NVIDIA Graphic Tweaks Guide

NOTE: None of the modifications made in this guide will be caught by the game's anti-cheat, nor are any of these modifications against the game's Terms and Rules!!!

This guide will walk you through adding various NVIDIA graphical modifications to Twelve Sky 2 Classic! None of these modifications will work unless you have a NVIDIA GPU.

Prerequisites:

• NVIDIA Inspector by Orbmu2k (http://orbmu2k.de/tools/nvidia-inspector-tool)
• (Only for Ambient Occlusion/HBAO+) Hex Editor like HxD (https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/)

For all of these, when we refer to the NVIDIA Inspector Twelve Sky 2 settings, you can find them by doing the following:

1. Open NVIDIA Inspector, and click this button
2. Create a New Profile by clicking this button, and name it "Twelve Sky 2 Classic"
3. Add TwelveSky2 as an application by clicking this button, and selecting the TwelveSky2.exe in your 12Sky2 Classic folder (usually either "C:\RedFox Games\12Sky2 Classic" or "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\TwelveSky 2 Classic")
4. Now, you're at the NVIDIA Inspector Twelve Sky 2 settings. Make sure to hit the "Apply Changes" button each time you make a change. Also, you have to restart Twelve Sky 2 each time you make changes for them to apply.

Anti-Aliasing
This section of the guide will teach you how to force anti-aliasing on in TS2:

1. Go to your NVIDIA Inspector Twelve Sky 2 settings
2. Set "Antialiasing - Behavior Flags" to "None"
3. Set "Antialiasing - Mode" to "Override any application setting"
4. Set "Antialiasing - Setting" to your desired anti-aliasing level, I suggest "8xQ [8x Multisampling]"
5. Set "Antialiasing - Transparency Multisampling" to disabled
6. Set "Antialiasing - Transparency Supersampling" to your desired anti-aliasing level (it is highly suggested you set this to the same level as your regular anti-aliasing setting, i.e. 8xQ Setting gets 8x here)
7. You're done adding anti-aliasing. Hit "Apply Changes", start TS2 and enjoy!

Ambient Occlusion (HBAO+)
This section of the guide will teach you how to force Ambient Occlusion on in TS2:

1. Go to your NVIDIA Inspector Twelve Sky 2 settings
2. Set "Ambient Occlusion compatibility" to "0x0000002C (Counter-strike: Global Offensive)"
3. Set "Ambient Occlusion setting" to "High Quality"
4. Set "Ambient Occlusion usage" to "Enabled"
5. Hit "Apply Changes"
6. Copy/paste "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\nvd3dum.dll" into the same folder as TwelveSky2.exe and Launcher.exe (usually either "C:\RedFox Games\12Sky2 Classic" or "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\TwelveSky 2 Classic")
   
7. Open "nvd3dum.dll" (the file you just copy/pasted) in your Hex Editor
   
8. Hexadecimal search for "16 B0 03 18 00 00 02 1C 85 A0 6F 05 00 00 00 00" and change it to "16 B0 03 18 00 00 02 1C 63 F0 3F 0E 00 00 00 00" (you cannot copy/paste this new value, just type it in manually)
   
9. Save that modified dll.
   
10. You're done adding Ambient Occlusion. Start TS2 and enjoy! You'll have to repeat these steps each time you update your graphics drivers.

If you'd like to know exactly how we decided what to change the hex values to, and how you can modify the AO further, visit this link.

Anisotropic Filtering
This section of the guide will teach you how to force Anisotropic Filtering on in TS2:

1. Go to your NVIDIA Inspector Twelve Sky 2 settings
2. Change your Texture Filtering settings to these.
3. Hit "Apply Changes"
4. You're done adding Anisotropic Filtering. Start TS2 and enjoy!

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