Topic-Free Mega Thread - v 1.11.2020

[JonasBeckman]

Yeah it’s weird here too.
The situation has worsened and there’s been quite a few concerns like how the hospital staff is getting really worried as they’re already working really hard even compared to usual and then concerns from shops and store owners with some taking initiatives on their own for trying to minimize the problems with this but it’s down more to general recommendations and there’s little general care among many of the people.

Halloween and all-hallows-eve weekend too so a lot of people out and then the schools now opening after the Autumn break.

Situation in stores is chaotic as well with no real concern from other people so someone might stand directly behind you ignoring the distance recommendation entirely or people with various cold symptoms (Doesn’t have to be CV19 as such.) are coughing or sneezing openly without even covering their mouths/noses.

Only thing positive is that I have a pretty good immune system but my parents have entirely giving a care at all though I see the same among a lot of the elderly around here too though these are also the same elderly I get routinely walked past as I take hikes in rough terrain having a [beep] of a time with mud and wet surfaces in the name of exercising and trying to keep somewhat fit.

Meanwhile a old lady with these walking sticks is passing by like it’s nothing and over double my age too it’s kinda weird how healthy and fit the elderly here are ha ha.

Pretty sure as the situation is now worsening to where staying at home is a recommendation it’s going to be impossible to avoid CV19 for too much longer dog owner as well so taking walks is part of that and having to veer way off the sidewalk into the road if you’re trying to keep distance to people you meet heh.

Hoping the bigger cities manage better at least, wouldn’t want to try collective traffic especially trains or subways with this situation and then schools as another problem area and I think retirement homes are also open again but might close down a bit more now that the situation is worsening.

Right mess this thing no real solution either just have to try and see if something happens not too worried about my own chances but since it takes a while for symptoms to show up and it can range from severe to eh it’s a minimal cold that’s a tough problem and then risk of spreading it before it shows more clear symptoms as well.

Only good thing is that the overall mortality rate remains low though seen to Sweden’s population it’s going pretty poorly with keeping it in check with the number of confirmed cases and it being all over the country almost.

Think Spain recently enforced even harder conditions and the US seems to be a bit mixed from state to state but as far as I can tell the belief in the EU is that Spain is a problem zone and the US is having it even worse especially some states.

These DIY home solutions aren’t doing much either like cloth masks that have no protective purposes what so ever or bottles and other stuff like fruit.

Suppose combinations work (somewhat better.) and some of them will at least keep people at a distance.

EDIT: I have no idea what a fruit is going to accomplish though let alone a open piece of salad.

[GPUnity]

Where i’m working, people get too comfortable since they’re stuck with each other for a few hours and just take off their masks after the first hour or so. Hell, there’s a woman who physically flirts with me sometimes. There’s way too many on the streets as well just walking around without any masks, and some never covering their nose (good way to indicate if you’re an asshole). I definitely should learn to drive asap, to avoid some of these people.

Been exercising a lot myself lately and have decent stamina so i assume i’m fine, but i’ve never had a health check done. As for my family, almost all the adults have some sort of health problem, for some reason. In this town, you’re prone to unhealthy food and hypnotic TV all the time.

[JonasBeckman]

Yeah larger shops and general food stores are some of the more problematic areas around here and then restaurants buffets and such being super popular so you get quite a crowd much as the staff tries to keep a certain distance it’s not going to work too well.

Fast food’s certainly a thing as is sugar but overall health seem to be generally good though the hospitals are overburdened due to the pandemic and the situation with lengthy work hours and lack of staff was already a concern before that started.

Outdoors works pretty well most of the time some of the smaller paths can be a bit of a problem but even when you meet a group walking side by side on a walkway there’s usually room to sidestep them ha ha.

Corona is just one problem though the increase in criminal activity and harder crimes is what’s more of a concern gang violence has increased even here and some areas in even this smaller town are not exactly the safest to be around.

