
YouTuber The Bonnet Simmer has a short video tutorial on how to find & launch presets you’ve downloaded and installed. I highly suggest you do the tutorial that comes up when you first launch Reshade to at least get you acquainted with it. Reshade offers a lot of options on how to configure it, and you’ll probably need to spend some time going through the menu to familiarize yourself with everything it can do. Select your desired preset through the Reshade program. You can still click menu items behind this progress bar if you want to get the game loaded up while you wait for the injector to finish preparing. Reshade will begin loading up and should show you its progress at the top of the game screen. If you don’t want to spend the time searching for presets, check out my list of 27 mind blowing shader mods to get started!. Once extracted, copy the downloaded preset(s) into the same C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\The Sims 4\Game\Bin where you installed Reshade initially. This process shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes. Here the program will work on its own to download everything it needs for the selected options. Click OK a couple of times and download everything. Because of how intense some of the effects can be they may bog down slower machines when running, but if you want to get the full benefit of Reshade you should select all options. In this list, you should select ALL of the effects if you want to significantly increase the options you have for changing the look of the Sims 4. Select all the effects you want for your game. The Sims 4 uses only Direct3D 9, so you only need to select that. Once you select your game, you’ll be asked to choose between Direct3D 9, Open GL, Vulcan, and the rest. Find the location of where your Sims 4 game is installed for most people it’s in C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\The Sims 4\Game\Bin. Since Reshade can be used on many games other than the Sims 4, you’ll need to select the right game.
For most people, this will simply be the Downloads folder which can be reached through C:\Users\YOUR COMPUTER NAME\Downloads. Depending on where your browser downloads the mod, you can find it in different places. Extract and launch the “Reshade.exe” file.Reshade is designed to work with a multitude of games, so we need to tell it which game we want it working on.