BetterGraphics Mod – An Installation Tutorial

Seems there are others like me who had some challenges to install the BetterGraphics mod.
For me it took several attempts to make it. I think I’ve got it right now.
So to make the installation procedure a little bit clearer I made a tutorial with more steps and detailed information.
Please, anything about this tutorial, if I have done some odd choices or right out wrong, tell me so I can rectify any faults as soon as possible.

My setup may differ from yours so below are some information about my game setup.
I run the GOG version of the Independence War™ 2: Edge of Chaos in Windows 10.
The mods I at this point run together with the BetterGraphics mod are; Multimod, UniGUI, EoC Community Patch - 22 September 2022, EoC NoCD Patch - 22 November 2023 and Mouse Flight.

I got this small issue, did this happen to you?
Poor Clay, what have we done…
 
It seems to be a result of Clays Avatar folder (suggested tinkering below).

Let’s begin…
Step 1.
1.1. Place the whole BetterGraphics folder in the directory “…\Independence War 2\mods”.
1.2. Move the files within the folder "Put the content of this folder directly in your game folder\bin\release" to the directory “…\Independence War 2\bin\release”.

Step 2.
2.1. Run “Install as directx10 by locating your loader exe.exe”
2.2. At “Select a game or application:” select “Loader (loader.exe)” (If it’s not listed it can be found at the direction “…\Independence War 2\bin\release”), then hit “Next”.
2.3. At “Select the rendering API Loader uses:” select “DirectX 10/11/12”, then hit “Next”.
2.4. “Browse” to the directory where you have "BetterGraphics" folder and choose the file “Reshade settings Independence War 2_ Edge of Chaos.txt”, then hit “Next” and you are done with step 2.

Step 3.
3.1. Run “Run this (p)rogram to update your loader exe.exe”.
3.2. You will be directed to the “…\Independence War 2\bin\release” folder.
3.3. Choose the "loader.exe" file and open it. You get a confirmation, hit "OK" and you are done with this step.

Step 4.
4.1. Go to “…\Independence War 2\bin\release” folder.
4.2. Start the “dgVoodooCpl.exe” program.
4.3. Open the tab “DirectX”.
4.4. Find the “Antialiasing (MSAA)” box and make sure it’s set to “Off”, hit "OK" and this step is done.

Step 5.
5.1. Open the “flux.ini” file in “…\Independence War 2”.
5.2. Find the “[FcDetailSwitchNode]” line.
5.3. Change to following values:
global_detail_scale = 2.9
cull_detail = 0.0005
box_detail = 0.0005
5.4. Save your changes, close the file and…

Now you are ready to play with BetterGraphics, enable it in the game and enjoy.

If you want to keep Clay’s sweet face the immediate fix is to go to BetterGraphics folder, then open the avatars folder and remove the Clay folder from there.

Now, that’s much better…
 
Hope this tutorial will be to some help.
Now, have an exciting time when navigating through the vast space.

Regards, ErikS.