Enhance visual settings

This mod modifies the values ​​in VisualSettings.dat and the graphics options menu to unlock new graphics settings.

RDR2 Enhanced Visual Settings

🎮 **An experimental visual mod that unlocks and enhances Red Dead Redemption 2's graphical options! **

✨ Module Introduction

This mod gives you more possibilities to customize the graphics by modifying the `VisualSettings.dat` file and the in-game graphics options menu. It unlocks otherwise hidden or restricted graphics settings and provides performance and high-quality presets that you can adjust to suit your hardware configuration.

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🛠️ Installation and requirements

**Required Tools:**

• **Lenny's Mod Loader**: Available from RDR2 Mods.
• **Scripthook V for RDR2**: available from Dev-C.

**Installation steps:**

• Make sure the two necessary tools mentioned above are installed correctly.
• Drag and drop the `lml` folder in the module compressed package to the existing `lml` folder in the game directory (merge and overwrite).

**Optional Presets:**

The mod pack contains two optional preset folders, `Performance` (performance) and `HQ` (high quality). You can drag and drop one of the folders onto the `lml` folder of the installed module according to your needs.

**⚠️ IMPORTANT NOTE (NVIDIA USERS): **

If you are using an NVIDIA graphics card, you **must** go into the NVIDIA Control Panel, find the **"Shader Cache"** option for Red Dead Redemption 2 and **disable** it! Failure to do so may result in a series of graphical errors.

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⚙️ Features and changes

**Graphics Options Menu Extension**

• Expanded several graphics settings that originally had limited options (e.g. temporal anti-aliasing can now be adjusted from "Low" to "Ultra High").
• Unlocked **"Special"** presets for some graphics options. This is the preset used internally by Rockstar for cutscenes and lacks optimization.
• *Note: Some "Special" options (such as textures) require more than 24GB of video memory, and "Special" shadows require more than 8GB of video memory. *

**VisualSettings.dat Core Adjustment**

• **Shadows**: Allows up to 5 levels of shadow cascading (from 4 levels), with soft shadow distance doubled.
• **Lighting and Reflection**: Slightly enhance the intensity of local light sources (lamps, candles, etc.); slightly increase the refraction effect of hair.
• **Screen Space Shadows**: Optimize the number of samples, increase sampling near to improve quality, and reduce sampling far away to save performance.
• **Materials and Surfaces**: Unify the normal map strength of various materials to 1.0; slightly enhance the subsurface scattering effect.
• **Other effects**: Removed the vignette effect; disabled edge light (requires user confirmation to take effect); increased the intensity of particle shadows.
• **Experimental Adjustments**: Increased the maximum bloodiness of the head (effect unknown); improved dithering algorithm quality.

**Optional preset details**

• **🎯 Performance Preset**: Reduce various LOD distances, volumetric fog accuracy and resolution, reduce the number of shadow cascades and special effects range to increase the number of frames.
• **🎨 High-Quality Presets**: Increase various LOD distances, volumetric fog accuracy and resolution, extend shadow distance and special effects fading distance to squeeze out the potential of high-end GPUs.

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📝 Usage suggestions and instructions

• **Mix and Match**: You can freely combine or remove mod features. For example, if you just want the new options menu, just delete the `update/common/` folder during installation.
• **EXPERIMENTAL**: This mod is considered an experimental work, especially the new "Special" settings, which may not work properly. The author only unlocked these options but could not fix their underlying problems.
• **RESPONSIBILITY DISCLAIMER**: The author is not responsible for any problems that may arise from using this mod (from computer problems to Rockstar account issues).

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