Games Thursday : Zaro’s Graphical Enhancement Mod for Mount & Blade
While it has been confirmed that Mount & Blade will get a graphical upgrade with HDR, FSAA and other fancy effects like depth of field, soft particles and tone mapping in the upcoming Warband expansion, current players of Mount & Blade can easily improve the visual quality of the existing game simply by downloading and installing an unofficial mod.
Zaro’s very excellent and aptly titled Graphical Enhancement Mod (currently version 2.51) allows players to battle in a more beautifully rendered Calradia. Follow the instructions in this thread at the Taleworlds forum to get the most of this mod and then gaze at the lush grassy plains and much more realistic trees until the cows come home (or at least until the nearest Swadian knight charges over and gives you a good whack over the head with his morningstar). There are also replacement textures for the castle and town walls which makes these fortifications look suitably formidable and imposing.
Download Zaro’s Graphical Enhancement Mod from the Mount & Blade Unofficial Repository followed by a little patch to bring it to version 2.5.1 (for best results, remember to follow these configuration instructions). It works perfectly on my current Mount & Blade installation patched to version 1.011 but nevertheless, it’s always good practice to backup your Mount & Blade folder before installing new textures.
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Just dropping in to say hi! Nice mod you got there too :p
Good to see you’re back! At least for a while