Improve The Look Of Old Games (Depending On Your Taste)

[Mayhem]

Hey all, found this trick that allows you to add effects to DX9 games. This may or may not be new to some of you but I felt it was definitely worth posting. From what I have seen on another forum this should work with ANY directx 9 games. I have only tested this one with Battlefield 2 but it works like a charm even though the mod is for GTA San Andreas. If you go to the Download section and grab the San Andreas .074f files http://enbdev.com/enbseries_gtavc_v0074f.zip you can put them in any DX9 games main directory. When the game starts hit shift+F12 and it will add bloom, correction and I believe ambient occlusion. I think there is also a way to get motion blur working. I realize some folks don't like bloom but you can edit the config file and change the level if I am not mistaken. I don't like bloom and motion blur for some games, but for other older games I often find that running with standard DX9 at 1920x1200 on my new Nvidia card makes them look a little to clean and a bit cheesy. This mod actually makes them look a bit better in my opinion as it softens up things a bit and adds a little more shadowing. Your mileage may very but check it out and experiment. The mods are fully customizable through the .ini file. There are several other versions on the download page that add things like per pixel shading, SSAO and motion blur just to name a few and I haven't tried them but I will post results back here if anyone is interested. Might be worth trying to get working in IL-2 but that may be DX8 only and no OpenGL means no perfect mode. Either way doesn't seem to effect FPS much if at all. Somebody said they use this as an alternative to in game effects that eat up their machine.

There's also some mods for Skyrim.

Here is the link to the main download section. There are a lot of files in here to check out. I'm going to test some of them to see if I can get them working with other games.

http://enbdev.com/download_en.htm

Here is another useful link.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1405180

And here's a video. Looks a bit dark but that's more Frap's fault I think. You can also customize the levels to your liking.

[DoubleTap]

Huh, and this works with a range of games?

DT

[Mayhem]

yeah, just for the heck of it tried it with BF2 right off the bat and it works fine.