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About this mod
This ReShade preset provides softer, atmospheric lighting by adding some bloom and a darker color tone, but otherwise remains close to the original.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
After re-watching the original movie trilogy, I wanted to try this game as I liked the first installment and have had this in my library from a bundle for some time. I tested some of the available ReShade presets, but then decided to create my own as most of them did a bit too much for my taste. So this consists of some slight color and lighting adjustments with a LUT, Bloom, and an auto-correct shader to achieve a darker tone and softer, more atmospheric lighting. The bloom is optimized with adaptive settings and the auto-correct shader pays attention to contrast and colors.
It took me a while to get it right for all regions and time of day settings. After a while I even recreated the preset as 2.0 from scratch, sticking closer to the original and then tweaking the bloom further to improve the softer, darker atmosphere without disrupting gameplay too much in the different lighting moods. For example, dark caves are now brighter while the rest are still toned down, the flashback missions are not so over-brightened by the bloom that they become unplayable, the cutscenes and the menus are not too heavily altered and look good. For 2.1 I added just a tiny bit of Luma Sharpen to bring out some fine details a bit better.
To install it:
-Unzip and place the ShadowOfWarReShadeNew.ini in the following folder of your installed game:
\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ShadowOfWar\x64
-Download ReShade from the official site: https://reshade.me/
-Run the ReShade Installer and select the game by browsing for the game exe
(ShadowOfWar.exe, same folder as above) and select DirectX 11/12.
When it comes to selecting effects, select ShadowOfWarReShadeNew.ini at the bottom of the installer.
This way the installer downloads only those effects used.
-Once you installed ReShade, start the game, press Pos1/Home to open the ReShade overlay and skip the tutorial.
The effects used should then show up and have a checked box in front of them.
You then can also hit the performance mode box at the bottom of that tab.
-If you map a key to toggle effects under the options tab, you can see the difference yourself.
Press Pos1/Home again to close the ReShade Overlay.
For best results have everything maxed out/turned on, use both the High Resolution Texture Pack and the 4K Cinematic Pack (both are free DLCs in Steam store) and if you are on nvidia use DLDSR (that's a higher than native ingame resolution using deep learning added via nvidia control panel, i use factor x2,25 DL).
It took me a while to get it right for all regions and time of day settings. After a while I even recreated the preset as 2.0 from scratch, sticking closer to the original and then tweaking the bloom further to improve the softer, darker atmosphere without disrupting gameplay too much in the different lighting moods. For example, dark caves are now brighter while the rest are still toned down, the flashback missions are not so over-brightened by the bloom that they become unplayable, the cutscenes and the menus are not too heavily altered and look good. For 2.1 I added just a tiny bit of Luma Sharpen to bring out some fine details a bit better.
To install it:
-Unzip and place the ShadowOfWarReShadeNew.ini in the following folder of your installed game:
\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ShadowOfWar\x64
-Download ReShade from the official site: https://reshade.me/
-Run the ReShade Installer and select the game by browsing for the game exe
(ShadowOfWar.exe, same folder as above) and select DirectX 11/12.
When it comes to selecting effects, select ShadowOfWarReShadeNew.ini at the bottom of the installer.
This way the installer downloads only those effects used.
-Once you installed ReShade, start the game, press Pos1/Home to open the ReShade overlay and skip the tutorial.
The effects used should then show up and have a checked box in front of them.
You then can also hit the performance mode box at the bottom of that tab.
-If you map a key to toggle effects under the options tab, you can see the difference yourself.
Press Pos1/Home again to close the ReShade Overlay.
For best results have everything maxed out/turned on, use both the High Resolution Texture Pack and the 4K Cinematic Pack (both are free DLCs in Steam store) and if you are on nvidia use DLDSR (that's a higher than native ingame resolution using deep learning added via nvidia control panel, i use factor x2,25 DL).