If you haven't played 2007 most immersive, atmospheric shooter, or you're back for replay, this mod is for you. The world of STALKER like you've never seen before with graphics 2.0. It significantly updates the game, while preserving the original story and gameplay. The game that took almost 10 years to make is finally finished and complete.
If you haven't played 2007 most immersive, atmospheric shooter, or you're back for replay, this mod is for you!
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This mod has been created with a thought of bringing the beautiful and immersive game of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl from the last generation era, when it was created to an up-to-date experience you'd expect from games you play in 2009. We did not try change the game beyond recognition, but rather enhance it while keeping the core elements that made it so great. The following list is the carefully chosen essential collection of most advanced and aesthetically pleasant modifications, created by talented modders, concept artists and programmers in the past 2 years. These are meant to technically and artistically enhance the game without compromising the original feel and atmosphere developers meant you to see. You'll notice every single detail has been retouched and has a polished feel to it.
This is ideal for first time players or people who beat the game when it first came out and now are coming back to replay it on new rig with higher resolution and better graphics.
What makes this mod different?
It was designed by professional graphic artists with rich experience in the field, following industry standards for creating interactive 3D environments. It features work by many authors from Stalker community under one art direction, redesigned with new visual qualities and offered as one convenient package to reach user base beyond modding community.
Natural lighting, vast panoramic views, depth of field, parallax mapping, SSAO, over 900 reworked texture files, including vehicles and armor suites with manual bump editing, you won't believe it's the same game.
New! Download and apply patch 1.4.3.2
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This mod will run smooth as long as you have a video card with Shader Model 3.0 and large amount of memory to accommodate new textures, it performs better than S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky/Call of Pripyat, while providing similar and often better visuals, it's DirectX9 and the X-Ray engine at full potential and the best looking mod for this game.

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i hope yaoull do it ^^
Cool. I think I'll find my copy of STALKER.
i have a quastion. can you upgrade your weapons ?
Not sure I just added this to ModDB for the author.
well not really upgrade but you can put scopes and grande launchers on them
it doesnt change any gameplay features at all whatsoever.... its a graphical mod. so yes, you still can...
Actually, it changes a lot of gameplay. You couldn't attach silencers to a lot of weapons. Weather has an effect. Mutants avoid anomalies more. Realistic knife attacks (silent, deadly) and so much more.
That settles it. I'm gonna buy this game :)
Personally i would have loved to see a bit more than just graphics enhancements. Especially the gameplay that you don't alter can always use some improvement, the original game lacks immersion right at this point. Might it be possible to merge this mod with others, like "Oblivion Lost"?
i think oblivion lost does lots of this stuff anyway (maybe not as much). But I found that mod not very fun. I found the original game much more fun.
this isn't just a graphics enchancement mod. It fixes alot of things gameplay wise as well. Like silent and deadly knife attacks, repair kit, enemies don't spot you miles away, and so on.
i installed it but when i want to start a new game it freezes at the loading screen and then the exe stops working
yeah it sounds like you need the base build installed as well.
That's great and all but what about actual realism, as in weapon realism?
I have yet to see a 9mm pierce 4 layers of steel n padded armor with an added kevlar layer.
Or a 5.56 not being able to kill anything from two steps away aiming at the head.
I guess I'll just slap one of the ultra-tactical-realism mods in here then.
Huge fan of the entire Stalker series, can't thank you enough for doing this! If only there was a project this ambitious for every game out there..
Seems like a big pack of mods, but that's not necessarily bad :), might check it out when I am back on my old PC (or new one :P). Sounds like this will be quite buggy though.
Does it work with the STEAM version?
Yeah it works with the Steam version
Wohooo! . man am i happy. not all mods for all steam games work, most work only on the retail versions. It has to do with STEAM using its own instalation and instal location , with STALKER SoC being so good im happy to be able to replay it and with better eye-candy ^_^
wow, this sounds REALLY awesome! I'm definitely going back to playing Stalker again.
downloading now.
Looks amazing. I will find my stalker disk for this. Can I install this over oblivion lost to use both at the same time?
I don't think so. OL is already a mod collection so chances are very high the both of them are going to interfere with each other.
