Resident Evil 7, 2 Remake, 3 Remake, and Village

[foggy widget]

looks great

[whole obsidian]

Fxaa + taa

[paper vale]

Just curious but what's the difference between non rt and rt version? Everyone keep asking for non-rt but I thought RT verison you can disable raytracing if you want

[foggy widget]

honestly looks really good to me. I did play it the same and didn't feel like dlss was mandatory

[stiff sundial]

I think performance is better on dx11 version and dx12 broke some non-rt effects? Not sure if they fixed it since launch

[paper vale]

Hmm, like SSR? I took a quick look earlier and I found a way to improve SSR quality

[stiff sundial]

Yeah SSR

and maybe AO? don't remember

[whole obsidian]

Ssr can only be fixed by enabling rt

[paper vale]

True, but some people don't want to use RT features

[sacred shuttle]

If you aren’t using RT, it’s better to play the non-RT version as performance is better and some effects are better

[tidal solstice]

I think OptiScaler allows you to use DLSS and RenoDX with Reshade menu support but I've only tried it in RE4. RE2 worked with DLSS and reno but the menu never worked like RE4R til I tried OptiScaler

[whole obsidian]

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

[deft steppe]

Ooo, welcome 🙂 It's nice to see such an exceptional, technically savvy person! The person who really improved the visual component of the Re series 🙂 Probably some players expect you to do well with RE 9 🙂

[night ibex]

ok chatgpt

[drowsy brook]

WELCOME

Your mods + Reno are what keep bringing me back to RE

[paper vale]

tyty, working on it alongside with Pragmata.

[paper vale]

That's awesome. Thank you for the kind words

[sacred shuttle]

Hi JoHien. I love your mods. I posted a bunch of questions on nexus mods regarding your RE4 mod… would love to get your answers when you have a chance

[paper vale]

Okay, will take a look

[sacred shuttle]

Thank you!

[paper vale]

You're welcome

[spark nacelle]

For those using renodx 64 addon file + reshade dll +SK, do you tick reshade under "third party -> plugin" in SK?

[sacred shuttle]

Any way to disable sharpening in RE4 when using FSR2?

[stiff sundial]

I don't think RE4 uses sharpening for FSR. Renodx defaults to 75 RCAS sharpening though which you can turn down

[whole obsidian]

Renodx disable ingame sharpening by default, and replaces it with rcas from renodx menu,
Sharpening can also be disabled from reframework

[eternal pebble]

FSR2 has its own sharpening but I haven’t touched that

FSR2 just uses RCAS anyway I think

[grizzled falcon]

through Reno??

obviously can't be by the game, but i also assumed that the sharpenning slide was null for FSR

i actually use FSR2 and apply RCAS with the shader, a bit too blurry without it

[stiff sundial]

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/resident-evil-4-remake-fsr-2-1/

No sharpening with FSR unless they've changed it since launch

[eternal pebble]

Was thinking of re4

Re4 has some sharpening code in it

[paper vale]

I think you're right Musa. If I remember correctly, need hex editor to remove the sharpening

[grizzled falcon]

yeah, i was asking about re4 actually

[sacred shuttle]

It looks oversharpened to me

[sacred shuttle]

The RenoDX menu specifically says it doesn’t affect FSR2 sharpening

[sacred shuttle]

Any way for me to disable it? I hate all forms of sharpening.

[eternal pebble]

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Resident_Evil_4_(2023)#Sharpening

[sacred shuttle]

Thanks I’ll try this out later

[sacred shuttle]

Noticing a weird posterization/comic book effect when aiming down a scope in RE4R… it’s worse on every preset besides “Purist” although still present even on that one. Any idea what’s up with that?

[sacred shuttle]

Also it doesn’t look like this works, there’s still really ugly sharpening induced specular aliasing with FSR2 on

[eternal pebble]

I think I know what it is

its from the rgba16 upgrades

I just need to clamp some stuff

[sacred shuttle]

Any way to fix it with the settings menu or do we just need to wait for an update

[eternal pebble]

likely needs an update

[sacred shuttle]

Dang. it’s pretty damn ugly

[stiff sundial]

Just checked, it only happens with FSR enabled

[stiff sundial]

FSR On / Off

doesn't happen with rgba16 upgrades disabled

As for sharpening with FSR, I'm positive there is none. The game just has bad aliasing

[sacred shuttle]

Damn, FSR causing so many god damn issues in this game

Might need to switch to interlacing instead

[sacred shuttle]

Maybe… try using your flashlight in a really dark area, there’s this weird shimmering specular effect that looks god awful

I thought it was sharpening induced but yeah maybe it’s just FSR2 being shit

[sacred shuttle]

The only way to get good image quality in RE Engine games (before they finally added DLSS) is just brute forcing super sampling and it sucks.

