Red Dead Redemption 2

[hoary karma]

Is anybody having issues with a black screen on launch? I did some research and found that HDR in Vulkan only works in exclusive fullscreen, but previously, windowed borderless would simply disable HDR, not completely break the game. Not sure if it's related, but I am no longer able to use RTX HDR at all, even in excl. fullscn.
It's just annoying cuz I Alt+Tab pretty often; before I could just switch back to excl. fullscn, but now it requires disabling HDR, restarting game, enabling excl fullscn, enabling HDR, and relaunching

[flint crater]

haven't run into any black screen issues, but my game does take longer to launch with the mod and thus has a black screen for like 30 seconds before showing the startup video. Are you sure that's not what's happening?

[hoary karma]

This would be a separate issue; I do notice that it takes a few extra seconds to load when it works. The black screen I'm facing is completely unresponsive (no cursor, audio, or Reshade banner for several minutes)
To be clear, I am able to run the mod as long as it launches in excl fullscn with HDR on and it looks amazing, it's just very temperamental; I suppose this might be a more general RDR2 issue rather than this mod
Doing any of the following results in a black screen that cannot be resolved without following the steps I outlined above:

• While HDR is on, launching the game in borderless
• Alt+Tab (or otherwise switching to borderless while the game is running)
• Disabling HDR without exiting the game window (Ctrl+Win+B)
• Opening filters in Nvidia overlay (Alt+Z)

[white oyster]

hdr doesnt support borderless windowed in vulkan, u need exclusive fullscreen

downside is, alt-tab will disable hdr

u need to hit alt+enter once u click back into the game to go back into fullscreen

@hoary karma

i dont get a black screen tho, it just goes to SDR

weird

do u have any other mods or anything

[flint crater]

maybe amd?

[hoary karma]

Alt+Enter has no effect once the black screen occurs

[hoary karma]

I do have a few mods, but the game was behaving normally before, even with those mods installed

[white oyster]

hmm, thats very odd, ive never had that happen when alt tabbing or anything

whats changed?

new renodx build, new reshade update?

maybe just remove all reshade and renodx addon files, and reinstall

remove the reshade-shader folder too

are u using vulkan or dx12, make sure u use vulkan RC1 or whatevers newest if ur on vulkan

[hoary karma]

I am using Vulkan, how do I see which version I'm on and change it?

[white oyster]

id just delete the current renodx addon file and download this

https://discordapp.com/channels/1408098019194310818/1413570163789266954/1476731937237373013

[hoary karma]

That's the one I'm using 😭 I'll try a Reshade reinstall

[white oyster]

and theres new reshade updates, download 6.7.2 or whatevers newest (with full addon support)

[white oyster]

the filename is the same for all versions just fyi

[hoary karma]

Ok I just did some debugging, ended up disabling all overlays (Nvidia, Afterburner, RTSS, Steam, Discord), uninstalling Reshade entirely, disabling mods, and verifying file integrity, but this issue persists. Safe to say this is not RenoVK's fault but IDK what else to try short of a full reinstall

I genuinely don't know what the issue is, I was using RTX HDR in borderless prior to RenoVK's release and it was working fine

[old flint]

Just sharing my testing results: mod works flawlessly but I take somewhat of an fps hit (20~ fps). AW3423DWF + 7900XTX

[flint crater]

can you try disabling reshade's generic depth and effect runtime sync addons?

they're located in the add-ons tab in reshade

just uncheck the boxes and restart

sometimes those cause issues

they're entirely unrelated to renodx

I keep on forgetting to tell people to disable them

[river willow]

would you be able to ship an ini with them disabled by default?

[river willow]

If you are doing this, maybe change the toggle key for reshade as well. god damn rockstar games launcher

[old flint]

without mod

with mod

its fine though, not really that big of a deal

[river willow]

jesus why does your sky look like that

[old flint]

its not a proper hdr screenshot, I just used my screenshot tool haha

it looks fine in game

[river willow]

gotcha lol.

[uneven girder]

use reshade screenshots or nvidia shortcut if NV card

[fervent meteor]

vulkan fullscreen is so dodgy in this game, just had it somehow activate and engage VRR even though i have gsync straight up disabled in NVCP, i decided to disable VRR in my monitor as well now

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/451354522611220480/1479004272153591918/RDR2_2026-03-05_17-31-32_254.png?ex=69aa7591&is=69a92411&hm=d24dc4c39b6a390906cb749fa2323326e1001e2705df16cfed35c242ccf46d38&

it sure does look damn good though

remind me what the issues with dx12 were, was it just the day night cycle bug?

[tender osprey]

Dlss bug, beard hair bug

[wise token]

how do i install vulkan reshade? and which reshade version?

[wise token]

is there a way to change the reshade menu button? pressing home pops the rockstar social club too lol

[sterile ruin]

There is

Can you navigate the reshade menu?

Should be in the settings tab

[wise token]

I can because the social club ui is in focused

[sterile ruin]

Im not sure how I did it

You can also edit the reshade ini but I think the key is set as a number

So you’ll have to look up what key corresponds to what number

[wise token]

Thanks

[slate wren]

KeyOverlay=35,0,0,0

makes it end button

[wise token]

Any reco settings in reno?

[slate wren]

i just leave all defaults personally

[wise token]

Thanks, have put it 45 for insert

[slate wren]

[maiden belfry]

Also, you can just hold Home button to open only Reshade. But you have to cloye it then by again pressing Home or game will think you are using keyboard

[ripe vale]

Any time i try to launch Rdr2 in hdr with renodx i get a crash before i make it to the main menu.

[smoky cargo]

Wasn't this a problem with directx12 renodx?

[smoky cargo]

Are you running the vulkan version?

[ripe vale]

@smoky cargo yea its dx12

does it not work in rdr2?

[smoky cargo]

Yeah it works but now that there's a vulkan version of the reno mod the dx12 is considered obsolete, dx12 in rdr2 has a bunch of problems, both visual and stability issues, it's highly recommended to play with vulkan instead of dx12

[uneven girder]

I hope GTA6 will be vulkan when it releases in 2028

[flint crater]

vulkan is annoying

dx12 is better

would rather they just fix dx12

doom/indiana jones having to do that janky shit with running vulkan and dx12 at the same time is dumb

[uneven girder]

Okay true that sounds stupid. I thought vulkan api performance is just superior to dx12 api.

[glacial berry]

Fuck Vulkan

Overlays are annoying, code complexity is absurd, and nothing is seemingly compatible with it.

I swear it exists solely to appease Linux coping

[upbeat idol]

Duality of man

[glacial berry]

Public Enemy

[wise token]

Anybody tried smooth motion? Seems to be not working on me.

[frail ruin]

i like getting 10% more fps in my games myself. and less ram usage. but hey everyone has preferences???

[glacial berry]

I'm speaking in a general sense. And from having to write vk code

[maiden belfry]

It also instacrashes for me. But on dx12 it worked fine

[wise token]

Could be vulkan then

[teal pawn]

iirc, its an incompatibility with reshade

[smoky cargo]

duality of man part 2

[wet kindle]

sent my 2nd support thank u again for this mod ❤️

https://tenor.com/view/sei-seiyans-sei-seiyan-the-goat-shout-out-shout-out-to-the-goat-gif-8573054639175801467

@flint crater ❤️

[timber schooner]

hey guys, excuse my ignorance.. do you happen to know why my game looks like this? it looks good when i set the tone mapper to anything other than RenoDX but i'm not sure if im doing this correctly.. i have HDR game mode on and autohdr off..

