In V2, I did have to bump up the in-game gamma level to make the preset look right. I do have screenshots of the same locations with the preset turned off with the game's vanilla gamma level uploaded, from when I uploaded V1 in the screenshots tab.
Beautiful preset, unfortunately it tanked my performance, with an RTX 4090 under water block @ 2940 MHz core my FPS went from 85 to 60 right outside of the north gate of Edgewater looking north with all in game settings maxed @ 7680x2160 (Samsung G95NC), this is a nearly 50% reduction in FPS I went through all of the individual settings and eventually just eliminated all of them except Lumasharpen which really is the most visually beneficial effect as it removes the blurriness of the image and only costs 5 FPS vs 25 FPS of all of the effects combined. I would just use Special K for actual HDR but Special K introduces severe CPU bottlenecking and so I've had to resort to playing this title in SDR which doesn't look nearly as good but what can you do.
Gotta say...This makes me HATE The EPICStore even more for their "exclusivity" BS. If this was on Steam it would be soooo easy and done with. As it stands. I just spent 25 mins getting access to the Windows App folder(By editing some settings) and now when I go to use the Reshade program on the exe...it says I don't have permission! UGH!! Can someone please help? I'd very much appreciate it...
Sounds more like you installed it in a protected Windows directory. I use EPIC version to and I have no issues what so ever. EPIC allows installation in other locations then the Windows protected directories.
Yeah, it's entirely a Windows issue. Like I said. I hate EPIC for making this game an "exclusive" for a year. If they just stayed out of it then I could have had this game on Steam(My preferred platform) and had the ENB running by now. Anyway. I guess I am going to break-down and by the EPIC version, but only because I do want to use ENBs and mods with the game. Otherwise I would avoid the EPIC version altogether...
Another brainless epic hater. Immediately blames the store without any basic research or rational thinking, scapegoating epic for your utter ignorance.
I'm not gonna get into this. If you prefer EPIC then by all means. That's great! More power to you, but I do have something against EPIC because The Outer Worlds isn't the first game they pulled this "exclusive" deal on. No, no developer was forced to take the deal, but instead of just having the game on their store AND Steam and letting the players decide which they prefer. They decide to pay the developers to keep the game off Steam for an entire year. The worst part is it was originally suppose to release on Steam. If you check the announcement trailer than you'll see it does have the Steam logo, but then within a couple weeks they switched it on us. So, maybe I'm bitter about that. Anyway. Again. I have nothing against you if you prefer EPIC, but I have my reasons to dislike their service. Now. Let's leave it at that.
I never said I prefer any store over another. I just find the incidents of these steam justice warriors spreadIng their hatred and toxicity to my favourite game community really distasteful. I don’t owe any loyalty to any of these big corps nor care about their “insidious” shenanigans. If you wanna protest or enforce your justice then try raiding their base of operation or something. It won’t change anything but beats sitting in front of your computer and making ridiculous comments.
You know what? You're right. About bringing toxicity to the community. Not the "raiding their base" thing. I don't entirely agree saying something on the internet won't change anything. I mean. If there's enough outcry and protest then it's possible companies could change their ways. It's happened before. It's not guaranteed, but you never know. With that said...you are right. I shouldn't be bringing this negativity to the community. In fact, I'm one who always prefers to see the positive side of things. I suppose I will admit I got frustrated originally with my first two comments. As I said before. I do prefer Steam. There are many reasons why this is, but one of the biggest is Steam games are easier to mod. The Windows Store version of the game is unmoddable because of how restricted the files are and well I do see problems with EPIC that doesn't make me want to support them. But those are personal issues and I shouldn't be bringing to the Nexus or this person's mod page.
So, I'm sorry for causing a stir and I will work on that in the future. With that said...the last thing I will say is you make it sound like Steam users don't have a reason to be mad. We do. EPIC has lately been pulling this "exclusive" non-sense and forcing big games to come to their service a whole year before Steam. Maybe if their platform had a little more to it then it wouldn't be a problem. But they don't. They don't have achievements, they don't have anywhere for you to write reviews, they don't have screenshots, and only recently they added cloud saving to only a selected few games. There was also the controversy where the EPIC launcher was literally going into your Steam files and looking through some personal information, and then the rumor(I admit I don't know if this rumor was ever proven true or not) that EPIC installed Chinese firmware into your computer. Then there's some of the statements the CEO has made such as "Well, gamers don't see that we're doing a great service for them". Which is an arrogant statement to make especially when people are not happy with their launcher or service.
Anyway. I do understand why you got mad and I do want to just move on. I agree that the Nexus is not the place to complain about the EPIC Store. But...I hope you also see that there's a reason people are upset with EPIC. I'm glad you don't have a real preference, but some do and it doesn't seem right that people are acting like it's a non-issue. Maybe to some it's not, but to others it is. Anyway. This is the last response I'll leave. Goodnight.
"Toxicity"? How about we stop being so melodramatic. If someone expresses an opinion with which we disagree, how about we just shrug and move on, instead of acting as if we've been personally attacked?
