Enhanced Dark Souls III the best immersive experience

TURN PRESET OFF IN MAIN MENU, you can change the hotkey in the options (i think it defaults to "scroll lock")

This preset focuses on clarity, realism (kinda), and improved immersion. It's a lot more refined than it was before when it focused on low-level ray tracing.

This is a shader preset for the shaders program called "ReShade". I originally downloaded "Incandescent ReShade 2. 0 - 2020 Re-Release" and tested it out, as I really liked it and wanted to experiment more with this I decided to download more. I ended up downloading another one called "Next Gen Dark Souls 3 Fake Raytracing", seeing as I love the idea of ray tracing and really wish it was implemented in more games. It really blew my mind what you could do with a 3rd party program like ReShade, I immediately started changing and messing around with the next-gen fake ray tracing mod. it escalated and this is what I ended up with 2 days later lol.

I honestly feel like this is a lot better than any other dark souls shader preset out there, but that is not at all to take away from the awesome work these mod creators have done.

The images above were taken with a param mod that increases the render distance, I will provide credits and a tutorial for that below.

video tutorial:

i have made a youtube tutorial for how to download and use the program (my channel is really weird, low-effort, and cringy so please don't look around there too much :O):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFSdSVRNh9M

To increase the render distance you will need to download yapped:

https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls3/mods/306

Once you have downloaded it and opened the program, you will need to scroll down and look at the left side. when you see a row called "Lodparam"... you know what? I think the one responsible for this great and needed mod gives the best explanation himself:

"This mod increases the draw distance, since that's pretty broken in vanilla. It's incompatible with other mods that modify data0.dat, but it can be easily implemented by any param modder, just by increasing all the borderdist parameters inside Lodparam to 9998(obsolete).

Edit:For V2 - ULTIMATE- , made the lv01 and lv12 borderdist values to 100 - 300 instead of 1000 or 999, so it's lighter. also changed  textureLod field from 1 to 0

Texture loading delay is fixed."

This was taken from the description of the mod that taught me this. here is the link to the mod:

https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls3/mods/315

Here are the rest of the links, 1 is for the ReShade program, the other 2 are to the mod creators that inspired this mod:

https://reshade.me/

https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls3/mods/544

https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls3/mods/12