Prey PC's Upgrade: HDR Support, Improved Graphics, DLSS and more!

[@Klash120]

I love everything about this! -Former Prey developer

[@NicholasSilveira]

Wait, I'm also a former Prey developer 🫂 Want to make PREY 2 this weekend?

[@jackiedaytona1017]

Prey is an amazing gem of a game, thank you for your work.

[@chrisgerhard4425]

As someone who bought this game on release, let me just say that everyone on the team did such an incredible job with this game. It has always seemed impossible to me that this game didn’t get more recognition. It was my GOTY for 2017 and continues to be one of my favorite games of all time. Hopefully a sequel can be made someday with the original team. Thank you for creating what in my opinion is a perfect game.

[@NicholasSilveira]

@@chrisgerhard4425 the whole Arkane Studio team had their hearts in the game. We were able to achieve a lot with such a small team. It's amazing that there are still developers building new mods and features. I love this!

[@theantsaretakingover]

@@NicholasSilveiradon’t do that, don’t give me hope 😭

[@Jasmine-l4m9i]

a masterpiece now have DLAA and HDR? holy shit cant wait for another mods from you ! thanks.

[@JDSPonYT]

I played no part in the development other than testing and making this video, all props go to Pumbo and Ersh

[@happygofishing]

why would you need dlaa when you can downsample? its an old game so any RTX gpu can easily run it at 1440p.

[@Jasmine-l4m9i]

@@happygofishing even at 4k still have jaggies, DLAA or DLSS is better and i really hate jaggies

[@happygofishing]

@@Jasmine-l4m9i fair.

[@akaChriss4L]

The remaster we never got 😢Since Prey is my favorite game of all time, I might as well replay it with the mod and now that I have a proper HDR screen too.

[@cemsengul16]

I hope it looks good on my FO32U2P.

[@plasmatvforgaming9648]

You should upload more videos. This was a great one. Very high quality

[@GamingTech-YouTube]

Thanks for the update!

[@astrea555]

Dude insane, I was just trying to get it to run in HDR with reshade these days and simply couldn't do it alone, this is amazing! Thank you. DLSS is also more than welcome, since getting 120fps at 4K wasn't as easy as I hoped. Wow even DLSS perf looks sharp. Impressive new AO and SSR too! 10/10 fantastic work

[@Crimsongz]

How do you set the DLSS quality in this ??

[@a54]

Holy shit dude. Having to prioritise replaying Prey was not on my already bonkers 2024 bingo card lmao. Fantastic vid showcasing a fantastic mod.

[@phrozac]

Awesome! Prey was criminally overlooked when it released so I love that it's getting an update so many years later, even if it's a mod. Hopefully the devs behind this masterpiece can get something going at a new studio to continue the System Shock lineage.

[@FilippoTarpini]

The mod is now live, link in the description

[@icyjiub2228]

This is actually a really really good way to show people who aren't in the know what HDR is actually supposed to look like. Ive gotten the feeling HDR implementations on PC and games is usually faulty and Auto/RTX HDR so talked about that people think HDR just = bright.

[@kaozz77]

yes still very misunderstood tech. sadly many monitors and TVs have poor HDR just to have it for the spec sheet marketing, and ppl then confuse bad displays with HDR itself being poor

[@StiekemeHenk]

Higher resolution and refresh rates are just as misunderstood. A 4K display isn't just about cramming in more pixels - it affects color reproduction, HDR implementation, and overall image quality. And high refresh rates do way more than make things 'smooth' - they reduce eye strain, minimize ghosting, and can actually make games more responsive through lower input latency.

[@Helifax19]

Absolutely phenomenal work my friends! HRD & Ultrawide & Stereo3D for the future!

[@miggies8140]

How do you force dlss upscale instead of DLAA? Cant find the setting

[@sheaperry5819]

your voice is very relaxing

[@Dakobra_]

This work is incredible, kudos to everyone involved!

[@mondaysstink]

my favorite game just got a graphics update hell yeah

[@otto8684]

One of my fav games! Yet to play Mooncrash tho

[@Cenot4ph]

Yes it's okay

[@LuizFernando-ym1my]

Another run here we go.

[@DeltaNovum]

KZbin's HDR tonemapper is doing very good work here. As even though I'm quite sensitive to color, contrast and such, I see no discernable difference between the SDR and HDR shots. I'm watching this on a Samsung galaxy tab s7. Which technically supports HDR content. KZbin is letting me watch it in HDR, but the screens brightness means there is no rl difference.

[@Z3rgatul]

There is always a difference no matter at what brightness you watch. When SDR presentation cuts some colors to be 100% white on very bright objects, HDR representation shows very bright colors and you see details inside these objects. Author of the video meant tonemapper while encoding in SDR, which you can see only when viewing bideo in browser and switching for SDR quality.

[@koklusz89]

Engagement for the engagement god.

