✅RenoDX: Clair Obscur - Expedition 33

[lucid drum]

Holy fucking noob on my end

[thin pike]

Starting to wonder if you just didn't read the instructions. You have to menu for Reno to take slider effect as well. It doesn't just work.

People been using with Ultra+ since they both were out.

No other way to even play.

[lucid drum]

I have to menu?

[thin pike]

Instructions..

World doesn't reload LUT actively

I mean literally hit pause

Where you see the characters

[lucid drum]

I did this like 4 months ago. So correct me if im wrong. Because again it worked b4

When in game...just chilling

Standing. I opened menu and changed settings in overlay

It changed actively in world

Does it still do that?

[thin pike]

Maybe it's changed, last I recalled since release we had to menu.

Engine thing.

[lucid drum]

Oh fuck so you had to change it, go to main menu and reload save?

[thin pike]

No?

Just literally

Menu in and out

Unsure what's so crazy there

[grim hinge]

I think you have to open the graphics menu

[lucid drum]

Bro, before you rip me.

[thin pike]

Just character menu worked for me

[grim hinge]

ok maybe just pause and unpause don't remember

[lucid drum]

Your English isnt good lmao

[thin pike]

My English isn't good?

[lucid drum]

Not being a dick but explain.

[thin pike]

Gonna throw the college degree out.

Knew America scammed me.

[lucid drum]

Hahaha

[thin pike]

Literally all I told you was to menu, and my English was bad. Now I get why mods don't want to enable comments on Nexus. Lol

[lucid drum]

Just meant like, elaborate.

[lucid drum]

"We had to menu"

Like what does that mean lol.

[thin pike]

Well, you got two whole menu buttons..

Also the instructions still spelled it out last I recalled.

[lucid drum]

The intrusions arent bad...I was wondering why it wasnt hooking

Nothing about selecting win shipping exe

[lucid drum]

@thin pike do you remember if the game brightness setting is void?

It doesnt change anything.

Only thing that works is peak brightness and UI. So it wasnt how I installed reshade.

Unless using RTX RR and SS presets somehow fucks this mod up

[trim anchor]

it has not changed

[lucid drum]

So correct me if im wrong...because this never happened b4.

Wait b4 I talk ill test

@trim anchor is this the issue? In engine.ini

[trim anchor]

wdym

[trim anchor]

you don't need to touch engine.ini

the addon automatically applies the necessary cvars

[lucid drum]

rgr

so essentially Reno works like. Youd adjust contrast, open menu, close. see effect?

it never did that on first release

so weird.

[trim anchor]

yes, but its game dependent

[lucid drum]

I had this mod b4

months ago

worked ingame, no menu needed

[trim anchor]

the game doesn't rebuild the lut on every frame

so you have to pause the game in order to rebuild the lut

[lucid drum]

dude I believe you, Im just baffled

no word of a lie, when mod first came out, any setting I changed applied while standing still

now, no setting applies unless its UI or peak brightness

all other settings dont work

b4 it did

ill try change and menu open

brb

[trim anchor]

idk maybe they changed it in a future update, but this is how ue5 games usually are

[lucid drum]

Possibly dude...Possibly

@trim anchor dude.

Youre right.

LMAO

Im sorry for all the confusion

I was so perplexed because b4 it just worked out of the box.

No need to open and close menu.

So thanks for your help

[grim hinge]

the old mod was a workaround that had much worse results

the new way has better results because it edits the code within the lutbuilder

but that comes with the limitation of having to manually trigger the lutbuilder to rebuild

[lucid drum]

Yeah its a good think i came back at a later time. Game looks better for sure

[patent lintel]

Hi guys, i don't know why but with renodx unreal hdr doesn't work, the sdr mode works without problem but when i restart the game after selecting unreal hdr the game just starts in sdr and reshade doesn't do anything. The line in engine ini gets added i checked but it just doesn't work

What can i do to fix it?

[trim badger]

Hey apologies for being ignorant if the fix for this is already mentioned somewhere but with the latest version of the game (1.4.1 i think) when using renodx the game just boots to a black screen and I gotta kill it from task manager. Is there a fix for this?

I've attached the reshade log. Thanks.

[sterile monolith]

aldur

[signal anchor]

For people using Ultra+, does it work with clair obscur fix?

