Inverse ghosting in Thief (2014), nothing seems to fix it?

[envidianthine]

Hi everyone! For the past 3 days I’ve been trying to fix this issue that I’ve been having in the game Thief (2014). I initially didn’t even know what this problem was called, but posting on Reddit led me to discover it’s known as “inverse ghosting”. Here’s a video of what it looks like in my game: [MEDIA=imgur]1KHtovY[/MEDIA]

I’ve read that lowering overdrive settings on a monitor’s OSD settings can help with this (for my monitor this setting is under “Response time”), however I’ve tried that and sadly no improvement. I’ve tried playing the game on high/normal settings, I’ve tried it on all lowest settings, I’ve tried turning FreeSync off in my monitor’s settings, lowering/turning off all AMD Software’s settings - nothing seems to affect this whatsoever.

My PC specs are as follows:
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[li]Windows 10 Pro 64-bit[/li][li]AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Matisse 7nm Technology[/li][li]16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR4 @ 1599MHz (22-22-22-52)[/li][li]Micro-Star International Co. Ltd. B450M-A PRO MAX (MS-7C52) (AM4)[/li][li]ATI AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT[/li][li]465GB Samsung SSD 980 500GB[/li][/ul]
My monitor is a Samsung LC27F390FHRXEN (27", curved monitor).

If anyone has any other ideas as to what I can try to do to fix this, I’d be extremely thankful!

[Malnutrition]

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[envidianthine]

Speccy: http://speccy.piriform.com/results/h...QhRhbXud4cV1Bn

System Info Log: https://files.catbox.moe/akey84.zip

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I should add that since making my original post, I have discovered that the issue lies with my monitor - when I plugged in my old one everything was fine, no overshoot. I’m not sure if anything can even be done in this situation, as apparently Samsung VA monitors are just known for this kind of stuff (or VA monitors in general). I’m posting the requested info just in case, so that if there is some secret solution or something, I can try it before I sell this monitor and buy a new one lol. Thank you!

[Malnutrition]

Since you figured out the issue, I can only offer a few steps to try and trim things up and speed up the system overall, if you wish?

[envidianthine]

Since you figured out the issue, I can only offer a few steps to try and trim things up and speed up the system overall, if you wish?

Sure thing! I’m always looking to improve

[Malnutrition]

Ok. I’ll go over everything and get back to you tomorrow. I just put in 14 hours today at work, and pretty much only have time to eat and watch an hour of tv tonight.

[envidianthine]

Ok. I’ll go over everything and get back to you tomorrow. I just put in 14 hours today at work, and pretty much only have time to eat and watch an hour of tv tonight.

Completely understandable! Take your time, hope you’re able to get some rest!

[Malnutrition]

Sorry, I will have a reply later in the afternoon sunday. I haven’t had much time to do anything but work and sleep. I am free sunday tho.

[envidianthine]

Sorry, I will have a reply later in the afternoon sunday. I haven’t had much time to do anything but work and sleep. I am free sunday tho.

No rush whatsoever. I’m just happy you’re willing to offer me advice!

[Malnutrition]

Uninstall the following with Geek Uninstaller, use force mode if needed.

ASUS Update Helper - 1.3.107.79
Mozilla Maintenance Service - 102.0.1
qBittorrent 4.4.3.1 - 4.4.3.1

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Clean install your AMD driver with DDU. Or the AMD cleanup utility

Grab a fresh copy from here.

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Disable windows 10 spyware with O&O software, this can chew up bandwidth while you game as microsoft is constantly uploading various data from your machine.

Disable windows update, and only enable it once a week to update on your terms not whenever microsoft feels you need an update.

Uninstall Useless to you windows apps with O&O App buster.

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Open a notepad and copy the content of the code box below, paste into open notepad and save it to your desktop as clean.bat then right click on clean.bat and run as admin.

Note: Do not copy the word code.

Note: This batch will reboot your machine so close anything you are working on and save it.

