Hey all. I know all of us use the late-great cmar's Skintone Picker Panel extension so we can use all the skins we have in our game without the vanilla EA UI bugging out.
I went in and edited this file for funsies, and with the helpful edits by cmar decided to expand the skin picker grid from 5x5 to 10x10. Idk if anyone wants to use this fr but here it is just in case :)
If you want to make edits of your own, I did leave notes in the file to help you navigate. :p
Pretty much only works with computers with resolutions with the height OVER 960
Download 10x10 [RESOLUTION HEIGHT OVER 960] version here: https://simfileshare.net/filedetails/6147748/
If you have a resolution with a height under 960px, the UI will overlap on the lower part of the UI, so I made a 8x6 version!
Download 8x6 [RESOLUTION HEIGHT UNDER 960] version here: https://simfileshare.net/filedetails/6147749/
I do not know what's gonna happen to you if you have Tiny UI Fix!!!!!
Install by placing .package file in your Packages or Overrides folder!
I've made a hotfix for all S-Club lashes in three performance flavours, after discovering that 1.1k of these polygons were from a redundant mesh duplicate. That's 1/3 of the mesh just being bloat you can't see ingame!
CHOOSE ONE.
Install to Mods > Overrides.
Fully compatible with the S-Club eyelash sliders.
Compatible with Buckley's CASP fixes.
Original .packages required.
Flavor 1 QUALITY
2k polygons / 2k texture resaved in DXT1* for 50% less RAM usage /Identical to original.
Flavor 2 BALANCED
2k polygons / 1k texture resaved in DXT1* for 80% less RAM usage
All three look almost identical on my graphics settings, but you can safely swap between them if you decide you want a bit of extra crispness.
Please enjoy some sorely needed optimisation for a decade old piece of CC 🤡
*In the past, DXT1 was noticeably lossier than DXT5. However, the wizards at NVIDIA have made the difference between the two basically imperceptible with their modern Texture Tools Exporter. If a mesh doesn't need an alpha channel, you can and should be using DXT1 - it's half the file size for free!
i decided to revisit this hair for my default series, but i figured some people might want it as a non-default, so i decided to re-do version 2 as well!
4t3 conversion by @nemiga-sims-archive, retextured by @ifcasims
Y'all loved the ones for children so here is toddlers!!
Natural Nail Mesh by me
The Mini Pack includes:
1 Natural nail
8 Polish Colors
Mesh by AirySeez/AirySimz
For:
Toddler
Male | Female
I prefer to handle recolors myself to keep the style consistent. If you’d like to create your own, please join my Discord first Do not reupload or claim my work as your own
New Uncompressed Sim Textures patch from "Just Harry" that forces CAS quality textures onto sims. Comes with an obvious increase in memory usage, highly recommended to use DXVK
ImGui window now tells you to save if you have unsaved changes
Before:
After:
As always, download link here: https://github.com/sims3fiend/Sims3SettingsSetter/releases/latest
The readme has also been updated slightly by swiffyjk on github :D
I have returned from the grave to do another re-rewrite of Sims 3 Settings Setter! Hopefully the last!
The main new features are a pattern detection approach, meaning it should work on any version of the game, and a new platform for some function rewrite optimizations I've done (steam only). Also most importantly includes the ability to set the Streaming settings to throttle lots, reducing stutter dramatically and a patch to make lots load on radius instead of view.
A full write-up below, but here's the main features:
Change "variable" settings ingame:
This lets you change things that normally require mods but live ingame, letting you tweak things how you want. This includes things like changing bloom levels, light colors, sunlight brightness, weather (so you can have snow in summer), sunrise times, tweaking shadow distances, etc etc. Highly recommend just playing around to see what can be done. These are now correctly mapped so they should all work correctly.
Change "Config" settings (not ingame):
This lets you set any config (graphicsrules.sgr) thing you want, including some that aren't in the original files (idr the name). It also lets you have set presets, and means you can (hopefully) more clearly see what settings you've changed. I will slowly (I've said this before lol) manually add Config and Options settings to the live edit, I haven't found an easy automatic way of doing this unfortunately.