For anyone else like me, who really did intend on following all instructions correctly for their first time installing/using reshade for their steam game lol, if you install reshade and nothing seems different, and don't see a gray status-y type bar at the top of your screen after starting your game, check to see if you just selected the pre-populated 'TheOuterWorlds.exe' that displayed in the reshade install wizard, instead of what Jb0238177 described in Step #1. If you don't specifically make sure the install wizard uses 'Indiana-Win64-Shipping.exe' in the ...\Steam\steamapps\common\TheOuterWorlds\Indiana\Binaries\Win64 folder, nothing will happen. (Obviously, in retrospect ha).
On to my next troubleshooting task; I don't seem to be able to access the reshade menu... I used the 'home' button, checked http://keycode.info/ to make sure my laptop 'home' button maps to the 'KeyOverlay=36,0,0,0' in the ReShade.ini, and even mapped to another key, but still can't access the menu :/ Not sure what I'm doing wrong, so if anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear em
Ok now I'm on to something from here: Looks like Citrix workspace is causing problems, again ffs (spent hours troubleshooting an FPS issue here) Resolved that, after a couple more hours troubleshooting why reshades menu won't open, it appears to be Citrix to blame once more. Stumbled on this post on reshade forums indicating Citrix to be evil, then found a citrix reddit post that led me to a unity engine forum post ?that made me test a couple things out, and basically I found that if you install citrix receiver with 'app protection' enabled during the citrix install process, it'll lock you out from being able to access reshade menu in outer worlds.
I haven't experienced either the FPS issue or this reshade issue in any other game outside OW, including Skyrim or Fallout, so I'm not sure if it's an OW engine thing or what. But basically TL;DR --> Uninstall Citrix, reinstall without ''app protection" (if that's an option for your work) and you can use reshade menu again.
i dunno if im doing something wrong here or what, but i installed the v2 shader(and set gamma to72%), and it just looks like garbage. i set a key to toggle the effects in reshade, and with the effects on the game somehow looks oversharpened and blurry at the same time
Unfortunate that this will never work in the Game Pass version. I just can't see myself switching to steam and paying full price for a 2 year old game. Oh well.
Delete the Reshade.ini, Obsidian_ReShade.ini, dxgi.dll & the Reshade-Shaders folder from the game's Win64 folder "The Outer Worlds\Indiana\Binaries\Win64"
If it's too grainy for you, reduce the filmic anorphic sharpen to 30, was 60. Or turn it off if you want to.Really nice mod, but it was horrible when i had the filmic anorphic sharpen to 60.
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So, I'm sorry for causing a stir and I will work on that in the future. With that said...the last thing I will say is you make it sound like Steam users don't have a reason to be mad. We do. EPIC has lately been pulling this "exclusive" non-sense and forcing big games to come to their service a whole year before Steam. Maybe if their platform had a little more to it then it wouldn't be a problem. But they don't. They don't have achievements, they don't have anywhere for you to write reviews, they don't have screenshots, and only recently they added cloud saving to only a selected few games. There was also the controversy where the EPIC launcher was literally going into your Steam files and looking through some personal information, and then the rumor(I admit I don't know if this rumor was ever proven true or not) that EPIC installed Chinese firmware into your computer. Then there's some of the statements the CEO has made such as "Well, gamers don't see that we're doing a great service for them". Which is an arrogant statement to make especially when people are not happy with their launcher or service.
Anyway. I do understand why you got mad and I do want to just move on. I agree that the Nexus is not the place to complain about the EPIC Store. But...I hope you also see that there's a reason people are upset with EPIC. I'm glad you don't have a real preference, but some do and it doesn't seem right that people are acting like it's a non-issue. Maybe to some it's not, but to others it is. Anyway. This is the last response I'll leave. Goodnight.
"Toxicity"? How about we stop being so melodramatic. If someone expresses an opinion with which we disagree, how about we just shrug and move on, instead of acting as if we've been personally attacked?
On to my next troubleshooting task; I don't seem to be able to access the reshade menu... I used the 'home' button, checked http://keycode.info/ to make sure my laptop 'home' button maps to the 'KeyOverlay=36,0,0,0' in the ReShade.ini, and even mapped to another key, but still can't access the menu :/ Not sure what I'm doing wrong, so if anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear em
Looks like Citrix workspace is causing problems, again ffs (spent hours troubleshooting an FPS issue here)
Resolved that, after a couple more hours troubleshooting why reshades menu won't open, it appears to be Citrix to blame once more. Stumbled on this post on reshade forums indicating Citrix to be evil, then found a citrix reddit post that led me to a unity engine forum post ?that made me test a couple things out, and basically I found that if you install citrix receiver with 'app protection' enabled during the citrix install process, it'll lock you out from being able to access reshade menu in outer worlds.
I haven't experienced either the FPS issue or this reshade issue in any other game outside OW, including Skyrim or Fallout, so I'm not sure if it's an OW engine thing or what. But basically TL;DR --> Uninstall Citrix, reinstall without ''app protection" (if that's an option for your work) and you can use reshade menu again.