Saturday, August 31, 2013
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3D Vision Fix by mike_ar69
What's Fixed
1.	 Shadows.  This is a fix for the shadows making them 3D.  Works for all levels of shadow detail (in menu) and all convergence/separation settings.
2.	 Lights.  Lights have been fully fixed.
3.	 Water Reflections and Halos.  Off reflections and halos around objects near water, ice etc.
4.	 Rendering Magic Spells.  When the Dark Lord casts a spell, it was a double imaging, wrong depth mess.  Now fixed.
5.	 Specular Reflection.  Ice Caves and snowy areas now fixed.
Description
Not new, but a fun game where you control funny little minion monsters and destroy stuff.  Works well in 3D except for the two issues I address here.  Without my fix, the game cannot be played without turning off shadows, there are lots of them and its just too distracting.  There is a free demo on Steam, worth trying out in my opinion :-)
Special thanks to Helix for his DLL tools and making these kinds of fixes possible.
Video
A video is available here: Overlord 2 Video.
Update 1st September 2013
•	Eliminated residual shadow flickering.
Update 30th August 2013
•	Fixed lights problem.  Lights work at all distances from the light sources, instead of the previous fix that had disabled them to avoid double imaging.
Update 23rd April 2013
•	Fixed Specular Reflection Issues
I was able to fix the specular reflection problems, noticable in the Ice Caves and icy/snowy areas near the beginning of the game.
Update 22nd April 2013
•	Fixed rendering of magic spells
The new fix makes the rendering of the Overlords magic effects render correctly.  This required me to disable a shader, the effects of which I have not fully evaluated (but I believe it to be a lighting effect), but the improvement is massive - from a nasty double imaged, wrong depth mess, so a nice 3D lightning effect.
Update 4th April 2013
1.	Fixed water Reflections
2.	Fixed haloing around water, ice
Remaining Issues
None that I know of.  Please report whatever you find.
Installation
1.	 Extract this zip file to the same location as the games .exe file
2.	 IMPORTANT:
You must remove the Nvidia profile
•	Use nvidia inspector to do this. 
•	Open nvidia inspector. Click wrench/screwdriver icon. 
•	Select Overlord 2 in drop down. 
•	Remove Overlord2.exe. 
•	Save. 
•	Play.
NOTE
If anyone has issues with the game crashing on startup due to the SteamGameOverlay module, you just need to delete the two related files in the Steam installation folder (GameOverlayRenderer.dll and GameOverlayRenderer64.dll). Steam will replace them with every update though (Thanks to Zappologist for this top tip!)
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