Performance tweaks and notifications:
Set notifications for hitting memory thresholds, letting you know before an E12 happens. Improve game performance with tweaks to game code. Uhh, maybe other stuff soon idk
Please note, as this is a new rewrite, this is still a beta. There will probably be bugs, the menu may glitch out, etc. Please also note that some settings may effect things in unexpected ways, if you're not sure what a setting does, maybe try it out in a fresh save first. Generally though, everything is correctly mapped and shouldn't have any lasting negative effects on your game.
BaselinePerformance preset (put into Presets folder and load ingame with File -> Presets). This should reduce stuttering while still being light enough that it wont tank laptop players. Use this instead of my GraphicsRules file please!
https://simfileshare.net/download/5333998/
Just like before you 'll need an ASI loader. I recommend dxwrapper but if you're using Smooth Patch that comes with one too. You then just plonk it into your The Sims 3\Game\Bin folder like any other .asi mod and run the game.
Using:
Preset insert to open the UI
The menu should open up, if it doesn't, look in your game directory for hook_log.txt and send it to me x. If you don't have one, chances are your asi loader isn't working correctly.
The settings tab only becomes editable once a game has been loaded (might change this later). These are values that can be edited live ingame and should change something even if that thing isn't immediately obvious.
Most have sliders, the min/max/step are determined by the game itself, but you can set them above/below these values by right clicking
This also lets you "Clear Override" AKA remove it from the ini, or "Reset to Default" which resets it it to default :)
When you've got things how you want, go to file -> save to save them. If you want to make a preset out of them, that's in file too x, presets save things like patches, Config and QoL too, so just be careful. When loading a preset you can chose to Overwrite which basically clears your ini, or merge, which adds that preset on top of your current settings.
Everything else should be pretty easy to figure out idk
What's new/blog
New function approach for live edit
I actually properly looked at the code flow and found a neat vtable that had, essentially, what I was dreaming of when I made the version version of this. The function gives the name, min, max, step and address of incoming variable manager controlled settings, which is rly rly good! A much more sane and easy to develop for approach than the manually mapping out address spaces approach I was taking before!
Patterns
I've tried to use patterns for the most part, this means finding the function and trying to write a "pattern" of bytes that matches both main versions of the game (Steam and EA). This can be pretty tricky as you have to be specific enough that you don't get false positives while being loose enough to get both versions. It seems to work on both EA/Steam version (with the exception of the patches), but please let me know if it doesn't.
Patches
NERD ZONE NERD ZONE SKIP THIS PART
These will primarily be direct naked ASM patches to functions, and I'll probably be keeping them exclusive to the steam version of the game unless there's something that's a substantial improvement, as the EA one has been compiled differently so different instructions are used, meaning I'd have to write two patches. You can probably skip using them for now if I'm being honest, I have a bunch in the works but these mostly suck.
Point intersection patch
Essentially this is a hand written naked ASM patch for the point intersection code TS3 uses, this is used for nav meshing IIRC, and was the first proper one of these I did after seeing it in vtuner. Sadly, It's not really going to be noticeable at all, maybe a second faster load on custom maps, as they bulk call it during load. IIRC non-custom ones also call it during sims moving but I could be wrong as I wrote this aaages ago and didn't keep great notes. It has a lot of stuff in it and does achieve a very substantial boost vs the default function as a result, it's just that the function isn't really a cause of lag (though is on the render thread IIRC so..).
It achieves the performance boost by I guess nearly fully rewriting it, I added an early exit, use prefetchnta, switched to SIMD, lddqu, shufps, fast paths… idk these are all words that mean nothing to basically everyone reading this including me but I'm quite happy with how it turned out.
Target Framerate
Changes what I can only assume is the games framerate target, it seems to interact w/ the frame buffer. I haven't noticed any noticeable difference but give it a go! This one may desync things in theory but I haven't noticed so 🤷 lol actually this makes animations slow down for some reason so I've removed it oops, need to look into this more.
