** Official** Starfield - Mods and Tweaks

[Dirk Diggler]

Thread to discuss modding the game. I'll update the OP with some links and info as we go.

Display:

StarUI Inventory

StarUI Inventory improves all inventory screens for use on a PC. Compact display style. More details in sortable columns. Item tag icons. Category as left sidebar. Many quality of life features!

www.nexusmods.com

Normalized LUTs (True Black - Dehaze - Full HDR - Original Color Grade)

Normalized LUTs which removes the gray haze, gives full brightness range, improves DLAA/FSR sharpness, and improves film grain, all while keeping the original color grading.

www.nexusmods.com

Neutral LUTs - No Color Filters

Removes the color filters from the game + DLC, making the colors more uniformly neutral with deeper blacks.

www.nexusmods.com

Stellar LUT (Custom LUTs - AgX Color)

Custom LUT created using ARRI Log 3 conversion and includes AgX color management for crisp, accurate color and gamut. Hand crafted, per-location LUTs for the perfect balance.

www.nexusmods.com

Mod unavailable

This mod is not currently available

www.nexusmods.com

SFSE - Weapon Model FOV setter

SFSE plugin to set Weapon model FOV

www.nexusmods.com

21x9 Loading Screens

Cropped and upscaled loading screens for ultrawide monitors

www.nexusmods.com

BetterHUD - Immersive and Dynamic - User Configurable

Less distracting, more immersive, and simply a better HUD. Sneak peek of fully customizable version available in optional files and features added over time.

www.nexusmods.com

BetterHUD - Enhanced Player Healthbar and Boostbar Patch - Scanner Encumbrance Display With Time Patch

Simple patch to add Enhanced Player Healthbar+Boostbar (WYOR, BYOR, GYOR) colors compatibility with BetterHUD v0.1.0 sneak peek. Not compatible with large fonts AFAIK, too lazy to figure it out. Now s

www.nexusmods.com

Smooth Ship Reticle (120fps Smooth UI)

Fixes the spaceship targeting reticle looking choppy. Also includes an option to boost every UI element to 120fps!

www.nexusmods.com

Cleanfield - A No-Intro and Clean Menu Fix

Cleanfield: - No Epilepsy & Seizure Warning - No Bethesda Logo Video - No Bethesda Logo - No Message of the Day (Optional) - No Starfield Logo (Optional) - 30,

www.nexusmods.com

Reshade:

Quantum Reshade

MAJOR REWORK! Quantum reshade brings you closer to the reality YOU want. Make your game look like reality with new groundbreaking imaging tech and emulation-ReShade

www.nexusmods.com

Clarity Plus ReShade (MartinSpielt) - Color and Black Level Fix

An enhanced ReShade preset for Starfield, for neutral colors and black levelsThe zip file includes a preset for solo use with ReShade and a preset to use with ReShade and LUTs like NaturaL

www.nexusmods.com

DECENT ReShade - Natural and Performance Friendly

By removing the green tint fog in game and making the texture more clear, DECENT ReShade gives you more natural images. It's optimized for gameplay, so it won't cause much performance hit.

www.nexusmods.com

DLSS:

Starfield FSR2 Bridge - Replacing FSR2 with DLSS or XeSS

Allows you to use DLSS or XeSS in place of the built-in FSR2 without ReShade.No Frame Generation support!

www.nexusmods.com

Starfield Frame Generation - Replacing FSR2 with DLSS-G

Replaces the built-in version of FSR2 with DLSS3 + DLSS-G to enable Frame Generation.

www.nexusmods.com

Graphics / Textures:

Starfield HD Reworked Project

This project aims to improve the graphics by reworking game assets to better quality preserving original art style and good performance.Modification from author of The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Proj

www.nexusmods.com

Starfield High Definition Texture Pack (HDTP)

The High Definition Texture Pack for Starfield is a higher resolution upscaled set of texture packs designed to completely replace and overhaul ALL of the original/vanilla textures with highly detaile

www.nexusmods.com

EXE - Effect Textures Enhanced

Every last visual effect in Starfield remade and improved. *NOT Ai UPSCALE!!!* This will enhance your game in a big way. Muzzleflashes, storms, blood, explosions, lasers, and everything else.

www.nexusmods.com

8K Planets (opt. original NASA)

All planets have 8k textures upscaled from 4k. Each texture was upscaled with ai technology and additional 'layers'. Original Moon, Mars, Venus and Jupiter textures! 40 NASA upscaled generic Cratered

www.nexusmods.com

Skurkbro's Retexture Project - Starfield - WIP

Starfields first big Texture Mod which is going to cover most surfaces with higher resolution Photoscanned-Textures.

www.nexusmods.com

General:

Starfield Script Extender (SFSE)

Starfield Script Extender (SFSE) is a tool adding additional scripting capabilities and functionality to the game.

www.nexusmods.com

Baka Achievement Enabler (SFSE)

Prevents achievements from being disabled with mods or when using the console. Also removes the warning when opening the console for the first time in a session.

www.nexusmods.com

Better Visible Valuables

Make valuable items stand out more so you won't overlook them (as much). Comes in different colors. For now just creditsticks and digipics.

www.nexusmods.com

Sprint Stuttering Fix

Fixed twitching/stuttering when sprinting in first person.

www.nexusmods.com

Weapon Swap Stuttering Fix

Fixed stuttering when changing weapons

www.nexusmods.com

SlowerThanLight - Fly in a star system

This mod allows you to control the speed gear of your ship with hotkeys, from regular flight speed to the equivalent of hundreds of times the speed of light. It allows you to fly inside a star system

www.nexusmods.com

Disk Cache Enabler

Use disk cache for IO for less disk activity. - SFSE and ASI plugin.

www.nexusmods.com

Simple Offence Suppression SFSE

SFSE plugin that prevents neutral NPCs and spaceships from turning hostile when you accidentally hit them.

www.nexusmods.com

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Some tips and tricks from Reddit.

