code vein care package

- description

Code vein a well lit game alas slightly a bit too much

of the 'lets sucker punch you from precarious ledges' school

of game play, but never the less still engaging.

These tweaks give the map (top right corner) a bit less opacity

and some reshade tonemaping reduces excessive darkening plus a

bump / relief shader high lights the texture details (works

nicely with the cell shade look of the game)

note in game use shift-f2 for reshade menu

and deselect bumpcart if the bump relief is

not to your liking.

- install

Copy the contents of the zip file to the install folder of code vein, the folder which

contains CodeVein-Win64-Shipping.exe. (code vein\CodeVein\Binaries\Win64)

- optional install

The following instructions are only needed

if you do not like using unverified dll's you can:

download 3dmigoto from

https://github.com/bo3b/3Dmigoto/releases

download version 1. 3. 16 and place the following dlls in the install dir of code vein

d3dcompiler_46.dll

then copy ShaderCache and ShaderFixes from the zip file to the same dir aka folder.

download reshade from

https://reshade.me/

install only dxgi.dll (64bits) to the install dir aka folder of code vein.

Then copy the reshade folder plus ReShade.ini and dxgi.ini

to the install dir of code vein.

- verify

After running the game the folder ShaderFixes should contain the .bin versions:

4f489b9956bd3e30-ps_replace.bin

4f489b9956bd3e30-ps_replace.txt

This means that the file(s) .txt have been compiled by 3dmigoto (d3d11.dll)

- tested

Tested with version 1. 01. 86038 of code vein on win 7 / nvidia 1050gtx ti

See screenshot for settings game.

- performance

reshade / 3dmigoto gpu usage 1080p@~55fps

without - clock 1772Mhz gpu usage ~70%

with       - clock 1772Mhz gpu usage ~77%

approximately 7% increase (1050gtx ti on win 7)

max gpu: 1772Mhz gpu usage 100%

*clamped frame rate to 55. 7 no sync

- further tweaking

If you like you can compare the modified shader, ShaderCache contains

the original shader, to alter values.

launch with (unreal 4 command line parameters):

CodeVein-Win64-Shipping.exe -norc -nowrite -nodatabase -useallavailablecores -noforcefeedback -nosplash -fullscreen -nosteam