Report: Nvidia Adding ReShade Filters With Upcoming Driver

Example of current Nvidia Freestyle filters (Image credit: Nvidia)

ReShade is a program that you can use to, well, re-shade your games – otherwise known as using a filter. According to a VideoCardz report this week, Nvidia is adding support for ReShade’s filters with its upcoming GeForce Experience driver.

For a while now, people have been using ReShade as a standalone program, but this has not been without issues. Although not the intended outcome, ReShade has led to people being banned in certain games due to flaws in some games’ anti-cheat detection mechanisms. Additionally, ReShade is also known to have a notable performance penalty – and that’s why Nvidia adding ReShade filters support is interesting. Hopefully it can alleviate some of the issues users have been experiencing.

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  • digitalgriffin
    The problem with reshade is it did give a competitive advantage to certain games. It made enemies hiding in things like foliage or behind a wall, easier to spot. It's the equivalent of one soldier having night goggles, and one without.

    So I don't think anti-cheat initiatives will allow it either way.
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  • bit_user
    digitalgriffin said:
    The problem with reshade is it did give a competitive advantage to certain games. It made enemies hiding in things like foliage or behind a wall, easier to spot. It's the equivalent of one soldier having night goggles, and one without.

    So I don't think anti-cheat initiatives will allow it either way.
    My thoughts, exactly.

    You could also potentially use it to make certain smoke, fog, or lighting effects less opaque or blinding.

    Also, custom shaders could potentially be used to export some data from the game that could be used in cheats.
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