Not as bad as the larger city itself or the bigger cities in this country but it’s certainly changed.
Stuff like Hell’s Angels having a chapter around here now and then smaller gangs various political extremists and foreign elements and even some pretty large groups almost on par with syndicates.

City planning and buildup for the next population target up from 50k to 70k and then 100k is certainly noticeable and all that comes with it.

Forgot if it was early this year or last year but police raided a few places in the bigger cities shutting down bomb manufacturing on a more advanced level so things are certainly escalating although it’s not quite on that level here.
(Firearms crimes are a thing now though so that’s a step up alright.)

[JonasBeckman]

And shifting from some of the stuff happening in Sweden and Europe in regards to certain activities well.

ReShade 4.8.2 is out fixing up the 4.8.x release pretty well by this point.

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Seems 4.8.x is now fairly fixed up.

4.8

Changelog

4.8.0:

Added compute shader support to ReShade FX shader language, supported in D3D11, D3D12, > OpenGL and Vulkan. Example:

#include "ReShade.fxh"

texture testTex { Width = 32 * 2; Height = 1024; Format = RGBA8; };
storage testStore { Texture = testTex; };
sampler testSample { Texture = testTex; MinFilter = POINT; MagFilter = POINT; };

groupshared float test[32];

void Test_CS(uint3 id : SV_DispatchThreadID, uint3 tid : SV_GroupThreadID)
{
	test[tid.x] = id.x / 32.0;
	barrier();
	if (tid.x % 2 == 0)
		test[tid.x] += test[tid.x + 1];
	else
		test[tid.x] = 1;
	barrier();
	tex2Dstore(testStore, id.xy, float4(test[tid.x].xxx, 1));
}

float3 Final_PS(float4 vpos : SV_Position, float2 texcoord : TexCoord) : SV_Target
{
	return tex2D(testSample, texcoord).rgb;
}

technique Compute
{
	pass
	{
		// Specify the local thread group size as part of the compute shader assignment
		// Format is "FunctionName<X, Y, Z>", but Z is optional
		ComputeShader = Test_CS<32, 1>;
		DispatchSizeX = 2;
		DispatchSizeY = 1024;
		// Can also add "DispatchSizeZ" for 3D-launches
	}
	pass
	{
		VertexShader = PostProcessVS;
		PixelShader = Final_PS;
	}
}

Added option to not clear alpha channel of screenshots
Added option to include preset name in screenshot file name
Added JPEG as a screenshot format option
Added option to duplicate current preset when creating a new one
Added option to only load enabled effects
Added performance mode toggle keyboard shortcut
Added global option to force fullscreen mode in D3D, ReShade.ini:

[D3D9] ; or [DXGI]
ForceFullscreen=1

Added support for global config file to change base and module load path (instead of having to rely on environment variables). To use, ceate an INI file with the same name as the ReShade DLL (e.g. dxgi.ini) next to it, with these contents:

[INSTALL]
BasePath=path/ReShade/should/use/as/base/for/all/relative/paths
ModulePath=path/ReShade/should/load/DLLs/from

Added position of separator between technique and variable list in UI to config (so it is persistent between runs)
Added technique context menu button to open containing folder in Windows explorer
Added category context menu button to reset all variables in that category to their default values
Added separate code viewer window, so one can view generated code and edit a shader simultaneously
Added editor support for “Shift + Tab” to remove line indentation without selection
Added editor support for paste on new line
Added visual indicator to text editor title when open document is unsaved
Added message to home tab when a texture failed to load
Added yellow highlight to items in the technique list where the underlying effect compiled with warnings and added those warnings to the tooltip
Added effect parser error when encountering multi-dimensional array
Added effect parser error when using sRGB sampling on back buffer but back buffer format is not RGBA8
Added effect parser error when static variable initializer is not a literal expression. This is a breaking change for some effects!
Added effect parser warning when specifying negative value for texture property
Added “tex2Dsize” intrinsic overload which takes a storage object (for compute shaders)
Added “barrier”, “memoryBarrier” and “groupMemoryBarrier” intrinsics for use in compute shaders
Added atomic intrinsics “atomicAdd”, “atomicAnd”, “atomicOr”, “atomicXor”, “atomicMin”, “atomicMax”, “atomicExchange” and “atomicCompareExchange”
Added support for “SV_IsFrontFace” semantic to GLSL/SPIR-V code generation
Added support for “min16int”, “min16uint” and “min16float” scalar and vector types
Added “mousewheel” source for uniform variables to use mouse wheel input