[lusty minnow]

do you have any nvidia filters or rtx hdr on?

they have auto enabled sometimes for someone i know

on certain games

[maiden belfry]

Is fullscreen enabled? Not borderless, but regular (exclusive) fullscreen

[timber schooner]

yeah i have fullscreen enabled, rtx hdr off, and currently on vulkan.. i do have other mods installed though so let me try taking them out.. thanks!

[proven osprey]

Wait what, there's RenoDX Vullkan mod for RDR2 now?

[maiden belfry]

Is hdr enabled ingame?

[smoky cargo]

#1413570163789266954 message

[timber schooner]

yeah

[proven osprey]

That's amazing

[maiden belfry]

Than it is strange. Can you send Reshade logs?

Or mb it's something to do with it being widescreen

[timber schooner]

just fixed it. i had a mod (dominators full game overhaul) that was tinkering with the visualsettings.dat file.

deleted it and its working now, thanks!

[river willow]

If running reno, I wouldn't bother using any visual overhauls. Most of those mods are designed for sdr. The ones that say they support hdr, are designed for the borked vanilla hdr. So yh it will usually not look good.

[maiden belfry]

Nice. Quite a mod that was to cause such drastic changes

[uneven girder]

Yes all those visual weather and light mods will mess with color grading. Without mods and just with Reno the game blows your brain out with how good it looks still.

[flint crater]

i tried whyems visuals a while back

whatever they did with hdr looked cursed

was super deep fried

https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/1521?tab=description
what does this even mean

Luminance per channel to complement the expanded color range                     
Increases light cast range  

[pallid anchor]

Any point using this with renodx

And where can i get dx12 version? I have my optiscaler setup with dx12 to make it work

[flint crater]

if you can disable whatever stuff they did with tonemapping maybe

[flint crater]

pinned

[pallid anchor]

Thank u Musa

New to this stuff. I take it i can use HDR with this?

[flint crater]

you can try

the game is very buggy with dx12

[pallid anchor]

is the vulkan version better suited for hdr with renodx

[flint crater]

better suited for everything

dx12 has more bugs

and less mod compatibility

[pallid anchor]

i need to find a way to make optiscaler to work with vulkan cause i followed a youtube guide to make it work and he set it up as dx12

[flint crater]

people say upscaling has issues

I just use the default taa now

[pallid anchor]

really

[flint crater]

i had issues with dx12 and dlss but haven't tried it with vulkan

[pallid anchor]

i mean if im being honest

i didnt notice too many improvements with it on

pretty sure it injected properly too

i guess il just switch over to vulkan then

so now having the RENODX and HDR on is that all you recommend for visual improvements for the game?

any other mod ud recommend

[flint crater]

idk anything about the game's modding scene really

[pallid anchor]

i meant only for visuals😎

[flint crater]

renodx + playstation button prompts is all I use

[pallid anchor]

there's just so many reshades and what not but i think this is the only one that supports HDR

and i dont wanna play in SDR

[flint crater]

I don't ever use reshades

almost always dogshit unless they're coupled with something else

[river willow]

https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/6335 this is lightweight and plays nicely with hdr (vanilla or Reno)

[pallid anchor]

thanks giblet

im just curious is everyone here thats running the renodx not using any optiscaler

i thought optiscaler would be more commong for a game this old and to reallyt boost visuals and grfx

[river willow]

Nope. I just dlss 4 with dlsstweaks to force auto exposure. I run model k. With custom scaling levels enabled. I have ultra quality setting operating at 100% for dlaa and other levels at default values.

I tried 4.5 for some time but didn't really like the end result with the foliage on either of l or m

[pallid anchor]

ah well i have AMD graphics card

so im unsure whats the best solution for me

[river willow]

Uhh iirc you should be able to force up to fsr3. Idk about fsr4 though

[pallid anchor]

i think it stops at fsr 2 default

with opti i got it to fsr 4 with dlss spoofing but i had to be on dx12

since im changing to vulkan to use renodx im trying to find a way the best graphical upgrades or way to upscale

[river willow]

Yhh for Vulkan, I think best you can get is fsr3

[river willow]

But tbh id probably say games taa is better

[pallid anchor]

Im just seeing now some elaborate guide about how the new 0.9 opti now allows u to use vulkan and u can get fsr 4.0

Im gonna give it a go when i get home if not ill just stick to TAa

[river willow]

Good luck

[pallid anchor]

Thanks buddy

Its a shame that the renodx mod apparently doesnt work well with dx12

Cause everything seemed to be alright till i got to this point here

[river willow]

it works well enough if you don't plan on modding the game too crazy and can live with a few visual bugs

[tender osprey]

In dx12 need to load game and load save without dlss
And then enable dlss after loading save

[pallid anchor]

do u think my best bet is sticking with vulkan, TAA and no optiscaler

[atomic blaze]

Can someone help me how to do this am using RenoDxCommander

[pallid anchor]

do you play on dx12?

[pallid anchor]

is the renodx-rdr2vk.addon64 the only file i need? do i gtta make a new folder in game directory called 'reshade-addons' @flint crater

[flint crater]

just that file. drop it next to the exe

[pallid anchor]

And how do i get reshade to see/run it . Its not popping up

[flint crater]

check the add-ons tab in reshade

what does it show

[pallid anchor]

Generic depth

And effect runtime

But i dont see anything to tell me reno is running

Doesnt look like it is either

its popped up now 👌🏽

Any settings i should change

I have hdr on of course

[flint crater]

hdr requires exclusive fullscreen

defaults are my preferred settings

well I also turn on film grain

can't remember if I added that to this mod

no wait I def did

[river willow]

I mean for peace of mind..yes definitely. If you don't want peace of mind and want to Pixel peep I'm sure there's some way to drive yourself crazy

[pallid anchor]

I have hdr set to on and exclusive full screen… whats the best LUT encoding for HDR users? The sRGB LUT encoding?

[pallid anchor]

Yea u did and its set to zero

[flint crater]

ya I think it looks best

[flint crater]

ya I turn it up to 50

if you want most accurate though lut encoding should be set to the middle setting

forgot what it's called

that one relies on your gamma slider in sdr though

so make the sdr gamma slider is set to default

[pallid anchor]

💪

thank u friend

nice work on this whole thing

[pallid anchor]

believe it or not the game was running smoother on dx12 with optiscaler for me...

[atomic blaze]

Is there any hotkey to disable reshade and renodx to compare it to native hdr

[flint crater]

the off preset

[atomic blaze]

Where is that

[flint crater]

the slider at the top

move it to the leftmost position

[tough zinc]

If you figure out a way to use Optiscaler with vulkan let me know. I tried for like 4 hours and wasn't able to, it either crashed on startup or the Optiscaler overlay never showed up

for now running Nvidia's Smooth Motion, it's mostly "fine", but the artifacts when Arthur is walking or in horse are absolutely horrendus

haven't tried Lossless scaling yet for this

[pallid anchor]

I gave up on it not too long ago i got pretty far in it where it might have actually been working But the whole overlay not showing as part of the whole gimmick and what not just isnt my style

I need peace of mind

I may give it one last test run and ill let u know the results

But as it stands im a lil disappointed with native TAa

Says im running 60-70 pretty much maxed out settings but i can feel this strange stutter or something? I cant even call it a stutter idk what to call it

[tough zinc]

I would absolutely not use TAA, the blurriness is horrendous unless you are playing at +4k

[pallid anchor]

All i know is when i had opti on dx12 it was smooth as butter

Im playing 1440p

9060xt 16gb

I had to turn up the sharpness

[tough zinc]

right, and without Optiscaler you are left with FSR2 which I assume is not much better

[pallid anchor]

Other option would have been fsr2.0

Yea 🙁

But im willing to give it all another test run and ill let u know

Ive had this game for three days now

Ive not gotten the chance to play it at all

[tough zinc]

isn't there another tool that allows to use FSR4 that isn't optiscaler?

