vkBasalt VS d912pxy

there is vkbasalt for image sharpening. i don't know if it'll provide the image you want, but you can configure it and see if it fits your needs.

There is a alternative for Linux called vkBasalt. I haven't used it myself, yet, so I don't know how well it works. Your distro may have a package for it.

In the meantime, you can Generate a LUT yourself and apply it to games using ReShade or vkBasalt, but it doesn't apply to the system as a whole, takes a bit of work to use with each game, and there are certain games that won't work with it at all (rendering OpenGL games through Zink might help, but there are still gaps in its coverage afaik). All that effort is not for the faint of heart, lol.

The solution: vkBasalt

In the ticket there is also someone suggesting vkBasalt as a replacement.

The easiest way to do this on linux is to use vkbasalt with goverlay.

I'm surprised nobody covered p.2. JUST USE d912pxy. Period. The game is unplayable without it. BTW running it on Linux has the same effect as it translates DirectX calls to Vulkan calls and precompiles shaders. As much as I appreciate and respect ArenaNet will to fix performance introducing Dx11 hardly improved anything. There is still long way to go.

I think the 5900 is holding you back. I have 5800x3d and in dragons end FPS stays over 60 most of the time. I also use dx12 API proxy: https://github.com/megai2/d912pxy

Also idk if it's still relevant but I had a massive fps improvement in GW2 by using a proxy dll dx12 proxy

You could try using the dx12 addon to maybe squeeze out a bit more fps then dx11 gives. Otherwise gw2 is really a lost cause when it comes to trying to get a decent frame rate.

If none of that is enough try out the DX12 addon.

It still looks good. Use d912pxy to turn it into dx 12 to get better performance then ad shade over the top and it looks lovely.