Hyper-Cinematic Realism 1 | How far can 500+ mods push the visuals of Cyberpunk 2077?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มี.ค. 2024
- Yeah, I've spent far too much time in Night City. But I can't deny it: It's a city of dreams! Also a city of nightmares.
I am not really interested to make my game look "photo-realistic". This usually results in toned down colors and contrast which may look impressive in showcase-vids but isn't really my taste for ingame. Instead I am striving for something more cinematic, a Zack Snyder-esque style, something I call "Hyper-Cinematic Realism". Sharp contrast and vivid colors and also a prominent depth-of-field effect.
And yeah, the title is a bit click-baity. You don't need 500+ mods to make the game look like this. If you install all of the mods titled "Visual Improvement" (along with the necessary core-mods) from this Google-document you'll be mostly there:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Main Mods for achieving this visual fidelity were:
- GITS 3.x
- Custom reshade by me
- Cyberpunk 2077 HD Reworked Project
- Improved Environment LODs
- Improved Vegetation LODs
- Improved Vehicle Lights Draw Distance
- RT DEBRIS
- ...and about 500 more
My rig:
- Watercooled Core I9 13900K
- Nvidia RTX 4090
- 64GB 6000MHz DDR5 Ram
- 2TB NVME SSD
Music:
"The mission (Part 33)" by the incredibly talented @100ambients
P.S.: Please forgive the constant microstutters, I don't know where they come from. Maybe I overdid the modding-thing and installed one too many mods or whatever. I'll try to get this sorted out! - เกม
![จังหวะนี้ - เม้ก อภิสิทธิ์ [ Official MV ] จอนนี่มิวสิค](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4gQRZCkRyiU/mqdefault.jpg)
Imagine you could travel back in time with this footage to when gaming started and show everyone that this is how games would look like in the future. Wonder what their reaction would be.
In 1988 I was 10… and I would go over someone’s house to play on their genesis … I remember their dad telling us that in 20 yrs games will look like movies .. I didn’t understand the concept at that time .. but here we are now… on the crisp of a this break thru
People would think it is a footage of the future instead of a game.
Probably disbelief
I would go back in time and get winning lottery numbers then go forwards and grab winnings and 10 hookers 😎
Now i understand why you've been busy...
This is impressive! My favourite part being the flying cargo ship light beams scene 1:44-2:00.
Keep it up!
Thanks to Sosuines Light Beams Fix mod. It doesn‘t look like that in vanilla! 🥰
Its not the beams of light themselves, its rather the whole scene, including how you rotate the camera and whatnot...splendid!@@NightCityNomad
@@UriahRhone Next step will be to learn Otis camera tools to make something like this 😱:
th-cam.com/video/JWi7YDtzt1s/w-d-xo.htmlsi=TvV4wvVK2wiqIGBN
wow, i had never seen anything like tha. Thanks for sharing. Now i gotta learn that too :)@@NightCityNomad
@@UriahRhone That video was what got me into making CP2077 videos. Just preem quality!
Thank you for your modlist ! Really appreciate that !
There are actual movies, recent ones too, that look nowhere near as good as this. Growing up in the 90's we dreamed of the day when video games gameplay would look as good as the pre-rendered cut-scenes. We're well beyond that, now.
Nah, we still have some way to go. Those are the best scenes I have put into the video. But believe me, even though Cyberpunk looks phenomenal there are plenty of moments when you see that it‘s not photoreal.
I just don‘t put those in my videos! 😋
In 5-10 years, when Unreal Engine 5 (maybe 6) games really have matured and the next Cyberpunk is out we will probably have reached continuous photorealism. Now we are on that cusp where it‘s partially WTF-level
@@NightCityNomad looking forward to it.
I loved the city and the ambient music❤ almost hypnotizing... thank u!