[@NicholasSilveira]

SICK! This brings back memories 🐙

[@Demoerda]

Holy shit, thats amazing! Gonna download prey again and give this another go.

[@58elrond]

Great showcase, glad this game is getting love/updates gonna have to replay some day :>

[@rapopescu]

thank you for the amazing work! prey rocks!

[@kaozz77]

WOOOOOW, thank you!

[@AsCo1d]

Thanks a lot for a great work, guys! It's awesome!

[@mhjmstultiens]

Impressed! Great work.

[@InkDrop.]

Incredible work. Great job guys!

[@UNMERILLY]

insane work, thank you so much

[@the100ways6]

Thanks for the mod, i play it on my deck oled and i hope to play it in hdr...i love lrey for me the one and only true bioshock but even much better!

[@neqaa1]

Just gorgeous. Well done 👏🏻

[@urazoktay7940]

Amazing video. I will play Prey in 2025, thank you for this video. Game looks amazing.

[@robirwin1064]

Such a great game. So few immersive sim types of games like this these days.

[@AngelGraves13]

Amazing work! Going to have to reinstall and revisit the game soon. Wish the same could be done for Alien Isolation.

[@tianhang4656]

Such good content!

[@StiekemeHenk]

Could FSR 1.0 & 2.1 be supported? 👉👈

[@Moleanimationchannel]

Awesome work bro!

[@ENNEAD09]

One of the best games I've ever played!

[@robert_fm_radio9481]

really cool! I just played the game again reciently tho, but i'll remember this if i want to go back! 🔥

[@CreepySasquatch]

Damn you guys have been busy. Nice work on the video and nice work on the mod 😊

Cool now you can see “it was all a dream” in higher fidelity

[@bulentozen2127]

which effects and addons should i select while installing reshade 6.3.3? its unclear

[@FilippoTarpini]

None. The mod is a separate addon, it's not in the pre made list from ReShade installer.

[@SoulMass]

Спасибо за проделанную работу))

[@SnafuWarrior]

ETA of mod publishing on Nexus? I'm currently halfway through Prey again, would love to check this out on my OLED!

[@FilippoTarpini]

Today

[@FilippoTarpini]

The mod is now live, link in the description

[@Nestor.555]

Thanks for the great vid. HDR support is really long overdue for Firefox...

[@Penpal]

For people who don't have an HDR display, the difference is profound.

[@a54]

Come to thnk of it - I never did play that rather acclaimed Mooncrash DLC... I better check if this is compatible with that too!

[@Kristjan_K]

It should because I think they showed a scene from it (the one with the shuttle). Also, the DLC is really good! I personally enjoyed it a lot and was terrified due to the random nature of it.

[@dolan_plz]

Beautiful colors. Is it using BT2020 color gamut? 🤔 This tech breakdown has been a music to my ears and I don't even own Prey. Love passionate technical people applying their knowledge and learning new things.

[@FilippoTarpini]

yes

[@MKR3238]

If you want, check out dead space 2 with upgraded framebuffer that adds HDR (with restored detail in highlights) and massively improved banding from which this game suffered tremendously. Pretty cool imho

[@Crimsongz]

Where ?

[@MKR3238]

@Crimsongz dxvk hdr fork and the hdr shader pack from pumbo

[@jmssun]

This game would look fabulous with full path tracing

[@starbez]

I love pc gaming ❤

[@Schale.kivotos]

I didn't need the dlc right?

[@OnVamNeSteem]

Спасибо вам и случайной рекомендации за то, что я узнал о существовании данного улучшения!

[@willrun4fun]

I don't own an HDR display so it's dark but will be taking a look at this mod.

[@impulse1914]

They need to do this for Dishonored 2! I hate that the game is locked at 120fps while having a 360hz monitor and knowing I can probably play the game at 400fps. Dishonored is one of the most gorgeous games ever created, it deserves it. It could really use DLSS and DLAA as well since its Taa implementation is pretty blurry.

[@Crimsongz]

Can we set the DLSS quality or is it locked to DLAA ? Also I guess we have to select TAA in-game ?

[@Jamic9]

Good stuff.

[@jstro-hobbytech]

