✅RenoDX: Fromsoft Engine (Elden Ring, Nightreign, AC6, and Sekiro)

[hushed zealot]

V2.8.1

Changelog:

• Fix AC6 menus

[velvet compass]

the lastest one has worse highlight detail than vanilla

[hushed zealot]

Share pics?

[velvet compass]

highlights silder is default 55

highlights 50 looks similar to vanilla

[hushed zealot]

Hmmm it's fine, just lower highlights slider

[velvet compass]

can i say that the vanilla hdr is just too good to improve

i think you should set highlights to 52 by default

50 is too dim

above 52 you get worse highlight detail than vanilla

[hushed zealot]

It is too good, mod's only useful for sliders mostly

[velvet compass]

ya

for users with display above 1300 nits

[hushed zealot]

Better highlight detail too, and I guess lut scaling is massive for the DLC

[velvet compass]

i still get posterization in bonny village occasionally

Cathedral of Manus is fixed

[hushed zealot]

Shouldn't be possible

If it's distracting lemme know, otherwise I'm kinda done with this mod 😅

[velvet compass]

ill record it

[hushed zealot]

V2.8.2

Changelog:

• Adjust highlights default

[velvet compass]

@hushed zealot its not that noticeable as before

[hushed zealot]

Ah thanks for the vid, maybe I'll check it again later

[karmic dune]

There is an issue with the skin selection menu in Nightreign. I had already identified this problem in previous versions, and it seems that the menu fix for AC6 didnt correct it in Nightreign. Here are the screenshots: vanilla/reno :

[hushed zealot]

Same issue as AC6, I didn't port the fix

[karmic dune]

Alright, thanks for the info! I'll be waiting for the updates

[hushed zealot]

V2.8.3

Changelog:

• Fix menus in other games

@karmic dune

[karmic dune]

Thank you 👍

[sharp pecan]

same here, gotta wait for fromsoft to fix it... nothing works LMAO what gpu do you have?

[ancient fjord]

Sekiro has native hdr???

[velvet compass]

ya its the first fromsoftware game that has hdr

[ancient fjord]

Ohhhh

Nightrein hm?

[velvet compass]

same

[ancient fjord]

Yoo thts nice

Reno is mostly for sliders in both of these games?

[velvet compass]

their hdr implementation is good except nvapi memes

[ancient fjord]

Irc elden ring also has native hdr?

[velvet compass]

fix some raised blacks in elden ring dlc

[ancient fjord]

For that u got to use sk fakescreen yah? Or the separate .dll

[velvet compass]

i use sk fakefs but idk if the dll works

[ancient fjord]

Ah

[velvet compass]

sk is compatible

[ancient fjord]

Also how do u even know whether a game has this problem in the first place

[velvet compass]

you take a sdr image to compare

[ancient fjord]

Mhm?

[velvet compass]

If everything except highlights looks exactly the same

[ancient fjord]

Does a lot of native hdr games have this problem hm

[velvet compass]

Its good hdr

[ancient fjord]

Oh

[ancient fjord]

Sk tonemapped sdr image works? Or the img in the sdr folder

[velvet compass]

ya it can work you just turn off all boost slider

then you get a sdr in hdr container image

which allows you to view it properly in hdr

[ancient fjord]

For games w/o using reno right

Ohh wait ah hmm

[velvet compass]

yes

for games with reno just use reno

my approach is take a normal sdr ss and open it with mpv with reshade installed

then use pumboadvancedautohdr to set the correct color space and brightness

[ancient fjord]

Hmm can u share ur mov files? I cba to set it up honestly atm at least

[velvet compass]

Im on my phone now

[ancient fjord]

Allg , also does this only happen in native hdr games?

[velvet compass]

there are several ways to do that

[ancient fjord]

Ah

[velvet compass]

What you mean happen

[ancient fjord]

This nvpi (i forgot what its called) problem that requires skfs / .dll

[velvet compass]

ya renodx will never use nvapi

its broken and outdated

[ancient fjord]

Alright

One more question, does that mean if ur using reno u dont got to worry about this problem (so no need to turn on skfs in sekiro / elden ring hm?) if using reno
Also thx in advance

[velvet compass]

it depends

some renodx mods use sdr path

which means you need to turn off in game hdr so nvapi issue is irrelevant here

while this fromsoft mod, its hdr path which means it requires in game hdr on so it cant get rid of nvapi ( if the native hdr uses it )

[ancient fjord]

OHH i understand it now

Thank you

[ancient fjord]

How do you figure this out btw hm

Hdr Analysis tool?

[velvet compass]

mod literally tells you

when you install it

[ancient fjord]

Ohh?

[velvet compass]

there should be some instruction

[ancient fjord]

Aight thx

[velvet compass]

If it doesnt tell you about that its mostly likely to be hdr path

the generic ue addon is sdr path

[ancient fjord]

Ahh i see

Btw u can use sk even with mod engine too (ds3/sekiro/elden ring etc), but u gotta use skif

I go to sleep , tmr i try to learn how to compare screenshots i want to see how the game looks like when broken

[oak zodiac]

What HDR brightness setting in native Elden Ring corresponds closest to 203 paper white?

[hushed zealot]

Brightness 4

[idle shard]

9070xt

[sharp pecan]

Yeah same 💀

Its greyed out no matter what. Even tho in ER and AC6 hdr works perfectly

[idle shard]

Yeah in monster hunter wilds it happens too but I fixed it with CRU, this game though, nothing works

[bitter dove]

I wonder if the restoresaturationloss() function is what was causing the artifacts with LUT scaling

[lavish pecan]

for 103 brightness 2?

[idle shard]

In case you're still playing the game, I found out that after disabling automatic color management in windows 11, I can now finally enable HDR...can't believe it's that simple

[sharp pecan]

Oh where's that?

[idle shard]

system>display>color profile

[sharp pecan]

i already have my own color profile, its not on auto

well rip

maybe the update fixed it? there was a new update a few hrs ago

yep still greyed out for me

do you mean color profile here? for me thats the HDR calibration

[idle shard]

it's this option

[sharp pecan]

i don t have that

i dont have a color management section either

[idle shard]

i just click on this arrow here, if you don't see it then your windows 11 is probably an older build

[sharp pecan]

dont have an arrow there :///

whats your win11 version?

mine's 23H2

[idle shard]

24H2

[sharp pecan]

i dont even have that available as an update

[idle shard]

I have to disable it to get HDR working, but your build don't even have it so probably not the same situation

[idle shard]

also check system>display>advanced display, the option might be there as well

[sharp pecan]

ye ive checked, nothing, only color profile

[velvet compass]

its a 24H2 exclusive feature

[sharp pecan]

ill try manually upgrading

it it goes wrong my pc is due a full clean install anyway

[sharp pecan]

ok i have it off

hdr is still greyed out

i give up

[velvet compass]

are you in fullscreen mode

[sharp pecan]

ofc

i aklso tried with both hdr off and on in windows settings

tried restarting also

i'll enable auto color management, see what happens LMAO

yeah i checked with both enabled and disabled

same thing

[sharp pecan]

using the fullscreen override thingie, same thing. (allows you to be borderless even though game thinks its in fullscreen. i had hdr on in windows)

[velvet compass]

amd gpu right ?

probably some driver issue

i had a 7900xtx

had no issue with elden ring hdr

[sharp pecan]

Yeah amd, but i have no hdr issues with ER or AC6 or even Sekiro for that matter

[hot wyvern]

i assume this wont work with PD fg

[hushed zealot]

It should work, it adjusts native HDR

[bitter dove]

The puredark fork of reshade might be an issue

[hasty glen]

Huuatiii's DLSS/FG works

[velvet compass]

doesnt work

[ancient fjord]

sk fake full screen?