@echo off
WMIC /Namespace:\\root\default Path SystemRestore Call CreateRestorePoint "BatchRestorePoint", 100, 10
fsutil resource setautoreset true c:\&fsutil usn deletejournal /d /n c:
netsh advfirewall reset
netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state On
wmic nicconfig where (IPEnabled=TRUE) call SetDNSServerSearchOrder ("76.76.19.19", "1.1.1.1")
%WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\lodctr.exe /R
%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\lodctr.exe /R
C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\lodctr.exe /R
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\lodctr.exe /R
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup
pause
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
pause
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
pause
del /s /q C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\download\*.*
del /s /q "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache\*.*"
del /s /q "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Cache\Cache_Data\*.*"
del /s /q "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Cache\*.*"
del /s /q "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\temp\*.*"
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.tmp
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.log
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.chk
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\recycled\*.*
del /f /s /q %windir%\*.bak
del /f /s /q %windir%\prefetch\*.*
ipconfig /flushdns
sc stop sysmain
sc config sysmain start= disabled
sc stop DiagTrack
sc config DiagTrack start= disabled
sc stop dmwappushservice
sc config dmwappushservice start= disabled
sc stop WSearch
sc config WSearch start= disabled
sc stop lfsvc
sc config lfsvc start= disabled
del /s /q %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Diagnosis\ETLLogs\AutoLogger\AutoLogger-Diagtrack-Listener.etl
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\SQMClient\parameters /v DisabledComponents /t REG_DWORD /d 0xFFFFFFFF
reg add hklm\system\currentcontrolset\services\tcpip6\parameters /v DisabledComponents /t REG_DWORD /d 0xFFFFFFFF
sfc /scannow
pause
shutdown -r
Exit /B

[envidianthine]

[SPOILER]Uninstall the following with Geek Uninstaller, use force mode if needed.

ASUS Update Helper - 1.3.107.79
Mozilla Maintenance Service - 102.0.1
qBittorrent 4.4.3.1 - 4.4.3.1

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Clean install your AMD driver with DDU. Or the AMD cleanup utility

Grab a fresh copy from here.

---

Disable windows 10 spyware with O&O software, this can chew up bandwidth while you game as microsoft is constantly uploading various data from your machine.

Disable windows update, and only enable it once a week to update on your terms not whenever microsoft feels you need an update.

Uninstall Useless to you windows apps with O&O App buster.

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Open a notepad and copy the content of the code box below, paste into open notepad and save it to your desktop as clean.bat then right click on clean.bat and run as admin.

Note: Do not copy the word code.

Note: This batch will reboot your machine so close anything you are working on and save it.

[ICODE] @echo off WMIC /Namespace:\\root\default Path SystemRestore Call CreateRestorePoint "BatchRestorePoint", 100, 10 fsutil resource setautoreset true c:\&fsutil usn deletejournal /d /n c: netsh advfirewall reset netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state On wmic nicconfig where (IPEnabled=TRUE) call SetDNSServerSearchOrder ("76.76.19.19", "1.1.1.1") %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\lodctr.exe /R %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\lodctr.exe /R C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\lodctr.exe /R C:\Windows\SysWOW64\lodctr.exe /R Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup pause DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth pause Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase pause del /s /q C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\download\*.* del /s /q "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Use r Data\Default\Cache\*.*" del /s /q "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Cache\Cache_Data\*.*" del /s /q "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\Us er Data\Default\Cache\*.*" del /s /q "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\temp\*.*" del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.tmp del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.log del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.chk del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\recycled\*.* del /f /s /q %windir%\*.bak del /f /s /q %windir%\prefetch\*.* ipconfig /flushdns sc stop sysmain sc config sysmain start= disabled sc stop DiagTrack sc config DiagTrack start= disabled sc stop dmwappushservice sc config dmwappushservice start= disabled sc stop WSearch sc config WSearch start= disabled sc stop lfsvc sc config lfsvc start= disabled del /s /q %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Diagnosis\ETLLogs\AutoLogg er\AutoLogger-Diagtrack-Listener.etl reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\SQM Client\parameters /v DisabledComponents /t REG_DWORD /d 0xFFFFFFFF reg add hklm\system\currentcontrolset\services\tcpip6\para meters /v DisabledComponents /t REG_DWORD /d 0xFFFFFFFF sfc /scannow pause shutdown -r Exit /B [/ICODE][/SPOILER]

Hey thank you so much! I’ve done all of the things you’ve suggested, so I think all should be good now.

[Malnutrition]

Sorry for the long delays. You know… Life.

I’ll mark this as solved.