RESIDENT EVIL 4 / BIOHAZARD 4 TEXTURE PATCH 1.1 (PC VERSION)
This texture patch is for patched or unpatched versions of the game and can be installed in european american or asian versions of the game.
It contains upgraded textures for all the stages of the game included "separate ways" ("the another order"), "assignment ada" ("ada the spy") and "the mercenaries" minigames
Now the Pc version of this game has Nintendo GameCube textures or better. I've ripped all the textures from the GC version but there still was some low-res textures. So, I created new textures, too.
The screenshots are a small example of what you find when this patch is installed.
This patch contains a few pmd files, too. I didn't put there by mistake. they are very important. KEEP THEM! and there are 3 ogg files too. I contains the GC barrel model made by Nacery, too
Resident Evil 4 High resolution EFF/TPL textures replacement pack 1.0 by Albert Marin Garau
Special Thanks to Voodooman -who let me know about texmod tool and its possibilities- and the Resident Evil 4 PC Forums members for their support
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This will replace the low resolution textures of HUD, menus, fonts, effects (water, fire, blood ...) with high resolution textures.
It seems this patch requires a lot of memory (i'm not sure, i'm not an expert in this kind of things...), so there will be the possibility of installing only
HUD + buttons + text
HUD + buttons + text + menus
HUD + buttons + text + effects
HUD + buttons + text + menus + effects (complete installation)
You'll have to run the game through the texmod tool in order to load the new textures. So, the installation is not permanent. If your computer can't handle this patch you can run the game as always (executing game.exe) and the default low-res textures will be loaded.
****IMPORTANT: This version only includes replacement textures for english text. So, if you are using a multilanguage version of the game, select english to enjoy all the hi-res textures.
If this patch works ok for everyone and we find a way to make it stable i will also create textures for spanish, french, german and italian in the future.*****
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Patch contents:
a. Texmod tool
b. High resolution textures
c. definition files
d. 3 "game.exe" versions that will work ok with this patch (korean 1.0, korean 1.1, euro 1.1. all of them are NO-DVD cracked versions)
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INSTALLATION STEPS:
1. Extract the contents of the patch wherever you want
2. Now it's time to decide a few things:
The patch includes standard (but enhanced) aureola effect (that red/blue/green shinny thing around the item or treasure when you kill an enemy) and noise effect ala Silent Hill.
In the "VARIATIONS" folder you will find alternative textures: no noise effect, hard noise effect, less visible aureola and invisible aureola. The only thing you have to do is to copy the textures you want and paste them inside the "TEXTURES" folder overwriting the default textures.
Hi-resolution texts and gamepad buttons:
If you want to enjoy hi-resolution texts and buttons, you'll have to configure your gamepad like is shown in the screenshots inside the "BUTTONS PACKS" folder. Decide which is the best configuration for you, then copy the textures from one of the folders (pcpad/pcpad(2)/ps2/ps3/xbox/xbox360) and paste them inside the "TEXTURES" folder overwriting the default textures (if you are going to use the "pcpad configuration" don't do anything because those are the default textures in this patch). i guess the keyboard configuration has nothing to do with it. so, if you use the keyboard just change the gamepad configuration as it's stated in the pcpad configuration.gif
REMEMBER: If you change the configuration of action/run/command ashley/status screen/draw knife/draw gun in a different way of those 5 configurations the game will load standard low resolution fonts
3. Place the 3 exe files you will find in the "GAME.EXE files" folder in your resident evil 4 folder
4. Place the "xfile", "xscr" and "ss" folders in your resident evil 4 folder (overwriting the existing folders and files). Remember: this will uninstall buttons replacement packs (if you installed them previously)
5. Run texmod.exe
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NOW YOU HAVE 2 CHOICES:
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CHIOCE A: This patch causes a few bugs in the game. If you choose this way of installation some of the cutscenes videos will be replaced randomly with one of the new textures. It's not very frequent but it's annoying...
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6. Go to "Package Build"
7. Select a Definition file (they are inside the "TEXTURES" folder):
a. DDS_HUD+BUTTONS+TEXT.log (light installation)
b. DDS_HUD+BUTTONS+TEXT+MENUS.log (medium installation)
c. DDS_HUD+BUTTONS+TEXT+EFFECTS.log (medium installation)
d. DDS_HUD+BUTTONS+TEXT+MENUS+EFFECTS.log (full installation)
8. Press "Build" and wait (it may take a few minutes and it will seem as the program is not responding but you just wait). then save the tpf file wherever you want
9. Go to "package mode"
10. "Target aplication": select one of the exe files included in the pack (if your game.exe is not a NO-DVD cracked version, this patch won't work, that's why i provided you 3 diferent game.exe versions. use the one you prefer)
11. load the tpl file you created previously (by clicking the folder icon)
12. select that tpl file in the list of the left and click "Run"
13. the program will need a few seconds to load all the textures and then the game will start
14. Repeat steps 9 to 13 everytime you want to play with hi-res eff/tpl textures
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CHIOCE B: This way of installation avoid the cutscene videos issue but it seems it's less stable and sometimes makes the game to crash
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6. Go to "Logging Mode"
7. "Target aplication": select one of the exe files included in the pack (if your game.exe is not a NO-DVD cracked version, this patch won't work, that's why i provided you 3 diferent game.exe versions. use the one you prefer)
8. Deactive all the boxes in the "Options" pannel. If you use the keyboard choose a key you won't use never in the game in the "Log with" box
9. "Output folder" wherever you want
10. "Deffile": Select a Definition file (they are inside the "TEXTURES" folder):
a. DDS_HUD+BUTTONS+TEXT.log (light installation)
b. DDS_HUD+BUTTONS+TEXT+MENUS.log (medium installation)
c. DDS_HUD+BUTTONS+TEXT+EFFECTS.log (medium installation)
d. DDS_HUD+BUTTONS+TEXT+MENUS+EFFECTS.log (full installation)
11. Press "Run" and enjoy
12. Repeat steps 6 to 11 everytime you want to play with hi-res eff/tpl textures
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It seems the bugs caused by this patch affects in different ways depending of your PC characteristics. So, you'll have to decide which choice is the best for you.
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PD: You can edit every texture as you please before using texmod tool if you have a DDS plugin for photoshop
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