Profile of JibberJabberJobber

why does Pre-Alpha look ten million times better than release?

I really don't know, someone must have activated a time machine over at Relic.

I used it with performance mode but it destroys my fps, I'm playing at 4k, what I can do?

Latest one disables some effects. If it's still running slowly, open the menu and disable the "SelectiveColor" effect, that one has the highest performance load. It's responsible for the grittier, more cohesive color scheme and improved grayscale.

You can also do it if the colors don't work for a particular map you play. The colors have to be tweaked to look good on every map, so I might miss certain things.

I forgot to note, I use 30% brightness in-game. 50% again for latest version.

Also I've just turned off bloom myself, not really worth it after all, see what you prefer.

New version is out: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MW9G6VKnlGmi2-xY78m3WBalejPXwhUQ/view?usp=share_link

- It adds bloom back from the death, which makes it feel more like there's an actual sun because it mimicks the effect of global illumination.
- Quite heavily reduced saturation cause some grass became toxic green color.

Here's a comparison between all the different versions so far with my thoughts:

Vanilla: Show Spoiler Yucky, undefined and greenish.

Normal V1: Show Spoiler This one was too underexposed, colors were a bit too bland and also used an fps heavy effect.

Lite V1: Show Spoiler Better than normal, but you can get a bit overwhelmed by the details and the slight reddishness looks off on certain maps.

Preset V2: Show Spoiler Honestly a step back from lite. I tried to replicate normal V1 with some new improved effects and without the fps heavy effect, but it's still overdone.

Preset V3 (current): Show Spoiler Brings back some of the blurriness/smoothness of vanilla with bloom and overall toning down of values. This sounds like a bad thing but while actually playing it helps making the image calmer, especially in busy areas. Also the has the most natural looking color between the different maps. I can see some people preferring lite though, there might be a better balance between them somewhere.

I spent some time making a new version:

1. Tweaked Tonemap effect for more correct colors across the maps.
2. Different anti-aliasing effect that is faster than SMAA and looks better than FXAA (CMAA).
3. New Color Isolation effect that allowed me to remove the purple hue from the UI.
4. New mild Vignette effect to calm the image slightly.

And the preset still keeps similar performance as it used to.

To update your config:
Download Reshade and the new preset, run the Reshade setup and select CoH3, choose "modify installation" (not "update installation"), select my preset, then keep hitting next till the installation is done.

Link to new preset: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lQx-SXtXTsMHpIoRW_tAUXjcQu_BEymj/view?usp=share_link