[velvet compass]

has removed his ERSS mods

i still have it installed

[sharp pecan]

Nexus removed it, because he linked his patreon in the description

Its still available for free on his patreon

[sharp pecan]

Doesnt work, hdr still greyed out

[ancient fjord]

erss long form?

[hasty glen]

Which version?

Because I'm using his newer build not the ones from nexus prior to removal

[ancient fjord]

Also iam guesing that u tried to verify ur steam files as well?

[sharp pecan]

yeah, i tried everything

[velvet compass]

it is the previous version

[limpid lark]

i tried it out last night and i was able to get reno and erss working together. didn't test frame gen but dlaa worked fine

[fossil spruce]

hell yes, fixing sekiro and elden ring at same time? ty!

[fossil spruce]

https://codeberg.org/Lyall/SekiroFix

try this

@sharp pecan

@hushed zealot for some reason autohdr keeps triggienr with sekiro and the colors look washed out but all the sliders work

[glad violet]

restart pc

[fossil spruce]

didnt fix :(, i wonder if this is an ultrawide issue

idk, even when i have no mods running, it still does the autohdr thing, and i have it in fullscreen with hdr on , very odd

nope setting monitor to 2560x1440 made no change

for some reason the game is basically failing to change the swapchain when HDR is set to on

using sk to boot the game with fake fullscreen mode and it works

[glad violet]

i had the same issue washed out hdr i turned off hdr in game and windows and started the game in sdr then turned hdr on in-game and windows then restarted pc

[fossil spruce]

this method, the hdr is working but renodx peak brightness calculation is broken

1000 nits allows it to do 10k nits

186 nits gets it to 1000 nits

[limpid lark]

restarting usually fixes that issue. i would set it to sdr, reboot, then try hdr again

i don't have autohdr enabled though. maybe there's some weird interaction there. i'd disable it

[glad violet]

did you try it first without the mod then adding the mod after hdr is working

[fossil spruce]

yes

unless i have sk involved the game just doesnt put in a hdr10 swapchain for some reason

im gonna try a fresh install of the game and see if anything changes, i wonder if i ever patched the exe or something back in the day

[fossil spruce]

disabling autohdr seems to work

but now liliums hdr analysis says sdr

but rtss is in hdr10 mode

i forget what the trick is to force liliums to run in hdr mode

at least all the math is fixed now

and i dont have to use SK to make it work

[kindred wedge]

Check the info box

[fossil spruce]

sorry i cant do a snip cuz the way this stupid game does fullscreen mode

[velvet compass]

need to override one setting

scroll down

[kindred wedge]

hmm it should say override is possible

[velvet compass]

i forgot the name

[kindred wedge]

did I break that again

[velvet compass]

but it was fixed

are you still using the old one ?

[kindred wedge]

CSP_OVERRIDE to CSP_HDR10

[velvet compass]

manually type CSP_HDR10

[fossil spruce]

this is lilium build from 6.5.25

Yeah typing that worked yay

[velvet compass]

what

where did you get 6.5.25

i think the lastest is 6.5.1

[fossil spruce]

That's a date

[kindred wedge]

25.06.05

[fossil spruce]

June 5th

[velvet compass]

well

[kindred wedge]

guess I need to look into that

[velvet compass]

i thought you mean reshade version

[fossil spruce]

No, I'm using 6.5.1 reshade, and liliums newest shaders

[velvet compass]

maybe its broken again

6.5.0 works for me

[fossil spruce]

anyway, for anyone from the future trying to solve Sekrio and its bullshit with HDR, make sure auto-hdr is turned off for this title

w/e sekiro does weird causes autohdr to break it

[velvet compass]

what

[fossil spruce]

reno is working now and all the math is right

[velvet compass]

did you use sk fakefullscreen

its nvapi

[fossil spruce]

that fixes it too yes

[velvet compass]

very broken

[fossil spruce]

but not fully

it causes the math to be wrong in reno

[velvet compass]

i guess i never turn on autohdr so i dont even notice it at all

[fossil spruce]

i leave it on by default because its usually harmless

[velvet compass]

btw

[fossil spruce]

this is only the 2nd game ive seen where autohdr fucked it up

[velvet compass]

imo sekiro looks worse with renodx

[fossil spruce]

looks kinda washed out

but thats the game

[velvet compass]

what are your settings

[fossil spruce]

this is just default

[velvet compass]

default highlights is 52 (i recommend that value to ritsu actually)

[fossil spruce]

so highlights at 52 and highlight saturation at 55, the rest normal

[velvet compass]

cuz 50 is even dimmer than native lol

but if you want more highlight detail you want to keep it at 50

[fossil spruce]

i cant share a picture with you either

[velvet compass]

is it washed out

[fossil spruce]

hmm let me see if i can get skiv to work

[fossil spruce]

yes

even more so

[velvet compass]

nvapi

try nvidia overlay

[fossil spruce]

im not going to install the nvidia app for this

[velvet compass]

sk fakefullscreen should fix that

at least for me

[fossil spruce]

yeah it would, i was just setting it up without sk first

to make sure its actually solved

[limpid lark]

agree. ER is a big improvement thanks to the fixed luts, but yeah i prefer sekiro without reno

[fossil spruce]

@velvet compassusing sk fake fullscreen breaks reno math again

easily verifiable on the main menu logo being 1142 nits

[limpid lark]

i just used lilium's fix. no need for sk

er

lyall's fix

[fossil spruce]

lyalls fix doesnt do fake fullscreen

[velvet compass]

whay

nah you just hit any button

[limpid lark]

why do you need fake fullscreen exactly?

[velvet compass]

and its normal

or wait a few seconds

[fossil spruce]

what are you talking about

[fossil spruce]

you cant take HDR snips in exclusive fullscreen

[limpid lark]

lyall's forces borderless fullscreen

borderless windowed*

[velvet compass]

main menu

press any button

[fossil spruce]

It doesnt

[velvet compass]

wait a few seconds

[limpid lark]

; Makes windowed mode run in borderless.
Enabled = true

[fossil spruce]

No it's broken

[velvet compass]

is just tested

[fossil spruce]

read what that says carefully

[velvet compass]

works fine

[limpid lark]

the only reason you need borderless fullscreen is for screenshots?

