Hogwarts visual overhaul

Experience the real Hogwarts! Corrected tone/color + better lighting & more!

Hogwarts Visual Overhaul

🎮 **Experience the real Hogwarts! **

The game's graphics themselves are outstanding, no doubt about it. It's probably one of the best-looking games ever made (if you ignore the minor visual bugs). But, it can also look better! After trying out a few mods uploaded by others, combined with further tweaks of my own during playthrough, I ended up with this using essentially the same strategy as my other titles (E3 Visual Overhaul and RDR2 Visual Overhaul).

I've managed to completely neutralize the hideously warm tones that this game covers every scene with. Now the colors look like they should look like at Hogwarts - it's not a warm climate in **Scotland** after all.

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🎬 Preview video

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🛠️ Installation Guide

• **Download ReShade**

Go to the ReShade official website to download the installation program.

• **Install configuration file**

Place the **`hogwarts_visual_overhaul.ini`** file into your game directory:

`Hogwarts Legacy\Phoenix\Binaries\Win64`

• **Run ReShade**
• Open ReShade and select the correct `Hogwarts.exe` (there will be two, select the one located in the `Phoenix\Binaries\Win64` folder).
• Select **DirectX 10/11/12**.
• In the browse menu in the lower right corner, select the `.ini` file you just installed.
• Click "Next" twice to install the correct shader.

• **Start the game**
• After launching the game, open the ReShade menu.
• Make sure **`hogwarts_visual_overhaul.ini`** is selected in the dropdown menu.
• Make sure **Performance Mode** in the lower right corner of the ReShade interface is checked.

💖 If you like this mod, don’t forget to like and support it!

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🌟 Enhanced vision Engine.ini (optional)

In the optional files, I've attached my `Engine.ini` configuration file, which greatly improves the visuals in the game (see slider comparison in the top comment for details). The most obvious improvements include:

• **Better ray traced reflections** (still in testing)
• **Longer draw distance**
• **Better shadow distance/resolution** (still working on how to fix blurry shadows in cutscenes)
• **Force higher object detail level**
• And more optimizations!

This file disables the in-game bloom effect, as the original bloom was too strong in my opinion. Also, the preset itself adds a bit of bloom. The only caveat: disabling bloom in game will affect the visibility of the observatory (so when you want to play the observatory, just change `r.BloomQuality` from `"0"` back to `"5"`).