How to Install Native AutoHDR and Color Banding Fix Mod in Starfield

To install the ‘Native AutoHDR and Color Banding Fix’ mod in Starfield, follow these steps based on your loader preference:

The “Native AutoHDR and Colour Banding Fix” mod improves the visual quality of Starfield by upgrading rendering targets to higher precision formats and minimising colour banding. For a better in-game experience, it also supports HDR users and offers tone mapping choices with ReShade shaders.

For SFSE Loader:

• First, install the “Starfield Script Extender” (SFSE) if you haven’t already.
• Now, download the Native AutoHDR and Color Banding Fix mod from the Nexus site. (You might need to create an account if you don’t have one).
• After that place the “NativeHDR.dll” and “NativeHDR.toml” files inside the game directory. 

Starfield location:

Local Disk (C:) > Users > Documents > My Games > Starfield > Data > SFSE > Plugins

Starfield location (Steam):

C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starfield\Data\SFSE\Plugins

Note: You’ll have to overwrite the files in case of any duplicate files.

For Ultimate ASI Loader: 

• First, install the “Ultimate ASI Loader” if you haven’t already.
• After that, place the “NativeHDR.asi” and “NativeHDR.toml” files inside the game’s root directory. 

Alternatively, you can also auto-install the mod by using Vortex mod manager.

That’s it! Your mod is now installed. You can try it out by launching the game.