Baldur's Gate 3

[naive lichen]

[strange lantern]

^

First view = normal
Second = kill all area lights
Third = kill all probes
Fourth = kill both area lights and probes

The mods were only killing the second

e.g area lights

but the game was still applying probes on top

so characters got double probed

which is why they looked black

top 10 comments if taken out of context

[naive lichen]

That’s racist!!

[strange lantern]

thats a wild ass statement

double probed

[naive lichen]

Two probes in ass

[strange lantern]

dreadful, everywhere I look I just see issues

hair, fur and VFX just randmly flicker like this

caused by slop alpha

[shy torrent]

ironically I don't do weed

[shy torrent]

probing that tonemap ass

[strange lantern]

renderp ass

[strange lantern]

Act 2 Haven bubble energy shield thingy is ugly as fuck

going to try POE II technique to stop the seems

[strange lantern]

Well fellas

since DLSS 5

I am now quitting

[floral raft]

I noted that some shadows are pixelated with shadow improvements enable, I don't know if it's a known issue. You can also see them into the cinematic when you wake up on the beach after the intro. My screenshots are too heavy for discord so...

[strange lantern]

tiled deferred mismatch

I fixed some more errors on my end

but different areas use different meshes

and I might have forgotten or not 100% matched

well the issue might also be I dont know if people on different GPUs or graphics settings spawn new shaders permutations

if thats a case then rip

this whole thing is basically busted

[blissful ember]

What the hell ? Is that a meme I don't know about ? That sounds like a great joke. A shame I didn't get it😅 ...

[dull cobalt]

Ignorance is bliss

[floral raft]

I see.
Sorry but I say something wrong related to the cinematic intro, it was more an AO related thing.
Thank you very much for all the work and the vk version anyway.

[strange lantern]

ah ok ty for pointing the AO part out, I will test again

[strange lantern]

Me working on BG3 when I could have just waited for DLSS 5

[worthy belfry]

you know what you need to do...

add your brdf stuff to re9 to mog dlss 5

[strange lantern]

I cant compete

they turned hogwarts legacy into mogwarts

perfect jawlines

[worthy belfry]

oh that reminds me

do you think anything could be improved with rtx remix's brdf?

[strange lantern]

a few stuff, I have read about

but I would need to test implementation

[worthy belfry]

curious because I got halo ce partially working in fixed function

[strange lantern]

so

1. Proxima Diffuse (from callisto to have proper material mipmap consistency)

2. Diffraction on Rough Surfaces + Spectral Shift Function for metals

The diffraction stuff looked nutty

it added speckles and roughness to metals

that you just dont see

unless youre using spectral rendering or NVidia's neural shaders

spectral shift shifts metals from blue to red based on the microfacet angle

[worthy belfry]

interesting

[strange lantern]

theres a phenomena where metals do that

depending on the light

theres a subtle difference in colour hue

https://jcgt.org/published/0013/01/01/

Here's the paper

basically all the other models cant do brushed metals properly

Maybe UE substrate can now replicate it

[worthy belfry]

only a small computational overhead compared to the popular Cook-Torrance GGX model

👀

[narrow scroll]

As you seem to have a save at the Last Light Inn: I noticed that the option named "shadow improvements" has a curious effect there. Namely, when going in and out of the front entrence of the main inn building (where Jaheira is), the more intense shadows abruptly stop applying when leaving it and then start applying when entering it. Don't know if that's intended or if the game has somekind of trigger when you walk across an invisible border on the map or something.

[blissful ember]

OMG I know what DLSS 5 is now. What the hell is this thing

This has to be a scam

my brain is not braining

[strange lantern]

So what the game does in Act 2 is, the shadowlands counts as 'underground; but when you enter Haven, it flags the area has 'not underground'

but it does it very wierdly or badly

I am suspecting this is why Larian disabled shadows

they couldnt be asked to fix the issue

I will play around with it some more becasue its very inconsistent in how they activated or deactivate the flags

I am using Darker shadowlands mod

and that one seems to flag the whole shadowlands as 'underground', Haven included

so that issue doesnt happen

[light willow]

Hi, I've been using the r8g8b8a8_unorm version because the last WIP Test 2 version caused severe flickering and black squares. I saw that someone else had the same problem, so I just wanted to mention it.

Btw the reshade itself looks fantastic. I miss turning off characters illuminitaion though (it's not on r8 version)

[narrow scroll]

OK so it seems I wasn't hallucinating after all 😄
When you say "the r8g8b8a8_unorm version", you mean the one without that 8-bit upgrade, right? Because that one fixed it for me too. It seems the 10-bit upgrades don't cause issues.

In the end, when Forge feels he's done fiddling with it, I'd be very happy if a non-8-bit-upgrades version would also be offered.

[light willow]

I don't very well versed in these type of things, so I tried "No r10g10b10a2_unorm upgrades" version and notheing changed, black squares and flickering were still present. "No r8g8b8a8_unorm upgrades" fixed everything and works as intended I guess.

[narrow scroll]

Yeah, that's the one. I've had the same experience.

So I'm not alone after all... 😢

But playing around with the latest version, I can say that there are areas in the game where even the "normal", fully upgraded version does not flicker at all, like in the mentioned last light inn. But the main menu, and that spider cavern in A1 -- yeah, flicker-city.

[light willow]

For me it was Main screen as well, Auntie Ethel cavern with prisoners, the merchant area in Refugees camp (the very first merchant we encounter), almost every interaction/dialogue in the swamps (when illusion is broken), something was constantly black squaring in the background when characters were chatting. I didn't want to tell anything since I have a lot of mods and customized driver's setting through NvidiaProfileInspector, so I thought maybe it was because of that. Until I looked that someone else had the same problem.

[naive lichen]

Im hoping for a DLSS5 implementation Day 1 brotha @strange lantern

[strange lantern]

I will tune it myself to maintain creative intent

[narrow scroll]

I have zero mods, but I also did tune things in profile inspector. But I did reset that for testing purposes, and it seems those were not at fault. Still don't know what it is. I DO know however, that I don't mind that bit of banding in the UI when that 8-bit upgrade is not present, so all good for me.

[strange lantern]

@worthy belfry

So instead of replacing lambert

which looks like plastic

Jensen decided to make every game into more plastc

[worthy belfry]

lmao

[strange lantern]

masterful gambit

truly

[worthy belfry]

trueeeee

[eternal radish]

ok your mod does not work well with dark underdark lmao

[strange lantern]

@worthy belfry

I take it back

I now understand why RT/PT is recommended

it adds a lot of energy conservation and makes the material brighter without wierd dark spots

but becasue BG3 is standard raster

you're missing shadowing and good GI

so EON just makes everything flat

[worthy belfry]

so eon for pt / rt and hammon for raster?

