Looking at the example shots, you've completely crushed your blacks and have overexposed the top end. There is so much color information missing in your reshade - take a look at the sky, with vanilla you can still see some cloud details but with the reshade it's just completely blown out. Same with the dark areas, vanilla you've still got color information so you'd be able to see details when in the shadows of the game, but in yours it's crushed so it's literally just black. This would make the game much harder to play as you wouldn't be able to see anything.
Perhaps you should balance your monitor before doing a reshade. Also in your description you mention "It was tested on an RTX 4080 super at 4k Ultra settings with ray tracing and DLSS enabled. In game I was averaging around 60 - 55 fps." but that is irrelevant. You should be listing the monitor you have calibrated this reshade on, and any other pertinent color settings in windows.
Thanks for the feedback! Although I don't run into most of these issues you've mentioned. I guess it's just preference or everyone's monitor calibration. For me, the reshade is perfect. Not too bright, not too dark. I can still see when I'm in dark areas, and in my opinion it makes my game look more beautiful. I can't be asked to check what monitor I have... but it's a pretty good one is all I can say. It's my first reshade so i still have a lot to learn, but me and my buddies use it together and we both have a lot of satisfaction with it.
I'll probably make another version where I tune it a bit to make sure it's not as harsh, so that other people with different monitors can enjoy
I've got a LG 27" 27GP95RP-B 3840x2160 NANO IPS 160Hz. so not an Oled. The TV I play on, is a QLED samsung 4K TV on game mode. This is how it looked: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/iindpok6d4l9xa0gd4ab0/20250320_143600_1.mp4?rlkey=fl012712zd57wnklf79z5yblz&st=fyu80vos&dl=0 LG 27 27GP95RP-B 3840x2160 NANO IPS 160HzLG 27 27GP95RP-B 3840x2160 NANO IPS 160Hz
Good color grading is okay with, and even desires the omission of extraneous information in the dark. Negative space helps guide the eye and form a good composition. Modern "washed out" grading often contains an overload of useless visual information by making spaces that would realistically be nearly black look like they have a light directly on them, making for a muddy, low-contrast image. Look at a film like Lawrence of Arabia where dark areas are often solid values, adding interesting shape design to the frame. A balance of high and low-information areas avoids information overload and makes for a pleasing shot.
So sorry to hear that. To uninstall you simply have to relaunch the reshade.exe, then navigate to the shadows.exe and it'll ask you if you want to update, install, or uninstall. After clicking uninstall it deletes the files automatically without touching the game files. I'm not sure why your monitor seemed to be having issues, I tried it on my 75inch 4k samsung QLED and it was fine. Maybe it's some display settings on your monitor? If it's set to SDR / HDR maybe it could give different results.
I got the reshade uninstalled and i got my monitor back with some tweaking. Maybe the HDR settings? Anyway, freaked out so i uninstalled the game. (Hope i still have the saves though) Anyway, thanks👍 (sry, bit harsh over)
I'm glad to hear you got your monitor working! If you synced into Ubisoft connect it should save your progress. I hope it does anyway. If you end up giving the mod another try and it bugs out again, feel free to send me a screenshot so I can try to see if I can find out why it happened.
When you say check all boxes in the description, do you want us to make sure that all the boxes in reshade are unchecked, or should we make sure they are checked? Sorry the wordingg is a bit confusing.
Sorry, my mistake. I meant to say make sure all boxes are checked. It's because by default the option says "uncheck all". But to make it faster you need to press it again so it checks all the boxes.
1. Installed reshade 2. selected assassinscreedshadows.exe 3. left the direct x on the default selection 4. unchecked all boxes 5. Put the "AC_Shadows_GOT_Reshade" in the game root folder 6. Booted the game and selected the "AC_Shadows_GOT_Reshade" preset. 7. Reloaded the reshade in the reshade menu.
After doing the above, It doesnt seem to be working. Ive taken screenshots with it completely uninstalled as well as installed, and the screenshots look exactly the same on both. Have i missed something in the setup process?
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Perhaps you should balance your monitor before doing a reshade. Also in your description you mention "It was tested on an RTX 4080 super at 4k Ultra settings with ray tracing and DLSS enabled. In game I was averaging around 60 - 55 fps." but that is irrelevant. You should be listing the monitor you have calibrated this reshade on, and any other pertinent color settings in windows.
I'll probably make another version where I tune it a bit to make sure it's not as harsh, so that other people with different monitors can enjoy
LG 27 27GP95RP-B 3840x2160 NANO IPS 160HzLG 27 27GP95RP-B 3840x2160 NANO IPS 160Hz
I would not call it high fidelity, but it does give a different more fantasist/romanced look.
This new 32" 4k Oled is now looking trash after installing this.
So.. what can i do? tried uninstalling but that went to s#*! since there is nothing to uninstall.
now im kinda sad.. kinda crying.. so thanks
Anyway, freaked out so i uninstalled the game. (Hope i still have the saves though)
Anyway, thanks👍 (sry, bit harsh over)
1. Installed reshade
2. selected assassinscreedshadows.exe
3. left the direct x on the default selection
4. unchecked all boxes
5. Put the "AC_Shadows_GOT_Reshade" in the game root folder
6. Booted the game and selected the "AC_Shadows_GOT_Reshade" preset.
7. Reloaded the reshade in the reshade menu.
After doing the above, It doesnt seem to be working. Ive taken screenshots with it completely uninstalled as well as installed, and the screenshots look exactly the same on both. Have i missed something in the setup process?
You're supposed to click it again so all the boxes are checked.