Red Dead Redemption 2

[flint crater]

whether the game converts to gamma for lut sampling is based on a cbuffer

not always on

[pearl jasper]

guys

when i put renodx the crashes everytime'

it says out of memory

[smoky cargo]

Directx 12 or Vulkan?

[pearl jasper]

i put dx12 from reshade and vulkan in game idunno if its right

[smoky cargo]

#1413570163789266954 message

Use this

And set the game to vulkan

Install Reshade with Vulkan as well obviously

[wet kindle]

@flint crater with the new build shadow contrast is 42 by default

is that the optimal solution?

[smoky cargo]

iirc 42 shadows is just what he prefers, because everything default crushed black a bit too much for his liking, could be wrong tho

[wet kindle]

game sdr is also crashed so not hard to believe

[smoky cargo]

I personally run everything at 50, yes it crushes blacks and blows out highlights a bit but I always like to play as close to vanilla as possible

[wet kindle]

I like to play as close to Vanilla if it's not trash. Musa preset is night and day compare to purist

[smoky cargo]

To each their own I guess, I like dark as fuck nights

[river willow]

Purist for screenshots. Musa for gameplay

[hot wind]

Why this game still work in progress, I remember it being completed? Did rockstar release an update destroying the compatibility or something

[sleek mist]

its just not flawless yet

vulkan version could realistically be released right now though imo

[hot wind]

Is there a reason to use any api other than vulkan? Its faster and more stable and have less stuttering

DX is soo bad last time I played

[sleek mist]

i think theres some mod releated stuff? im not 100% honestly

[smoky cargo]

mods support maybe? idk

[hot wind]

I guess it could be DX have better way to handle hdr better than vulkan 🤔, because using dx while vulkan exists dosent make sense to me since vulkan are supported on both gpu vendors amd and nvidia i believe also arc supports it

[smoky cargo]

dx was initially used because it was easier to make the reno mod with it, but Musa figured out how to make vulkan work(thank god), he said that vulkan in general is more finicky and he doesn't like to work on it but for this game it was basically necessary because of how bad it runs on dx12

[eager cape]

Just wish I could run Vulkan HDR in borderless windowed instead of exclusive fullscreen

[sleek mist]

Alt enter when you tab back in

Yeah it is annoying asf though

[eager cape]

yeah I've known about alt enter fot a while but it's annoying like you said hah

especially since i have runescape on the other monitor thay i gotta tab back into every 10 mins

[river willow]

Red Dead 2 demands your full attention. how dare you alt tab?

[wet kindle]

Playing RDR2 is a lifestyle

That's not a game, it's a belief

[river willow]

If you aren't wearing a cowboy hat and chewing tobacco at your desk, you can't say you're a rdr2 fan. Thems the rules

[eager cape]

do I get a pass if I have a signed poster of RDR2 by Roger Clark?

🤔

[smoky cargo]

No you get tubercolosis

[eager cape]

🙂

[river willow]

That'll do

[pearl jasper]

MANY THANKS BUT I HAVE A QUESTION

when i use hdr should i play in fullscreen? because the hdr setting only appears in fullscreens

second should i put cinmatic hdr or game ?

[river willow]

exclusive fullscreen

[tender osprey]

Does not matter, renovk hijack game hdr setting, but on the safe side - set to game

[viral radish]

Might be a dumb question, I am unsure if I installed it correctly. I can see that the visuals match SDR colours but it’s hard to verify I installed correctly. I am usually pretty proficient. Should I be able to adjust sliders in real time or do I have to adjust settings and then reboot game for effect?

[smoky cargo]

Press the home button(you might wanna change that btw since in rockstart games the home button opens up the rockstart overlay as well) to open reshade, in the top bar of the reshade menu there should be a tab called renodx, that's where all the sliders are for adjusting and tweaking

And yes it all happens in real time, no need to reboot the game

[atomic cape]

when I use renodx with vulkan.....optiscaler gui does not appear ingame what tot do

want to use fsr 4 with optiscaler

[smoky cargo]

👆

[atomic cape]

is there a renodx file for dx12?

[smoky cargo]

Yes it's in the pinned, but it's no longer being worked on so your mileage may vary, and I remeber it being kinda finnicky, sometimes it crashed the game on startup for me sometimes it didn't, dx12 in rdr2 is pretty dogshit, lots of problems, graphical bugs as well and performance issues, but if you want to give it a shot it's right there

[atomic cape]

i wanna use vulkan but optiscaler does not work with vulkan I think

for fsr 4

[smoky cargo]

Yeah afaik it doesn't work for whatever reason, if you really want to try fsr 4, dx12 might be the only way, but considering how much better vulkan looks and performs I think vulkan with TAA is the best compromise, imo at least.

[atomic cape]

thnks

[smoky cargo]

It really comes down to if you can stomach the TAA blurriness in motion, unfortunately for amd cards it's either renodx and TAA or no renodx and fsr4

wait scratch that, I think opti on vulkan might not work even without reshade installed

my bad

Idk I personally don't have a amd card so I haven't fiddle with it much

[viral radish]

Hmm really interesting. Already did swap the Home key as well.

For whatever reason it’s not changing in real time. Might have a play with it.

[smoky cargo]

Are you changing the sliders in the reno tab of reshade?

Do you have any visual mods installed? Is hdr enabled in game?

[elfin eagle]

How do I know if this is working

I see renodx in reshade but I don't seem to see preset sliders

[elfin eagle]

Ok I got it working what preset do you all use?

and for peak brightness do I set that to the value of max nits google says?

[whole field]

it's your monitors peak brightness

[elfin eagle]

What about paper white I have aw3225qf

I notice 3 presets in the RD2 1 , 2 or 3 what do you use?

[jolly jackal]

they're all the same by default, they just let you change settings yourself and have them on different presets. default settings should be fine, in the end its personal preference, you can mess with the sliders to see what they do and can always reset them

[elfin eagle]

You play GTA V Enachnced at all?

[elfin eagle]

This mod makes things look a tad dark maybe

[whole field]

example?