My pleasure, choom!
listing the mods used - check | providing the google docs with link - check | you man is a good man remember that
My pleasure. I see myself as a showcaser for the phantastic mods others build and as a kind of duty to support their work by spreading thirst for the mods :-)
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@@crows2708 Trying to be ;-)
Looks absolutely incredible! Night City - a paradise for parasites 🖤
And thank you for using my cyberpunk ambient track, fits really well with your amazing visuals! :)
Damn, thank you, mate! It's like most films: The visuals are only the first half, the music is the emotional maelstrom for the viewer! THX for letting me use yours!
the biggest difference i see to my vanilla game is the clearity. my games feels blurry compared to this and its running on max. but its like, after 10m, everything gets lod' and even textures look blurry
Do you play with pathtracing on? At least to me, pathtracing has always seemed to smear the textures a bit. I've opted for UltraPlusControl Beta with RT/PT option selected. FPS is better and the native pathtracing is off. It looks great.
I love living the beginnings of the future.
Can I put all this mods on the game main folder in mods folder like I did with the witcher 3?
Or I need vortex ?
My game does the exact same thing idk what causes it. The stutter is very annoying. Sometimes I dont see it other times I do. I have a 4090 too but it stutters randomly. I did a clean install removed all mods and still see stutters in gameplay and with recording with the GeForce experience app.
Yeah, I have no fucking clue what causes this. I tried all of the usual shit, getting rid of most bloat processes while gaming, updating drivers, using older "better" drivers, "fixing" the resizable bar stuff the 40series Nvidia cards seem to have and on and on. Nothing worked and I'm at wits end.
If I ever find out what's causing this I'll probably make a video on it because it drives me nuts!!!
Best mod video i habe seen so far. This game started like seit and went finde wirh phantom libarty
Wow, thank you! (Although I habe only a vague understanding of your 2. sentence 😁)
imagine all this, but in VR..
We will get there, give it 5-10 years and this in better in VR will be reality.
You can play Cyberpunk in VR with mods and it's incredible!
@@raphaelblier9215 Yes, but not in 4K in max. graphics settings. Like I said there is a youtuber with an RTX 4090 who does play in VR but he has to turn everything even remotely ray-/pathtracing-related off and just play in raster-rendering mode. It is spectacular but it is not this! I‘ll wait till the next generation of GPUs
Most VR headsets (the non-tethered majority) are just phones, so nope.
Frame-times look like they're all over the place in these snippets. Watching micro-stutters occur during transitions. And camera movement seems to cause your game to hitch for just a moment as well, so likely some texture streaming issues. Most folks aren't sensitive to this, and don't even notice it. But this isn't what I'd consider enjoyable for actual gameplay.
Great for a graphical showcase, I suppose. Nice work overall!
You're right and I even mention this in the videodescription. I have no idea what's causing this but I DEFINITELY notice it.
Will test it again if this also occurs in the vanilla game without any mods.
I don't understand why this could be a texture-streaming issue because with 24 GB of videomemory I should be absolutely safe to tackle anything out there. I also didn't find any info on this particular problem. Can you elaborate a bit more on this and probably a solution?
Beautiful!
THX
I take it these mods don't work well with clear weather?
Oh yes, they do! Sunny weather actually looks great! I just love rainy nights so that‘s why. Might show sunny stuff in the future though.
Truth be told overcast or rainy weather does look better for most people because you don‘t have those hard shadows.
Idk why soundtracks make me feel dizzy 😅 but thanks for sharing this I love this world so much
I wanted to download some of these but my pc would kill me
Nah, aside from real potato pcs most mods play well on mid-level ones. I‘d ditch the 4K texture mods and try out the 2K versions. and forget about the crowd enhancement mods. Those really stress the machine!
Thank you for your effort, are these mods for sale? Where do they download and install these? I guess these mods are not free
majority of these are free and on the nexus.
Nah, everything I use here is freely available. Follow the link in the video-description, that‘s an extensive Google-spreadsheet where all mods I use are listed, as well as the links to Nexusmods.
But prepare to invest a lot of hours into installing and managing these, it‘s really a hassle!
Are you new to the concept of modding?