[pallid anchor]

Just tweaking and losing my hair

😅

And no not that im aware of

Optiscaler is THE tool

I could be wrong tho but as far i know its opti

Gonna watch some deadwood for motivation

[uneven girder]

the comparisons did not convince me its for the better, I deleted it again.

[pallid anchor]

https://klipy.com/gifs/arthur-rdr

me trynna make this all work

[tough zinc]

@pallid anchor someone made the 0.9.0-pre10 version work with Vulkan in RDR2 (screenshot not mine):

#1475453218501824649 message

no idea how though, I've been trying for half an hour with that exact version with no luck

[pallid anchor]

What the hell

[pallid anchor]

Im gnna give it another go right now

[tender osprey]

Only for checking renodx

[pallid anchor]

You mean you tried one time to test out reno when it was only dx12?

[tender osprey]

More than one time
https://youtu.be/KfVgeviHX-A?si=VXa3EMf1SVO-vheD

[pallid anchor]

Ah no way 😅

But why dx12

Im assuming now u prefer to use vulkan with renodx?

[tender osprey]

Not tried yet
But will do with mods

[pallid anchor]

Ah u werent really using mods before then

[pallid anchor]

if you can run a game natively at around 80fps is there any point using optiscaler @tough zinc

[woven prawn]

hey how exactly did yall get this working on here

i got everything installed and launched but idk how to do this tbh

do i just use the ingame to calibrate now?

[teal pawn]

nah, you use reno sliders in reshade

basically:

• make sure the game is running with the vulkan api
• install the latest version of reshade with the game, select vulkan when it asks which api to use
• have hdr on ingame
• make sure the game is in exclusive fullscreen mode, rdr2 vulkan hdr only works with it
• install the latest renodx addon pinned in this channel
• configure the sliders once its all set up

[atomic blaze]

Anyone have settings for c1 48 oled , it's strange that match sdr option looks more natural

[atomic blaze]

Left of pressets?

[teal pawn]

there's no need for that, you just have to set "peak brightness" to the value you get during windows' hdr calibration, and then tweak game brightness and ui brightness to your own subjective taste

you can also tweak the other settings if you have more knowledge, but they're also subjective

the color grading stuff, i mean

[atomic blaze]

So I need to just lower game brightness to Mach sdr which looks better

[void coral]

Check wiki

It works

[tender osprey]

OK vulkan renodx working on first try

[wet kindle]

how do u like it so far?

[tender osprey]

seems arthur like it

[wet kindle]

how i love this game!

i'm doing now a super basic mod run

Just 5 mods

[tender osprey]

just wanted to use texture terrain overhaul, but its 14gb on nexus, regret not purchasing lifetime license

[wet kindle]

I'm using Renodx, TTO, Particles, and the 2 best LOD mods

That's it

my previous run was with 110 mods and I was breaking the game every 2 hours of gameplay

now I'm very happy

[teal pawn]

take this coming from someone with a gazillion mods installed: you don't need to install more than 10 mods with this game

[wet kindle]

bruhhh ya have 1000+ hrs on Steam and 600 on PS this my 11th run

Imma downloaded all Nexus mods once

[tough zinc]

It's personal preference of course, and it depends on the Hz of your monitor. I have a 240hz and if I can get anywhere close to that in any game the better (with frame gen)

[river willow]

Yeah depends on what kinda mods you're going for. The small stuff like model fixes and bug fixes are usually fine to pile on. But if you're looking at overhaul type mods, yeah probably not a good idea to bog down your list.

[void coral]

2 best lod mods?

[wet kindle]

ILD for details IGL for geometry scale

[woven prawn]

Ok so you guys launch the game with dx12 enabled, then swap to vulkan? Cause that’s the only way that Reno launches with the game for me

Also do you put the hdr mode in game or cinematic mode?

[tender osprey]

Game

I just delete config files

Game start with vulkan

[woven prawn]

How did you delete them?

Cause I’ve been having issues lately where the game crashes if I open Reno in game, but not in menu

[river willow]

Documents/ rockstar games/ rdr2

Delete any user profile files in there.

[wet kindle]

I start thinking that Vignette should be kept

At least at 50

Cause it helps with screen space reflections

[woven prawn]

do you leave them at default and just mess with the settings in reno?

[tender osprey]

Most likely reno hijack hdr slider of ingame, so changing game hdr brightness setting won't do anything.

[woven prawn]

ig i mean the paper white

i didnt know what to set that at

[river willow]

100 for a peak of 400 and 200 for a peak of 1000 are usually the suggested values

[woven prawn]

Got it and game brightness at like 300 should be fine in Reno right?

Also I got everything else working, ty a ton guys and whoever responded to me lol

[tender osprey]

Game brightness is paper white

[woven prawn]

Got it lol, I’m learning very slowly lol

This is where I’m at rn, to my eyes it looks great

[maiden belfry]

But it's usually considered better to go lower with paper white, since it gives you more headroom for highlights. But it depends on your panel type and brightness of your surroundings

Cranking it up will make whole image less impactful

[pallid anchor]

what are the 2 best LOD mods

[wet kindle]

@flint crater around this time of the day some sky highlights look a bit clipped

here looks wonderful

[hoary kestrel]

exclusive fullscreen is fullscreen borderless?

[river willow]

https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/3751, https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/3095

I think the first one is enough. Running both is redundant imo, but go for it if you got frames to spare.

Pairs nicely with this https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/3810?tab=files

[pallid anchor]

Appreciate u pal

[river willow]

I'd recommend using the first mod with another mod from that author called graphical issues fixes. If you need help with merging the mods, dm me and Ill help you out

[serene girder]

how do I install this mod?

Sorry I am new to discord, I can't find a link anywhere...

[river willow]

Install reshade with addon support for which api you plan on using (dx12 or vulkan). Then download the reno mod for your api from the pinnned messages and place it in the root of your game folder

[fervent canopy]

and you instal reshade with addon support

[fervent canopy]

this one is for vulkan api

[serene girder]

thanks! I will use vulkan and should be able to proceed as I did install before. I just couldnt find the link anywhere.

[fervent canopy]

👍

[serene girder]

when I install reshade with add on support, is it normal practice to check every effect during installation?

[river willow]

No effects needed

[smoky cargo]

I think that's just how the game does the sun during some hours of the day

[tender osprey]

Parallax Occlusion Mapping Quality should not be set to ultra,
Or more than high in this game

[smoky cargo]

Why?

[tender osprey]

Setting is bugged

[smoky cargo]

In what way?

[pallid anchor]

managed to get fsr 4.0 running with vulkan

i think

@tough zinc yo i did it

[smoky cargo]

Guys what exactly does clamping or unclamping highlights mean/do?

[tough zinc]

nice! with Optiscaler?

