SweetFx [Beef up your graphics]
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Join Date: 2013-01-08 Member: 178139Members
Join Date: 2013-01-08 Member: 178139Members
<div class="IPBDescription">D3d9.dll injector to beef up the visual quality of the game</div>I tried googling it, but am i able to use sweetfx on Natural Selection 2 without getting like vac banned or something as it is some sort of injector?
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<!--coloro:#FF8C00--><span style="color:#FF8C00"><!--/coloro-->Kouji San:
I'll allow this link as it is still interesting for single player games, but we do not recommended using a third party injector applications for a multiplayer VAC enabled game like NS2. There is always a chance you're going to get VAC banned, if you play online on VAC enabled servers.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
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<!--coloro:#FF8C00--><span style="color:#FF8C00"><!--/coloro-->Kouji San:
I'll allow this link as it is still interesting for single player games, but we do not recommended using a third party injector applications for a multiplayer VAC enabled game like NS2. There is always a chance you're going to get VAC banned, if you play online on VAC enabled servers.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
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There you go same effect as the injector. You can also download nvidia inspector and look at NS2's profile, it lets you force MSAA, better SSAO, and more.
If you really want to make your game look like a retarded bloom-fest like in some of those screenshots you are free to adjust those settings as well, but incompatibility will reduce framerate.
There you go same effect as the injector. You can also download nvidia inspector and look at NS2's profile, it lets you force MSAA, better SSAO, and more.
If you really want to make your game look like a retarded bloom-fest like in some of those screenshots you are free to adjust those settings as well, but incompatibility will reduce framerate.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Except SweetFX adds SMAA to the game and sharpeners.
If you want you can also adjust vibrance and all that to be a little less straining to the eye. I used to employ this tool in BF3 for months (the SMAA injector since launch) and I never got banned. It is basically like using the nVidia inspector, it only adds post processing and doesn't touch the game files.
It's a great tool if you ask me.
After or before doesnt matter, afaik VAC checks during server connection as well. Havent heard about anyone getting banned using sweetfx tho, probably safe but as with all thirdpsrty stuff. Use at your own risk.
tbh though the aa effects don't even look that good most of the time. It removes jaggies but makes everything look blurry which is more obvious in some games than others.
Not sure if this is true, but here's what someone else said about SweetFx in PlanetSide 2:
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->With the right tweaking it can be unfair.... I can easily tweak it to make my enemy stand out more while i snipe and make infiltrator cloak easier to see ><. However i dont use it for some reason it doesn't boost my fps but makes it worse.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This guy thought that injecting a graphics enhancing dll would boost his fps? Yeesh...furthermore from a PlanetSide 2 CR/admin:
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The use of SweetFX may result in a suspension of your game account. As this isn't a tech issue, I need to close it up.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Also, SMAA does not blur the image. I recommend it.
There you go same effect as the injector. You can also download nvidia inspector and look at NS2's profile, it lets you force MSAA, better SSAO, and more.
If you really want to make your game look like a retarded bloom-fest like in some of those screenshots you are free to adjust those settings as well, but incompatibility will reduce framerate.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I have an Ati (7870) card, can i do it on that?
Can it be used to give unfair advantage? Sure... but I don't see how this is necessarily a cheat as I can probably afford a computer that 90% of gamers cant which will run these games with stratospheric FPS numbers... which also is an advantage in itself. Hell, just turning infestation rendering down to low gives a pretty solid advantage over players who leave it set to "rich" because I have no bubbles of goo blocking LOS to my target or granting some sort of environmental cammo.
On top of all that, just adding a little red dot to your monitor gives you a "cheat" crosshair for lots of FPS games. Ultimately, people looking for an edge will use what ever means they can which won't get them banned (and some that will) because such small performance enhancers work and winning means a hell of a lot more to them than playing the game as intended.
The point of this post is that injectors should not be banned in any game that has any kind of user-defined video settings at all. Someone is going to find just the right settings to give them their maximum advantage or get old drivers that don't render some things properly or what ever... they are going to get their edge and exploit it so why punish players who are possibly just looking to tweak the game to their liking but who may possibly be "juicing".
The only time it truly matters is in a tournament setting, and if the tournament is to be taken seriously it will be played live on stock systems anyway. Everything else is just try-hards being try-hards.
Having said all that... if you use an injector and VAC nails you for it... tough toenails. However, for something as innocuous as an injector being added to the ban list, it would have to be published first to avoid ensnaring lots of fidelity-snobs. Just be careful with little known or out-of-the-mainstream third party software no matter what you're up to... you never know what they are really doing.
Also, SMAA does not blur the image. I recommend it.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Consistency checking is for game data files only, certainly not injected code or hooked API calls. Furthermore VAC wasn't in the beta, it was added post release.
I'm sure catalyst center or whatever they call it now has a digital vibrance or picture enhancement or whatever they call it. It's what makes colours stand out which is pretty much all the injector does aside from SMAA and HSAO/HBAO, both of which have their superior counterparts MSAA and SSAO which can be forced on with nvidia inspector or whatever AMD has so injectors aren't very useful apart from blinding you in bloom, which you can do anyway by using different bloom settings in inspector.
These injector-based AA also happen to have near negligible hit performance compared to the traditional MSAA and SSAA
.... and it all went suspiciously quiet.
Quite why people bother to change any settings that aren't in the game's graphics menu is beyond me. Been there, done that, I prefer a vanilla experience that focuses on teamwork these days.