What is sweetfx cs go. SweetFX - advanced graphics settings for any game. Questions arise - is vibrancegui banned

All players already have information on how to fully optimize a video card with a cs go game. The Vibrance optimization process itself is reduced to fine tuning reaching the maximum level. This can be done by hand, but you can use one of the convenient VibranceGUI programs, which will do everything automatically when you enter the game.

If you compare Sweetfx and VibranceGUI, then the latter program has some drawbacks, but it also has its advantages, in contrast to Sweetfx.

The cons boil down to the fact that:

• This program will require a separate process in the operating system.
• Without autorun, you have to run it all the time.
• Not provided with a choice of config, as it was in Sweetfx

The pros boil down to:

• A Truly Working Program for Vibrance Optimization
• Allows you to select the level of Vibrance in the game.
• Allows you to set yourself to autorun.

How to use the VibranceGUI program.

Using VibranceGUI in cs go.

Download VibranceGUI, then launch it, set the settings on the screenshot below and turn on the game. After that, enjoy the automatic increase. Vibrance when starting cs go... When you exit the game, the color correction will automatically revert to the default settings.

Questions arise - are vibrancegui banned?

The program has nothing to do with cheats and all sorts of tricks, therefore, VAC does not react to it in any way.

There are two versions available for download. A regular version, in which any game can be present, and a special one for CS GO. We choose any.

If you play cs go on a laptop or laptop, you should know that Vibrance is not supported on laptop video cards in the control panel, so you cannot install it on your laptop.

If vibrancegui doesn't work for you, let's look for the reason.

Ask questions here, we will understand the reason, and try to eliminate it so that everything will work for you. After all, this is an ideal program for optimizing computer resources for cs go.

How to remove vibrancegui

Many players who do not come to a solution to the problem, and for whom, due to unknown reasons, it does not work, lose patience and try to remove it, but they do not do it correctly. To remove any third party software it is better to use different programs. For example, use the Revo Uninstaller Pro program. It will optimally clean the program from the system, and pull out all the tails that are stuck in the registry. After that, you will definitely clean your Windows from the Vibrancegui program. But, the Vibrancegui program does not install into the registry, or somewhere else. It is more related to the portrable version. When closed, everything is automatically closed. If you delete the folder with the program, then it will be immediately deleted as well.

I don't like the graphics in the game Counter strike Global Offensive, but couldn't find any mods that replace graphics? There is a solution for this! Svetofix for CS: GO is a script that improves the graphics, making the graphics richer and more pleasing to the eye. I will say right away, somethis script does not change textures, just makes the graphics richer.

Here is the difference between graphics without a light fix and with a light fix:

The screenshot shows that with the light fix, the graphics looks much nicer than the usual CSGO graphics.

Who can use this script?

Almost every player can download this script and use it, however there are some requirements. Since this script is graphic in nature, in order to use it you need to have at least an average computer, that is, if Counter Strike Global Offensive hangs with medium graphic settings, then you should not install a light fix, since a weak video card will not pull it. However, if your csgo pulls above average graphics, then you can safely install it!

Is there a wak ban for SweetFx?

In fact, it is really worth using light fix if you have at least an average computer, since the graphics in CSGO look awful and saturation will not hurt. However, this is to the taste of the player.

V recent times there was a heated discussion on the Internet whether a VAC was issued a ban for using a light fix, some people said that they did it, some said they didn’t and still use a light fix. So let's figure it outDoes VAC give a ban for using a light fix?Not really! Nobody will be banned for using the light fix, since this is not a third-party program, but just something like graphic fashion, which does not provide any advantages in the game itself, only changes the graphics. Many professional players use SweetFX and shoot streams using light fix and still have not been banned for using this script, so you can safely use it!

Where to download and how to remove the light fix?

Svetofix can be downloaded off. website http://gamebanana.com/gamefiles/3415, it is installed quite easily, and you can delete it simply by deleting the downloaded files or by checking the cache in the librarySteam(if you have licensed version cs go, not a pirate).

