Knights of the Old Republic

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This is a ReShade preset that enhances contrast, especially in the darker areas, emphasizes lighting sources and shifts the overall gamma towards brilliant blue as well as applying much needed ambient occlusion, bloom and depth of field.

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Sadly there're still very few reshade presets for this incredible game. I could not find the one for my tastes and so created my own.
It enhances contrast, especially in the darker areas (Taris Undercity, Kashyyyk Shadowlands, Manaan sea floor, etc), emphasizes lighting sources and shifts the overall gamma towards brilliant blue as well as applying much needed ambient occlusion, bloom and depth of field.

Installation:

If you don't have ReShade installed:
  • Extract Revan Strikes Back full installation.zip file contents into the game installation folder (the same directory as your swkotor.exe)
  • Enjoy!

If you have ReShade installed already:
  • Be sure to check your ReShade version. This preset was created with ReShade 4.3.0 and can't be guaranteed to work with the earlier versions. IMPORTANT! It seems in the latest ReShade versions (4.6.0+) some of the effects became broken in this game. I strongly advise to use earlier versions or use the full installation option instead.
  • Open ReShade.ini and check that the string starting with PreprocessorDefinitions is exactly like shown below: PreprocessorDefinitions=RESHADE_DEPTH_LINEARIZATION_FAR_PLANE=1000.0,RESHADE_DEPTH_INPUT_IS_UPSIDE_DOWN=0,RESHADE_DEPTH_INPUT_IS_REVERSED=0,RESHADE_DEPTH_INPUT_IS_LOGARITHMIC=0. If you can't find this string then simply copy and paste it from here right under the string starting with ShowFPS.
  • Extract Revan Strikes Back preset only.zip file contents into the game installation folder (the same directory as your swkotor.exe). Open reshade-shaders\Shaders folder in the game installation folder and delete (or rename) MXAO.fx here as it conflicts with qUINT_mxao shader.  Finally, start the game and open ReShade menu with Home key, in the upper part of the appeared menu you should see the dropdown list, select the preset (revanstrikesback.ini) from there.
  • Enjoy!


Uninstallation:

Simply delete opengl32.dll, ReShade.ini, revanstrikesback.ini files and reshade-shaders folder from the game installation folder.


Trivia:

  • Depth of Field is pretty much experimental atm and will udergo further tweaking: in the exploring mode it will look distant and subtle, in the first person mode (capslock) it won't be noticeable until another character or object directly in front of you, in dialogs it's gonna shift much closer to the camera providing nice cinematic look, but sometimes will affect the upper blackbar blurring the text there. Please see the screenshots for more details.
  • This preset uses FXAA in addition to the ingame 8x AA. Besides the downsampling this seems to be the only effective way to get rid of aliasing.
  • Black outlines of ambient occlusion effect will be slightly noticeable through HUD and nearby fog/smoke. This is not a bug.
  • For full installation: you can take .png screenshots retaining all of the effects with Print Screen key. They will be saved into the game installation folder. You can disable/enable ReShade by pressing Scroll Lock key.
  • The ingame brightness is at the default value (Brightness=57)