P2-PAIN-MASTERED v0.1 file

All textures have been extracted and upscaled at least 8x and most much more where possible. Upscaled using a combination of Topaz Gigapixel and Numerous AI models through node based upscale software or texture software like Photoshop and many others. Some textures have been manually tweaked to add a little more realism. EG blood pool and urine.

I have painstakingly gone through textures 1 by 1 trying each method to squeeze the most detail out of them. They are not perfect!! Remember these textures are mostly 2 decades old when we had much less hardware power than we have now, as such the original textures were microscopic. AI is good but not flawless at recovering detail so some textures will contain the odd mess up.

Also being 32bit still the 2gb hard limit is a killer so you will see some .utx are right close to the limit, I spent a lot of time to squeeze every pixel I could into each archive.

Some textures remain for the moment as I was either not completely happy with the results or I need to edit the .fuk map files, meshes or other files to get them to work properly.

In some textures I have sacrificed text quality in favor of texture quality as such the text may appear messed up or not clear. Some text was just so small with the original textures that recovery is virtually impossible. As this is a visual overhaul, texture quality is more important than ability to read microscopic writing on some textures. EG. on the desert eagle skin the engraving or labels on some textures.

Some texture were too small to recover detail so I have replaced with my own. EG dull metal

Some textures contain real people EG Mike J's Club, so unless I was able to recover detail flawlessly I have not included them at the moment. EG Postal babe pics.AI can sometime deform real photos when trying to recover texture quality.

This mod is huge and possibly over the top and may need toning down some to get it to work without error. I could have just half arsed the textures through a generic x4 upscale but I thought Postal 2 deserves better than that.

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INSTALLATION READ CAREFULLY>>
Copy my files to the game root directory. The folders are labeled correctly. Or XPATCH "custom" folder.

Extremely experimental at the moment so I suggest you copy your clean installation and have one install with this mod and one without so you can still use the game unmodified until I work out any bugs.

You MUST USE A WRAPPER with this mod!!! Otherwise the game engine being an old one WILL CRASH with memory errors. I recommend DX8 to DX9 to VULKAN so I have included it. Others might work too but I have not tested them.

NOTE these dlls are NOT MY WORK!! I have included them for your convenience. Credit for these belong to their creators>

found here>> Github.com

and here>> Github.com

ALSO go to game root, open system folder and find postal2.ini, open with text editor such as notepad++ and find >
[Engine.GameEngine]CacheSizeMegs=512 < set this to 512 it may or may not help stop memory crashes. Im no expert in Unreal Engine. If it keeps setting it back to base value you can set it in default.ini instead.

If crashes occur try tuning down the heavy graphics settings. Like I said this engine is old and the mod is stretching it to its limits.

General Protection fault error. Caused by DEP. Either turn data execution protection off system wide or go to Security Settings > App and Browser > Exploit Protection Settings > Programs Settings > Add Program to Customize > Choose Exact Path > Now find the Postal2.exe in the game root. Scroll down to DEP > tick override system settings > Switch to OFF! Click Apply! You could override and turn off all the others too just incase they interfere.

If still persists turn down some heavy graphics settings. This is a common problem and others may have more knowledge of UnrealEngine to stop this.

INSTALL XPATCH RECOMMENDED!! Then you can put my files in the "custom" folder so you don't have to overwrite the games original files. The folder are named so you know where to put them in your base game folder. Latest official version incudes xPatch as far as I know.

Now Postal 2 is running on Vulkan you can use Reshade to inject better anti-aliasing and other effects including Raytracing but that is a paid Reshade package.

FINAL NOTE In the folder Texture/Vanilla Effects Optional there is a file named nathansVanillaBlood.utx. If you dont like my blood tweaks rename this to just nathans.utx and replace the one in textures folder. Now you will have the original blood effects and colour, upscaled without my tweaks but all other effects I tweaked remain.

Also in the folder is nathansoriginal.utx. Rename this to nathans.utx and replace the one in textures if you want completely vanilla game effects just upscaled. I havent tweaked any of these so they are all as RWS intended.

nathanstweakfull.utx is a backup of mine. TOTALLY your preference, try them all and decide which you prefer.

ENJOY!!