TR2 HD Upscale x2

[New Dwight]

Since the release of TR5 HD x2, found here, I've decided to touch on TR2's textures as well. As I initally planned, I've upscaled TR2's texs to 2048x2048, with less denoise reduction, detail preservation and edge smoothing +.4; value well enough to retain details, while enhancing them. I still use the ReShade and waifu2x algorithm simultaneously.
I avoid 4096x4096 because, as the tex size increase, the loading times increase significantly. That high res makes the game load for excessive periods, and drops frames during gameplay.
2048x2048 holds up well.

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Installation instructions same as before:

Installation step-by-step:

1. If you have not already, download the Peixoto Patch.
2. Unzip the file to a folder of your choice.
3. Download the upscaled textures from the link above.
4. Unzip the textures to a folder of your choice. It does not have to be in the same patch or game location.
5. Start the application Help.exe of the Patch folder.
6. In the list on the left side, look for Tomb Raider 2.
7. On the right side, you have all the instructions on how the patch works. Click Texture Swapping. Now in Configure and in Path click on "..." and choose where you unzipped the upscaled textures folder. The destination location should point to folders Dumps and Replacements of the unzipped file.
8. Scroll down until you reach Settings.
9. Turn on Allow Dynamic Super Resolution. This option will make the game run at the maximum resolution of your monitor, with the correct aspect ratio and FOV.
10. Turn on Anisotropic Filtering. To improve the rendering of textures.
11. Now on the left side, click Start and indicate the installation path of your game, in the game folder click tomb2.exe.

When you want to play the game with upscaled textures, start from the Help.exe application, choose Tomb Raider 2 from the list and click Start.

Screens:

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[DVDSpike]

While I'm not too interested in playing with this mod, I'd love to see what it looks like. Do you have any screenshots?

[tlr online]

I too would love to see some screenshots.

[New Dwight]

Screens will come, in about 6 hours. I missed some files, like 186.

Originally Posted by DVDSpike

While I'm not too interested in playing with this mod

I can't tell if you're serious with remarks like this.

[DVDSpike]

Originally Posted by New Dwight

Screens will come, in about 6 hours. I missed some files, like 186.



I can't tell if you're serious with remarks like this.

I’m not too sure what you mean. I just said while I don’t want to download and play the mod myself, I still want to see what you’ve done with the textures.

[New Dwight]

Originally Posted by DVDSpike

I’m not too sure what you mean. I just said while I don’t want to download and play the mod myself, I still want to see what you’ve done with the textures.

just thought based on our previous conflicts.
Screens will come in 6 hours and 38 minutes.

[New Dwight]

Process finished. Link available. Solid.
Screenshots added.

[GabrielCroft]

Another upscale project? Thank you so much for this. It looks very good

[New Dwight]

*Reserved*

[Lara_Fan_33]

Oh wow this looks amazing! very well done it looks way better