Nvidia Image Sharpening Greyed Out + FXAA doesn't work

Does anyone know why “image sharpening” is not available? I would love to try it out but the slider is greyed out and I can’t sort out how to enable it.

edit: …and while I’m at it, ticking the box for “FXAA” in nvidia-settings does not appear to work at all in Rise of the Tomb Raider. Opengl only, not Vulkan, or just borked?

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:+1: Welcome to Manjaro! :+1:

  1. Please read this:
    How to provide good information
    and post some more information so we can see what’s really going on. Now we know the symptom of the disease, but we need some more probing to know where the origin lies… :grin:
  2. An inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width would be the minimum required information for us to be able to help you. (Personally Identifiable Information like serial numbers and MAC addresses will be filtered out by the above command)
    Also, please copy-paste that output in-between 3 backticks ``` at the beginning and end of the code/text.
  3. The output of nvidia-smi would be helpful as well.

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inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.53-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64 
  root=UUID=9f9a5f06-b391-4eff-ae97-400be5a5e07b rw quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.29 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1 vt: 7 
  dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B450 Gaming K4 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: P5.00 date: 05/10/2021 
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present? 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.55 GiB used: 1.21 GiB (7.8%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Zen+ 
  family: 17 (23) model-id: 8 stepping: 2 microcode: 800820D cache: L2: 3 MiB 
  bogomips: 40808 
  Speed: 1271 MHz min/max: 1550/3400 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1271 2: 1272 3: 2336 4: 1375 5: 1378 6: 1377 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1 
  bmi2 bpext clflush clflushopt clzero cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cpuid 
  cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid 
  fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mca 
  mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl 
  npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb 
  perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse pse36 
  rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es sha_ni skinit smap smca sme 
  smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 succor svm svm_lock syscall tce 
  topoext tsc tsc_scale v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wdt 
  xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: 
  disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER] vendor: PNY driver: nvidia 
  v: 470.57.02 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 09:00.0 
  chip-ID: 10de:21c4 class-ID: 0300 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver: 
  loaded: nvidia display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.0x11.3") 
  s-diag: 583mm (23") 
  Monitor-1: DP-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 144 dpi: 94 size: 519x293mm (20.4x11.5") 
  diag: 596mm (23.5") 
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2 
  v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.57.02 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: PNY 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 09:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aeb 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 0b:00.3 chip-ID: 1022:1457 class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.53-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.32 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: ASRock driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 08:00.0 
  chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp8s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found. 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.83 TiB used: 204.14 GiB (10.9%) 
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 model: PCIe SSD size: 476.94 GiB 
  block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 
  type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: ECFM22.4 temp: 26.9 C scheme: MBR 
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-00BN5A0 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: 1A01 scheme: MBR 
  ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Crucial model: CT500MX500SSD4 
  size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 023 scheme: MBR 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: BD-RE WH14NS40 rev: 1.03 
  dev-links: cdrom 
  Features: speed: 48 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes 
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 88.01 GiB size: 86.07 GiB (97.80%) used: 12.54 GiB (14.6%) 
  fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: N/A 
  uuid: 9f9a5f06-b391-4eff-ae97-400be5a5e07b 
  ID-2: /run/media/elvin/HDD raw-size: 931.51 GiB size: 931.51 GiB (100.00%) 
  used: 191.5 GiB (20.6%) fs: ntfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda1 
  maj-min: 8:1 label: HDD uuid: B658C2F9228BD30D 
  ID-3: /run/media/elvin/NVME raw-size: 380 GiB size: 380 GiB (100.00%) 
  used: 102.7 MiB (0.0%) fs: ntfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
  maj-min: 259:2 label: NVME uuid: 20A8BCA1A8BC773E 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 50 (default 100) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  file: /swapfile 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 size: 458 GiB fs: ntfs label: WIN10 
  uuid: 50344E12344DFB8A 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 10 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-10:2 info: Holtek E-Signal LUOM G10 Mechanical Gaming Mouse 
  type: Mouse,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 04d9:a09f class-ID: 0300 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 5-2:2 info: SINO WEALTH Gaming KB type: Keyboard,HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 500mA chip-ID: 258a:002a class-ID: 0300 
  Hub-6: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 38 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 38% 
Info:
  Processes: 230 Uptime: 1m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 248 tool: systemctl 
  Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 12.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1147 lib: 336 
  flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.06
nvidia-smi
Sat Aug  7 21:05:29 2021       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 470.57.02    Driver Version: 470.57.02    CUDA Version: 11.4     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce ...  Off  | 00000000:09:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| 38%   36C    P8    23W / 125W |    161MiB /  5936MiB |      2%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A       545      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                     157MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1068      G   xfwm4                               2MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

That all looks good, so where exactly are you trying to set the image sharpening???

:thinking:

nvidia-settings > DP-0 (name of display) > Controls > Image Sharpening (slider at bottom).

It is greyed out in other distros too, so I am guessing it’s just some goofy nvidia thing where it only works on a certain model GPU or something. Don’t sweat it, it’s not a big deal…just “typical linux” where things only half work most of the time.

That’s apparently intentional and the same here:

:man_shrugging:

I’ve marked this answer as the solution to your question as it is by far the best answer you’ll get.

However, if you disagree with my choice, please feel free to take any other answer as the solution to your question or even remove the solution altogether: You are in control! (If you disagree with my choice, just send me a personal message and explain why I shouldn’t have done this or :heart: or :+1: if you agree)

:innocent:
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