[pallid anchor]

yes 🙂

gettin 80 fps now and game looks stunning

was getting 60-70 before

[tender osprey]

flickering bug

[tough zinc]

how did you do it? And does frame gen work with it, or does it need DX12 for it?

[pallid anchor]

no theres some whole other procedure for framegen

also the menu bugs out and doesnt open so ull have to verify its working through fps overlay enabled through opti ini

i did run into an issue tho

taking a break from it now

renodx only works in fullscreen if im not mistaken

the game seems to crash with opti when going on fullscreen

the wiki for opti even says its problematic using vulkan and fsr opti so its expected i guess but now i need to figure out how to get it to work fullscreen

or reno borderless

@tough zinc

@flint crater can u confirm if there's any way to make renodx work in borderless

@tough zinc if i can get it consistenly working in fullscreen ll get back to u unless u dont care about fullscreen

[tough zinc]

There's no way to make HDR work in borderless on Vulkan, that's a limitation of the game as far as I understand, so no one but rockstar can fix that at this point

[pallid anchor]

thats a damn shame

ill have to decide between hdr and renodx or fsr 4.0

[flint crater]

idk, maybe display commander can do it

can vulkan even do borderless hdr

[sleek mist]

dark ages does it

[flint crater]

does it work with virtual desktops properly

like if you go to desktop 2 does it freeze or black screen for a second

[sleek mist]

oh that i have no idea

[flint crater]

indiana jones acts weird with that

[wet kindle]

@flint crater I've noticed some strange "black painted" eyebrows at night in some cutscene, could Reno trigger that?

[smoky cargo]

I've been running it on ultra for hundreds of hours and never noticed anything, do you have some examples? I couldn't find much online about it

[maiden belfry]

My guess would be that it enables Screen Space Shadows, and some people think that disocclusion artifacts near screen edges are "bugs". I also agree with you that I've played with it on and never found any flickering or bugs

One of the most popular graphics mods straight up disables any SSS and calls it a fix. Maybe it's a buggy on some systems, but I've never seen any problems with it

[smoky cargo]

The only thing I could find is this https://www.reddit.com/r/PCRedDead/comments/fbe0do/rdr2_bugs_and_problems/ but it's from years and years ago and I don't remember ever coming across anything they describe, maybe it has been patched since then, who knows

[smoky cargo]

Also I've ran some tests myself and, with the setting on high, textures lose shadow details, so even if high fixes some rare bug(that i've personally never come across) I would probably rather play with increased detail and 99% accuracy rather than decreased detail and 100% accuracy.
Left is ultra, right is high.

[tender osprey]

https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/2189?tab=description

[smoky cargo]

I tend to not like these texture mods(or any texture mods) since they almost always change the look of the game, even if in very minor ways. I prefer to maintain the original artists assets as much as possible, I do make exceptions of course, RE4 hd project was one of them, but that was a whole different beast, they changed every single texture in the game and went to absolutely insane length to retain every detail and every pattern in every texture, so it was quite a bit different.

[lusty minnow]

idk this one looks quite good

[smoky cargo]

Don't get me wrong, it does, but it changes textures enough to make them noticeably different from vanilla in artistic results, the screenshot of the metal plate is the best example of that, and also, and maybe most importantly, this only changes the terrain. Characters models, buldings etc, are not covered, so you almost certainly will end up with a mismatch in perceived quality between assets categories, which is another reason why I'm an all or nothing guy.

[lusty minnow]

I agree with you but imo the terrain textures are really poor in some areas, I would definitely take it over the original ones. I can see your point though

Would be nice if he covered more than the terrain

[smoky cargo]

if you look hard enough you start to realise that rdr2 has really poor textures a bit everywhere, they just do a great job at blending everything together so that nothing sticks out too much, it's one of the reasons why vistas in this games are unmatched, the assets in the distance are extremely crude if you zoom in and pixel peep but the do such a good job at blending assets together that it's mostly unnoticeble, it's a magic trick, a bit like those paintings made with small dots.

[river willow]

literally missing forest for the trees type shit. People get way too hung up on tiny blemishes

[maiden belfry]

Totally agree with you, imho it gives much more depth to the ground

[pallid anchor]

ive had to settle with dx12

so unfortunately no renodx for me

[river willow]

There's a dx12 mod for Reno as well. Don't know if it will play well with your optiscaler set up tho

[fervent canopy]

#1413570163789266954 message

[pallid anchor]

Thank u

[pallid anchor]

Gonna have to just test it and see

[flint crater]

idk game is pretty buggy, could be anything

[drowsy plover]

That is due to a face mod issue. If u dont have face models mods, then its a vanilla bug

YO I was so into re4 that i did not see that reno was ported finally to Vulkan

Im gonna cry of happiness thanks so much

will try it soon

[white oyster]

well u have to also consider, they didnt make the textures low res cuz the artists thought it looked better, theyre low res cuz its a PS4 game lmao

so going to higher res textures is just honoring the original artists intent before they had to optimize the game

[river willow]

ez fix. Lift your camera up and look at the world instead of worrying about dirt textures

Its free and does not take 22GB of space

[slate wren]

@scenic compass here

Check pins

[scenic compass]

thanks

[scenic compass]

Is there a full guide on how to install this

Like this one specifically

The guy on YouTube is doing hollow knight and some of the things he had are not appearing for me

[slate wren]

just install reshade for vulkan and put the addon in the game folder

it's the same way for all games

i'm the guy in the video btw

[scenic compass]

Oh

The dg.dll thing isn’t appearing for me

Where do I open it

[slate wren]

it's normal for vulkan

as long as you installed it it's fine

just drop the addon next to the .exe

[scenic compass]

This add on?

Do I copy it ?

[slate wren]

yes

[scenic compass]

And where do I put it ?

[slate wren]

next to rdr2.exe

[scenic compass]

Like this

[river willow]

yes

[scenic compass]

@slate wren nvm I found out

Also how do I turn off that overlay?

[scenic compass]

Do you know how to turn off the overlay

[slate wren]

open it and skip the tutorial

and it won't show up

keep rdr2 hdr enabled ingame

and use renodx to tune the image

and you're gucci

[scenic compass]

It’s showing up as I play the game

FYI I did do the tutorial

Did it just in case cause I wasn’t sure if you had to or not

[slate wren]

nah u cna skip it

u only need renodx sliders

if the tutorial is finished the popup is gone

[scenic compass]

Btw great HDR work

[scenic compass]

It’s still there for some reason

[slate wren]

open reshade

show me

[slate wren]

press home button

on your keyboard

open reshade

like i did on the video

[scenic compass]

This page doesn’t appear for me when I press the home button

[slate wren]

show me

show me what you have

[scenic compass]

Bro I’m trying 😭😭

I’m not tech savvy at all

I just got this PC

And I’m lost half the time

[slate wren]

just take a photo man you already did

[scenic compass]

💀💀

[slate wren]

like this

[scenic compass]

This is what appears when I press home

[slate wren]

with reshade open

huh

[scenic compass]

Fn plus U

On my Aula f75 keyboard

[slate wren]

uhhhhhh

[scenic compass]

Is home

That’s what I pressed

[slate wren]

oh no you have a 75% 💀

ok wait

do you have an "end" button

[scenic compass]

I appreciate your help the HDR is rly good I just wanna get the overlay off

[scenic compass]

Lemme check

[scenic compass]

Yes

[slate wren]

okay

so quit the game

go into the folder

open reshade.ini

and change this line like this : KeyOverlay=35,0,0,0

it will make it end button

this is the file

[scenic compass]

How do you reach it

I have this one

[slate wren]

in the game folder

[slate wren]

here

[scenic compass]

Ok I’ll enter the game now

@slate wren still there

[slate wren]

you didn't change the file

it still says 'home'

should be 'end'

don't forget to save the file

[scenic compass]

I closed the file reopened it and saw that it was 35 to make sure

Opened the game the overlay was still there

[slate wren]

but does it still say 'home' ?