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Foreword

Progress is relentless - every year the quality of graphics in games is getting closer to what we see in reality and movies.

Will we ever get to the point where games are completely indistinguishable from movies? Of course, yes.

But what about old games? Left on the sidelines of history, they can still, as they say, cling to the soul. The graphics are not important if the game is interesting, but the feeling of regret no-no yes slips into the heart. Fortunately, there are ways to improve the graphics of older games.

No, this is not a photograph. Craftsmen modified the game GTA IV (released in 2008, by the way!). The ENBSeries add-on played a significant role.

Developers rarely update their old games. If this does happen, then the changes are minimal: they add the buzzword "HD" or "Enhanced Edition" to the name, put clearer textures and ... that's all. For example, this is how it looks Resident evil 4 Ultimate HD Edition versus the regular version:

The improved textures (left) are good, of course, but the implementation is so-so. The textures are still not crisp enough to hide blemishes.

Even this modification is for the better. But what if there is no HD version of your favorite game? Fortunately, this is fixable.

Ways to improve graphics in games

There are several ways to improve the graphics of the game.

1. Own game settings

Captain Style The obvious one is that every PC game has its own graphics settings. This is done in order to be able to play comfortably on low-performance computers. Who wants to see beautiful rays of light from the sky at dawn, reflected on the dew drops of the roadside grasses of Tamriel's roads, realistic shadows and reflections from the fire, and even so that all this does not slow down, take a more powerful computer or go outside. If your computer is "office" level, you will have to abandon the beauty and set the settings to a minimum - everything is blurry and primitive, but the game works without freezes.

Doesn't the game slow down at the maximum graphics settings? Congratulations - the video card and processor can handle the load, you can improve the graphics with third-party tools.

2. Video card driver settings

By using nVidia Control Panel(in Russian "nVidia Control Panel"), Catalyst Control Center or Intel Graphics and Media Control Panels(it all depends on the manufacturer of the video card) you can forcibly set some game settings if they do not change in the game itself or there are no such options at all. Unfortunately, the options are limited. We have access to the settings for pixel anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering (clarity of distant textures) and mip bias (also responsible for the clarity of textures, objects), and some others. In practice, only the forced activation of anti-aliasing comes in handy, if there is no such option in the game.

3. SweetFX - set of filters

Imagine that a picture of a game is a video clip that you can apply effects to. This is roughly how SweetFX works.

Most hobbyist graphics patches for games turn out to be just customized with this thing.

SweetFX(FXAA Post Process Injector, alternative - FXAA Tool) - a set of filters (so-called shaders) applied over pictures of the game. You can't make the water more realistic or make the characters cast normal shadows with SweetFX, no. But you can apply a number of effects that improve the picture in general:

• Enable pixel anti-aliasing even in games that, in principle, do not support this (FXAA and more advanced SMAA methods). The pixels on the screen will no longer be visible.
• Sharpen the picture with a sharpen filter.
• Add a "vignette" effect - darkening the picture at the edges of the screen. This technique focuses the gaze on the center of the screen and adds a three-dimensional effect.
• Adjust brightness, contrast, color gamut of the picture. If the game annoys you with some shade, just remove it.
• Add a "bloom" effect - a glow around bright light sources.
• Make a pseudo-HDR picture - when the dark and light parts of the picture are equally detailed, which is more natural for our eyesight.
• By combining different filters to achieve the same effects as, for example, photos on Instagram.

The most important thing is that all this does not slow down! That is, in principle, it puts a load on the processor and video card, but insignificant, if everything is configured correctly.

Update from 6/08/2018: Now instead of SweetFX they use. More options, easier to customize (right in the game).

4. ENBSeries

• high-quality anti-aliasing of pixels,
• realistic reflections,
• believable shadows
• lighting effects (beautiful light halos around lamps, the sun, high-quality bloom, light rays in the foliage, and so on),
• the effect of adaptation to light, imitating the reaction of our eyes - when leaving a dark room into the light for a few seconds, the picture will be bright and vice versa,
• focus effect - when looking at close objects, the background will be blurred.

