For anyone having issues with the CLEAN UI addon not working try using the other version: 1.2.1 and remember to download the 1.2.1 ini file too. It's installed the exact same way

OMG Lauren!!! this literally is fate - im sat here making a list of everything im going to need to do when my new PC arrives either tomorrow or Tuesday (switching from iMac to PC) and i thought oooo i need to go and watch Laurens video on how to install and mess around with g-shade and low and behold theres a new video with your beautiful preset! i cant wait to get it installed and have an amazingly beautiful colourful game! im so excited now! i watched the video even before ive got my new pc and youve made something that i was thinking was going to be really difficult and overwhelming to set up seem simple and easy! you are an absolute QUEEN! thank you my love

OMG, this is awesome! I just got into reshade a few months ago and I've been watching and rewatching your old tutorial as a base and guideline. It's really helpful! I'm psyched about this as RIGHT NOW I was about to update and get some new presets! Thank you so much, your tutorials are so clear and easy to follow!

OMG! I have never had a windows pc until recently and i have just followed your steps for your Gshade preset. All i can say is THANK YOU and BEAUTIFUL xx

thank you for explaining it so well, it didnt work anymore since i had the ea app and couldnt figure out why not. the game looks so much better with it and i loooovee your preset!

Woah, talk about timing. I'm literally watching your 2023 tutorial to install reshade, and this was just posted 6 minutes ago!

I always find it more helpful to keep the version numbers on any mods I download so I know which last version I already have installed when I go to redownload and update the mods, so for that reason deleting the "1.2.3_" from the ReShade .ini seems like an unnecessary step that just comes down to personal preference, but doesn't have any real effect. Just commenting it because I see a lot of people say 'oh just delete this version number from the file name' but they don't mention it's just an optional aesthetic preference for your file names. Also at the Presets timestamp, around 11:10, I got really confused seeing the Off.ini file originally start off inside the Custom folder and then you quickly move it outside the Custom folder but don't say anything about moving it lol. I reloaded my game a few times after following this tutorial to see if the Off.ini file placement (inside or directly outside that Custom folder) matters and it does not seem to have any effect. So this seems like another optional aesthetic preference for how people want to organize their files. The GShade menu didn't have any automatic pop-ups for me when I loaded the game with it for the first time, so if anyone else has difficulty figuring out how to get the menu to initially open for the first time, try pressing the [Shift] plus [Backspace] keys on your keyboard and that should open the GShade menu. Then you can change the hotkey to your liking in the menu's settings. Lastly (sorry for the long message, geez lol), thank you sooooooo much MissLollypopSims!!! This tutorial is so helpful and easy to follow. I've tried watching a few other tutorials on how to install GShade and ReShades, and they all left me so frustrated or confused I nearly gave up hope of ever trying to install this, but your video helped me. I could cry, my game looks so pretty now, like I literally feel close to tears from happiness, this is gamechanging, thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!

lauren coming through with another amazing tutorial!! thank you for this especially the clean ui tutorial!! 💗💗

IF YOUR GSHADE ISNT WORKING: make sure edge smoothing is OFF. If that doesn’t work, try opening the app from files meaning program files/ EA games/ sims 4 / game / bin / TS4x64 ! this should work - it’s the only thing that worked for me after hours of trying Also make sure u pressed DX9 and none of the other options when installing!

Everyone else I’ve watched made this seem difficult you were the only clear one thank you so much!! I am excited to try your shader on my sims game

Sorry for the VERY overdue tutorial! It's finally here 🥳 I hope you enjoy my new preset, lemme know what you think!❤

Thank you so much Lauren for this amazing tutorial! I’ve used reshade for years (which I also followed your tutorial for that as well) and today I finally made the change to gshade! The clean UI thing wasn’t working for me at first but then I tried what you suggested in your pinned comment and now it works great and it’s so nice not having my UI all messed up looking from the shadow effects! I also love your beautiful preset as well! I recently got back into playing Sims 4 so this is really going to enhance my experience! 🥰

For the people who couldnt start Gshade on game launch - install Gshade puting tick on DVXK Experimental, not DX9 as video shows. This helped for me.

Yesss Lauren! Queen the overdue is a understatment because you CANNOT rush perfection!❤❤❤

This tutorial is a LIFE-SAVER!! I have never been able to get the whole installation process and thanks to you I have been able to download different game shades ! THANK YOUU !

Thank you! My first time installing GShade and everything went smoothly and the tutorial was easy to follow. Your presets look great! ❤

thank you for such a clear tutorial ❤ will save this for when i have access to a pc

Ah, I'm so glad I saw this video in my sub feed. Installing GShade is fine; it's when I try to add presets that I get lost, so this is perfect. Also, for those who use Microsoft Edge browser like me, when downloading the reshade effect shader toggler and get denied, if you over the warning in downloads, three little dots will show up to the right, so just click that and it'll give you the option to "keep" the .ini file regardless. 😊

THANK YOU!!!!! I've been trying to get a shader to work for ages but I always manage to f something up. this was so easy and helpful and I'm in love with your preset

This was soooo helpful. I was honestly always intimated by gshade or reshade so I never downloaded it, but was always jealous of how everyones game or screenshots looked with it. Thanks so much for the great tutorial!!