[scenic compass]

It says the same thing

It says press home

[slate wren]

damn why isn't it changing

[scenic compass]

To the start the tutorial

Also

Is it normal that HDR settings can’t be seen

They’re good i just don’t seem them in graphics settings

[slate wren]

uh no you should see it

[scenic compass]

Bruh

[slate wren]

windows hdr is enabled ?

make sure you're in fullscreen mode

[scenic compass]

Yes

[slate wren]

and vulkan

[scenic compass]

Bruh it looks less colorful in that mode

Looks rly good in windowed borderless

[slate wren]

borderless has no hdr

toggle ingame hdr

[scenic compass]

It’s now green

[slate wren]

yes it's normal

[scenic compass]

This overlay is making my game darker

[slate wren]

ok leave the game and show me your reshade.ini

something is wrong because you should have this :

'end' and not 'home'

[slate wren]

open it

[scenic compass]

Did

What do I change now

[slate wren]

show me

[scenic compass]

All I know from this experience is that I hate bill gates

[slate wren]

blame rockstar instead

[scenic compass]

Maybe

Now what do I do

[slate wren]

uhm

this doesn't make any sense to me

it's 35 but it's still asking for home button

do you have a star at the top of the file ?

or a circle

next to the name

[scenic compass]

Next to shaders

It has 2 stars

These stars **

[slate wren]

like this

do you have this little circle ?

[scenic compass]

The ini phrase isn’t there

[slate wren]

next to the name at the tooop of the notepad

[scenic compass]

Also no

[slate wren]

okay

[scenic compass]

No star

[slate wren]

just reshade no circle ?

can u show me

[slate wren]

nah bro

open it

[slate wren]

show me the top of this

[scenic compass]

Nvm it does

[slate wren]

yeah

itm eans you didn't save the file

so click on file

then click on save

[scenic compass]

Ok I did it

[slate wren]

nice

now start the game again

open reshade with 'end'

[scenic compass]

Sorry for wasting your time

💀

As I said I’m not tech savy at all

If it wasn’t for 4k high FPS gaming I would’ve stayed on console

[slate wren]

well you'll have to use it on all your games since your home button is kinda not working 💀

at least you learn how to do it

[scenic compass]

Will I have to change it from 35 to 36 on all games ?

[scenic compass]

Now what do I do

[slate wren]

prob

if home button does not work

[slate wren]

click skip tutorial

[scenic compass]

Then

[slate wren]

okay we have an issue renodx doesn't load

click on addons tab and show me

[slate wren]

did you copy renodx-rdr2vk in the folder too ??

should look like this

[scenic compass]

I’m in the game rn

Should I close it

[slate wren]

yeah$

[scenic compass]

Wait how do I close this overlay rn

[slate wren]

press end again

it will disappear by itself now

[slate wren]

maybe it's at the bottom

of the folder

if you just put it

[scenic compass]

I scrolled to the very bottom

[slate wren]

is it there ?

if not copy paste it

[scenic compass]

It’s not there

How do I copy paste it

[slate wren]

go into downloads

right click on the file

copy

go back into rdr2 folder

right click anywhere

paste it

or ctrl+v

it's on the video

[scenic compass]

Okay

I just need to do something rn and I’ll be back in 5 minutes

[tender osprey]

48 vs 120 vs 203 PW

[wet kindle]

I've never tried it under 200, it actually looks good

[scenic compass]

Pasted it this is what I got

[slate wren]

bruh

💀

[slate wren]

do you see this file

renodx

at the top

[tender osprey]

Night is better with lower pw

[slate wren]

that's the one you need

[wet kindle]

https://tenor.com/view/sylvester-cat-looney-toons-ugh-freaking-craptastic-gif-16139142466265462546

[wet kindle]

yes, 200 is very bright at night tbh

[tender osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/no-the-office-michael-scott-scream-gif-16929305

[scenic compass]

This is all of it

[scenic compass]

I’m mentally disabled in computer stuff

[slate wren]

bruh

[scenic compass]

I rly don’t like windows and moving files and all of that

Very annoying

[slate wren]

it's easy

[scenic compass]

I got my pc January 29th

[slate wren]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1413570163789266954/1481745655868166356/IMG_2627.jpg?ex=69b46ead&is=69b31d2d&hm=9e4837de2705e3b55a397e8462c945f8dd4994835663dcb2a46a59305daca86c&

Look at the top

the RENODX FILE

This is the one you need

[scenic compass]

Okay

[tender osprey]

Should enable extension

[slate wren]

YES

[slate wren]

not going to dive there

you can teach him that if you want

[scenic compass]

Don’t

Anything complicated is a no

I will get lost

Trust me

[slate wren]

ok bro you got the file ?

[scenic compass]

I know myself

[scenic compass]

I copied it

[slate wren]

ok paste iit in the folder

then launc hgame

then enjoy hdr

[scenic compass]

Which folder

[slate wren]

the game one

[scenic compass]

Okay

Ok is that it ?

[tender osprey]

Is it vulkan reshade or dx

[scenic compass]

Vulkan

[slate wren]

gg

u finished

only gaming now

[tender osprey]

Fullscreen always

For vulkan hdr

[scenic compass]

Overlay didn’t appear at all btw idk if that’s good or not

[slate wren]

press end if it opens you're good

[scenic compass]

👍

Thank you

What settings do you recommend in terms of in game hdr settings

Default ?

[slate wren]

yeah default

[scenic compass]

Bruh at first I was like “why does this look rly bad”

Then I put saturation to 70 and was like “DAMN”

This looks like SDR saturation but without the looking oversaturated

Idk how to explain it , looks amazing

[sterile ruin]

what filmgrain u using here?

[tender osprey]

Renodx 50 value

[sterile ruin]

thx

[maiden belfry]

Rather try to click "Match SDR" and try that

[scenic compass]

Okay

[teal pawn]

@flint crater not sure how to work this properly, but the reno addon separates the ui from actual gameplay, and tweaks each separately, right?

i'd like to do some more advanced color grading edits to the game with another reshade effect, but i wouldn't like it to affect ui

[flint crater]

ya

not sure if I can do that stuff with vulkan

[teal pawn]

is there any way to hook the edits i make with that effect to whatever reno uses to make it only affect the gameplay, not the ui?

