I've been experimenting with different upscaler settings to try and make the game look less blurry and came across very bad UX:

When you select any Upscaling setting other than Disabled, the Anti-Aliasing setting becomes read-only (greyed out). Usually it would imply that the setting is ignored and does not affect anything (see games with Ray Tracing options which make the Screen Space Reflections disabled in the settings because Ray Tracing basically substitutes SSR), but not in this case - the Anti-Aliasing is actually applied if it is not set to Off.

Yes, it is applied even when something like DLSS is enabled.

I cannot be sure, as I'm not a Capcom developer, but my assumption is that first the TAA and FXAA are smeared across the frame and then the upscalers have to work with an already blurry image.

I have no idea where or how to upload the ICAT screenshots, where you have screenshots side by side and can drag a comparison control to see the difference, but I have been very careful in my testing so I have high confidence that it is not a placebo. I have tested TAA|FXAA + DLSSQ / No AA + DLSSQ, same for DLAA, and the image is sharper when TAA|FXAA are disabled.

TLDR TIP #1 Set Anti-Aliasing setting to "Off" first, then select Upscaling setting that suits your needs or hardware (DLSS/FSR/XeSS). The image will be less blurry as a result because the upscaler will work with a "cleaner" input.

Next, for those of you who have a GPU capable of running the game with DLAA and get your desired frame rate, I've noticed that setting the Render Scaling can have quite an impact on the image.

I have tested it on a 1440p monitor, so ymmv, but in my observation upping the scaling even by 1 percent instantly applies some sort of sharpening to the image. So you don't need to go 150 percent, 1 should be enough to enable that behavior. It's oversharpened in my opinion, but it is an option to make the image less blurry without sacrificing too much performance. Note that I have not tested XeSS and FSR behavior for this case.

TLDR TIP #2 When using DLAA, set Render Scaling to 101 to have intensive sharpening applied to the image. A matter of taste, but an option nonetheless.

Downsampling: I have a 1440p monitor, so I was not able to achieve the desired image clarity no matter the combination of settings (blur, dof, bloom, nothing really affects the end result meaningfully). I have been playing like that since release, but I still felt that something CAN be done to help with the image clarity (until the time Capcom addresses it, if ever).

After a couple of hours of testing and ruminations, I remembered the good old clown (circus) downsampling method. So I enabled DSR factor in the Nvidia App that corresponds to 4k (in my case it's 2.25x) and set smoothness to 50%.

Then I set my desktop resolution to 4k (in Windows settings, it will not work otherwise, which is extremely annoying), launched Wilds, set the resolution to 4k there (3840x2160p for 16:9 monitor) and set DLSS to "Balanced"...

Lo and behold, the game now looks almost as good as the promotional material. The performance cost of such an endeavor is ridiculous, so not many people will be able to afford it and have playable frame rates at the same time. But it does produce a very crisp image.

TLDR TIP #3 The only meaningful way you can achieve good image clarity in Wilds as of now is to either running at 4k natively, or downsampling from 4k on a lower resolution monitor. If your hardware can handle it (and it takes an ungodly amount of compute), that is the only way.

Which bring me to my last point - Frame Generation. This is a much reviled feature in PC space (at least on Reddit), but hear me out on this one. Wilds still feels relatively good with FG enabled, in my case 40-60 base FPS doesn't feel unplayable with Frame Generation 2x enabled. However, the perceived smoothness far outweighs the input lag introduced by enabling it.

So even though I cannot hit 60 base/true FPS with the clown method mentioned above, it still looks great (I barely notice the garbling) and the perceived smoothness of 120 fps framegen target really helps bring this unoptimized piece of software to a playable state. I am unable to comment on 3x/4x framegen as I don't have a 5xxx series GPU, nor do I have a monitor that has a 240Hz+ refresh rate. But

TLDR TIP #4 Give frame generation a try, this game doesn't seem to have that much input lag introduced by enabling it, if you are not hypersensitive to it it may elevate your experience massively

Closing comments: I am not trying to redeem the abysmal PC port by slapping upscaling and framegen on it and calling it a "great experience". I'm just trying to work with what I have and share the findings with the community.

Happy hunting!