✅RenoDX: Black Myth Wukong

[obsidian stag]

Available at: https://www.nexusmods.com/blackmythwukong/mods/1155

Requires some additional installation steps compared to regular RenoDX mods (forcing the UE HDR cvars)

[muted cedar]

fanks

[fiery cape]

🙌

[opaque mist]

Deeply appreciate all the effort that went into this mod

Really made the game a ton better. Death to SDR.

[hasty hawk]

Ah, crap, now I want the game even though I couldn't run it at decent settings lol

[muted cedar]

Video being recorded 🙂

Intro is so banger don't need to record anything else

Going for HDR look v native

But has to be 30FPS as I can't vsync 60 😦

[obsidian stag]

ooo thanks!

[obsidian stag]

I hope you like the preset

feel free to tweak it

[muted cedar]

Video done, I cant do the lil voice over for it as I am ill, but looks fantastic

[bronze plinth]

dope

[terse quest]

HOLYYYY

[terse quest]

https://tenor.com/view/gigachad-chad-gif-20773266

[fallow jungle]

as much as it saddens me, probably the right call to ditch the LUT stretching. Pretty much impossible to tune it to look good everywhere

[muted cedar]

I found a bug

There is a lighting boss in the snow area

that turns the screen dark

and the light effects go back to normal

seems like a bug, but I havent disabled it all to tell becuase doesn't happen every time

[obsidian stag]

hmm sounds odd, can I maybe get your save?

[obsidian stag]

like full-on dark or does the game just look like dimmer sdr with black crush? the latter would be just a missing lutbuilder shader

[muted cedar]

oh i killed the boss :S

lemme see how its meant to be on sdr via youtube

oh uhh its not a bug sorry

the game just goes dim af for some reason

https://youtu.be/fN3G1I8ERuY?t=258

[obsidian stag]

oh nice, np

I haven't actually played the game yet, so I didn't know what boss you were talking about xD

have only been making the mod

[muted cedar]

can you mod the stutters away 🙂

It looks fantastic in HDR, I was meant to upload the video but my voice is so bad

[obsidian stag]

I unfortunately can't, but the people over at the Ultra+ discord might 😛

[muted cedar]

I joke, Epic games cant fix it and they make the engine

[obsidian stag]

the game stutters so bad, like I have to lock it to 60 and can't use fg

[obsidian stag]

thats true, if you look at fortnite for example

do you also get small stutters whenever you kill an enemy?

[muted cedar]

https://youtu.be/WrF3WvpiE1o

Just a lil video

[crimson marsh]

time to see if that one annoying guy comments on this one too

[obsidian stag]

thank you so much! ^^ gonna add this to nexus, awesome showcase

[obsidian stag]

V1.1

• Update for ReShade 6.5.0
• The mod now automatically makes the required Engine.ini changes, WukongTweak is no longer essential; changes need an additional game restart to apply
• Tonemapper adjustments (switch from RenoDRT Danielle to Reinhard, add blowout slider)

[dusty ridge]

https://codeberg.org/Lyall/WukongTweak

[pure spade]

how do you trigger full shader cache recompilation again @obsidian stag

I delete the file in appdata but it does a smoll recompilation of a few seconds

[pure spade]

nvm fixed it

[obsidian stag]

I thought you really only had to delete that one shader file in appdata 😅 how did you fix it

[pure spade]

It was just reshade tripping the game

Had to side load from sk in early

But i didn't manage too full reset shader cache

My game wouldn't launch at all

[obsidian stag]

Hmm.. Apparently if that happens you can rename the reshade dxgi dll to d3d12.dll and that should hopefully work

[obsidian stag]

I think for a full shader cache reset you'd need to remove all files starting with d3d in appdata/b1/saved

[pure spade]

Ya i removed them all

[obsidian stag]

But that didn't trigger a full recomp?

[pure spade]

Nope

Just the smoll one

[obsidian stag]

Ehh

Maybe the nvidia shader cache would need to be yeeted as well

[daring venture]

did you fix it ? i got the same probleme i rename to d3d12 and delete the shaders cache but nothing game won't start

[pure spade]

game was starting for me i just couldn't trigger the full shader recomp but the game still worked fine

[daring venture]

maybe it'a lyall ulrawide fix but weird mod work fin on mhw thx for the response

[pure spade]

i had lyall mod too

🤔

[daring venture]

you installe the reshade on b1 or the win 64 ?

i do on win64

ok i got the solution the mods linimap for wukong juste dont work with reshade and hdr

[pure spade]

win64

[daring venture]

i delete the dll and game start

[pure spade]

neat

idk if minimap mod is needed

game is very linear and they added maps

[daring venture]

the minimap show the chest xD i want it for all the item

[pure spade]

ic

[primal night]

There is another mod called simple map, it shows floating intractable items. You can filter what you want to see. Ignore the map and disable the compass if you don’t like too nic info on the HUD.