[fossil spruce]

it would also make alt tabbing not feel like ass

[fossil spruce]

wheres your liliums

open the ingame menu and see what it says the nits are

[velvet compass]

i uninstalled it

[limpid lark]

same lol

[fossil spruce]

thats broken

1000+ nit ui

[velvet compass]

looks like wrong swapchain

[fossil spruce]

only happens when im using SK

[velvet compass]

maybe you can try my sk settings

[fossil spruce]

hold on, i think i solved

this config of sk is old

sk despite being on the hdr native tab, was doing some post processing

well that makes sense

we guchi now

i should have reset sk ini, its been years

well i can take hdr screens now

yeah the game looks like ass in "dark areas"

so much black lift built into the game

[velvet compass]

check elden ring dlc

[fossil spruce]

straight up needs .2 nits dropped with black floor fix

[fossil spruce]

they must have created these games with the worlds worst lcd screens

[velvet compass]

not really

game can reach 0 nits

[limpid lark]

yeah the cave near senpou temple reaches 0 nits

[velvet compass]

they graded that scene this way

just like the intro of alan wake 2

[velvet compass]

right lost some shadow details

it doesnt look that bad on my end though

[fossil spruce]

looks like poop on a qdoled

the game always had this issue though so

[velvet compass]

does your display have good eotf tracking

[fossil spruce]

im not sure how thats supposed to be renodxs fault

[fossil spruce]

its alienware 34dw

[velvet compass]

nah renodx looks pretty close to native hdr

in all these games

[fossil spruce]

the native hdr def didnt look better than this

[velvet compass]

except elden ring dlc

[velvet compass]

looks very similar in that scene

native hdr actually has darker shadows than sdr because of the approach they did

but renodx matches sdr but improves the luts

so it lowers the black floor a bit

[fossil spruce]

well somehow i have SK + Reno + Mod Engine + Lyall all working at the same time

[velvet compass]

its nowhere near that bad on my end

[limpid lark]

probably different time of day

[velvet compass]

did you take the screenshot correctly

[fossil spruce]

its directly from SK

and you can see the analysis in mine

that SHOWS theres no black in the pic

min nits of 0.21 in that first one i took

the ui not being super bright automatically makes renodx superior

[velvet compass]

with analysis

[fossil spruce]

and thats just default reno settings? idk why my blacks suck ass

[velvet compass]

native looks almost identical

do you have any other shaders ?

[limpid lark]

guys, time of day changes as you progress through the game. i'm sure that affects the interior lighting

[velvet compass]

ya i know that

dont think its that bad though

[limpid lark]

yall are probably comparing different time of day

[fossil spruce]

almost certainly

my saves pretty early

[velvet compass]

you havent beaten this game yet ?

[fossil spruce]

no

lots of my games have not been beaten, ive got gamer adhd

[velvet compass]

nah im on a ng +8 save file

[fossil spruce]

damn you must be a parry god

[velvet compass]

only 200 hours

i have 1000 + hours in dark souls 3 and bloodborne

[fossil spruce]

good lord

how many in elden ring

[velvet compass]

300

[fossil spruce]

(another game i havent beaten)

i beat ds3 though

[velvet compass]

elden take 100 hours to beat though

if you want to do a 100% playthrough

[bitter dove]

I beat the game like 5 times and that was enough for me

I tried replaying it like twice but never really got around to beating it again

[fossil spruce]

ER or Sekiro?

[bitter dove]

Sekiro

one ER base game playthrough took longer than all of my Sekiro playthroughs

[brave frost]

Trying to play elden ring with RenoDX, Fake fullscreen is on in SK but the HDR option in the game is still grayed out and OFF. Any suggestions on how to fix it.

[velvet compass]

dont set borderless with in game option

sk fake fullscreen will convert fullscreen to borderless

[ancient fjord]

@velvet compass do u play nightrein with reno or just native hdr

[velvet compass]

i dont own that game

i prefer native in sekiro and renodx in elden ring

[ancient fjord]

ah i see

alr

[glad violet]

i didnt open elden ring since dlc i remember beating the consort and his twink lord before he got nerfed it was 12 am after 100+ death i just alted out after beating them 😆

[open hornet]

Fixed HDR for FromSoft games? You guys rock! I'll use this when I get back to my Sekiro NG+ and unfinished Armored Core saves.

[cedar tide]

This only works with 6.5.0?

Doesnt seem to work in Sekiro

[limpid lark]

works with 6.5.1

[cedar tide]

what am i doing wrong? it's washed out as fuck

[limpid lark]

try rebooting

[cedar tide]

but i see the addon loaded, and can edit sliders

i tried 😭

all of the HDR shaders are errored out

like analysis tool

[limpid lark]

using sk?

[cedar tide]

no

i even deleted fps unlock fix and skip intro fix

[limpid lark]

not sure then. seems like nvapi issues but a reboot usually fixes that. maybe try setting it to sdr in game, rebooting, then trying hdr again

[cedar tide]

cant get it to work

i cant even trigger it to be ON without reno mod installed

i only remember 2 games doing that - Sekiro and Hitman :\

[limpid lark]

you have autohdr and rtx hdr off right?

[cedar tide]

sure

[limpid lark]

have you tried sk for fake fullscreen?

[cedar tide]

i will check another workaround

give me a sec

[cedar tide]

how to? i never used SK

ok i launched sekiro from SK launcher

apparently fake full screen is on but also some fake hdr

[limpid lark]

open the hdr widget and select passthrough for the hdr10 option

[cedar tide]

that fixed it

thank you

[fossil spruce]

@cedar tide i had an issue like yours, you have to run in fullscreen and select HDR ingame, and make sure auto hdr is off

and sk fixes the fullscreen issue with fake fullscreen on, just make sure its in profile 4 and hit reset to make sure its not doing any of its own processing

it should automatically be right in theory but you never know

[cedar tide]

I am definitely have full screen and auto hdr off - it just doesnt work without SK

[fossil spruce]

thats now two games in the last month ive had to disable AutoHDR

it totally breaks anno 1800 rendering

[cedar tide]

i dont use Auto HDR since i discovered Reno and RTX HDR

[fossil spruce]

yeah reno is life

[cedar tide]

Whats "profile 4" ?

shift + f4 aka "HDR Native"?

ok got it everything hooks and works now

[high dagger]

@hushed zealot does this mod not work in dark souls 3?

also thank you for showing some love for fromsoft games

[bitter dove]

Nah that one needs a separate mod. This mod is just for the games that already have native hdr

[bitter dove]

Lilium wanted to do dark souls games

and I alreayd stole dark souls 1

dark souls 2 has ds2lightingengine

[limpid lark]

ds3 mod would be nice

it's the one and only game i used rtx hdr for before i knew any better

[high dagger]

Ah. Gotcha. I’ve been really wanting to play dark souls 3 again so can’t wait for an hdr mod for it.

[velvet compass]

ds3 is blown out

itm wont look good

[glad violet]

seems ragevitamins will make a ds3le lite version with dlss, hdr, some other things

before doing full lighting changes

[rocky fulcrum]

am i understanding this right? so on the github page for renodx there are two mods for elden ring and nioghtreign? can one work with both games?

[stoic rain]

Same file. Can be used with all games listed in brackets

[brave laurel]

hello anyone know why i have this instead of a proper hdr ? hdr is on in game, fullscreen but its washed out (AC6)

[velvet compass]

you need SK fake fullscreen

[stoic rain]

Try reset all with cru. My experience with from games and HDR getting washed out is usually fixed by this

[stuck meadow]

excellent work on this one guys, playing through Elden Ring again and making comparisons with the mod

great to have this ✨

[sand coyote]

Anyone figure out to use renodx+pure dark frame gen?

