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What makes legacy sharpening the preferred choice?
The old or legacy sharpening was simple yet allowed for more precise control. You just needed to move the sliders and be done with it. The new sharpening adds extra functions involving Nvidia Image Scaling (NIS), which you probably aren’t even going to use. I didn’t, because scaling my game down and back up to my native 768p monitor just didn’t look good.
Thankfully, changing a registry value allows us to restore the legacy sharpening. In this post I will guide you to bring back our favorite setting.
How to restore Nvidia's legacy sharpening
Below is the registry path for locating a registry value named EnableGR535.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nvlddmkm\FTS
In start, search for Registry Editor by typing regedit, and open it. Then copy the registry path above and paste it into the registry editor as shown in the picture below.
Look for the registry value EnableGR535. If you don't see it, create a new DWORD (32-bit) and name it to EnableGR535.
Double click EnableGR535 and change the value data to 0 as shown below. Make sure it is on hexadecimal.
A PC restart is not required; the change will take effect immediately. If you decide to revert to the default value, change the value data to 1.
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