Lot Visibility
Disables the games check for if a lot is in view, instead it should just load based on the radius around the camera. This is a the patch in Stutter Reducerer so if you're using that you don't need this (just enable Lot Throttling under streaming)
LZ Optimization (not released)
This is basically the point intersection but for the games main package decompression (RefPack) implementation. I… am/was a bit of a dunce with this, for whatever reason my original implementation was focused on large reads using AVX,SSE, etc… Now, the issue is… LZ does small (1-4) byte reads… so… I'm in the process of rewriting it once more. Plan to uroll the functions and do idk like MOVZX I think would be huge, simplifying the flow, etc etc.
The performance gain might actually be somewhat noticeable for this as this function is used in gameplay quite a bit. How you might ask? Well, every single lot that is loaded reads and extracts files for every object in that lot every single time it is loaded, in excess of 40mb/s with that being several hundreds of thousands of calls (some files are very small, and refpack also is byte-by-byte). This is all also done on the render thread, so the game has to wait for this to do its thing (and several other functions) before it renders the next frame. Very good very fun.
Multithreading (maybe eventually)
I've tried but no real luck, I've had some "success" but mostly it's been failures. I do have some interesting things I want to look at, especially related to lot loading so we'll see what the future holds. I think some degree of multithreading for the render thread would be incredibly huge.
Other patches
I have like 10 other ones that are not quite ready yet but should help, hopefully I'll just trickle them out but I think waiting until I can get them working properly is probably dumb.
Coming soon:
Stuff that I'm working on I swear I promise!!! It's coming!
UI QoL - There's a lot wrong with it.
"Options" category support. This is tricky as changing these settings directly writes them to the .ini file in documents for some reason
Several patches
A system for automatic performance tweaks like reducing active lots to 0 when loading, then throttle-loading them back once game has loaded, or automatically reducing settings related to object caps, etc.
More live-edit settings. There's a bunch I want to add it's just annoying. Most are static values though but having to find patterns that find them for both versions is rly annoying. Things like RenderSimLODDistances, FogDistances, the Script category…etc. If you have any requests lmk!
The ini file is kinda ugly garbage horrible to look at
Need to figure out why these have min/max/step like, is there some sort of debug ui I'm missing out on? It seems like there is but idk how to trigger it, gunna be pissed if it's something obvious
The initial purpose of this project was to list different replacements using the same Ifcasims texture made by various creators, so I could compare them and choose the ones I liked most while rebuilding my Mods folder. Later, I decided to include other textures as well and share this spreadsheet with the community.
Information about the spreadsheet and how to use it is in the first tab. If you find any errors or dead links, or if you’d like to suggest replacements that aren’t included for any reason, feel free to DM me here at @eternalccfinds or on my main account @aurora-eternal.
I included every in-game hairstyle from the Base Game, all EPs and SPs, even career and hat-hair ones. In most cases, ppl hide them, but sometimes creators have made replacements for them as well. Also maybe it will be more common in the future to replace hats with random CC hairstyles, like many do in TS2.
For now featured mesh default replacements by:
@maryjanesims3
@angelsimoleon
@firefoxsims3
@agnelid
@carversims
@hanalinori (TS4 clay hair)
@sdmsims (hairs for anime head mod, but works without it)
@azzazz03 (TS4 clay hair)
@nectar-cellar (EA mesh edits)
@simtanico (EA mesh edits)
For now featured default retextures by:
@ifcasims and @angelsimoleon (both use Ifca's textures)
@oneeuromutt
@sweetdevil-sims
Aikea-Guinea (archived by @club-crimsyn)
DRPEPPERGRL (MTS)
@chazybazzy
@faerielandsims
@carversims (deshined EA hairs, part of the CAS Overhaul)
Main sources of inspiration are sims2defaults, 4t3 Build/Buy Database and @ts3casconversioncatalog.
Used mods and tools: @simborg's hiders which include EA hair names and thumbnails in the archives, @tekri's recolors of TS4 EA hairs used to identify meshes included in some replacements; and @ktarsims's son geom_tri_count tool for viewing polycount when they weren’t listed in the creator’s posts.