All effects are highly customizable. You can add your own if you know how to create shaders.

Opportunities for ENBSeries are a wagon and a hundred bogies. Unfortunately, ENB heavily loads the computer's video card, so all the effects can be enabled at once only on a modern computer with an expensive video card.

5. Patches for games and manual editing of settings

Sometimes the developers themselves turn off any effects. For example, popular game Watch dogs at E3 in 2012, she was delighted with her revolutionary graphics. At the E3-2013 exhibition, the game got rid of some of the effects, and in 2014 the players were in for an unpleasant surprise - the game looked even more faded. Here is a comparison of the game over the years, from exhibitions to the final version on modern game consoles:

True, there is another opinion - they say, at the exhibitions they showed the most impressive moments of the game, in the final version in exactly the same situations (coincidence of time of day, weather, place) the game looks exactly the same as in 2012.

Be that as it may, enthusiasts find locked options in the code of games and turn them on, making the graphics more realistic. I will not provide a link to the patch for Watch Dogs for obvious reasons, I just say its name: TheWorse Mod for Watch_Dogs.

You can always use Google to find patches and tips to improve the graphics for your games. I would also like to draw your attention to the WideScreen Gaming site dedicated to ways to run games on modern widescreen monitors and multi-monitor configurations. Simply put, there is a database of patches that allow you to run old games in modern screen resolution.

SweetFX

The easiest and most interesting method to improve game graphics is to use SweetFX.

Install SweetFX

Let's start to improve the graphics. Let's start with a simple one - installing SweetFX.

Perhaps from the moment of writing the article came out a new version, so you can take a look at the official site.

Step 1. Unpack the downloaded archive SweetFX-Configurator_standalone_with_SweetFX_1.5.1.7z to any folder. The easiest way is to go to the Documents folder.

If the archive does not open, it means that you do not have an archiver program installed. Recommend 7-zip.

Step 2. Find the program in the unpacked folder SweetFX_config.exe Create a shortcut for it on the Desktop so that you don't have to open the folder every time.

Step 3. To inject the effects into the game, finally launch SweetFX_config and click Add new game:

For clarity, I decided to refine the old one, but interesting game GTA: San andreas ... Having added it to the list, install SweetFX with the button " Add SweetFX". All the necessary files will be copied to the game folder, the settings will appear in the window:

To save the settings automatically, put a daw on " Automatically save on changes«.

Each effect is turned on with a checkbox. Everything is customizable in detail: just select the filter with the mouse - a list of its settings will appear below.

Here are some tips for customizing each effect:

• The description contains the minimum and maximum values ​​of the parameter.
• In the description, the standard value of the parameter is given in square brackets.
• The value is set manually, and you can enter a fractional value using period (not a comma!).

You do not need to restart the game to view the changes. You can collapse it, edit the settings in SweetFX Configurator and expand it again - the effect is applied immediately. If something is wrong, the Pause / Break keyboard button will manually reload the settings. And "Scroll Lock" turns SweetFX off and on.

Description of SweetFX filters

If you know English, great. If not, below you will find the translation of each title.

1. SMAA Anti-Aliasing: anti-aliasing using the SMAA method.

To show what pixel anti-aliasing is, I have prepared a visual animation for you using the example of a game. Gta san Andreas (by the way, SweetFX works with GTA 5 too):

Individual pixels are almost invisible, sharp lines are smoothed out.

The standard (and popular) MSAA anti-aliasing method works clumsy, but efficiently: the game picture is rendered by the video card in a resolution several times higher than the resolution of your monitor, then reduced. High quality - the pixels are invisible, the picture is clear - is achieved through a huge amount of calculations that not every video card is capable of performing.

In order not to overload the video card, we came up with methods of smoothing the picture without scaling - FXAA and more advanced SMAA. Unfortunately, SweetFX smooths the entire image on the screen at once, so all the labels are slightly distorted. If you select the SMAA line and set the SMAA_CORNER_ROUNDING parameter (the strength of corner smoothing) to the maximum value of 100, this distortion will be very noticeable, but the picture will become very “smooth”.