I was a fan of prey in many ways and finished it but I wasnt a huge fan of alot of the mimics character designs or their animations and cheap 'monster closet' attacks. I've got to say though, it's nice to not see boiling textures from denoising algorithms being too heavy for even the most powerful gpus. I'm still a fan of rasterized graphics when done properly, especially with a kickass art style. if you caught the sony ps5pro hardware brief by Cerny you'd also notice he basically said that denoising still sucks haha. I'm happy waiting for the hardware to mature for path/ray tracing and have had every top end card since the first voodoo card but it feels like were in a graphics technology shift that is taking way too long to iron itself out and im after spending way too much money on pc parts. I just built a new pc and left my 4090 in it waiting for blackwell but I honestly do not see things getting any better for at least another 3 nvidia architecture launches. Especially when most of the industry has moved to ue5 which came out a decade too soon with wild scope creep trying to cater to offline and realtime rendering projects. Shit are they going to keep going from version 5.5 to 6.0 by next year? Lumen and Nanite are horribly inefficient, just look at any current gen console game built on the tech. Sony were forced to release the pro and pass the cost of the hardware design of their upscaler to consumers. The digital ps5 and ps5pro are exactly double the price of each other right now in canada. If you add in the out of stock bdrom drives then it's well over double the cost and I still see graphical artifacts that a 3060 would have no trouble rendering. I'm so sick of laggy textures that boil for the sake of 'ray tracing', I cant even look at Alan Wake 2 on pc without being sickened by shoddy artifacting when in motion. Same with snowdrop engine, outlaws was a smear fest. It looked like my wife cleaned my oled with a bottle of grease. The new idtech looks the same as well. Three generations into the ray tracing era and denoising artifacts are everywhere to the point where everything looks like a blotchy fluid.

[@TheCoolerFury]

Incorrect link? It says the mod hasn't been published yet.

[@FilippoTarpini]

Coming today

[@FilippoTarpini]

The mod is now live, link in the description

[@vizionblind]

I’m not seeing DLSS in the options

[@Alexey-e5b]

Hah I just recently thought about replaying mooncrash. Gg

[@ReachTea]

centered crosshair?

[@stevenspilski2251]

Any chance this will work with steam deck oled?

[@FilippoTarpini]

It does

[@captainthunderbolt7541]

So no XESS or FSR 2?

[@mendoncapais6033]

playing prey 2017 is worth it

[@Ruvik17]

Is it necessary to have the DLC or is the basic version of the game enough?

[@FilippoTarpini]

no DLC needed

[@Accuaro]

Now do a HDR mod for Wukong 😭😭

[@dolan_plz]

I need to use Special K in that game 😭

[@TheLateral18]

Why nobody uses SSAA that one is so good. I'll join the discord thank you

[@GuvoProd]

My KZbin turn into yellow

[@Godslayer96]

Looks amazing but I am eternally mad that they fucke dthe sound up so fundamentally that it can't be fixed without huge effort and investment.

[@nomercy8989]

Watching this on my phone wasn't a good idea haha

[@Hliouxas]

My only gripe with this game was it's terrible T2X SMAA antialiasing implantation. And after years, it's finally been addressed!!!!

[@CatspawAdventures]

This looks incredible. I'm torn between desperately wanting to try this out in my currently-running playthrough, and concerns about whether I'll be able to capture it in 4K at an acceptable frame rate when I'm already riding the edge of 60 FPS. Hopefully DLSS will help with that, gonna have to try this out for sure!

[@elexor-o8e]

Does this allow taa/dlss off completely? even dlaa produces a blurry flat image

[@FilippoTarpini]

yes

[@hoti257]

I am going to bust

[@sorrowstaylor2910]

What about playstation?

[@Crimsongz]

You are stuck with the default graphics thanks to the locked ecosystem of consoles.

[@sorrowstaylor2910]

@Crimsongz 😭💩

[@romainbeaulande3486]

@@Crimsongz At 30 FPS too.

[@FigmentHF]

i need to stop getting triggered by HAITCH lol

[@johnakkman9993]

There are differences but let’s be real here, it’s so minimal compared to the original.

[@phantom_stnd]

honestly, native 4K with smaa looks better and performs much better than dlaa

[@Skylancer727]

I still don't think HDR does much of anything. Looking at them back to back they look so barely different in brightness and contrast I'd never notice. Both on my phone that supports up to 1700nits and my monitor up to 1200 looked about the same to me. I will say it looked more distinct than most true HDR content which to me always looks exactly identical or they just dim the entire screen to increase contrast, but still don't think I'd ever want it. I don't get why everyone makes such a big deal out of it. I mean I quite literally spent $1800 on a monitor to have the best HDR and it looks nearly indistinguishable from SDR with tone mapping. Some games I've even noticed it being objectively less accurate to creative intent where in FF7 Remake the menus turn grey. Like we all know the entire Final Fantasy series uses blue menus.

[@romainbeaulande3486]

Damn, yeah. 1800, I would feel ripped off... On mine, quite cheaper,, there is a difference for sure. It's really a lot to do with how it is done game by game, and I am certain that many devs just don't really put any extra effort into it. Although at the end of the day, it is definitely something we can live without (like many of those "extra features").

[@Skylancer727]

@romainbeaulande3486 I don't know, feel like I'm taking crazy pills with how many people are saying it's a "killer feature" and yet to me it looks either indistinguishable or just dims the entire image. Like to me that doesn't really help.

[@_TheLastWatcher]

You don't need this mod if you already have a capable system with a real HDR display.

[@FilippoTarpini]

What?

[@Coffeeandacigarette]

It's not supported on epic games version. Furthermore pasting in the files wipes your progress.

[@FilippoTarpini]

No it doesn't. Why are you spreading lies.