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AH3 with SweetFX enabled
« on: September 02, 2016, 02:13:16 AM »
Was messing around with SweetFX tonight, here is what it looks like with the settings I use for AH2.  Will be messing around this weekend some more and make a couple of different settings for AH3.

SweetFX Off


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Re: AH3 with SweetFX enabled
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2016, 02:55:46 AM »
Made another one that sharpens up the colors.

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Re: AH3 with SweetFX enabled
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2016, 04:49:32 AM »
Made another one that sharpens up the colors.

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Re: AH3 with SweetFX enabled
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2016, 05:19:01 AM »
:airplane: Yes, but what happened to the lighting on the instrument panel? LOL

Where the sun is at, it's not lighting up the instrument panel.  But that can be resolved by disabling "Post-Lighting" in game in the AH advanced graphic settings.
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Re: AH3 with SweetFX enabled
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2016, 05:24:40 AM »
For those that want to try either one of these settings, here are the instructions to download and install SweetFX.

1. Download Reshade with SweetFX 2.0 here
2. Unzip the file to your hard drive
3. Go to the location on your hard drive to the folder you unzipped Reshade to and run the Reshadesetup.exe program
4. Make sure auto-detect is checked (or you can manually select DirectX 11 or DirectX9) and click on "Select Game" and go to your AH folder and select Aceshigh11 (If you are running Windows XP or have a non-DirectX 11/12 compatible video card, then select Aceshigh9.exe)
5. You should get a message that SweetFX was successfully installed

Now it's time to add the SweetFX settings

1. Download either of my SweetFX settings (Sharp Colors) (Technicolor)
2. Unzip whichever setting you downloaded to your AH directory (C:\Hitech Creations\Aces High III\SweetFX)
3. In the SweetFX folder, rename "SweetFX_Settings" to "SweetFX_Settings.bak"
4. Rename the SweetFX setting you downloaded to "SweetFX_Settings"

Start AH3 and you should see a message in the upper left corner that will tell you if the settings loaded successfully, you'll also be able to tell by the changes to the look of the splash screen. Scroll Lock turns SweetFX on/off while in game.​

Enjoy.
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Re: AH3 with SweetFX enabled
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2016, 12:21:57 PM »
Thanks... for the post  :salute

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Re: AH3 with SweetFX enabled
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2016, 12:27:33 PM »
Love the Settings AKAK, much better than what I worked up several months ago.
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Re: AH3 with SweetFX enabled
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2016, 03:13:56 PM »
I like this program but for some reason when I left it on auto detect it switched itself to DX9 which was not compatible with game "DX11" and caused AHIII to crash, which I fixed with a reinstall. I dont think I did anything wrong as its all straight forward. I'll try again in the future. I ran it successfully in AHII.
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Re: AH3 with SweetFX enabled
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2016, 04:14:54 PM »
I like this program but for some reason when I left it on auto detect it switched itself to DX9 which was not compatible with game "DX11" and caused AHIII to crash, which I fixed with a reinstall. I dont think I did anything wrong as its all straight forward. I'll try again in the future. I ran it successfully in AHII.

If the auto-detect isn't working for you, then manually select DirectX 11.
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Re: AH3 with SweetFX enabled
« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2016, 05:54:57 PM »
The program picks DX9 when on auto detect, so I tried checking DX11 and program will not let me manually pick which version. Any suggestions??
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Re: AH3 with SweetFX enabled
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2016, 06:35:14 PM »
The program picks DX9 when on auto detect, so I tried checking DX11 and program will not let me manually pick which version. Any suggestions??

When selecting the game, make sure that you select Aceshigh11.exe.
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Re: AH3 with SweetFX enabled
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2016, 07:07:10 PM »
Did select 11 several times in auto still no go, with it in auto program did load a couple times but loaded dx9 version. And am not able to manually tick the dx11 version.
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Re: AH3 with SweetFX enabled
« Reply #12 on: September 03, 2016, 01:06:55 AM »
Did select 11 several times in auto still no go, with it in auto program did load a couple times but loaded dx9 version. And am not able to manually tick the dx11 version.

Make sure your desktop shortcut is for "aceshigh11.exe", not "aceshigh9.exe".
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Re: AH3 with SweetFX enabled
« Reply #13 on: September 03, 2016, 05:09:23 AM »
I had the same problem :(
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It crashed my game a couple of times, but weirdly..I could go offline to play and it worked  :headscratch:
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Re: AH3 with SweetFX enabled
« Reply #14 on: September 03, 2016, 09:25:12 AM »
The largest problem with the graphics without sweetFX is on the terrain overall there is too much pastel colored green..its too light. I'd like to see more dark greens and browns into he mix to make it look more realistic and provide better contrast between planes and ground and to provide a better sense of depth
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