Game: Painkiller: Black Edition
Type: Texture Pack
Release: 2023
Version: 1.00

This is a pack of AI upscaled textures for Painkiller: Black Edition that contain almost all world and model textures upscaled 2x times. Only Lightmaps, Normal Maps and some other bizarre textures were ignored.

Initially all textures were upscaled 4x times (and it was ~23GB package), but then they were downscaled 2x to keep the package size (~5.8GB) and the VRAM requirements reasonable enough, mostly retaining overall visual quality.
It also contains upscaled HUD textures, but they were downscaled to their original resolution to avoid HUD elements display scaling issues. All texture formats (including DDS compression formats) were preserved.

It was made using BSRGAN 4x upscale model (specifically 003_realSR_BSRGAN_DFOWMFC_s64w8_SwinIR-L_x4_GAN) and the GUI program called chaiNNer and also some Python scripts.

Tested on 1.64 Steam version of the game, but should be compatible with others.

Comparison screenshots

Screenshots showing Default Textures (left) and Upscaled Textures (right).

Installation

Unzip the “Data” folder into main installation folder of Painkiller: Black Edition. Have fun!