Additional visual options

This is not a ReShade preset, you can still use ReShade to further customize your game visuals. This is a set of files that gives you more visual settings customization options than the original Elden Circle.

Additional Visual Options

🎮 **A collection of mods that allow you to transcend the visual limitations of the original Elden Circle**

🚀 Quick Start

**Installation Method:** Set up Mod Engine 2 first, then drag and drop the files into the mods folder

**Uninstall method:** Remove files from mods folder

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✨ Core functional features

🔦 Ray tracing optimization

• **Ray Traced Shadows Only**: Changed the in-game ray tracing option to only enable ray traced shadows
• **Ray tracing ambient occlusion only**: Enables only ray tracing ambient occlusion, more performance friendly
• **Performance Improvement**: Compared to the original ray tracing, the frame rate has been significantly improved

🌑 Shadow enhancement

• **Soft Shadows**: Applies a blur filter to most non-ray traced shadows
• **Four levels of blur optional**: from slight to severe blur to meet different preferences
• **Recommended Level**: Blur Level 2 is the best balancing option

💡 Improved volumetric light quality

• **Ultra High Quality**: Rendering quality is greatly improved when volumetric light quality is set to "High" or "Maximum"
• **Performance Warning**: "Highest" setting is very performance consuming, it is recommended to use "High" setting
• **Completely disable option**: "Low" setting completely disables volume effects

🖼️ Comprehensive visual upgrade

**Levels of Detail (LODs)**:

• Imported significantly better LOD recovery mod parameters
• Improved level of detail throughout the game
• Increased non-RT shadow rendering distance

**Visual effects**:

• Borrowed Elden Ring InfiniDetail module parameters
• Improved glow filter, hair effect sampling, etc.

**Shadow Quality**:

• All shadow settings now use soft shadows
• The "Highest" setting uses 16x higher resolution shadows than the original

**Light Quality**:

• "Highest" setting rendering distance is several times farther than the original
• "High" setting render distance is 2x the original highest setting

🛠️ Compatibility Notes

• Tested to support patches 1.15, 1.16 and 1.16.1
• Only the latest version is supported
• If you find a bug and it is determined to be caused by this module, please report it

📸 Other modules used in screenshots

• Frame Generation & Super Resolution for ELDEN RING
• Force Dynamic Shadows Reborn (sfx folder only)
• ELDEN RING photomode mod
• Wearable Melina's cape

⚠️ Known issues

**Potential Crash Issue:**

-Latest version has fixed all known crashes

• 2025 NVIDIA driver may conflict with "Beyond Maximum" files

**Global illumination flickering issue:**

• NVIDIA driver intermittent global illumination flickering issue
• Capping GPU usage to 98% alleviates this issue

💝 Special thanks

• fromsoftserve - Helps learn gparam file editing
• Vawser - Provides Smithbox tools
• silentverge - technical support and Smithbox guidance
• LastGodslayer - technical support and gifts

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🎯 **Tip**: It is recommended to use it with the Frame Generation & Super Resolution for ELDEN RING module to get better super-resolution options and frame generation functions.

💡 Note: I am developing alone and cannot test all scenarios of the game. If you find an issue and it is determined to be caused by this mod, please report a bug.