Force Ambient Occlusion for PSO2 on NVidia cards

[Sizustar]

@Sizustar, could you redo those comparisons in another part of the game? like say the shop area? just somewhere with good lighting and nice contrasting shadows+^_^+ those pics all look the same to me, well all the shadow 5 like alike and the shadow 3 look alike+^_^+

And Regarind AO Quality and Performance, Let me get another screenshot to show the difference.

4x SMAA +4x Sprase Grid Sampling
Anisotrophix 16x
Ambient Occlusion - Quality
Shadow 5

Spoiler!

4x SMAA +4x Sprase Grid Sampling
Anisotrophix 16x
Ambient Occlusion - Quality
Shadow 3

Spoiler!

4x SMAA +4x Sprase Grid Sampling
Anisotrophix 16x
Ambient Occlusion - Performance
Shadow 5

Spoiler!

4x SMAA +4x Sprase Grid Sampling
Anisotrophix 16x
Ambient Occlusion - Performance
Shadow 3

Spoiler!

4x SMAA +4x Sprase Grid Sampling
Anisotrophix 16x
Ambient Occlusion - None
Shadow 5

Spoiler!

4x SMAA +4x Sprase Grid Sampling
Anisotrophix 16x
Ambient Occlusion - None
Shadow 3

Spoiler!

[Crysteon]

I just tried this out of curiosity:

No AO:

Spoiler!

Standard Quality AO:

Spoiler!

High Quality AO:

Spoiler!

HQ results dont seem bad at all, lol.

[Slidikins]

Either Nvidia Inspector has changed a lot since the OP or I just suck at reading guides. It's been a long, long time since I messed with gfx profiles so could someone help me out?

Using NVIDIA Inspector 1.9.6.6, how would I go about setting the options Sizustar has above? Thanks.

[BIG OLAF]

I sort of wanted to try this out just to see how it looks, but I'm really bad at this sort of super-technical stuff. Since I don't know how to update drivers or whatever, I was curious: I don't really understand how it would work if PSO2 doesn't have a profile on the Inspector program. How would the game know if you made a profile for it on the Inspector? Wouldn't it have to synch up somehow?

I'm more of a visual learner, so the instructions in the OP don't make much sense to me.

[Angry_Ryudo]

Then, before executing Inspector, you should go here and install the latest drivers.

Perhaps after that the profile may show.

[BIG OLAF]

Thank you very much. I think I've got it working now.

[Chik'Tikka]

^ good, it looks amazing, yes? too bad i get 10 FPS with it, Inspector only has whatever profiles your regular video card driver has, and as of march (or possibly earlier), Nvidia drivers have a profile for PSO2+^_^+ mostly these profiles are hidden and are used only when games are run, but you can load them into inspector and mess with them there, force better AA, ambient occlusion, FXAA and a few other things+^_^+

[Asirae]

Anyone with ATI try using Radeon Pro to force AO?

[Zyrusticae]

Updated OP to mention that all UE3 bits work with the game.

I highly recommend people try the Mirror's Edge bits (0x00000002), they're VERY good.

[Pyrii]

And Regarind AO Quality and Performance, Let me get another screenshot to show the difference.

4x SMAA +4x Sprase Grid Sampling
Anisotrophix 16x
Ambient Occlusion - Quality
Shadow 5

Spoiler!

4x SMAA +4x Sprase Grid Sampling
Anisotrophix 16x
Ambient Occlusion - Quality
Shadow 3

Spoiler!

4x SMAA +4x Sprase Grid Sampling
Anisotrophix 16x
Ambient Occlusion - Performance
Shadow 5

Spoiler!

4x SMAA +4x Sprase Grid Sampling
Anisotrophix 16x
Ambient Occlusion - Performance
Shadow 3

Spoiler!

4x SMAA +4x Sprase Grid Sampling
Anisotrophix 16x
Ambient Occlusion - None
Shadow 5

Spoiler!

4x SMAA +4x Sprase Grid Sampling
Anisotrophix 16x
Ambient Occlusion - None
Shadow 3

Spoiler!

Images aren't working for me, I'd love to see a comparison.