This is a reshade mod with heavy AO, improved contrast and respect to the original colours (IMO). I hate the washed out look of the game, and believe this mod does the best job of fixing the issues. I have basically Forza'd it! I am very happy to play it like this now, its stunning.

The Reshade AO can be turned off in game with the Pause Break key, and the effects can also be toggled on and off with Scroll Lock, both of these keys can be remapped. The AO on the reshade plugins do not currently respect distance fog, so having a toggle key is vital to turn it off when it looks weird or if you prefer not to use it.

Please turn off the in-game ambient occlusion and in-game depth of field as they will cause plants to flicker.

To do this Open Fallout4Prefs.ini and find these lines.

bSAOEnable=0
bDoDepthOfField=0

You will notice a flicker on the plants anyway, this is not a bug with the Reshade mod, but artifacting from TXAA the ingame antialiasing and the plant animations. The deeper contrast and darker background provided by the AO makes the plant pixels movement very noticeable.


I have uploaded a version with reduced flickering for those that notice it too much. But it lowers the AO quality a bit.





Installation

————————————————————————————————————————————

Drop the contents of the Zip inside your Fallout4 Directory. Most commonly Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 4

————————————————————————————————————————————











Uninstall

Go to your Fallout 4 game directory and delete the following files:

- dxgi.dll
- ReShade.fx

Also delete the following folder:

- Reshade


HELP SECTION

If you are experiencing a crash to desktop, then go to .../My Documents/My Games/Fallout 4/ and open up Fallout4Prefs.ini
Under the [Launcher] section, add a new line that says bEnableFileSelection=1


Credits
ReShade by Crosire
CeeJay.dk (SweetFX developer)
Marty McFly (MasterEffect/McFX developer)
Lucifer Hawk (GemFX developer)