Really nice bro, can i achieve this kind of graphics with a 4080 super and a r5 5600x?
Yes. You might have to scale back on the 4K texture packs or use DLSS in Performance mode. Test it but it should run fine in 4K res
Ah, hmmm, wait a sec, I just realized that your CPU has only 6 cores. That might be a problem in large complex scenes like dogtown or with maaaaany entities on screen. So you probably would also have to ditch the "Psycho Crowds" and all other crowd enhancement mods from my list (CDPRs astonishing crowd density for example) because those really stress the CPU. If that doesn't help try setting crowd-density to medium or even low (yeah, Sorry, but this game is not just heavy on the GPU).
But visuals-wise you should be good to go as I said in my last post! The 4080 is a pretty impressive card.
No need to run these in 4K. Most don't even have a 4K monitor.
insane
Looks gorgeous! Can you tell me which GITS LUT and ENV you were using? I tried the legacy one but didn't really like the look.
I actually do use the "00 GITS LEGACY" AIO. On top of that I also use a custom reshade preset which adds sharpening, contrast and a depth-of-field-effect to the picture. You can find the preset in the linked Google-document in the description - just search for "Custom Reshade Preset"
@@NightCityNomad thanks! I think I just got a bad weather. I used weathermancer to changed to a rainy one and it was instantly much better.
Also thank you for sharing your reshade. However, I noticed an issue with the DOF, once I use zoom with the optic, the DOF blurred my entire screen instead of just scene in the distance. Is there anyway to undo that?
@@unrealsimon93 yeah, cinematic dof is kinda bugged sometimes. You have to uncheck and then recheck the autofocus when starting to play. This doesn‘t guarantee smooth function throughout the game but it helps in the shortterm.
Also I read somewhere that you actually have to use frame-limiting for this because it tends to bug-out when the framerate gets too high. I usually don‘t habe more than 70 fps which seems to be the upper end but when the framerate goes beyong 75 those screenwide blurrings happen more often. So maybe try setting the maximum frames ingame to 65 or 70 (half that if you‘re using frame generation!). Then get this number down until it stops happening. This usually solves the problem.
Oh yeah, and you also have to deactivate depth-of-field in the games settings because this interferes with the reshade dof!
@@NightCityNomad thanks! I got all the visual mods from your list and while it does look great in some weathers, still can't quite replicate what I'm seeing in your video :) (all settings on max with PT on too).
Ty 4 your job
Wow so good 🎮 🥰
Pretty far it seems. I wonder if my 1080TI can push this! pretty preem. Would it be possible if you zipped all these mods and give us a link for a test run? I do a ton of CP2077 on my channel and was about to do another run with the latest update and starting with this modpack would be Nova. Looks pretty preem and I really want to know if I can push this with my rig.
I think I‘m not really allowed to do this as it would be repurposing others mods in a way. Or I would have to get permission from every author to do this.
Also it‘s a time issue, sorry.
You can however use the Google document as a guide and just install the mods from the „visual improvements“ category. You don‘t need all the cars and photomode poses or clothing to get the look of this. So you‘ll end up with much less than 500 mods to install. Shoot me a link if you make a video!
@@NightCityNomad Mods are public, right? then it should be ok to list them or make a collection pack. I understand the time-suck part tho, at least list the links or even just the names so I'd know what to look for. One more thing, there is a reason for that green hue in the game. Removing it is a sin but this is a showcase so no harm but still just to point out that the green tint is there for a very specific reason.
@@Neo101ai I'm not quite sure about the mods but I can remember that someone a while back got in trouble for hosting mods on his own site without the authors approval. They specifically upload those mostly on Nexus, maybe they want to keep them there for having the statistics in sight, how many people download and such.
Also maybe you missed this but in this videos description is a link to a Google-Document where I have listed all used mods from this video and each individual link to Nexusmods. They are even labeled so that you can sort them by vehicles, visual improvements and so on. I think this is what you're looking for, correct? Tell me if that's it or if you need something more, choom!
