[2005] 🔪Condemned: Criminal Origins 🔪 🩸 Horror-Mistery-Survival 🩸 🔎 Ethan Thomas FBI Agent 🔎#2

First-Time Playthrough

This time playing something more old school horror-crime-mistery (2005 ), from Monolith ( Blood is my favorite game from them ). The game tells the story of Ethan Thomas, an agent with the FBI's Serial Crime Unit (SCU). In the fictional city of Metro, there has been a surge in both serial killings and assaults perpetrated by vagrants, and Thomas is convinced the two are connected.

Used a few mods to make the game more 'modern', graphics wise and more compatible with Windows 10/11: ( FOR BEST experience the modders recommend you play at 4K resolution with the 4K textures mod )

1. Neural Origins (4K quality Neural A.I. Upscaled texture pack ) it takes a few steps to pay ( this pack is 3x in size than the whole game that is only 3GB )
---> https://www.nexusmods.com/condemnedcriminalorigins/mods/1?tab=description

* To install download and unpack the archive
>>> inside the game's Data folder create a Folder named exactly like this 'CondemnedX.Arch00'
>>> copy the contents from the upacked archive (the folders named 'globa' and 'm01--m08) inside the 'CondemnedX.Arch00'
>>> now in the game's main folder open the file named 'default.archcfg' with a Notepad program, you will see that it contains two lines which are the names of the A and L Arch00 files. Well you guessed right, add a third line with the name of the new 'CondemnedX.Arch00' folder (save the file and exit )
VERY IMPORTANT!!! ---> The game will crash with all these upscaled textures so install the 4GB patch ( link ---> https://ntcore.com/4gb-patch/ ), patch the '.exe' file of the game.

2. Condemned: Criminal Origins Widescreen Fix ---> https://github.com/ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack/releases/tag/condemned
>>> Download the 'Condemned.WidescreenFix.zip' file, unpack it and copy all the contents to the game's main directory.
>>> Also download 'Condemned.MissingSteamFilesFix.zip' if you have the Steam Version of the game ( Fixes audio files, rename file to 'CondemnedB.Arch00' and copy it in the 'Game' folder of your game

3. Condemned: Criminal Origins(FPS drops/slowdown) problem that occurs in Fear and Condemned ( with install instructions ) ---> https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/789-directinput-fps-fix/

4. My Condemned Reshade ( Reshade for Ray Traced Global Illumination and other effects that give you a more clearer, sharp image ), with install instructions
---> https://www.nexusmods.com/condemnedcriminalorigins/mods/2?tab=description