[elfin eagle]

I will have to grab in AM

What other mods do you all like for total amazing look I have RTX 5090

and Alienware 240hz oled

[viral radish]

Hey mate, yeah changing sliders in the Reno tab. I’ve used heaps of Reno mods before, just for whatever reason this one isn’t cooperating. It’s a completely fresh game - no mods, no nothing.

[past vine]

Hey, where can I find the Vulkan version download for RenoDX HDR? I’m using RDR2 and can’t seem to locate it. Thanks!

[wise token]

pinned

[smoky cargo]

Can you take a couple of screenshots with the Reno menu visible and like shadows 0 vs shadows 100?

[viral radish]

Can do!

[ebon tapir]

What’s the best settings to use ? Or just use default ?

[tender osprey]

default
with peak brightness according to display
and game brightness according to room light and needs

[novel ridge]

If 50 is crushing and 43 seems to be ideal why is 43 not 50 ?

[flint crater]

50 is neutral

I’m lowering contrast

[viral radish]

Haha I’ve made no change apart from reinstalling the game fresh and it works now. Good ol switch on and off again and it works. Appreciate the advice my friend. All the best

[old aspen]

This is one of the biggest renodx upgrades I have seen tbh. The native HDR is that awful

I am not sure there is a worse native HDR than RDR2

makes me even more sad that sony is stopping PC ports, we are stuck with whatever HDR they do. Thankfully most of their out of the box HDR is good. A few standout bad ones: both god of wars, horizon zero dawn before the remastered upgrade

[flint crater]

the ue games that skip the color grading entirely

[wet kindle]

@flint crater sent u my 4th Support for this Mod, thank u ❤️

[elfin eagle]

This mod delete the in game HDR ?

[smoky cargo]

More overwrite than delete but basically yes

[elfin eagle]

Game always start in windows boardless no matter how many times I hit full screen and quit

[smoky cargo]

alt+enter does not put you in fullscreen?

[elfin eagle]

ya seems hdr goes back and forth when I do that

[smoky cargo]

Is HDR enabled in windows?

[elfin eagle]

yews

yes

[smoky cargo]

So when you start the game it's always in borderless, and when you change it to fullscreen and apply does it stay in fullscren?

[elfin eagle]

yes

I feel like there is a crazy amount of vrr flicker with the reshade and mod

[smoky cargo]

Do you have any other mods installed?

[elfin eagle]

no

[smoky cargo]

Have you tried disabling generic depth and effect runtime sync addons in the ReShade add-ons tab?

Oh and btw are you using dx12 or vulkan?

[elfin eagle]

Vulkan

I did disable both

[elfin eagle]

Does renodx or Reshade work in linux

[flint crater]

don't think vulkan reshade works with linux

someone else tried with doom and couldn't get it to work

[elfin eagle]

Dx12 work though?

[flint crater]

the dx12 version was never finished

its way too buggy

dx12 is broken as shit in this game

[elfin eagle]

ok

[vagrant hinge]

wait does dx12 work for the reshader on rdr2 or no? cause I need to use dx12 cause of optiscaler

[wet kindle]

Why would u use optic Scaler for RDR2?

[void coral]

opti can work in vulkan

with dlss inputs

check their wiki

[last vortex]

Should nights be this bright in this game with HDR on and the renodx mod?

Like i think they are too bright ngl

[smoky cargo]

Try with the purist preset, the default one raises shadows

[last vortex]

Whats a purist preset

No clue what ur talking ab

If u mean lowering shadows slide bar i did that

Doesnt really help, only lowering game brightness helps

But it feels like sth is wrong with the light in general

I changed it from 203 to 150 and its better

[maiden belfry]

At the bottom of renodx tab there are two buttons: reset and purist. Press purist one

Thats the preset

[last vortex]

Dont see it

@maiden belfry

[smoky cargo]

You seem to have an old build, try the one in pinned, the release candidate 2

[last vortex]

#1413570163789266954 message i have one from here tho, the one based on vulcan

Possibly i did sth wrong setting it up tho

I will swap the files just in case then

[smoky cargo]

That looks like the old build, maybe you forgot to change the file, try again putting the release candidate 2 in the game folder

[last vortex]

I got oled monitor so i assumed i shouldn't have used the purist tho

[last vortex]

Aight will do later

[smoky cargo]

Purist is just to match the visual characteristics of the SDR image, things like colors, black level etc, while still having HDR peak brightness, the default preset is just what Musa prefers, what looks the best to him

[hollow bronze]

am i doing something wrong?
i installed everything but the game for me is very dark with renodx, even cutscene sometimes are closely just black

i havent done any settings yet so im using the preset 1 like it was when i installe dit

[river willow]

You will have to adjust brightness settings to your display's capabilities

[hollow bronze]

i tried but somehow it looks to dark or the bright parts are too bright when i adjust it

if you can could you share me your settings?
maybe i have to switch to vanilla lut encoding if i dont magae it

[hot wind]

I might be wrong or something is wrong with my setup of this mod, but isn't musa defaults have raised blacks or something 🤔

#1413570163789266954 message

Am gonna check purist setting too lets see if that does anything

Also i dont think defaults represent musa taste or what he likes i have alot of mods setup by musa and all looks awesome "objectively"

[flint crater]

Defaults are closer what I like

Purist setting is what it originally looked like

So purist is correct if that’s what you want

[hot wind]

Just to be clear is defaults have higher blacks ?

[flint crater]

yes

[hot wind]

Does "vulkan reshade" a different version of regular reshade addon on their main site ?

Or all the same

[flint crater]

No you just select vulkan in the installer

[hot wind]

I thought i need to use renovk or something,

[glossy verge]

I need to use Direct 12 for Fg, but is there a Direct 12 version? Renodx HDR

[sleek mist]

It’s pinned :)

[glossy verge]

Oh, my!! Why did I feel like I only had a Vulcan version!

Thank you!

[rain aspen]

Is there a reason to use Vulkan version over dx12?