[flint crater]

with oblivion shortfuse added a thing to let you write to the scene

i'll see what I can do

[teal pawn]

oh awesome, thanks

[teal pawn]

well, it already seems to be the case with the current vulkan addon

the basic color grading features of reno don't affect the ui, just gameplay

[flint crater]

ye that's cause I edit those shaders directly

[teal pawn]

i see

[flint crater]

you'd have to allow reshade to add a render pass or something

so you could add your own shaders

[teal pawn]

do you have any tutorial you could link me regarding this? okay if not

[flint crater]

well I'd be handling that within the mod

so that reshadefx just apply to the scene

[teal pawn]

ohh okay

well, if you do end up doing that, i'd really appreciate it

[flint crater]

the fx would have to work in linear space though

or handle the conversion themselves

i think soop converter or whatever

[teal pawn]

i believe they do? i'm using regrade+ for them, from marty's immerse ultimate

[flint crater]

was made for that

if they're sdr shaders then they would apply in gamma space

hdr ones that work in hdr10 would apply in pq space

[teal pawn]

i think its automatically converted to pq space, although i could be wrong

[flint crater]

for shaders applying in hdr10 they would be applying on the final image which is already pq

if I want to hook before the ui

it would be in linear

[teal pawn]

oo, i see

well, i'm not sure what to tell you, i don't have much knowledge regarding this

[flint crater]

no idea how the shader works

does it have a way to choose input color space

or detect it or whatever

[teal pawn]

let me see

i don't see any option

would probably be best to speak with marty directly, but it'd be hard considering i dont know much about the subject

are you in his server?

pghub

[flint crater]

ya i think so

not organized though

gotta scroll the list

[sterile ruin]

generally martys shaders arent hdr compatible so i wouldnt get my hopes up..

[teal pawn]

damn...

[sterile ruin]

@flint crater i have the regrade files too, is there some stuff in the shader files that i could look for that would indicate it supports hdr colorspaces?

[flint crater]

you'd have to see if they convert from gamma to linear or something like that

like srgb transfer function

or power gamma

give it to ai

[sterile ruin]

feeding paid code to ai feels wrong kek

yeah nah i think its cooked brotha @teal pawn

[flint crater]

skip srgb to linear

so it just is linear

and skip linear back to srgb at the end

[sterile ruin]

i didnt feed it all code but i was looking for color space snippets

yeah like anything i feed it just says SDR math etc

[teal pawn]

💔 💔

well, thanks anyway

[flint crater]

oklab and xyz can work in hdr fine

if they're specifically clamping to sdr then remove the clamps

let ai do what it wants and see if it fixes it

[last vortex]

Huh? The game looks so much different for me with the Vulkan RenoDX

Like if I swap to vanilla vs RenoDX the difference is actually insane

[balmy surge]

XYZ is 1931 LMS

[last vortex]

Question, should the HDR from RenoDX look so much different from VanillaHDR?

[balmy surge]

Depends on how broken Vanilla HDR is from Vanilla SDR. In Cyberpunk's case Vanilla HDR is broken AF

Vanilla HDR should never be the reference

[last vortex]

Yeah no, in Cyberpunk I played whole game with RenoDX and it was amazing, especially on my oled

but here, it's like the difference is insane

and I'm sure if just sth is wrong on my side or what

[balmy surge]

How long ago, because CP2077 isn't based on Vanilla HDR anymore (used to be)

[last vortex]

Ah, finished the game about 2 weeks ago

I just followed a tutorial how to set it up

[balmy surge]

SDR is reference though. Just generally how we work now

[last vortex]

the 1st pic is the regular vanilla when i turn off reno and then preset 3 is on the bottom, but in reality its so much darker with light only faintly visible

whereas with vanilla, it feels like middle of the day

[balmy surge]

#1413570163789266954 message

Vanilla HDR looks busted

[last vortex]

Like looking how it looks here, mine's so much different

1st vanilla second renodx

but it looks a lot darker, like pics/vids cant

really show it

[flint crater]

They sample the color grading textures wrong in vanilla hdr

That’s why nights are gray instead of blue like sdr

[last vortex]

so it should look like the way it looks for me?

I like the contrast, colors are a lot better with your mod, just unsure if it should be this dark tho

[wet kindle]

aside personal preference

HDR Vanilla has literally no colors

then u can like it or not

but that's a fact

[last vortex]

Yeah it feels super washed, like colours wise, im liking reno a loooot more

only thing i was curious was if it should just be this dark, but ig, it is night, with a storm out there and all they got are lampions Lol

so maybe it makes sense

idk, first time ever playing the game tho

now is the first day scene and nah, the brightness is all over the place

something is 100% wrong and im thinking that just my settings, sth wrong with em

[ancient yoke]

same for me. nights are almost pure black and highlights in the sky are waaaaay to bright. reno settings dont really change much

[last vortex]

Yeah it makes me think that something is wrong with settings on my side

Im not that bent on using hdr with this game, so if i cant fix it, ill just use sdr

[ancient yoke]

i wasn't using fullscreen so the hdr settings weren't visible in the graphics settings. after i changef to fullscreen it works now

[void coral]

u can use RDXC and make a default reshade.ini

https://github.com/RankFTW/RenoDXChecker
https://github.com/RankFTW/RenoDXChecker/releases/download/RDXC/RDXC-Setup.exe
https://github.com/RankFTW/RenoDXChecker/releases/download/RDXC/RDXC-1.4.5.zip

or u can manually do it as well for every game hm

heres mine in case ur curious

[ADDON]
DisabledAddons=Generic Depth,Effect Runtime Sync

[GENERAL]
EffectSearchPaths=.\reshade-shaders\Shaders\**,C:\Users\Zulka\AppData\Local\Programs\Display_Commander\Reshade\Shaders\**
TextureSearchPaths=.\reshade-shaders\Textures\**,C:\Users\Zulka\AppData\Local\Programs\Display_Commander\Reshade\Textures\**

[INPUT]
GamepadNavigation=0
KeyOverlay=36,0,0,0

[OVERLAY]
TutorialProgress=4```

[last vortex]

everything looks good now just cause u swapped to fullscreen?

[maiden belfry]

Vanilla HDR and RenoDX (which is based on vanilla hdr) both require exclusive fullscreen when you are using Vulkan

Not borderless fullscreen, but fullscreen (which is the aforementioned exclusive fullscreen). If you reshade and RenoDX tabs are green, that means you are in fullscreen (the corrrect one)

[last vortex]

Aight, I swapped to fullscreen, turned on Vanilla HDR in options, then set the brightness to 400, or is it supposed to be 300?

it was originally set to 1000, but with 1000, the game is crazy bright, like blinding bright, everything white in that snowy opening scene

at 400, it looks better, no question there

but sometimes it still felt too bright

like i had to change to vanilla hdr once because everything was just white

and then as we got back to the village with John, it felt weird again, ahhhhhhh

I feel like I'm definitely doing something wrong

Here's my spec: 1440p 240Hz WOLED monitor, I have HDR configured properly on it, or at least I think so. O

I've got RTX5080 and 9800X3D, 32gb of ram

so I turned off RTX HDR, have HDR on in windows, on in the game, everything on ultra, turned off those add-ons in ReShade, fullscreen, brightness in hdr options set to 400

now i'm in that scene just after getting back and im supposed to talk to B and P

and are scenes inside the building so dark

like, I can barely see shit, like it doesnt even work that way IRL, there's genuine light coming through the cracks and a fire inside and it gives 0 light

on the other hand VanillaHDR is way too bright for the amount of light thats coming in

it like jumps between not enough light to too much light and im just so confused

like it looks good, but too dark, then it looks really good and then its too bright

i feel like im 100% doing something wrong with the settings on my end tho

[tender osprey]

lower game brightness in renodx between 80 to 203

[last vortex]

It is in reno at default at 203 with peak at 1000

Idk it feels okay now, for some reason it swapped back to borderless, i switch back to fullscreen and its okay suddenly

[tender osprey]

peak brightness controls highlights - like lamp, sun - anything with light source
game brightness affect overall brightness

[last vortex]

Aight

[river willow]

HDR in Vulkan only engages in exclusive full screen.