Reddit - Dive into anything

www.reddit.com

1. The scanner highlights lootable items.

2. When lock-picking, if you rotate a key, then switch to a different one (Using LB + RB), the first one will stay in the position you left it. This is helpful for figuring out which keys to utilize.

2.1 Below there is a helpful video guide to lock-picking.

3. If you are playing with a controller, Bumper Jumper is so helpful for shooting while jumping. I set Right Bumper as jump and Y as grenade.

4. You can sort your loot by mass and value, which makes searching for useless heavy items to discard much easier.

5. You can set weapons as favorites so you can quickly switch between them in combat using the d-pad for controller.

6. You can travel to other planets/locations without using the map by opening your scanner and clicking on the icons. (credit to u/DionysusDerp )

7. As soon as you exit your ship upon arriving to New Atlantis, at the spaceport, there is a terminal to the right of the ramp immediately in front of you.

7.1 It allows you tell sell any items you have in your inventory and your ships inventory regardless of type. (Stores will only buy items they sell, EG gun stores will only buy guns)

7.2 Also, be sure to check the credits the terminal has available, in the upper corner as once it's depleted you will be selling items for nothing.

8. hide space suit in settlements in the inventory -> suits menu. (there's a button down at the bottom)

9. The scanner also gives you a path to your objective.

10. The game actually has a cover system, you can stand near the edge of a wall and aim down sites to pop in and out of cover as demonstrated below.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1697588929673703487

 

[Dirk Diggler]

This one is a total hidden gem, what a time saver.

6. You can travel to other planets/locations without using the map by opening your scanner and clicking on the icons

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Quantum Reshade was a performance hog, I'd recommend using this reshade instead

I like the look of that one - how do you add the sharpen in the Reshade menu?

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Should be under the FidelityFX option, will take a screenie later if you still can't find it

I see it, CAS.fx - it's set at 1.00 - it should be lower?

 

[Dirk Diggler]

I tried to install the wide-screen fix and the intro remover mods but they didn't install for some reason.

Are you all installing manually or using Mod Organizer?

 

[Dirk Diggler]

I do find it odd that the usual suspects are complaining that FSR is not as "stable for IQ" as DLSS

I'm certainly not a usual suspect, but can assure you that enabling FSR causes consistent CTD for me - the game is literally unplayable with it.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

The manual method here with anything off nexus. Are you putting the mod files in the correct folder under my documents > My games etc?

Yea, maybe I missed something really obvious.

I'm off to work for a few weeks anyway, so hopefully the mods have been refined by the time I get back.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

The quantum reshade mod is that classed as engine injector mod? using that vortex program to install the mods, doesnt seem to be working, whats other peoples experiences with it?

Install it with Reshade as per the mod instructions.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Now whenever i disable v-sync the game crashes, wish i hadnt of bother and waited a few months

Do you have FSR enabled?

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Weapon FOV Setter (good for Ultrawide)

SFSE - Weapon Model FOV setter

SFSE plugin to set Weapon model FOV

www.nexusmods.com

 

[Dirk Diggler]

I'm curious as first time properly modding a game, what happens when they release official updates which made include dlss and fov, what happens to the mods?

You just uninstall the mod.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

8K Planets (opt. original NASA)

All planets have 8k textures upscaled from 4k. Each texture was upscaled with ai technology and additional 'layers'. Original Moon, Mars, Venus and Jupiter textures! 40 NASA upscaled generic Cratered

www.nexusmods.com

Now added, thanks @Neil79

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Daft question but how do you uninstall the reshade mod? Seems to be flicking between the reshade/standard in space

Run the Reshade installer again and select "uninstall" instead of "install".

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Wait what, so now HDR is supported?

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Now that we have a few mods in the wild, I'd like to ask a few questions as I may make a little guide for the OP.

1. What are you using to install mods?
2. What would you consider your essential mods?
3. What mods have you ruled out and why?

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Vortex
Inventory, NeutralLut
Anything that replaces a standard texture with anime tiddies.

I've never used Vortex, only MO. Is this the correct version and is it straight forward to get set up for Starfield?

Vortex Mod Manager

www.nexusmods.com

 

[Dirk Diggler]

I've installed the FOV mod with Vortex and have enabled it. Launching the game via Vortex and it doesn't load the Mod.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Better off using Flawless Widescreen.

Flawless Widescreen it's forcing 4:3 aspect ratio.

I think I'll stick to manual installs..

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Pretty sure its not FW doing that.

As soon as I disable it then it's back to normal.