Awesome. Thank you. This is great. Endorsed. Needs more visibility. Feel free to remove this if I'm wrong or you don't like what I put out below. It is redundant to the steps provided on the description tab, but I found myself fumbling around for longer than I'd care to admit looking up how to use BAE & Archive2 and thought I'd share a detailed step-by-step of how I went through this.
Step by Step: Create folder on Desktop: HD DLC OLD Create folder on Desktop: HD DLC NEW Navigate to: C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 4\Data Run: bae.exe Drag & Drop into bae.exe window: DLCUltraHighResolution - Textures01.ba2 Click: Extract Choose/Extract To: C:\Users\*username*\Desktop\HD DLC OLD Close: bae.exe Navigate to: C:\Users\*username*\Downloads\High Res DLC Duplicate Deletion\High Res DLC Duplicate Deletion\Data\Textures Copy: High Res DLC Duplicates Delete Batch.bat Paste in: C:\Users\*username*\Desktop\HD DLC OLD\Data\Textures Run: High Res DLC Duplicates Delete Batch.bat Delete: High Res DLC Duplicates Delete Batch.bat Navigate to: C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 4\Tools\Archive2 Run: Archive2.exe Select: File -> New -> Format: DDS -> OK Drag & Drop into Archive2.exe window: C:\Users\*username*\Desktop\HD DLC OLD\Textures Select: File -> Save As -> FOLDER: C:\Users\*username*\Desktop\HD DLC NEW -> FILENAME: DLCUltraHighResolution - Textures01 -> Save Close: Archive2.exe Repeat process for DLCUltraHighResolution - Textures01-16 one at a time Navigate to: C:\Users\*username*\Desktop\HD DLC NEW Copy: DLCUltraHighResolution - Textures01-16 Navigate to: C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 4\Data Paste Replace all files when prompted Launch game
Your welcome, I planned on optimizing the entire High Res DLC properly, but honestly there isn't much you can do other than resize and re-compress (which lowers the overall texture quality), the base textures just aren't very good quality in the first place, its blatant they were made for consoles. I thought about experimenting with upscale software and downscaling then recompressing them in a better format like BC7 to see the results, but we'll see.
You are better off overwriting with better texture mods, or nitpicking the textures you like out of the High Res DLC, I recommend the weapon, armor and creature retextures, not much covers them and they are what you mostly stare at.
del "DLC01\del "Props\DLC01MechanistDrawingLowPolyBack_n.DDS
Found about 800 of them
EDIT : found more lines with a similar problem : del "actors\DLC05\Powerdel "Armor\T51LegSugarBomb_d.DDS del "actors\Robotdel "Shared\DecalSheet_d.DDS del "Armor\Combatdel "Armor\ChestDecal_n.DDS del "Armor\RaiderUnderdel "Armor\raider_under_armor_3_M_d.DDS del "Weapons\Laserdel "Weapons\LaserReticle_d.DDS
I'm just gonna redo the entire thing, its the result of doing this at 1am and too many files to look over, this time I'll look over the files by each category
It won't mess up your load order if you do it properly. All you have to do is copy the high-res dlc including the .esm (I would do this in anyways) somewhere on your drive so if you do fudge it up you can just copy paste it back into your data folder, no harm no foul no messing up your load order. Unpack each archive into seperate folders named after the high res dlc BA2s e.g. name the first folder "DLCUltraHighResolution - Textures01" for the BA2 of the same name you unpack, run the bat by putting it in the texture folder of the unpacked BA2 and double clicking it, a black window should open and it willl run Wait for it to finish. Move onto the next BA2 and unpack it into the folder "DLCUltraHighResolution - Textures02" and run the bat again, keep doing this for each BA2 archive seperately, you'll know if it works because the file size will be lower Finally repack all your unpacked archives with the same names as the folders with ".ba2" at the end so its packed back to its original state just with less space because you delete 10GB of duplicates using the .bat. There are tutorials on how to use Archive2 and really if you are modding Fallout 4 and using texture mods, you kinda need to learn how to use it. This might be helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND-rCvhyP0k You can only pack a maximum of 2GB usually but the high res dlc is different you can just pack it without setting a memory limit, this is only unique to the high res dlc, do not follow this rule for packing other texture packs. If you are extra worried what the bat does, right click on the .bat and click "edit" it should open in notepad and you should see the list of what I've told the bat to delete which is why it has "del" commands all over, you will see the .DDS files I've told it to delete is exactly the same as the spreadsheet I linked on the main page. If it can't find those .DDS files it just skips them but still deletes the ones that are there.