[strange lantern]

pretty much

hammon you can slot in and it just works

you get your energy conservation but its not crazy

EON I will have to test with RT title

and compare to RDX and callisto

[worthy belfry]

the least? (:

[strange lantern]

Pester Miru

I am locking in for Crimson

[worthy belfry]

oh yeah that's this week

[strange lantern]

it matches what their pics where doing in the paper

so if you dont have PT it just looks wierd

[worthy belfry]

I might try eon in rtx remix
probably a better use case for it

[strange lantern]

let me send some pics, I just need to fix this tile mismatching

I hate this system

I have to do like 200 edits

its mostly ctrl c + v but then one shader uses a different perm for sun direction

and its over

[strange lantern]

vanilla burley / hammon / EON

@worthy belfry

[worthy belfry]

I see what you mean...

eon looks unshaded

[strange lantern]

I think this is why lambert has also been used forever

the inheritance darkening from not having energy conservation adds cope shading

[worthy belfry]

that makes sense lol

[naive lichen]

do you have DLSS5 lighting early access?

[strange lantern]

Waiting for Dat to send me .dll

[worthy belfry]

feel like eon would look really nice with PT in HDR

[strange lantern]

yes

PT has good shading

and you're not gimped by lambert being cucked out of energy

burley / eon

[worthy belfry]

wonder if you could get away with eon if you increase the AO a tad

[strange lantern]

Need to add in xeGTAO

[worthy belfry]

oh I assumed you already added xeGTAO lol

yeah I think you could get away with eon with xeGTAO

[naive lichen]

laezel said

[strange lantern]

Froooog want me

Also wtf is wrong with this game

@worthy belfry

they use Hard discard alpha test for everything

• some doodoo Depth fade power

[worthy belfry]

bruh

[strange lantern]

anything alpha just shimmers

might be a trashformer v2 issue

but everything just has this random alpha black pixel crawl shimmer

[worthy belfry]

rpgs have to be cursed technically I think

apart of being in the genre

[strange lantern]

I am going to slap in Ass shadows stochastic alpha and solve all this sloppa

[low steeple]

Alpha test is just discard tho

[worthy belfry]

oh yeah duh

lol

[eternal radish]

@strange lantern shadow improvments glitch

i still have some squares tho

[strange lantern]

where does this happen?

and it only happens on scratch?

[eternal radish]

The under dark

Uhh

The thing below

Shadow cursed lands

The cat too

And the camp aswell

Some objects have squared shadow around

[naive lichen]

bro got that pixel camo

[strange lantern]

NOOOOOOOOOO

fuk

I got CSM upgrade in

why is it broken

maybe I fukked up shader side let me test

I praye I dont have to modify a trillion other things to get this working

[amber stream]

CSAM?

[strange lantern]

Cascade shadow maps

Shadows basically

Because they're pixelated to hell in this game

It uses 2048x 2048 for the whole scene so once you do the dialogue face zoom in, it's over

You see 56pixel for the entire face

[low steeple]

Can you check whats in the shadow map

In reno devkit preview

[strange lantern]

the base csm shader did some 2048 thingy

I changed it to also use 4096

in nsight I didnt see any other hardcoded settings

checked UBO

I should have everything I need

wait

I noticed I missed two res dependant constants

[low steeple]

No I meant the 2048x2048 texutre

[strange lantern]

in the shader

[low steeple]

Can you preview that in devkit at all

Make sure things are drawn to it correctly

[strange lantern]

oh it just shows garbage

it looked like that in vanilla

[low steeple]

Hmmmm 🙁

What about in nsight capture

[strange lantern]

lemme check

[low steeple]

BTW you can try maybe draw that texture on screen using render pass or reshade binding?

[strange lantern]

ok so I had some 2048 vanilla code I forgot to update

better but still missing shadows

[strange lantern]

maybe, let me see

[low steeple]

Hmmmmm I see

Its those shared RT for all shadows..

I've never seen that a game would use shared RT for sun shadow tho

Facetted shadow map???

Maybe you can upload the ngfx capture

[strange lantern]

one sec

[vivid yacht]

may I ask why a vulkan mod isn't dx11 better in this game basically? just to do it or for compatibility I assume

[strange lantern]

I had a stroke reading that

I am sorry whats the question

Theres the old DX11 addon I uploaded

but I moved over to VK because it has better stability

it doesnt crash for me and the CPU perf is better

[vivid yacht]

no offense at all I just thought dx11 was generally better for this game

[strange lantern]

The only thing DX11 has going for it is Special K's texture caching

VK has FG mod if you want it + MFG

better act 2 and 3 CPU perf

DX11 will randomly CTD 1/8 chance on loading up for me

VK doesnt

[vivid yacht]

oh cool yeah im doing playthrough with friends on console so I don't have crazy mods

i haven't experienced crashing yet but still in act 1

[strange lantern]

https://limewire.com/d/He37U#E2yOVM0PjD

[vivid yacht]

the loading itself is brutally long does vulkan help that

[strange lantern]

yes

especially with mods

DX11 takes way longer

[vivid yacht]

ok ill try it out thanks I just had read dx11 was better but good to know just reddit bs

[low steeple]

So in nsight it looks like this

[strange lantern]

wait

have I been looking at the wrong one

so what does d16_unorm do

[low steeple]

So the game draws that shadow map in 2048x2048

Then blit onto a 8192x8192 shared shadowmap resource

[strange lantern]

why is it soo pixelated

pls dont say shadow map limitations

i cant add RT to this game

[low steeple]

Hmmm so if you resize it to higher res

You could risk other shadow maps just overwriting it

This is so cursed..

The actual shadow map is like 1024x1024 only

The rest of these are cached shadow maps, don't see them updated in the frame you sent

Not sure waht they are for

[strange lantern]

rip

[low steeple]

The space below the 1024x1024 gets overwritten

[strange lantern]

let me do another scene capture

[low steeple]

It changes write coordinate like that?

I'm not sure the game uses cascade shadow maps

There is no cascade

[strange lantern]

https://limewire.com/d/ED7YF#nFosDqpLMu

guess its a skill issue on my end then

I dunno how to go about improving this

I just thought it would be an easy

upgrade res and done deal

[low steeple]

It'd be really hard because ughhh

The write coordinate is CPU side cbuffer

And then you have to modify the compute deferred shaders to load correct position

😭

Maybe its better to ask AI to RE the game for you to change the shadowmap resolution

[strange lantern]

Wanted to avoid ghidra yet here we are

time to RE

[low steeple]

Yeah there is this main shadow map

Not sure what it is for XD

Then new one reuses this and then draw to the 8k shared shadowmap

[strange lantern]

Pathtracing cant come soon enough

raster is soo washed

[low steeple]

What shocked me is that

Where is the cascades

The game just doesnt seem to have long range distance shadows?