[whole field]

dx version never worked for me

seem to remember a lot of mods that only worked with vulkan too

seen people say vulkan version runs better too I haven't tested though

[whole field]

seems pretty significant looking at comparison videos online

as much as 30% better performance

[sleek mist]

A lot of stuff is just weirdly broken on DX. Some visual settings cause artifacts and the day/night cycle is completely broken

Transition happens in like 5 seconds lmao

[smoky cargo]

The most significant difference in performance imo is that dx stutters while vulkan is smooth as butter, especially with the stutter fix mod

[void coral]

Can u link me to this mod

[smoky cargo]

https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/1502?tab=files

Usually these stutter fix mods are placebo but this seems to actually work, I've tested it and it does indeed seem to do what it promises

[void coral]

oh ic alr

[trim swallow]

dont forget that RDR2 dont even boot properly for a lot of people with DX12

ive always had out of memory errors with dx12

64gb ram and 32gb vram lmao

and the fact that vulkan is just so much smoother really dont give me any real reason to try to use dx12

[hot wind]

Do you have improvements numbers? In terms of the lows and avg fps

[trim swallow]

this fucking game...

the lighting and everything is just god tier

looks so unbelievably good for a 2018 game

[smoky cargo]

I've played death strading 2 recently, a 2025 game, and aside from the characters models I don't think it looks better

[trim swallow]

If you remove the lighting from rdr2 you can definitely notice assets/models looking very dated (characters especially)

but the lighting, volumetric clouds, fog and all that schenanigans is very well done

it really amplifies the whole picture

https://klipy.com/gifs/pacha-perfection

[last vortex]

@flint crater is there a reason why shadow contrast is set to 42 on default with preset 1 in color grading? It makes the nights stupidly bright as if it was middle of the day kind of bright

And in the same time, i like it during the day

Kinda annoys me to constantly switch between diff values

[smoky cargo]

Defaults are his preferred look for the game, purist is the accurate one, which has darker shadows matching SDR

[last vortex]

Purist one is still too bright i had to crank up the shadow contrast to around 62 during night and lower brightness from 203 to 185 for me to feel like nights look good

But during the day i swap, kinda annoys me, but i got used to it

[smoky cargo]

Your monitor can influence the outcome keep that in mind, but purist is the one that matches SDR and SDR is universally considered the "intended" way the game is supposed to look.

[smoky cargo]

@flint crater I was wondering something, how exactly do you find the matching settings for the purist preset? Is it super technical behind the scenes or do you mostly go by eye? For example is the reason highlights are at 42 and not 43 or 41 or any other number purely "mathematical" or did you play with sliders by eye until it matched sdr as much as possible?

[rain aspen]

https://tenor.com/view/armstrong-made-it-up-gif-25653819

[flint crater]

42 was just eyeballed to look right

[obsidian patrol]

Is there anything to be done with the aggressive shadow culling on the sides of the screen?

[pliant dock]

there's mods that claim to fix it, but pretty sure they're just disabling screen space shadows outright

never bothered with them, so I can't say for certain

[rough rose]

Set far shadows to low

They are in screen space, there's no fixing them

The game still has shadows on the distant objects even on low, there just low precision shadow maps

But they get the job done

[cedar peak]

Why I can't find the file of this mod

[lyric skiff]

This?

[cedar peak]

Thanks

Cinematic or game hdr style?

[austere girder]

Hi all, thanks for the mod. I started using renodx for the first time because of rdr2 but both the default and the purist presets look incredibly blown out. This is fixed if I switch the tone mapper to SDR but then it just looks like the native cinematic HDR implementation I think?

I have an LG C3 and I set the peak brightness correctly. What could I be doing wrong?

[austere girder]

Resetting the in-game HDR calibration and restarting the game fixed this now.

[cedar peak]

Do I need to set the peak brightness in game setting too? Or just in renodx?

[maiden belfry]

Only in renodx. And can set mode for whatever

[cedar peak]

Okay thank you

Cinematic or game hdr style

[smoky cargo]

It shouldn't matter, but just in case it does use game

[cedar peak]

Thank you

[dusk dagger]

for this mod should in game settings be set to HDR at default settings?

[smoky cargo]

just make sure HDR is enabled and brightness in SDR is set to default values

[flint crater]

the sdr brightness slider affecting stuff should be fixed now

[smoky cargo]

it was still in the notes so I thought it was still relevant, good to know it's fixed

[flint crater]

ya I copied and pasted from the previous one

[wet kindle]

happy Easter to everyone celebrating!

https://tenor.com/view/red-heart-black-cat-red-heart-love-black-cat-gif-14299851369389076768

[pure kindle]

so if my adhd ass wants to play this in windowed mode, ill need the dx12 version?

[river willow]

I think so yes. I know hdr works in borderless on dx12. Idk about windowed though

[pure kindle]

yeah, borderless. windowed is psychotic when borderless exists.

[river willow]

then yh dx12. Idk maybe display commander might help if youre trying to play vulkan borderless

[tender osprey]

Not possible, i think

[soft haven]

it’s super bugged out

[river willow]

Rip

[prisma pagoda]

@topaz fog

[gleaming mortar]

Hi All, i could do with a little help. I'm runinng RenoDX along with some mods, the visual mods are whyems visual mod, dynamic seasons and season manager. During testing everything was fine and the image looked like the first pic and i was happy. Then starting the game from the beginning and on the wagon to horse shoe overlook the game crashed. When i started it back up it looked like the second pic. I turned RenoDX off and the problem went away so i uninstalled and then reinstalled RenoDX, cleared shader cache all that good stuff but the problem persists with it, any idea what it could be? I turn RenoDX off and the problem goes away so idk if something has been corrupted? Any help is appreciated

[flint crater]

someone else had the same problem

it was some conflict with one of the graphics mods

maybe whyem

whyems visual mod says it makes changes to hdr

Tone map expanded for a wider range of colors (HDR exclusive)                        
Luminance per channel to complement the expanded color range                     

that doesn't even make sense

no idea what that's doing

[gleaming mortar]

I gotcha, yeah its really weird because everything was fine, it crashed then boom, issues. I'll scroll up to see what i can find and do some research on the mod as well, mayjust have to pick one or the other

[maiden belfry]

