HD Intro Video - Upscaled

Because you deserve nice things!

Original Introduction Video, cleaned of compression artifacts and upscaled from 1920x1080 resolution to 2560x1440 resolution.

Unfortunately for those of us who play in full UHD, I cannot get full 3840x2160 resolution to display in-game (just displays green screen). If anyone has ideas on how to get that to work PLEASE let me know. I uploaded an mp4 version of the 2160 video so you can at least view outside the game.

Checkout the comparison video and see for yourself, this is just at 1440:

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I processed the original files using chaiNNer and ESRGAN models, with Bink Video for conversion.

Videos are massive projects. One minute of 30fps video is 1800 individual image files. But I love the magic of the moving screen, so I will keep releasing more of these!

Installation

Cyberpunk loads archives in alpha numerical order, with numbers before letters. Archive names that come first get loaded last, meaning they will overwrite anything that comes after them.

If you want this to be overwritten by other mods, add a prefix of "ZZ" at the beginning of the mod archive name, and if you want it to overwrite other mods add a prefix of "00" at the beginning of the mod archive name

So what's with all these High-Res Texture Mods?

Cyberpunk relies heavily on post-processing and native upscaling for it's graphics. That means that most of the vanilla textures are very low resolution, with the game engine upscaling most of them at least 2x but as much as 32x the original, depending on your graphics settings.

That technique allows CDPR to package the game much smaller, but the quality of this on-the-fly upscaling is nowhere near what carefully trained and chosen upscale models can do with powerful AI software. Since vanilla textures are already being upscaled, there shouldn't be much of a difference in VRAM usage between these mods and putting your Texture Quality setting to High.

The biggest improvements are increased definition. CP77 relies heavily on normal maps for it's textures and then applying colors and effects to those normal maps. AI-upscaled normal maps greatly increase the definition of the detailing, allowing light and shadow to fall better.

Ok, I'm convinced. I want more. Gimme gimme.

Alright! Well stay tuned because I am planning to upscale nearly the entire game! For real!

It's going to be a well over a hundred mods when I'm done, basically a complete Next-Gen Graphics DLC. All my CP77 mods are here. You can track me on Nexus to get notified of new releases, but I am also packaging everything into Nexus Collections so you can get a one-click installation: