Thief 4: Tweaks & Fixes:

[lowenz]

Never thought it was enabled.....thanks!

Stupid camera lens "simulation" effects (bloom when overdone, chromatic aberration, flares, dirt, etc.....even DISTORSION of the entire viewport in Atlas Fallen - it's only acceptable in a sniping UI)

The only thing rivaling in "detest" feeling with camera lens effects is the pre-sharpening pass in case of Temporal AA (Chernobylite) or Depth of Field too (yes, I see you Dishonored 2 / DotO)

Edited April 28 by lowenz

[lowenz]

Here's a convenient list (from Sker :D)

Lens Flare + Lens Dirt +

Edited April 28 by lowenz

[Taquito]

So what is Distortion for in the game? Both Distortion and Filtered Distortion appear as true in the Settings ini

 

 

[lowenz]

No, I mean in OTHER games the lens distortion (like the classic sniping scope distorsion along the border of the scope lens)

In Thief there's no lens distorsion, so maybe it's only the heat distorsion.

I've just show a list of all the offenders  (when abused at full frame scale)

Edited April 29 by lowenz

[Taquito]

Here's a link with the Engine, Game and Input file in case anyone would like to dig in but don't own or have the game installed. Either for Performance or Quality optimization:

 

https://github.com/honzi/files/blob/master/Config/Thief/2014/ThiefEngine.ini