[strange lantern]

oh yh

it doesnt

they just disappear at long range

maybe its becasue of the camera angle

and it being isometric

I guess they sort of use them for main menu

but thats about it

or maybe cutscenes

[strange lantern]

which is why I dont use the 3rd person camera mod by Ersh

[low steeple]

It does here tho

[strange lantern]

main menu

well

there is act 1 B

theres some far distance views there

and they have shadows

but Act 3 has abysmal shadowing with low draw distance

[low steeple]

Hmmm

[strange lantern]

so 1024 shadows packed into 2048 texture thats then blit into 8192

[low steeple]

Nothing looks like the mountain shadow to me

[low steeple]

The shadow map res is random

The capture you last sent has a 2048 one

But the first one has 1024 max

Oh I found the actual sun shadow map

Its not using that shared shadowmap hmm

It's D16 Unorm as well..

[strange lantern]

so maybe the issue is that I was targetting all d16_unorm res increases instead of just doing this one

though I dunno if that will improve much

might also break

[low steeple]

There are 3 cascades

Maybe you should test with dimension = 2048x2048 in your upgrade

[strange lantern]

lets try

[low steeple]

i meant the on create resource event

There are 5 D16 resources in the main menu capture

2 are 16x16 and 2 2048x2048 1 1024x1024

the 1024 one is long range shadow cascade

There are 4 layers tho

for the sun shadow maps

I think you can do depth_or_layers > 1 in your detection

Hmnmm I think you also need to hook bind viewports events

and bind_scissor_rects

so
begin_render_pass - check if the resource is the ones you modified
bind_viewports - change viewport size
bind_scissor_rects - change scissor rect size

[strange lantern]

[low steeple]

You can check these events in the last capture you sent

[strange lantern]

ty

Miru coming in clutch

[eternal radish]

@strange lantern did u see the glitch ?

[strange lantern]

which one

the square tile one by AO I know about

Whole game is cursed

Their CSMs use screenspaced derivate normals

instead of just using Gbuffer normals

so you get all sorts of blocky artefacts

shadows as a whole are pure slop

[eternal radish]

yeah the square thing

lol

[strange lantern]

@low steeple I am getting filter by trying to bind gbuffer normals to the CSM shader

Their literally do not use gbuffer normals for the CSMs and instead use depth

then reconstruct normals

[low steeple]

Why you need gbuffer normal

Hmmm

[strange lantern]

Modders are bringing this up

[low steeple]

Get the gbuffer normal srv from somewhere

Then update descriptor table at the correct slot

[low steeple]

Wait

You dont have any extra slot

[strange lantern]

no

0-2 gets used

I need 3rd

[low steeple]

Hmmm you need to clone the pipeline

[strange lantern]

oof

thats why

[low steeple]

just that specific one

then add an extra table to the pipeline layout param

then when csm draws you update gbuffer normal to that table

vulkan is so bad for modding

[strange lantern]

DX12 is the same though?

[low steeple]

Yeah

[strange lantern]

low level APIs be like

[low steeple]

Not sure if you can use push descriptor

In theory XD

https://crosire.github.io/reshade-docs/structreshade_1_1api_1_1command__list.html#a02d8805c699bf00279deb042dd7ffc7c

This is the simplest way to bind something in vulkan dx12 I think

[blissful ember]

It has to be said : Forge going all ASD over fixing gaming has me significantly more excited than DLSS 5.

[strange lantern]

@low steeple

vanilla / Gbuffer normals

I added reshade.log debug

16:19:29:956 [14236] | INFO | [RenoDX] BG3-VK: Found GBuffer normal via begin_render_pass: 0x1855d86370 (2560x1440 fmt=33)
16:19:29:957 [39816] | INFO | [RenoDX] utils::shader::OnCreatePipeline(replacing 0xd6695b52 with 14912 bytes at 00000018549F0520)
16:19:29:957 [43436] | INFO | [RenoDX] utils::shader::OnCreatePipeline(replacing 0x9c3376cd with 100260 bytes at 000000184F78F020)
16:19:29:962 [ 9552] | INFO | [RenoDX] BG3-VK CSM: Created SRV 0xc2cbcf20 for GBuffer normal 0x1855d86370
16:19:29:969 [ 9552] | INFO | [RenoDX] BG3-VK CSM: Cloned layout 0x1f89db230 from 0xc855bfd0 (gbuffer_set=3, insert_pos=3, orig_params=4)

I think its binding

any other way to check?

since it wont appear in devkit

but as you can see the view is wrong

maybe I need to change Gbuffer normals view in the CSM shader

[low steeple]

You can just write the gbuffer normal color channel to the csm shader output xd

[strange lantern]

R8 RTV though I cant do colours

or am I confused

[low steeple]

Yeah but you can check color

Channel

If nothing is bound then it’s gonna be empty

[strange lantern]

ahh

[low steeple]

Just output the red channel

[strange lantern]

welp its not binded

real question is why Larian didnt use Gbuffer normals

because If I get them working and then a trillion other things break welll

[low steeple]

Hmmm

[strange lantern]

but their current cope derivate normals from depth are ugly as hell

and cause blocky shadows

[low steeple]

I dunno what you did in your addon

[strange lantern]

and artefacts

[strange lantern]

I dont even know

I can send addon.cpp

[low steeple]

Could be stuff that only writes depth but no gbuffer but I don’t think the game does that

Hmm it says you only cloned the layout

But you should clone the entire pipeline then
Cmd_list->bind_pipeline()
Cmd_list->draw(4,0)
return false

On draw I think

Of course you should cache the pipeline and don’t recreate it all the time

[strange lantern]

yh I dunno

either the game launches

or it crashes

I need to lock in

becasue Crimson is going to have some random balderdash

and I will need to bind resources

[low steeple]

You can upload the code in a separate branch

Post link

[patent lake]

i just realized aces slop is prob why i didnt like native bg3 hdr

[strange lantern]

its custom ACES 2.0

but they turbo boosted shadow saturation

whole game looks cheap

and like a cartoon

and then all the flames are pink on top of lacking gamma correction

[novel lion]

anyone have a fix for this

[lament raven]

caps

[novel lion]

what

I was talking about da house textures unloading

[eternal radish]

@amber stream i didn't know native hdr clamped to 1000 nits

doesn't go above

[amber stream]

i was not aware cause i never used it

[novel lion]

@strange lantern any idea bro

[strange lantern]

thats their LODs

game wasnt designed around 3rd person camera

Otis camera tool can force higher LODs I think

[novel lion]

hmm I ll check it out

[devout briar]

https://x.com/larianstudios/status/2037179569552212065

Larian Studios (@larianstudios)

Our last small update, which aimed to resolve some lingering corrupted savegames, seemingly also introduced performance issues that triggered crashes for some players.