[river spruce]

seems like the mod is broken with the new update (loads but lags and crashes during the intro cutscene)

[jagged portal]

@grim hinge Should I leave this to you?

[grim hinge]

Yes

[south urchin]

don't you hate this game ?

[carmine onyx]

yes but he loves me and i'm french

so he decided to do it

after years of glazing his pizzle on youtube

[tulip thicket]

For me the mod work just fine with and without frame generation after the update

[river spruce]

on an existing save or starting a new one?
this is my first time playing it but it might just be a specific issue at the start of a new file?

[grim hinge]

Yes

No idea what could be causing the crashing though

[tulip thicket]

old save

do you want me to try it on a new save file?

?

[hearty lava]

https://x.com/skx_doom/status/1999445376223629490?s=46

the devil who single-handedly destroyed UE5 titles with fog has a name

Dmitry Karpukhin (@skx_doom)

I'm super happy for being responsible for a 0.001% part of the art direction of this wonderful game!

Of course not directly, but this is still most probably the biggest project showcasing my "Screen Space Fog Scattering" plugin 🥹

Once you see it, you cannot unsee it...

X · Dec 12, 2025, 11:45 AM

[fiery orchid]

"destroyed"

didn't know realistic fog reproduction was "destroying" games

[tulip thicket]

On low resolutions it might look better without the fog

[hearty lava]

i think this fog destroys colors, details and highlights

its the worst implementation ever

[fiery orchid]

you aren't supposed to see everything in detail when there's fog in real life

[hearty lava]

u are not supposed to have always fog in real life

[fiery orchid]

and what if the artists decided they wanted fog in this scene
it's not like all unreal games are always covered in fog

[hearty lava]

the great majority of them actually do

[fiery orchid]

maybe big productions

lil timmy's indie project isn't going to have fog in every scene

[worldly jetty]

use ultra plus mod for e33 it allows you to control fog scattering intensity to your taste

[hearty lava]

already removed of course

[grizzled jackal]

I like it, good to know that U+ can control the intensity of it

[hybrid wind]

Like, entirely?…

That must look like utter doodoo

[trim anchor]

it also uses that one anime physics plugin thing

[sterile monolith]

fully?? thats wild to me... i have scattering turned down to 0.8, looks very good

with it off the game looks very wrong

[nimble panther]

Todays patch mentions the game not launching on win11, maybe this is why. They are working on a fix at least

[flint trench]

Hello sorry to bother. i'm trying to install the mod. I have used Reshade as per instruction and put the file in the correct folder. then downloaded snapshot then started the game. i see no diffirence between presets and off please help

[gaunt cobalt]

If I use the dedicated RenoDX mod for the game
Do I still need DLSSFIX when using frame generation?

[flint trench]

I wanted to add also that i'm doind the same steps as on silksong and there i can see clear difference between off and preset 1. here i see no difference. been trying with unreal on and sdr on the menu no difference also. how do i know if its working properly?

[flint trench]

what do you mean dedicated RenoDX? also i'm trying to install with no luck

[hidden pilot]

presets don't apply in real time on most UE5 games. you have to enter the expedition menu (the one with the characters on the screen, the start button in your pad iirc) and the preset will be applied

however as soon as you start the game with the default preset enabled you should notice a big difference compared to sdr

[snow sleet]

No, just set the toggle in the RenoDX menu to Unreal HDR and restart your game

[flint trench]

Hello, thank you very much for your answer. i really dont know if its working atm. i will make some tests now but so far no luck. i set it to Unreal HDR as im using DLSS but really theres no difference.

[gaunt cobalt]

So that’s in general? Or it’s on a case by case basis?

or is it for the Universal RenoDX

[flint trench]

is it ok if i have not used nexus mod but reshade with only the snapshot file? @hidden pilot

[hidden pilot]

if you want to test it start a new game in a new save slot, skip cinematics, walk to maelle and move your camera up to the sun. the sun nits should be the same as your peak brightness on the slider

[hidden pilot]

hmm maybe is outdated

#1425391769335496816 message

here you have the latest version

i already completed the game a few days before the dlc patch and I already uninstalled it so I cannot test it right now but with that version it should work

[snow sleet]