This was great! Thank you! The clean UI was great to didn’t know about it. Love the preset! ❤

The best Gshade tutorial I had ever seen. Thank you so much!

i started watching your joy of life LP, bored one day and needing something to do, and now I am down a massiveeeee rabbit hole of downloading mods, CC and now g-shade!! I am so in love with my game now, thank you so much!

Thank you so so much. Your tuts are always so helpful and easy peasy to follow. i appreciate, that you include the installation of clean ui mod. I never figured out how to do that. 🖤🖤🖤

I’ve put off doing this for so long as every tutorial I watched made it look so complicated, you made this so so easy and simple to follow I’m obsessed✨ - immediately subscribed 🤍

finally!! i followed ur reshade tutorial awhile back and i updated reshade without thinkin about it it broke my whole game and ive been stuck with basegame grahpics

i had looked at so many other videos on how to install it and none of them helped me i am so thankful i clicked on this video i am definitely following you

Omg Lauren so I changed my game to the DirectX11 and retried to Gshade and your preset and it works!!!! im so happy thank you 🥰🥰

Omg such a good video best tutorial ever!!!

So helpful, Thank you ❤

thank you so much, it works for me I was trying to install reshade and didnt work in my computer, but your tutorial really helps me and now I can use it

THANK YOU SO MUCH! well explained + i can’t wait to download ur preset it looks beautiful! 🫶🏻🫶🏻

I saw online Gshade is not working right now. Probably because of the DX11 updates. You can revert back to Direct X 9 afaik and some people haven't been switched over because their computers aren't compatible. So some people might have to leave the experimental box checked at 6:05

Wow, What a Perfect Tutorial. and what a beautiful preset, I loved it!😆😍

Thank you so much for this information! I just got a PC a month ago lol and you've helped me enhance my Sims 4 Addiction.

I'm loving this tutorial, thank you so much! Also , REALLY would love to use your gshade preset, but for some reason the mxao doesn't work for me? All my other presets work with the mxao, but yours is the only one that doesn't 😢 and it's enabled, edge smoothing off, post processing on and all that.

ty! This helped a lot, just wondering when i turn on my shaders theres a shadow like glitching out a bit and its like the outline of the character but when i move my screen its like right next to thewem which bothers me any idea how to fix it?

This was sooooo helpful, thank you so much!!!! And I love your shader!

when i load up the game and then click the button (shift+backspace) go get the set up up it just keeps loading??? every other tab but home loads !!!

I still can´t get the gshade to open up in the game, doesn´t show up at all but everything is installed as it should and the graphics settings are as they should.. Someone else having these issues?

I LOVE YOU GIRL! I I'VE BEEN AGES SERCHING FOR A STEAM TUTORIAL 💕

Thank you for the very clear step by step guide I needed. Very easy to follow!

Could it be that this is not compatible with the new EA app update? My ea app keeps crashing since the June update, and now I’ve installed Gshade and my game just keeps crashing once I’ve opened the gshade menu :( going to try again after the next update I guess!

please, somebody know why gshade make the game crash? i've downoald the new version but it make my game buggy and crash it's the first time it does that

Omg tysm for this tutorial!! This is still in date ( even though its only been 2 months) and all your tricks and tips helped! I did struggle a bit at the start but followed up my mistakes and now my game looks beautiful! TYY

In another video I just watched you said that Gshade had malware, is this the same thing or something different?

It says it installed successfully but now my game crashes when loading in

WOW thank you so much , i didnt know about the ''UI'' thing , this changes everything thanks so much :)

You described everything BEAUTIFULLY.

So super cool, and what great timing ☺️ I’ve downloaded the Addon for the UI, it shows in my Add Ons when in game, it’s check marked, but, my UI is still affected. Would you have any ideas how I could fix? ^^’

hi i installed gshade and loaded my game but when i try and choose the preset for my game it just freezes and then shuts down the game??

thank you so much for this, I wanted a real looking game feel and this helped me achieve it. I will be watching more of your videos thank you so much.

Thank you so much for this! I just built a computer and I'm coming over from Mac so I finally get to use shaders! This made it less scary!

the perfect person to follow a tutorial from so easy! but once i did everything my game wont load :( gutted i had to uninstall

If you follow the instructions to the T and find your UI Mod is still not working, try the 1.2.1 version! That worked for me ^^

i havent even watched the whole video yet and i just got to say youre amazing im only 50 seconds in and i can tell this video is going to be a lot of help! ill update on how i manage to do with this haha

Thank you! You were amazing and a game changer... I'm so grateful you did this tutorial

My presets doesn’t off have the off ini

When I do this it doesn’t pop up when I load the game?? I’ve seen this happento other people but nobody has given an answer to why.

