Borderlands 2 - Improved visuals

Created by chiculin

Added March 4, 2025

Updated 4 Mar 15:05 CET

Shader used: ReShade

Preset description:

Preset mainly focused on ambient occlusion and ambient light. First of all, I'm running the game with cell-shading disabled, I recommend disabling it as it looks much better imo. It's easy to do, goggle it. *Disable cell-sahding will disable the ambient occlusion and this is why this preset makes sense. Effects used, - iMMERSE MXAO - iMMERSE Sharpen - Ambient light - QUINT Lightroom During reshade installation, select libraries: legacy, sweetfx, Quint and iMMERSE. The preset could be demanding due to the level of MXAO I have set. If you happen to see a high impact on your framerate, go open reshade console and change the lines, MXAO Sample quality - Set to Medium Shading rate - Set to Half The other effects have low impact on performance. If MXAO module doesn't work for you, you might need to check the preprocessor definitions over reshade console, sometimes you need to change the buffers from 0->1 or viceversa.

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