Idk, maybe all who needed it already figured it out, but if you trying to install Optisclaler with Vulkan and game crashes, problem for me was enabled interface and overlay in ScriptHookConfig.ini. Also UI for Optiscaler didnt show up even in borderless, so I've just enabled FG in Optiscaler's config and changed it to XeFG, and it seems to work. Capping with DC also works

[last vortex]

Yo guys, I kinda fucked up, could someone help me? I wanted to check something without HDR and in the process I ruined something

The game wasn't starting at all, so I figured I must have fucked something up with ReShade/RenoDX, so I reinstalled ReShade and put the RenoDX file again, but game won't start :(

I have no clue what to do

i fixed it

[last vortex]

@flint crater Sorry to bother you (again) but is there a reason why the lightning is so much different when I enter camp (chapter 2 still) vs when I step outside the camp? Mainly at night. It's like, in the camp it's how its supposed to be, then I step little outside and the moon turns into the freaking lightbulb, I got used to it. I danced around presets and other things, but I cannot get it to look like it looks at camp at all times during the night. Is it something to do with the mod?

[flint crater]

no idea

do the sliders work

unless it looks horrifically fucked up then it might just be something with the game's lighting in general

[last vortex]

yeah, I mean they change things, but its basically like the moment I am within camp bounds, its like different lightning starts working

[last vortex]

I will try to record it, coz screenshots kinda dont show it

[flint crater]

does this include the slider at the bottom for lut encoding

see if that slider breaks

[last vortex]

aight lemme see

[last vortex]

the lut encoding only changes how light looks, from a slight blue tint/stronger colors to warmer, but the switch between light still happens

[flint crater]

the game has some weird lighting transitions so I guess that's not related to the mod

like dx12 has some bugs with sunsets being broken

and lighting changing immediately

it'll go from afternoon to night in a second

[last vortex]

yeah prob, i mean tbh im not complaining, i got used to it and the game looks absolutely briliant with ur mod, but i was wondering why it happens

ig it just is this way

maybe game forces the diff lightning for the camp specifically for "vibe/mood" purposes

so it looks exactly like authors intended or sth

idk

[flint crater]

well if it happens even when the preset is set to off then it's probably not the mod

[last vortex]

\aight, ill try to record it somehow just to show u exactly

[plain minnow]

holy cow I did not know you got it working with Vulkan, doing the Lord's work 🫡

[sand dock]

@flint crater Was there issues with dx12 since you changed the mod to vulkan? I played up until Rhodes a few months ago with the dx12 version.

[smoky cargo]

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[pliant dock]

@flint crater besides brightness (and gamma correction since system level HDR is enabled?), is the SDR tonemapper option effectively the same as toggling HDR off in-game, or is Reno still doing anything else? Really neat for on the fly comparisons

vanilla / purist / SDR tonemapper

[flint crater]

for the most part

certain effects that look different like eagle eye / dead eye still appear as they would in hdr

[plain minnow]

Do you think this game would benefit from one of the sharpening solution in other Reno mods or would it look wrong? I still find the game quite blurry even with DLSS 4.5 lol

admittedly it is so much better with transformer model though

[wet kindle]

I don't think that a game that relies on dithering as much as RDR2 actually will benefit from any sort of extra sharpening. That's why preset M looks worse on tree branches than preset K

[plain minnow]

I think you're right, game is so brutally reliant on TAA

[hot wind]

Luma for rdr2😎

[maiden belfry]

Musa, are planning to add Psycho to rdr2?

[hot wind]

What games that uses psycho ?

[maiden belfry]

Ue extended uses it, some versions of From Software games mod were using it (idk if final one uses it)

Also AFAIK Crimson Desert, Death Stranding 2 and Cyberpunk 2077

[inland topaz]

looks really washed out

nvm might be hdr screenshots are weird on my phone

[pliant dock]

yeah, need to click on them for them to load properly on the phone app

[fervent canopy]

Hi, what mods do you recommend for a first run of the game?

[viral sorrel]

#1413570163789266954 message

[swift birch]

for the mod what addons and effects do I have to install through reshade?

[plain minnow]

I would just start playing the game vanilla, and if there's anything that bothers you or you want a QOL tweak then look at mods

[flint crater]

none

[sand dock]

No one asked but: I first played this game on a 1080p potato screen and 50fps 5 years ago rushing the story and not paying attention. Now on my 2nd run taking it slow, experiencing it all with a fresh mind and first time in 4k HDR. Just been playing on and off in between new releases this year. The beauty of the woods and open fields etc. is undeniably great, but I just got to Saint Denis during nighttime yesterday and genuinely couldn’t believe my eyes. One of the greatest HDR showcases I’ve seen. RDR2 was already in my top 5 oat time but now its looking like a fav game ever candidate. Idk the point of this wall of text just want to say thank you rockstar and thank you for the mod my goat @flint crater You are my lord and savior🙏
Now I’m gonna need rockstar to stop playing around and give us GTA 6 on pc this year too (never happening )

[inland topaz]

relatable

rdr2 on 1080p looks horrendous

tried so hard fiddling with reshade and graphics mods for weeks to alleviate the dogwater taa implementation to no avail

now ive got the hardware to run it on 4k and it is just stunning

especially with dlaa

[swift birch]

whats the best graphics mods for rd2?

i already have dlss upgraded to the latest version and use dlaa

along with renodx hdr

trying to squeeze the most out of my 5080 at 1440p

[inland topaz]

Almost none that don't make it more cartoony or stylized

I can think of two that actually enhances the realism

which is wow that's beautiful and renewal

if you want mods that actually strain your pc though, i can recommend xtreme grass, that mod tanks your fps heavily in high vegetation areas

[swift birch]

no i just want the game to look the best it can 😭

i remember playing it for the first time on a 1050 laptop

[inland topaz]

well that mod does improve the visuals

[swift birch]

gotcha

ill check it out then

how do i configure renodx for rdr2?

[inland topaz]

open the reshade menu and go to the renodx tab on the top right

[swift birch]

yeah i got that

but out of the box settings should be good right?

or do i change stuff

like gama

and other sliders

[inland topaz]

its all on your preference

[swift birch]

is this how its supposed to look like?