[crystal jackal]

Ty so much for this mod. Makes game playable. (tolerable)
This is one of the worst looking games I ever saw though xD
RenoDX helps a lot but i have some problems.

Entire game looks like its using matte filter.
Raised blacks all over the desert area, but also extremely low visibility at low light.
Honestly never saw anything like it 😄 kinda forcing myself to play this one, coz I buyed it a year ago and it was uplayable then... now its tad better at least with reno.

edit-- so... the matte look of the game was cause by me incorrectly setup the TV, full range vs limited mismatch.
Still, game does not look especially stellar, but its way better now.

[tulip plaza]

My keyboard doesn’t have the home button for reshade what to do now?

Got it with Chatgpt 💔

[carmine turret]

Hi guys, I just installed the mod following the official instructions however whenever I quit and launch the game the shadow compilation kick in...

is this normal?

[carmine turret]

My game looks so dull with RenoDX activated. What am I doing wrong? I put it on HDR look and tried to make some minor adjustments with no success.

Picture 1 (RENODX on):

Picture 2 (base game without RENODX):

I'll appreciate any help

[obsidian stag]

yea that can happen after installing mods for the game. you need to remove all the shader files that start with D3D... here: %LOCALAPPDATA%\b1\Saved\

that will retrigger a full shader compilation once, and subsequent launches shouldn't have any shader comp anymore

[obsidian stag]

have you restarted the game with the mod at least once?

[carmine turret]

Thank you Adrian. I just read your post in the Nexusmod forum 🙂

[carmine turret]

Yes sir, I followed the instructions. I also checked at the bottom of the engine file the HDR activation (number 1) but after a couple of resets (desperate lol) I double checked the engine file and that part was suddenly missing.

I ended reinstalling the game after removing all related folders. I went back to stock but I'm quite sad it didn't work for me.

How should the game looks? What am I doing wrong?

Just FYI: In reshade installation I checked the HDR shades by Lilium (following a YouTube video) but it not of the HDR tools didn't work for me, just the SDR o es.

[obsidian stag]

the game shouldn't look washed out with the mod. it needs these changes at the bottom of your Engine.ini, you can add them manually if you want:

r.HDR.EnableHDROutput=1```

you can find the Engine.ini here: `%LOCALAPPDATA%\b1\Saved\Config\Windows`

[carmine turret]

An also I selected b1.exe rather than win64-shipping.exe.

I can Confirm that the tool was working because I could see the changes in real time but maybe not as intended

[obsidian stag]

ReShade needs to be installed for the Win64 Shipping exe, in the subfolders. But since you have reshade open in-game it still seems to work

[carmine turret]

Yes, as I told you I checked that and it was there. Could be my monitor? It is the recently launched Samsung OLED G81SF 27" inch..

[carmine turret]

Yes indeed. Even though I selected the wrong one, the ReShade files were in the Win 64 Shipping subfolders ( I didn't do anything)

Do I have have to activate HDR on windows? (not AutoHDR) I tested both ways with not good results.

I think I'm missing something 😦

[pure spade]

Yes windows hdr should be enabled

[carmine turret]

Thanks. I tried both ways...

[pure spade]

yeah I think it's a glitch with the game

did you try restarting your computer ?

could be a driver glitch

[carmine turret]

Not really...I didn't

Do you have a picture in game for comparison?

I want to know how should the game looks...

[obsidian stag]

@carmine turret I think the engine.ini cvars are not working for you, that's also why you see the sdr versions of Lilium's shaders

you can try forcing them with Lyall's WukongTweak

https://codeberg.org/Lyall/WukongTweak

put this next to the Win64-Shipping.exe

and add r.HDR.EnableHDROutput=1 under the "Custom CVars" section in the WukongTweak.ini

[pure spade]

I don't think i have screenshots

[obsidian stag]

SDR | HDR | HDR Look

only have these from the section where you're at

old screenshots from when I was setting up nexus

[carmine turret]

got it. Did I do it right? I mean, uninstalling the game on steam and removing the BlackMythWukong subfolder in the "common" steam folder

[carmine turret]

Oh my lord. I'd wish my game looked that good even in SDR...

