The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered · Native HDR Mod

[OopyDoopy]

RenoDX Mod by ShortFuse

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ReShade Download

RenoDX Latest Snapshot

Instructions

1. Download the above ReShade installer and RenoDX addon.
2. Install ReShade and renodx-oblivionremastered.addon64 to the location of the game's shipping executable:

• Steam: <install path>\OblivionRemastered\Binaries\Win64\OblivionRemastered-Win64-Shipping.exe
• Game Pass: <install path>\gamelaunchhelper.exe

3. After booting the game, RenoDX will write the necessary lines to your game's Engine.ini file. Restart the game for RenoDX to take effect.

Known Issues

• XeSS crashes the game.
• If using Swapchain HDR Upgrade method, menu background is black.
• If using Swapchain HDR Upgrade method, framegen causes flickering in highlights.
• If using Swapchain HDR Upgrade method, DLSS Sharpness causes a black screen.

[rafael-57]

Thx for the mod! Aside from the Known Issues, is the tone mapping already 100% done?

[clshortfuse]

Yeah. I just recently fixed an issue where I messed up some exposure in some areas. Nobody has reported missing shaders other than some issues with compatibility with forcing Sharpening. This is the mostly the same as any other Unreal Engine game, only the game decides to use some very custom code.

[HamnT]

For anyone else wanting to try non HDR Engine.ini tweaks (the current popular one on nexus gave a washed out picture on the main menu and black screen in game), my game seems to be working well after deleting all lines that look like they do anything to shaders + a few other lines I was unsure of from a heavily optimised one I downloaded. I'm sure some are fine to keep, but I don't have the patience to figure out which ones.

[Josh6499]

I have black screen even with DLSS sharpness at zero. But I've been messing around with other reshade settings and SpecialK this morning before I tried to enable RenoDX, so no idea what exactly would be causing it.

[clshortfuse]

My guess is using the ini to enable UE HDR and not setting HDR Upgrade to None in RenoDX. Or just some other changes to Engine.ini

[Josh6499]

Okay I'll check that. I think that's what I did. Thanks!

[DrSuSE]

In case it helps, I was getting a completely black screen when I tried overriding in the Nvidia App to enable DLAA 100% (was just messing around). Setting that back to default (the game or app setting or whatever it's called) put it back to normal.

[dorspicecherry]

Forgive me for the ignorance, but is there any major difference between using the swap chain method and the UE engine settings? Seems like I have to use the HDR ini regardless as I'm on ultrawide & use FG (not sure if there's any real point using the latest FG dll on a 4000 series but I did anyway) but just curious for some friends who arent using framegen or ultrawide but do have HDR displays.

[OopyDoopy]

You get autohdr on prerendered videos. Other than that, there shouldn't be much reason to use it.

Biggest risk is that the native HDR pipeline misses something that only exists in the SDR pipeline, but I don't believe we've seen any evidence of that yet.

[dorspicecherry]

Thanks. Another question, trying to get some performance out of this game and I decided to try special K and saw that it has the ability to load reshade as an addon (and this) but I'm not too sure if it would mess with this mods ability to hook into the game, any thoughts?

[OopyDoopy]

I use SK with the mod. Just rename dxgi.dll to reshade64.dll and SK will automatically load it in a functional way. If you'd rather use the centralized reshade stuff with SK, then load it as a plugin in Lazy mode with compatibility mode disabled.

[dorspicecherry]

Thanks. One last question though, assuming I use the local method of reshade and special K would I mess with any of this by checking loading reshade early or anything? I can still see reshade working as well as renodx when I press home but I figure I'd ask just to be absolutely sure.

[OopyDoopy]

With reshade64.dll, you'd want to leave those unchecked.

[InfernalsusaN]

Hi there, new to HDR and RenoDX ( I did enable HDR in windows, calibrate with the app, etc). I Implemented this, and while it did look different, I didn't see the rich difference between lights and darks I've seen in other games with native HDR support.

After installing this, are there settings or ini tweaks I should be making? Also wondering what using this mod means practically for use with reshade presets, since the presets out there for Oblivion remastered don't account for HDR at the moment.

