I choked on my drink when I saw my effect getting casually advertised. Also, props for spelling my name correctly on first try xD

PRO TIP. Once you're settled on the shaders you know you'll be using, delete all the ones you aren't using from the reshade-shaders folder. It'll speed up ReShade's initial start up and make the process of fine-tuning your settings go much faster. Also, be sure to turn Performance Mode on once you're finished with your preset.

Ahah, debanding looks like it does nothing via KZfaq compression :D

Yea, used reshade for MGSV and made the nights actually night, so night vision was a must. It was really immersive and fun.

Lmao, KZfaq completely un-does that de-banding shader. It looked exactly 0% better in this video. I know it works in-game and no it's not my monitor (true 8bit VA panel), but that was funny as hell.

Lmao at the debanding bit. It really doesn't work with compressed video. -

That Deus Ex theme at the beginning made me shed a tear

Pro tip : MSI Afterburner will tell you the graphics API it detects next to its frame-rate counter.

Alex, I had difficulty hearing your voice on other videos, but in this one is way better and clearer, keep it up!

Been using Reshade for over a year now thanks to this. Really encouraged me to play more games.

Love how in depth the video is.

DEUS EX MENU THEME WRYYYYYYYYY

Reshade Debanding Shader does not make a difference on my screen in this video. Is this a KZfaq limitation?

There have been a number of new features, changes, and simplified installation. Yall should do an update video. Glamarye fast effects are worth a mention as well.

Excellent work on the Jensen Dance.

Excellent review. I feel confident in trying Reshade after watching this

It's great to see some PC focused content outside of the standard CPU/GPU performance tests etc. DF Retro and Tech Focus have been great. I'd love to see what other unique series such as these that you all can bring to the table, they are a breath of fresh air outside of the main performance checks of games.

DigitalFoundry should do a video on all the different types of software that can be added to improve gaming experiences. It would make a really interesting video I think.

I had used a reshade on MGSV and it legit made my game look a thousand times better. It felt amazing!

>Wolfenstein with external post processing "looks okay" >Me while playing this game last month on PS4: "Wow this looks amazing!" My standards are obviously set lower than yours.

Alex you rock. You single handedly made me love motion blur if used correctly and now this. I always found reshade clunky to use and have totally fogotten about it. Man thank you. Please keep on your awesome work! Much appreciated!

Please, more PC videos like this. I love it!

love the deus dx music playing in the back round!

Great video as always, Alex!

Excellent and informative video. Thanks Alex/Digital Foundry.

Reshade's lumasharpen is really crucial for FFXV, since the TAA is very aggressive yet there's no sharpening added at all to offset the blur. It helps immensely.

I've been using ReShade for Sharpening + SMAA years now. The DOF setting is also getting better.

I just used the most recent release only yesterday. I have used it off and on for years, but that latest version is amazing with that in game interface. Thanks for the vid. Since I have subscribed I have learned a lot about a lot of things that have made me rejigger what I thought about a bunch of things.

I just started using reshade but I like to add Bloom, Fake HDR, tonemapping and SMAA. Nice vid!

I've used Reshade on all my games for a few years now, there's only a few that wont work every now and then, but it's been known for older versions to work for a specific game though, I love it, even when you think a game look amazing, something as simple as injecting Reshade can make it look even better, I went through and chose my favorite settings, and i always end up with the same 5 settings, Clarity, Colorfulness, FakeHDR, HighPassSharpen, LumaSharpen, they help to clear up a lot of blur in certain games, and overall just make it make so much more clear and colorful. But with the settings i've chose to use it can take about a 10-20 FPS hit to performance though, and i play on 2k Ultrawide, with a GTX 1070.

Per object motionblur and depth of field effect is really nice.

His pronunciation of Wolfenstein is gold. :)

Definitely about to start using this!

I use Reshade on Pro Evo Soccer 2018. Took down the saturation a bit, added film grain and tweaked the exposure a tad to get that slightly low-contrast TV broadcast look and I have to say that PES looks fucking amazing now. Highly recommended.

Another Deus Ex fan! Always nice to see fans of the series, it's a personal favourite of mine. Great video - I use ReShade for replaying a lot of my games, from Halo to OutRun 2006 to even just messing with newer games like Payday 2.

So glad you made a video on this. Been doing this few 2 years and I'm made i didnt sooner. Alot of people just dont know about this.

