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Neural Origins — HD texture pack for Condemned: Criminal Origins. All textures are original, so the atmosphere is preserved, upscaled to 4x resolution with neural networks.
Original texture resolution is horrible(texture artist did a wonderful job, but due to hardware limitations they drastically lowered resolution) so I decided to fix it. I'm on my first playthrough so please no spoilers. All game textures are upscaled. Sadly I didn't find the way to implement upscaled normal maps, either the size was astronomical(17gb only for normals) or the quality got destroyed by compression.
WARNING: I got reports that there is a couple of versions of the game, with different folder structures. IF YOU DONT HAVE ORIGINAL "DATA" FOLDER, PLEASE FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS BELOW
Unpacked mod size is 9.33 Gb. You need 4GB Patch for the game to load without crashing. Sometimes after applying new textures, keybinds reset, so if your character is not moving, go to settings and set new keybinds.
VERSION: v0.9. Needs full playthrough for testing. Please report if you find any bugs.
INSTALLATION:Patch your game executable with 4GB Patch (Condemned.exe located inside the game folder). Just download it, run and choose Condemned.exe
Put the Data folder into your Condemned: Criminal Origins game directory and Replace all files.
Example folder structure >C:\Games\Condemned - Criminal Origins\Data
If you have Game folder with CondemnedA.Arch00 folder inside, put all the subfolders from my mod (global, m01..and others) inside CondemnedA.Arch00 folder and Replace all files. Example folder structure >C:\Games\Condemned - Criminal Origins\Game\CondemnedA.Arch00
If you have STEAM version you must find CondemnedA.Arch00(6.4 Gb) inside ...common\Condemned - Criminal Origins\Game. You must unpack it with Dragon Unpacker (Use version 5.6.2 !). In the unpacker, you must open CondemnedA.Arch00 file, right-click on the root folder and "extract sub-directories to " CondemnedA.Arch00" and choose the same folder of Arch00 file.
If it doesn't unpack, create folder with same name "CondemnedA.Arch00" besides Arch00 file and click "extract sub-directories" and choose created folder.
Then put all subfolders from my mod into this unpacked folder and replace all files. For the time move old CondemnedA.Arch00 FILE somewhere(or delete it if you confirmed that mod works). Now try the game and report if it works!
COMPARISONS: 1 2 3 4 5
RECOMMENDATIONS:
First, turn all graphics settings to maximum. Then go to Options>Performance>Advanced Options>Graphics TURN OFF FULLSCREEN FX and BLOOM(they are destroying image quality). If you have a lower-end system turn off Soft shadows in Options>Performance>Advanced Options>Graphics.
CREDITS:
Original game creators. Especially texture artists.
GameUpscale community for all wonderful tools and information.
FINAL WORDS: Enjoy the game!
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Dont forget to check guests guide, just name folder x folder x1. works 4 me. gl guys.
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OK guys, I found the solution to anyone having trouble installing this upscaled HD Textures !!!!!
LONG STORY SHORT:
1. DO NOT touch the CondemnedA.Arch00 File: Do not unpack it into a folder, do not add files to it and repack it, nothing!
2. Create a folder named CondemnedX.Arch00 and place it in the same "Game" directory of theCondemnedA.Arch00 and CondemnedL.Arch00 files so that you will have in that Game folder the A and L "files" and the X Folder.
3. Place the content of the Zipped HD Textures Mod (folders: global and m01-->08) inside the new CondemnedX.Arch00 folder
4. Open the default.archcfg file (this one is in the "main" folder, not the "game" folder") with a notepad. You will see that it only contains two lines which are the names of the A and L Arch00 files. Well, you guessed right, add a third line with the name of the new X Arch00 folder (CondemnedX.Arch00).
5. Run the 4th GB patch (just in case the game has problems with loading more than 4 GB of textures since it was not originally designed for it)
SHORT STORY LONG:
After losing hours and hours obsessively (I'm one of those that simply doesn't give up until I reach my objectives) because I refused to enjoy this masterpiece in any other way than the best, I finally stumbled into German post (if anyone tells you learning languages is worthless, well, answer them they will one day and help you play a game in upscaled textures :-) ) where a guy was giving a solution for different problem (missing audios for non-English gameplay) and it was very anomalous how he, instead of instructing the readers to “substitute“ the missing pile into the CondemnedA.Arch00 unpacked file, was instead telling them to “create a new folder“ (X) and add the the file there and in a subfolder that respected the correct folder structure of the A Arch00 file. That led me to think... wait a second, this means that if the game finds the "same" file in two separate ARCH00 files (or folders) it will always give priority to the "last" one he finds in the last ARCH00 file/folder he reads and that it reads the Arch00 files/folders in alphabetical order. I’m gonna try this! and bingo! it worked!
thanks to the Modder !!! This masterpiece of game is no 10 times better! oh my god I can't wait to start the campaign. I hope you will also be so nice to help all of us by telling us what you mean when you say that you did not was not able to “include the normal maps“ in you HD mod, to tell us what exactly normal normal maps are (for the non expert like me) and most importantly what we are missing until you upload the a 15 GB of normal Maps (please please please please please).
Thank you for this fantastic MOD!.
Hi how do you Create a folder named CondemnedX.Arch00 and place it in the same "Game" directory BECAUSE i keep getting a message saying that 'there is already a file with the same name' ? if i try to move the folder named 'CondemnedX.Arch00' into the Game folder.
Guys its all more simplier: Just do what guy tells, but change the folder X name to X1. Works perfectly fine. No need to user dragon pack etc. Lucky me. Please leave feedback if it helped.
hi I need your help when making a new folder inside the "Game" folder, I can't seem to use the exact name that you provided which is the "CondemnedX.Arch00", it said that I need a new name for that new folder
Hi did you ever manage to figure this out as ive just ran into the exact same issue ?
A hint to anyone with BLACK SCREEN WITH MOUSE AND AUDIO:
1. ArcheNoah.exe is better than Dragon Unpacker to extract the Arch00 file, not only because there is no doubt about which version works (latest always works) but also because ArcheNoah allows to "repack it after modifications", or more precisely to "add files and folders directly in the Arch00" and then "save Arch00".
2. To those experiencing the "Black Screen with Mouse and Audio": I'm stuck here.
SYMPTOMS:
The game loads and "plays" but with a black screen (just mouse pointer shown). I can hear the game menu music, game menu clicks, I can load latest save (memorized the menu actions: 3 times "arrow up", 1 Click for load menu, 1 Click for load latest save) and I can hear the Avatar walk, attack, jump, etc... but all with a black screen...
HINTS FOR A SOLUTION:
I tried every combination of the Arch00 file/folder:
Original Arch00 as a file: WORKS (obviously)
Original Arch00 as a folder: BLACK SCREEN
Modded Arch00 as a folder: BLACK SCREEN
Modded Arch00 as a file (thanks to ArcheNoah.exe) BLACK SCREEN
Just so you know: I'm using the Steam PC version using "Parallels Desktop" to play it on a Mac (only way for us Mac Users).
ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED BY ME ANYONE HAVING THIS PROBLEM!!!
ESPECIALLY IF ANYWONE COULD UPLOAD A WORKING VERSION OF THE "MODDED ARCH00 AS A FILE" (I know, it's 15GB) FOR US TO DOWNLOAD!!! THANKS
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could someone please explain for the non experts whtat "normal maps" are? Am I missing much? What exactly am I missing without them? Thanks!
Seems like this thread is still alive, so no sense in saying "sorry" for necro it:)
Anyway, to your question.
Without normal maps, textures look flat and unnatural.