Balancing AI sharpening to remove image noise
This is a classic case of over-sharpening causing visual pollution. I initially cranked the sharpening to the max, and the edges got these hideous white halos that looked like a cheap filter. In a Win11 environment with driver 560.1, I opened the NVIDIA Game Filter panel and dialed the sharpening down from 80% to about 35% - 40%, while dropping the contrast by 5%. The graininess vanished instantly. GamePP showed this had zero impact on performance, with frame times staying at 11ms - 13ms. One downside: in rainy scenes, the lower sharpening makes distant objects look a bit blurry. It's a limitation you just have to deal with—you've got to choose between clinical sharpness and a clean image.
