🛠️ RenoDX: Crysis Remastered

[simple trench]

Disclaimer
My first RenoDX mod
Currently No AA, TAA and (likely) DLSS are supported. SMAA of all types is currently unsupported.
Leave HDR disabled in main menu.
Select borderless window mode.
Not yet pushed into main repo..
Still working on slider presets, but all left unlocked to play around with and find your own taste.
Developed and tested on GOG version but should be working with Steam (unsure on EGS support)

Known Issues
Intro movies.
Some highlights occasionally show as red.

Notes
If you are having issues with water flickering when walking close, try enabling DLSS.
Mission 2 seems to have a fake sun

[simple trench]

Haven't tested DLSS as I'm on AMD but will give it a go with Optiscaler tomorrow

[modern crypt]

@zenith pier you seein' this shit 😮

[simple trench]

HDR works with upscaling via Optiscaler so suspect it will work with DLSS. Would be good for someone to test and confirm.

[unborn jungle]

Did you look at the hdr shaders

Maybe you can force the sdr path in hdr

And not have to deal with all the annoying stuff with resource upgrades

[simple trench]

Yea will have a bit more of a look into it. Found out each mission has its own shader so going to have to play through and change them for each level.
EDIT: Turns out I was wrong, mission 2 doesn't actually have a sun in the sky it seems just lense flare....

[zenith pier]

Whaaaaaa
-# thank you for the tag!

No way

I'll definitely test this later!

[zenith pier]

ok, so I am testing now as I said I would

immediate opinion - it's so much better overall!

But, one thing I really like in the vanilla "HDR" is how bright and "laser-like" the reflex sight red dot is

in SDR it is dull, in their shitty "HDR" it glows very nicely

this

would it be at all possible to replicate?

this is how it is in the mod

Godrays look grey, so maybe that would be cool to tune

[zenith pier]

I suppose another thing I personally enjoyed in the shitty vanilla rendition was how the suit glowed more. In this case it's a full 1000 nits lol, so maybe no need to push it that far, but the glow was definitely nicer, it had more "contrast", more pop, more energy.

[zenith pier]

I see the shitty "no sun in lvl2"

[simple trench]

Yea it's rendered as part of the HUD, think I should be able to fix it.

[simple trench]

Speaking to Pumbo the shaders are pretty scuffed. He does have some code that makes the sun shafts HDR in his LUMA mod so will be having a look into that (might even make a LUMA mod instead)

[zenith pier]

Awesome! 👌

[zenith pier]

It's really cool of you to make this in the first place! 🍻

[simple trench]

Haha. I just love the first Crysis and now that I play most of my games in HDR, something feels wrong when I play one without it 🤣🤣

[zenith pier]

I am totally with you! SDR and bad HDR just look so wrong xD

and here's what we have with your mod 😄

settings I ended up with

[zenith pier]

Looks really quite nice when it wants to 🙂

Them's my in-game settings currently

I tried DLSS and while it gives more frames - it also blurs the gun and the hands, there seems to be motion vectors or something lacking for the playermodel particularly that it just blurs as Nomad breathes

so I ended up with TAA native 4K

I'll see if I can get a good experience by employing my 3090 to do LSFG

the base fps is still good, like 80-90, sometimes 100+

shouldn't add too much latency 😄

[zenith pier]

These could be improved (moon, lights)

also the cutscene with Dr Rosenthall talking to the general - it goes SDR there, seems like some overlay is making things dull, especially towards the end xD

Aside from the SDR godrays - the game looks really nice now with the mod 🙂

[zenith pier]

I'm also using this, just in case it matters: https://www.moddb.com/mods/improvement-project

[scarlet pagoda]

Can’t wait to try it too when I’ll be back from travelling

[simple trench]

Lots of improvements. Still WIP but now should match vanilla game and many highlights that didn't render correctly should now.
If upgrading from previous version, please reset all color grading options to default and go from there. (can be done by going to RenoDX and clicking on intermediate settings followed by the reset option to the right of each bar).
TAA currently unsupported due to rendering error please use 'No AA' or 'DLSS' (AMD or Intel users like myself can use Optiscaler for now)

[scarlet pagoda]

DLSS working properly?

[simple trench]

Should be. I can only test via Optiscaler on AMD

[zenith pier]

Dope, will test later! ❤️

[somber cedar]

Crysis looks impressive with HDR (I hope there's an HDR mod for the original). There are some issues with the new armor mode. Also, the green dots on the scar are too bright. And I think the barrel explosions (and maybe not just the barrels) look wrong. The color is too uniformly bright.

[unborn jungle]

explosions look very autohdrish

or boosted to a degree where there's no detail in highlights

[zenith pier]

is this with the new addon? None of the things you're showing I had

though I haven't tested the new one yet

[simple trench]

Yea the snow is way to bright aswell. Will try working on a fix when I get home from work. First mod and I'm fumbling my way through haha but we will get there.

[unborn jungle]

might just be how the explosions themselves are authored

is the code on github

[simple trench]

Not yet but I'll push my branch up later.

[zenith pier]

so is this new version broken then?

I'll test it now, I suppose, but keep a backup of the old one (although it's still available on the first post lol, what am I saying...)

[simple trench]

New version should be alot better and close to vanilla. However explosions (and especially the snow mission) are overly bright.

[zenith pier]

I can already see some highlights are better, like the shots in the sky when the VTOL should land, but the moon is now even dimmer than what I had before xD

Armor glow in Speed mode looks sexier

[simple trench]

Yea alot of it I believe is down to how it is originally authored so will require some tinkering. Main priority at the moment will be the snow mission as it is almost blinding haha.