[eternal pebble]

can you test if it still happens with rgba16 upgrade turned off

requires restart to take effect

[sacred shuttle]

I believe @stiff sundial already confirmed above that it doesn’t

[sacred shuttle]

.

[eternal pebble]

Then I probably know which shaders to edit

[eternal pebble]

just clamped the inputs and output of the fsr2 sharpening shader

[sacred shuttle]

I’ll have to try it out tomorrow going to bed now

[eternal pebble]

check with this one actually

updated

[grizzled falcon]

any plans on adding psycho to this?

[eternal pebble]

Maybe in May

[sacred shuttle]

Looks all fixed now, thanks!

[drowsy brook]

Which one is Reno? Can you take screenshots instead of using a phone

[spring onyx]

Nvm

[sacred shuttle]

https://www.nexusmods.com/residentevil22019/mods/2197

Anyone tried this mod to fix the shitty TAA in RE4?

Or in any RE game really

[stiff sundial]

This is great, didn't know this existed

Interlacing might be useable now in RE4 and RE8

[sacred shuttle]

That’s what I’m hoping for

Gonna try it out tonight

[stiff sundial]

StandardV2 for TAA algorithm seems like the best option

RE4 was set to "sharp" by default which makes sense

[sacred shuttle]

RE4 looks extremely raw so yeah makes sense

Especially with interlacing on

[stiff sundial]

Yeah StandardV2 massively reduces aliasing

When using interlacing

[sacred shuttle]

Hell yeah

RE Engine image quality finally fixed!!!

[stiff sundial]

There's also Standard, but it just looks like a blurrier version of StandardV2

They have similar aliasing

[sacred shuttle]

I wonder if it fixes the specular aliasing/flickering in RE7

That drives me nuts

[fleet lark]

Why is everyone suddenly fixing RE Engine games lol

[sacred shuttle]

Requiem getting everyone on an RE kick I guess

Did for me at least

Going back and replaying the rest of the series now

[fleet lark]

It throws a bunch of errors for me in re4

[sacred shuttle]

I haven’t tried yet but saw the dev say you need to have the reframework utilities installed for it to work

The files in reframework/autorun/utility

[fleet lark]

Ye didn't read the installation instructions like the doofus that I am

[stiff sundial]

Yeah just need the utility folder

[sacred shuttle]

Why does reframework say those files are only for VR

Weird

[stiff sundial]

I might've lied though about the TAA algorithm that RE4 uses. The mod does default to it on "Sharp", but after testing the mod disabled vs enabled I think RE4 is actually using StandardV2 by default.

But you can increase the TAA strength higher than what the game uses by default

Which does decrease aliasing pretty noticeably I'd say

But the difference isn't as massive as I initially thought lol

[fleet lark]

Standard Strong has the best AA (at least on the foliage in the menu) but it's probably the most blurry

[stiff sundial]

Yeah Standard is pretty blurry

The game default seems to match the Mild setting for strength

Standard murders motion clarity for me, I think V2 + Strong is the best balance

[drowsy brook]

Do you guys run in to issues with RE4 film grain from Reno?

My film grain looks like waves of grain

[fleet lark]

Yeah, V2 + Strong + no sharpening looks like a winner

[paper vale]

Correct, RE4 default is StandardV2

[shadow walrus]

Hello, i'm new here and i need help.
I don't know why, but fire on Village are now "nuclear red", someone can tell me how to fix this?

lol. i dont know why the capture in here is displayeb on a very low quality

[paper vale]

Did anyone download disable sharpness dll? I think I was using that so I didnt notice the sharpness. I believe I saw it on pcgamingwiki

[stiff sundial]

I think reno already replaces the sharpening with the RCAS slider

[sacred shuttle]

Any chance you can add the TAA tweaks to your mods? :p

[sacred shuttle]

I did but I’m not sure if it does anything.

The RenoDX RCAS slider also doesn’t look like it does anything but I’m not sure if that’s because I’m using interlacing or because I have that disable sharpening DLL

[eternal pebble]

do you have any color grading stuff disabled or changed through mods

the game has some alternate post processing shaders like if you use the scope that doesn't have access to the variable screenInverseSize which is needed for film grain

so when using the scope the grain would draw as waves

[drowsy brook]

The only other thing that I can think of is JoHien's Graphic's Enhancement mod, but I have his image post-processing section turned off. Could that it?

