Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom – HDR/Fullscreen Fix (Patch Method – No Downloads required)

Introduction

 
HDR (and for me – Fullscreen-Mode in general) is broken on NVIDIA GPUs and just makes the screen change modes to HDR and back until you kill the game or force it into Window-Mode by hitting ALT+ENTER at the right time. 
 
A user named NanoHDR has kindly provided a patched game executable (Nino2.exe) which fixes this issue, since the developers seem to have no interest in this. 
 
Since the patch only requires a single byte to be changed in the executable, i thought having a method of doing this yourself is a good alternative if the Google Drive link ever gets taken down or you feel uncomfortable launching unknown files. 
 
 

Guide

1. Start PowerShell, you’ll get a window like this: 
    
    
    
    
    
2. To ensure the shell is pointing to your user directory type 

   cd $home

    

3. Copy the Ni No Kuni 2 executable (Nino2.exe) from your game directory 

   [Steam Directory]\steamapps\common\Ni no Kuni II Revenant Kingdom

   to your user directory 

   C:\Users\yourName

    

4. Type (or copy) the following into powershell (this reads the whole file, replaces the required byte then writes all of it back) 

   $wFile = (Get-Item .).FullName + "\Nino2.exe"; $bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($wFile); $offset = 4624974; $bytes[$offset] = 0xEB; [System.IO.File]::Move($wFile, $wFile + ".bak"); [System.IO.File]::WriteAllBytes($wFile, $bytes)

    
    
    

5. If everything worked you should now have a Nino2.exe and a Nino2.exe.bak in your user directory, Nino2.exe is the patched file, Nino2.exe.bak is a backup of the old one. 
    
    
    
   Copy these files back to the game directory (overwrite existing files) and you’re done.

Exact Change

 
If anyone is interested in the exact byte that is changed: 
 
0x74 at Offset 46924E is changed to 0xEB 
 
 
 

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