GeDoSaTo by Durante -- README=============================**Please read this whole document before running anything!**What is it?===========The incredibly imaginatively named GeDoSaTo is a generalized downsampling tool for PC games.Its goal is to obviate the need for (often limited and hardware dependent) driver modificationsto use downsampling in games.GeDoSaTo also supports game-specific plugins, for example a Dark Souls 2 plugin.How do I use it? (INSTALLATION & USAGE INSTRUCTIONS)====================================================1) Extract the contents of the zip to some permanent directory2) Run GeDoSaToTool.exe *as Administrator* (you can use this to perform the following steps)3) Adjust the settings in config/GeDoSaTo.ini and config/GeDoSaToKeys.ini as desired - you can also store game-specific setting overrides, see "config/Blackguards" as an example4) [optional] Add your game executable names to "whitelist.txt" in the "assets" folder (Dark Souls 2 and a few others are already included!)5) Select the downsampling resolution in-game if you want to use downsamplingWhat are the advantages and disadvantages compared to driver-level downsampling?================================================================================Advantages:- Essentially no resolution limits (beyond those of the GPU)- Downsampling from more than 4x the resolution is useful (multi-stage downsampling)- Selection of downsampling methods, including bicubic and lanczos (not just linear sampling)- Downsampling in linear color space- Support downsampling to high-frequency (e.g. 120 Hz or 144 Hz) target modes- Not limited by display hardware- Downsampling in borderless windowed fullscreen modeDisadvantages:- Compatibility is limited compared to driver-level downsampling (only DirectX9 and DirectX9Ex supported currently)- Bugs :PWhat additional features are there?===================================- Take screenshots of either the pre-downsampled full buffer or the actual image displayed on screen (automatically sorted in per-game folders!)- Generic texture overriding for all textures loaded using D3DX- Framerate limiting using double/triple/quadruple V-sync- Forcing borderless fullscreen mode and mouse cursor hiding- Frame timing information (both GPU and CPU)- FXAA, SMAA and postprocessing injection- [Dark Souls 2] VSSAO2, Bokeh DoF, HDR Bloom and HuD-less screenshotsWhat is the Dark Souls 2 plugin?================================The Dark Souls 2 plugin adds several (optional) graphical effects to the game.Note that you need to ENABLE IN-GAME ANTI ALIASING in order to use these effects.Will it work?=============It currently works relatively reliably for a number of games, but fails to work for others.Compatibility will hopefully improve with future versions.*I can not and will not guarantee that it will work for anyone else, or not have any adverse effect on your game/computer. Use at your own risk!*Are there known issues?=======================The mouse cursor position and/or click detection is broken in some games.Will it cause performance problems?===================================That depends on your system configuration. Usually, performance scales rather linearly with framebuffer size. Can I donate to motivate further GeDoSaTo development?======================================================You can find donation links on my blog, where I'll also release new versions:http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/You can also simply Paypal to peter@metaclassofnil.comHow can I contribute?=====================GeDoSaTo is on github: https://github.com/PeterTh/gedosatoHow can I uninstall it?============================Simply remove the files.If you want to be ultra clean, also remove the registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Durante\GeDoSaTo".Contact information===================Contact me at peter@metaclassofnil.com