[inland topaz]

if you want as close to sdr as possible click the purist option

or as close to what the developers intended

[river willow]

wow thats beautiful is what I use. Doesn't stray too far from vanilla look and plays nicely with reno. Renewal is quite nice, but id recommend only using it in sdr. I remember some weathers looking borked in hdr

[inland topaz]

never had any sort of issue with that

the reason i prefer renewal more is its assortment of bug fixes

like the white rain notably

and the author claims its ssao feature is pretty much the same as what ftb does, alledgedly

[river willow]

Its nice as an aio. But I prefer getting the fixes individually and merging myself

[inland topaz]

fair enough

[river willow]

Renewal is probably my fave of the visual overhaul mods out there. But idk im just a sucker for the vanilla look. RDR2 is one of the few games I've played where I feel like I could pause randomly and get a desktop wallpaper looking screenshot

The game just throws picturesque vistas at you

[river willow]

whyem's particles mod is great

[inland topaz]

yep
mine are a bit mediocre overall but the lighting in them look fantastic

this was before i got renodx though

[swift birch]

do I change the peak brightness to the monitors brightness?

I have the new aoc oled and it could only do 400 nigs

[wet kindle]

True, can't play anymore without it

[inland topaz]

probably

[river willow]

The shot of arthur above the train tunnel is so cold

I pray gta 6 goes for a more cinematic approach like rdr2. give me a campaign I give a shit about

[smoky cargo]

https://klipy.com/gifs/orange-terio-awkward-orange-black-kid-1

400 what???

[swift birch]

nits

bruh

[smoky cargo]

I mean oleds are indeed known for their blacks after all...

[plain minnow]

No no I relate, I kinda rushed my playthrough too, on a crap 1440P LCD monitor, but I booted it up recently to try this mod and I also was STUNNED at how great the game looks at night in HDR especially in Saint Dennis and civilized areas in general, also now on a 4K QD OLED with DLSS preset L helps but I feel like Musa's mod is doing serious heavy lifting, feels like I can reach out and touch it

[wild tusk]

Quickdraw mod

[smoky cargo]

I would advice against running gameplay changing mods for a first run, imo the first run should be as vanilla as possible, the way the devs intended the game to be played.

[wild tusk]

It just allows you to fire fast from the hip

[river willow]

Can't you do that already? At least on controller

[smoky cargo]

I know but the devs designed the shooting to have that friction, removing it is not true to their intent imo. But to each their own

[wild tusk]

I think it works the same way on PC by default, the draw'll be faster with the mod I guess.

Except I'm not sure if you can hold the gun aiming from your hip without actually shooting it with m&k like you can with a controller, but that's a seperate thing.

[rancid flame]

how can i download this?

cant find the link

[smoky cargo]

#1413570163789266954 message

[tardy star]

Is it safe to play online with the reshade active?

[river willow]

single player only. You may be able to use this with redm though. Havent checked myself

[plush epoch]

Is there any reason on why this mod is still not available on github or nexus?

[river willow]

Still in testing

[smoky cargo]

I did a full playthrough with it and it seems ready, but Musa is the boss

[flint crater]

guess it can be added to github

[maiden belfry]

@flint crater are there any plans to switch this mod to psycho?

[flint crater]

ya maybe in may

[inland topaz]

is the sun just that blown out

it and the clouds around it lack a bit of detail

[flint crater]

lower highlights

[inland topaz]

yeah but is it just like that in sdr

[flint crater]

sdr is more blown out

[elfin eagle]

Do you guys think I should use the newer DLSS 4.5 with this rockig a RTX 5090

[inland topaz]

ok

[elfin eagle]

I am asking a question

[river willow]

Personal preference bro. I think dlss 4 (k) is the best fit. I don't like how 4.5 handles foliage

[flint crater]

regular taa 100% scale

[pliant dock]

yeah, I just use regular TAA as well, but I disabled in-game sharpening and use Lilium's RCAS at its default values instead

also, this is absolutely my favourite Reno mod 👍

[elfin eagle]

Was this response for me?

Do you guys use any shaders mods?

[smoky cargo]

TAA in motion is blurry as well, why that over DLSS?

[flint crater]

I had issues with dlss in dx12, idk if its any better in vulkan

but from what I played taa 100% at 4k looked pretty good

[smoky cargo]

Only thing TAA seems to be slightly better in vulkan is some foliage, but even then I don't think it's enough to get over the blurriness, DLSS 4 looks crystal clear in comparison

Oh and TAA does cover some elements that dlss doesn't, some effects during eagle/dead eye, they look pixelated with DLSS/DLAA but not TAA

[smoky cargo]

I would still use DLSS(DLAA) though, the pros are just more substantial imo

[elfin eagle]

on the old Dlss right?

[fervent canopy]

I personally think dlss 4.5 look better than dlss 4.0 on rdr2

But cost much more fps

[river willow]

Yeah dlss 4 preset k. You will want to enable auto exposure using dlsstweaks though

[elfin eagle]

Ok what does that do?

[smoky cargo]

cleans up some artefacts around hair and it reduces ghosting(even tho in rdr2 ghosting is already pretty minimal)

[river willow]

You'll get white flickering with dlss/aa active without it

[fervent canopy]

How to do that ?

[river willow]

Set dlss settings to defaults in nvidia app. Then download dlsstweaks from here: https://github.com/emoose/DLSSTweaks/releases/tag/0.310.5.0https://github.com/emoose/DLSSTweaks/releases/tag/0.310.5.0 and install into your game directory. then configure dlss settings in dlss tweaks to what you want. make sure auto exposure is enabled.

[fervent canopy]

is it recommended for every game or only rdr2 ?

[river willow]

you can use for all games with dlss 2+ to swap out to newer presets. Its useful for games that need auto exposure enabled with the newer presets

[fervent canopy]

[river willow]

My personal dlsstweaks setup for rdr2 is to set ultra quality dlss to operate at 100% res (dlaa). You can leave the other quality values at their defaults. And then auto exposure enabled.

