Deus Ex: Invisible War - Game Mod - ESRGAN Upscale Pack v.12092021 - Download

ESRGAN Upscale Pack is a mod for  Deus Ex: Invisible War, created by Akven.

Description (in author’s own words):

Upscaled using ESRGAN neural network textures Deus Ex: Invisible War. Additionally were improved materials from material library, absent normal maps were created

Concept for textures

For some reasons a lot of vanilla textures in Deus Ex: Invisible War were already upscaled versions of the XBOX textures so most of the textures were bad quality. My assumption is this was done to reduce DXT BC1 compression artifacts in DDS files. So I took several steps:

-run all textures through BC1 smooth 2.0 ESRGAN model (BC1 compression artifacts removal model)

-created a two copy of de-artifacted textures (one original size one downscaled twice)

-run two copies through 6-7 several upscaling models using ImageEnhancingUtility and its tiling option if necessary (if original texture was seamless)

-chose one good looking final result from 12-14 textures. Most of the time preliminarily downscaled textures looked better after upscaling

-manual edit if necessary by combining parts from several textures of from another upscale options. Sometime one texture had some ornament in good size which I can use in another texture with the same ornament etc

Instructions:

You NEED to install Deus Ex 2 Visible Upgrade patch for Deus Ex: Invisible War with Unified Texture Pack enabled. And I don't know why would you want to play Deus Ex: Invisible War without this community patch.

Then download ESRGAN Upscale Pack and extract to game’s main folder.

• Last update: Wednesday, November 17, 2021
• Genre: RPG
• File size: 967.4 MB