Great music choices in this vid :D

It's amazing that it has UI tweaking now. I should try it again on Driver: San Francisco, the PC version shipped without the colour filter and such and doesn't look at all like it should.

where's DF retro at????

yo i really dont recommend installing every singer shader in that list. uncheck all and select only the ones you want for the game youre installing into. when you have 60+ shaders installed it can take forever to launch a game and it becomes tedious scrolling through them all while configuring.

WoW , never heard of this. Definitely intrigued.

great video! I love this channel!

I'd like to see a comparison between the ENB, Reshade and Sweet FX tool sets: What features do each posses/share; which is better for what purpose; which is more expensive on resources and why; those kind of things.

I use lumasharpen on every single game. Taa + reshade lumasharpen solves all your AA needs.

Wow really cool too see this from a big outlet. Reshade is amazing and so overlooked!

Using ReShade for every game on my PC. Sometimes it doesn't look like same game after some filters

again...another fantastic video Alex, what a amazing add to the team. and pc really is the best platform, i'm glad that you are the one in charged. and yes now i fell more confident using reshade hehehe

Tech Focus has become my favorite series on KZfaq. Keep it up, Alex! I find ReShade almost essential as the vast majority of games released nowadays look extremely washed out with no way to fix it using the arbitrary in-game brightness/gamma sliders or have weird piss filters, for some reason (I'm looking at you, Dark Souls 3). It's also a great way to spice up the look of old games as you said. It often gets a bad rap because a lot of the presets shared online are made by people who pretty much abuse the sharpening and contrast filters, thinking they can make games more "photorealistic!!1!" and "cinematic!1!!1" that way. When used in moderation, though, ReShade is a godsend.

really cool video, very original compared to the normal new game graphics analysis, I like seeing your guys opinion and creative ideas

Hi Alex! Just one suggestion, could you upload your videos in 4k too?

Gg DF on hiring this guy. He's excellent.

Many thanks for this vidéo ! I have always used reshade completly blind about how it works and often get crappy results... I'm going to test new stuff now 😘

Finally a video about Reshade.👍 Good content as always. Keep it up😁

Psychonauts with filmic bloom ,and HBAO via Nvidia inspector ( at HIGH QUALITY) is mindblowing good.

Swapping dlss sharpening with CAS is amazing!

You couldn't make the video 2 seconds longer?

Using this to get great CRT emulation for my 8bit and 16bit games. Fantastic

Great video content, and alex is doing much better in the presentention front,

You got me at ambient occlusion. I think I'm gonna have a shot with that when Black Mesa's last chapter releases this year

I mostly use Reshade for sharpen effect, and some SMAA if there is no anti-aliasing built in. *After I tried it (when it was called sweetfx), now I just put it everywhere when I can.

i don't even have a gaming PC but i really like Alex's pc tech videos!

I have been using ReShade ever since it started. I have also been using SweetFX, Boulotaur's version with Gaussian effects, and of course ENB. Post process are fantastic. While it can create a custom mood for your favourite games, it can also "fix" things like the mentioned colour banding or extreme saturation. I've been coding and porting shaders for a few years and I wish these tools would one day be available on consoles. Cheers back! :)

Really cool video

*REINSTALLS DEUS EX*

Fantastic video alex! I personally like using reshade smaa injection in combination with fxaa to give a sort of taa feel in ac unity.

Fantastic video! I love Reshade... I use it for Red Faction: Guerrilla, meself. Oh, man, every time I see the RE4 intro, all I can think about is Deepercutt's Resident Evil 4 YTP...

Where can I get that motion blur shader? I can't find it anywhere.

That safety Adam dance :D

This is so cool. I really want to try upping the saturation in some games. Remember back in the 2010s when a bunch of games decided to look *SERIOUS* they needed to desaturate all the colors? Black Ops might actually look GOOD now.

Wow, absolutely love the PC content Alex. And for you to be german aswell, it makes me so happy hearing some german sentences!

Thanks

I know it's only for supported games but I love Nvidia Freestyles "Details" setting. The sharpening and clarity sliders are the best.

Only time a sweetfx or reshader mod is worth a damn is far cry 2. That game looks horrible without sweetfx

finally, Alex has something to share

Vielen vielen Dank for the content.

cool stuff - can you batch apply it to .exes ? or do you have to manually customise/attach reshade to each .exe?

nice overview of Reshade. It'd also be cool to see an overview and analysis of ENB injectors. Sure, its applications are limited to a handful of titles (particularly bethesda titles) but it'd be interesting to get your take on how they apply effects, compared to Reshade, as well as things like resource overhead between the two injectors

I'm aware of the tools available for modding games, that is why I love PC gaming there's always something new to learn and occupy your time with great focus.

great vid, danke dir :)

I've been using Sweetfx or Reshade for years now. Pretty much ever since Diablo 3 was too colorful for my tastes. I just tweaked sweetfx to make it darker. Turning up the saturation on games like Bayonetta really give it new life as well, makes it pop like it never could normally.

