Project Realta Nua Reshade Preset R3 FINAL for PSO2 JP & US Clients

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ARKS INSIDER Presents: PSO2's Project Realta Nua Reshade Preset R3 Build July 28, 2020

Preset works for both Japanese and North American Clients of PSO2.



Preset Download Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tMu...ew?usp=sharing

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Graphics Card System Requirements:
- NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super or above (Or equivalent)
- AMD RADEON RX580 or above (Or equivalent)

NOTE: Basically if you can play PSO2 with over 100 FPS at 1080p, you can play it with this Preset 60 FPS Locked or Unlocked.

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INSTALLATION: (You can watch the actual video showing all of this instead of if you wanted)
1. Download and Install Rehsade v4.7.0 Installer, select your PSO2.exe inside the pso2_bin folder, and select DirectX9.
2. Leave the default checked plugins and select "qUINT by Marty McFly".
3. Make sure to only to select the following plugins:
- DisplayDepth.fx
- SMAA.fx
- qUINTbloom.fx
- qUINTdof.fx
- qUINTlightroom.fx
- qUINTmxao.fx
4. Set the Reshade Installer aside, and download the PRNRP R3 Final Build 7/28/2020
5. Open it and select "STEP 2 - PSO2 Reshade Plugin (Fixes Texture Shimmering) R12" Folder
6. Select the Proper D3D9.DLL file for your PSO2 Client as labeled by each folders (JP/NA)
7. Go to "STEP 3 - PRNRP R3 Final (Normal and Alter Presets)" Folder and extract the contents
7. Go back to Reshade, select "Edit Reshade Settings".
8. Do not Check "Performance Mode", Do Check "Skip Tutorial" option.
9. Under Preset, press the "..." Button and select the Preset you want to use as follows:
- ARKS INSIDER - Project Realta Nua R3 Normal
- ARKS INSIDER - Project Realta Nua R3 Normal wDOF (Best with Cutscenes or Photo Mode)
- ARKS INSIDER - Project Realta Nua R3 Alter
- ARKS INSIDER - Project Realta Nua R3 Alter wDOF (Best with Cutscenes or Photo Mode)

NOTE 1: Normal is based on the old color palette PSO2 used from EPISODES 1 up to 3. Comes with Ray Tracing.
NOTE 2: Alter is based on the current color palette PSO2 used from EPISODES 4 up to 6. Also comes with Ray Tracing.

10. Play the game and find the right Preset for your likings.

IMPORTANT: In order to access the Reshade Control Panel while in-game, default key is HOME key on your keyboard, change it to your liking in the settings of the Reshade Control Panel if you want (personally I set it to the "OEM" key (aka the Console Key) since PSO2 doesn't use that for anything in-game.

Reshade Important Settings: https://imgur.com/a/8UwagKu
Be sure that Reshade have the following settings set in order to get the correct visuals the presets meant to have.

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Post Processings Used:
- qUINT RTGI by Marty McFly
- qUINT BLOOM by Marty McFly
- qUINT LIGHTROOM by Marty McFly
- qUINT MXAO by Marty McFly
- AMD FidelityFX CAS by Advanced Micro Devices (OpenSource under GPUOpen)
- Clarity2 by Mortalitas
- Depth Cues by BlueSkyDefender
- SMAA by iryoku
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D3D9.DLL Specifically Modified for PSO2 (JP/NA) by Lemon-King, you can get the latest DLLs releases from his official Git-Hub Page.
https://github.com/Lemon-King/reshad...pmaps/releases

PSO2 In-game Video Settings:
- Everything Maxed Out Except for Anti Aliasing Turned OFF
- (Personal Preferences) Turn OFF Motion Blur

GPU Control Panel: https://i.imgur.com/18wPtST.jpg
All Default except for Vsync/Triple Buffering to OFF (ON if you have Screen Tearing or just use Freesync/GSYNC if your Monitor supports it).

WARNING(S):
1. Make sure your PSO2 Client is not installed on Drive C (System Boot Drive where your Windows OS is located).
2. Make sure the pso2_bin folder and its entire content went under "Take Ownership" Privileges to avoid in-game problems.
3. Make sure you update, and launch PSO2 Client using PSO2 Tweaker from now on (original PSO2 Launcher will not launch if it detects Reshade).

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This preset requires ReShade v4.7.0 (RTGI is no longer working with GShade, might change on the next update)
https://reshade.me/

Support the RT Shader Development Team via the official Patreon Page:
https://www.patreon.com/mcflypg

Official Facebook PSO2 Group Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/arksinsider/