A hotfix is now rolling out to resolve these. Thank you for your patience!

Read more: https://t.co/MtnpGXaJX8

X · Mar 26, 2026, 2:47 PM

@strange lantern

Never ending patches

[strange lantern]

jokers

watch they still release another 5 patches

maybe it doesnt touch any shaders

[blissful ember]

Yes, hopefully it only touches logic stuff. Fingers crossed. Although even of that's the case, gameplay mods might still break... that could be despair in it's own way😭

[eternal radish]

@strange lantern any chance u can update snappies and nexoos ?

[slender robin]

not seeing the preset menu. Can someone assist? I didnt have any issues with other games. Seems like this one is applied but no menu

[strange lantern]

uhhh, Maybe if I ship a slightly stripped version

Some of the rendering stuff isnt quite ready yet

[strange lantern]

click on the RenoDX tab

this isnt a reshade preset

it has its own dedicated tab

[slender robin]

oh wow im a dummy thank you @strange lantern such a simple fix lol. Thanks!

[shut valley]

Love the rendering improvements I'm seeing in the many pics you posted. But what tone mapper did you end up using? Cannot help but seeing this very yellow to my taste haha ^^'

[strange lantern]

Vanilla HDR makes stones, sand ect all pink

Reno matches SDR better

in SDR they are not pink

so thats what we're going fro

I am using Psycho, I deleted all their ACES V2 beta stuff entirely

I nuked their shadow saturation booster as well

Fires especially are mega pink

[shut valley]

Good. Thanks for answering. I was looking at this thread on and off but lost track with all the tone mapper functions haha. :))

Anything I should keep an eye out or needs more testing to be ironed out?

[strange lantern]

Need to fix instances of mismatched tile shaders

game has 15 deferred shaders

and if one mismatches you get artefacts

[shut valley]

I see. Is that tied to a particular rendering improvement toggle? So if it becomes too annoying I can disable it for the time being.

[strange lantern]

BRDF, shadows and a few others

Larian tools will account for shader permutations in their tiled setup so once they write the code, computer handles it

for modders however, that means we have to match 15 different shaders now

[eternal radish]

when i look at native hdr back it's all vomit

lol

everyhthing is pink shit

[strange lantern]

Only thing colour side I have to fix is the brickwalling of highlights

[shut valley]

It was kind of praised when it launched though, right?

[eternal radish]

https://tenor.com/view/hand-on-shoulder-gif-16978492239797714559

praised by who

the same guys who praise ori 2 hdr ?

the native hdr is capped at 1000 nits 💀

what's the point of a peak brightness slider if it's not respected

[vivid yacht]

@eternal radish this game on the g5 is some of the best hdr I've ever seen (dx11) patiently waiting vulkan version. The myconids nearly blinded me

[eternal radish]

huh

there is already a vulkan version

with added rendering features

[vivid yacht]

I know bro lol

I just skimming through seems not finished yet

[eternal radish]

i went from dx11 to vk mid run

works fine

looks so much better

[vivid yacht]

damn better than dx11 wow

[eternal radish]

native hdr is poop but reno makes it infinitely better

[vivid yacht]

yes

im using dx11 reno

[eternal radish]

reno/native

[vivid yacht]

yeah i never used native dx11 from starting it

always the dx11 reno but as i said i will switch to vulkan

[eternal radish]

the only thing that i'm sad to lose is sk texture caching

[vivid yacht]

yeah i dont use that the load times are brutallll on dx11 enough reason to switch on its own

but yeah g5 2500 nits on this game is incredible with reno ill try vulkna if i can find it i never saw it posted

[eternal radish]

checkpins

[vivid yacht]

this game is colossal we have like 35 hours and not even through act 1 doing 3 player coop

[eternal radish]

lol

i didn't finish act 1 till 65h or so i think

[blissful ember]

Yeah that sounds about right. I get easily distracted 😅 ...

[shut valley]

VK looks better?

[eternal radish]

Well it's updated

Doesn't have the oversaturation issue

[shut valley]

Oh I see. I assumed Forge did DX first then ported to VK.

[eternal radish]

No musa did dx

Forge did vk

[shut valley]

I'm on a super old Musa build and it was working really good so I did not update haha. Held back and observed a bit, but now I might bite again for all those rendering improvements.

[twilit seal]

Is the ReShade dll he posted still mandatory? I can't seem to get it working with SK.
Edit: Nvm, looks like SK doesn't fully support vulkan, my bad!

[wooden abyss]

Is it now possible to use Vulkan with Reno?

[strange lantern]

Yes

Thanks to Ritsu

[wooden abyss]

Great, I'm happy about that. I'm using the ReShade HDR installer. Is it enough to simply select Vulkan and download the latest version?

[eternal radish]

no it requires a bit more work since it uses ritsu custom reshade vulkan

check pins

u need to install reshade vulkan then replace the file in C:\ProgramData\ReShade

with the custom version pineed

then the addon as usual u can drag & drop in RHI

[mortal horizon]

I'm getting graphical errors with the vulkan version of reshade and reno, I replaced the global dll in Program Data.

[eternal radish]

do you have the teal reshade ?

u uninstalled the dx11 versions right ?

[mortal horizon]

Yeah I have the teal one. I don't see the dxgi dll anywhere in there now so pretty sure I did

[eternal radish]

hmm you removed the old addon too ?

[novel lion]

That's so much better

[wooden abyss]

The ReShade HDR installer lets me select and install ReShade Vulkan. Then I should just need to put the pinned ReShade Reno Vulkan DLL into the BG3 folder, and it should work, right? Or am I misunderstanding something?

Is Vulkan better than DX11?

[mortal horizon]

yeah I removed the old stuff

[eternal radish]

hmm i have no idea then

[eternal radish]

you need to put the reshade in pinned in C:/programdata/reshade

[mortal horizon]

The errors go away when I remove vulkan reno addon

[eternal radish]

game is launched with vulkan exe right ?

idk forge could help

:monkaS:

[wooden abyss]

The entire manual wasn't displayed to me at first. Thank you.

[mortal horizon]

Yeah launched with the bg3.exe

[wooden abyss]

If I use the pinned reshade.dll and replace it, will reshade still work without problems in my other games?

[eternal radish]

ya it just applies to vulkan games

and it will work

it's normal reshade with added fixes for renovk

all other apis have reshade installed normally

[mortal horizon]

Looks like once in game it looks fine but the main menu is busted

[wooden abyss]

Okay, I understand, thank you. Is there a difference between the Vulkan version and the DX11 version?

