How to migrate from GShade to ReShade with keeping all your presets working like nothing happened

Version: 1.0

Author's Comments:

This guide is made to be as easy as possible to follow and not loose anything of what GShade was doing. If anything doesn't work, feel free to make a report, I'll update it as best as I can.

1. Get this zip, it's the shaders and presets coming with gshade:
https://mega.nz/file/E3hRiK5D#O5DR9S7E32vYzhHRSjQgiJdcBJyeJTBeuFpfhikwoV0

2. Go into your game folder
default install paths:
C:\Program Files (x86)\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\game
or C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\FINAL FANTASY XIV Online\game for steam

If you use some presets you made or added some not included in GShade install, copy your gshade-presets folder.

Remove anything containing "GShade", the files dxgi and d3d11 if present.

3. Uninstall GShade

4. Install ReShade (add-on support needed if you want to correct an issue with UI, see "known issues" at the end of the guide) here: http://static.reshade.me/#download
at "Select game or application" use "Browse" and find ffxiv_dx11.exe in your game folder
Leave everything else as it is and just hit "next" until it's finished.

5. In your game folder, you should have now a reshade-presets and reshade-shaders folders, delete them if present

Add the folders from the zip in your game folder.
Paste the presets you saved before if any in reshade-presets.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/972670634880561155/1072895721356923033/shaders.gif

6. Launch the game, open reshade (default key is Home), do the tuto and go in settings, set a overlay key if you want (first option) then change the rest like this gif:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/972670634880561155/1072726946305294386/config.gif

- You should have two paths for "Effect search paths"
.\reshade-shaders\Shaders
.\reshade-shaders\ComputeShaders

- And for "Texture search paths":
.\reshade-shaders\Textures

7. Relaunch the game, enjoy.

Note: the "ColorSort.fx" shaders has been removed since it made my PC crash when I tried it.

Feel free to say any issue you have with this guide, I tested some presets, everything seem fine, but I didn't test every shaders.

Known issues: These shaders seems to be broken with some preset:
- ColorSort.fx: crash my PC when tested it, removed it from the archive
- Copyright.fx: unable to change the texture used
- Layer.fx: unable to select texture and number of layers
- LUT.fx: unable to change the LUT file to use, have to go in Preprocessor definitions and change the LUTTexture_Source number
- MultiLayer.fx: unable to change the Layer Selection, have to go in Preprocessor definitions and change the MultiLayerTexture_Source number
- MultiLUT.fx: unable to change the MultiLUT file to use, have to go in Preprocessor definitions and change the MultiLUTTexture_Source number
- MultiStageDepth.fx: unable to change the Texture, have to go in Preprocessor definitions and change the MultiStageDepthTexture_Source number
- StageDepth.fx: unable to select texture and number of layers

Some shaders issues with UI, most visible on job gauges. An add-on is in progress to correct that, more info there (still in early stage, some issues can appear):
https://github.com/4lex4nder/ReshadeEffectShaderToggler-FFXIV_UIONLY

Primary File or Link:

ReShade official download link : [ via static.reshade.me ]

Other Files and Links:



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