[ancient fjord]

Hello , is it possible for reno to disable vignette in night reign pls

[velvet compass]

theres a mod for it

just download it

[cold sun]

ive tried the mod as well and it doesnt work, multiple other people have problems too

[bitter dove]

typical NVAPI issues

specialk fakefullscreen

for me the washed out stuff always fixes it after restarting

[ancient fjord]

Same here

[ancient fjord]

U dont use sk fake fullscreen?

[ancient fjord]

Cant inject it using sk / me3

[velvet compass]

its mod loader mod

https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/117

[ancient fjord]

I see , iam using me3

Can it not work with me3?

[velvet compass]

most likely

[ancient fjord]

Sadge ..

[velvet compass]

for elden ring mod loader mod wont work with me2 most of the time

[ancient fjord]

Ohh 😮

[velvet compass]

me2 or me3 basically directly replaces some of the games files

in an uncompressed form

[ancient fjord]

I don't notice viggenete during combat but for screenshots and other things its so ehhhh for me yk?

[ancient fjord]

Yah

[velvet compass]

but mod loader mod is dll based

so its very different

[ancient fjord]

Me3 can inject dlls as well

N me2

[velvet compass]

ya but not all

[ancient fjord]

Ahh noted

[velvet compass]

a lot of elden ring mods i use dont work with me2

[ancient fjord]

Ohh hm

For texture mods and what not do u just replace em directly after unpacking the game files? Hmm

[velvet compass]

you can do that with basically all these mod engine mods

but unpacked files take a lot of extra space

[ancient fjord]

Yah ik but its so much harder to manage for me

Yep that too

[velvet compass]

and you need to do a backup to recover

[ancient fjord]

Yep

[velvet compass]

you can also directly modify these unpacked files

there are a lot of modding tools for souls games

[ancient fjord]

Yeah

[dry radish]

How do I fix renodx in Endel ring?

[glad violet]

turn off RT

[dry radish]

it works but image is super dull

[glad violet]

dull as in washed out or no RT dull

btw you only need renodx for the dlc the main game has a really good hdr

and for reference brightness 4 is close to 203 paper white

[dry radish]

ohh okay. I have the base. What would be 100 paper white?

1 maybe?

[glad violet]

dont know tbh how they scale it in the game

[dry radish]

and color saturation. anything recommended?

[glad violet]

default 5 if you want the intended look

[dry radish]

it looks less colorfull than sdr

[glad violet]

is your monitor's sdr accurate?

[dry radish]

yes

[glad violet]

restart your pc see if it changes

[dry radish]

nothing… colors are more predominant on sdr

even at 10

[glad violet]

ig the game's swapchain isnt changing to hdr10 you might need specialK

[limpid lark]

seems to be a common problem. restart always fixes it for me but a lot of people have been saying it doesn't

[bitter ridge]

Uh... GPU? Driver? OS?

[dry radish]

5090 windows 11

and fucking crashes from time to time

[bitter ridge]

Could be Nvidia's driver being stupid.
Try reinstalling the driver from scratch by first uninstalling via DDU.
Also clear driver shader caches, and such.

[dry radish]

seems like it is only playing full screen

[bitter ridge]

Isn't that a good thing...?

[dry radish]

sorry, crashing*

but I installed speacial k to make the trick for windowed fullscreen. And the HDR is way better!!!

but my tv does bot recognise it as hdr. lol

its not hdr hahaha

[glad violet]

@dry radish RT in elden ring doesnt work with renodx thats why i suggested playing using normal hdr

[glad violet]

you might need to turn hdr in windows

[dry radish]

yes!

[bitter ridge]

Would RT require different RenoDX shaders?

[glad violet]

@hushed zealot would know

[hushed zealot]

Probably some pipeline issues

RT is terrible so I won't bother

[bitter dove]

If you disable cbuffers the rt would probably work

Means no sliders though

[hushed zealot]

Proper way would be finding output shaders and only adjusting those pipelines

[modern junco]

the RT is good and worth turning on from a visual perspective...shame about performance/stuttering though

[bitter dove]

I tried it once and it made the foliage shadows pitch black

Looked weird

Actually tried it twice

Cause I did on console as well

[limpid lark]

the shadow pop-in makes it not worth it to me

it looks so bad when you're running through the world

[velvet compass]

the RTAO is applied on top of the games SSAO

can look super wired sometimes

[rugged dagger]

AC6 won't launch for me when i use renodx. idk if an anti-cheat issue or something it happens when the anti-cheat is loading

[hushed zealot]

EAC must be off

[ripe spindle]

what does reno do on sekiro

[bitter dove]

they tonemap in a LUT but they don't add the offset when sampling the tonemapping LUT so it clips blacks but then they raise blacks in the color grading LUT afterwards

so it fixes the tonemap LUT then scales black level with the color grading LUT

I could make some edits to it

since we now we have the chrominance matching stuff

I have things to test out

[velvet compass]

most people wont notice the difference

[ancient fjord]

@velvet compass soo ..

the problem all this time was steam input / steam client / steam api idk which one but it was one of em

now EVERYTHING works well together :D. The fsr mod as well

iam so happy ughh i wish i fixed this problem earlier p-p. Iam like 30 hours in 🥲

[velvet compass]

i already stopped playing this game

[light flame]

Lmao

Sekiro is 60fps capped, right?

[open hornet]

Yes, but there are mods to uncap it. I managed it together with renodx, too. I used these two to run at monitor refresh in fullscreen so HDR works:

• https://github.com/cathyjf/SekiroFpsUnlockDll
• https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Sekiro-Refresh-Rate-Fix

[velvet compass]

can be easily unlocked

[velvet compass]

the refresh rate one isnt necessary if you use SK fakefullscreen mode (it converts fullscreen mode to borderless mode so the 60hz refresh rate isnt an issue)

[light flame]

And it doesn't really break the animations and all that jazz, right?

Works flawlessly?

[velvet compass]

not since sekiro with their engine

[light flame]

Sweet, thanks.

[velvet compass]

dark souls 3 is broken above 60

[light flame]

DS1 also had issues with it.

Never played DS2, so not sure.

[velvet compass]

ds2 speeds up above 60

[light flame]

Ninty games kinda did the same, right?

[velvet compass]

even the default fps cap introduces inconsistent game speed in ds2

so the speedrun of ds2 requires a manual cap

what are Ninty games

[open hornet]

Thanks for the tip, I may try that.

[modern junco]

going above, iirc, 80 fps in sekiro causes some physics and interaction bugs. Under some conditions bumping into a wall can make you run super slow, and there are some moments where you'll straight up fail to interact with things (I think I remember this happening with the segment with the big snake?)

[velvet compass]

the slow doesnt happen in sekiro

[modern junco]

Did for me

[velvet compass]

i play sekiro with uncapped fps since day 1

[modern junco]

Idk what to tell you, it’s 100% a thing

[velvet compass]

it is in dark souls 3

[modern junco]

I’ve tried multiple times with every different uncapping mod, same thing happens. Sometimes while sprinting and you bump into a wall, you go into slow motion.

[velvet compass]

never happen for me

[modern junco]

Also encountered a progress halting interaction bug with uncapped fps

[velvet compass]

idk

i just tested

cant trigger slow down at all

in dark souls 3 its 100% chance

at its not 80 fps

its anything above 60

below 80 its not that slow

[modern junco]

I never tried uncapping in anything other than sekiro and Elden ring

[velvet compass]

its the same as uncapped fps in bloodborne on shadps4 or demons souls on rpcs3

you slow down when you bump into a wall

but i cant trigger that in sekiro

https://github.com/cathyjf/SekiroFpsUnlockDll

did you try this

[modern junco]

Yeah

The slowdown issue I wanna say only happened on slopes?