// Value starts at 1.0. When user moves the mouse wheel up, it goes up, but not past 10.0.
// When user moves the mouse wheel down it goes down, but not past 0.0.
uniform float value < source = "mousewheel"; min = 0.0; max = 10.0; step = 1.0; > = 1.0;
// You can also add a second component, which then holds the current wheel state
// (How much the wheel was moved this frame):
// So value.y is +1 when wheel went up, or -1 when it went down
uniform float2 value < source = "mousewheel"; ... >;

Added “overlay_active” and “overlay_hovered” source to uniform variables, which hold the index (from the top in the effect file) of the UI widget the user is currently entering a value in or hovering in the UI

uniform float value1 < ui_type = "drag"; >;
uniform float value2 < ui_type = "slider"; >;

// Is zero by default, 1 when "value1" is being modified, 2 when "value2" is being modified
uniform int active < source = "overlay_active"; >;
// Is zero by default, 1 when mouse cursor is over "value1" in UI and 2 when it is over "value2"
uniform int hovered < source = "overlay_hovered"; >;

Added more verbose logging in case of D3D10/11 resource creation failures
Added pass names for passes writing to a texture on the statistics page
Added device and driver information to UI in OpenGL
Added support for comma character in INI elements
Added path text box to app selection in setup tool
Added different sort modes to app selection in setup tool
Added button to add custom effect package to setup tool
Added option to skip individual effect selection using three state checkboxes to setup tool
Added setup tool archive validation when opening it
Added standard Epic Games Launcher install location to setup tool search paths
Added heuristic to setup tool that chooses the depth reversed setting based on the year a game came out
Added error to setup tool when installing to an application that already has ReShade installed via a different render API
Added notice on how to uninstall to final setup tool screen
Added signature to setup tool
Improved file and directory selection dialogs (including the preset selection) and added icons
Improved format of variable names in generated GLSL code for better readability
Improved effect parser error recovery for errors inside struct definitions
Improved speed of setup tool application detection
Changed INI option names for a cleaner look! The setup tool will update them when installing over an existing config, but be aware of this when doing a manual update, since some of your settings may get lost.
Changed preset path option to save as a relative path to the ReShade DLL if preset is in the same or a subdirectory
Changed “tex2Dfetch” intrinsic to accept coordinates without a mipmap level and added seprate overload which accepts a mipmap level. This is a breaking change, so make sure to update your shaders (it will continue to compile with warnings in most cases, since int4 can be implicitly casted to int2, but only behaves the same then if the passed in mipmap level was zero)!

// The declarations now look like this:
float4 tex2Dfetch(sampler2D s, int2 coords);
float4 tex2Dfetch(sampler2D s, int2 coords, int lod);

