Custom Post-processing Tweaks With Profile Inspector

Ever wondered how to make your games look better and run smoother? Basic post-processing tweaks boost visuals and overall feel.

NVIDIA Profile Inspector lets you adjust graphics settings and profiles. You can change sharpening, color, and anti-aliasing for cleaner visuals.

In this article, we explore how to use custom post-processing tweaks to improve both performance and graphics.

Profile Inspector Overview

Profile Inspector is a small tool that lets you access advanced graphics card settings.

It gives you more control than the standard control panel and lets you adjust how games and apps use your GPU.

With it, you can adjust performance, visual quality, and custom post-processing options clearly and directly.

Best Post-processing Settings in Profile Inspector

Here are some helpful post-processing settings in Profile Inspector that can make your games look more precise and smoother:

• Sharpening Filter (Image Sharpening): Adds more clarity to textures, making the picture look crisp without stressing the GPU.
  
• FXAA (Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing): Softens rough edges on objects, giving a smoother look with almost no performance loss.
• Transparency Super sampling: Improves the appearance of small details like grass, fences, bushes, and wires, preventing them from looking grainy or broken.
• Ambient Occlusion Compatibility: Adds more natural shadows around objects, giving the game a deeper and more realistic feel.
• Texture Filtering Quality: Set this to "High Quality" for cleaner textures and reduced shimmering as you move.
• Negative LOD Bias Clamp: Helps reduce flickering edges and tiny shimmering effects, especially when the camera moves fast. Anisotropic
• Filtering Override: Keeps ground textures and angled surfaces sharp, especially roads, walls, and floors.
• Gamma Correction for AA: Maintains brightness and smoothness when anti-aliasing is enabled, preventing washed-out visuals.

These settings can improve visual quality without making the game heavy.

How to Tweak Post-processing in Profile Inspector?

You may improve the look of your games by altering a few post-processing parameters in the Profile Inspector.

1] Open the Profile Inspector.

Launch the tool and wait for it to load all of your GPU profiles before proceeding to alter them.

2] Select Your Game Profile.

Open the drop-down list and select the game you wish to modify, ensuring that your modifications only affect that particular title.

3] Find the Post-processing Settings.

Scroll through the options until you find areas for sharpening, anti-aliasing, ambient occlusion, and color tweaking. These determine how the final image displays onscreen.

4] Adjust the Sharpening Level.

Increase sharpness for crisper textures and more visible details, and reduce it if the image becomes too noisy or sharp at the edges.

5] Modify Anti-aliasing Parameters.

Choose a higher anti-aliasing level to smooth jagged lines, or go with lower levels to reduce GPU load and maintain consistent performance.

6] Tune Ambient Occlusion.

Turn on ambient occlusion or increase its strength to create more realistic contact shadows, making scenes feel richer and less flat.

7] Check the Color and Gamma Controls.

If available, gradually adjust the color tone or gamma levels to match your preferences or correct situations that appear too dull or too bright.

8] Apply and Save Your Changes.

Click Apply Changes to save the modified settings so the game will use them every time you run it.

9] Restart the Game.

Close and restart your game to ensure all revised post-processing changes are applied correctly.

With these simple changes, you can make your games appear cleaner and more finished.

Closing Words

Using Profile Inspector to fine-tune post-processing can help your games and apps look better and operate faster.

Adjusting the settings lets you remove visual flaws, improve clarity, and gain more control over how graphics appear.

With these adjustments, your display will become cleaner, sharper, and more enjoyable to use.

About the Author:

I'm River Jensen, a tech enthusiast working on NVIDIA Profile Inspector, a project dedicated to enhancing digital experiences through advanced GPU settings and performance optimization.

I'm passionate about combining creativity and technical knowledge to create graphics profiles that improve performance, improve visuals, and maximize the capabilities of NVIDIA technology.

Reference: [Night Run Studio]. (2023, October 1). Make Your Game Look Great: Post-Processing in Unity [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFhi7Yfdrfo