[soft haven]

deprecated dx12 or current vulkan...

I don't love the alt tab behaviour

of vulkan

booting you outta excl fullscreen

I'm fine with longer alt tabbing if it means I can play in hdr, but if it's going to turn off hdr every alt tab I'm just not going to bother

[flint crater]

dx12 is too buggy

has lots of weird glitches

vk has worked much better for me

you can just hit alt+enter to re engage exclusive fullscreen after alt tabbing

and it'll turn hdr back on

[soft haven]

oh wha

[round bough]

Cant we use display commander for it to work in borderless 🤔

[flint crater]

idk haven't tried display commander with vulkan

[smoky cargo]

@flint crater Hey king any plans to fix the dead eye/eagle eye looking wrong in vulkan?

[soft haven]

i will test tonight maybe

[flint crater]

I’ll look into it

[soft haven]

https://github.com/pmnoxx/display-commander/releases/tag/v0.11.0
this seems to have worked for me? odd brightness handling in windows so maybe it's not 100%, but renodx hdr is remaining on in vulkan. latest latest bleeding edge crashes.

nvm crashed

[flint crater]

its not forcing borderless for me

[slate wren]

@flint crater

https://giphy.com/gifs/hamlet-spiderman-willem-dafoe-yKvfYNi9YR4W01KQrq

they all point to your git so no "shortfuse commit" nonsense

THEY ARE ALL UP TO DATE I HOPE FOR U

[flint crater]

nexus is better

snapshot is just gonna make it outdated

mirage and shadows are newer on nexus

[slate wren]

then push updates

https://giphy.com/gifs/BbJdwrOsM7nTa

[slate wren]

don't test me mumsa i could get discord direct dl from this thread and put it for rdr2

[rose crow]

I thought Display Commander doesn't work with Vulkan?

[flint crater]

Vulkan Release Candidate 2:

• requires Vulkan ReShade and Exclusive Fullscreen
• as usual with RenoDX, disable generic depth and effect runtime sync addons in the ReShade add-ons tab as they are unused (requires restart to apply)
• if you previously used the dx12 build, make sure to reset your settings as sliders have changed

Changes:

• fixed eagle eye
• added more sliders
• removed srgb lut encoding option
• new defaults with reduced black crush
• "purist" preset for parity with sdr

[wet kindle]

@flint crater i sent u 3rd support for this Mod

Always thank u ❤️

[rocky crypt]

hey man, is it right that hdr no longer shows in the options menu, liliums hdr analysis says sdr but all the sliders work in reno?
nvm game put itself into window mode

[white oyster]

this update from jan 26 seems like that has changed

[rocky crypt]

Pmnox is working hard on DC in vulkan, I just got RDXC working with vulkan games and rdr2 runs great through that now in my local version

[white oyster]

hell yeah, i hope i can use it to prevent hdr from disabling/switching to windowed mode when i alt tab in rdr2

[lyric hedge]

Hello there, im new with all this hdr shi, what does candidate stands for? like a preset? why there are like candidate 1, 2, etc which should I choose. Another question, does the vulkan version comes with the latest dx12 features?

[drowsy plover]

Vulkan versions are new, so They are just the very brand new versions on vulka. DX12 is very buggy and comes with issues for rdr2.

[rose crow]

Ok wow great.
Seems like a great starting point for me into HDR Gaming. Frame Generation got also fixed by an update lately with Vulkan.

[lyric hedge]

Ok thanks, and Idk what Im doing wrong, but I dont see the HDR option on the menu settings in vulkan, I looked everywhere and its missing, is this normal?

[drowsy plover]

Yup anytime you alt tab game will go borderless that is a bug i guess over vulka version
make sure any time you have to go out of the game and back or any time you launch the game is fullscreen

once full s the game will go back to hdr

Also disable auto hdr if you have it on

[white oyster]

make sure your game is fulllscreen not windowed or borderless windowed

[rocky crypt]

yeah anytime you tab out it'll switch to borderless mode so just make sure to hit alt+enter to get back to fullscreen
your reshade should be green if it's working correctly with vulkan

[teal pawn]

i'm guessing that wont be necessary anymore with this display commander addon?

[drowsy plover]

Just tested the version

Fr that reno is far way better solution than doing lilium black thing and, all the other solutions

I set one preset to default, one to purist and the off ofc
and wow, I was always one to say rdr2 vanilla hdr is not that bad. But after seeing reno default I change my mind

purist is gooooood but yea lot of crushes on some places (tested on saint denis), so I will stick to defaults for now. Really nice job there, having it on Vulkan is a dream

[sterile ruin]

[wet kindle]

idk people are overreacting

it seems we are back to DLSS 1.0 topics all over again

[sleek mist]

people are reacting accordingly to being served a steaming pile of shit on their plate after the public option of super model round spongebob ai slop has been made VERY clear

[wet kindle]

u got me crying laughing in pain

[sleek mist]

its actually so bad that it feels like a satire

like it feels like this is a joke

[wet kindle]

in 2 years will be talking the opposite imo

[sleek mist]

@remindme two years

im sorry but thats the biggest cope ive ever heard

[idle wagon]

remind me too i want in

[wet kindle]

i've just read Pumbo post and tbh have same feelings about it

[idle wagon]

just shilling for this slop in every channel huh

[cedar shard]

My thoughts exactly, dlss 5 has a lot of potential. Right now however it looks like a silly filter that doesn't blend right with the art direction of most games.

[sleek mist]

thats kinda the issue

once we start having something that changes the art direction, you've jumped the shark

framegen and REAL dlss dont do that

[cedar shard]

how is that different then RTX REMIX for exemple?

everyone drools over rtx remix for gta 4 but goes apeshit when they see Leon's face with a lightroom filter

[sleek mist]

RTX remix is done before hand and shipped out

the devs pick and choose the textures they want and if they like the look etc etc

and ship it

its not just real time ai blanket over everything hope you like it :D

[cedar shard]

This is why this technology needs time and has huge potential

[drowsy plover]

Tsssssssssskkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk idk
I would say some lightning things can be welcome, im not that into "director intend" thing but I dont want it either to look like a facebook video of some fake shit account
And ofc I think the faces are real fkn garbage
I could agree that on starfield and Oblivion they actually look nice XD but thats a bethesda thing, on any other thing I swear im just watching a chat gpt video

Maaaybe this wouldnt be that bad if they didn't called it dlss 5, instead just use another new tech name, idk

but tbh Im totally against this kind of AI

and yea, I prefer to be put into the,. gsus this looks horrible delete it part of people rn

Is like suddenly you tell me I can toggle this as dlss 5 and use it on game and I need to be happy about it lol

[sterile ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/the-rock-biggest-peice-of-dogshit-peice-of-shit-gif-13354334831488207353

[sleek mist]

the only correct response to killing the earth in real time

[sterile ruin]

just launch all the nukes, its over

[sleek mist]

https://tenor.com/view/walton-goggins-cooper-howard-the-ghoul-fallout-fotv-gif-17970837045648198342

[wet kindle]

for real bro

[elfin eagle]

Does this mod work good?

I have always used dx12 any issuees running Vulkan?