That's great - finally give me a reason to play STALKER, which I managed to avoid to date.
Alright, I downloaded it and installed.. I can say it really adds sooo much to the gaming atmosphere..
Rain suddenly fell down and sounding like rain for once, the nights look great, grenades fly through the sky.. Awesome..
Although on gameplay it is nearly the same ****** way it works.. Enemey AI have been improved though. But the game still lacks realism and the drivable vehicles..
I just don't dare to install any mods that add this, since they might **** the rest up.
Final conclusion: It makes Stalker looks good and feel atmospheric for the first time ever...
I think to use it with Oblivion Lost, I would just take the stuff I want from this. Both of these conflict obviously since this isn't just textures. So if I just take the textures, meshes, sounds, and anims folders with I am guessing the particles.xr file I should get most of the visual changes with all of the gameplay changes from OL.
I receive many errors and a lot of lag. I guess one or the other. It would be great if someone could combine em.
That is a HUGE list of stuff.
I'm waiting for the next AMX mod to try stalker again.
BTW anyone know of good mods for clear sky? Almost everything's for the 1st game.
This looks absolutely ******* INCREDIBLE. I never got around to playing the first stalker, but I just picked it up at gamestop today for this.
It looks alright and I enjoyed playing. I wonder what we do with patches however. Does it work with any game patch? Does it work with games patched to 1.0006, too?
yes it does, it works with 1.0005 and 1.0006, as 1.0006 was only a multi-player patch. It didn't effect single player
Very nice!! Please make it compatible with the driveable vehicle mod though
Ohhh...I installed 1.0005/6 patch and the complete mod (with the patch) but it crashed at the beginning.
I've tried a lot of things but it still crash...
It's a really nice mod, from what I have read at the top of the page, though I can't seem to get it working, when I start Stalker it says that there is no system.ltx file, though it is there. What should I do?
With Object Detail 75% u mean change r2_ssa_lod_a to 75 ?
This game is briliant! I love it! My favorite shooter!
I installed the base, the patch, changed the the lines to true and true, and changed the gloss to 2.5. What am i missing? It comes up as if its stopping a bug, then shuts down my game before the menu comes up. Help please.
Ok, do not work with the patch.
However, it's a pleasure to play this game again with these enhancements.
I forgot how hard this game was, and it's great atmosphere : waiting for an other patch to play it again.
Good work.
How do i enable Sun Shafts?
How do I get to freeplay. I finished the game, declined CC and ended up going through all that crap to get the true ending and I dont get any option to freeplay. What am I supposed to do?
if i start the game the game crash and i gooing to the desktop
STALKER is atmosphereic in so many ways it needs this! I love all the details you guys have put in. It makes STALKER feeel like Crysis with good gameplay graphics and storyline. Now STALKER puts Cryis to shame! Great job! Cant wait to get out my dusty CD!
The ABC bag isnt working...Why...?
Does this mod work with the 1.0004 patch. I have Faiakes Mod, ABC Mod, Oblivion lost, Priboi Story, Rebalanced Mod, AMK Mod, ect. I would like to try this but if I patch to 1.0005, then all my other mods won't work right. I have always heard that 1.0005 patch had only MP fixes and I only play SP. Thanks for the Info.
You heard wrong in a way. 1.0005 included single player fixes, 1.0006 was a multiplayer only patch.
this mod should work with 1.0004, i'm not completely sure but give it a try, backup your current gamedata folder and i'm sure you've done before, and give it a try.
Is this really needed? I get such horrible performance on Stalker already, despite beating out the recommended easily. I'm sure in 4-5 years when hardware can over-come poorly coded games(Like Cryostasis), this'll be good, and I'll finally play Stalker then.
No one is forcing you to get this, to some its needed and to some it isn't. I for one enjoy it and think it makes my experience in STALKER all the better.
I wish it would work for me :( I want my Stalker experience to be enhanced too.
This mod really, really sexifies the game, its an incredible improvement.
... i want to try it!! but the ai has been modified??
Excellent mod, really made me want to play this game again.
However, I didn't get a dialog to continue the game in freeplay mode. I do decline the C-Conciousness offer and finish from there, but nothing.
Otherwise great to see that mods like this one exist.