During the magic lighting sequences in Final Fantasy XV, AI sharpening filters produce heavy noise in shadows; wouldn't adding contrast suppression and balancing weights rebuild the visuals?

Testing this Setup reveals that AI sharpening filters absolutely freak out during high-contrast magic effects, essentially inflating digital noise until shadows look like static. I first tried cranking up the anti-aliasing, but that just turned the game into a blurry mess of Vaseline. The breakthrough came when I adjusted the contrast suppression slider to a range of 30% - 45% while simultaneously dialing back the sharpening weight. Looking via 3DMark's visual analysis, the image gradients smoothed out from jagged spikes to a natural flow. Does it fix everything? Not quite. In pitch-black corners, you've still got some tiny grain floating around, which is just par for the course with this engine. I wasting a lot of time thinking 4K would mask the noise, but it was a logic failure with the algorithm's weights. Balancing the suppression and the sharpness is the only way to stop the retinal burnout and actually enjoy the scenery. It turns a flickering noise-fest into a cinematic dream.