Case by case. DLSSfix is for games where the mod upgrades SDR to HDR. For Clair, the Unreal HDR setting uses the engine’s native HDR output and then fixes it from there, so it just works with frame gen

[hidden pilot]

yes, snapshot is from october so it's outdated. i don't know if it still works but there are new versions so you should try them

[flint trench]

ok sir. i really appreciate your help. now i have the new file. what slider are you referring to when you say i shall look at the sun

[gaunt cobalt]

Oh thank you very much for the information
Is The Chronos case similar to E33? Sorry being off topic

[hidden pilot]

peak brightness, you should adjust it to your screen maximum peak brightness

besides you can adjust highlight saturation to 55-60 if you like it but otherwise default settings are good

[flint trench]

ok i am doing some test right now sir

[snow sleet]

Based on the Cronos mod description it should be similar since it fixes the native HDR, so you shouldn’t need DLSS fix for it

[flint trench]

hello sir, i'm back. unfortunately no luck theres no difference whatsoever with off and preset. here is a screenshot of settings

only thing i notice if i move ui brightness it works

anything else no change

[snow sleet]

You need to open and close the expedition (inventory) menu in-game to apply any changes

[flint trench]

yes, also tried to reload entirely

[hidden pilot]

that's weird

can you take a screenshot with some highlights in it and upload it here?

[gaunt cobalt]

Tysm for the info!

[desert hearth]

There's a 3 second freeze occuring each time before entering the battle. This mod is the culprit, specifically Unreal HDR Upgrade method. Any way to fix that?

[hybrid wind]

Are you using Ultra+? I remember it being the cause during my playthrough, and I just loved with it lol

[hidden pilot]

I played the game without Ultra+ and had the same issue, it's the Unreal HDR path what causes it.

[raven wadi]

From what I remember hearing it is Ultra+ lowering the settings for the combat sections

Which you can turn off

[wild minnow]

The freeze before combat is happening because of RenoDX, back when I played I had no Ultra+ and I experienced it. From my testing it appears that for some reason with RenoDX installed the game is taking a screenshot before entering combat and saving it in Local AppData, in the Sandfall folder.
When I finished my playthrough I had more than 30GB of 4K screenshots in there that I didn't take (there wasn't even a photo mode before) and they all corresponded to combat transition scenes.

[hidden pilot]

i should check that folder 😂

[wild minnow]

Yeah, it's a weird bug, I just noticed it because of the massive size that folder reached for no reason.

[merry seal]

Weird, I just checked that folder and have several in there, haven't made it too far in the game though.

[sterile monolith]

ive got the same problem

[weary swan]

I have the random screenshots in that folder too however mine doesn't freeze. I think It's because my PC is really strong and the C drive is a pcie 5.0 drive lol

Also my game isn't on the C Drive so that probably helps not slow it down when it's taking a screenshot

[frosty rain]

I had the same bug aswell

[lone drum]

holy shit the game looks so much better without the horrible sharpening

This game has some of the worst image quality ive seen with out of box settings

with some fixes it went from garbage to beautiful

[snow sleet]

i've never seen what this game looks like without U+ and Reno and I think I'm afraid to

[desert hearth]

Interesting, I had 3g of screenshots there as well. Is there a way to stop this?
I tried to deny access to that folder, will launch the game later to see if that work. Unless it crashes the whole thing 😄

[lone drum]

Beginning of the game i think is the worst, the moment it switches into gustav u notice how horrible it looks with the sharpening

maybe its the combination of chromatic abberation, film grain and high sharpening

[gaunt cobalt]

my eyes are hurting lol

here after installing renodx and ultra+

still need to configure the settings

[lone drum]

i swear this feels even worse ingame than looking at images

first time you boot into this game with no configs, it genuinely looks so bad

dont even think its a case of "art design" its just so oversharpened hair etc looks so bad

The lowres cutscenes with 30 fps are also artistic choice

[gaunt cobalt]

Yeah first time I booted the game I couldn’t believe that anyone sane would ship a game like that

[flint trench]

Maybe i have found my problem. i got error on logs that addon is 17 and api is 17 ehre to find api 17

[flint trench]

"the requested API verion (17) is not supported (16)

[sterile monolith]

you need to use newer reshade

reshade is on 6.6.2 now, sounds like you are on 6.5.1 perhaps

[wild minnow]

That could work as a temporary workaround, we have to see though if it stops the freezes altogether. Ideally the best outcome would be a fix in RenoDX itself to avoid the bug at the source if at all possible.