All quality levels using preset k

[fervent canopy]

Ok, i will try it tomorrow thanks for the advice

[elfin eagle]

Any reshade mods you use?

or any other mods?

[plain minnow]

All you need is Reno, game is great as is

Upgrade DLSS, use preset L or K or something, will be fine

[inland topaz]

you have no idea how shit the fire effects look in taa

not to mention the shimmering on fences and such

[flint crater]

at 4k?

it looked ok at a glance

[supple isle]

hello im just new here, can someone share the mod link?

[tender osprey]

#1413570163789266954 message

In pin

[supple isle]

thanks bro

[river willow]

nope just reno.

[river willow]

some mods to fix epilogue john, some model and bug fixes, and a mod to push out lod further

[inland topaz]

catalogue improvements?

[river willow]

catalogue improvements, the outlaws return, and gunslinger improvements

[inland topaz]

Good man

[plush epoch]

Hi, Is there any reason Vignette is at 100 both the default settings? Usually Vignette along with motion blur is something I turn off first in games.

[smoky cargo]

Because they are defaults in the vanilla game, if you don't like it just set vignette to 0

[plush epoch]

Ok cool. Just wanted to make sure it has nothing to do with having better contrast or something.

[smoky cargo]

No it's just the modder's preference to keeps those type of effects as close to vanilla as possible since devs deliberately included them

[granite sapphire]

am I stupid if I dont get the reshade popup at all when opening rdr2? Im using the installer app for reference

my game is in vulkan in advanced settings

[hollow sky]

can't get the HDR option in graphics settings to show in Vulkan no matter what i try ;_;

[hollow sky]

doesn't show reshade menu when you hit Home?

[granite sapphire]

yeah even if i remap it

i dont get the like top bar that's always like "reshade version whatever"

[hollow sky]

seems like it's not launching

[granite sapphire]

my only guess is that it might be badly interacting with scripthook or dinput8 or something but im not sure

[hollow sky]

seems unlikely

what scripthook you using

[granite sapphire]

v2

[hollow sky]

check scripthookrdr2.log

mine shows

[17:29:14] Build: Tue Jul 16 14:38:59 2024 Version: 1.9 Tester

[granite sapphire]

[22:30:43] Build: Tue Jul 16 14:38:59 2024 Version: 1.9 Tester

[hollow sky]

can't be that then 😆

[elfin eagle]

Wait do I need script hook to run this mod?

im not using it and still see the renodx in game

[tender osprey]

Renodx don't require

[last vortex]

Only reshade, make sure you have fullscreen and vulkan turned on, as well as hdr in gsme and hdr in windows

Dont use rtx hdr or auto hdr either

And configure ur hdr on windows and game too

And just know that alt tabbing turns to windows borderless and vulkan stops working

[river willow]

alt enter to get back into fullscreen after alt tabbing

[nimble yew]

why doesnt it show up?

[river willow]

Have you got reshade installed for Vulkan? Have you got exclusive full screen and HDR on in game?

[nimble yew]

Everything

It just doesnt

show up

I reinstalled reshade and renodx like 5 times

[river willow]

No clue then. Double check your game is actually using Vulkan as the api

[nimble yew]

I did. Nothing

[river willow]

Rip. Do you get any reshade message/UI when you launch the game?

[nimble yew]

Yeah but no renodx tab

It also looks greenish

[river willow]

Add-on is in game root folder?

[nimble yew]

Yeah

[river willow]

When you check add-ons in reshade UI, is Reno DX active/present?

[nimble yew]

I dont think so

Im reinstalling it again

[river willow]

I mean there should be 2 default add-ons in the list. A depth buffer and something else. Then Reno should be there beneath the 2 default

[tender osprey]

Install latest reshade with addon
Select vulkan
Copy renodx addon
In game setting vulkan

[nimble yew]

As if i havent tried that

I finally got it working

[river willow]

what was your issue?

[nimble yew]

I’m not really sure.. I just wiped my reshade folders and reinstalled everything

[hexed turtle]

hey guys whatsup , new user here. Can i adjust the peak nits for renodx while in game ? i ask because my game hard freezed when i tweaked it a bit and i had to task manager close. Looks great otherwise, i went to 800 nits cause i think thats what my monitor cap is. (or should i keep it at the default 1000)

[old aspen]

Preset K, or forces DLAA/Ultra Quality is best for me. DLSS 4.0 as only preset M and L are 4.5 I believe

[plain minnow]

K is great, game is pretty heavy still so I use balanced at 4K, nice lil perf boost while still loking good

[plain minnow]

I would use the Windows HDR Calibration tool to find you peak nits, most Reno mods will detect that (in my experience) if you reset the peak brightness in the mod settings.

[hexed turtle]

I used it to find 750-800 actually i remember , but then i change it in the mod right? Using the slider. (It was at 1000 then i turned it down to 800.)

[plain minnow]

Yep that's it, it likely just defaulted to 1000

[fiery robin]

where at the rdr2 folder i put the addon in?

[tender osprey]

Where exe is

[fiery robin]

thank you

I put in the game folder but when i start the game and open reshade it doesnt show me the renodx

[tender osprey]

Install reshade with addon - select vulkan during installation

In game also set vulkan

Uninstall reshade if installed with directx

[fast patrol]

any new update ?

[smoky cargo]

"abandoned" should give you the answer

[hexed turtle]

Hey should i be using console mode HDR(HGiG) or not on my monitor ? Its asus xg27aqdmg

[nimble yew]

Should i use Peak 1000 or TB400?

[river willow]

Up to you bro. Musa would say tb400 but try both and figure out what you like

[nimble yew]

Alright

[inland topaz]

highlights are so shit in this game bro

turn it down by 10 everything looks washed out

keep it default there's just a blob of white light where the sun is

[maiden belfry]

Try lowering paper white if your surrounding conditions allow. For me it fixed it a bit

[hexed turtle]

Thx for your video btw

[lusty minnow]

would suggest using it

[slow hinge]

Is it possible to fake full screen somehow and use vulkan renodx?

