Half-Life 2

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Reshade preset that adds many visual effects that make the game look better.

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Aperture Reshade
A reshade preset that can be installed for many different games that adds various visual effects such as color correction, bloom, sharpening and lens flares.



How to install for Half-Life 2 or any Half-Life 2 based game:

  • Download the latest version of Reshade from: https://reshade.me/
  • Run the .exe installer you downloaded
  • Press select game, and navigate to \steamapps\common\Half-Life 2\bin
  • Select vvis.exe and press ok, tick the box that says Direct3D 9
  • The program will ask you if you want to download a collection of standard effects, click yes.
  • Make sure everything is selected and press OK
  • Close the installer
  • Place the Aperture.ini from the downloaded zip into \Half-Life 2\bin
  • Place the filmlut.png file into \Half-Life 2\bin\reshade-shaders\Textures
  • Launch the game, press the home key to open reshade menu
  • Select the aperture reshade preset by pressing the small arrows at the top of the menu

Done, you can use the tickboxes to disable / enable effects you want. It is important to keep the LUT tickbox enabled.

Download version for Portal 2: https://www.moddb.com/mods/aperture-reshade