Cinematic and realistic reshade - performance friendly  

Fantastic Reshade aimed at significantly enhancing the atmosphere and graphics, with improved lighting & darkness, removal of usual game oversaturation & blue tint, enchanced texture details. All through simple processes (bloom, fake HDR, curve, etc..) aiming to avoid FPS cost. 

HL Cinematic Reshade aimed at significantly enhancing the atmosphere and graphics, proposing :
- enhanced lighting effect (particularly bloom and light transitions)
- Better contrast all around for deeper tones & blacks
- Slight Colour rebalance (removal of oversaturation & blue tint) - this can be desactivated/tweaked with a click as it might depend on your screen calibration.
- Enhanced texture details, yet not overly sharpened. Just enough to take away the base bluriness, especially good to counterbalance DLSS which tend to produce a slight blur. See below how more detailed & striking the finer patterns are after with the reshade.

All through simple processes (bloom, fake HDR, curve, etc..) to avoid FPS cost.(testing showed no dip in FPS / the precise cost was ~0.298fps during testing on my hardware so basically none). This may vary from machine to machines especially if you have a fairly old gen (2000 series or under) as wella s software/driver/reshade version etc.... but the purpose was to only use fairly simple processes to avoid any performance hit as much as possible.

Anything can be tweaked though like most reshade presets to find your own sweet spots.

> All images are from Ultra setting < so this reshade make the game Ultra Ultra! ^_^ or if you are playing on low/medium would dramatically enhance the grahic towards an ultra experience !

Have a look at comparison images - I think it speaks for itself.
Also, you can have a look at this comparison video from aProvokedKiwi - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0zlVxkvGNk - thanks for recording it

If you are enjoying it, don't forget to endorse please :)

Instruction:

Same as most reshade

installing reshade software:

- Download Reshade 5.4.2 or latest version at https://reshade.me/ (might work on lower version too, but not tested)
- Run the installer and run Reshade to select your game for the
installation - You need to select HogwardLegacy.exe in the list, or browse
it in your game folder (there are 2 HogwardLegacy.exe ,>>>  Choose the .exe in the Phoenix folder). <<<
- Click Direct3D 10/11/12
- Effect needed in the list are : Standard effects (usually checked and at the top) / SweetFX by CeeJay.dk,  qUINT by Marty Mcfly &Legacy effects at the bottom of the list) (you can tick others to expriment too, but they are not required)
- make sure to check all effect aforementioned are ticked then press Ok for each windows appearing
- You are done installing reshade

installing HL Cinematic reshade:

- Dowload through Nexus mod in the 'file' tab
- Unzip 'HL Cinematic.ini' to your game main folder where HogwartsLegacy.exe is - HOWEVER seems to have 2 .exe - It is the one in the Phoenix directory -In the same folder where you find a newly created "reshade-shaders" -
ie for Steam :
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Hogwarts Legacy\Phoenix\Binaries\Win64]
- It is installed! Now launch the game and if all worked correctly,
Reshade will say it is loaded succesfully in the band at the top of your
screen.
- Press the 'Home' button on your keyboard (above Del then next on the right) to bring up reshade, skip tutorial or do it quickly, then select 'HL Cinematic' in the bar at the top. If it does not show, it means you did not put it in the right folder, so go back a step ;)
below the tabs and next to the < > characters.
- You are done !! you can tweak individual effect in the reshade window, and you can
set up a shortcut to turn it on/off for comparison.

- In-game if using DLSS with this reshade, set sharpening to 0 as default, as the reshade is already doing the sharpening work
- You may want to reajust the in-game brightness setting (where they ask you to look at a logo) if you find it too dark after reshade

Enjoy ! & endorse if you like it :)