Dark Souls 2 Texture Renewal Project

⭐ ⭐ (586 endorsements) 📥 140,842 downloads 📌 v0.5 📅 4/26/2024
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By AnemoiaWorks · Visuals and Graphics

⬇ Download Mod Source: Nexus Mods ↗ 📅 Updated: 11/10/2025 📅 Created: 4/26/2024

🔍 Analysis

  • 👍 0.4% endorsement rate
  • 🏆 #3 of 69 Visuals and Graphics mods in this game by downloads

📋 About This Mod

The best and most comprehensive Texture Overhaul in the Nexus. This mod upscales every texture in the game to 4096x4096 resolution (2k resolutions) and adds full custom PBR Materials to the game including high quality Albedo, Roughness,

Dark Souls 2 Texture Renewal Project is a collection of Over 2500 Textures that makes use of DarkSouls2LightingEngine to bring a complete PBR Material pipeline to the game. All Vanilla Albedo, Normal and Specular maps was cleaned from compression artifacts present in the original files and Upscaled to 4096x4096 (with optional 2048x2048 versions available).

Along this every albedo texture is now packed with Brand new Roughness maps and Gloss maps present in the original files have been Upscaled and packed along Brand new Metallic maps translated directly from the original Specular textures. Every Displacement map available on vanilla Normal maps was also improved to make better use of DS2LE Parallax displacement feature.

On top of all of that Renewal also includes many fixes to low quality assets addressing texture seams, color corrections, incorrect texture LODs, completely new Normal maps for missing/low quality surfaces and much more.

The Renewal Project now features full ModOrganizer2 support.

Mod Organizer installation instructions:

  • []Install ModOrganizer2 and the Dark Souls 2 ModOrganizer2 Plugin[/]

    []Follow the Dark Souls 2 ModOrganizer2 Plugin set up instructions to create a Portable instance for Dark Souls 2[/]

    []install DS2LightingEngine SOFTS (This can be done through MO2, or manually. Try the manual install only if you are facing issues.)[/]

    []Download this mod main files and install. (Textures AND Config files if provided)[/]

    []Renewal Project features FOMOD installers for easy installation, pick the desired modules from the FOMOD menu.[/]

    []Load Order should be as follows:[/]

      UI Renewal

Renewal Project Textures

Renewal Project Normal Maps

Renewal Project Displacement Maps

Renewal Project Specular Maps

Renewal Project Update

Gear Renewal Textures

Gear Renewal Normal

Gear Renewal Specular

Gear Renewal Update

Config Files

Manual installation instructions:

[]Download this mod main files and extract them. (Textures AND Config files if provided)[/]

[]Look for the "tex_override" folders containing the texture . DDS and .cfg files inside the "fomod" folder you just extracted (Note: for All In One (aio) versions many different folders might be provided pick only one for each module category)[/]

[]Copy all . DDS files inside your "Dark Souls II Scholar of the First Sin\Game\tex_override" folder, Override if prompted.[/]

[]If Update downloads are provided this should b

📊 Mod Details

Game
Dark Souls 2 Mods
Author
AnemoiaWorks
Version
0.5
Downloads
140,842
Endorsements
586
Category
Visuals and Graphics
Created
4/26/2024
Updated
11/10/2025

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