[white oyster]

Just gotta hit alt+enter to re enter fullscreen whenever u alt tab

[wicked kiln]

Despite previously working, now without changing anything I'm aware of Reshade (w/ or w/o the RenoDX file) is crashing my RDR2 when run in Vulkan.

Any advice on getting it working? Crashes immediately, only getting a second or two of black screen. RDR2 logs show no crash info

[smoky cargo]

nuclear option: reinstall the mofo

[wicked kiln]

Tried with a fresh install on a different drive to no avail, was there something about renaming one of the .dll files? Can't find the post I'm thinking of now w/search

[smoky cargo]

What dll?

[wicked kiln]

Pretty sure I was misremembering that from installing the DLSS Fix to GTAV so disregard

Oddly though, even though the config file "system.xml" shows the API is set to Vulkan, the game setting menu always displays "DX12" when starting the game w/Reshade uninstalled. Tried defaulting settings and restarting, setting config to read-only, etc.

[smoky cargo]

I remember the game crashing randomly with reno when set to dx12 so it's likely that, If you set the game to vulkan does it stay on vulkan?

[wicked kiln]

I don't know what API it's actually using, since on every launch the settings menu displays "DirectX 12" for the API no matter what option I selected before restarting. Like I said though, the system.xml config file displays Vulkan for the API but in-game still displays DX12 even with that set to read-only

So IDK which it is actually launching with

I did try DX install of Reshade and that crashed too, but with an actual error popup

[smoky cargo]

If the game says dx12 in the settings then it's dx12, why it doesn't save after you change it to vulkan is the bigger more important mistery

[wicked kiln]

Why would I trust the glitchy in-game menus over the config file?

[smoky cargo]

Because every symptoms you have point towards it being dx12 and not vulkan, but there is an easy way to find out, iirc the reflex setting doesn't actually work with vulkan, so if you set the game for example at a 60hz vsync with reflex on and the fps show 60fps then it's vulkan, if it's 57 fps or something similar then reflex is working and it's dx12

[wicked kiln]

After deleting system.xml and starting game:

<advancedGraphics> <API>kSettingAPI_DX12</API>

After switching in-game setting to Vulkan, saving and closing game:
<advancedGraphics> <API>kSettingAPI_Vulkan</API>

Plus the same RenoDX build was working properly just recently, and I didn't change API
Only potential change I can think of is latest Nvidia drivers, but I don't remember if I've played RDR2 w/RDX and had it working since then (April 16th latest driver release)

Might give DDU and a rollback a try now that I think of it

[smoky cargo]

Can't hurt

Might fix the game hard locking to dx12 for whatever reason

If you don't want to go through tha hassle of DDU you might try to just reinstall the driver and reset all the driver settings to default

[wicked kiln]

Perhaps it's not "locked" to it or ignoring the settings but for some reason falling back when Vulkan fails to launch properly? I ran into a few threads of people having issues with Vulkan in RDR2 due to registrys left by program they had long since deleted

[smoky cargo]

Could be, I say try reinstalling the driver and see if that fixes it

[umbral field]

Can someone give a list of recommended graphics mods for fixing LOD and stuff like that

[inland topaz]

i mean

renewal i guess

it has a bit of bug fixes merged into it

[river willow]

https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/3751 this should be enough. The other mod is way more FPS hungry for little visual return imo

Use in conjunction with the graphical issues fixes mod by this author. If you need help with the install/merge, you can DM me

[inland topaz]

I experience no fps loss with or without it

[river willow]

Not renewal. The other lod mod

[inland topaz]

oh

they do different things though

[river willow]

https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/3095 this is the other lod mod. This one nukes FPS in my experience

[inland topaz]

im aware

they still do different things

[smoky cargo]

I've tried this mod but it doesn't seem to do anything, I've even gone to the place of the gif example and my game looks like the "after" both with and without the mod

[smoky cargo]

I managed to get it working, but boy does it tank my fps, it went from 100 to 70-80 for very minimal visual gain

[wet kindle]

ILD for details IGL for geometry scale you can absolutely run both together if your hardware allows it

[wet kindle]

ILD has the most noticeable graphical impact

[inland topaz]

igl only helps pop in

iirc

[wet kindle]

That’s one of the result behind improving geometry scale

[smoky cargo]

igl is the one I used, still shaved off a good 20fps, imo it's not worth it, rdr2 already has very minimal pop in imo

[wet kindle]

it depends on areas tbh and it is more noticeable horse riding

[smoky cargo]

I must have played rdr2 a dozen times at this point, I personally never thought to myself "man this pop in is really distracting", but I guess some people are more sensitive to it than others, it never bothetered me, and I would rather play with 20% more performance than such a marginal visual improvement

[wet kindle]

u know the more you mod the game the most u start noticing small things and issues

it never ends

so u are lucky and I advice u to not “unlock” new issues cause u are not gonna be satisfied

it has been years that I mod and play Cyberpunk and RDR2

70% of the time I’m just testing mods

[smoky cargo]

Oh I'm well aware, I've just developed the restraint over the years of saying "good enough" and actually play the game, my time of spending hours and hours min maxing every little aspect of a game are behind me, such a waste of time

My philosophy is: if it's good enough for the devs to show in a trailer it's good enough for me

[wet kindle]

it’s the healthy one!

I’m more like: i stop at my GPU melting hammered by the level of details at screen

💀

[smoky cargo]

I like my fps too much to do that

[quasi rivet]

first time playing the game ever, looks absolutely great with the mod

feels natural while keeping the look it was intended to have id say

[slow hinge]

If you use multiple mods that create same config file, do you have to do anything else to make sure it works?

There are like tons of comments saying this mod breaks this or that

[river willow]

if there are mods that write to the same file, you will have to merge them

[north saddle]

Which Vulkan version are you using? I'm on 1.4.325, and when I switch to Vulkan I can't get into the game at all (I haven't installed any mods, it's a clean copy). The game crashes immediately with no pop-up or error message.
After searching online, others said to downgrade the Vulkan version to 1.3.204.1, which is already an old 2022 release! I want to know—haven't any of you encountered this issue?