[obsidian stag]

wait what 😄 did you give up

[fallow jungle]

are you using special k?

[carmine turret]

Lol yes, until yesterday. I lost hope as I am quite noob on this and I couldn't fin any solution until you guys answered

My hope is back 😂

I'm going to try again from scratch...but just wondering if is this normal?

[carmine turret]

No sir

[pure spade]

your game shouldn't be washed out because of renodx no

[carmine turret]

I'll try again and report back

[carmine turret]

Reporting back. Did I make it?

Looks way way better....

And lilium shaders are working now (I think). I don't understand anything lol. Can someone explain mas like I'm 5.

very yellowish though. Is normal for this section?

[fallow jungle]

that looks pretty cooked

default sliders?

[carmine turret]

HDR Look

[fallow jungle]

what is your peak and game brightness set to?

[carmine turret]

HDR Look / Default / Vanilla

[fallow jungle]

peak and game brightness won't be changed with presets

[fallow jungle]

Oh, those are just SDR screenshots lmao

yeah that probably looks correct, just not in the screenshots

[carmine turret]

26 game brightness

[carmine turret]

I took them with the snipping tool becasue if use the Nvdia screenshot in-built tool i can't share them...

[fallow jungle]

reshade takes hdr pngs

[carmine turret]

how?

[fallow jungle]

works automatically, press print screen, should get saved in the game folder

[carmine turret]

ok let me check

[carmine turret]

is it ok this way? I don't see them anywhere...

Is it right?

[fallow jungle]

image is definitely right

that might be what hdr look looks like there

[carmine turret]

Thank you everyone. My hope is back! 🙂

Maybe I will reduce the saturation

[jagged sleet]

what is the model of your monitor?

[obsidian stag]

yea the desert sections can look a bit too yellow with the hdr look preset 😅

[obsidian stag]

I think if you just pull highlight saturation down to 50 that should also help things

[obsidian stag]

just an LG C2 42"

made these screenshots with 4k peak so the graph goes brr

and its easily visible what the difference is between the mod and sdr

[jagged sleet]

yeah I don't remember the mod looking like that
but maybe I need to revisit it

but the again Black Myth Wukong is one of those games where I felt HDR always felt off even with RenoDX
but I thought it was more the game's content than the fault of the technical implementation of the HDR.. if that makes any sense

specifically one of the areas that looked dull and filtered is the snowy area I think in chapter 3

[obsidian stag]

sounds like you ran into the same issue as redllowfenix where the Engine.ini changes didn't work for some reason - then the mod will make the game look washed out, and it'll be in sdr still

[jagged sleet]

nah I'm pretty sure it was working yeah I had that issue but I fixed it

the default HDR had the same problem for me too

[obsidian stag]

the snowy area has a ton of fog so yea, it can look a little dull, but ig that's intended

[jagged sleet]

the game also has very bad image clarity so I guess that contributed to my impression of it

[obsidian stag]

in most other UE games, if you force the HDR cvars in Engine.ini it'll "just" skip the intended color grading, but still be proper HDR

wukong is different, where you're getting sdr in an hdr container with just the HDR cvars

[crystal jackal]

yea that is horrible.
every time i hear sdr in hdr container, i get srgb PTSD

[carmine turret]

Exactly what I Did. Looks better!

[carmine turret]

Adrian, I have a LG C4 55". Do I just need to plug-in a hdmi 2.1 from the pc to the TV to make it work?

[obsidian stag]

Yea? ^^

Remember to use Filmmaker HDR mode on your TV

With dtm off and the professional sliders set to 100 for HGIG

So you get color boost, way higher color luminance than the normal game optimizer mode

[empty juniper]

Is than an Nvidia UE5 branch thing or just coincidence?

[obsidian stag]

honestly, not sure. might be some weird changes from the nvidia branch, or they just messed with the code themselves

probably the latter, there were some unused hdr cvars in the game

[empty juniper]

So I guess they might have tried getting HDR to work and just given up then

[obsidian stag]

yea maybe

[real fjord]

@obsidian stag Is the Reno mod the only thing you recommend for this game, or are there other shader add-ons I should add?