[elfin eagle]

Sorrry a bit new to all this

[smoky cargo]

Why are highlights at 42 in "purist"? Seems weird to not have the "default" SDR matching option at 50 for all settings, or am I missing something?

[flint crater]

Purist is just meant to look more similar to sdr

Which is dimmer

[sleek mist]

default settings should have pretty similar highlights to build 1, right?

[flint crater]

Ya

Same highlights as build 1

Too bright for me

[sleek mist]

maybe time of day changed and it fucked something

let me test again lol

[flint crater]

The tonemapping is identical

[sleek mist]

it must be my game

im just sanity checking myself

[sleek mist]

the game just decides to have the sun in a different spot when i load the save i guess

[flint crater]

When toggling hdr the weather sometimes resets

[sleek mist]

maybe that i guess

but that was throwing me off lol

[old prism]

Hi friends, is the new version compatible with Vestigia mod?

[whole field]

just checked thread to try the vulkan version and there's a new one that dropped

🐐

[drowsy plover]

Perse there is no incompatibily as one thing is re shade and other thing edits visuals directly on the game files, tho I wouldnt say they will do the best match. I will say even no, but not even bc of reno, but any of that mods are made for HDR

I think the only one made for HDR itself is VISUALS and that mod is hell outdated, lot of bugs

[whole field]

Finally got it working after taking forever to undo everything i did to force dx and shit

looks good my reshades fucked though it's green even after reinstall lol

[sleek mist]

The reshade menu?

It’s supposed to be green

Green is for Vulkan

[whole field]

oh right last time i saw this i changed the ui color i think not reinstall it

i don't like the green menu lol

[sterile ruin]

would be a shame if nvidia added dlss 5 to this wouldnt it

[rose crow]

Just tried Display Commander but it still changes to windowed when Alt-Tabbing. 🙃

[old prism]

Thanks, I noticed that a lot of these visual mods make changes to tonemapping and for example the Dominator mod definitely doesn't work with Reno

VDLV as well

Guess to use Reno I probably should only use these texture mods not the visual ones

[drowsy plover]

Yup, and it's not even because the mods are bad, actually I think some of them are really cool like renewal, sadly they are build for sdr in mind as the authors have not shown interest on HDR, so yea, they will have lot of things bugged. The only one built for hdr have not been updated ever since the release lol

[river willow]

I thought green was just when it was in HDR

[whole field]

https://tenor.com/view/donald-duck-gulp-disney-gif-26776749

[sleek mist]

Nope

Green for Vulkan

Blue for dx

[river willow]

Huh. The more you know

[smoky cargo]

So what settings are you personally rocking?

[flint crater]

42 highlights

Didn’t play much

[steady copper]

Using this mod, should I have the ingame HDR settings on game mode or cinematic?

[flint crater]

doesn't matter

actually I didn't test well but I'm pretty sure it makes no difference

you can go with game just to be safe I guess

[foggy summit]

Which HDR mode do you use in game? There are two different ones.

[wet kindle]

imagine asking something answered immediately above your question

[foggy summit]

Hahaha I’m sorry!

[lunar sinew]

sorry guys im new here, but where can i find the rdr2 renodx mod file

[sleek mist]

its pinned

[lunar sinew]

oh mb. thank you

[sleek mist]

all good

[whole field]

How do i alt tab back into the game without it getting fucked up

[wise token]

Once back in the game, alt+enter to make it fullscreen again

[whole field]

man this game is a mess

[eager cape]

Very happy to see there is now a working attempt at Reno for RDR2

Arguably my favorite game of all time but man is it a fickle thing

[hardy tapir]

my rdr2 crashes with reshade and renodx installed, im using the latest vulkan addon btw.
does anyone have the same problem?

[white oyster]

are u sure u chose vulkan when installing Reshade and not DX12?

and ofc make sure ur game itself is in vulkan with HDR on

[hardy tapir]

yeah, i'm sure

[slate wren]

Make sure to set the shortcut button to end and not home because it's shared with the garbage rockstar overlay which induces crashes

[hardy tapir]

didn't work unfortunately, crashes as soon the rockstar logo appears

[slate wren]

[foggy summit]

For me personally, the fire and lamps around camp are just too bright and they seem almost like they don’t fit in the rest of the image. I’m going to stick to SDR for now.

Just feels more cohesive to me.

[sleek mist]

Use the sdr parity option. It has much lower highlights

[foggy summit]

Ooo good to know. Thanks.

[last vortex]

Wanted to le yall know, i set it up so it works and the hdr looks amazing!!!

[glossy verge]

Hello, I really want to use RDR2 renodx, where can I find the add-on file?

[fervent canopy]

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[glossy verge]

@fervent canopy 👍 👍 👍

[steady copper]

Hey so I know this might not be the right place to ask but I'm having some difficulty with getting RDR2 to recognize that a display can do HDR, even when in fullscreen mode. It only happens when running vulkan, maybe there is some Reshade shenanigans I can do to force it?

It specifically through a virtual display that I use for streaming. the HDR works for all other programs :/

[steady copper]

seems to be an issue with the displaydriver mainly being designed for dx12, and thus vulkan not recognizing hdr capabilities :(

[white oyster]

that seems more like an issue wit hthe virtual display than anything reno can fix

what are u using for virtual display?

https://github.com/SudoMaker/SudoVDA is used by apollo for streaming games, maybe that would work better

[steady copper]

Seems to just be a limitation of virtual display drivers https://github.com/ClassicOldSong/Apollo/issues/456

[white oyster]

damn

[eager cape]

Reno in rdr2 looks fantastic, great stuff! been playing with it a bit last night

my only gripe is the full screen behavior with vulkan, I alt tab a lot (runescape on other monitor) and having to do the alt enter thing every time is annoying..

[manic lion]

display commander adhd mode 😛

[eager cape]

what?

[eager cape]

are you talking about a reshade addon? I found one with the same name and apparently literally today it was abandoned

[manic lion]

https://discord.com/channels/1408098019194310818/1423918603035476041

it has a mode that blanks the 2nd screen so you don't get distracted or tempted to alt tab in the first place

[eager cape]

oh well thats the opposite of what i want

[manic lion]

use borderless?

[eager cape]

cant because vulkan hdr needs exclusive fullscreen

[manic lion]

well then you need to get over it because it's not something that's fixable

[eager cape]

[abstract pivot]

Does somebody know why reshade overlay doesn't appear in Linux with Vulkan ? I installed the renodx add-on but still it doesn't appear

[smoky cargo]

Guys I need some help, I'm using reno in vulkan, was trying to set up optiscaler as well, I set it up and all seems well, the notification on the bottom left pops up when i start the game but when I press the menu key(I changed it to "delete") nothing happens

[native charm]

Having the same issue, on my end the optiscaler menu doesnt even open with no reshade and renodx installed. Optiscaler seems to be very buggy with Rdr2 running on vulkan.

[hardy epoch]

No Vulkan support for Reshade in Linux unfortunately 🙁 only directx

[radiant raft]

Hey everyone! Do I also need to match the gamma while using this mod or is there no gamma mismatch?

[flint crater]

mod fixes that

[radiant raft]

great! So applying this mod is everything i need to do (including the steps you wrote down). I will test it today, love your work so far!!!!

[smoky cargo]

I don't have screenshots but the mod blows out a lot the sequences that play during the credits, don't know if it's something worth investing time to fix

[flint crater]

an sdr -> hdr mod would be best