For those who do not care about the clarity of fonts in games (like me), I recommend the following recipe: turn off standard anti-aliasing in the game (to reduce the load on the video card and increase the frame rate), turn on SMAA, set the effect parameters to maximum:

• SMAA_THRESHOLD: 0.05
• SMAA_MAX_SEARCH_STEPS: 98
• SMAA_MAX_SEARCH_STEPS_DIAG: 16
• SMAA_CORNER_ROUNDING: 100

This will save our eyes from contemplating sharp lines and pixels sticking out from everywhere, but it will make the picture a little blurry. Turn on the sharpening effect LumaSharpen- excessive blur will disappear.

For the sake of fairness, I note that immediately after installing SweetFX, these effects are enabled. I only advise you to set the anti-aliasing settings to maximum and turn off the built-in anti-aliasing in the game so that the frame rate remains high.

2. FXAA Anti-aliasing: ancestor of SMAA anti-aliasing. Blurs the image more, and does not smooth out the edges as effectively. Forget this point.

3. Explosion:"Explodes pixels". The only parameter of the effect - Explosion_Radius - controls the strength of the effect.

Why do I need it - I don't know.

4. Cartoon: hand drawn picture effect. The end result is highly dependent on other effects (SMAA, CRT, Bloom, HDR and Lumasharpen):

The SweetFX Bloom effect has three parameters:

• BloomThreshold - the lower the value, the darker areas are captured by the effect. At zero, the screen is almost completely white.
• BloomPower (from 0 to 8) - the strength of the glow.
• BloomWidth (from 0 to 1) - the width of the glow.

I most often set the values ​​40, 8 and 1 - the picture becomes bright, "juicy" in excessively dark games.

7. HDR: Pseudo HDR effect. The effect allows you to see the outlines of very bright and very dark objects. The default settings barely change the image:

To enhance the effect, I increased the HDRPower parameter by one:

In theory, light areas should get darker, dark areas lighter. But since this is pseudo-HDR, the picture just gets more contrast. This effect is useful in games where the picture is not contrasting.

8. LumaSharpen- Sharpness effect. Enabled by default. Has two parameters - sharp_strength and sharp_clamp. The first is the strength of the effect, the second is the limiter of the effect. The standard values ​​are quite optimal - a little sharpness without fanaticism.

9. Levels- an effect that adjusts the brightness of the image. Useless because it works clumsy, unlike the same effect in Photoshop.

10. Technicolor- an effect that allows you to simulate shooting with an old camera. Useful when you need to add some color to the image. At default settings, slightly lowers chroma and gives blacks a blue tint.

11. Cineon DPX- an effect similar to the previous one that simulates shooting with a camera, but implemented differently. You can also give any shade to the image, but there are more settings.

12. Monochrome- makes the picture black and white.

13. Lift Gamma Gain- A useful filter that allows you to separately adjust the brightness of light, dark and intermediate tones of the image. If you want to give an image a tint, try this tool first.

14. Tonemap- a set of filters for adjusting gamma, exposure, color, fading (bleach) and removing fog (defog).

15. Vibrance- SweetFX filter that enhances the chromaticity of faded tones:

The Vibrance filter can be enabled in almost all games by setting the Vibrance parameter (the effect and its parameter in the lower part of the SweetFX Configurator window are named the same) to 0.70. This is enough for the game to shine with new colors, without overdoing it with bright colors.

16. Curves- curves. Those who use Photoshop will understand what it is. In short, it is a powerful tool for adjusting brightness and contrast.

17. Sepia- by default gives the image a brown tint (sepia). You can choose any other shade and adjust its power.

18. Vignette- vignette effect. Darkens or lightens the image around the edges.

19. Dither- judging by the description, the effect allows you to show more shades on the monitor than it can show. In practice, no difference is noticeable.

20. Border- adding black bars around the edges of the screen to give the effect of "cinematic". In practice it is useless, because the player needs to see as much of the playing space as possible, the embrasure gap is not needed here.