Let me take another look at if I have anything enabled/disabled

[eternal pebble]

I have the graphics enhancement mod

well I haven't updated it in a bit

but I just have the rt stuff

no idea what's changed in the past few weeks

[drowsy brook]

It's so hard to see on a still image but here's what the film grain looks like for me

As for mods, this is with only these mods working right now

Gonna verify game files right now just incase

Yeah, everything good to go. Not sure what the cause would be

[eternal pebble]

can you try with no mods and see if the issue is still there

[drowsy brook]

Will do

It's fixed. Will add each mod individually and see what's causing it

It's JoHien's Mod, but not sure which setting would be causing it

[drowsy brook]

It's the Image Post Processing option with the graphic's mod.
With it enabled, the film grain is fixed. Would having it enabled overlap with Reno though?

[eternal pebble]

what does the image post processing setting do

[drowsy brook]

So Reno is working with it off

[eternal pebble]

so unchecking it turns off all the color grading and stuff?

[drowsy brook]

I believe so, I'll take some screenshots right now

Or maybe it's the opposite? I'm lost at this point.
SS 1: Checked ON
SS 2: Checked OFF

[eternal pebble]

the super strong blues are from the color grading being on here

[drowsy brook]

So i played the whole game without Reno LOL

Time for another replay

So with JoHien's Mod, we need to have Image PP checked on

[eternal pebble]

that's the game's whole look

the color grading

reno is working regardless if you have it on

it's just the grain that can have issues

[drowsy brook]

Ty

[paper vale]

I left it on by default lol

[eternal pebble]

though idk if the grain issue is related to the mod

[paper vale]

I think the title screen are just grainy.

[sacred shuttle]

Post processing ON in JoHien’s mod is just the game default

With it set to OFF you’re turning off all the game’s standard default post processing

[whole obsidian]

Do you use rtgi, I have tried it but looks darker at some places, meanwhile reflection and contact shadows looks good

[eternal pebble]

just reflections and contact shadows

[whole obsidian]

I tried to use this mod, but I don't see any changes

[shadow walrus]

Nobody can helpme? 🙁
By the way, i dont see any changes when i touch the sliders 🙁

What the... why i can't share my captures with good quality!?

https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/13330288738531487481/8C6A34B49D3BA816E9EFF208FB7EEF28D724D489/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

OH COME ON! The last image was sended with link to steam but still charging bad

[fleet lark]

You're running native 4K?

[whole obsidian]

8k

[fleet lark]

Just use reshade screenshot function

[fleet lark]

lol
yeah, you won't see much of a difference

This is mostly to make interlacing option usable

[stiff sundial]

I tested RE3 and it seems like it's already using V2 + Strong

[fleet lark]

Yeah, I think they fixed the TAA for the 2 and 3 at some point

[stiff sundial]

I wonder if the mild vs strong strength is the only difference between RE4/8 and 2/3

[fleet lark]

Possibly

[sacred shuttle]

2 and 3 look better at default than 7, 8, and 4 to my eye

[whole obsidian]

Updated with contact shadows and no camera light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcCoSsWPH3Y

[sacred shuttle]

No camera light is a game changer

Along with RenoDX, makes dark scenes look so good

[night ibex]

why the cancerous thumbnail

youtube doesn't support surround sound

[whole obsidian]

PC don't, but some devices support

[night ibex]

who's gonna be opening the video on their TV lol

[whole obsidian]

Maybe pc support in future😅

[night ibex]

seems like it won't recognize it if you don't have the right encoding settings too

[whole obsidian]

video need to be popular, I think, for showing 5.1 in other devices

[iron harness]

Does RenoDX in RE2 Remake pair nicely with the green tint remover mod? I know it works. But it does look a bit dark like this. Is it accurate to SDR with the green tint remover mod?

[fleet lark]

The tint remover probably just disables the LUTs, which you can do with reno by itself

[iron harness]

Oh. I see. Thanks!

[iron harness]

Deleting that mod and setting LUT Strength to zero fixed the game being way too dark. Nice, thanks.

[sacred shuttle]

Not exactly on topic but does anyone know how to make resident evil 1 remake and resident evil 0 look good? They have washed out, raised blacks even in SDR, and both Auto HDR and RTX HDR don’t work for some reason

Is there a way to force RTX HDR in unsupported games?

[iron harness]

Have you tried SpecialK HDR?

It worked for RE6 for me and that is a DX9 game like RE1HD and 0HD. I used it alongside DXVK-HDR

Also, AutoHDR only works on newer games such as DX11 and DX12.

[undone wigeon]

for RTX HDR, add exe as a game in Nvidia app and enable it there, that is usually the fix.
You can also try borderless windowed. You need fusion fix for 0 and 1 for that.

