DESCRIPTION & FEATURES

Straight to VHS ReShade will blast you back to the 80's and 90's when VHS tapes were the way of the future and were the premiere way to gather the family 'round and enjoy your favorite movie (which often took many months or even years to release on VHS after leaving theaters). This reshade is a result of constant refinements and tweaks, as I've been working on essentially every day since the game launched into early access on March 12, 2019. Though highly stylistic, StV ReShade is is built for gameplay, and like all of my ReShades offers many modular features, like multiple choices of depth-of-field, film grain, letterboxing (black bars), multiple iterations of bloom, and more!

Hope you like it!

Cheers,
Merc

INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS

1. Download ReShade framework 4.0.2 from here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/0xoi37xedib2uc1/ReShade_Setup_4.0.2.exe/file

2. Run the .exe, choose your Division 2 .exe, called "TheDivision2.exe", which is found in this subfolder path: "... Ubisoft Game Launcher\games\Tom Clancy's The Division 2" 

Now choose the DirectX 10+ version when it asks which API to use.

3. Select yes when it ask if you want to download a collection of effects. Click "uncheck all" and just select "Border" (you'll be using the shaders and effects from my dropbox folder).

4. Download my zip file on the file page here on Nexus.

5. Open the zip folder and copy-paste the "reshade-shaders" folder, and the "Mercs Straight to VHS - 1-0.ini" file in your Division 2 folder, where you found your game's .exe, "... Ubisoft Game Launcher\games\Tom Clancy's The Division 2" folder. Overwrite all if it asks. Don't worry, you are only overwriting ReShade files, not any of your game's actual files.

6. Run your game and open the ReShade menu with Shift+Home and click the little arrow at the top of the reshade menu to open the drop-down menu. Select the preset "Mercs Straight to VHS" .ini file. (If you don't care about Depth of Field (DoF), then you can stop here and just delete all the DoF shaders from your reshade-shaders/shaders folder. If you want to use DoF, then please continue to step 8, it's not as intimidating as it looks, only takes about 10 seconds to do once in game).

7. In your in-game settings menu, under Gameplay, set your reticle opacity to 75 percent or lower to stop the lens flares from triggering when you aim. Don't worry, your reticle will still be plenty visible. I also set my reticle thickness to 0, which is still very visible, it doesn't make it disappear. 

8. To get DoF working once you load into the game and can see your character model in D.C.,follow this guide. Basically, activate the Display Depth shader (press "+" on the numberpad) to see the depth buffer, then click the "dxll" tab and click the boxes until you see the image with your character displayed in one half and the other gray-scaled, as shown in the video. Then click the "reload" button on the bottom of the reshade "home" tab, as shown in the video: https://youtu.be/AbsLCo96ONY 

8. Profit?

HOTKEYS

*Be sure your Numberpad is enabled or they won't work. All hotkeys remappable from the ReShade menu*

Open the ReShade menu - Home (modifiable in the ReShade's setting's tab)

Toggle the entire ReShade on and off - Scroll Lock (modifiable in the ReShade's setting's tab)

More intense screen pixelation and retro effects (as seen in my video demo and some screenshots (off by default, distorts text a little too much in menus for extended use, but should definitely give it a try) - 2 on the numberpad

Depth of Field [Strong/Heavy] (implementation 1, off by default) - division sign (/) on numberpad

Depth of Field [Soft/Light] (implementation 2, off by default) - minus sign (-) on numberpad

Letterbox (black bars) 0 on numberpad

Sharpening - 5 on the numberpad

Film Grain - 3 on numberpad

Bloom, lens dirt, and lens flares - 6 on numberpad

Bloom on Division agent devices and light bulbs - 8 on numberpad

Color and lighting changes (Lightroom) - 4 on the numberpad

Display Depth (testing tool for seeing if you set up the Depth Buffer correctly, image should be in a gray-scaled look on the right with objects clearly visible. If it's twitching around or it's just pitch black, it's probably set up wrong). - plus symbol (+) on numberpad

UNINSTALLING

1. Delete the reshade-shaders folder, d3d11.dll (or dxgi.dll if you didn't rename it), and reshade.ini from your game folder. That's it.

PERFORMANCE & OTHER STUFF

You may notice a slight decrease in performance, but it should be pretty close to what FPS you were getting before without ReShade installed, depending on your hardware. You can simply disable ReShade with the hotkey, restoring all your pre-ReShade performance.

If you like the added bloom and lens dirt, but don't like the lens flares, you can disable lens flare and keep the other bloom and lens dirt effects by open the ReShade menu and unchecking bLensEnable from under the Bloom section (bottom half of the menu).

CONTACT

-- Please subscribe to my YouTube channel for demos and previews of my upcoming and released ReShades: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn5KAZuLeVmeQLXSMJNBMcA -

-- Please follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/MercsAssassin

MY MODS FOR OTHER GAMES

Exhaustive List Here, constantly updating it as I make new ReShades: https://www.facebook.com/MercsAssassin/

ps: I'm TheMercsAssassin on most other websites, including youtube, twitter and the nexus. Hence, the Merc thing.

ps+: Do not use any part of my ReShade in your own work. Make your own through hard work and lots of time, like I did, please. Thanks.

CREDITS

1) MartyMcFly - His Lightroom and Advanced DOF shaders are the backbone of this ReShade. They come from his qUINT collection.

2) Crosire - the original creator of the ReShade framework. Obviously none of this would be possible without him.

3) Luluco250 - his/her CRT shaders and MultiFX shader made this preset possible - https://github.com/luluco250/FXShaders

4) Myself (TheMercsAssassin aka Assassins Decree - For the many hours spent configuring and fine-tuning these effects in this ReShade preset

5) All other creators of individual ReShade shaders and effects