21. Splitscreen- split screen for comparing pictures with and without effects. For example:

To transfer settings to another game, you need to create settings in this window (enter a name in the field Name and press New preset), select it in the list above and press Export preset- the settings will be saved as a regular text document. Button Import preset will load such a settings file.

Where to get ready-made SweetFX settings

In the settings window described above, using the button Import preset you can load the settings of other players.

ENBSeries - the graphics revolution

Unlike SweetFX, ENB does not always work. But the result is impressive:

Pay attention: a shadow appeared from the central palm tree, the sidewalk began to shine a little.

Depending on ENB settings and game capabilities, the effects will be different. For example, for Skyrim games have come up with many options for ENB. Some of them:

You don't have to bother with the settings, but just turn on everything and adjust the color gamut - even this gives an improvement in the quality of the graphics:

ENBSeries, unlike SweetFX, improves graphics by adding high-quality reflections, realistic shadows and generally improves the picture by changing the algorithms for working with lighting.

How to install ENB

How to install this miracle?

2. The archive is unpacked into the game folder.

3. After starting the game, information about the ENB version should appear in the upper left corner.

How to set up ENB

How do you customize this cool thing?

The first versions of ENBSeries were customized by editing the file enbseries.ini using a text editor (standard Notepad will do). The file is located in the game folder. You can do this now, but you will have to restart the game to see the changes.

A more modern way - after installing ENB and starting the game, press Shift + Enter- settings appear on the left side of the screen. With jackdaws, you can both enable the effects themselves, and their options in the corresponding sections.

Universal version of ENB for all games and specials have different sets settings. Therefore, do not be surprised if you do not see any items in the .ini file or menu.

Information about all settings:

• ENBseries for GTA 4. Documentation - here you can find information on setting up ENB for GTA4. In my opinion, everything is chewed up there in maximum detail.
• How to set up ENBSeries: part 1, part 2, part 3 - here it is talked about old version ENB, with settings via editing enbseries.ini.

Ready-to-use ENB builds that improve graphics:

• The largest repository of mods for games - the Nexus mods site - has a section called "ENB Presets" for a number of games. Follow this link, select your game (if it is there, of course), then the menu Files - Categories and look for the item ENB Presets... If there are normal ENB assemblies for the game, then they are exactly there. For example, I tried from there about fifty assemblies ENB for playing Skyrim.
• Also, nobody canceled Google. I don’t need to tell you how to use the search. For example, on the Internet in bulk ENB assemblies for GTA games.
• For lovers of GTA IV and The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim pay attention to the site A State of Trance - there the author tells (in English) about best mods to improve the graphics of the named games.

Advice: often the archive with the ENB settings does not contain the actual ENB files (and rightly so - the author of ENB prohibits distributing his creation in the form of assemblies). Therefore, you will first have to download and install the ENB version for your game from the official site (or universal, if there is no special one), then unpack the settings for ENB there. Read the instructions!

How to combine SweetFX and ENB

Both modifications work by replacing the same file - d3d9.dll. Getting them to work together is pretty simple:

Step 1. Install SweetFX.

Step 2. In the game folder, rename the file “ d3d9.dll"In, for example," d3d9-sweetfx.dll«.

Step 3. Install ENB (SweetFX won't work yet).

Step 4. Open the file with Notepad enblocal.ini in the game folder, fix the beginning of the file like this:

EnableProxyLibrary = true InitProxyFunctions = true ProxyLibrary = d3d9-sweetfx.dll

I have highlighted what you need to fix.

Step 5. ENB and SweetFX can be customized.

ENB and SweetFX will work together.

In which games can you improve the graphics

Unfortunately, SweetFX and ENB do not work with all games. To explain why this happens, you need to tell a little theory.

The image from the game that we see on the screen can be drawn in different ways. Most Popular:

1. GDI- a method of displaying graphics, which appeared for the first time in Windows 95. It practically does not use the resources of the video card, therefore, it is impossible to display three-dimensional graphics. SweetFX and ENB are not supported for a simple reason - games using this method are primitive in terms of graphics (for example, cards, checkers, chess). SweetFX and ENB do not work with GDI.

