S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl - Enhanced Edition

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl - Enhanced Edition

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Blurry Image Fix
By Nyxialist
Hey, folks. By default, the image is INSANELY blurry and grainy for some reason. I already posted this in the Discussions section, but a fellow Steam user advised me to post it as a Guide as well. Here's what I did to make my game look clearer:

- Set Anti-aliasing to FXAA
- Set Anistrophic Filtering to max
- Disable Global Illumination (disabling this allows you to enable SSAO)
- Set SSAO mode to HBAO, and SSAO quality to High (not a huge difference between the SSAO modes, but HBAO looks ever so slightly better than the others for me)
- Enable FSR Sharpness and set it to max
- FSR Frame Generation OFF (this causes a lot of input lag and weird ghosting for me)
- set FSR to Native

With these changes, the game looks WAY better for me. Some distant objects and NPCs still look slightly blurry, but its still hell of a lot better than what it was when I first launched the game. It seems that Native FSR with max Sharpness and SSAO have the biggest impact in visual quality. Having Global Illumination on made my game look absolutely terrible. I hope this helps anyone struggling with muddy image quality.

For reference, here's my setup: RTX 3070Ti, Ryzen 5 5600X, 16GB RAM, playing on 1080p 144hz
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7 Comments
Not Strelok™ 31 May @ 8:49pm 
Does anyone here know how to get the game running?
I have been looking all over Reddit and Steam and also many videos for what feels like hours, and I found nothing to help. Just about 99% of information I find is made by unhelpful Tec Fudd's. Who spill out garbage nonsense, and show outdated settings that do nothing. I have wasted my time looking for stuff that does not help at all.
Please help me, I am tired. I have been looking for a fix for hours at this point.
Please no Tec Fudd garbage. I want information that can help me.
10-12 benadryl guy 30 May @ 8:00pm 
Literal game changer, thank you so much.
ZiCell 21 May @ 6:32am 
Thank you bro, these settings actually helped me. I was starting to get tired of all the blur and noise on my screen. Now it looks relatively sharp.
Nyxialist  [author] 21 May @ 3:01am 
I have FSR Frame Generation disabled, as it causes quite a bit of input lag and ghosting on my setup. Thanks for pointing that out, Terry. Just added that to the post as well.
Solus Grimwelder 21 May @ 2:29am 
Frame generation should have no effect on image quality. It could potentially improve framerates at the expense of input delay. You could enable it if you have an Nvidia card and also enable its reflex low latency mode.
Terry 20 May @ 11:47pm 
sorry its FSR Frame Generation
Terry 20 May @ 11:46pm 
do you enable FSR Image Generation?