Toby Ferrian

i haven't posted anything in a good while so here are a couple of night shots i took with ReShade enabled

I'll have a look at it when I get the time

Protip: Use a mod that changes the city view background to a solid color (like this one), it'll make it much easier to cut out the background

No, I suspect it's because of whatever your engineers did here

After seeing the recent discussions about using DirectX wrappers to run SimCity 4 at higher resolutions, I thought, can I use this to run ReShade with SimCity 4? The answer, to quote myself from Discord, is: In this thread I will share the results of my experimentation. Prepare yourselves, we are about to tread on unholy ground. To make this work, I used the dgVoodoo2 wrapper, along with the latest version of ReShade at the time of this writing, ReShade 4.8.2. I also ran the game at 1440p. If you wish to try this yourself, download dgVoodoo2 and extract the files within the MS\x86 folder within the zip file into the game's Apps folder, same as the game's exe file. ReShade comes with its own installer, so I will not provide instructions for that here. (Note: The performance impact of all this is minimal on my system, but your mileage may vary.) Once both are installed, simply run the game, and you should see the following: The ReShade overlay at the top of the screen, and the dgVoodoo2 watermark in the bottom right. If you see both of these, you are now able to see the horrors I have witnessed with your own two eyes. Now let's move on to my experiments. Antialiasing Easily the best use of ReShade within SimCity 4, at least in my opinion. It simply smooths out jagged edges in an image. It does not make a huge difference, but it results in a softer image. In my opinion, it looks much nicer than it did before, and is the only effect I can recommend using for normal gameplay. HDR HDR will make the image look more vibrant and colorful. With the right settings, it can look great. However, I don't recommend enabling it for normal gameplay, only for screenshots. The reason: Like all other effects, it also affects the user interface. Bloom don't just don't but if you do anyway, it will allow for some fantastic night shots: It can also be combined with other effects for an even better result: It might even look good during the day, but in my experimentation I found that it mostly ends up too bright: However, do make sure you hide the UI and unpause the game first, otherwise the bloom from the UI will bleed into whatever you're taking a screenshot of: And do be careful when adjusting the settings, otherwise you might find your eyes dripping down your face from the blindingly bright images: This is everything I have tested so far, but feel free to experiment with ReShade on your own and share your results here.

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The widgets are various Rainmeter skins from different sources (listed below), the taskbars are from DisplayFusion combined with some Rainmeter skins, and for the background I use these two wallpapers from Wallpaper Engine The Rainmeter skins I use: Elegance2 Enigma Omnimo Authentic Weather No Man's Sky Rainmeter

spring 2020 update

Do these count?

Two shots from the same city

The (almost) carless city of Hiraeth, population: 476,945

The city of Hiraeth during a storm

who needs desktop icons anyway