2.GDI +- a more modern method of displaying two-dimensional graphics, used in modern programs. For 3D it is still impractical to use, because using GDI +, any complex graphics will take a long time to draw. SweetFX and ENB do not work with GDI +.

3. OpenGL- a method of outputting three-dimensional graphics, used not only by games, but also by professional programs such as 3DS Max. There are a lot of games using OpenGL, especially old ones. SweetFX and ENB do not know how to improve graphics in OpenGL-games, but you can cheat by transferring graphics to DirectX "rails" using QindieGL or GLDirect. UPD: it seems like we have already learned to work with OpenGL.

4. DirectDraw- another method for displaying graphics. A lot of good old games work through DirectDraw. Unfortunately, SweetFX or ENB will not be able to improve the graphics in them.

5. DirectX- what is it, I’m already in another article. In short, this is a set of functions, algorithms that allow you to use the capabilities of a video card for drawing graphics as efficiently as possible. OpenGL solves a similar problem, but no one has yet developed SweetFX and ENB for OpenGL.

Games work with DirectX primarily through the d3d9.dll program library located in the Windows system folder. Both SweetFX and ENB need to keep track of the rendering functions for their work, changing them according to their algorithms. To do this, the d3d9.dll file is placed in the game folder, which contains functions for improving graphics and further redirecting commands to original file d3d9.dll. Therefore, if you suddenly decide to replace d3d9.dll in the Windows folder with such a file, instead of improving the graphics in games, you will at best get a set of glitches, at worst - an inoperative operating system.

So can SweetFX and ENB work with DirectX games? DirectX comes in different versions - from 1 to 11.1 at the moment (not counting the intermediate ones). SweetFX and ENB can work with DirectX 9th version. There is a DirectX 8 -> DirectX 9 converter from the author of ENB, but it does not always work. So a lot of games using an older version of DirectX remain in the air (eg the Mech Commander strategy series).

Also, there is no converter from DirectDraw to DirectX 9. But there are converters from OpenGL to DirectX. I advise using QindieGL and

If you do not know English and / or do not want to read the instructions, do not try to download the above converters, just waste your time.

In the future, support for DirectX versions 10-11 will probably be added, as there are more and more games supporting these technologies.

Improving graphics - myths and reality

Myth one: animation and other features of old games

Ennoble appearance games are possible. It is especially great when the game officially supports modifications (for example, TES4: Oblivion, Skyrim, MineCraft) - this can significantly improve the graphics and gameplay.

But graphics are a pretty wrapper, nothing more. Inside, the game will remain old, whatever one may say. Characters will have constrained animations, you will not be able to kick / move objects where it was not intended, you will not be able to punch walls where they could not be pushed, and so on.

Does this mean SweetFX and ENB are useless? In my opinion, they make it possible to squeeze everything out of games that they are capable of, so their use is justified. Just don't expect miracles. Interactivity they will not add.

The second myth: modern games have the "coolest" graphics at the moment

Every year, developers are using more and more technologies to attract the attention of the player. The wrapper must be pretty to be bought. Accordingly, sales increase, game publishers are enriched.

However, truly impressive innovations are rarely used. Why? Firstly, these are unnecessary expenses - while the technology is introduced, the game will become obsolete. Second, the players buy games anyway, even if their graphic performance is a quiet horror (for example, the series Call games of Duty).

To understand what technologies for enhancing realism in games have been invented, I advise you to read very interesting articles:

With this knowledge, you will realize that the current games in terms of graphics are nowhere near as good as they could be. Moreover, it becomes obvious that the developers are lazy. They promise something unimaginable without using even a tenth of what can actually be achieved.

The third myth: good game should have cool graphics

If you enjoy playing games solely because of realistic graphics, I have bad news for you - you missed the release of an amazing game called Life.

Games are not a movie. They catch on with their plot, capabilities, gameplay. Graphics play an important role, but often sloppy sketches are better than realism (another World is a prime example).