So like hitting a wall going up a staircase

[velvet compass]

i am testing on a slope ?

[modern junco]

Very strange, idk. I remember it being pretty inconsistent, ultimately a minor problem.

I forget what the progress halting issue was. It might have been a shimmy point that it literally wouldn’t let me use until I was at 60?

[velvet compass]

like i said i play sekiro with uncapped fps since day 1

i havent find any noticeable issue

[modern junco]

Idk why it would vary on different systems but that’s awesome for you lol

I wish it worked for me

[velvet compass]

well i know that some i-frame related things would be a bit different but its margin of error

like the parry frame

is 6 frames at 30 fps in the games code

but 13 frames at 60 fps instead of 12 frames

[modern junco]

I probably would have picked a stable framerate I could cap at. Maybe the problem was that it wasn’t literally unlocked, idk.

[velvet compass]

i know theres an issue that your character is generally slower on the ps4pro

at around 45 fps

that happens in all fromsoftware games basically

[modern junco]

I think I capped at 90, so maybe I fucked myself lol.

[velvet compass]

game speed is a bit slower when below 60 fps/ 30 fps

did you try bloodborne 60 fps

that patch actually has a minor downside

enemy detection speed is doubled

that machanic isnt present in dark souls 3 afaik, so Lance McDonald didnt patch it (he made that patch based on ds3 code)

[modern junco]

Haven’t emulated Bloodborne yet

[kindred wedge]

That happens if the mod just unlocks the fps, which one did you use?

[modern junco]

The one linked above was the one I used most recently iirc

I’ll have to try it again, maybe I configured it in a bad way

Gonna wait until that DLSS mod is done though lol

[kindred wedge]

You can't configure it badly, it depends on the mod

[modern junco]

Idk then, unless there’s another dll injection mod I think that’s the one I used since I’m not a fan of external GUI injectors.

[bitter dove]

lyall has a sekiro mod

[modern junco]

shit, maybe it was the lyall one I used then

idk, it was too long ago now

[open hornet]

Unfortunately, Sekiro crashes on me with Special K. I've used the recommended config from SK website for Sekiro.

[open hornet]

Ok, I made it work by fixing RTSS config

But how do I force SK to not use its own HDR and use renodx instead?

[light flame]

Open SK control panel, click on HDR from top, open HDR menu, select 'none'.

[ripe spindle]

sk should pick up the native hdr and set itself to hdr10 native

[open hornet]

Well, that seems to run off HDR altogether. And then it's turned on again after restart anyway

the problem is it just takes over and all UI brightness is maxed.

SK just seems too much of a hassle just to allow the fake fullscreen or forced windowed borderless

[ripe spindle]

no it's very simple i've used sk and reno together for a lot of games

just set it to hdr10 + hdr10 native

and it will let renodx do the work

and keep fakefullscreen ticked

[open hornet]

yeah, I have almost no experience with SK since I tried it with couple games and it mostly crashed or something

[ripe spindle]

this is how it should be

sk will just not do any processing

and let the native hdr/reno work

[open hornet]

Yeah, thanks, that worked! I didn't get it first that I need both the fake FS and the HDR10 native

[ripe spindle]

if a game hs native hdr or renodx and you launch sk for the first time with them

it should automatically pick up the hdr swapchain

and set itself to either hdr10+hdr10 native or scrgb hdr+scrgb native

only presets 0 and 1 do post process hdr

[open hornet]

hmm, maybe it was set correctly but I perhaps changed the preset (trying to figure it all out) and only then found the fake fs option so it just didn't match my expectation, heh

[ripe spindle]

if you changed it you used sk hdr instead of native prob

maybe an old config

[modern junco]

Reminder that we’ve got this now https://github.com/clshortfuse/renodx/wiki/Guide:-Using-Special-K-with-RenoDX

[ancient fjord]

Thank you

For me reno + sk works 99% of the time

So far

[plucky tinsel]

Does this work with the DLSS mod? The free one, not the Puredark one I mean.

Also I'm assuming you need to be in Fullscreen for this to work since Elden Ring requires it...

[open hornet]

I guess the fake fullscreen option in Special K would work in Elden Ring as well (it does in Sekiro)

[plucky tinsel]

I'm not using Lossless Scaling, so I guess it doesn't matter if I run it in fullscreen.

I'm not sure how to test if it is actually working though. Would it affect the Tonemap Curve/Grayscale visualization in Special K? That's the only way I can think of to test if its actually working.

Nvm its not loading when I use it as a plugin in special k

[open hornet]

dunno, my main goal was to make HDR and unlocked framerate work at the same time in Sekiro. which includes avoiding the game forcing 60 Hz

[plucky tinsel]

I installed reshade into special k now. I've placed the Renodx file into the addons, but I still have no clue how to test if its actually working or not...

[glad violet]

last time i tried it does

[modern junco]

got the itch for sekiro afterall. A sharpening slider would be awesome. The sharpening with their TAA is a bit much.

kinda irrelevant for the games with DLSS mods I guess

[glad violet]

sekiro i think also has dlss mod somewhere

[modern junco]

I gave it a try and it seems to not work with latest reshade at least

I guess the native hdr is good enough that I'd probably pick a dlss mod over it lol

lemme try old reshade

[modern junco]

worked, but doesn't seem to work in HDR

[glad violet]

weird normally dlss mods have a HDR toggle option

[hasty glen]

huutaiii explained it

To get FG to render before UI pass he had to do the typical FG stuff but the game does something with the UI + HDR hence he had to seperate it and add an additional toggle

let me pull up the pic

[modern junco]

The sekiro mod doesn’t have frame gen btw.

I’m sure it requires extra work regardless.

[random trellis]

Yea the Sekiro dlss mod doesn't work with HDR

Tried to get it to work with SKs fake fullscreen but that also didnt work

[hasty glen]

rip then

i was talking about ER

[ripe spindle]

did anyone manage to make ERSS, sk and reno work together

[glad violet]

i think they all work together try sk global

[ripe spindle]

i tried but

uhm

is it me or

rt with reno or erss makes just everything dark

[glad violet]

yeah rt doesnt work with reno

[ripe spindle]

gotchu

ty fam

[ancient fjord]

works for me

[ancient fjord]

Ima using borderless fullscreen with that mods HDR mode

reno + sk + free upscale mod + (some other mods)

[plucky tinsel]

I figured it out. I’m fairly certain it’s working.

I just had to install reshade globally to special k

[glad violet]

somethings i noticed is erss with preset j or k has problem with some fog it becomes dithered,
also related to the game Max Particles causes insane frame drops even with high end set up

[plucky tinsel]

I have effects to medium and volumetric high

[ancient fjord]

what preset is the most stable ?

[plucky tinsel]

Also DLSS quality. My 5080 keeps 120fps for most part

DLC has worse performance vs base game though so I had to lower some settings.

