The lossless GDDS character textures are now avaliable on OneDrive. They can simply be extracted and replace those in Base_4X.
For reference:
Lossless GDDS: 12.2 GB
Block-compressed DDS: 12.1 GB
Block-compressed GDDS: 2.1 GB (current release)
Keep in mind that lossless GDDS textures use about 4× VRAM, but your GPU will automatically free up vram for characters not currently played. If you have more than 10 GB of VRAM, this shouldn’t be a major issue.
On my 4K display I can’t notice a visible difference, but those of you with 8K may be able to. Also, I only have PCIe 4.0 SSD, but DirectStorage should be able to take advantage of PCIe 5.0 SSD .
Please let me know if you can feel any difference in-game. If nobody benefits from it, I may not update them.