All good I get the concern. As far as I know mods are not allowed by game's Terms of Service, so there is no guarantee even using ReShade is safe. That said RenoDX addon does not provide any unfair advantage over other players.
In practice modding has been a thing since early access, when game had no offline mode yet, and I haven't heard of any unjustified ban. Or rather, all possibly unjustified bans seem to have been issued by private server owners (players) rather than game's company.
TLDR: all mods are against the rules, but practice has shown some tolerance as long as no cheat/abuse. Ultimately user's responsability
apparently I have to disable windows HDR and then it loads succesfully which kinda defeats the purpose EDIT2: I don't know anymore it succesfully loaded once & now it just fails whatever windows HDR mode
It looks very similar to what happens when game is set to Exclusive Fullscreen, can you start game without the mod and double check in-game Graphics settings? Window Mode should be Fullscreen Window or Windowed.
Windows HDR shouldn't really affect this... It is preferred ON to get full benefit from the mod.
*launches the game & checks* What the hell... I had changed it .... *changes the setting again* wait *relaunches the game one more time* ha ... the setting isn't being saved..... hummm what am I doing wrong here *tries again* riiiight it's not saving the setting so that's why *flabbergasted*
EDIT: I worked around the issue I manually set "WindowMode": 1, in ClientSettings.json instead of "WindowMode": 0,
Latest file has been automatically quarantined and is awaiting manual verification. I can see previous versions in file archive, 20241128 being the one before last.
If you prefer, current latest version is also available on Github, using corresponding snapshot button in RenoDX mods list (or this direct link).
Edit: my bad, just noticed archived files can't be downloaded. Will make sure to keep one file up in the future. Edit2: I figured how to restore files downloads from archives, old version should be available now..!
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All good I get the concern. As far as I know mods are not allowed by game's Terms of Service, so there is no guarantee even using ReShade is safe. That said RenoDX addon does not provide any unfair advantage over other players.
In practice modding has been a thing since early access, when game had no offline mode yet, and I haven't heard of any unjustified ban. Or rather, all possibly unjustified bans seem to have been issued by private server owners (players) rather than game's company.
TLDR: all mods are against the rules, but practice has shown some tolerance as long as no cheat/abuse. Ultimately user's responsability
disabling renodx makes the game startup successfully
here's the end of the reshade.log
reshade version : 6.3.3.1921 (as per the log)
23:56:32:409 [20476] | INFO | Redirecting IDXGIFactory2::CreateSwapChainForHwnd(this = 000002D20FB995B0, pDevice = 000002D27891F548, hWnd = 0000000000100DC6, pDesc = 000000D313B7E350, pFullscreenDesc = 000000D313B7E338, pRestrictToOutput = 0000000000000000, ppSwapChain = ) ...
23:56:32:409 [20476] | INFO | > Dumping swap chain description:
23:56:32:409 [20476] | INFO |+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
23:56:32:409 [20476] | INFO || Parameter | Value |
23:56:32:409 [20476] | INFO |+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
23:56:32:409 [20476] | INFO || Width | 2560|
23:56:32:409 [20476] | INFO || Height | 1440|
23:56:32:409 [20476] | INFO || RefreshRate | 179960 1000 |
23:56:32:409 [20476] | INFO || Format | DXGI_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UNORM_SRGB|
23:56:32:410 [20476] | INFO || Stereo | FALSE |
23:56:32:410 [20476] | INFO || ScanlineOrdering| 0|
23:56:32:410 [20476] | INFO || Scaling| 0|
23:56:32:410 [20476] | INFO || SampleCount | 1|
23:56:32:410 [20476] | INFO || SampleQuality| 0|
23:56:32:410 [20476] | INFO || BufferUsage | 0x30|
23:56:32:410 [20476] | INFO || BufferCount | 1|
23:56:32:410 [20476] | INFO || Windowed | TRUE|
23:56:32:410 [20476] | INFO || SwapEffect| 0|
23:56:32:410 [20476] | INFO || AlphaMode | 0|
23:56:32:410 [20476] | INFO || Flags | 0x2 |
23:56:32:410 [20476] | INFO |+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
23:56:32:410 [20476] | INFO | [RenoDX] mods::swapchain::OnCreateSwapchain(swap: r8g8b8a8_unorm_srgb => r16g16b16a16_float, present mode:0x0 => 0x4, present flag:0x2 => 0x802, buffers:1 => 2)
23:56:32:412 [20476] | WARN | IDXGIFactory2::CreateSwapChainForHwnd failed with error code 0x80070005.
