...
Can't believe I forgot to back it up & changed a few too many things to ultra and 'pc' and now tis a little too bright/strange.
Would really appreciate it.
Maldo - Loved your Crysis 2 work
Keen to see what you do with this puppy should the update not make things anything more difficult etc...Agreed, I'd have preferred if the mod had never been released, and we just sat around waiting 3 weeks for Ubisoft to release a patch. Since it doesn't make it look exactly like it did at E3 2012, this has all just been a huge waste of everyone's time.
jim2point0
Banned
SweetFX can be fine if you know what you're doing. The problem is everyone bumps contrast and slathers on sharpening (which emphasizes aliasing like crazy). So you wind up with screenshots\videos that have crushed blacks and mysteriously dark daytimes.
For some reason people think they need SweetFX.... but those same people keep asking me for my SweetFX settings when I post screenshots. But I'm not using SweetFX. So they're actually fine with the vanilla visuals. They're just convinced that they HAVE to use it because it "enhances visuals."
Betta Lines
Member
I enjoyed how the dynamic DOF looked in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAYcFBfWnBg
And was confused when it didn't work like that in the final game, when the DOF is still there (when activating your phone, when aiming, accessing an ATM, etc).
Now that this mod makes the DOF work pretty much exactly like this video, my suspicions that it was a design decision rather than a performance concession to remove it are pretty much confirmed - it looks nice in a video but when you're actually playing it's annoying when things don't come into focus where you want to look. The feeling is a bit like watching a 3D film, when looking at a part of the screen that isn't in focus. It's not comfortable on the eyes, for me at least.
However, I still think a very small amount of DOF in the very far distance is nice and not intrusive. It would also be good to have it become shallower only when approaching large objects, rather than reacting to the smallest things in front of the camera, like a street light or a pedestrian moving past the centre of the screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAYcFBfWnBg
And was confused when it didn't work like that in the final game, when the DOF is still there (when activating your phone, when aiming, accessing an ATM, etc).
Now that this mod makes the DOF work pretty much exactly like this video, my suspicions that it was a design decision rather than a performance concession to remove it are pretty much confirmed - it looks nice in a video but when you're actually playing it's annoying when things don't come into focus where you want to look. The feeling is a bit like watching a 3D film, when looking at a part of the screen that isn't in focus. It's not comfortable on the eyes, for me at least.
However, I still think a very small amount of DOF in the very far distance is nice and not intrusive. It would also be good to have it become shallower only when approaching large objects, rather than reacting to the smallest things in front of the camera, like a street light or a pedestrian moving past the centre of the screen.
I dunno, I actually think a little DOF while in profile mode could look great and makes sense in this case.
It's really a lovely effect. I wouldn't want it enabled at all times or anything but I'd like to see it used more often. The way they implemented it during focus mode in the 2012 footage was really slick as well. I really don't much care for the way it works in the final game (just using fullscreen blur).
Again, it could work if it were used only in profiling mode. It would make logical sense there.
Delete it. When game starts, it creates a new one with default settings.
For those that don't like fun, sweetfx can be worth it for subtle changes:
http://a.pomf.se/ayimmu.webm
http://a.pomf.se/ayimmu.webm
Dries
Member
Jup. That looks pretty great. Any performance hit?
CyberPunked
Member
This does look really great. But how does it looks when the roads aren't covered in water?
Pharaoh 117
Member
about to start up the game after installing the update. hur we go
jim2point0
Banned
I'm glad I ticked "do not let Steam automatically update this game" for Watch Dogs.
I'm waiting to hear if the mod can be salvaged post patch. I'm not going back to the modless game.
I'm waiting to hear if the mod can be salvaged post patch. I'm not going back to the modless game.
Denton
Member
God I hate this camera view.
Cockpit view is where it's at! Or the lower chase cam! This one makes cars look like god damn toy model cars.
Cuban Legend
Member
I wish uPlay had a feature like this.
sure! like it was written in the readme and in the thread
uplay doesnt have automatic updating s
CyberPunked
Member
Wow, that explosion is so tiny!
So did I, and then Steam updated anyway.
You can revert to the mod by replacing the patch files. I'm back to using Maldo's mod instead because the patch did fuck-all for performance. I tried to go to a hideout and it took about 2 minutes to load.
Maldo, when in the city, the textures look fine, but when in the countryside or industrial areas, places on the ground with dirt still have a ton of shimmering.
http://a.pomf.se/bkzxjp.webm
Is there anything that can be done about that?
Maldo, when in the city, the textures look fine, but when in the countryside or industrial areas, places on the ground with dirt still have a ton of shimmering.
http://a.pomf.se/bkzxjp.webm
Is there anything that can be done about that?
The Cowboy
Member
The patch seems to have done nothing at all to improve performance (in fact, I'd say it seems to have made it worse), if they did do things to improve performance - then its covered up because it seems they did nothing at all to help with stuttering.
Not a good start at all, as such if it doesn't break online play I'm reverting back so i can use the tweaked settings instead.
Not a good start at all, as such if it doesn't break online play I'm reverting back so i can use the tweaked settings instead.
jim2point0
Banned
Holy LODbias. I havent bothered with Maldo's tweaks because my game runs fine but... whoa.
I wonder how that would look with absurd downsampling though. Hmmmm.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
PC monitors don't have the same kind of video options that HDTVs do. Thus, SweetFX. You're literally saying that you don't like having more image adjustment options.
EroticSushi
Member
Is there a link to his tweaks? Looks great.
Daggerborn13
Banned
Bet he still doesn't have a reflection......
Yep, he didn't even stumble. Looks pretty decent at least.
So I installed the mod and ran through the intro mission and a little bit of the area by your starting motel with FRAPS running and saw pretty significant improvements in performance. However, for the life of me, I can't get this piece of shit game to open in fullscreen and stay that way. I've checked my gamerprofile.xml file and confirmed that it's set to 2 for windowed mode including setting the file to read-only but it just will not display in fullscreen.
I can change it to borderless window mode after starting but fuck doing that every time I want to play. If no one has a way to fix this I think I'm just gonna can this game, chalk up the $60 as a loss and go back to playing Infamous. Maybe Ubisoft will get around to fixing this crap but I'm done scouring the internet trying to find a fix when I should be having fun playing the damn game.
I can change it to borderless window mode after starting but fuck doing that every time I want to play. If no one has a way to fix this I think I'm just gonna can this game, chalk up the $60 as a loss and go back to playing Infamous. Maybe Ubisoft will get around to fixing this crap but I'm done scouring the internet trying to find a fix when I should be having fun playing the damn game.
Aspirations26
Member
So the pc patch didn't fix performance? I will try it when I get home. If it doesn't, then I'm uninstalling the game right now and never playing it again.