[OopyDoopy]

Alright I added the latest nighly build back, lemme know if that works. Idk why the snapshot would be broken...

[OopyDoopy]

Okay I tested it and that one doesn't work either...Shortfuse is about to push a fix for it.

[kamikatze13]

appreciated @OopyDoopy

however, the stable link now goes to a file with md5 5611de9bb288abb5c0fdba03f5c6b18a - which isnt loaded just as the snapshot with md5 5d5a503c9e62c6e8f56d8455868cf042

the working file has md5 059ebd7c82ad739a18cc4fa616b6c08f and is bigger in size

/shrug

EDIT: you were faster than i was =P

EDIT2: nightly from 2025-04-30 md5 705dfd3cf41a6a5ca52322e63ed5e7e8 works

[dorspicecherry]

If you installed the stable release instead of the snapshot, please update to the snapshot release. I actually just rewrote the post to remove that option because dev has been fast and it's consistently lagging behind. In the latest release, there is an "HDR Look" preset button, give that a try.

This game has a very aggressive auto exposure and some local contrast shenanigans that fights to keep as much of the game as possible in SDR range, which is why, by default, the HDR presentation is pretty subdued.

This will, unfortunately, break a lot of reshade presets. Very few reshade shaders work properly in HDR. Even a lot of the presets that claim they were made in HDR were not (making a preset with RTX HDR isn't the same thing), so exercise caution.

Hey just wondering, is there a big difference between this hdr upgrade preset vs. the one you uploaded on resetera?

[OopyDoopy]

The HDR Look preset is the one Shortfuse made, while the one on Era is one that I made. They are relatively different, the HDR Look preset is a bit more contrasty and colors are a bit different.

[vizionblind]

I followed the instructions but crash on boot. Gamepass
https://i.imgur.com/F0LxbBM.png

[OopyDoopy]

What other mods are you using?

[gpkgpk]

Maybe try putting the dxgi.dll and renodx-oblivionremastered.addon64 files in the same folder as the launcher exe, not the game one, any diff?
Is there a reshade.log with more info before the crash?

[danieljclark]

Just a note to say I had the same crash with gamepass and the fix is indeed what you suggested above. Perhaps worth updating the instructions for Gamepass in the OP. Thanks

[vizionblind]

yes this was the fix. instructions need to be updated

[Enterprise12nx01]

How can i use this along with ultimate engine tweaks? both edit or replace engine.ini

[OopyDoopy]

As long as that mod is compatible with renodx, it should be able to coexist. Renodx simply adds to the engine.ini, it doesn't overwrite it.

[danieljclark]

The ultimate engine tweaks suggest making the file read only after copying in their engine.ini, probably to stop it being overwritten by a patch. Presume this means that this mod won't be able to write what it needs until read only mode is removed?

[clshortfuse]

It unsets and sets read-only as needed. Leave it read-only.

[reas11]

Are we suppose to use the 'HDR Look' setting or leave everything as default?

[POD-io]

+1 to this question. I do see the 'peak nits' in the 'home'/settings menu, so I presume you are meant to increase that to your display's max nits. Any other tweaks that should be made per device?

[reas11]

I ended up just bumping contrast and saturation from 50 to 55. The HDRlook setting looked amazing at night but too much in the day time

[marat569]

'hdr look' is just preference -- its a more contrasty/saturated image. use it if you like it; but its not mandatory

[GamingACC181]

Can someone please give me the correct RenoDX HDR settings for Oblivion Remastered? I currently have a 1000nit display (Dell Alienware AW3423DW). I was wondering if you leave all the default settings? Thanks

[OopyDoopy]

It's personal preference, you can give the HDR Look preset a try for Shortfuse's settings.

These are the settings I've been using on my AW3423DWF. Only worry about the color grading settings and maybe post processing.

[POD-io]

Which one of these controls the black floor? If I wanted to make shadows darker specifically -- is that shadows under color grading?

[anthonyg45157]

Which one of these controls the black floor? If I wanted to make shadows darker specifically -- is that shadows under color grading?