Changed D3D9 depth buffer detection logic to always run independently on each frame (fixes flickering in some games, like RE4 Remastered HD)
Changed splash banner to disappear immediately after reloading finished on all reloads except the first one
Changed assembly viewer text to get updated after an effect finished compiling
Changed HLSL compilation to enable highest optimization level only when performance mode is active
Changed configuration to save and restore custom style independently of the fixed presets (so its not lost when switching between those)
Changed keyboard shortcuts to be inactive while typing into text boxes
Changed item width for variable editor UI widgets
Changed texture name reservation to only run in OpenGL compatibility contexts by default
Changed default preset file name to “ReShadePreset.ini”
Changed setup tool to install to “bin” directory if one exists next to the executable (for Source Engine games)
Fixed mouse button double clicks not registering
Fixed red and blue color channel being switched in D3D12 screenshots in some applications
Fixed hang in Vulkan games because fence completion check was comparing against wrong return value
Fixed partial screen updates in D3D9 messing up ReShade rendering (e.g. in IL-2 Cliffs of Dover)
Fixed hooks not being installed in applications that call “LoadLibraryExA/W” with flags (e.g. Prey)
Fixed duplicated D3D10/D3D11 hooks (since the D3D10 driver may use D3D11 internally)
Fixed D3D9 depth surface replacement messing up games using INTZ format themselves (e.g. Dead Space)
Fixed artifacts in D3D9 games using partial depth buffer clears
Fixed artifacts in OpenGL games using GL_ALPHA_TEST
Fixed unbound key shortcuts potentially triggering if application sends input messages for key code zero
Fixed crash if application calls “ID3D11Device::CreateShaderResourceView” and similar with a nullptr resource (e.g. in Snowrunner)
Fixed crash when application unloads ReShade while a thread is still calling “GetMessage” (e.g. in Dolphin)
Fixed crash in Vulkan when data race occurs after multiple threads failed to access a value from a lockfree table (e.g. in Baldur’s Gate)
Fixed crash if font atlas creation fails
Fixed crash when parsing ReShade FX code that attempts a function call outside of a function
Fixed crash if ReShade FX code contains shader function with an output parameter or return value without a semantic
Fixed crash when pressing “Shift + Tab” in editor with a line that has only spaces selected
Fixed R8 and RG8 textures having an alpha value in D3D9
Fixed wrong render targets being set in D3D12 if effect contains multiple techniques
Fixed primitive topologies other than triangles not working in OpenGL
Fixed “tex2Dstore” intrinsic writing with a slight offset in OpenGL
Fixed precision of floating-point constants in generated HLSL/GLSL code
Fixed preprocessor removing spaces in macro arguments
Fixed preprocessor not trimming all whitespace before and after macro arguments and around concatenation operator
Fixed preprocessor not adding adding backslashes to escape quotes in stringize operator
Fixed code generation for switch statements with multiple cases pointing to the same block
Fixed SPIR-V code generation for struct member accesses on function return values
Fixed SPIR-V code generation for struct input parameters
Fixed SPIR-V code generation for switch statements that contain branches
Fixed SPIR-V code generation for “inout” function parameters with semantics and arrays
Fixed HLSL code generation for global “static” variables
Fixed HLSL code generation for loops on uniform variables in shader model 3
Fixed missing interpolation qualifiers in generated GLSL code for struct return values
Fixed location calculation for GLSL array input and output variables
Fixed GLSL code generation for “inout” function parameters with semantics
Fixed GLSL code generation for shaders that have multiple input or output parameters with the same semantic
Fixed effect parser error when initialization array of structs using initializer list syntax
Fixed incorrect FreePIE uniform data padding
Fixed “timeout” annotation on techniques for very small values (so one can now set it to “1” to only have the technique run a single time)
Fixed division by zero if min/max are switched for “random” uniform source
Fixed user being able to enter invalid characters as a preprocessor macro name
Fixed dragging technique to a new location not preserving order of the others
Fixed editor font affecting search and replace buttons
Fixed pooled textures not always showing up on statistics page
Fixed double click behavior on app selection list in setup tool (it now only reacts if the same item is clicked twice)
Removed “tex2Dgather” intrinsic and instead split it into separate variants for each component:

float4 tex2DgatherR(sampler2D s, float2 coords); // equal to previous "tex2Dgather(s, coords, 0);"
float4 tex2DgatherG(sampler2D s, float2 coords); // equal to previous "tex2Dgather(s, coords, 1);"
float4 tex2DgatherB(sampler2D s, float2 coords); // equal to previous "tex2Dgather(s, coords, 2);"
float4 tex2DgatherA(sampler2D s, float2 coords); // equal to previous "tex2Dgather(s, coords, 3);"