[glad violet]

C is the most stable, i tested E and it has the same dither problem as j&k but its less obvious

[plucky tinsel]

I use E

The only issue I have now is that changing RenoDX settings with reshade doesn’t actually change anything. I’m wondering if each change requires a restart

[glad violet]

you can see it easily in the very beginning of the game after you open the door the fog on the horizon

[plucky tinsel]

That’s why I’m unsure if it’s definitely working or not

[glad violet]

is the image washed out?

[plucky tinsel]

Maybe some weird fuckery with using reshade globally through Special K.

Nah hdr is working ok

I just don’t know if renodx is or not

It says it is and I can get to the settings menu, but like I said changing settings doesn’t do anything at least not immediately.

[ancient fjord]

increase the blowout to 100

after ur in-game

[plucky tinsel]

I’ll check when I get home

[glad violet]

yeah and try changing Game Brightness settings

or UI

[ripe spindle]

@glad violet I can't get fg to work it says can't toggle when loaded as addon

but I can't use the d3d12.dll

game just won't start with fg component

sadge

[glad violet]

i didnt use fg so dont know alot, but try this
if you are using reshade rename d3d12.dll(the one from reshade) to dxgi.dll or d3d11.dll dw it will work, and use d3d12.dll from erss mod

[ripe spindle]

what if I load reshade globally from sk ?

[glad violet]

never tried it before but might work if it doesnt create d3d12.dll file

[ripe spindle]

hmm I see

[glad violet]

if sk creates the file d3d12.dll you can rename it to dxgi.dll and use erss d3d12.dll

[ripe spindle]

it just loads reshade64.dll straight from sk folder

idk what it does afterwards

i'll try local reshade

no dice

instacrash

[glad violet]

this is from his mod page

[ripe spindle]

ya i've tried

[glad violet]

managed to get them all to work by installing sk and reshade locally and renaming sk to d3d11.dll and reshade normal dxgi.dll you might need to remove any dxgi/d3d.ini files or it will crash, if it still crashes try to launch it again anyway

[ripe spindle]

Alright thanks

what a mess lol

[plucky tinsel]

I can't get RenoDX to work with Special K for some reason. It shows up in reshade which I have running globally through Special K. The issue is that it isn't actually doing anything. I can change settings but it does nothing.

I also have the FG mod running as a special k addon

Is it normal on the reshade home screen it says "No effect files found in the configured effect search paths". Does this matter at all? RenoDX has its own tab and settings pop up but do nothing.

[plucky tinsel]

Shit now my game wont even launch

I have no clue what to do now.... I tried moving RenoDX to Special K Global Addons and it seems to have done something that is preventing me from launching the game at all.

[modern junco]

can always reset your SK config

I know with Sekiro, I had them working together by simply loading reshade as dxgi.dll and injecting SK via SKIF

it didn't work with the plugin system

[plucky tinsel]

Yeah its a struggle... I guess I'll keep tinkering

For some reason reshade is broken now with Special K. When I enable reshade the game won't open and I have to reset again

So I've narrowed it down. Disabling "Compatibility Mode" In Special K for reshade makes it so my game wont launch.

The install instructions say you need to disable compatibility mode for it to work so I'm at a loss.

I tried to ask about RenoDX in the SK discord and my comment got deleted with an automod message about support only being available for patrons because support for RenoDX is spotty.

It seems like getting it to work globally with SK just isn't a thing. I'll just try to set it up locally.

[steel dome]

Has dark souls 3 been considered for a mod? I know lighting engine exists but I would love to see an HDR mod for the vanilla game

[glad violet]

no point LE is just superior and can just turn everything off in LE except hdr, also the hdr in LE was worked on in here with pumbo

[steel dome]

Is it possible that and HDR only version can be made? Like a luma mod?

I don’t really care for the LE features. Just want the HDR

[stoic rain]

Sure it's possible. Just find a dev who wants to do the work 🤷

[modern junco]

I mean, Steve just said you can turn everything off except the HDR if you wanted lol

[steel dome]

True but just saying it would be nice to have a standalone hdr mod

Atleast i think there would be value in it

[modern junco]

yeah fair, I've thought the same (but didn't know you could simply turn it all off, so I guess I personally don't desire it now).

[plucky tinsel]

I finally got everything running (ERSS FG, SK, Reshade/RenoDX), but something is completely busted and the game has tons of black corrupted textures...

I may just have to give up on renodx and just use DLSS and normal HDR/Special K

[high osprey]

Hey guys, I want to use renoxdx for Nightreign, but how can I use it while borderless?

[hushed zealot]

• Set to fullscreen
• Enable HDR
• Set to borderless

[ancient fjord]

what is sk service mode?

[glad violet]

i think its mini mode, dont really know much about sk i only use it locally sometimes for fakefullscreen

[sharp tapir]

figured this mod also fixed elden rings hdr just being broken at times but i guess not. Sad they never fixed that issue

[ancient pawn]

I'm running into this as well, did you happen to find a fix by any chance? Is it a compatibility issue?

As soon as I turn off RenoDX it's fine, running 2.8.3

[glad violet]

turn off RT

[plucky tinsel]

I just stopped using Special K. I replaced pretty much everything I was using SK for with mods.

I used reshade and mods so I could use RenoDX and ERSS2

I tried damn near everything to get SK/Reshade/Reno to play nice and I just couldn’t do it. I’m not tech savvy enough I guess idk.

[ancient pawn]

Oh yeah it works without RT

[glad violet]

there is away go up you will find it

[plucky tinsel]

I’m not worried at this point. I’ve got it running great without SK. No reason to mess with what’s working.

[limpid lark]

i had everything working together last time i tried. even had both modengine and elden mod loader going too

[ancient pawn]

I suppose there's no way to have both RT on and RenoDX then? that's a shame

[plucky tinsel]

I also tried all of the suggestions here. I followed the instructions and it didn’t work for me

[limpid lark]

imo RT looks so bad in ER with all the pop-in it causes

[plucky tinsel]

I even tried reinstalling, and starting fresh. I tried installing reshade globally in SK and it wouldn’t work, I tried installing SK locally to Elden Ring and that didn’t work either. Reno would start with reshade, but wouldn’t actually do anything.

[limpid lark]

locked 120 fps without fg >>>

[glad violet]

you only really need the mod for the dlc since hdr broken there the main game has a good hdr

but yeah the RT is half baked most of the time

[plucky tinsel]

The issue is that without RT allot of the shadows especially in bushes are broken.

[hasty glen]

raster shadows have some striped bug

like a checkerboard pattern

on everything

straight ass

[limpid lark]

i'd call the RT shadows broken personally. they look nice when you're standing still, but if you're moving through the world it's just a constant bombardment of shadows popping into existance

[plucky tinsel]

I just ignore the broken shadows because the RT performance hit is brutal even with a 5080…

[hasty glen]

shadows? or are you talking about the GI flickering?

[limpid lark]

wish someone could fix that. extend the draw distance or something

no

[hasty glen]

DLSS + MFG chad here

[ancient pawn]

I found a mod to only have the raytraced AO, I kinda liked the look of that

that combined with DLSS in transformer mode and frame gen made for a decent framerate

[limpid lark]

the rtao is nice because it gets weird of the weird golden glow around stuff

[mild pier]

don't really know where else to ask, but anyone know why vanilla elden ring and nightreign sometims fail to enable hdr and picture looks like ungraded log footage, only being fixed with a reboot?