Thank you so much🎉 because of you and your g shade my game is 10x better

Great tutorial. Love your work and your content. 😇

for some reason gshade home wont load for me

Hi there so i watched the whole thing and i had reshade installed but wasnt working idk why so i just went with your tutorial i followed each step since the last time i installed reshade was with your tutorial from last year the thing is everything went according to what you showed except when i opened the game the bar that usually shows up didnt show up i tried to click on the button that opened it that for me was home button when i had reshade and nothing happened, idk what to do do i unistall reshade and just stay with gshdae? pls help and always thank you cause you are very detailed in your tutorials

Thank you for making this video! This helped mme a lot getting me started!

thank you so much for this! hopefully i’ll be getting my first PC soon! 😭 btw you’re so pretty 😭

the presets are not working with the latest version😭

hi! my game got stuck on the loading screen, and the bar that’s supposed to show up won’t show up on my screen.

This is awesome, thank you for sharing!! 💖💖

Omg thank you ! My game look sooo beautiful now 🌸💞

thank you for updating! unfortunately my game either keeps crashing or when i try to go to settings, it just freezes up and i can't click anything. do you have any idea why? i had the same issue with reshade too, although that software USED to work fine

I''ve followed your tutorial to a T but I'm still having some trouble. I don't get the banner when I load up the game and none of the buttons seem to work! I have this issue with reshade as well so I'm not sure if it's conflicting with a mod but I use the same mods as many popular creators. :(

ngl im so glad u said it didnt work for Mac instead of giving us the runarounds like other content creators, I had to subscribe❤

This was very helpful, thank you!

I'm not sure if anyone else is having this problem but when I load my game and go to my save files the shadows are misplaced, I'm not sure if it's the MXAO or something because I've tried 3 different gshade presets and the shadows are not shadowing properly so if you have a solution please do share :/

My GShade no longer works, reinstalled it like you told me too but now the bar doesn't even show up. The new update has really ruined my game and made it impossible to play with shaders and I'm not understanding how to fix it.

this was soo helpful and easy to follow tysm!!

I saved most of ALL of your tutorials! Thank you so much!!! You just don’t know how hard I was struggling when I saw the “failed to compile” lol. I figured it out, but yours was so easy. Thank you so much! I love your LPs as well! 🤍

iv always wanted to do do gshade but felt it was to difficult but your tutorial really helped.

i did everything here, but my gshade menu still doesn’t start up when i open the game. i quadruple checked and i did everything correctly, done this more than 5 times. anyone have this same issue and know how to fix it?

Hi, so, I followed the tutorial as explained in the video, but when I'm going to enter my game, and when I click on the button to open the gshade options screen, nothing happens. I don't know what else to do, I've already uninstalled and installed it again, and I've also tried to change direct x 9 to DXVK, but nothing happened. Would anyone have any resolution to my problem? (Sorry for the bad English)

Thank you so much! This was a very helpful video. ❤❤

omg thank you so much your preset is free a lot of people gatekeep

Hey, I just installed this and its absolutely stunning. It is, however, making all of the text in the UI very blurry and hard to read.. Has anyone else found this or know how to fix it?

Yall when my game loads uo i dont get the popup what do i do?

Thank you so much! This video was very helpful, very detailed!

Awesome tutorial! I followed it all the way through and got it all in. My only issue is it appears the Reshade Effect Toggler isn't working. I still see shadows behind the UI. Any tips?

I did everything yet when i load up the game that thing that tell you Wich key to press to open the menue doesn't show up 🤷

I loveee your headphones with bows omggg

thank you so much for this tutorial!

I did all this, step by step and when i tried to load up sims 4 I saw the bar up top that said the install was successful but my game froze, i couldn't even bring up task manager to force close, i had to restart pc, happened twice so i just uninstalled the game because i don't know how to uninstall gshade itself

😭 help plss For some reason after clicking the “install” for gshade I get this message that pops up saying “ Gshade was not able to install a symlink to your selected game. This usually means that your drives filesystem dose not support symlinks “ Then it says “please note that if this not the only game use gshade with you may need to install or readd gshade to your game saying the gshade installer or gshade control panel after any future gshade updates “

Thank you sooooo much for this!

Thanks so much..worked like a dream😊

i followed the exact steps but for some reason none of my preshades show in cas, only in game :/ i had reshade before i'm rather new so i followed your new tutorial so i can update it. it worked perfect the first time, idk what happen this time around. is there anything i could change to fix this?

i downloaded everything corrects n press shift fn and f2 , do you press all of them together ??? its not working for me i have a laptop also tried the other way

So excited to try this out!! When i tried with ur old method it worked but the only preset turning out actually good was yours and the others were kinda…odd..?

Thanks you sm for the tutorial it worked for me! I wanted to know from where is your CAS background, i'm searching for a beautiful background and your's is so 😍😍😍, thanks you!

I thought G-shade was shady and that's why we started using Reshade now we are using Gshade again? I haven't been gaming for a while will someone please clarify this for me.

I followed everything, but my gshade simply wont appear in my game..?

Thank kyou so much for this!!