Tools

What have you installed with respect to tools and visual mods?

Tools and Visual Mods such as Graphics Enhancers, ENBs (Enhanced Natural Beauty), reshades, NVE (Natural Vision Evolved), QuantV, and dozens more are very popular with GTA 5 modders. Possibly the most popular mods, especially with children and novices.

Unfortunately they are notorious for causing issues, particularly those which replace many game files and those which use OIV installers. Uninstalling them will often fix issues.  Install at your own risk.

Visual mods can be a dog's breakfast of ReShade presets and ENB components. Many combinations are possible. Simple presets are easy to uninstall but mods installed with executables (.exe) or mods that replace game files may cause issues and are very hard if not impossible to uninstall.

Many new, and even experienced modders, will install multiple visual mods, not realizing the problems which will result from having too many "same purpose" mods overwriting each other's files or just plain conflicting with each other. Do your research, and ensure comptability before installing every Visual Mod under the sun.

Most graphics professionals will shun these visual mods for the following reasons:

1. The in-game graphics, with the proper hardware, are excellent and are the way the game was meant to be played visually, as designed for GTA 5, not Skyrim.

2. High resolution textures may cause FPS drops and instability, particularly on lower end computers.

3. Visual mods often boost contrast and colour saturation much too high, particularly for the sky and vegetation, resulting in unnatural, fake looking, deep blue skies and deep green grass and leaves.

4. Visual mods often sharpen way too high

5. Skin tones are never realistic, often tinted yellow, green, red, or orange.

So exercise caution and restraint when installing various tools and particularly visual mods. They are often the cause of your problem and they are frequently impossible to uninstall.

What is reshade?

"ReShade is a generic post-processing injector for games and video software developed by crosire. Imagine your favorite game with ambient occlusion, real depth of field effects, color correction and more.  ReShade exposes an automated and generic way to access both frame color and depth information (latter is automatically disabled during multiplayer to prevent exploitation) and all the tools to make it happen."  Source Here.

Reshade mods are generally just presets for ReShade itself, which must be installed. It is an executable installer while the mods are .ini text files. 

What is ENB?

"ENBSeries is the project of graphic modifications for games. The main idea is to allow every gamer to configure [what a] game looks like [suiting] their own taste, so every player could share settings with others. Many games may look much better and ENBSeries is the easiest way to improve them." Source Here.

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