23:56:32:412 [20476] | INFO | Redirecting IDXGIFactory::CreateSwapChain(this = 000002D20FB995B0, pDevice = 000002D27891F548, pDesc = 000000D313B7E350, ppSwapChain = 000002D1212DEF60) ...
23:56:32:412 [20476] | INFO | > Dumping swap chain description:
23:56:32:412 [20476] | INFO |+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
23:56:32:412 [20476] | INFO || Parameter | Value |
23:56:32:412 [20476] | INFO |+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
23:56:32:412 [20476] | INFO || Width | 2560|
23:56:32:412 [20476] | INFO || Height | 1440|
23:56:32:412 [20476] | INFO || RefreshRate | 179960 1000 |
23:56:32:412 [20476] | INFO || Format | DXGI_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UNORM_SRGB|
23:56:32:412 [20476] | INFO || ScanlineOrdering| 0|
23:56:32:413 [20476] | INFO || Scaling| 0|
23:56:32:413 [20476] | INFO || SampleCount | 1|
23:56:32:413 [20476] | INFO || SampleQuality| 0|
23:56:32:413 [20476] | INFO || BufferUsage | 0x30|
23:56:32:413 [20476] | INFO || BufferCount | 1|
23:56:32:413 [20476] | INFO || OutputWindow | 0000000000100DC6|
23:56:32:413 [20476] | INFO || Windowed | TRUE|
23:56:32:413 [20476] | INFO || SwapEffect| 0|
23:56:32:413 [20476] | INFO || Flags | 0x2 |
23:56:32:413 [20476] | INFO |+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
23:56:32:413 [20476] | INFO | [RenoDX] mods::swapchain::OnCreateSwapchain(swap: r8g8b8a8_unorm_srgb => r16g16b16a16_float, present mode:0x0 => 0x4, present flag:0x2 => 0x802, buffers:1 => 2)
23:56:32:414 [20476] | WARN | IDXGIFactory::CreateSwapChain failed with error code 0x80070005.
EDIT2: I don't know anymore it succesfully loaded once & now it just fails whatever windows HDR mode
It looks very similar to what happens when game is set to Exclusive Fullscreen, can you start game without the mod and double check in-game Graphics settings? Window Mode should be Fullscreen Window or Windowed.
Windows HDR shouldn't really affect this... It is preferred ON to get full benefit from the mod.
What the hell... I had changed it ....
*changes the setting again*
wait *relaunches the game one more time*
ha ... the setting isn't being saved..... hummm what am I doing wrong here
*tries again*
riiiight it's not saving the setting so that's why *flabbergasted*
EDIT: I worked around the issue
I manually set
"WindowMode": 1,
in ClientSettings.json
instead of "WindowMode": 0,
Thank you for your input, it genuinely helped.
Latest file has been automatically quarantined and is awaiting manual verification. I can see previous versions in file archive, 20241128 being the one before last.
If you prefer, current latest version is also available on Github, using corresponding snapshot button in RenoDX mods list (or this direct link).
Edit: my bad, just noticed archived files can't be downloaded. Will make sure to keep one file up in the future.
Edit2: I figured how to restore files downloads from archives, old version should be available now..!
man I just realized I was a bit blunt lol
I didn't even say hi or anything *facepalm*
ho well. Thanks for the answer, glad I could help