Hey! I saw you say on an MTS post that you're open to fixing hairs. Is that still the case? Skysims 115 has black streaks on the hair in live mode on medium LOD. Do you know how to fix it?
I most certainly can! It's excellent practice.
I couldn't find SkySims' T.O.U., so I've tentatively uploaded these in full (original files not required, they will conflict).
CARDINAL_SkySims3_Hair115Fixed
The mesh and textures belong to SkySims, I just:
- Remade the backfaces on LOD1 and LOD2, all ages.
- Removed an unnecessary dupe of the accessory in the hair groups, reducing the polycount for free.
- Remade LOD3 entirely, reasoning is below the cut.
- I added ValidForMaternity and removed ValidForRandom (townies have no business generating with a 15k hair)
- Connected the ages, so a toddler with this hair will age up into the child hair, so on.
Enjoy!
For those curious, I've included an explanation and examples of the topology gore below the cut.
Quick-fire context:
Mesh is visible from one side only. When you finish making a hair, you duplicate it and flip it to be visible on both sides. Each set of faces is identical.
Decimation collapses faces ARBITRARILY. What does that mean for two sets of identical faces? They aren't changed equally, and stop being identical.
My goal is to eventually share a save with all of the characters and lots of Stardew Valley*. It’s going to be a long process, but it’s something I’ve wanted to do since I began playing Stardew Valley many years ago. I’m hopeful that this is one project that I will actually FINISH! LOL. I’m starting with the households, then will progress to the lots.
This post is the jumping-off point for the entire project. The links below will take you to the post for each family or group of sims. There you’ll (eventually!) find links to their download file on SFS, any CC used for the sims, and their home/business downloads.
I’m trying to stay as true to canon for these characters as I possibly can. I’ve based sim appearances and traits on the game’s original graphics, and content dialog, as well as, biographical information found on the game’s official wiki. Even these sims’ favorites and zodiac signs are based on canon! However, some things in SDV don’t have a parallel in TS3, so I’ve used my imagination. I’m open to comments and suggestions, especially regarding CC that might match better than what I’ve found on my own.
Family surnames aren’t a thing in Stardew Valley, with the exception of the Mullners. Surnames for my SDV Sims are chosen based on professions or occupations, and in some cases, inferred heritage. (example: Pierre is a French name so for his family I chose a French surname variation that means “of the valley.”)
Households
Brewer
Carpenter
Driver
Grey
Laval
Mullner
Sergeant
Shepherd
Sisters
Wright
Lots
Beach Resort
*Note: Stardew Valley is the sole property of ConcernedApe/Eric Barone.
I don't forget about that! It took quite a bit while to find all the needed CC links and procrastinating (procrastination took the most time). Someone asks me to make an adults (Caroline and Jodi), I also plan make all other residents (except Ginger Island ones) and maybe characters from Stardew Valley Expanded.
I made some profiles for girlies (I used this one as a base). (click for better quality):
OUTFITS:
INFO
.Sim format
All sims are young adults without skills, career, relationships etc.
I have all EPs + SPs, but not all of them had been used. You also need Store Midnight Hollow and "Artisan's Glassblowing And Jewelry Making Station".
They are REALLY slider & CC heavy. CC List with links + some CC that hard to find included in archive.
General CC that I used: My resources, Body blush, Nails, Patterns: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Surnames are mostly taken from this tread on Reddit, Sam & Elliot's are from @pixelbots; Maru's is from @dreamsongsims (check her recreation of SDV characters, if you interested in more CC-lite version!) and Sandy, Gus and Clint are from me (not a fan of this one from reddit).
Some outfits are inspired by Seasonal Outfits - Slightly Cuter Aesthetic Mod.
Biographies (except Emily) are taken from dev update #12.
You are allowed to edit them as you want and use for your worlds (I`ve seen someone there making a SDV world, it would be cool to see it.).
Have you seen this post about using DXVK by Criisolate? But felt intimidated by the sheer mass of facts and information?
@desiree-uk and I compiled a guide and the configuration file to make your life easier. It focuses on players not using the EA App, but it might work for those just the same. It’s definitely worth a try.