[sacred shuttle]

I have not. Guess I should

[sacred shuttle]

I tried all of this and none of it worked unfortunately

[iron harness]

RTX HDR is a bit random NGL, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

[sacred shuttle]

Yep,,, it’s quite annoying.

[iron harness]

BTW, I don't know if HDR is the main culprit. The PC/HD Port of RE1 Remake has badly upscaled backgrounds and crushed blacks. Its mostly a problem with the port itself. Try fusionfix and disable color correction

And use REScale to have better upscaled backgrounds than the ones capcom did for the remaster (upscales are based on the GameCube release)

I'm not sure if it'll fix it by 100%, but it'll for sure make it better. The game looked fine for me. But washed out is subjective, so maybe you won't see it that way. Remember to send screenshots so the more knowledgeable people here can help you.

[sacred shuttle]

I’m playing 0 right now and the blacks are lifted, not crushed. I thought I remembered REmake being the same but it’s been a little since I played it.

[iron harness]

Oh 0? Then forget about what I said since Capcom actually did a good job with the HD port of 0.

then an HDR fix is probably all you'd need.

[sacred shuttle]

Yeah it looks great aside from the lifted blacks, and being unable to raise the render resolution

Stunning for a 2002 game

[iron harness]

Check out SpecialK HDR first, and see if that solves your problem.

[sacred shuttle]

I will, thanks! I’ve never used it before so didn’t think to try.

[iron harness]

Deleted my previous replies because, I don't think I should speak without 100% knowledge.

[sacred shuttle]

Although I’m reading that SpecialK doesn’t work with DirectX9 games so that might be an issue as I believe 0 is DX9

I’ll see later today when I try it

[iron harness]

RE6 is a dx9 game and it worked for me. I did use DXVK-HDR though.

Anyways, check this video out, this was the one I followed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hGwMAnrp4o

[iron harness]

I think DXVK-HDR and SpecialK have to be used alongside each other, sorry that I forgot about that. Anyways, the video should have all the info. Its obviously not going to be as good as RenoDX or Luma, but I think its good enough.

[sterile epoch]

Wait can't you use just dxvk HDR along with reshade?

Using Lilium shaders and pumbo auto hdr I think

[iron harness]

The guy in the video installs reshade during the tutorial, so I assume you can.

[sterile epoch]

https://youtu.be/Cf77HHcKMb4

I followed this video and managed to use HDR in some older games

[iron harness]

This method requires an older version of nVidia Profile Inspector though

[sterile epoch]

Wait it does? I remember using the newest version of profile inspector revamped

And it worked normally on my side. The game was a little unstable tho

But it's a hella underground game, Obscure 2

[iron harness]

The settings shown in the video are missing in the new version 3.x. It works on 2.x

Not that it matters anyways

[sterile epoch]

Now that I remember, yeah you're right

I did download the older version

Just checked my downloads folder

[iron harness]

It also isn't permanent, so you need to launch the game using SpecialK each time. I tried using a command-line argument on Steam, but it didn't work, so yeah.

[whole obsidian]

settings are in the newer version, although i never use this version

[iron harness]

Oh its you! Haha!

[iron harness]

Weird, it was missing for me.

[iron harness]

Also sorry, I deleted that comment, I thought it was another video. I mistook yours for it.

[whole obsidian]

i tried all 4,5,6 resident evil with dxvk, only 4 works great. 5 require removal of post processing through helix 3d mod.
and 6 has lot of issues

[sacred shuttle]

Did you try 0 or 1 Remake

[whole obsidian]

both are remaster and dx9, dxvk could work, not tried yet

[undone wigeon]

any ideas what they fixed here exactly?

[iron harness]

No clue, but they didn't seem to break anything either. So RenoDX still works perfectly.

[fleet lark]

Did the quick check, it still requires FSE and NVAPI bug is still there

[sacred shuttle]

What is the NVAPI bug

[eternal pebble]

game fails to set the color space so the entire image becomes super washed out

[sacred shuttle]

@paper vale I am begging you to fix your RE7 mod so it saves settings on relaunch

[paper vale]

My bad, been busy. I'll see if I can get it done tomorrow

[sacred shuttle]

You’re the goat man I love you

[turbid hollow]

not working for me - re2 remake

[paper vale]

Can you tell me which setting isn't applying after you reboot the game? I tested and it seems to be working properly

[sacred shuttle]

I’ll have to test later to confirm, was using several different settings and resetting them each time

[sacred shuttle]

The specular roughness setting resets even when you just open the in game settings menu

Think ray tracing quality might as well but not sure

[paper vale]

Okay, I'll check it out

[paper vale]

Oh okay, I think I see it. Any changes in the option menu will override the mods setting right?