Removed separate “tex2D[…]offset” texture intrinsics and instead made them overloads

float4 tex2D(sampler2D s, float2 coords);
float4 tex2D(sampler2D s, float2 coords, int2 offset);
float4 tex2Dlod(sampler2D s, float4 coords);
float4 tex2Dlod(sampler2D s, float4 coords, int2 offset);
float4 tex2DgatherR(sampler2D s, float2 coords);
float4 tex2DgatherR(sampler2D s, float2 coords, int2 offset);
...

Removed technique percentage numbers from statistics (since they where commonly misunderstood)
Removed support for “POSITION”, “VPOS” and “DEPTH” input semantics (use “SV_Position” and “SV_Depth” instead)
Removed error limit again since it can hide errors behind a lot of warnings

4.8.1:

Added automatic texture reference tracking to effect compiler (it now knows which passes use which textures)
Improved performance of compute passes
Improved OpenGL effect rendering performance
Changed compiler to remove “static” qualifier from local variables to fix some effects failing to compile since the 4.8 update
Changed sRGB sampling check on back buffer to a warning instead of an error
Changed reference display for textures on the statistics page to a more detailed break down of where and how they are used
Changed cycle order of effect package checkboxes in setup tool
Fixed docking windows to other windows not working
Fixed compute shaders not being able to read from textures also used as storage
Fixed GLSL code generation not removing all duplicated underscore symbols in names
Fixed Vulkan textures not being cleared to zero on creation
Fixed OpenGL mipmaps looking slightly different than in the other APIs
Fixed crash on startup with RenderDoc attached
Fixed screenshot with overlay not being created for preview texture window
Fixed texture load failure message listing all textures of disabled effects too
Fixed setup tool installing to the wrong directory for “Vampire: The Masquerade” game

4.8.2:

Added missing hooks for “Direct3DCreate9on12” and “DXGIDeclareAdapterRemovalSupport”
Fixed crash when effects use pooled textures
Fixed crash in D3D9 games that have Windows compatibility fixes active (ReShade now finally works in SWTOR, when correctly installed as d3d9.dll!)
Fixed artifacts and depth buffer detection in the first “The Witcher” game
Removed global settings (“ForceFullscreen”, “Force10BitFormat”, etc.) from ReShade.ini and instead moved those into d3d9.ini/dxgi.ini/opengl32.ini file

[APP]
ForceVSync=0
ForceWindowed=0
ForceFullscreen=0
ForceResolution=0,0
Force10BitFormat=0

ReShade FX support equivalent to this version (with compute shaders) will be part of FreeStyle in the next NVIDIA driver branch release.

Yeah that’s a bit of a turn alright but what’s to say, hopefully the situation improves and hopefully that also goes for CV19 whenever something more solid is available to fix this problem.

[Aemony]

I honestly don’t even really know how to handle the current situation. Like, Sweden doesn’t still actually enforce any restrictions – it’s all “recommendations” and “stricter general guidelines” for the public.

And still nothing have been closed down or the use of masks enforced yet. Sure, more and more starts using masks, but, like, it’s still basically a bucket in the ocean.

We just entered wave two for real in Sweden, and yet I still see relatives and friends basically act indifferent to it all. And it’s… I mean… I don’t think any of my age group (25-35 years old) really have anything to worry about even if we were to catch it, but it’s partially infuriating to see older generations not care at all about it either…

Gah, this whole situation

[JonasBeckman]

Yep it’s quite a problem alright, don’t know much of a solution either just doing what one can but it’s not really that much and it’s quite a mess.

[GPUnity]

Hmmm, I think the most gang crime we have here are the wannabe gangsters aka kids who carry knives, and often out of fear.

