Sweet FX Graphics Enhancement Mod

Matthias Zlusch · May 16, 2016

Hi guys, i just build a small graphics mod with the well know Sweet FX Enhancement.

All you need is to download the Zip in the link and extract the content into your .../Steamapps/raceroom racing experience/Game folder. Its the Folder with the RRRE.exe.

After extracting the game will automaticly start with the moded graphics. To enable/disable the effect and see the difference ingame, push the "scroll lock" key on your keyboard.

To de-install the mod, just delete the files from the Zip out of your Game directory. They don´t overwrite any files.

Here are some Screens to show what it will do. Hope you like it!

...Download here...

Screens:
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Mascot · Jan 14, 2018

I game exclusively in VR, so can somebody please tell me the best way to cleanly remove SweetFX/Reshade from my AC folder so that load times improve, including any .dll files that need deleting? Many thanks!

Edit: oops - didn't realise this was the R3E forum...

Metalogic · Jan 20, 2018

I've installed this as instructed, into my Raceroom "Game" folder, but it doesn't seem to do anything in game and hitting scroll lock doesn't change anything. Not sure what's wrong here. I'm running the 64-bit version of Raceroom, if it makes any difference?

RasmusP · Jan 20, 2018

Metalogic said:
I've installed this as instructed, into my Raceroom "Game" folder, but it doesn't seem to do anything in game and hitting scroll lock doesn't change anything. Not sure what's wrong here. I'm running the 64-bit version of Raceroom, if it makes any difference?

Sadly it only works in 32-bit at the moment.
Same thing for me..
There seems to be a way with some settings under windows 10 to get it running again. I'm on windows 7 though so no sweetfx/reshade for me.

Metalogic · Jan 20, 2018

RasmusP said:
Sadly it only works in 32-bit at the moment.
Same thing for me..
There seems to be a way with some settings under windows 10 to get it running again. I'm on windows 7 though so no sweetfx/reshade for me.

Ah, I see. I am running Windows 10 BTW

RasmusP · Jan 20, 2018

Metalogic said:
Ah, I see. I am running Windows 10 BTW

Then @Martin Fiala is your guy I think

Metalogic · Jan 20, 2018

I've tried copy the files to my x64 folder, but still doesn't seem to do anything there, do I need to do something else as well? It does work if I copy the files to my "Game" folder and run in 32 bit mode, though

RasmusP · Jan 20, 2018

Metalogic said:
I've tried copy the files to my x64 folder, but still doesn't seem to do anything there, do I need to do something else as well? It does work if I copy the files to my "Game" folder and run in 32 bit mode, though

Yeah, you did everything correctly! It just won't work with 64-bit.
There seems to be a way that has to do something with Win 10's "gaming mode" etc. I have no clue about it. Just wait for Martin to reply. He's usually very fast with it

Edit: Post #47 in this thread mentions it. No idea if that works for you or if you need to do something else though!
http://www.racedepartment.com/threads/sweet-fx-graphics-enhancement-mod.121918/page-3#post-2639608

Metalogic · Jan 20, 2018

RasmusP said:
Yeah, you did everything correctly! It just won't work with 64-bit.
There seems to be a way that has to do something with Win 10's "gaming mode" etc. I have no clue about it. Just wait for Martin to reply. He's usually very fast with it

Edit: Post #47 in this thread mentions it. No idea if that works for you or if you need to do something else though!
http://www.racedepartment.com/threads/sweet-fx-graphics-enhancement-mod.121918/page-3#post-2639608

How can I tell if I have full screen optimizations disabled or not? Thanks

BTW in 32 bit mode I tried Gongo's settings, I like those a lot, removes the "gray haze" from the game without over-doing things too much

RasmusP · Jan 20, 2018

Metalogic said:
How can I tell if I have full screen optimizations disabled or not? Thanks

No idea. We will need to wait for Martin

Case_ · Jan 20, 2018

You can see whether or not you do have fullscreen optimizations enabled if you right click on the game executable file (for 64bit, it's RRE64.exe in the x64 folder under the game install folder), click Properties and then go to the Compatibility tab. It is almost at the bottom.

However, if you don't know where to find this, it is very likely you have fullscreen optimizations enabled, as that is the default setting.

Note that I haven't tested ReShade for a while, so something might've changed in the meantime in either Windows, R3E or ReShade itself. I will try again when I can, just to be sure it still works for me.

Metalogic · Jan 20, 2018

Martin Fiala said:
You can see whether or not you do have fullscreen optimizations enabled if you right click on the game executable file (for 64bit, it's RRE64.exe in the x64 folder under the game install folder), click Properties and then go to the Compatibility tab. It is almost at the bottom.

However, if you don't know where to find this, it is very likely you have fullscreen optimizations enabled, as that is the default setting.

Note that I haven't tested ReShade for a while, so something might've changed in the meantime in either Windows, R3E or ReShade itself. I will try again when I can, just to be sure it still works for me.

Thanks - rre64.exe does NOT have full-screen optimisations disabled, but Reshade is still not working :-(

Case_ · Jan 20, 2018

@Metalogic BTW, going over what you've done...have you really just copied all of the ReShade files (including the d3d9.dll) from the 32bit folder to the 64bit folder? If so, then I think that could actually be your problem, as I believe the d3d9.dll has a 32bit and 64bit version and ReShade installs the correct one for you based on the game executable. And obviously, if you've just copied over the 32bit one to the 64bit folder, then it's not compatible with the 64bit executable and ReShade is not started.

Metalogic · Jan 20, 2018

Martin Fiala said:
@Metalogic BTW, going over what you've done...have you really just copied all of the ReShade files (including the d3d9.dll) from the 32bit folder to the 64bit folder? If so, then I think that could actually be your problem, as I believe the d3d9.dll has a 32bit and 64bit version and ReShade installs the correct one for you based on the game executable. And obviously, if you've just copied over the 32bit one to the 64bit folder, then it's not compatible with the 64bit executable and ReShade is not started.

Sort of, I decompressed the package linked to from this thread, and then copied it into my x64 folder. I didn't run any installer for reShade - where would I find this?

Case_ · Jan 20, 2018

@Metalogic On the ReShade website:

https://reshade.me/

I was not aware of any packages linked here (I just followed my notification here). I actually think ReShade devs forbid people from distributing the files separately, to be honest, but I would've to verify this to be sure.

Metalogic · Jan 20, 2018

Martin Fiala said:
@Metalogic On the ReShade website:

https://reshade.me/

I was not aware of any packages linked here (I just followed my notification here). I actually think ReShade devs forbid people from distributing the files separately, to be honest, but I would've to verify this to be sure.

http://grip-racing-team.de/downloads/sweet-fx-raceroom/

Case_ · Jan 20, 2018

Yes, I've found the link in the first post after you've mentioned it

And yes, that link contains files that shouldn't be distributed like this according to the ReShade website. Plus it has obviously not been updated for the 64bit version of R3E.