[eternal radish]

well he fixed all issues

like the oversaturation in some spells

and he added rendering features to have better shadows

contact shadows on characters

shadows on grass

etc etc

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1466367902923096105/1473807249943171135/bg3_dx11_2026-02-18_23-22-47_647.png?ex=69d0e6b6&is=69cf9536&hm=55bfb250ccbe447b6891daabd2e824d76ca23d104578bc2e535d478758ced71f&

shit like this

it's gone

[narrow scroll]

You're officially the third person to observe that those 8-bit render target upgrades cause those black boxes. I was one of them. There was a special build posted that's only with 10-bit render target upgrades and that one has no garphical glitches but has just a tad of banding on the UI. I'd also like to have an 8-bit-less version of the latest build available.

[wooden abyss]

That sounds great. I think I'll switch to Vulkan then. Is the Vulkan add-on finished, and which one should I choose? The last pinned one is "WIP Rendering Test 2".

[eternal radish]

ya install the wip rendering test 2

u just need the reshade64.dll vulkan from wip rendering test 1

[wooden abyss]

I replaced the reshade.dll file in C: and inserted and installed the WIP Rendering Test 2.dll file in RHI. Now I can no longer make any changes to the image settings, which I could do before with DX11 Reno. Also, my FPS is limited to 15; I really don't know why.

[eternal radish]

uuuuuuuuuuuh

you uninstalled all previous files right ?

dxgi.dll and reshade.ini and reshadepreset.ini and the old addon

you need to install reshade for vulkan for the game then replace the file in C:

[wooden abyss]

Doesn't RHI also install ReShade Vulkan, or do I have to do that separately?

[eternal radish]

right it does too

reshade vulkan works in a global state, it's "whitelisting" the game to inject reshade, it doesn't use a file to do so

so yeah as long as u have the right file in the C: folder and use rhi it should work

idk why you have low fps because of it tho 🤔

make sure to launch bg3 with the correct exe too

[wooden abyss]

I deleted the files you mentioned and tried to install everything correctly. I also replaced the reshade64.dll file, but I'm still only getting 15 fps, or 30 fps with smooth motion. Normally, I get significantly more fps. Furthermore, I can't change any values ​​in the RenoDX settings. Nothing seems to happen on my screen. I think I'm doing something wrong. I posted about the low frame rate problem in the RHI thread. It might be related to the RElimiter.

I've deleted everything related to Reno and ReShade with Vulkan and switched back to DX11. Is it possible to adjust brightness, saturation, and peak nits live in Vulkan? It works perfectly in DX11. I'll try it again soon, but something's still not quite right.

[eternal radish]

isn't it a relimiter vulkan problem ?

your performance issue

...

idk why you can't change renodx settings tho

idk

it all works for me

xD

the swap was seamless

[wooden abyss]

Maybe. I'll try it again, but without Re Limiter.

[eternal radish]

You can show statistic tabs for the sliders not working

Could be the game fails to start hdr

[mortal horizon]

I'm not sure I understand, why would this only affect some people?

[narrow scroll]

That's the kicker -- We didn't ever figure it out. I just noted that there were 3 cases thus far.

[mortal horizon]

interesting, I seem to be unlucky, Crimson Desert is also crashing for me and that's not a wide spread issue either. Wonder what is different about my system.

[wooden abyss]

How do you do that?

[eternal radish]

screen statistiken tab

[wooden abyss]

Ah okay💡

Thank you

[wooden abyss]

I really don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I deleted everything related to ReShade from the BG3 game folder (bin) and reinstalled ReShade cleanly via RHI. Removing the RElimiter fixed my low FPS problem. But I just can't get the Vulkan add-on for Reno to work. I followed the instructions exactly, replaced the ReShade.dll, and used the latest WIP Rendering Test 2 Reno Vulkan add-on. I'm also launching the correct bg3.exe (see screenshot). But I can't move any sliders. Nothing changes at all. In the Reno tab, I can move the sliders, but nothing changes in the image settings. If I use the DX11 version of RenoDX Addon with the DX11 version of BG3, I can adjust everything live in that tab.

[wooden abyss]

I managed to get it working so I can now move the sliders in the Renodx tab and change the image settings, but now the whole image is flickering. Light sources flicker way too brightly and jerk wildly, there are huge black artifacts in the game world, and the main menu is so bad it's almost unbearable. It's very strong VRR flickering or something like that. I think it was caused by Smooth Motion. Now that I've turned it off, the flickering is gone. What remains are strange colors around candles and fireplaces. Sometimes the candles are green, sometimes they're completely red. What am I doing wrong?

[eternal radish]

Dafuq

@wooden abyss are you using special K ?

your setup is wrong

reshade should be teal (vulkan mode)

and you should have API : vulkan

like this

[novel lion]

I want to switch to vukan but optiscaler (fsr 4) & sk texture caching

[eternal radish]

fsr4 works on vulkan no ?

[novel lion]

it does?

[eternal radish]

optiscaler added it recently

idk the specifics tho

but yeah sk texture caching is criminal

i've been talking to an npc and his face texture wobbled from low res to high res DURING the dialogue

[novel lion]

LMAO HAHAHHA

U must've been taken back LMAO

[novel lion]

I ll have to check it out

@amber stream for how much would u fix these probs in dx12

[eternal radish]

5 gadjadillion dollars

[wooden abyss]

No, I started BG3 via Steam, then the Lari Launcher appeared where I selected the Vulkan API. To install ReShade for Vulkan, I downloaded the latest ReShade version 6.7.3 with full add-on support from the ReShade website and ran it for the BG3.exe, i.e., the Vulkan.exe. Beforehand, I deleted everything related to ReShade from my BG3 game folder, and I deliberately avoided using RHI because I had problems with the sliders when installing that tool for BG3. So, I manually installed ReShade, replaced the Reshade64.dll as instructed, and also made sure that the .dll properties showed 6.7.3 as unofficial. Then I placed the "WIP rendering Test 2" renodx Vulkan add-on in the bin game folder, where the two .exe files for BG3 are located. I then immediately started BG3.exe, which, as mentioned above, opens the Lari Launcher, and I select Vulkan and click "Start Game". If I do everything as described, I get what my screenshots show.

[eternal radish]

since you "fixed" the issue is reshade teal ?

you selected vulkan during reshade installation right ?

can you screen the game folder f

too @wooden abyss

[wooden abyss]

I thought I had fixed the problem, but unfortunately I hadn't. I then switched everything back to DX11 and all the problems disappeared. In my screenshot, you can see my bin folder, which is incredibly full and not as tidy as yours. I have no idea why. Before I took this screenshot, I deleted everything related to DX11 and ReShade and reinstalled ReShade for Vulkan. My ReShade menu doesn't look Teal, nor does it work correctly for me. I have huge artifacts on the start screen and in the game itself. Everything is flickering terribly.

