{"id":223753,"date":"2025-11-29T19:29:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taimods.com\/2025\/11\/rdr2-firnis-1-51-image-and-light-enhancing.html"},"modified":"2025-11-29T19:29:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:29:42","slug":"rdr2-firnis-1-51-image-and-light-enhancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taimods.com\/en\/2025\/11\/rdr2-firnis-1-51-image-and-light-enhancing.html","title":{"rendered":"RDR2 &#8211; FIRNIS 1.51 \u2013 Image and Light Enhancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fifu-featured=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RDR2 - FIRNIS 1.51 \u2013 Image and Light Enhancing ()\" title=\"RDR2 - FIRNIS 1.51 \u2013 Image and Light Enhancing ()\" class=\"ls-is-cached lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taimods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1764393033920-8ce8354bde6a88-25819firnis-1-51-image-and-light-enhancing-6.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img  decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RDR2 - FIRNIS 1.51 \u2013 Image and Light Enhancing ()\" title=\"RDR2 - FIRNIS 1.51 \u2013 Image and Light Enhancing ()\" class=\"ls-is-cached lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taimods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1764393034912-472473dbd48f3-26938firnis-1-51-image-and-light-enhancing-1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img  decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RDR2 - FIRNIS 1.51 \u2013 Image and Light Enhancing ()\" title=\"RDR2 - FIRNIS 1.51 \u2013 Image and Light Enhancing ()\" class=\"ls-is-cached lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taimods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1764393035542-e7ba037b4cb7e-20253firnis-1-51-image-and-light-enhancing-2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Sophisticated ReShade that reconstruct image informations, improves the flow of light, colours, fog, depth perception, shadows, contrast overall \u2013 getting you a more immersive realistic image and more eyecandy while staying true to the artists original vision and colour grading.<\/p>\n<p>FIRNIS is a ReShade Preset that functions as the last layer (\u201cfear-niz\u201d is german for \u201cvarnish\u201d for paintings) to give a better image with more details, better textures, better bloom and fog and more realistic light emission and flow \u2013 it helps the threedimensional perception and may reduce symptomes of migraine when you react sensitive to fake, foggy and bright light inviroments in games (lets you survive the first act). It gives you an overall better, more immersive look.<\/p>\n<p>It is meant to be a respectful ReShade.<br \/>\nDevelop the Image, not alter the creators vision and colour grading, but to give the graphics a finishing touch.<\/p>\n<p>It rises and handles image information the shadows, but without lifting daylight or cause clipping in other. It\u2019s more like\u2026 de-clipping.<\/p>\n<p>You will in fact get more to see, and a broader dynamic range \u2013 nights will be a bit more bright and everything more visible thanks to the moonlighgt, while in the daytime it is just clearer and gets more \u201cpop\u201d and details in the shadows. The sunlight also has more colour and weight, so the warm sunset shows more on snow and surroundings, gives your a more realistic perception of weather.<\/p>\n<p>Works for every graphical setting and resolution, on top of any graphic mods.<\/p>\n<p>It is build in mind to work as a \u201cone tool for all\u201d-solution, working in every situation.<\/p>\n<p>It gives you better materials, metal feels more metal and it overall burst your immersion!<br \/>\nSkin is more realistic.<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR:<br \/>\n\u2013 a brider dyamic range<br \/>\n\u2013 better contrast<br \/>\n\u2013 better light emmision \u2013 it fills the space and effects everything a little bit more. Less the feel of lightspheres floating in dark spaces.<br \/>\n\u2013 sunlight has more weight and colour<br \/>\n\u2013 better skin<br \/>\n\u2013 more details and visibility in low light situations and blacked out shadows, shows great in cutscenes of interiors<br \/>\n\u2013 a hint more colourful<br \/>\n\u2013 better (and abit more subtile) bloom and fog<br \/>\n\u2013 better distant fog<br \/>\n\u2013 menu\u2019s transparency is a bit higher, it feels more lightweight and modern<br \/>\n\u2013 slightly sharper<br \/>\n\u2013 better readability of ui elements<br \/>\n\u2013 better structures and textures<br \/>\n\u2013 more realistic and immersive metal reflections<br \/>\n\u2013 overal l less cloudy, muddy feel<br \/>\n\u2013 eyefriendlier (i get less migraine while playing, i guess because my eyes dont try to adapt to that fake bloomy light situation)<br \/>\n\u2013 everything fills the same space, the room looks more 3d, perception of depth is better<br \/>\n\u2013 overall a more high quality, \u201cnext gen\u201d look<br \/>\n\u2013 it\u2019s more immersive<br \/>\n\u2013 it\u2019s like getting glasses<\/p>\n<p>FIRNIS is quite performance friendly for what it does, i guess \u2013 i just lose around 1-3 fps at a normal somewhat around 40 fps performance (on a FX-8350 with GTX 1070). I would count it as \u201cnot noticable\u201d. Fps hunger expands when having more pixels to calculate, of course. So beware of the fact that 4k is four times the pixel count as 1080p!<\/p>\n<p>The predecessor was told from users to have 1-5 fps lost. So i guess that\u2019s it.<br \/>\nBut as always: you must try by yourself and look if it suites you.<\/p>\n<p>(Try it out!)<\/p>\n<p>INSTALLATION:<br \/>\n1) Install the latest ReShade Installer your RDR2.exe in the main folder, make sure you choose to install all plugins.<br \/>\n2) Drop the .ini-files you found in my download into your RDR2 main folder .<br \/>\n3) Open Reshade\u2019s menu overlay ingame with [Pos1] and select the \u2018Firnis 1.51 \u2013 Image and Light Enhancing\u2019-ini .<br \/>\nMake sure to be in performance mode.<\/p>\n<p>Go into ReShade\u2019s Settings Tab and asign an \u201cEffect Toggle\u201d key to quick turn it on and off to see the difference the reshade makes.<br \/>\nI usually use [Num del], as it comes handy near the mouse.<\/p>\n<p>Assign a screenshot hotkey and a screenshot folder. I use [ScrollLock] and usually create a \/screenshot-folder in the main folder.<br \/>\nYou have to use reshades screenshot function \u2013 using the internal screenshot function won\u2019t show the enhanced image!<\/p>\n<p>Done! Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>a) If the game looks oversharpened, uncheck AdaptiveSharpen.fx. Lumasharpen is for improving highlights, this has to stay on.<\/p>\n<p>b) When you search for a bit more or less contrast, curves.fx is what you want to alter (a little). To alter parameters you have to uncheck \u2018performance mode\u2019.<br \/>\nToo much will crush the shadows again tho and give terrible saturation burn. I would not recommend to set it strength between 0 and 0.3 \u2013 standard is 0.175 .<\/p>\n<p>4) Also you should really consider calibrating the contrast\/brightness of your monitor\/tv!<\/p>\n<p>Calibrating colour is a very difficult task and unneccessary imho, but calibrating contrast is quick and easy and makes a lot!<br \/>\nWhen looking at the black to white gradient, make sure you see a difference between the first and the last two fields.<br \/>\nContrast and Brightness are the settings you have to alter.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve done this, your picture will be way better than before and you will see nuances in depths and heights that otherwise would be just clipped out. Colour, as i said, is much more difficulty to calibrate and unneccessary, as every colour is relativly shift and due to that harmonious, even if a little off. 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