[desert hearth]

So, with denied access screenshots aren't generated, but the problem still persists, interesting.

[sterile monolith]

Yep same situation

[wild minnow]

Thank you for linking, very nice to see

[neon spire]

Yeah it's bad, boiling shadows everywhere.

[wicked sonnet]

Whats happening here?

[jade laurel]

anyone seen an issue with the fight menus being greyed out after installing renodx?

[jade laurel]

nvm I had the clairobscur fix mod installed, I removed that and it seems to have fixed it. Its back again, not sure why it worked once

[carmine onyx]

I have same issue except it insta crashes

[elder void]

It lets you play if you don't use analysis tool though? Yes. Most of the crashes I had were almost instant I'd say.

[carmine onyx]

Correct

I can tick all lilium Shaders except the analysis and it won't crash

[elder void]

Just happend to me in this game so far. Weird isn't it?

[carmine onyx]

Yeah

[sterile monolith]

Mods both got updates, make sure you delete older versions entirely
https://www.nexusmods.com/clairobscurexpedition33/mods/134?tab=files
https://www.nexusmods.com/clairobscurexpedition33/mods/200?tab=files

[carmine onyx]

@sterile monolith the analysis crash seems to only happen at 4k res

not below

hence why it works for u

[sterile monolith]

That's so weird but good deductions

[nimble panther]

I don't remember the name of the area but the cliffs where you go looking for a rock, is it supposed to be so damn dark there? I was having trouble seeing some enemy attacks because they were nearly full black

[finite garnet]

i think its their eye adaptation implementation try using ultra+

[nimble panther]

Yeah that could have been it. Lighting seemed pretty wonky for the outdoor area

[merry seal]

I've been seeing this red banding/posterization a lot, is this intended behavior? I'm using the UE HDR path for framegen and have Reno set to Musa's preset.

[jagged portal]

Turn off force anistropic in nvidia control panel

[finite garnet]

Musa’s preset

the irony

[plucky finch]

It's weird how everyone suddenly has issues with the mod once Musa started to sab... I mean work on

[merry seal]

That was it! Thanks, never would have thought that was the problem.

[grim hinge]

All I did was adjust the tonemapping

The other ui issues was stuff I didn’t touch

[plucky finch]

https://tenor.com/view/mr-bean-handshake-electrocuted-shocked-shock-gif-11748432

[carmine onyx]

Well fix it dumbass

Uh but cbuffer idk how to code c++ hurdur

Not my goat

[grim hinge]

Ok but I’m also gonna break the tonemapping

[carmine onyx]

[thorn cargo]

So started playing Expedition 33 and installed the renodx HDR mod like I have for many games before (almost a requirment now for non-HDR supporting games) heck even HDR supporting games (looking at you Starfield with your auto-hdr shilling)
HDR mod is enabled, HDR analysis shows its doing it job. I'm not using Framegen just Quality DLSS and was getting random crashing with it enabled. I tried disabling RTSS, Steam overlay to no avail.
I do have Nvidia app forcing latest "recommend" DLSS driver, not sure if that has caused anybody issues like im experiencing. dunno

[plucky finch]

Allegedly disabling HAGS in win11 helps with the crashes

[finite garnet]

the only crash i experienced with this peak game was save crash which you need to load a different save first then back to original save

[thorn cargo]

I''ll keep HAGS in mind. I just spent the past hour playing after not enabling the lilly HDR analysis tools that somoen mentioned was causing insta crashes. Even if it was check marked and disbled to not show. For me it wasn't instant crashing but tried unchecking it and crashes seemed to have went away. Very weird

[lone drum]

game also used to have (idk if longer present) issue with DLSS

i think dlss quality made me crash but dlaa didnt

[rocky current]

game runs great with reno dx, thanks for the work

[carmine onyx]

ya lilium shader breaks in some ue5 games

insta crash

[lucid drum]

can you share your Reno overlay settings?

[lofty quail]

Hi

I got this error :

How is it possible ?

[nimble panther]

Frame gen maybe?