[eternal radish]

yeah i see

that's weird

it should be teal with vulkan moe

mode

something is forcing the game to dx12

well if it's working in dx11 stay in dx11

idk why it breaks

i have driver interop enabled but the game sticks to vulkan

your folder looks fine

[wooden abyss]

Although I removed the RHI for this game and changed the graphics API from Auto to Vulkan, it now looks like this.

[eternal radish]

OKAY

this is good start

is it flickering ?

sliders working ?

how are colors

[wooden abyss]

What remains are very strong artifacts, like very large black boxes that flicker repeatedly.

[eternal radish]

can happen on menu but is it working in game ?

[wooden abyss]

No, after restarting the game, the flickering has gotten even worse. The controls still work, but the intense flickering makes it unplayable.

It's good that RHI Reshade Vulkan is displayed in the menu, but I can't play it at all and unfortunately I don't know what I might have done wrong.🤷

[eternal radish]

gotchhu

unlucky :S

can go back to dx11 ya

[eternal radish]

lol okay

dafuq

[wooden abyss]

@eternal radish I have no idea what's causing this. I followed the installation instructions, which aren't particularly difficult, and yet I'm still running into this problem. Perhaps someone else will encounter this issue in the future, or maybe I'll even figure out what the cause ultimately was. I've switched back to DX11 for now, and that's working without any problems. Thank you so much for your help, even though the Vulkan problem persists for me. Thank you.

[narrow scroll]

Did you perhaps hide comments from specific users in this thread? Because Rewind and I have been discussing the same problem in the middle of your conversation with Dio. Just scroll up. You're now the 4th person to encounter this bug. It's related to the 8-bit render target upgrades mr. Forge implemented into the vulkan reno version. There was a 8-bit-less version posted eariler and that one has no artifacts. But that version is outdated and does not have all the juicy shadow additions he's added later.

[wooden abyss]

I was aware of that, but somehow I wasn't so focused on my own problem that I didn't read it properly. Isn't there going to be a newer version coming soon to fix these bugs? Do you have another solution, or did you also switch back to DX11?

[devout briar]

Forge is in crimson desert jail

So I doubt a fix will come soon

[wooden abyss]

Until there's a fix for this, I'll just keep playing with the DX11 version. It's good that Crimson Desert is being addressed. If I buy it in six months to a year, I'm curious to see how far along the mods are by then.

[vivid yacht]

@amber stream games looks amazing first off, but I noticed occasionally (very rarely) a faded black square on some super intense highlights during cutscenes. Any fix for that?

[strange lantern]

Musa isnt deving anymore

[vivid yacht]

lol do you know the cause?

[strange lantern]

I took over the addon

the black squares are from how the game uses tiled rendering

they have 15 shaders

each split

and handling a separate part

I need to get exactly the perfect code set up

otherwise theres a mismatch causing different coloured squares

[vivid yacht]

yeah im still on dx11 which i know you're not working on, i've only seen it pop up twice

[strange lantern]

oh

that might be different then

I only started doing rendering for Vulkan

[vivid yacht]

could it have anything to do with the two settings enabled by default in renodx i can't remember what they are on addons page

you should turn those off right

[strange lantern]

DX11 Musa version has borked highlights

[vivid yacht]

how so?

I wouldn't know any technical stuff, honestly one of the best looking HDR games I have awesome it can be improved even further

by the time you get around to working on it again I am not sure we will even be through act 1 yet so no rush

[strange lantern]

I nuked their ACES V2 beta code

used split contrast to match visuals roughly

and instead use Psycho

that solved all the funny business with highlights

Also have hue shifting so no more pink flames

[vivid yacht]

nice so you would rec i switch to vulkan now

[strange lantern]

It has better perf and faster loading times

[vivid yacht]

yeah i just saw some posts above about some stuff in the vulkan version i guess problems with both

[strange lantern]

aslo have toggles for character hero lighting

shadows in Grymforge

screenspaced shadows

[vivid yacht]

nice was referring to this, this isn't common in vulk version?

[strange lantern]

Happens to some

what cuases it no idea

well RTVs

but it doesnt happen to me

or others

so I dunno

[vivid yacht]

word

[strange lantern]

AyyyMD memes

driver memes

[vivid yacht]

i'll try vulkan

i'm on nvidia

the loadtimes are absolutely brutal on dx11 for sure

[vivid yacht]

@strange lantern got some insane flickering in the menu then in game some one time i restarted and had no flcikering ok main screen

not sure if i installed right or what

[vivid yacht]

I have similar issues I don't have SK or anything forced preset M in mvidia control panel I'll disable and try

[vivid yacht]

@strange lantern it was DLAA that breaks the shadows. Have to use DLSS quality or other AA, haven't tested them all

[strange lantern]

rip

Otis does mention this

This was also the reason why REST addon for BG3 shits the bed when using upscaling

I have only tested everything using DLSS Q

[devout briar]

Forcing dlaa with opti or nvidia app might work

Then select quality in game

[strange lantern]

mayhaps

[vivid yacht]

it does not

with dlss quality game looks great besides tiling issues

[devout briar]

rip

[fallow prism]

lmao i just got this game and it defaults to my secondary GPU, idk why but thats funny

[vivid yacht]

it'

it's kinda a janky game for its popularity

graphically it's kinda amazing though especially with renodx I love the character models

[fallow prism]

unless i borked something i dont see a toggle for hero lighting... sadge

wait i think i figured it out, aciddentally downloaded it from the vulkan guide instructions message instead of the pin lol

[vivid yacht]

you can force dlss ultra quality and it still works fine. For my money looks pretty much as good as DLAA

[vivid yacht]

just needs fix for the tiled black squares and it's perfect @strange lantern i'll give you money, how much ya want

[strange lantern]

enough for me to never have to work again

[vivid yacht]

enough to feed a family of four from five guys

[strange lantern]

damn

thats like 1000

I might just RE the .exe

increase LODs

the tiled deferred is pain though

just when I think I've matched the shaders

another area still has tiled mismatch

[vivid yacht]

yeah i wish i could say which ones are most noticeable to focus on those but it seems to just be little crawling tiles in every scene not like specfiically one thing

maybe like piles of objects and foliage casting shadows

[strange lantern]

This is why I kept all the sliders separate for now

if I collapsed everything to a single materials slider

it would be gg

I wouldnt remeber which one is causing the tiling

[vivid yacht]

@strange lantern what is your kofi

[strange lantern]

https://ko-fi.com/forge87682

[shy torrent]

Forge gonna unslop all the renderslop games

[strange lantern]

Born to Pathtrace

Force to Raster

[shy torrent]

[blissful ember]

Please unsmear this mess first. I have yet to use transformer in CP77, but cnn RR was still an oily mess. No amount of brute force pretty lighting should necessitate you to play with a Van Gogh filter. I'm sure Kevin would agree

Path tracing excites me despite myself as an enthusiast.
But I really can't get behind the philosophy.

