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🪄 Hogwarts Legacy 🪄 4k, HDR, Ultra Settings, Improved Raytracing. Patchlevel July 24, 2024

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This video is an in-game recording of the game Hogwarts Legacy, patch level July 24, 2024, recorded in 4k, HDR, with all Ultra settings and improved Raytracing.  ▶️ All details below.

🕒 *VIDEO TIMELINE*
- Broom flight over the lake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0AT0mfQLH8&t=41s

- Hogsmeade on a rainy night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0AT0mfQLH8&t=140s

- Inside Hogwards at night (beautiful light mood)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0AT0mfQLH8&t=237s

- Hogwars by day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0AT0mfQLH8&t=364s

Hogwarts, in the Great Hall during daytime (simply beautiful)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0AT0mfQLH8&t=495s

✅ *SETTINGS*
- Everything on Ultra, including all Raytracing options
- Upscaler: NVIDIA DLSS
- Upscale Mode: NVIDIA DLSS Auto
- Frame generation: OFF
- NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: On + Boost
- VSync: OFF
- All other settings in Windows, the Nvidia Control Panel, Hogwarts ini files, etc. are default values.

*With these settings, I didn't have a single crash on my second playthrough.*

✅ *HARDWARE* 
The hardware used to create this video was an NVIDIA RTX 4090 (undervolted), an Intel 14900k CPU (also undervolted), a Gen4 NVME and Windows 11 23H2.

*⚠️Issues with crashes*
If you have issues with crashes: Perform a clean reinstall of the game. Make sure you are running your CPU according to Intel/AMD specifications, NOT with the automatically applied motherboard overclocking. Make sure you are using the latest BIOS. This applies in particular to Intel CPUs of the 13th and 14th generation. You can find more information on the Internet under the search term "intel cpu degrading". Intel has discovered that bugs in the CPU microcode have damaged many of their CPUs when overclocked by the motherboard (or user). According to Intel, this can lead to frequent software crashes. Affected are all Intel CPUs of the 13th and 14th generation, which have a TDP of 65 watts and higher.

👀 *Hogwards Legacy triggers these crashes* mainly during shader compilation and while loading scenes, as only a few CPU cores are used, but these run under high load and thus high frequencies and voltages.

✅ *GAME MODS*
The installation is vanilla, very slightly modified:

- Use of the latest DLSS version 3.7.20.0 
I had to turn off Frame Generation because of rare artifacts that I didn't like to see.

- Use of the Fairy Tale Lighting Mod from nexusmods
For more intense colors.

- Improved Raytracing by adding the followng lines to the games Engine.ini: 
[SystemSettings]  
r.RayTracing.Reflections.ScreenPercentage=100
r.RayTracing.Reflections.MaxRoughness=0.8
r.Reflections.Denoiser=1
r.Reflections.Denoiser.ReconstructionSamples=8

- Use of the Time Dilator Mod and Animated Game Time from nexusmods 
I used it to shorten the day-night cycles to make it easier to record the lighting in this video.

✅ I'm happy to answer your questions about the game's settings in the comments.

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