[JonasBeckman]

Used to be that type of stuff here but then it turned into more organized larger groups ranging from racial tensions to smuggling and larger organized “tours” stealing things like boats (Engines in particular.) and other heavier jobs and thefts also often between borders and out to the rest of Europe with some of these hauls.

Cyber crime more recently and a larger escalation of firearms trading even some who are now more openly brandishing guns or carrying despite heavy regulations and laws around guns in this country.

EDIT: One year ago I think it was a ring reselling Cold-War style Russian surplus military ordnance more on the pistols and handguns but a few things on the size of SMG’s and even grenades too.

Hard drugs and online drug trading.

And sex trade as well.

Increase in violence and overall brutality is also a concern though part of that is from the current leadership and the change or shift in attitude as a result. Real problem that.

[Kaldaien]

That’s surprising. Compute Shaders are going to be pretty difficult to get working reliably across all the APIs that ReShade supports. Useful, nonetheless, a lot of the post processing I would like to do really isn’t practical with vertex / pixel shaders.

[JonasBeckman]

Yeah need to see about editing that up a bit that changelog was not carried over well but it’s something a few shader authors are now experimenting with.

EDIT: There, trying to keep the shader examples and stuff a bit more like code and the changelog is less side-scrolling and plain text.

Should be more easily readable than the initial more code-looking quotes and multi-colored highlighting and syntax effects I think it’s called.

[Kaldaien]

Speaking of which… I need to re-write part of ImGui it looks like. Drawing stuff like histograms generated by a Compute Shader by transferring the results to CPU so ImGui can transfer them back to GPU for visualization is rather stupid

Needs support for some datasets that originate on GPU actually staying on GPU.

[JonasBeckman]

Speaking of staying on the GPU I wonder how AMD’s SMA is going to be working with the new processors.

I thought DMA or Direct Memory Access was already a thing although AMD is also pushing that a lot for their drivers from my understanding. (Thus part of the answer as to why XMP = not stable means GPU also not very stable especially RDNA / Navi10 and it’s paths through this. )

AMD claims a 6 - 8% performance boost but they also made the initial benchmark a mess mixing default with RAGE and SMA.

Rage Mode is just a automated way of telling Wattman to increase the power limit aka boost harder because there’s a bit more now before it caps unless it caps for other reasons so eh.

AMD’s RX 6000 GPUs to Boost Perf With Ryzen 5000 CPUs via Smart Memory Access

Personally though I think it’s going to have more limited or situational maybe game specific uses.

But perhaps less than Horizon Zero Dawn has AMD cram every RDNA trick ever into the game engine to pass that 2070Ti performance lead.
(IE less direct intervention needed from AMD directly ha ha.)

[JonasBeckman]

And as to more SpecialK and ImGUI looking forward to seeing what these charts and histograms can be used for, sounds like it’s quite handy for in-depth analysis of how pretty much any possible monitored data can be presented and how the user can then utilize and work with this from the HDR calibration to the framerate graphs and frame timing results.

Suppose if it can be also kept GPU side for that data it’s going to end up more 1:1 and no additional paths or hops or how it’s presented and such.

Going to be like running DOOM Eternal on Ultra Nightmare metrics “quality” maybe ha ha!
Well weird humor aside it’s quite useful.

[GPUnity]

Selfish as it sounds, i really cba staying at home again. I’m the type to get depressed if i’m not socialising enough, i’m shocked i pushed through the first lockdown, lol.

[Kaldaien]

At this point, it’s less about what the user can do with this data and more about what I can…

SK’s HDR support has, to this point, been mostly an exercise in getting software compatibility high. It has never done anything particularly impressive from the image processing perspective.

I’m pretty sure I got software compatibility to the point now where I can focus on more advanced tonemapping and take things to the next level. But I need much better data visualization to do that. So that’s the dev. phase SK’s currently in. Not much user beneficial features being added, just a whole slew of stuff to make the next gen image processing more impressive.

[JonasBeckman]

@GPUnity

Selfish as it sounds, i really cba staying at home again. I’m the type to get depressed if i’m not socialising enough, i’m shocked i pushed through the first lockdown, lol.

