The first order of business if you want to try a new game (after downloading the latest version of GeDoSaTo ) is adding the game's executables to the whitelist. Getting started with game-specific GeDoSaTo profilesĪs an example game, I picked Mass Effect 3 to demonstrate the process of implementing HUD-less post-processing. In the rest of this article, I'll walk through the steps of creating game-specific post-processing plugins that will only affect a game's graphics, not its UI. Ideally, we would inject post-processing which only affects the rendered image, but not the HUD/UI elements-and that is exactly what GeDoSaTo provides. This means that when you use a SweetFX injector to change color saturation or add AA, these changes affect the UI as well-and often be detrimental to its quality, as in the example above. The following image shows the menu screen of Blackguards, both with and without FXAA and post-processing.Īs you can see, the injected processing greatly improves the quality of the rendered background elements and cleans up their edges nicely, but it also reduces the clarity of the text and even introduces some artifacts in the 2D elements. Particularly with FXAA and heavier post-processing this can be quite detrimental to the image quality of UI elements, especially that of text. When you use a SweetFX injector to add some post-processing effects, they will always be applied to the final rendered image, which means that the HUD and various UI elements will be processed as well. Point (4) is where GeDoSaTo distinguishes itself.

Of course, the same types of post-processing can also be achieved using SweetFX. Select the desired settings in the configuration file, optionally edit the shader files and you are set. Points (1) to (3) are rather simple and straightforward to use. Post-processing, AA and screenshot targeting to individual pixel shaders.Customized image post-processing shaders.Injecting either SMAA or FXAA post-processing anti-aliasing.Downsampling from arbitrary resolutions (the fundamental purpose of GeDoSaTo).The Generic Plugin is automatically used whenever GeDoSaTo is launched with a game for which no specific plugin exists.

How to use sweetfx with dsfix