[teal pawn]

i've heard the opposite, know someone who's game crashes if ran with dx12

pretty weird

[sturdy delta]

steam or rockstar launcher? I've found that I must launch rockstar games launcher as admin for the game to start

[wicked kiln]

After hours of troubleshooting this seems to be my issue as well, but confusingly it didn't appear until recently. I assumed the Nvidia driver update on the 16th was the cause, but a downgrade to the previous version didn't change anything. I tried that full clean driver install, deleting Vulkan runtimes, clearing VK registry entries and installing older (said to be compatible with RDR2) VK runtimes, etc. to no avail. Simply cannot run the game in Vulkan at all, it reverts to DX12 on a clean install and consequently crashes with Reshade for VK installed.

Completely a guess but I'm wondering if Windows updates might be to blame, and/or some other Vulkan file that I haven't cleared causing some incompatibility.

[north saddle]

Bro, I've already fixed it — it turned out to be an issue with the VK registry entries. I ran vulkaninfo in PowerShell, scrolled down a bit to find "Layers: count", and then uninstalled some of the software.

When I searched online, I saw someone report that screen-recording software like Bandicam can also cause crashes, and I happened to have OBS and FPS Monitor in my Layers, so after uninstalling them I was able to successfully get into the game

To sum up, here’s what I did:

1. Downgraded the Vulkan version (but it didn’t seem to work, and the game still crashes).
2. Uninstalled OBS and FPSMonitor (this worked).

I’m not sure whether FPSMonitor or OBS is the culprit, but I suspect it’s OBS. I’ve seen other users report issues with software like Twitch, Bandicam and Action! — all of which come with recording features.
If you enter the vulkaninfo command in PowerShell, you can find these programs listed under Layers: count. Uninstalling them allows the game to launch normally.
At least it works for me.

[plain minnow]

bro has been in the trenches

[hot wind]

What type of FPSmonitor you using 🤔

[wicked kiln]

I already tried all that, and the only change was getting this instead of it reverting to DX12 or crashing before title roll if I had Reshade VK installed:

[round rivet]

Should there be a RenoDx window in Reshade/

[river willow]

yes in the reshade ui

[safe lark]

Just exit and re launch the game , works for me ( have the same prob )

[wicked kiln]

Pretty outrageous to assume I only tried launching the game 1 time lmao

[teal pawn]

anyone ever figure out a way to have hdr working in borderless windowed mode? or at least, a way for the game to not exit fullscreen mode whenever alt tabbing?

[whole field]

Don't think they could ever fix it in DC or relimiter

last i checked atleast it has been a little while tho so maybe

[slate wren]

It's a vulkan limitation

I guess kald could cook if he tried hard enough

Maybe

[whole field]

I mean there’s other vulkan games it works on

[slate wren]

It would need to be hacked into rdr2 what i mean

[rocky crypt]

Nah i tried for hours and couldn't get it to work properly

[ornate sandal]

Hi. I'm new here. May I ask if I should enable HDR10 Plus support option with RenoDX on RDR2?

I read HDR option should be enabled but I don't know if I should enable HDR10 Plus option.

[lusty minnow]

just hdr10

[slate wren]

No it's useless on all games

[ornate sandal]

Okay then. Thanks for replies.

[unreal flare]

Renodx made the Visuals soooooo much better thanks Musa!

[wet kindle]

https://youtu.be/SQtYGb-IZR0?si=M7OV8yNQfqwK6Njl

@flint crater please tell me you will unslop this please!

[flint crater]

Maybe

Looks like a ritsu type game

Someone will unslop it

Oh it’s just UE5

Then it’ll be in the UE extended mod anyway

[wet kindle]

This game deserves a mod

[proud shale]

just here to say thank you for the effort, this is a game changer

[next tide]

Musa

[midnight light]

Hi there, where can I get the most recent snapshot?

[sullen cipher]

Greetings, where can I download the snapshot. I’m having trouble finding the pins. I don’t really use discord often at all.

Wait nvm guys I found it. Looks pretty damn good on my qd oled monitor musa you’re a beast

[sullen cipher]

Quick question do I keep in game hdr on?

[fervent canopy]

Yes

[sour bobcat]

hi. I just installed it for the first time. Played for a few hrs, then randomly while i was just hunting in the wild, this crashed the game FPS to like 9-10 or something. Reshade, and everything was extremely slow. Had to disable it by turning the Preset 1 to Default, then turned my DLSS from Balanced to perf & back again and that fixed it. Weird bug or something.
DIdn't happen for another hr or so after that till i closed it.

PC Specs: 4K, 32GB DDR5 RAM, gen 5 ssd, 4070ti super. Playing on 4k Ultra with Balanced DLSS. Never happened before.

[white oyster]

is the generic depth and other default addon disabled in reshade? they can take some perf

[sour bobcat]

@white oysteryes, they were disabled, and then I restarted the game before i started playing. I do have some mods installed though, but the mods alone have never caused any issues whatsoever. This only happened after the reshade. This is the list of mods installed.

[midnight light]

hdr on or off ingame for the most recent vulkan snapshot?

am getting lots of flickering

and have hdr on

have the other addons disabled

[tender osprey]

Hdr on

[midnight light]

also only getting 50fps with a 5080??? perhaps there's some settings issue

the flickering doesn't show in the video recording

[tender osprey]

Vulkan - fullscreen mode

Install reshade with addon as vulkan

[midnight light]

meaning install the vulkan addon? i have done that

And the game is in full screen

and the reshade installed is 6.7.3 vulkan 🙁

[teal pawn]

why is it necessary to disable the generic depth and effect runtime sync addons for reno to work? what if i i'm using a reshade effect that requires the use of the depth addon?

[inland topaz]

it isnt necessary

[teal pawn]

i see, then why is it advised to do so?

[maiden belfry]

Because for most people these effects are useless, and in some cases eat up performance

If you don't need, just disable it and less thing can potentially go wrong

[teal pawn]

i see, thanks for all the answers!

[river willow]

Iirc the 2 stock add-ons eat up performance in dx12

[rigid jetty]

hey is this mod out yet?