Mucky Wucky - Preset for Gameplay and (maybe) Cinematic DOF (Gshade) (Ryzen APU friendly)

Idea around the preset

This preset is based on vanilla, and meant to enhance it, not drastically change it. Its meant to better shade characters with mildly better occlusion while not going overboard. Overboard would be what I was originally doing, which is stacking three MXAO shaders for a LOT of occlusion. Thats very costly and in the end just makes the contrast look whack. Instead for this preset I decided to take what vanilla tries to do with HBAO+ Quality and make it a little better looking on character models. Only problem with that is that MXAO eats performance, which is why I had to go through a few shaders and tweak game settings for better performance. Thus I ended up with a preset based around performance, on vanilla, while still undoing the greyish mess and adding to the mildly "okay" occlusion that vanilla does.

Things to know

For a Ryzen APU, you will likely have to run the low preset. In the graphics settings area there is some information that could help you a fair bit.

This is a preset based on some of my earlier tinkering with Gshade, however compared to my previous presets this is focused on optimization. In game, running lower than max occlusion settings (HBAO+: Standard) if you play at max settings is advised as you gain around 6 FPS without any huge loss in visuals. The reshade preset takes care of some of it through the PPFX SSDO shader. That is what I would recommend even for people struggling to reach 60 with reshade or people struggling to stay above 60 with a high refresh rate monitor.

Some people find the DOF a little jarring, namely magic DOF as it does not have a smooth focus. At some point I may tweak ADOF to do something similar but I haven't gotten around to it. For now, I will leave DOF as a second option.

I may add more preview images if I get lazy. Feel free to upload your own,just please flag/name files to warn of spoilers and just avoid posting certain late game areas in general.

There is now more than a very little chance of me checking the comments on this often. Feel free to comment and if I see it I will answer If there are any complaints or you don't like a particular part of the preset, I would love to hear, and if you perhaps know a bit more about configuring re-shade shaders I would love to hear as well!

When 7. 0's graphical update comes out I may or may not continue to mess with Gshade depending on how good it looks and what performance is offered.

Installation

To install, head to your final fantasy 14 directory, which you may either  already know the location of and if you do not it should be in

C:\Program Files(x86)\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\game

Then unzip the download from this mod page into the gshade-presets folder. You could also open this folder from G