Blades of Time - Blades of Time Care Package v.1.0 - Game mod - Download

Blades of Time Care Package is a mod for Blades of Time, created by thrive4.

Description (in author’s own words):

Blades of time a darksiders look a like, in so much waysyou could be forgiven to think that you have come across aspin off of that franchise, how ever not quite as polished.

In many aspects this game is a nice example of everything'dialed up to eleven' visually meaning copious amounts of bloom,blur and other effects plus a curious palette which tends toward pink / purple.

The tweaks try to address this by...

Helix tweaks contains:

- reduce hdr overlay and lut

- reduce gold and red fx when rewinding time

- increase color sky and background

- reduce glow hanging orchids

- reduce glow godrays

Further a reshade tone map re-balances brightness plus removes a slight yellow tint and a 'poor mans form of tessellation' gives the assets (environment, etc) a bit of relief and more definition.

Also added smaa (so disable in game AA) and some slight desaturation.

An optional settings.blk is included see install for more detail.

Specifically handy is the setting:

godmode:b=yes

because as I said in this game everything is dialed up to eleven...

Note(s):

All screenshots are with forced AO must say the AO works rather so-so, and is quite expensive gpu wise hbao flag(0x0000002C).

Just in case you are wondering why I am using the ultimate asi loader in this case without it the game crashes on startup, due to reshade and a attempt with sweetfx causes the game to crash on shut down.

The ultimate asi loader allows reshade to function without a hitch.

This game does not have a in game gamma or brightness setting.

- install

Set bladesoftime.exe to 'win xp sp3' compatible for helix.

Copy the contents of the zip file to the install folder of

blades of time, the folder which contains bladesoftime.exe

with exception of the folder optional.

If you like you can either compare or copy the

settings.blk (in the folder optional) to:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\BladesOfTime

Note make a backup of your original settings.blk !!

The following instructions are only needed

if you do not like using unverified dll's you can:

download helix from

http://helixmod.blogspot.com/

and place following file in the install dir of blades of time

d3d9.dll

Then copy the folders dumps and shaderoverride, plus dx9settings.ini

to the install dir of blades of time.

Note:

This package contains a 'd3d9.dll.hxdb' this is the debug version

which allows shaders to be found in game, usage rename d3d9.dll to

d3d9.dll.o then rename d3d9.dll.hxdb to d3d9.dll and in some cases

set UseEndScene = false to UseEndScene = true in the dx9settings.ini

download the 'ultimate asi loader' (32bits) from:

https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader/releases

then copy the dinput8.dll 32bits version to the install dir

of blades of time.

download reshade from

https://reshade.me/ (preferably version 4.3)

Note:

Because this package uses the 'ultimate asi loader' take care and

first rename the existing d3d9.dll (helix) to d3d9.dll.hx then

install *only* d3d9.dll (32bits) to the install dir aka folder

of blades of time.

Rename:

d3d9.dll

to:

reshade.asi

Rename:

d3d9.dll.hx

to:

d3d9.dll

Then copy the reshade folder plus ReShade.ini and reshadep.ini contained in this package to the install dir of blades of time.

Note:

dx9settings.ini of helix contains the name of the linked proxy dll in this case leave it empty ultimate asi loader chains reshade.

- verify

To test the shaderfixes you will have to start and the restart the game without the d3d9.dll example rename it to d3d9.dll.o and restart the game.

- tested

Tested with version 1.0.0 (with dlc dismal swamp) of blades of time on win 7 / nvidia 1050gtx ti

- performance

reshade / helix / ual / forced ao usage 1080p@60fps*

without - clock 974Mhz gpu usage ~64%

with - clock 974Mhz gpu usage ~84%

approximately 20% increase (1050gtx ti on win 7)**

max gpu: 1772Mhz gpu usage 100%

*) Game is capped to 60.7 with fast sync through nvidia inpsector

hbao flag 0x0000002C forced ao adds roughly 30%

*) Ultimate asi loader (ual) does not seem to have an averse effect

on performance.

**)unusual high gpu usage for reshade might have to do with

setting the exe to xp sp3 compatibility.

- further tweaking

If you like you can compare the modified shader(s), Dumps contains

the original shader, to alter values. The folder 'shaderoverride'

contains the modified versions.

Note helix works differently then 3dmigoto please search for a

tutorial or start looking here:

http://helixmod.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-guides.html

Specific shaders can be disabled by simply removing them

from the sub folders contained in 'shaderoverride'.

• Last update: Monday, June 8, 2020
• Genre: Action
• File size: 2.9 MB