Curious on this as well as when I'm using HDR analysis tool my min/blacks aren't 0 and I feel the whole black level is raised some

[clshortfuse]

Which one of these controls the black floor? If I wanted to make shadows darker specifically -- is that shadows under color grading?

Flare would be good for this. It'll darken areas near black. Though the game has a pretty rough fog system that makes areas feel far more lifted than normal. I haven't been able to find the shader that controls fog, unfortunately.

Curious on this as well as when I'm using HDR analysis tool my min/blacks aren't 0 and I feel the whole black level is raised some

Min nits should almost never be 0 in a 3D game with a lighting system. All elements receive light, even if minimal. If you see 0, that's usually a sign a game has messed with the math and used subtraction in places it shouldn't. All lightning in 3D systems should be exposure based which works via multiplication (eg: 2x exposure means multiply by 2. Half exposure is 0.5x). I double checked to see if there's any bad math that some other games do to raise the black level but there's none here I could find. It's as rendered by the 3D engine and their postprocessing adds even more contrast, darkening the 3D render.

[GarrettDKing]

Thanks for this! Would love if anyone knows where I may be going wrong here...but after following the steps I'm getting really dark actual gameplay. Weirdly, the main menu and menus in game look fine..

https://streamable.com/uj8wrk

[clshortfuse]

You have conflicting Engine.ini changes, most likely.

[GarrettDKing]

Thanks for the reply - what would be the best way to adjust it? I haven't touched that file at all..and aside from enabling RTX HDR at one point I haven't slapped any other mods on the game.

[clshortfuse]

If you haven't modified much, I'd suggest the latest snapshot first. The only thing the mod requires is not disabling vignette and chromatic aberration via the ini (it has sliders for it). The ini should have the HDR option set, but the mod will set that for you on first boot. It will also set the UI nits as you move the slider, but that won't take effect unless you restart the game (making that realtime is planned though).

[TheUnk1ndledone]

@clshortfuse Post processing Low disables vignette that is why some people have issues with dark image. Also the ultimate engine tweaks from nexus sets r.Tonemapper.GrainQuantization to 0 which disables it completely. The crosshair ghosting issue is fixed by the command you mentioned yesterday and yes it has to be under [SystemSettings]. With your stuttering fix plus having vignette enabled the mod works perfectly even with mfg 4x.

[anthonyg45157]

Is there somewhere to view changelog of the snapshot? Looking to compare current vs the one I got last week before updating

[jamesgamess]

I'm getting very noticeable ghosting with this? Without it, everything is fine. Is there a fix or setting I should tweak?

[anthonyg45157]

I don't have any of these issues. So this should be fixable or it's simply a conflict.

Reset all your in game inis, remove any mods, disable DLSS/FSR or frame gen to make sure they don't cause issues.

[clshortfuse]

There some ini value people say fixes ghosting issues:

r.Streamline.TagUIColorAlpha=false

I haven't personally tested it but seems to be a popular solution. I don't know what ini group it belongs to though. I'll edit it if I find it.

It might be [SystemSettings]

[Brotheon123]

Hey. This mod looks really good. However, It seems like it causes much longer loading times and a lot of stutter. Without it my game runs very smooth. I do have Nvidia DLSS and Frame Generation enabled and I am running an rtx 4080 with a ryzen 7 9800x3d. Do you happen to know if there is any reason why my game would be running so poorly after using this addon? I even tried just using Reshade without the addon and my game runs fine too. Thanks!

[anthonyg45157]

I don't have any any more stuttering with or without this mod.

Reset all your in game inis, remove any mods, disable DLSS/FSR or frame gen to make sure they don't cause issues then add everything back one by one

[Brotheon123]

Will do. Thank you!

[clshortfuse]

I found success with stuttering by reverting the game's values back to UE default.