Also about the green tint that is true that it was the vision of the developers/artists and I respect that vision! I played Cyberpunk 2077 the first 4 times without any visual changes whatsoever. But I also think when I buy the game that it is mine (I am old fashioned! :-D) and I can do with it whatever I want. And I like it better with the visual overhaul which ENV/LUT-mods like GITS give it. This is obviously a very personal optinion and I don't want to force people to think that the original games look is wrong. I just like it better that way. If you don't than you can leave GITS and the reshade out of your mod-repertoire and enjoy the vanilla look. Make a video of it and shoot me a link, I'm always curious about others taste.
@@NightCityNomad Oh yeah I missed it, thanks for the heads up, nova, that is exactly what I was looking for. I was kinda overwhelmed after spending 20 hours modding Hogwarts Legacy... and about the green tint/hue it is cuz of the acid clouds and chems and all that and like I said I was just stating it not saying you should. We mod cuz our game OUR rule ;D now have to spend a ton of time remod the whole CP now... frak me. Not sure if my rig will hold t or fry. Maybe I actually will BURN my GPU LOL
@@Neo101ai Nah, I don't think your GPU will burn, my dad played the game on a Razer Laptop with a GTX 1060 GPU! (Obviously no raytracing or such shenanigans)
I'd advise you to skip all the texture enhancements from my list except HD reworked project - but use this one only in the smaller performance version, maybe it will work! The RTX 1080 has a rather limited VRAM compared to my RTX 4090 so that's where you'll most likely run into issues.
Also the crowd enhancement mods like "CDPRs astonishing crowd density", "Psycho crowds" and all Draw-distance mods like "Not So Good Draw Distance Mod" are a nono.
If GITS 3.X as a LUT/ENV mod doesn't suit your taste you can try Nova LUT which is another popular visual overhaul.
Just some ideas how you could probably up your visual experience without killing your hardware.
I must have installed something wrong, because it doesn't look like that for me
Well… it‘s hard to bugfix something with this info 😁 Do you have every graphical setting set to maximum quality? And installed every one of the visual enhancement mods from my Google-Document, as well as the Reshade preset?
@@NightCityNomad yes, I have the maximum settings, what I mean is that when I turn on the reshade preset, it doesn't look like in the movie, the image seems blurry and unnatural, and the colors are too strong, maybe it's the graphic mod's
@@trkf111 Hmmm, that's weird... The blurriness is most likely attributable to the cinematic depth of field shader and is easily fixable. You have to open the reshade menu and deselect the autofocus option and then immediately reselect it. That should make everything crisp and clear again.
The strong colors are a mystery to me. Did you install ALL other visual enhancement mods? I suppose that the GITS 3.x mod is probably missing (or overwritten by another mod you have installed) which is the most important visual influence on my stuff. You can neglect the reshade but GITS is an absolute must! To ensure that it's working put ### in front of all the filenames of the GITS mod in the archive/pc/mod folder so that it has the highest priority. This should make it present in your game.
@@NightCityNomad ok, so I installed GITS FUJI instead of GITS 3.x and the game started to look like in the video, thanks for your help
@@trkf111 Hmm, well, Fuji gives a rather more colorful look compared to the one I‘m going for. But if you‘re happy with it then have fun! 🖖🏻
You know the effect its getting bright where i look to with the camera. Like flashlight. How i fix this?
I‘m not sure I understand your question. Do you mean the „nuclear-explosion-bug“, where the whole scene lights up like crazy and slowly darkens after that? Unfortunately I don‘t know any solution for that and you have to wait a few seconds for it to darken to normal. But that occurs only sometimes and mostly after loading a savegame so no big deal really. Or did you mean something else?
@@NightCityNomad i mean its like a vignette. Like flashlight if i look at a point
@@NoPaywall I haven‘t experienced this. Do you have a screenshot or video that illustrates the problem? Sounds infuriating though
most amazing shit i ever see :O
CP2077 is going to become a game like GTA4,a game that moders mod it so much that it became a super photorealistic.This looks AMAZING,i wonder how the pc will behave if i use a VR mod with these graphics mods...