I hope this is a bit more in-depth for you, its really not that hard.
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Feel free to remove this if I'm wrong or you don't like what I put out below. It is redundant to the steps provided on the description tab, but I found myself fumbling around for longer than I'd care to admit looking up how to use BAE & Archive2 and thought I'd share a detailed step-by-step of how I went through this.
Step by Step:
Create folder on Desktop: HD DLC OLD
Create folder on Desktop: HD DLC NEW
Navigate to: C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 4\Data
Run: bae.exe
Drag & Drop into bae.exe window: DLCUltraHighResolution - Textures01.ba2
Click: Extract
Choose/Extract To: C:\Users\*username*\Desktop\HD DLC OLD
Close: bae.exe
Navigate to: C:\Users\*username*\Downloads\High Res DLC Duplicate Deletion\High Res DLC Duplicate Deletion\Data\Textures
Copy: High Res DLC Duplicates Delete Batch.bat
Paste in: C:\Users\*username*\Desktop\HD DLC OLD\Data\Textures
Run: High Res DLC Duplicates Delete Batch.bat
Delete: High Res DLC Duplicates Delete Batch.bat
Navigate to: C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 4\Tools\Archive2
Run: Archive2.exe
Select: File -> New -> Format: DDS -> OK
Drag & Drop into Archive2.exe window: C:\Users\*username*\Desktop\HD DLC OLD\Textures
Select: File -> Save As -> FOLDER: C:\Users\*username*\Desktop\HD DLC NEW -> FILENAME: DLCUltraHighResolution - Textures01 -> Save
Close: Archive2.exe
Repeat process for DLCUltraHighResolution - Textures01-16 one at a time
Navigate to: C:\Users\*username*\Desktop\HD DLC NEW
Copy: DLCUltraHighResolution - Textures01-16
Navigate to: C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 4\Data
Paste
Replace all files when prompted
Launch game
I thought about experimenting with upscale software and downscaling then recompressing them in a better format like BC7 to see the results, but we'll see.
You are better off overwriting with better texture mods, or nitpicking the textures you like out of the High Res DLC, I recommend the weapon, armor and creature retextures, not much covers them and they are what you mostly stare at.
del "DLC01\del "Props\DLC01MechanistDrawingLowPolyBack_n.DDS
Found about 800 of them
EDIT : found more lines with a similar problem :
del "actors\DLC05\Powerdel "Armor\T51LegSugarBomb_d.DDS
del "actors\Robotdel "Shared\DecalSheet_d.DDS
del "Armor\Combatdel "Armor\ChestDecal_n.DDS
del "Armor\RaiderUnderdel "Armor\raider_under_armor_3_M_d.DDS
del "Weapons\Laserdel "Weapons\LaserReticle_d.DDS
e.g. name the first folder "DLCUltraHighResolution - Textures01" for the BA2 of the same name you unpack, run the bat by putting it in the texture folder of the unpacked BA2 and double clicking it, a black window should open and it willl run
Wait for it to finish.
Move onto the next BA2 and unpack it into the folder "DLCUltraHighResolution - Textures02" and run the bat again, keep doing this for each BA2 archive seperately, you'll know if it works because the file size will be lower
Finally repack all your unpacked archives with the same names as the folders with ".ba2" at the end so its packed back to its original state just with less space because you delete 10GB of duplicates using the .bat. There are tutorials on how to use Archive2 and really if you are modding Fallout 4 and using texture mods, you kinda need to learn how to use it.
This might be helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND-rCvhyP0k
You can only pack a maximum of 2GB usually but the high res dlc is different you can just pack it without setting a memory limit, this is only unique to the high res dlc, do not follow this rule for packing other texture packs.
If you are extra worried what the bat does, right click on the .bat and click "edit" it should open in notepad and you should see the list of what I've told the bat to delete which is why it has "del" commands all over, you will see the .DDS files I've told it to delete is exactly the same as the spreadsheet I linked on the main page. If it can't find those .DDS files it just skips them but still deletes the ones that are there.
I hope this is a bit more in-depth for you, its really not that hard.