Outcome

We don't play old games because of the graphics. Strong feeling of nostalgia, fond memories of that time, an interesting plot or some trifle that will pass with a person through the years - the graphics do not occupy the most prominent place here.

Tip: when trying to fit an old wardrobe into a modern interior, do not forget about Narnia in it.

SweetFX is a shader library injector that allows you to modify or apply post-processing shader effects for 3D games. You can watch a quick and detailed description of the utility in the video below, starting at 2:06.

Simply put, SweetFX is an advanced graphics setting for games that use the DirectX library. This application has a package of effects that can improve the picture in the game. Below in the screenshot is an example of a picture from the game without SweetFX and using the program.

The range of features of the program includes: the ability to add SMA-anti-aliasing, cartoon effect, luma-sharping (sharpness effect), bloom, pseudo HDR and many other complex words that allow you to make the picture in the game cooler 🙂

SweetFX is a real opportunity to improve the picture, make it brighter and more contrasting. This is the main difference between the program and the standard capabilities of video cards to change the color saturation.

Downloading and installing SweetFX

For a start, it's worth mentioning that SweetFX can be installed not only in CS: GO, but also on any of your games.

Download the program only from trusted sources:

• Clicking the button “Manual Download” on the official page at Gamebanana
• right now 🙂

Then open the archive, in it the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive folder and copy all the files to the game folder:

\ steam \ steamapps \ common \ Counter-Strike Global Offensive \ csgo

Then we go into the game, in the Settings, and in the video settings, turn off the “Multisampling” parameter. This option prevents the SweetFX shader library.

Everything. Immediately after disabling multisampling, the picture will change and become brighter:

To download additional presets, go to http://sfx.thelazy.net/games/game/242/. This site has a fairly large database of various presets. Those. program settings saved by other people.

The navigation on the site is pretty straightforward. It is enough to select the desired preset from the table, see the effect in the attached screenshots and click the “Download preset” button:

The benefits of SweetFX can be seen in different games, including in the most popular shooter Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO). But for this it still needs to be installed and configured correctly. You can solve this problem in a couple of minutes, acting strictly according to the instructions below.

Installation process

If you still do not know how to install SweetFX for CS: GO, then this procedure involves just a few steps:

• go to the official website and download the SweetFX archive to your computer;
• unpack the downloaded archive to a location convenient for you;
• find the csgo folder in the unpacked files and move its contents to the folder with the installed game.

So, the library is installed. Now you need to make some settings, for which we go to CS: GO, where in the game options in the video parameters you need to disable multisampling, which prevents the SweetFX shader library. After making changes, you will immediately see the result of the graphics library: the clarity of the picture, the saturation of the shades and the smoothness of the lines will increase, the players will begin to cast the correct shadows. All this will not affect the performance in any way - the game will work without delays, only the gamer will observe a better image. The player can customize the graphic effects and parameters to their liking. This can be done by installing presets or by adjusting the settings in the SweetFX Settings file, which you can open with notepad and make the necessary changes.

Many gamers give up using SweetFX for fear of getting a Vac Ban, but these fears are completely unfounded. The fact is that SweetFX does not change the game files themselves, it only manages the DirectX libraries that are used by any game. In addition, the number of downloads, which amounts to hundreds of thousands, is an unnecessary guarantee of safety and protection against ban.

Removal process

For a number of reasons, you may need to remove the graphics library from your computer, but this procedure only takes a couple of mouse clicks. We go to the csgo directory, where we find the SweetFX Uninstall.bat file, click on it with the mouse, after which the library will be deleted. Then we delete the file itself from the hard disk, and no trace of SweetFX will remain on your computer.

Peculiarities

It is worth clarifying that SweetFX only works with NVIDIA video cards. If you own an AMD video card, then to improve the picture quality when playing Counter Strike, you will have to use the AMD Saturation toggler utility, which has similar functions.

Now you can easily install or uninstall the SweetFX utility on your computer, which makes playing Counter Strike: Global Offensive even more interesting, regardless of whether you are playing on the side of terrorists or the police.