You can‘t. Even with a rig like mine which is the best of the best VR can not work with this quality. Maybe if you put DLSS into ultra-performance mode, but this will make it look shitty.
There is a TH-camr that runs Cyberpunk in VR on a rig similar to mine, also with an RTX 4090 and he can only get playable framerates when turning raytracing completely off - this obviously also includes pathtracing and ray reconstruction and everything above raster-based rendering.
So right now there is no PC on the market that can run this quality level in VR. I‘m strongly hoping for the 5090 to provide enough horsepower but who knows.
Is there a link to your custom reshade?
In the video description there is a link to a google document and in there there‘s also the link for the custom reshade (although this affects the visuals only a bit, the GITS 3.X mod does most of the heavy lifting!)
@@NightCityNomad For sure. There are some great LUT/ENVs out there, but after using GITS, nothing even comes close.
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i cant see stutter in your video. do you found a fix ?
There are numerous microstutters all over the place. It drives me crazy. My machine can handle the game at 60-70 FPS most of the time but every 10-15 secs it freezes for a microsec. And when filming with Nvidia screencapture a couple of minutes are ok, sometimes 10-15. And then it starts to stutter LIKE CRAZY, really, the footage from then on is unusable.
The only solution is to restart the computer and then everything is fine again for 5-15 Minutes and then the intense stuttering starts again.
Temperatures are ok in my system, I monitored the system load and also no problems there.
I have no idea. I got about the fastest gaming rig you can buy but this shit drives me nuts!
Maybe to clarify, aside from the occasional microstutters every 15-20 seconds I can play for hours with no problems. Problems arise when screencapturing.
@@NightCityNomad i know what you mean maybe our CPU have not enough core?
which Programm you use? Obs?
@@NightCityNomad sometimes, i have the feeling that path trace micro stutter mod make more stutter.
@@NoPaywall I have a Core I9 13900K with 24 cores. Should be enough 😁
Nah, I use the Nvidia Geforce Experience, it has built in screen-recording-functionality
Is this running on xbox series s
Of course! 😁
Can you drop the costume reshade
Yes, in the video-description there‘s a link to a Google-spreadsheet containing all used mods. The link to the reshade preset is also in there.
Your pc must be liquid after this
Nah, it‘s fine. Already working on part 2 so no rest for the wicked 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
WHIT iA EXPECT THIS TO BE MIN GRAPHICS OR EVEN LEVELS OF A GAME BEING USE TO MAKE MOVIES WHIT REAL ACTORS
Umm… I‘m not sure what you‘re trying to say but thanks… I guess… 😁
third person cam :(((((((((((((((((((
Go rtx 5010
can my laptop 4070 handle this loll
Probably not 😁
But you can reduce the game resolution, go „Performance“ mode on DLSS and one by one reduce the visual improvement mods. I‘d start by scrapping all the texture enhancements as well as the population and car density improvements. And ditch the reshade. Those cause the main fps drop. You can also use the 2K texture improvements instead of the 4K ones. This will quadruple the resolution of most textures and significantly improve them without having those sky-high demands 4K textures have.
gotta put in your graphics settings, choom. this ain't 4k if you're using DLSS
It‘s not native 4K. True. But it‘s very close sharpness-wise. And I‘ll miss the graphical quality when turning features off and gaining the „true“ 4K-sharpness and for me it‘s not worth it. So I‘ll stay with DLSS for now until a gpu comes along that can muscle Cyberpunk in native 4K at that quality level
dumbest comment ever.
DLSS is often even sharper and more detailed than native. Digital Foundry have gone over that many times.
@@esaedvik perhaps, but that's definitely not the case for CP2077
@@NightCityNomad there's a reference sheet somewhere on the internet that explains what each resolution of DLSS is based on the setting
cyberrpunk doesnt even look that great