Insane that I just discovered this I've been on PC since 2013. I knew Dolfin and emulators had it but any PC games Crazy

Okay, waaay off the intended topic but I have an Oculus Rift and lots of the early games for it are seriously light on stuff like ambient occlusion (not to mention many run without AA but I usually fix that by forcing higher resolutions) because they were made for GTX 970-quality cards, not my 1080 Ti. Can Reshade work with VR to make simple games more immersive or does it turn into a mess (or introduce enough latency that it's nauseating)?

Alex beside Richard are the best in DF

Thanks for making this! I’ve been using reshade/sweetfx for years now on just about everything I can. You seem to be very knowledgeable about it. Could you tell me a solution for getting it to work with the CEMU emulator? Every time I use it to play Zelda breathe of the wild the in game menus freeze up for some reason. Please let me know if you have any ideas, thanks!

My go to filters: Clarity, Magic Bloom, Fake HDR, Debanding, SMAA and Vibrance.

12:48 _Ballistics_ benefits *a lot* from Arcane Bloom and a darker gamma via Tonemap, and _Need for Speed Underground_ really likes MXAO plus DPX. Also, FGFX Large Scale Perceptual Obscurance Irradiance makes _blur_ look like a remaster of itself, although Ambient Light and Lift-Gamma-Gain are also good choices.

20 years in PC gaming and I've just learn something new!

Does the configuration "LumaSharpen" hit performance or is there a possibility to see how much it impacts performance?

I really like the colourfulness effect with games like far cry 2 or half life 2

Used it for Fallout 4 to get rid of blur. Anyway, great vid. Very informative 👍

I love motion blur it looks so great

I've used reshade to play a few games mirrored horizontally. It's very unsettling and cool to play a game you know really well that way.

Is there still no fix for the 4K Deus Ex: HR HUD scaling?

Adjusting: -Levels -AA -Sharpening -DOF -Ambient occlusion (mxao) -Saturation levels With these changes games can look fantastic and perfects a lot of games that wars close to perfection

So which settings makes the UI the same size when I up the resolution? When I up the resolution to 4K the UI gets tiny, the frame per second counter is tiny and almost unseeable when I up the res to 4K.

Here is some tips for ya all: Make sure to look at the individual settings for each effect, as the deafult settings often are not that good Not all games support depthbuffer access!!! This means you can't use effects that depend on it, including: DOF, ambient Occlusion, Fog and so on You can adjust depth of field strength, for first person game its a great idea to disable near blur, so only far away objects blur when looking at things up close Use the "infinite focus" option to make it so after a certain distance, no far blur appears There are many dof shaders, with different quality levels, settings and performance hit, Magic DOF is the cheapest, so use that if you don't have a powerful GPU You can adjust DOF to either focus on the center (FPS etc) or at your mouse cursor (great for strategy games etc) If you don't like DOF there is a shader called "Depthhaze" which only slightly blurs distant terrain, and has an opstion to add fog as well, this is similar to newer open world games. The bloom shader alex showed in the video is the worst IMO and the better one is called "MagicBloom" this gives a subtle bloom effect to light objects, and is like an ENB for skyrim for example A more heavy version is "Ambient Light" which gives the illusion of Global illumination as well optionable as Lens effects such dirt and light bleed MXAO can be tuned to different quality levels so you can lower the detail to save performance. There is a neat greenscreen shader, that allows you to record/screenshot stuff in game and then crop it in an editing program

So, you could remove motion blur and/or depth of field with this from games that don't have the option to do so natively? Like Mirror's Edge Catalyst which was unplayable due to the hideous distracting depth of field during gameplay.

holy crap I need a link and tutorial for that motion blur. I love that

Please make an updated video on this. - Many new features - Easier to use for newcomers - Many sharpening options

there is an option that allows the "smaa" to not ruin the lettering ! you have to enable "display depth" on a compatible game and then put "depth" in the "smaa" options of the reshade, useful in games with smaa or fxaa as unique antialiasing ah and the "taa" is a good options