[lofty quail]

hdr analysis cause thsi bug

[small fiber]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yugC8PnsnPg

did i do this correctly? video is in 1440HDR. not sure when 4k will come out

[austere tiger]

whenever i do that it disables DLSS for me in games..last I tried

@plucky finch do you remember what default paper white was for this game out of the box

Feels like it was about 300

[grim hinge]

question doesn't make sense

[plucky finch]

Disabling HAGS kills slop generation, which is only a + in my book
And the game never supported HDR officially in the first place, so there's no "default" PW value

[austere tiger]

What do you mean slop generation, like artifacts? Do you not use DLSS or is it just my DLSS that disables when I turn off HAGS? Lol

[plucky finch]

I don't use FG

[hollow gazelle]

guys im really new at this so im sorry if im asking something dumb... im installed the xgp edition also downloaded reshade but it wont find the game by itself.... also when i browse the .exe in the winGDK folder it just shows an error

[carmine onyx]

Point to gamelaunchhelper.exe

[trim anchor]

Hags might give you like 5-10% extra fps depending on the game

but usually its not really any different

for some stuff hags does murder your performance

like for some stuff that involves tensorrt

[nimble panther]

Do games use tensorrt?

[small fiber]

does anyone know if DoF is fixed in the latest NVslop drivers?

[quasi jetty]

Hello 🙂 unrelated to renodx (i was about to install it) but my games keep crashing, clicking on the start menu is enough to make it crash, changing options too, clicking on my second screen too, alt+tab too.. I saw some people here having this kind of trouble too but didn't find the fix yet, any help pls ?

[steady elm]

The best solution is: don’t stop playing, never alt tab, full zen focus on e33

@grim hinge Would agree, the game deserves your full attention

[quasi jetty]

Good thing thats what I was planning to do lmao

Fr tho I've done a fresh windows install, no problem ever since. I even got more fps now lmao

[grim hinge]

Actually best to uninstall it

Play some ubislop instead

[steady elm]

But ubislop doesn’t have such good lore and story

And the music is worse too

[grim hinge]

Adam and Eve doing parkour with the apple of Eden is better lore than expedition 33

Also Jesper Kyd solos

[steady elm]

Adam and Eve doing parkour with the apple of Eden
I would play that lol

[grim hinge]

That’s literally in ac brotherhood

Nvm it’s ac2

https://youtu.be/oE1tHtnFJmw?si=75ruy3-9rmyxXUk1

[steady elm]

looks fun. apart from shadows I never played an AC :D

[grim hinge]

1 has the best city design for parkour and chases

But also is a bit repetitive

[nimble panther]

"a bit" is a massive understatement 😉

[viral helm]

are these settings ok? idk if I put too much brightness, the game looks kinda dark but might be because I'm in a shaded area

[quasi jetty]

Hello, i'm looking for support, I've been struggling a lot to make the damn thing work, install reshade + reno + e33 reno file

but it never worked, i had the washed out feeling of hdr enabled on sdr content

and now the game won't even launch anymore

it keeps crashing just before the first menu, and it'll stop only if i remove reno/reshade from the game

[quasi jetty]

no one to help please ?

it seems to not crash now but i still have no hdr on the game

[marsh grotto]

I don't know if you solved this already, but you need Reshade with add-on support and the game-specific RenoDX file.

Also make sure hdr isn't accidentally disabled somehow

[nimble panther]

I hadn't played with the latest reno update until today but it works just fine here 🤷

[hollow obsidian]

works fine for me as a first time user

[round lagoon]

Is the standalone mod still better than ue extended as it is about a year old now?

[austere tiger]

a new version was posted to Github this April

https://github.com/clshortfuse/renodx/wiki/Mods

[round lagoon]

Ah so the pinned one is much older.

[austere tiger]

And here, Lazorr posted an even newer version in May but you have to join the Ultra+ Discord, tons of fixes

#1370218900247285790 message

[gilded cloud]

Wow I'm so lost with setting this game up. Classic RenoDX install, I'm using FrameGen if it's of any importance, so I selected that option in Reno settings. Looks like it works in gameplay, but not on the intro cutscene, maybe because FG doesn't kick in as it is locked at 30 FPS ? Any idea to help me ?