[obsidian stag]

Lyall's WukongTweak is pretty much essential for this game

Disables the forced sharpening

[fallow jungle]

I don't think it's forced anymore

[obsidian stag]

Oh right they added a slider

[restive meteor]

✅RenoDX: Black Myth Wukong

[hasty hawk]

New patch dropping today

[ivory dust]

is renodx mod working for you after the patch? mine crashes on start, when i remove the renodx add-on from the game files, the game opens normally with Reshade.

could it be the patch or im messing something up, cus the game used to work normally for me with renodx mod 2 months ago but not anymore..

[fallow jungle]

"Improved the quality of motion blur to mitigate the aliasing issues that occur when the camera pans."

holy shit

first unreal dev to do something about this

that's using one of the cursed builds of unreal anyway

[hasty hawk]

Update hasn't dropped yet on PC anyway

[pure spade]

@obsidian stag might wanna check :3

[ivory dust]

Oh really !? Then im wondering why the mod crash on start.. the only thing i did was format my pc weeks ago

And all games are working normally and as i said even wukong runs perfectly fine and only crash when i add renodx mod

[obsidian stag]

I'm praying the update doesn't break the mod lol

[obsidian stag]

You can try the latest repo build from here instead of the nexus build https://clshortfuse.github.io/renodx/renodx-bmw.addon64

[hasty hawk]

Adding FSR4 likely means new shaders

At least that I guess

[ivory dust]

Holy shit thank you so much that actually fixed my issue

[fading plaza]

Seems to work fine after the update. Black levels are a bit raised, but I guess it was like that before.

[frozen oar]

Yeah it doesn't look great with the raised blacks, I don't remember it having them prior to this patch 😕

But I haven't played in like a year

[elfin trellis]

https://www.reddit.com/r/HDR_Den/comments/1oypn98/anyone_got_renodx_working/

Someone is having issues with the Black Myth Wukong mod. I sent them a link to this thread as well 🙃

[obsidian stag]

thanks for helping them

I've always had issues with auto switching

so I'm basically always using windows hdr

didn't know this would cause issues

[elfin trellis]

I just read through their original post, didn't realize they had Windows HDR disabled

[obsidian stag]

V1.2

• Improve UI blending
• Adjust tonemapper
• Updated for ReShade 6.6.2 (Full RT should work again)

https://www.nexusmods.com/blackmythwukong/mods/1155

[ocean olive]

I had to turn this off for ch 6, was causing the game to crash

[ocean olive]

Hm actually it might be wukongtweaks

Game ran great until ch 6 now it's crashing all the time

Hard system crash

Gonna have to just disable everything if I wanna finish this

It's not RenoDX though, cuz I just crashed without it

Wonder if it's DLSS

something about cloud physics is making it crash

[cunning jetty]

man i want to enjoy this game

but it runs like hot garbage and looks incredibly bad imho

it has its places where it looks pretty good.

But for the most part its not very crisp looking, the lighting is usually so awful in some places where it makes things look pixelated and some objects get overly bright (like sunlight on vegetation) makes the vegetation just overblown

this issue appears in both the sdr and hdr version of the game

its a pretty wild take though considering some ppl think this is one of the best looking games out there

I must've downloaded the wish version of something

[cunning jetty]

wait i think game looks better without RT for me

[ocean olive]

I have rt off but game looks great

[cunning jetty]

ye dont think its worth it in this game

frame time looks much worse with RT on as well

finally maybe get to enjoy the game

for some reason i think the environment looks better too without RT

[ocean olive]

Alright it was DLSSSwapper, I swapped to DLSS ver 310 but it kept crashing the game

[cunning jetty]

Alright ive finished game now, great game glad my opinion changed

[ocean olive]

I just completed the 100%

the true ending was great, wife loved it

[storm basin]

Renodx mod doesn't work when used with dlss fg to fsr fg mod

Is there any workaround to make it compatible

[hasty hawk]

It absolutely does

[burnt sapphire]

I have an interesting comparison here for you. I couldn't find anything regarding forcing Ray Reconstruction instead of the default denoiser in Wukong.

So I tried and succeeded. Have a look.

I think model L looks too sharp and bright. With RR the brightness of the grass to the left and the reflections in the water look more coherent to me.

How much of that difference is defined between DLSS 4 and 4.5 I didnt test.

My settings are 55% (balanced) DLSS, Full Ray Tracing and Wukong-Tweaks for less sharpness

[burnt sapphire]

DLSS 4.5 L and RR M are way more similar than I expected. Model K looks completely different here and is missing skylight reflections on water plants for example.