[paper vale]

@sacred shuttle alright, I fixed the issue. https://www.nexusmods.com/residentevil7/mods/236?tab=files

[sacred shuttle]

I think all I did was open the settings menu, didn’t even touch any graphics setting and it reset the roughness setting

[sacred shuttle]

Thanks! I’ll try it out soon

[iron harness]

Oops. Didn't read the context or mod, sorry.

[paper vale]

All good lol

[neat lotus]

Any recommended settings or mods for Village other than Reno? Also, I think there was an older RE people were saying the RT was so bad it was better to just turn it off. That the case here?

[whole obsidian]

Just test reno yourself, it's recommended for HDR

[gaunt sluice]

Enable RT for sure, especially for the GI

Low res and short distance RT reflections has always been a problem, but as long as it's not about a large body of whatever, it's mostly not a problem the vast majority of the time

And it can always be modded

[sacred shuttle]

Check out JoHien’s RE Village graphic enhancement mod

He has one for every RE Engine game

[sacred shuttle]

Also for village, high res characters and enemies, and HD texture pack on nexusmods

And I recommend using the TAA Tweaker (it’s under RE2 on nexusmods) to fix the terrible TAA in village

[neat lotus]

Awesome, thanks for the recs!

[sacred shuttle]

No prob, I’ve been replaying all the RE games and toying around with graphics mods in all of em

So I know it all pretty well

[whole obsidian]

RE2 RENODX + RE2R Graphics Enhancement + No Camera Light
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_jJ_bdtDhdjSmBb16ChO_d_AE3mYtiMX

[iron harness]

Will disabling the camera light make the game too dark or will it look just right?

[whole obsidian]

Camera light affect player light

[iron harness]

I know that.

I just wanna know if its still good enough to play with it off

Or do I have to compensate with a manual flashlight mod

[whole obsidian]

Rarely, some scenes are too dark.

[iron harness]

Oh, so do you think its better for me to not install this mod?

[whole obsidian]

Try with it first.

[iron harness]

Oh. Okay. I guess it comes down to prefs then. Thanks!

I don't think I'll use it though, I think the devs made the game with the intention of using the camera light. Well, I respect their artistic vision.

[night ibex]

respect the trash HDR as well

[iron harness]

That was probably unintentional though (apart from the increased shadow details), so I wouldn't count that as a part of their vision lol.

Its hard to make HDR from what I've heard, so I get it.

[night ibex]

it's not

just a reminder that it's a very dumb cope and justification for questionable design decisions

devs absolutely routinely decide to deepfry HDR for example

[iron harness]

Are you talking about the first part of my message or the second one

[night ibex]

the artificial light is absolute ass and probably made so people can play in a bright room or something

[iron harness]

Oh yeah, by the way, can't the devs incorporate RenoDX into their games as long as they credit it?

[night ibex]

I guess

[iron harness]

I don't think its that bad. Had to compensate somehow, even through cheaper techniques like that. Although I definitely get you bro.

[night ibex]

or they can just follow the same documentation and principles that Reno recommends

[iron harness]

Agree

[night ibex]

renodx intercepts and rewrites stuff in the render pipeline that could have just been done correctly from the start, or patched

[iron harness]

Yeah, that's why I said that the Devs should do that.

[night ibex]

most just dont care

[iron harness]

Although let's be real, 95% of players don't care

Both of us were thinking the same thing lol

[night ibex]

I mean devs not caring and making busted HDR makes players hate it and not care further

[iron harness]

If enough cared, they would do it.

[night ibex]

they are already going through the trouble of having it

but doing it poorly

[iron harness]

Yeah, the RE engine games (especially 2R and 3R) have horrible HDR.

I mean but even I didn't notice these things until I actually started using these mods and then realized how much better they look.

So more players just need to be taught about these things.

[iron harness]

I think most people don't notice it is because their gameplay looks similar to what they see on YouTube, so they think their image looks "correct". This is why I think YouTube should have Waaay more HDR uploads

[night ibex]

that's not going to happen, and the players shouldnt be expected to know anything

it should work properly, and there is no reason why it doesn't

it's been a decade of hdr in games now

[iron harness]

I know that. They shouldn't have to. But it isn't like companies are going to do anything about it unless they do.

[iron harness]

And still most games have broken HDR, sad.

[iron harness]

By the way, looks good, I liked the video.

[iron harness]

Didn't work the first time. Liked it now.