At least not so long as the perf to smear ratio remains unchanged.

[strange lantern]

transformer RR is superior

CNN was an oil painting

When they dropped transformer and I loaded in

FG was better, RR was better

the amount of noise or accumulation was better

[shy torrent]

Tf RR still slop, need TF2 RR

[blissful ember]

Well I should definitely give it a shot then 😉 ! Still performance is depressing. 4080s at 1440p is going to be be somewhat playable for me, but I pity those with anything less powerfull🥲

[blissful ember]

Well, at least, "less slop" is a start.

[strange lantern]

go back to baked lighting and parallax corrected cuebmaps

https://tenor.com/view/gigachad-chad-gif-20773266

[shy torrent]

as the founding fathers intended

[fallow prism]

even unreal 5's lumen was meant to be baked, not solely intended to be run in realtime lol

[fallow prism]

transformer model helps a lot as long as you dont use ultra performance, though on performance it can look a bit worse than balanced using preset E or D, i would use D to start, but if the sky looks noisy then id switch to preset E forced in nvpi, or your program of choice to force the specific preset, its the same really at the end of the day, optiscaler should work for real time switching too... balanced should look good though with RR

[fallow prism]

yeah i play with a 4070 super at 4k.... its usually okay, until i open the inventory too much.... for some reason dlss FG destroys the framerate after doing that

[fallow prism]

wait what do the tiled black squares look like? i havent seen any so far

[fallow prism]

renodx off vs on

[patent lake]

Wdym that it was meant to be baked

you can at best cache lighting with dynamic gi solutions

[fallow prism]

iirc it has a baking feature built in, but its up to devs to use it

[patent lake]

I think you confused lightmass with lumen

there is a way to bake GI in unreal but its different path than lumen and its not compatible

But epic kind of abandomed it

Works fine for corridor games thats about it

[vivid yacht]

You're just not noticing them they are subtle

in camp look around astarions pile of books/papers

[vivid yacht]

definitely they also need a model that is specifically built for balanced and quality modes and DLAA

almost no high end user is using less than balanced

[vivid yacht]

for some reason I don't see a place to give you cash here

you don't have this on your page lol, probably would get some more money if you did

@strange lantern it's shadow improvements setting

[strange lantern]

something something the edges of cloth counts as a separate deferred shader

[strange lantern]

yep its gone???

I resolved some shenanigans

Something about me not being able to say donate since I am not an NGO

[vivid yacht]

yep, the shadow tiling is actually worse on my lg g5 too maybe cuz it's blown up to a 77 inch screen turning off shadow improvements makes it better but it's pretty noticeable in most scenes

[vivid yacht]

around her eyes and top of the weapon it looks kinda subtle in stills but it's like "crawling" in game

[strange lantern]

Should also mention that the game has to be running with max settings

ANything else spawns new permutations

[vivid yacht]

yeah pretty sure i have it maxed have it on "ultra" preset anyways

lmk if there is a way to ensure i have it on max

ok just ensured it was ultra all defaults and it fixed some of these issues, reset renodx as well

very odd

I had it on max before but didn't reset reno, I assume the peak brightness and paperwhite wouldn't affect anythign?

[strange lantern]

graphical no it shouldnt

[vivid yacht]

k it's super playable now after doing that just some minor shadow issues like I outlines originally

[strange lantern]

Since the game uses Virtual Texturing, theres a hardcoded mem limit for it (per what Larian mentioned)

This might be whats causing textures to become blurry or randomly loading unloading

SK's texture caching improves it but well we cant use it in Vulkan

Something something maybe we can figure out a way to patch the budget to be larger

[rain tinsel]

game is just exploding with vulkan for me

[vivid yacht]

I just had a session with minimal issues with it

the shadow issues persist, but it improves how shadows look in the game so much that I am currently just dealing with the bugs

[strange lantern]

which part?

the whole game just explodes

or the black tiling bug?

the latter is caused by DLAA it seems

[rain tinsel]

I launch the game, go to change settings, ctd

Vsync and upscaling both were doing it

And also hella artifacts on the main menu

This is from a fresh install with no other mods

[feral tartan]

getting the same tiled shadows issues, I'm running ultra settings and no DLAA (bottom left corner)

all is well with shadow improvements set to off

[strange lantern]

nice

Messing around in Ghidra

BG3SE already has some RE'ed functions

and I picked up stuff from Larian's talk

Will see if I can improve LODs (since it looks to be controlled by two values), Virtual Texture size limit (also controlled by one value) and maybe shadows

[vivid yacht]

This is caused by DLAA (forced through driver or in-game). Probably other upscalers too, stick to DLSS quality (you can force ultra quality in Nvidia inspector for close to DLAA quality anyways)

Shadow improvements off fixes all shadow tiling problems in the game at the expense of losing a ton of shadow detail of course, didn't know the base game was so bright

[rain tinsel]

Not using DLAA

I can’t even go to the point of setting dlss settings lol

[vivid yacht]

maybe wrong version of reshade or incorrectly installed

[rain tinsel]

Using the reshade version provided with the mod

Regular Reno install

[vivid yacht]

hmm

not an expert

[rain tinsel]

I’ll look into it more later

For now I’m just gonna use dx11 so I don’t have to delay my party lol

[topaz furnace]

my partner and i are both experiencing "unrecoverable vulkan error" after installing vulkan reshade the way that was required, with the addon, while using the shadows mod. sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, more often than not though it just crashes at 95% loading into the menu

very weird

[topaz furnace]

so random how it works one minute and doesnt work the next but at least it works sometimes

[rain tinsel]

@strange lantern idk if this is a known issue but the characters in the invintory way way overshoot peak

they settle at almost 2k nits with peak set to 1k

they seem to be about double brightness. setting to 500 holds it at about 1k

[strange lantern]

TAA / FSR?

[rain tinsel]

dlss preset m preformance

[strange lantern]

I saw some borkery with anything outside of DLSS Q

why I dunno

[rain tinsel]

still does it with quality

[worthy belfry]

Imagine being up at 3:43 am

[rain tinsel]

1k is set in reno ui

[strange lantern]

I saw it always go to whatever the peak was

welp

once I am out of Crimson gulag

in 2054

[rain tinsel]

once you're out, you can find the magic way to unclamp the player icons :D

the turn order/party managment ones i mean

[strange lantern]

these ones

[rain tinsel]

ye

[strange lantern]

hmm

not sure

[rain tinsel]

its also in the ui at the bottom

[strange lantern]

Do they contain actual HDR info

as far as I can tell its just a screenshot snapshot

[rain tinsel]

they can change when you change armor and hair and stuff

so idk

im not sure how they generate it

[strange lantern]

I can take a look

as I understand it, they capture a screenshot that then applies to the portrait

from what other mods have explained

[rain tinsel]

i guess if the game clamps the screenshot it in the shader or the actual image file is what matters?

