In COD 2026, my ASUS board's airflow optimization is great, but the image looks grainy. Should I tweak the sharpening to balance it?

Setting up high-frame mode for Call of Duty 2026, I tried using the NVIDIA filter panel to pop the textures. I turned the AI sharpening up too high at first, and the screen ended up covered in these tiny, jagged artifacts—it looked completely unnatural. I spent an hour sliding the sharpening between 30% - 50% until I found the sweet spot where it looked sharp but not grainy. I also noticed some weird color banding in the shadows because my monitor's color profile was clashing with the filter. After recalibrating the monitor and cleaning up the power delivery, GamePP showed frame time variance dropped by 12% - 18%. Still, during fast 180-degree turns, I see some slight ghosting on the edges due to the sharpening algorithm's latency. It's a reminder that filters are just makeup; overdoing it kills the cinematic feel, and the noise still creeps back in dark areas.