Adding this to your game installation will result in a better RAM usage. So your game is less likely to give you Error 12 or crash due to RAM issues. It does NOT give a huge performance boost, but more stability and allows for higher graphics settings in game.
The full guide behind the cut. Let me know if you also would like it as PDF.
Happy simming!
Disclaimer and Credits
Desiree and I are no tech experts and just wrote down how we did this. Our ability to help if you run into trouble is limited. So use at your own risk and back up your files!
We both are on Windows 10 and start the game via TS3W.exe, not the EA App. So your experience may differ.
This guide is based on our own experiments and of course criisolate’s post on tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/criisolate/749374223346286592/ill-explain-what-i-did-below-before-making-any
This guide is brought to you by Desiree-UK and Norn.
Compatibility
Note: This will conflict with other programs that “inject” functionality into your game so they may stop working. Notably
Reshade
GShade
Nvidia Experience/Nvidia Inspector/Nvidia Shaders
RivaTuner Statistics Server
It does work seamlessly with LazyDuchess’ Smooth Patch.
LazyDuchess’ Launcher: unknown
Alder Lake patch: does conflict. One user got it working by starting the game by launching TS3.exe (also with admin rights) instead of TS3W.exe. This seemed to create the cache file for DXVK. After that, the game could be started from TS3W.exe again. That might not work for everyone though.
A word on FPS and V-Sync
With such an old game it’s crucial to cap framerate (FPS). This is done in the DXVK.conf file. Same with V-Sync.
You need
a text editor (easiest to use is Windows Notepad)
to download DXVK, version 2.3.1 from here: https://github.com/doitsujin/DXVK/releases/tag/v2.3.1
Extract the archive, you are going to need the file d3d9.dll from the x32 folder
the configuration file DXVK.conf from here: https://github.com/doitsujin/DXVK/blob/master/DXVK.conf.
Optional: download the edited version with the required changes here.
administrator rights on your PC
to know your game’s installation path (bin folder) and where to find the user folder
a tiny bit of patience :)
First Step: Backup
Backup your original Bin folder in your Sims 3 installation path! The DXVK file may overwrite some files! The path should be something like this (for retail): \Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin (This is the folder where also GraphicsRule.sgr and the TS3W.exe and TS3.exe are located.)
Backup your options.ini in your game’s user folder! Making the game use the DXVK file will count as a change in GPU driver, so the options.ini will reset once you start your game after installation. The path should be something like this: \Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 (This is the folder where your Mods folder is located).
Preparations
Make sure you run the game as administrator. You can check that by right-clicking on the icon that starts your game. Go to Properties > Advanced and check the box “Run as administrator”.
Note: This will result in a prompt each time you start your game, if you want to allow this application to make modifications to your system. Click “Yes” and the game will load.
2. Make sure you have the DEP settings from Windows applied to your game.
Open the Windows Control Panel.
Click System and Security > System > Advanced System Settings.
On the Advanced tab, next to the Performance heading, click Settings.
Click the Data Execution Prevention tab.
Select 'Turn on DEP for all programs and services except these”:
Click the Add button, a window to the file explorer opens. Navigate to your Sims 3 installation folder (the bin folder once again) and add TS3W.exe and TS3.exe.
Click OK. Then you can close all those dialog windows again.
Setting up the DXVK.conf file
Open the file with a text editor and delete everything in it. Then add these values:
d3d9.textureMemory = 1
d3d9.presentInterval = 1
d3d9.maxFrameRate = 60
d3d9.presentInterval enables V-Sync,d3d9.maxFrameRate sets the FrameRate. You can edit those values, but never change the first line (d3d9.textureMemory)!
The original DXVK.conf contains many more options in case you would like to add more settings.
A. no Reshade/GShade
Setting up DXVK
Copy the two files d3d9.dll and DXVK.conf into the Bin folder in your Sims 3 installation path. This is the folder where also GraphicsRule.sgr and the TS3W.exe and TS3.exe are located. If you are prompted to overwrite files, please choose yes (you DID backup your folder, right?)
And that’s basically all that is required to install.
