Dark Souls 2

About this mod

Added color, contrast and lightning. No fps loss.
Cas, FakeHDR, RadiantGI, Technicolor2, vibrance.
Color and lightning reshade made for 8 bit monitors without HDR.
Final Version 3.0 has Technicolor2 removed and colourfulness shader added.

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Dilla's Dark Souls 2 Sotfs Reshade
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Added color, contrast and lightning. No fps loss.
Cas, FakeHDR, RadiantGI, Technicolor2, vibrance.
Color and lightning reshade made for 8 bit monitors without HDR.
Final Version 3.0 has Technicolor2 removed and colourfulness shader added.
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Playing this game on a 60 hz monitor the game should be colorfull and probably no need for a color reshade !
This reshade is made for 144 hz monitors using standard monitor mode, where some games are grey and have no colors, maybe the icc monitor profile get ignored ? 
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Note about reshade download: Do not download the one with full addon support.
Download the one without full addon support because,
the one you can download with limited addon support but signed to be allowed in multiplayer games and the other is
one with full addon support and no depth buffer blockage for offline games, it will probably get you banned in online games.

Reshade V3: Cas, FakeHDR, RadiantGI, vibrance remain but Technicolor2 removed and colourfulness shader added ! Glowing lava problem is gone !
The best config, there should be no problems. Colors and glowing areas fixed.

*Re uploaded V3 with dither disabled. Disable dither if you downloaded this in the first few days here. Dither inserts an invisible screen to get better Gradient banding (grey tones) only visible with 7 or less backbuffer bits set. With 8 or 10 bit backbuffer set, the inserted dither screen is not visible but still exhausting to look at. Just disable dither (uncheck) when you see it is on.

Install:
 Copy the reshade file into the game folder.
When installing Reshade into the game folder, click on unselect all and then select all shader.

Note about glowing areas:
Set a hotkey for turning the reshade on and off and whenever you are in the Majula starting area or lava areas,
turn it off as long as you are there. The area is to bright, but fixing this area breaks all other areas appearance.

There are only a few places where the v1.0 reshade looks bad and it is in the starting area majula with the sun and places with glowing lava,
all other areas look awesome. Version 2.0 and 3.0 should be looking good everywhere.

Recommended reshade settings: Load only enabled effects in the settings menu and use performance mode.

Hotkeys:
Pos1: standard hotkey to enable the reshade menu ingame
Insert: toggle reshade on and off hotkey for comparing the difference
Print: for screenshots will be inside the game folder
Page up: reload the ini file
Page down: performance mode on and off
End: for choosing the next preset

Recommended graphic settings: max, all on but disable depth of field.

Recommended mods:
bloodborne lockon reticle
ds3 items textures port
Deadzone Fix sotfs - deadzone set to 30
Tabby Shalquoir HD the cat
A - Always Human and No HP Reduction on Death - install 1st then install recover souls, glowing effects from ring items don't work anymore using this mod but using consumables, these visual effects are still working
Recover Souls - Alway Human and No Visual effect variant A Compatible
SOTFS HD Player Messages
SOTFS HD Summon Signs
ruinas sombrias igp11 - shaded wood textures, delete all files but keep the green textures
Crappy Foliage Mod

Have fun ;)

*This reshade was created without a HDR monitor, so maybe this won't work on HDR monitors.

*Important note to everyone who get to feel a headache or eyes hurting, you should disable cas and use lower color values because these effects can create pixel corruption by oversharpening the picture. Using this reshade config it is fine for me but i had this in other games.
So be carefull when using sharpening and color effects, thank you.

*Feel free to change my reshade settings and upload your own reshade.

If you are a game developer: This is the kind of graphics what gamers realy want. Full colors, straight textures and clear sight ! Look at the screenshots or test the reshade file by yourself. When you create a new game think about putting some kind of colorcorrection into your new developed game for 8 bit monitors or add something like this in the settings menu for being able to toggle the colorcorrection on and off.

What is reshade exactly ?
https://www.reddit.com/r/sweetfx/comments/8jq6a0/what_is_the_different_between_sweetfx_reshade_and_enb


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When you are done with Dark Souls 2 just play some Sekiro, Dark Souls 1 remastered, DS 3 and Elden Ring they are the same games.

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