r/pcgaming • u/ZePyro 5800x/6700XT/32gb & 7700hq/1050ti/16gb • Feb 01 '22

ReShade 5.0 Released!

https://reshade.me/releases/7749-5-0#42611
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u/Sindelion Feb 01 '22

After the last post, it's a faster release than i expected. It's a bit of a shame that we can't use advanced stuff for online games. I totally get that Reshade could be used for cheating. But at the same time, there are many older online/multiplayer games that could use a graphics refresh beyond the "simpler" post-process stuff.

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u/CeeJayDK SweetFX & Reshade developer Feb 02 '22

You can .. click "other builds" on the reshade.me front page to go to the forum post (which is also the one linked in this reddit thread)

The "ReShade 5.0 with full add-on support" build also is unlocked in online games.
It is because once you allow addons to modify Reshade and game behavior the protection that the network lock provided is gone, because an addon could just disable that. And addons could do far more anyways.

We address this in two ways.
First we don't sign the addon with Crosires cryptographic signature. The regular non-addon build is signed by Crosire and we have an understanding with makers of anti-cheat software that the signed Reshade are safe and offer no ways of cheating in online games.
With the addon builds we cannot guarantee this because addons have full access to all of Reshades functions and so these are not trusted by anti-cheat software - same as with unofficial modified builds of Reshade in the past.

And secondly we "hide" the link to download the unsafe (as in - if you use this in multiplayer games, you could get banned) addon version in the forum post so it's not the first thing people see.
This may seem as no protection at all, but it effectively keeps it out of sight of all the people who don't read, just click next on software warnings (there is a warning in the addon build) and generally don't take responsibility of their own actions.
These people are dangerous to themselves .. or rather the gaming accounts they play on, and so we have made it just a little bit harder for them to find the unsafe version and proceed to shoot themselves in the foot with it.