GTA 5 Redux, an Ambitious Graphics Mod is NOW RELEASE

GTA 5 Redux, an ambitious graphics mod NOW RELEASE - After a few delays the highly anticipated GTA 5 Redux Mod is expected to launch today allowing you to enhance the graphics on your PC version of the Grand Theft Auto 5 game. Check out an hour-long introduction to what you can expect from the GTA 5 Redux Mod thanks to YouTube NoughtPointFourLIVE who has received early access to the mod.

The mod has just been released and has proved so popular that the official site has gone offline due to excessive bandwidth usage. There was a temporary mirror online which vanished but there are some temperamental links to the mod here which may or may not work.

Features of the GTA 5 Redux mod include 

• 100% re-written weather files from scratch, without a detail over-looked. All weathers have been carefully crafted to provide stunning sunrise/sunset, as well as mid day and night time. All weathers are made to blend naturally, and create an image that will leave you breathless.

• Perfect shadow cascades, with extended distance and intensity.
• Brand new timecycle modifiers providing stunning tonemapping for both 3rd and 1st person views.
• Lowered and re-configured fog for natural, yet revealing landscapes with a perfect atmospheric touch.
• Only the best that ReShade has to offer. Perfect color correction, bloom, tonemapping, and more.
• Altered sky intensity, sun intensity and colors, star visibility, moon colors, chrome reflections, vehicle metal and glass reflections, wheel and rim reflections, vehicle front and back light intensity, spot intensity, water reflections and light sprites, all through the use of the ENB external shader.
• Brand new, real life, company textures for billboards, commercial vehicles, trailers, bus stops, and taxi ads.
• Roads! – (mostly) All road textures are being replaced, with 100% custom normal and specular map textures. Including road damages, cross walks, sidewalks, curbs, barriers, and more.

GTA 5 Redux Game Files Installation

1. Open up your Gta V main directory, and remove any previous ReShade, SweetFX, ENB files, or “mods” folders you have previously installed. (100% original game is recommended for a clean install process)
2. Create a folder titled “mods”(no quotation marks) inside your Gta 5 main directory, and copy and paste the folder/files; update, x64, common.rpf,and x64a.rpf – x64w.rpf – from your GtaV main directory, into the mods folder. (make sure these files/folders are 100% original, clean, unmodded)
3. Download and install OpenIV: (make sure to install all the plug-ins that the OpenIV will prompt you with)
4. After fully completing the OpenIV installation, click on Tools —> Package Installer, then find the extracted Folder from the Redux download, and select REDUX_INSTALLER.oiv.
5. Select install, then choose “Game Folder”. (Make sure you have set up the mods folder properly in order for this to work correctly)

ReShade & ENB Installation

1. Choose your desired ReShade options from the folder titled “ReShadePresets”. (GTA5_REDUX/RESHADE OPTIONS)
2. Copy and paste all the files from your choice folder, into the Gta 5 main directory.
3. When you want to try a different preset, delete the entire “ReShade” folder from your directory, and overwrite all existing files with your new choice.
4. FINISHED!

Notes

• There is a very likely chance that you will receive a crash during loading when using any of the ReShade presets other than the Redux (default). DO NOT WORRY!
• This is a bug with the version of ReShade, and can be easily fixed by simply closing every/any single application and window that you do not need to be running.
• Sometimes things as simple as a notepad, or file explorer can cause a crash. So close what you can, and try again.
• Things like Photoshop, and certain web plug-ins are the majority of the cause, but many other programs can produce the same crashes. Simply reseting the game will eventually provide a stable launch.
• Running Steam in offline mode, as well as being disconnected from the internet, also seems to help prevent the loading crashes.