About this mod
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
- Permissions and credits

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/