Don’t know about that I would say it’s not that selfish I think it’s actually part of how we kinda are and sorta require or need some social interaction even if there’s this push to the at the top too kinda it’s simplifying it a lot putting it like that.

I’m not out too much either though and would be even less if I wasn’t a pet owner, permanent sick pensioned in my early 20’s due to less than ideal physical health (Yay biological lottery.) also factored in for that but then I started getting really low on energy and weight gains and all that stuff so then started pushing the body to get into shape regardless heh.

Working pretty well so far, people around here are fairly friendly even if the distancing is affecting contacts and such a bit the way it is especially as it’s clear the situation is worsening.

EDIT: Also taking walks around the school area and it turns out modern Swedish and maybe language in general is changing into a bunch of acronyms and shortened abbreviations in addition to traditional English learning like a certain four letter word is still the first even young kids learn, good to see some things remain the same even as everything else changes ha ha.

Good to know Twitter is going to become a official language in time. Well good and good…
American English
British English
Online English

Yep.

[JonasBeckman]

There are problems though, depression and other health issues have increased a lot too it’s not just weight or worries around performance or looks and expectations or stress and it’s also gone down to much younger ages far as I’ve been reading about things not that I know too much on this subject myself.

Just one issue after another unfortunately.
Which is a bit depressing and then this social situation and world status in general.

EDIT: I try to maintain a more positive outlook and attitude but the current situation isn’t exactly easy and the coming year or possibly years is going to feel some of these effects even more as things progress.

Sigh yeah that turned a bit negative there.

[Kaldaien]

Real-Time EvilBoris mode for games SK is not adding HDR to

I had a chat with him, and unfortunately the scale used for his luminance heatmaps is no more constant than Special K’s has ever been. We both kind of just pick data representations that are appropriate for a single game.

In my case, I think this is more appropriate. I try to visualize the range against the output display, rather than a mastering standard. Helps to calibrate these games since their stupid image of “adjust until image breaks” (or whatever) is often indadequate.

[GPUnity]

@JonasBeckman

Don’t know about that I would say it’s not that selfish I think it’s actually part of how we kinda are and sorta require or need some social interaction even if there’s this push to the at the top too kinda it’s simplifying it a lot putting it like that.

Yeah technically speaking, humans can’t ever stay alone without going crazy. I forgot the personality terms, but more specifically, i’m the type to need social interaction often, rather than every once in a while. I can’t think of anything to do at home without somehow leading to emotional drain. There’s also my career plans potentially getting flushed down because of the limits Covid has created, so that kind of holds over me constantly - but i’m definitely fighting this and trying to succeed anyway. I should stop ranting now

[JonasBeckman]

@Kaldaien

I had a chat with him, and unfortunately the scale used for his luminance heatmaps is no more constant than Special K’s has ever been. We both kind of just pick data representations that are appropriate for a single game.

Suppose that’s how it has to be as a lot of games have their own HDR targets and peaks and how they’re accomplishing this.

Looks like you can get fairly good estimates though once the initial state is dialed in and you have the various bright levels and areas covered from the darker to the brighter (Sky or the sun itself I assume.)

EDIT: Though technical stuff would then be where the game is hitting it’s own cap the developers are mastering this against if it’s targeting like in the hundreds or thousands for the nits value which from my understanding can go from 800 to 1000 to upwards of 4000 or the full 10000 even.
(Yellow-orange ish to the full white color I think is how that ends up, green if it’s something lower and then purple to darker tones or colors?)

And then the tone mapping and conversion over through SDR into HDR which it seems have had some issues in a few titles.

Must be tougher still on PC where you have AMD and NVIDIA and then Microsoft’s way of passing this information and how it’s processed.

And how developers utilize this especially if backwards compatibility could hinder things or require additional development time and resources over processing it through a extension library like AMD AGS or NV API.