[prime sedge]

Both are with the default denoiser disabled?

[burnt sapphire]

no I didnt touch the default full path tracing denoiser for those screenshots.

I set r.NGX.DLSS.denoisermode=1 in "AppData\Local\b1\Saved\Config\Windows\Engine.ini" and copied the necessary nv dlssd streamline files.

I tried turning the UE5 lumen reflections default denoiser off for Model L just now but reflections looked like much worse resolution.

RR looks nice but not with hair, wukongs hair gets pretty noisy. And snow shows a lot of ghosting.

[wise lark]

RR M isn't a thing though? Apologies for the necro but yeah I was looking around regarding using Preset M/L in Wukong which is pretty much unplayable for me since it causes insane global illumination pulsing in a LOT of areas. Like rave levels of pulsating.
RR preset E and D are the same. Only Preset K is fully stable in that regard. Seems like RR and newer SR models can't cope with this game's garbage eye adaptation.

[cunning jetty]

i just played this game without RT

[full parcel]

sooo what is UE HDR cvars?

and how do i use it ?

[burnt sapphire]

That means setting hdr=true in engine.ini.

r.AllowHDR 1
r.HDR.EnableHDROutput 1

Cvars are engine console variables. You could have googled or chatgpted that info too.

[full parcel]

yeah in the end i did that XD

got some command lines and add that to the engine.ini and it works

[burnt sapphire]

Yes thats how you mod any ue5 game, means about 99% of games released today

[obsidian stag]

My mod should also automatically add them to the Engine.ini

But you're better off using UE extended instead nowadays

Looks much better

[full parcel]

ah, so i was wandering that might be the case with the allow HDR thingy, but since i got no clue how that whole thing worked i add the lines that was given to me

ofc i changed max luminance to my monitor value

[obsidian stag]

Most of those values get overridden by reno like peak, game and UI brightness

With the engine ini tweaks you basically fool the game to activate its hdr path, which then gets modded by reno

[full parcel]

good to know that claude didn’t give me crap XD

[obsidian stag]

We do that so frame gen works properly

[full parcel]

oh good to know, i was running without it any way since i like how this game looks in DLAA, no RT unfortunately but the foliage and everything looks soo crisp

[obsidian stag]

UE HDR path is also slightly more performant, since reno just needs to replace shaders

Not upgrade intermediate textures or swapchain

[burnt sapphire]

how to use it with wukong? I get a black screen on startup

[obsidian stag]

You need to upgrade R10G10B10A2_UNORM to output size iirc

And if you use the hdr engine ini you also need to set upgrade path at the bottom to 'off'

With ue extended

[burnt sapphire]

Ah yes thank you it took me a while to fix it! The slow performance on start due to the invisible shader compilation confused me and I couldnt do much at 1fps every few seconds... Also I didn't know the upgrade path was still set to SDR and thats causing more issues.

Additionally once I fixed those issues after restarting the game 10 times, windows decided to break all HDR so I had to restart windows in order to fix the greyed out game..

Are there any Wukong recommended settings with ue-extended available?

[obsidian stag]

Oof. I think the defaults are fine, just adjust peak and game brightness to your liking. But make sure to put blend factor to 0, it helps with their auto exposure

[burnt sapphire]

Blend factor, ok nice 👍

[burnt sapphire]

no blend factor here 🙁

[obsidian stag]

do you have your first slider (settings mode) set to advanced?

[burnt sapphire]

Yes, also the game freezes when going to desktop, as soon an I hit windows key ☹️

[obsidian stag]

blend factor should be here in the menu

maybe you have an older version of ue extended

[obsidian stag]

doesn't happen for me :/

[burnt sapphire]

Its missing lol, can you link me latest version please? 😃

It says build "2026-04-29..." hmm

Maybe some weird ue extended build

[obsidian stag]

https://marat569.github.io/renodx/renodx-ue-extended.addon64

[burnt sapphire]

Works nicely. Thanks! Continueing the game now. Seeing some issues with ue5 in chapter 4, the game is barely using any path tracing in the beginning with the hollows and in a spot with an optional boss there were insane FPS drops.. I hope it picks up momentum again. That map layout was not great in that cave.

[normal meteor]

Game stutters a lot doesn’t it

[burnt sapphire]

When you perfect dodge or traverse the environment, yes you have a few UE stutters. Its not too bad with 9800x3d

[cunning jetty]

i played the game without ray tracing, felt way better

still looked great tbh with reno