[stuck meadow]

NVAPI HDR glitch:
https://wiki.special-k.info/SpecialK/Custom/Elden_Ring

[mild pier]

doesn't seem to mention why it happens, only that it sometimes does

problem only goes away after reboot but it'd be nice if it was possible to avoid it by knowing how not to cause the glitch

[stuck meadow]

You can avoid it by using SK but that rules out online play.

[mild pier]

yeah that's the thing, i want to play then game starts washed out and i have to reboot and friends have to wait for me to reboot

sometimes game enables hdr fine after pc being on for days and sometimes only a few hours after boot it's starting washed out, i can't figure out what is causing it to happen, only thing i can think of is something breaks during hdmi handshake or something, but not always

[glad violet]

sometimes its just the menu with "press any button to enter"

[mild pier]

that's the scary bit where it either goes into hdr correctly or gets grey and flat

[hazy fable]

resetting the gpu driver fixes it for me, i use a shortcut to the restart64.bat that’s included with CRU

[mild pier]

thanks, i'll have to consider that

that reminds me i should dl cru to remove 4096x2160

[mild pier]

this worked 100%, thanks

[next jackal]

hdr on+fullscreen in all fromsoft games?

[hushed zealot]

Only nightreign supports borderless fullscreen

Other games require fullscreen

[fallow wagon]

Ever find a fix? I'm dealing with RT being broken with Reno right now as well. Not a huge issue although I think I mainly just want reno to boost the visibility of shadows at this point.

[velvet compass]

no fix

rt is not compatible with reno

[fallow wagon]

got it, thanks

[solar warren]

✅RenoDX: Fromsoft Engine (Elden Ring, Nightreign, AC6, and Sekiro)

[rancid crest]

@hushed zealot Looks like the mod might be causing some accidental hue shifts as reported by @north apex

[hushed zealot]

@north apex Is saturation cranked up in game HDR settings?

[north apex]

op didnt see this thread

[north apex]

everything is default :p

Cranking saturation to 70 on Reno I found matches vanilla pretty close

[glad violet]

did you try without erss

[north apex]

Ill give it a try, but dang if I cant use framegen i dont wanna play ER lol, 60locked on a 240 is not the smoothest ride

[north apex]

Colors still different compared to vanilla hdr

[hushed zealot]

Downloading to check 👍

[north apex]

lemme know if theres anything i can do to help/test ✨

[hushed zealot]

Looks right on my machine

Try with this @north apex

[north apex]

I tried and and it was still muted, so I deleted all the files, reshade, everything, verified the game, downloaded only reshade and this mod and it works, downloaded ERSS afterwards and it still works 🤷‍♀️ Either way thank you 😅

welp, after a restart its bonked again, I have no clue :p

ERSS might me overwriting Reno, and only after a restart did it "go back to normal/broken"

nope, deleted it and its just reno and reshade now BUT, I see that hdr ir ON in-game but reshade reports it as OFF and the pic looks all washed out

so the game says HDR is on despite it NOT?

[hushed zealot]

I'd recommend using SK with it

Fromsoft games sometimes don't properly turn on HDR

[north apex]

Im noticing that very much 💀

[velvet compass]

its nvapi obviously

[rancid crest]

If you're already using renodx, you might wanna use https://discord.com/channels/1161035767917850784/1403983735031857162 instead of SK since it's also build on renodx framework

[velvet compass]

essr has the fake fs option built in

[velvet compass]

there should be a option called override fullscreen states which solves the nvapi issue

click advance option on the essr overlay

[bitter dove]

I think its a separate thing

ya looks separate

https://github.com/pmnoxx/reshade-display-commander

[winged crag]

nexusmods needs an update

[hushed zealot]

Why?

[winged crag]

2.8.1 on nexus, 2.8.3 here

can't really link it with discord internal link on popular wiki, also if old version doesn't work with the game it looks bad

posts on nexus say it's not working

[hushed zealot]

Old version works

[winged crag]

with the newest game version?
same question for the other games, nightreign, ac6, sekiro

sorry it's people saying nightreign doesn't work with the latest update

[hushed zealot]

Ah I haven't tried nightreign, but the rest work fine

[winged crag]

ac6 doesn't have a nexusmods mod, might be a bit confusing for people if we link to the elden ring one
same for sekiro

[hushed zealot]

Too lazy to create pages

[winged crag]

can't really link to reno without them unless just to https://github.com/clshortfuse/renodx/wiki/mods

normies might get confused though

[slim glen]

Bruh... Can anyone get their dualsense working with Sekiro?

[velvet compass]

it is not supported natively

you can emulate xinput with sk

[slim glen]

SteamInput should be able to do the same though right?

Looked like SpecialK + RenoDX weren't playing nice

[velvet compass]

you only need one of them

no sk is compatible in fromsoftware games

and its recommended

because fromsoftware games use nvapi for hdr

which sucks

sk fake fullscreen fixes that

[slim glen]

Any particlar reshade setting in SpecialK?

[velvet compass]

no

works ootb

[slim glen]

OK I'm reinstalling the game

[velvet compass]

dont load reshade via sk

[slim glen]

let me try from scratch

[velvet compass]

just install reshade as dxgi

[slim glen]

Will the renodx custom reshade work?

[velvet compass]

no idea

[slim glen]

Set it up as you recommended, it appears the game is not as colourful as it's supposed to be

Or am I crazy

The colour when launching without SpecialK looks more correct to me

Ah, I had to set SpecialK to HDR10 Native

Thanks

[velvet compass]

ya i think its a recent change

it was not necessarry before

[north apex]

I finally got Reno working on Eden ring, turns out if ER is not the first HDR game I start on a fresh PC boot, it won't do HDR untill I restart 🤷‍♀️ 🤷‍♀️ 🤷‍♀️

But I was wondering, is the reshare menu supposed to be so bright? It's super blue and the text is super bright, that doesn't happen on other Renodx games

[slim glen]

This was the same issue I was having until I ran the game through SpecialK (see above)

[north apex]

I mean its not too big of an issue, i dont really have the reshade menu open at all times :p im just wondering if the mod actually works properly, which it does seem it does. I had an issue where before it would make the game look really washed out compared to native hdr, but now it properly tonemapps shit.

[mild vapor]

Is it possible to merge this HDR with lighting engine for sekiro?

[broken ether]

if that's what i think it is, then it's the same issue with games like RE2 or Village, but happens more often with ER

[ebon otter]

in the settings tab you can adjust the brightness and overlay color space, it has different brightness depending on the color space

[cerulean holly]

Hi team, the renodx hdr mod for elden ring doesn't work with ERSS-FG?

[willow vector]

Anyone know what causes this?

[glad violet]

RT

[hasty glen]

You'll have to cope with raster shadow ache and stripping

[glad violet]

technically renodx only really needed for the dlc, since the native hdr is good for the main game

[velvet compass]

their rt is ass anyway

the rtao looks terrible on foliage

[hasty glen]

pick your poison

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TLDR... Wait for Rage to fix as always with Fromslop

[willow vector]

Noooo Ok fine, I'll live with standard HDR. RT just adds too much not to use it

[willow vector]

Imo their SSAO is way worse

[willow vector]

My only problem with the game's vanilla HDR is that you can't define a peak brightness

It clips very badly on 500 nits TB

[velvet compass]

never happen for me

vanilla game brightness is 250nits

which is too high for 500nits peak

renodx has similar highlights to vanilla

[little ivy]

Hi all, I have a question about renodx sliders in elden ring. When I adjust the Game brightness slider, nothing happens. But when I adjust the UI brightness slider, it seems to affect the game brightness? Is this how it's supposed to work?

