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Northern Wilderness - ReShade 3 Preset

This is based on "Cool Wasteland Preset" for Fallout4

-Cooler color palette, outwashed look, reduced saturation
-Darker, more vibrant Sky
-Dynamic depth of field
-More contrast
-More sharpness
-No FPS drop
-DOF with toggle-key

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NORTHERN WILDERNESS - RESHADE PRESET


Northern Wilderness is a preset for ReShade 3

This is based on "Cool Wasteland Preset" for Fallout4

FEATURES

  • Cooler color palette (More blue+green, less red - This removes the colorful warm/orange look of Vanilla game)
  • Outwashed look, reduced saturation
  • Darker, more vibrant Sky
  • Dynamic depth of field
  • More contrast
  • More sharpness & details (better looking textures)
  • decent grain-effect for reducing color-banding
  • No FPS drop.


INSTALLATION

For using this preset you need ReShade v3.

Download ReShade https://reshade.me/

Install ReShade & Preset:

STEP 1 
Download ReShade Installer and select Skyrim SE Game EXE "SkyrimSE.exe".

Click on "Direct3D 10+" button (it's already selected so click again) and accept downloading collection of standard effects from github. Select all, press OK.

STEP 2
Locate Northern Wilderness folder in your Skyrim Data Folder (Download with NMM)
Copy "Northern_Wilderness_1_0.ini" to your main Skyrim folder. (steam/steamapps/common/skyrim special edition)


That's it.
Start the Game.
There's an initialisation lag during loading screen.

Open ReShade overlay by pressing "SHIFT+F2". You can follow the integrated tutorial.

STEP 3

SELECT NORTHERN WILDERNESS 1.0 PRESET IN OVERLAY TO APPLY SETTINGS

ReShade should now work.


Add this to dxgi.ini (Skyrim main folder) to enable HOTKEYS:


[INPUT]

KeyMenu=113,0,1
InputProcessing=2
KeyScreenshot=44,0,0
KeyEffects=145,0,0

  • Access ReShade interface by pressing "SHIFT+F2"
  • You can turn off ReShade by pressing the "SCROLL"-KEY.
  • Pressing "PRINT" allows you to save PNG Screenshots in your Fallout 4 folder.
  • You can toggle the DOF with the "PAUSE"-KEY
  • If you don't like the DOF you can deactivate it permanently:
  • Open ReShade interface and Toogle off "Matso-DOF".

ENJOY!
HOW TO select preset ("Press SHIFT+F2"), then simply choose file in drop down menu.


This preset should work fine with AMD/Nvidia mid-class single GPUs and won't drain your peformance.
The Preset was tested with AMD Radeon R9 290X XFire 4GB VRAM, Intel i7 4770K @4,5Ghz 16GB RAM - 1080p, Ultra Settings. 
No impact on performance, if you experience issues you can leave a comment.


KNOWN ISSUES

  • DOF makes HUD blurry.

CREDITS
Thanks to crosire (ReShade developer), Ganossa (ReShade Assistant tool developer), CeeJay.dk, Marty McFly, JPulowski for the great ReShade Framework. http://reshade.me/