The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut Guide

The Witcher Sound & Texture Overhaul for The Witcher: Enhanced Edition

The Witcher Sound & Texture Overhaul

Overview

Welcome to this guide that present my mod & tweaks for this great game !

Texture Overhaul


The purpose of this mod is to replace old vanilla low-res textures with HD realistic & lore-friendly ones !

  • Vanilla 512×512 textures changed to brand new 1024×1024 textures
  • Vanilla 1024×1024 textures changed to brand new 2048×2048 textures

All textures are saved in correct DDS format (DXT1 for tex without alpha mask & DXT5 for tex with) then cleaned and optimized with DDSopt[www.nexusmods.com].

Textures included :

  • roads
  • grass
  • grounds
  • tree barks
  • bedrolls
  • beds
  • doors
  • wood
  • fur pelts
  • barrels
  • roofs
  • rocks
  • flora
  • blood splatters
  • blood pools
  • rain effect
  • clouds
  • horizons matching with current weather (no more color differences between horizon & sky)
  • moon
  • stars
  • replace nebula sky in some area with normal starry sky for better logic
  • smoke effect
  • improved detail map

Sound Overhaul


Sounds included :

  • UI sounds
  • fist sound
  • sheathe & draw sound for weapons
  • tavern brawl sound
  • distant thunder
  • rain sound
  • fix door sound when you leave an area
  • fix one footstep sound
  • remove some annoying UI noises

Download


DOWNLOAD HERE[www.nexusmods.com]

Installation

  • Create a folder named Override in “/The Witcher Enhanced Edition/Data” folder and copy/paste all my files into it.
  • If you’re also using the great mod Rise of the White Wolf Enhanced Edition but want to get my new cloud textures, don’t check skyboxes option during install.
  • [Optional] Copy/paste files from my ENB Preset in “The Witcher Enhanced Edition/System” folder

Recommanded mods


Flash Mod by Flash[www.nexusmods.com]

You can also use the older Texturen Mod but it’s only sharpen vanilla textures with no increase in resolution and makes them more pixelated (also many textures are identical to vanilla). If you really want it, copy my files over it.

Tweaks

  • Use ingame antialiasing option (if you’re set AA in your graphic drivers, shadows will not be displayed in-game)
  • You can enhance vegetation aliasing by activate transparency AA in your graphic driver (2X or 4X, 8X is useless)
  • For those who like it, V-Sync must be set to ON in graphic drivers
  • To enhance compatibility, I advice to not install Steam & game in “C:/Program Files”. Also, deactivate Steam overlay.
  • If your language settings reset each time you launch the game, read this tutorial.
  • Use my ENB Preset to improve bloom & coloration. If the ENB don’t launch at start, check if the game executable is not set as “Launch as administrator”
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