[SystemSettings]
r.Shaders.Optimize=1
r.ShaderPipelineCache.StartupMode=3 ;custom
r.ShaderPipelineCache.Enabled=1
r.ShaderPipelineCache.ReportPSO=1
r.ShaderPipelineCache.GameFileMaskEnabled=0
r.ShaderPipelineCache.LazyLoadShadersWhenPSOCacheIsPresent=1 ; custom
r.ShaderPipelineCache.BatchSize=50
r.ShaderPipelineCache.BatchTime=16
r.PSOPrecache.Validation=0 ; custom
r.pso.PrecompileThreadPoolPercentOfHardwareThreads=75
r.pso.evictiontime=60

but also, got a out of memory crash

Most important is r.pso.PrecompileThreadPoolPercentOfHardwareThreads=75 because it's 0 in the game. That means it will do shader compilation/cache with as default low priority. I don't think that makes sense. I'm definitely CPU bound and that helped me.

[Brotheon123]

Hi! Thank you for the reply. This SystemSettings group would be found in which ini file?

[TheUnk1ndledone]

"Engine.ini". I suggest to find all the values mentioned by ctrl+f and adjust them to the correct value. After that add the values that are not present manually under [SystemSettings] at the bottom of the text. (You have to add SystemSettings yourself)

[CashMir23]

Whenever I get hit my screen goes black for about 7-10 seconds with this installed. Any fix? I didnt have it in swapchain method, and its still doing this.

[DrSuSE]

When I run this, the game looks great but the menus (system, inventory, etc) all look crazy bright and messed up. Made no prior changes to Engine.ini. How can I track this down?

[Litcube]

I would love to use render before UI, as it leaves the UI in a decent state. Is that feature ok to use? I noticed it flickers a lot with any reshade settings.

[chrisoutwright]

has there been any solution for this?

[Collinormous]

It seems the Reshade.dll download changed to an installer that doesn't seem to support this release - I haven't been able to get this to work after the change. Is there a way to grab the original reshade.dll that was mentioned in the guide?

[OopyDoopy]

The latest reshade update broke our mods, requiring an update to the addon files as well as the latest reshade. I may have updated this discussion page too fast (either no new snapshot yet or the reshade installer permalink hadn't been updated yet). Everything should work now, just make sure you have both the latest reshade and the latest snapshot.

[Collinormous]

The latest reshade update broke our mods, requiring an update to the addon files as well as the latest reshade. I may have updated this discussion page too fast (either no new snapshot yet or the reshade installer permalink hadn't been updated yet). Everything should work now, just make sure you have both the latest reshade and the latest snapshot.

So, with the installer for ReShade and the Xbox GamePass release of Oblivion, the ReShade installer fails to install due to permissions. I was able to take ownership of the xboxgames folder to install ReShade. Everything works again!

[clshortfuse]

You just have to install to gamelaunchhelper.exe. That's every Xbox game.

[Raigar88]

Please can somebody help me, I’ve spent the last two nights trying to set up renodx on Oblivion (gamepass), I have both reshade and the reno dx add on in the game launcher folder together, reshade loads up fine but I can’t get it to detect the renoDX add on no matter where I put it, it just says no effects found, I wish there was a clear tutorial for setting this up.

[Raigar88]

I’m using the latest on both of them, no matter what I do I can’t get reno DX to show up in reshade, it’s driving me nuts

[Raigar88]

When I install reshade and select the renodx-oblivion addon as my preset the game crashes on bootup everytime, I running a brand new 5090 setup so I’m confused as to why this is happening.

[TheUnk1ndledone]

The issue is that you are using the latest version of reshade. These renodx mods are only working with one specific version in this case it is 6.4.1 not the latest one.

[Raigar88]

Ah thanks for the help man, I’ll unistall 6.5 and download 6.4 tomorrow, can you still download 6.4?

[clshortfuse]

RenoDX doesn't work with 6.4.x. Use the latest Reshade. When you install Reshade for Game Pass, install to the gamelaunchhelper.exe. then put the addon64 file next to it. That's it.

[Mark12000]

What effects do I install during the Reshade install?? None? Also should the Add-ons generic depth and effect runtime sync be turned off?

[clshortfuse]

No effects and no (other) addons needed.

[Mark12000]

No effects and no (other) addons needed.

Great, thanks!

[Johnline86]

can we get a guide on how to cleanly uninstall this? I dunno what ini files I need to edit back