FIRNIS 1.72

Glaze your graphics. Exquisite ReShade presets reconstruct image information, improving light flow, color, fog, depth perception, shadows and overall contrast, giving you a more immersive visual experience and more visual enjoyment, while staying true to the artist's original vision and color grading.

FIRNIS 1.72 - Image and Light Enhancements

🎨 Polish your graphics

FIRNIS is a ReShade preset applied as a final layer ("fear-niz" means "varnish" in German for painting), providing better image quality, more detail, better textures, better halo and fog effects, and more realistic light emission and flow. It gives you an overall better and more immersive visual effect.

✨ Core Functions

• **Wider Dynamic Range** - Better use of dynamic range to synthesize information in shadows
• **Improved Contrast** - Overall picture is clearer and brighter
• **Enhanced Light Emission** - Light fills the space more naturally, reducing the feeling of floating light balls in dark spaces
• **More Textured Sunshine** - Sunshine has more color and weight
• **Better skin effects** - skin is more realistic and texture details are more obvious
• **Improved visibility in low light environments** - Shows more detail in low light situations and black shadows, excelling in indoor cutscenes
• **Richer Colors** - Preserves subtle color differences from weather changes
• **Improved Glow and Fog** - more subtle and natural
• **Simulated Reflected Light** - Enhance fog and atmosphere
• **Improved readability of UI elements** - The interface is clearer and easier to read

🎮Using experience

Using FIRNIS is like wearing glasses! The night will be slightly brighter and everything under the moonlight will be more visible, while the day will be clearer and details in the shadows will stand out more. Warm sunsets are more visible on the snow and surroundings, giving you a more realistic perception of the weather. The feeling of being warmed by the sun on a humid and misty morning was enhanced!

The metal material feels more metallic, which overall improves the immersion! Dirt and blood blend better with the underlying skin.

⚡ Performance

FIRNIS is pretty performance-friendly - only losing around 0-3 fps on normal performance of around 40 fps (with FX-8350 and GTX 1070). Can be considered a "non-obvious" performance impact.

🛠️ Installation Guide

• Download the latest version of ReShade installer from , select RDR2.exe in the RDR2 main folder, and make sure all plug-ins are installed
• Place the downloaded .ini file into the RDR2 main folder
• Press [Pos1] in the game to open the ReShade menu overlay and select 'Firnis 1.72 - Image and Light Enhancing'
• Make sure you are in performance mode

💡 **Tip**: Assign an "Effect Switch" shortcut key in the ReShade settings tab to quickly switch to view the difference effect.

🎯 Custom adjustments

• If the game looks over-sharpened, uncheck AdaptiveSharpen.fx
• If you want to adjust the contrast, you can modify the parameters of curves.fx (the recommended value is between 0-0.325, the default is 0.225)
• Ambientlight.fx controls the simulated reflected light effect, and the intensity can be adjusted according to the display (default 6.25, recommended range 5-7.5)

📺 Monitor calibration recommendations

Calibrating your monitor's contrast/brightness settings is highly recommended! While color calibration is difficult and unnecessary, contrast calibration is quick, easy, and effective. Make sure you can see the difference between the first and last two areas in the black-to-white gradient.

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🌟 This ReShade preset also works in many other games, give it a try!