WRC 9 Mods 1.0 update 8

Enhanced Stage Surfaces Mod - Fine tuned all SSR mods for more performance.

The medium mod setting now removes nearly all of the stripes and flickering, has nearly the performance of default and has nearly the visual quality of the mods previous high setting.

The high and very high setting have also gained some performance.

config fix

SSR - restored medium SSR setting and a small config fix

Fixed - Bloom and SSR were not selecting the correct mods

Change - Removed Low SSR setting. Did not look good. If you have a low end GPU use the default shader (with lines and flickering) or use medium or high and then tune the shader in the games SSR options. High end GPU users should use the high or very high setting for best SSR visual quality.

Added - Compatibility with game v1.0.45.4

Added - An extra ENHANCED REFLECTIONS MOD. Rain drop ripples on the surface do not draw as far into the distance, can help with CPU/GPU usage

Tweaked - ENHANCED SURFACES AND REFLECTIONS MOD, SSR, I have diffused the reflections slightly to be less like mirror images of the things that are reflected.

Tweaked - SHADOWS MOD, NEW, Under car shadow is now slightly larger and darker and how it fades as the car leaves the ground is darker. The car now sits in the scene a little better and helps hide areas don't have SSR under the car.

Installer - Changed some info messages texts

Installer - Many under the hood changes

Uninstaller - Some small fixes and many under the hood changes, it is now compatible with all versions of the game and any future updates.

Update - New uninstaller
Added it to the main mod installer. It will get put onto the desktop. It can be used at any time to remove all mods so that you can update the game or go back online.
It will now take only a few seconds to restore the game back to default .

Update - New uninstaller - Layout changes
Added the option to delete save games and local data. Now removes all WRC9 Mods registry entries. Completely restores the game back to 100% default, no traces of any mod installation.


You can now install and uninstall as much as you like, no more copying files

Please see the "read me" file in the .rar for more information about installing and uninstalling.

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Added - Extra SSR quality level for very high end GPU's

Installer - SSR quality level now defaults to mod 3, a good balance between visuals and performance.

Installer - Graphic smoothing mod now defaults to off

Tweaked - Enhanced Stage Stage Surfaces Mod, SSR GPU performance tweaks on all mods. Added a default shader that has some required mods to it but uses no more GPU than the default game. Only people who are struggling to hit 60FPS with the other versions of the mod should use this as it still has the default game stripes and flickering.

Tweaked - Camera views, should fix some issues with the previous release.

New - Built a custom uninstaller that will completely restore the game to its factory settings and remove all mods, extracted files, reshade, mod installer files, desktop shortcuts etc.
No more backing up, copying and moving files required, simply run the included uninstaller exe to return the game back to default.
If you have used dynamics mod don't forget to erase your save data before playing online again or modded stage times could be uploaded to the servers.

Game - Restored some logos that I removed but I have now reduced the sizes slightly.

Installer - Some layout changes and under the hood changes.

Tweaked - Dashboard, steering wheel, drivers hands, shader in enhanced lighting mod, was to dark and showed no detail
Tweaked - HDR Mod to better balance Kenya, Germany, Wales, (Work in progress)
Tweaked - Enhanced Lighting Mod
Tweaked - Falling rain and snow mod, to gain some performance
Tweaked - Enhanced surfaces & SSR mod

New mod - Coloured 321 GO mod can now be double size (Sebastian)
New mod - Locked cameras (no acceleration movements) great for sim rigs (great idea Sebastian)
New mod - Bigger dust particles and debris from wheels with smoke flares turned on

Fixed - Loud water splash patch was not working
Fixed - "no spectator smoke flares mod" was broken

Installer layout and default selection changes
Installer bug fixes

Fixed a problem with the installer not remembering the correct physics installer when you run it for the 2nd time.

Fixed, thanks Telis322 for the bug report

Updated the car body work and paint mods as they were too bright with the enhanced lighting mod.

v1.0

Major update to my
ENHANCED LIGHTING, HDR, COLOR, SATURATION, EXPOSURE, AO MOD
and the
ENHANCED STAGE SURFACES & REFLECTIONS (SSR) MOD
Reworked the mod using a new method which has much better results than my previous efforts.
Lighting, Specular, Surface detail, Reflections, HDR, Exposure, Colour saturation, Rain drops on the road, Sun on the road, Sun on the car paint, Sun glare on the road, Car lights on the road, Saturation of car lights on the stages, Puddles etc. should look better. Wet surfaces should look more detailed and rough. On wet stages the the fake silver reflective landscapes/grass of areas surrounding the stages have also been very much reduced. I have also reduced the distance light is emitted from roadside smoke flares,
Changed the "High" quality setting to be less demanding on the GPU
Removed the old versions of the Mod
Level 5 of the mod is now much brighter than before. Get your sunglasses on driving on sunny stages!
Level 5 from the Beta version is now Level 3 in the final version.
High end GPU version of the mod also fixes the flickering and stripes of the default SSR and also the green headlight reflection seen in the stage surface at some angles during replays.

Reworked Car Paint Mod
Added dirt colour on the wheels and tyres to the Car Paint Mod (dirt)

Tweaked Enhanced physics mods to have less brake strength and extra grip is now set to 1.0 for all cars (as in my WRC8 Mods)

Many small tweaks to the shader mods
Many tweaks to the installers
Many bug fixes to the installers

Removed fast and faster menu navigation (both were causing glitches)

Changed the ReShade preset to not have Deband enabled as default (this was causing performance issues for some, high end PC users can enable it again in the games ReShade menu, it helps to smooth out the banding seen on fog effects)

Added more camera adjustment to bonnet view (Sebastian)

Added new car paint mod with more subtle dirt build up and dirt colour (Sebastian)

Removed car paint mod - extra glossy

Added an extra setting to the "Enhanced Stage Surfaces and SSR Mod" for users with lower end PC's

Adjusted "HDR Mod" better balance the brightness of in car views on Sweden stages

Adjusted "HDR Mod" removed level 4 and 5 (to bright) move level 3 to now be level 5, brightest

Adjusted the cockpit lighting (was to dark)

Small changes to rain ripples on the stage surfaces

Changed the "Enhanced Graphics Mod" (for high end PC's) The mod is not
selected by default now

many other small changes and tweaks.

Enhanched motion blur mod was completely broken.

Fixed

Only a config fix.

No need to download if you have the previous upload.

Dynamics mods failed to be removed when selecting "restore default settings"

Fixed