[zenith pier]

All of it is beyond my understanding (not a coder, I'd have no clue how shaders work in code, etc - despite being a 3D artist, lol), so once again - it's really cool you're even doing this much 🙏

Crysis Remastered 4K experience be like:

(left real fps on 4090, right framegen result via 3090 as an LSFG card)

these are nice now, as they weren't hitting peaks before, but now there's also banding in there 😄

it's definitely getting there, though!

Sorry for le spam, hopefully it is useful somewhat

in the above one the suit is brighter than the moon 😄

anti aircraft gun fire textures are not alpha-blending correctly

I imagine this is probably similar to what the other fella had with the fire?

some channel might be getting blown out and the whole thing is wrong 😄

[zenith pier]

The enemy suits look great

explosions look actually kinda nice

bright, but kinda clippy 😄

the rocket launcher's laser - very nice 👌

looks really good

[somber cedar]

yes, new version

[zenith pier]

How odd, mine looks fine, definitely didn't have weird yellow explosions or the armor weirdness. Did you make sure to reset all the sliders if you had the older version?

[somber cedar]

all defaults

[modern crypt]

🛠️ RenoDX: Crysis Remastered

[simple trench]

UPDATE - Should be Fully Playable Now

• Fixed Ice Level Overexposure. Whole game should look more correct in general now.
• Currently Supported Anti Aliasing Quality - Off and DLSS
• Requires Borderless Window Mode and In-game HDR option off
• Should be fully playable start to finish. Details to be improved as discussed in thread but at this stage should still be a huge improvement over vanilla HDR implementation

Next update will probably be to fix SMAA and TAA.

[simple trench]

Also if playing on Linux, I recommend using scRGB output in the mod and using Gamescope. Produces the best results for me as found other methods exposure wasnt rendering correctly in some scenes.

[zenith pier]

uuu, nice one, will try soon!

I'm kinda playing the game in batches while waiting for updates to the mod, heh 😄

(plz do the red dot when you can, it would rule!)

thank you for your work

[simple trench]

Minor Change

• Removed change to game exposure. Now whole game should match SDR presentation closer.

[zenith pier]

nice one!

[scarlet pagoda]

This looks very nice just tested for a few minutes! Great job. Crysis 2 Remastered would be fire too!

[zenith pier]

All 3 Crysis would be fire to have. ALL games would be fore to have HDR on xD

[scarlet pagoda]

Indeed, but i always wished for C2R in HDR as somehow despite the original greatness of C1, C2 seemed more polished and engaging, with more solid story too.

[zenith pier]

There's a common divide between C1 and C2/3 fans, but that's not surprising, given how different the games are. C1 a lot of people find too slow, too hard, blah blah. Others find C2/3 too easy and less tactical. It is what it is.
My vote is that ALL games need tender love and care 😄

[scarlet pagoda]

Love them all as well!

[simple trench]

Everyone forgets Crysis Warhead even Crytek 😭

[zenith pier]

Warhead falls together with C1, ofc

unfortunately the Warhead source code is allegedly "lost", so that's why no remaster xD

[zenith pier]

Will there be any further updates?

[simple trench]

Yea definitely! Will be looking at fixing the AA issues. I am also exploring a potential LUMA mod aswell as Pumbo has done alot of stuff in the Cryengine for Prey and alot can be carried over.

Would mean HDR sunshafts etc

[scarlet pagoda]

YES! Was very much looking for Luma treatment given Prey developments!

[zenith pier]

ideally HDR sunshafts and a HDR red dot 😄

I think those are generally the 2 things that are still crying for it, but I'll see as I play through more of the game

[wind cargo]

Had a lot of fun with this mod, and agree with the above poster that Crysis 2 & 3 are screaming for a RenoDX facelift.

[zenith pier]

I finally sat down to finish the last level I left for some reason xD

Playing with the mod was a blast! Still a few things to fix, but generally a really deserved upgrade, thanks to @simple trench 🙂

[simple trench]

Glad people have been enjoying! Will continue developing (probably port to LUMA) and have a look at the sequels when I get some extended time.

[zenith pier]

If you do end up going for the other 2 games - plz tag me, I'll happily help testing - it'll be an excuse for me to play the games xD

Thank you for the work, once again!

[scarlet pagoda]

Same here!!!

And my thanks as well!!!

[simple trench]

UPDATE

• Actually fixed exposure in snow levels this time
• Fixed TAA

[grizzled helm]

Ho my god. I've been looking for this so hard. So glad I randomly decided to check the HDR discord. I think you should give a heads up on renodx discord and/ or github. People are going to want in on this Crysis goodness !

[zenith pier]

Yeah, I just noticed this mod isn't listed on github: https://github.com/clshortfuse/renodx/wiki/Mods

Please list it! Even in its incomplete state it's still loads better than whatever BS the vanilla "HDR" is.

[simple trench]

Done!

[zenith pier]

Yay! Cheers 🍻

[upbeat river]

yeah a reno dx mod for crysis 2 and 3 would be great, doesn't special K cause Crysis 2 and 3 remastered to crash or something

[tender nimbus]

my bitdefender does not allow me to download this

[simple trench]

Its definitely clean haha. Try downloading a different Reno mod and see if you have a similar issue. I'd say you can have a look at the source code but haven't pushed it up yet...

[tender nimbus]

yes, it only happens with this file.

[simple trench]

I do plan on making a Luma mod sometime to replace this and for the other Crysis remastered games when I have a bit more time, but if you can wait for that the only other thing is to add an exception I suppose

[zenith pier]

I am definitely on standby and not playing Crysis 2 and 3 still