[bitter dove]

Sounds like missing shader

Could be conflicting with another mod

[little ivy]

The only mods I have are ones that adds ps5 controller icons to the game, then the ones to disable chromatic aberration and vignette

https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/75

[bitter dove]

the disable chromatic aberration / vignette mod is probably the issue

the vignette is in the same shader that does tonemapping

so it must be spawning a new variation of that shader

there's already a chromatic aberration slider so ritsu would just need to add a vignette slider and you wouldn't need the mod

[little ivy]

Hi Musa, thank you for the response!

I removed the two mods, and also updated to latest reshade. It is working now!

But I noticed another problem. Lilium shaders say that it is not in HDR? I'm unable to use any of the analysers because it has an error that says "Only HDR Colour Spaces are supported".

I'm on linux, and I'm booting into a dedicated gamescope session. As far as I can tell, the game is running in HDR

Renodx itself is working fine

[bitter dove]

might be related to the game using nvidia's api for hdr, in hdr analysis you can scroll down to the bottom and in one of the textboxes you can write CSP_HDR10 to force hdr analysis to recognize hdr10 output

[little ivy]

Okay, thank you. I will check this when I get back to my PC

[little ivy]

Hi Musa, just wanted to update: this worked! I'm able to see the analysis now.

[hollow bolt]

this is with flawless widescreen and latest reno snapshot, hdr is broken with too much darkness. any help would be appreciated

its ray tracing. disabling rt solves this idk why

[velvet compass]

mod doesnt work with rt

[glad violet]

darkness?

[sharp hinge]

Hello ! I set elden ring offline but when I launch it with reno I still have this

[thick magnet]

setting elden ring to offline doesn't disable the anticheat, you need to use a mod like the offline launcher

[sharp hinge]

Ah ok thanks a lot

[sharp hinge]

Is it normal that the reshade menu is very bright ingame ?

[bitter dove]

Reshade menu probably isn’t detecting the color space properly

[sharp hinge]

Should I do something or it's not important ?

is it a game that's still kind of dark even with hdr ?

I don't know why the screenshot is like that and when I press the print screen key it bring me back to desktop

[broken ether]

is there a way to fix that? for the whole reshade menu, that is rather than overriding for individual shaders. it usually happens with games that require fullscreen for hdr (elden ring, sekiro etc.)

i assume special k's force fullscreen would fix that, but i was wondering if it was possible to change anything in reshade's config

[meager wagon]

just curious, why is that?

[lavish pecan]

is it normal for the game(Elden Ring) to get extremely dim compared to vanilla HDR?

[velvet compass]

do you mean overall brightness or just highlights

vanilla brightness 4 should be roughly the same as renodx 203nits

if you mean the highlights, they can be noticeably dimmer than vanilla (that why highlights are set to 52 by default) but i dont thinks its "extreme"

[velvet compass]

a lot of games with RT has that issue, idk about the details though

[lavish pecan]

Brightness, even at 203 you can see the ui too is noticeably dimmer.

[velvet compass]

ui in vanilla hdr is brighter than paper white

they use 2.2 encode before lut and 2.2 decode after if hdr is enabled for the itm then back to 2.2 encode for ui compositing

ui is supposed to be around 270 nits in vanilla hdr with brightness 4, but ui in elden ring isnt white so its dimmer in fact

anyway the actual game in vanilla with brightness 4 should look very similar to renodx 203 nits

[glad violet]

this the issue with RT

[lavish pecan]

Is this confirmed? Could replace ssao shader to output white texture and see if it looks better

[velvet compass]

the in game ssao option is still working with RT on

you can turn off in game ao and rtao is still being applied

doesnt look good though

[velvet compass]

their RT isnt good anyway, denoising is pretty bad

you get some horrendous boiling on foliage

[next jackal]

does anyone use ds3 lighting engine? i just bought the game on sale but it crashes on startup with the mod files installed

i know its an alpha but the instructions just said copy to install folder and use mod engine 2 XD

[glad violet]

try the other one ux… something

[next jackal]

i think i'll wait for lighting engine to be updated

i know too little about it to rule out user error

i have the habit of making really stupid mistakes sometimes even with things i do a lot like installing mods and whatnot

[dapper flare]

Sekiro is still washed even after installing RenoDX wtf ???

[glad violet]

try restarting pc or using displaycommander

[dapper flare]

Oof.... ok

[ripe spindle]

It's just nvapi hdr

[bitter dove]

For whatever reason Sekiro lets me override the swapchain without freaking out despite being NVAPI

[old galleon]

latest build?

[bitter dove]

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[pallid onyx]

is there any way for this addon to work in sdr? my expectations might be in the wrong place with reno as the only experience i have is with wilds + i dont even have an hdr monitor but id like to remove the raised black levels in sekiro the Right way

[velvet compass]

vanilla sdr is pretty good

there isnt much to be improved

[pallid onyx]

i don't disagree but doesn't sekiro and er have notably raised blacks lol

[velvet compass]

thats not "fixable"

also i dont think there are raised blacks in sekiro

there are in elden ring dlc

[pallid onyx]

fair enough then lol

[quiet tusk]

sorry if this has already been asked, does raytracing in elden ring work with renodx?

[bitter dove]

no

[quiet tusk]

what exactly breaks it? is it the RT shadows or RTGI

[bitter dove]

no idea

only heard from others

[quiet tusk]

ah okay, i'm using a mod that disables RT shadows and only allows RTGI and it seems fine

[velvet compass]

theres no rtgi in this game, only rtao

[quiet tusk]

Sorry that’s what I meant

[sharp tapir]

sorry if this is a repeated question but does anyone know if theres a consistent fix for Elden Rings HDR? 80% of the time i try its always broken and washed out. Everytime ive looked online in the past none of the suggestions ever work for me

really sucks they never fixed it man

[glad violet]

maybe this
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[sharp tapir]

i just throw that alongside the renodx file?

[glad violet]

yeah

[sharp tapir]

well damn either i got lucky or that actually worked

thanks a lot for that

[glad violet]

the game has nvapi which causes this problem, this fixes it

[sharp tapir]

ah i see, dont know why i never found this solution in my past searches

[bold bay]

I just tried the same fix alongside RenoDX, but it seems like I need to alt+tab out and back into Elden Ring for it to take any effect. Does that make any sense? Otherwise, I see the typical washed out issue. Playing in full screen with HDR enabled in-game and in Windows

[ripe spindle]

should work from the get go @timid bobcat 🤔

[timid bobcat]

Continue rendering in background may be needed in "Input Control", in addition to selecting "Window Mode"

[sharp tapir]

well fuck me i guess i just got lucky cause its back to being washed out

[bitter dove]

Restarting always fixes that for me

[velvet compass]

https://www.patreon.com/posts/erss-fg-free-v4-125972766

[bold bay]

And mine worked today, no other changes. Frustrating how unpredictable it can be.

[grim terrace]

eus ex