R2:TW GEM - Graphic Enhancement Mod (obsolate)

[gastovski]

Can you make a performance mod for this crappy unstable glitchy game?.

[Ganossa]

Wow, you have a new avatar. You know they released a beta patch right?

Do you mean the AMD Beta 13.10 patch? I use NVIDIA not ATI.

Can you make a performance mod for this crappy unstable glitchy game?.

If CA would employ me just wait for their patch I am sure they are on it!

[Master Necromancer]

How big of a hit is this mod to the overall performance?

[Millard90]

[QUOTE=LuciferHawk;13213456]Do you mean the AMD Beta 13.10 patch? I use NVIDIA not ATI.



I think he means the beta patch released by CA this morning for Rome 2...

[adeno1]

Nice work Lucifer , Thank you.

[Ganossa]

How big of a hit is this mod to the overall performance?

No performance hit.

I think he means the beta patch released by CA this morning for Rome 2...

Where can I find it? Do I need to install it manually? Any experience on how well it works?

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I ported a M2:TW GEM shader to R2:TW GEM now and it works well (not included in the release) so if you want to see any of the M2:TW GEM filters let me know.

[jan_boruta]

I'm getting a minor performance hit, but it's acceptable. What are the recommended Gamma/Brightness settings? Also, I think the colours should be a bit more saturated, but I see it's adjustable in the settings.

[airborne guy]

Lucifer...I want...I want...I want!!!

[Master Necromancer]

No performance hit.

Than I'm installing the mod as we speak.

[Ganossa]

UPDATE
Added a Benchmark section where you can test your settings and compare to my screens.

[Millard90]

Lucifer,

You can download the patch through steam. details here
http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...1-Beta-Testing

[Razunter]

LuciferHawk, you should use SweetFX-Next instead of 1.4

[Ganossa]

LuciferHawk, you should use SweetFX-Next instead of 1.4

I might check it out. Thanks for the info. Any experience with that?

[Ganossa]

LuciferHawk, you should use SweetFX-Next instead of 1.4

Nice find, applying right now. It adds exactly the shader I couldnt port from ENB.

[Razunter]

I might check it out. Thanks for the info. Any experience with that?

Works good, I used it with different games. Only issue is I didn't find a way to configure hotkeys.

[Ganossa]

Ok that SweetFX-Next is buggy but I try to make use of the new shaders.
In SweetFX-Next some shaders seem to conflict each other.

EDIT: Use of the two new filters is hard coded and not added like all the other shaders so I cant include it into the current SweetFX version.
Using SweetFX-Next and using one of the new shaders seem to block any other shader.

[Ganossa]

UPDATE
Added a SweetFXNext version as requested (and the GEMM2TWVanilla shader, but I do prefere the GEM shader I tweaked for R2)

[Mr. Os]

Using your settings in the benchmark. I have to say, WOW. How do you take a screenshot with the sweetfx settings on though?

[Ganossa]

Press the print-screen button and you can find a .bmp file in your Rome II folder.

I use the following steps to upload those to steam and post them here in the forum:

1. Set the button (like F9) in STEAM configuration with which you want to take ingame screens
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2. Go into any STEAM game (X) and press that button (like F9) -- Screenshot (SX) will be taken
3. Go into M2:TW and press "prt sc" -- Screenshot (SY) will be placed in you M2:TW main folder
4. Open in STEAM the menu "View" -- "Screenshots" -- select game (X) screenshots
5. Select "show on disk" -- copy the path (PX)
6. Open the M2:TW screenhot (SY) in the M2:TW main folder with paint
7. Overwrite screenshot (SX) at path (PX) with screenshot (SY) as JPG
8. Go back to the screenshot view in STEAM and select "upload screenshot"
9. Select "show online" -- click on the screenshot until it has original size -- right click on that picture and select "copy link address"
10. Paste link address in twcenter post under option "insert image"

[Actus Reus]

Just want to add my thanks..