F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon - FEAR HDR ReShade v.1.0 - Game mod - Download

FEAR HDR ReShade is a mod for F.E.A.R., created by MayheM7. If you enjoy this mod please consider supporting it’s creator through Patreon.

Description:

F.E.A.R. - First Encounter Assault Recon, the first game in the legendary first-person action/horror game series, developed by Monolith and release in 2005 by Sierra Entertainment & Warner Bros. F.E.A.R. is still considered to by one of the best first-person shooters of all time. Technically the game is still decent, except for some problems with newer operating systems, but once working, the graphics and mechanics are still good even though it's not up to par with level/object detail. This HDR ReShade will give the game a new render with better lighting, and slightly improved atmosphere and image quality.

Instructions:

Download and unpack the file into the main F.E.A.R. game-folder. *This works for both expansions as well.

*Note for Windows 10 users:

The Creators update for Windows 10 introduced a wide variety of problems, especially for games with custom renders like ENB or ReShade. If you encounter problems like messed-up graphics or extreme slowdowns, then follow the steps in number 4 here: (LINK) *Pay special attention to the RivaTuner settings.

If this doesn't work, then Windows is somehow still blocking it. Search Google for alternative ways of forcing Windows 10 to use custom d3d files. If you are unable to fix it, then you will have to uninstall the ReShade and play without. Just delete the d3d9.dll file but keep everything else.

Expansion Fix (Only if needed):

For whatever reason, both expansions may have problems working with Windows 10 if you use certain nVidia drivers. If the expansions don't recognize "nvcpl.dll", you will get an error dialog when launching either of the expansions, but not the main game.

*If you don't get this error, just skip this part.

GOG or other non-Steam versions: You might get this error when starting one of the expansions:

Fix: Click "Cancel", and the game will launch just fine, even though the error message will still be there. If you click "OK", the game will close.

Steam Version: The Steam version behaves a little different. Here you might get an error looking like this, when starting one of the expansions:

*No option to fail the dll

Fix: Start the expansions from a regular shortcut instead of via Steam.

1: Open the "Fearxp" folder inside the game folder, and make a shortcut to: "FEARXP.exe". Use this shortcut to start Extraction Point from now on.

2: Open the "Fearxp2" folder inside the game folder, and make a shortcut to: "FEARXP2.exe". Use this shortcut to start Perseus Mandate from now on.

When starting one of the expansions, you will now get the same error message as shown above for the GOG/non-Steam version.

Click "Cancel" and the game will start just fine.

Fixing the Extraction Point expansion resolution error:

Launch Extraction Point and go to display settings. As you will notice, the resolution option doesn't include any HD resolutions. Set all other settings to your liking and exit the game. Now open the public documents folder (C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\) and open the "TimeGate Studios" folder, then the "FEARXP" folder, and edit "settings.cfg" with a notepad.

Change the values in the following two lines to match your screen resolution:

"ScreenWidth" ""

"ScreenHeight" ""

Exit and save.

Why the developers made this silly error, who knows, but luckily it's easily fixed.

• Last update: Monday, December 7, 2020
• Genre: Action
• File size: 24.3 MB