toukiden 2 care package v11 mod

- description

Toukiden 2, the claw..., say it in reverence.
Probably inspired by the likes of devil may cry 4, or an
other earlier game with a similar mechanic, plays a central
role in the gameplay and, as much of the game, often leaves
you grasping air.

Don't get me wrong this is quite a intriguing game but much
like the cuisine it offers it is an acquired taste.

The visual tweaks are listed below how ever a word of caution
if you have not played this game it might be wise to disable
the hud tweaks, at least initially, please see 'further tweaking'.

update 06/10/2020
- altered reshade tonemap preserves contrast a bit better
- no 3dmigoto tweaks were altered

3dmigoto shader tweaks:
- remove bloom landscape mid region
- remove bloom daytime
- reduce dark shadows on objects and high whitepoint plus remove shadow flicker caused by sunbeams
- rebalance contrast dynamic sky layer moving clouds, etc
- remove fxaa code fxaa inactive
- increase saturation and reduce distance blurring
- correct tonemapping, reduce overbright transistion safe zone etc
- reduce length lightshaft
- reduce fog on characters specificaly oni enemy
- reduce darkness avatar and npcs
- reduce fog on mountains, increase ambient occlusion
- reduce atmospheric scattering which causes color loss
- remove hud healthbar companions
- reduce glowing rock overlay
- modify specular structures, buildings and reduce white clipping floor tiles
- hide floating names above character but als removes claw targeting
and other gui gamplay prompts

The reshade shaders, are customized, re-balance the brightness and
a slight yellow tinge reduction, smaa (in game AA is disabled by a shaderfix)
plus a lumasharpen shader which gives the textures a bit more
definition.

An option B of this package contains *only* shaderfixes
please use this version if you do not like the reshade tweaks.

Note(s):
The reshade package has customized shaders it is not advisable to mix and match.

- install

Copy the contents of the zip file to the install folder of toukiden 2, the folder which
contains Toukiden2_EN.exe.

The following instructions are only needed
if you do not like using unverified dll's you can:

download 3dmigoto from
Github.com
download version 1.2.9 (64bits) and place the following dlls in the install dir of toukiden 2
d3d11.dll
d3dcompiler_46.dll
then copy ShaderCache, ShaderFixes plus d3dx.ini from the zip file to the same dir aka folder.

download reshade (version 1.0.0.916 64bits) from
Reshade.me
install *only* dxgi.dll (64bits) to the install dir aka folder of toukiden 2.
Then copy the reshade folder plus dxgi.fx contained in the package
to the install dir of toukiden 2.

- verify

After running the game the folder ShaderFixes should contain the .bin versions:

05a668d19516a66b-ps_replace.bin
0808e39e3f6fcb4a-ps_replace.bin
089c55d72998027d-ps_replace.bin
2c0bde96d753f1cf-ps_replace.bin
5397cd047e058efa-ps_replace.bin
56b24caa2e76cac1-ps_replace.bin
5db83bf1b618f6d0-ps_replace.bin
73de3d95f811ea6c-ps_replace.bin
83114c83faebfedd-ps_replace.bin
b1ae4992ce2b5d42-ps_replace.bin
c6719885d5c0bb18-ps_replace.bin
ef42c8999a7e8f27-vs_replace.bin

of

05a668d19516a66b-ps_replace.txt
0808e39e3f6fcb4a-ps_replace.txt
089c55d72998027d-ps_replace.txt
2c0bde96d753f1cf-ps_replace.txt
5397cd047e058efa-ps_replace.txt
56b24caa2e76cac1-ps_replace.txt
5db83bf1b618f6d0-ps_replace.txt
73de3d95f811ea6c-ps_replace.txt
83114c83faebfedd-ps_replace.txt
b1ae4992ce2b5d42-ps_replace.txt
c6719885d5c0bb18-ps_replace.txt
ef42c8999a7e8f27-vs_replace.txt

This means that the file(s) .txt have been compiled by 3dmigoto (d3d11.dll)

- tested

Tested with version 1.0.3.0 of toukiden 2 on win 7 / nvidia 1050gtx ti
See screenshot for settings game.

- performance

reshade / 3dmigoto gpu usage 1080p@~55fps
without - clock 1150Mhz gpu usage ~96%
with - clock 1366Mhz gpu usage ~96%
approximately 8% increase (1050gtx ti on win 7)
max gpu: 1784Mhz gpu usage 100%
**clamped frame rate to 55.4 no sync

- further tweaking

If you like you can compare the modified shader, ShaderCache contains
the original shader, to alter values.

To disable the hud related tweaks please remove
the following shaders from the folder 'shaderfixes'

83114c83faebfedd-ps_replace.txt
ef42c8999a7e8f27-vs_replace.txt

and if compiled remove:

83114c83faebfedd-ps_replace.bin
ef42c8999a7e8f27-vs_replace.bin

then restart the game.

Tip!

To skip intro movies rename the following files in the folder 'movie':

movie000.wmv
movie001.wmv
movie002.wmv

to:

movie000.wmv.o
movie001.wmv.o
movie002.wmv.o