Far Cry 2 - Graphical Enhancement Suite

[Senescent]

This mod or "injector" will remove the original dull tint the vanilla game has making it look much more natural and life-like. The textures have a realistic amount of saturation and are much sharper than before, meaning you'll notice small details that should have been in the game originally. Even though this is under 1MB, Far Cry 2 will never be the same again.

Check out a video of GES by clicking here!
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Vanilla 1 - FC2-GE 1
Vanilla 2 - FC2-GE 2
Vanilla 3 - FC2-GE 3

[athirst4blood]

Nice! Just started playing this again so this will make it even better

[Senescent]

Thank you! I just added a link to a video I made for the mod in the original post.

[ibitato]

great job
will be testing today
im also re-playing this

how are you supposed to fight at night, with that contrast. impossibruu

[Senescent]

Originally Posted by jdd91

how are you supposed to fight at night, with that contrast. impossibruu

I've had a few people ask me this. Far Cry 2 has the same feature as CryEngine in which it tries to simulate the human eye. That means if you're looking at a bright light source the dark areas will look darker until you look away and your eyes adjust. This is more apparent with my mod. So it will look normal at night unless you stare at a campfire like I was doing in the video. This also explains why, when I was standing in the shade, it got so dark near the end of the video. If you try it and for some reason it really is too dark you can always turn the brightness up in game.

Edit- Look at the third set of screenshots in my original post. You can see that night is definitely darker with the mod but not so much that you cannot see.

[rhettman5]

Thanks for the mod, I play lots of Multi-player and the difference is much easier on the eyes.

As far as the darkness, I didn't have to touch the brightness settings, My monitor has a "Game" setting which brightens it up just enough.

The only thing you might change is in the read me, it states to place the downloaded (.bin) folder in the directory and overwrite if needed...you need to place the mod files in the existing bin folder (at least on the non-steam retail version)or you will wind up deleting a bunch of stuff from the bin folder you need when you overwrite it !

[Smooth613]

So nowadays graphic enhancement "mods" simply consist of an FXAA or SMAA injector with overly saturated colors and poor contrast? No thanks.

[Flubbersucker]

Wow no thanks. This looks horrid

[Chubz123]

Originally Posted by Flubbersucker

Wow no thanks. This looks horrid

Agreed.

[Senescent]

Originally Posted by Smooth613

So nowadays graphic enhancement "mods" simply consist of an FXAA or SMAA injector with overly saturated colors and poor contrast? No thanks.

I'm not sure if you know but Far Cry 2 isn't exactly very moddable. So yes, in this case, an injector is as good as it gets.

Anyway, obviously this isn't for everyone but if you've read the post above about contrast and still honestly think that it's over saturated your monitor is probably configured incorrectly. The average inexperienced customer usually never properly calibrates their monitor. Try using this guide or searching for another one and after trying it in game, give me your opinion. If you're still a fan of the next-gen "realistic brown" then I'm not sure what else I can do for you. Thank you for your input, though!

[rhettman5]

Don't let em bug you, I think it looks much better, and a lot easier on the eyes also...great for those long rainy day multi-player battles !

[Smooth613]

Originally Posted by Senescent

I'm not sure if you know but Far Cry 2 isn't exactly very moddable. So yes, in this case, an injector is as good as it gets.

Anyway, obviously this isn't for everyone but if you've read the post above about contrast and still honestly think that it's over saturated your monitor is probably configured incorrectly. The average inexperienced customer usually never properly calibrates their monitor. Try using this guide or searching for another one and after trying it in game, give me your opinion. If you're still a fan of the next-gen "realistic brown" then I'm not sure what else I can do for you. Thank you for your input, though!

I had a more elaborate post written up but some may have thought it was too much, or something... So, just to sum up my feelings on this. Oh, by the way, my monitor(s) on each of my system(s) are calibrated just fine.

Try to mimic the saturation, contrast, and brightness levels all via the GPU control panel settings. After only spending a few minutes with it I can get damn near the same results in the screenshots and then I went to the website linked above. I could not tell a difference in 85-100 at all, solid white, with 0-10 solid black - whereas normally I can easily differentiate each of the eight color blocks. Here, if you have an AMD GPU, or you can try same with NVIDIA but I'm relaying my CCC settings, plug these numbers in and compare.

HUE - 0
SATURATION - 200
BRIGHTNESS - (-)40
CONTRAST - 155

You'll get comparable results to the "modded" screenshots but I want you to notice how washed out and terrible it really is on everything else, especially the white and black levels.

Now if you enjoy the settings by all means use them, I'm just stating they are horribly over-saturated, for my taste, and destroy black and white levels. Whites too white, blacks too black - there is no denying that.

[Senescent]

Originally Posted by Smooth613

I had a more elaborate post written up but some may have thought it was too much, or something... So, just to sum up my feelings on this. Oh, by the way, my monitor(s) on each of my system(s) are calibrated just fine.

Try to mimic the saturation, contrast, and brightness levels all via the GPU control panel settings. After only spending a few minutes with it I can get damn near the same results in the screenshots and then I went to the website linked above. I could not tell a difference in 85-100 at all, solid white, with 0-10 solid black - whereas normally I can easily differentiate each of the eight color blocks. Here, if you have an AMD GPU, or you can try same with NVIDIA but I'm relaying my CCC settings, plug these numbers in and compare.

HUE - 0
SATURATION - 200
BRIGHTNESS - (-)40
CONTRAST - 155

You'll get comparable results to the "modded" screenshots but I want you to notice how washed out and terrible it really is on everything else, especially the white and black levels.

Now if you enjoy the settings by all means use them, I'm just stating they are horribly over-saturated, for my taste, and destroy black and white levels. Whites too white, blacks too black - there is no denying that.

Obviously when you edit your display settings like that it's not going to be properly calibrated. That doesn't even make any sense. You're not thinking correctly. By default, Far Cry 2 will look completely washed out and bland on a properly calibrated monitor. The injector is adjusting multiple settings, some of which you can change in your monitor options and/or display drivers, but only within the game. That means that if your monitor is calibrated incorrectly and you add the injector on top of that it's going to look really weird in game. Another example would be if your monitor was set up correctly and somehow you managed to inject the settings into Windows 7. It would appear incorrect when mixed with your proper settings. Do you understand how you have the completely wrong mindset? Replicating the injector settings are going to appear incorrect because that's how it works. It adds contrast, saturation, sharpening, tints and filters on top of your hardware/software settings into a specific program in order to change the appearance. Nothing you said makes any sense besides that we have different tastes. Regardless, if you honestly think that it's a good idea but was poorly executed, I urge you to try it in game for yourself. You may personally still not enjoy it but you're wrong when it comes to the technicalities and there's no denying that.

[plychucky]

i think it looks great.i use it in bf 3 and its awsome...