[rain tinsel]

@strange lantern is the reshade here ritsu's renovk? or something else?

[strange lantern]

ritsu's

but hes re re re re re redone it a billion times since

[rain tinsel]

so it seems it breaks frame limiter addons

like display commander and relimiter

[strange lantern]

Something something

vulkan is special

well this game isnt fully Vulakn

its DX11 with half Vulkan or whatever

Larian has since moved over fully to DX12 for their latest projects

[rain tinsel]

good lmao

[strange lantern]

also real time GI

so RT

[rain tinsel]

im trying with the newest pinned renovk

ah i see

RHI is detecting is dx11

also it didnt fix it lol

[strange lantern]

[rain tinsel]

@strange lantern it seemed to have been some weirdness with dxgi driver swapchain

unrelated to your mod

sorry to bother lol

[strange lantern]

https://tenor.com/view/miss-you-gif-16088318205734507819

[strange lark]

Dang you @strange lantern going to make me replay all my games it's so clear now

One thing: does anyone know why daytime scenes seem desaturated / green? Is that PsychoV?

And does anyone notice rougher skin textures?

[random oak]

There isn't a way to make the game render shadows in higher resolution/quality is there?
The soft Hair mod looks next gen compared to vanilla, but the flickering shadows are so annoying...

[strange lantern]

I've been exploring that

I was REing the .exe

to find shadow controls

[random oak]

I'll hope you find something!
We can install textures mods and all that, but the shadows just don't follow the rest of the quality anymore

[strange lark]

Am I crazy or are the skin textures rougher? Also, why does the WIP look so different colors from the PsychoV one on the Discord? Thanks

[strange lantern]

compared to what

pic comparison

[strange lark]

coming

loving the load times especially with skip intro mod and yours

Something is preventing me from taking screenshots but the game is definitely desaturated for me

i have to figure out what's preventing NV Overlay screentshots

[strange lantern]

Use Reshade

You already have it

it captures HDR png

[strange lark]

@strange lantern

Also the rough skin textures are visible in her desaturated skin photos

the January update on Nexus also had better color for me

[amber stream]

nexus one is more saturated

it looks more like sdr

very cartoony

[strange lark]

We don't like SDR anymore?

[strange lark]

Also isn't PsychoV more saturated at high brightness?

[amber stream]

Idk

Don’t remember what I did exactly in the old version

[amber stream]

Forge doesn’t like how it looks

I think the game is ugly in general

If he’s gonna change all the rendering

Might as well just do whatever he wants for tonemap

[strange lark]

is leaving the option hard?

[amber stream]

There’s no keeping the original look with how much he’s changing

[strange lark]

Hm

[amber stream]

It’s like crimson desert

It’s just a different looking game entirely now

[strange lark]

i like the Nexus one

[strange lark]

Still colorful though?

[amber stream]

Idk

Haven’t played with the new mod

But there’s a saturation slider anyway

[strange lark]

Highlight sliders also don't work for me in the Vulkan mod

[random oak]

by the way, when this Vulkan version releases, I guess it won't work with normal DX right? So if would throw a DXVK wrapper around it, could it then work again to get the new rendering?

[strange lantern]

no it wont

Vulkan is standalone

The reason I moved over to Vulkan is because the CPU perf is better and the load times are reduced

[rain tinsel]

@strange lantern is there any visual mods you recommend along side Reno?

[strange lantern]

Shadows of the Gate

Theres really not a lot of mods that target graphics

[random oak]

sadly

[strange lantern]

Which is surprising

DX11 would be easier to work with but that shit runs like ass

and the load times are dreadful

Rather just RE and figure out what I can do

Luckily the script extender has already RE'ed a bunch of stuff

I checked out the code

Just no one has used it

for whatever reason

I know how the shadows works

Just need to find what code in the engine controls it all now

[random oak]

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/17611
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/20021
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/18252

optional makes camp much more fantasy like:
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/21602

[strange lantern]

Theres no mod that targets increasing the virtual texture limit size

so textures constantly unload and get culled

[random oak]

any chance for VK reno to fix that?
cause it sucks, especially the more you progress and enviroments become more complex

@strange lantern is this unnecessary with your changes? https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/18652

[strange lantern]

Reno cant fix, will require an engine edit

If I can locate it

I'll share an .asi

probably can mem patch it

Act 3 perf woes for instance are becasue they use CPU occlusion culling

cant fix that

would require engine rewrite

[random oak]

texture switching and shadows flickering are really the only graphics glitches that are constantly in your face and would've been my number one priority.. but Larian don't care

[random oak]

yeah but that can be fixed with CPUs getting stronger, so it's not a total defeat

Fallout 4 had the same problem with Cities and now you can get quite good fps there, even if it's brute force

[strange lantern]

still use it

Also have the ability to increase LODs

[random oak]

@rain tinsel for immersion this one is also pretty nice
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/19337

[strange lantern]

up to you

I have the toggle that entirely removes hero lighting

outside of cutscenes

[random oak]

always nice to have to use less mods in that giant pile 😉

[strange lantern]

This was still has hero lighting it just removes the rim lighting portion

but charactyers still glow

which I dont like

[random oak]

btw why can't I set Vulkan globally? google doesn't spit out anything, besides a 3 year old post that it's disabled

[strange lantern]

?

wdym by globally

[random oak]

this instruction:
Use the following custom reshade.dll (otherwise game explodes). You have to add it to C:\ProgramData\ReShade (or where ever your global reshade Vulkan layer .dll is)

there used to be a tickbox in the installer but it's not there anymore for global inject

at least that's how the old tutorial was

never used it myself before

[strange lantern]

This requires custom reshade anyways, .exe installer version VK addon wont work

Pretty sure vulkan flag still exists on the .exe

[random oak]

where can I get that custom version?

[strange lantern]

its linked

[random oak]

ahh okay, yeah I have that, but I don't know anything about that global inject thing, so I was confused what I was supposed to do with it

[strange lantern]

Vulkan is always global

which is a bit annoying

All vulkan games will load that custom reshade now

I dont know if theres a way to block it from loading on certain games

[random oak]

I finally found the folder, I misread it as program files
now time to test!

Thx for all the info, mighty appreciate it

Works well so far
but why does the screen turn piss yellow when I turn up saturation? xD

[strange lantern]

[random oak]

HDRsaturation reshade thankfully still works fine for that 🥳

[random oak]

Vulkan fps boost is pretty nice, I like it

but man the flickering shadows are a pain in the ass..

[random oak]

If you can fix the shadows and the texture glitching, I'm gonna send ya 100$ no kiddin'