Start your game now and let it run for a short while. Click around, open Buy mode or CAS, move the camera.
Now quit without saving. Once the game is closed fully, open your bin folder again and double check if a file “TS3W.DXVK-cache” was generated. If so – congrats! All done!
Things to note
Heads up, the game options will reset! So it will give you a “vanilla” start screen and options.
Don’t worry if the game seems to be frozen during loading. It may take a few minutes longer to load but it will load eventually.
The TS3W.DXVK-cache file is the actual cache DXVK is using. So don’t delete this! Just ignore it and leave it alone. When someone tells to clear cache files – this is not one of them!
Update Options.ini
Go to your user folder and open the options.ini file with a text editor like Notepad.
Find the line “lastdevice = “. It will have several values, separated by semicolons. Copy the last one, after the last semicolon, the digits only. Close the file.
Now go to your backup version of the Options.ini file, open it and find that line “lastdevice” again. Replace the last value with the one you just copied. Make sure to only replace those digits!
Save and close the file.
Copy this version of the file into your user folder, replacing the one that is there.
Things to note:
If your GPU driver is updated, you might have to do these steps again as it might reset your device ID again. Though it seems that the DXVK ID overrides the GPU ID, so it might not happen.
How do I know it’s working?
Open the task manager and look at RAM usage. Remember the game can only use 4 GB of RAM at maximum and starts crashing when usage goes up to somewhere between 3.2 – 3.8 GB (it’s a bit different for everybody).
So if you see values like 2.1456 for RAM usage in a large world and an ongoing save, it’s working. Generally the lower the value, the better for stability.
Also, DXVK will have generated its cache file called TS3W.DXVK-cache in the bin folder. The file size will grow with time as DXVK is adding stuff to it, e.g. from different worlds or savegames. Initially it might be something like 46 KB or 58 KB, so it’s really small.
Optional: changing MemCacheBudgetValue
MemCacheBudgetValue determines the size of the game's VRAM Cache. You can edit those values but the difference might not be noticeable in game. It also depends on your computer’s hardware how much you can allow here.
The two lines of seti MemCacheBudgetValue correspond to the high RAM level and low RAM level situations. Therefore, theoretically, the first line MemCacheBudgetValue should be set to a larger value, while the second line should be set to a value less than or equal to the first line.
The original values represent 200MB (209715200) and 160MB (167772160) respectively. They are calculated as 200x1024x1024=209175200 and 160x1024x1024=167772160.
Back up your GraphicsRules.sgr file! If you make a mistake here, your game won’t work anymore.
Go to your bin folder and open your GraphicsRules.sgr with a text editor.
Search and find two lines that set the variables for MemCacheBudgetValue.
Modify these two values to larger numbers. Make sure the value in the first line is higher or equals the value in the second line. Examples for values:
1073741824, which means 1GB
2147483648 which means 2 GB.
-1 (minus 1) means no limit (but is highly experimental, use at own risk)
Save and close the file. It might prompt you to save the file to a different place and not allow you to save in the Bin folder. Just save it someplace else in this case and copy/paste it to the Bin folder afterwards. If asked to overwrite the existing file, click yes.
Now start your game and see if it makes a difference in smoothness or texture loading. Make sure to check RAM and VRAM usage to see how it works.
You might need to change the values back and forth to find the “sweet spot” for your game. Mine seems to work best with setting the first value to 2147483648 and the second to 1073741824.
Uninstallation
Delete these files from your bin folder (installation path):
d3d9.dll
DXVK.conf
TS3W.DXVK-cache
And if you have it, also TS3W_d3d9.log
if you changed the values in your GraphicsRule.sgr file, too, don’t forget to change them back or to replace the file with your backed up version.
OR
delete the bin folder and add it from your backup again.
B. with Reshade/GShade
Follow the steps from part A. no Reshade/Gshade to set up DXVK.
If you are already using Reshade (RS) or GShade (GS), you will be prompted to overwrite files, so choose YES. RS and GS may stop working, so you will need to reinstall them.
Whatever version you are using, the interface shows similar options of which API you can choose from (these screenshots are from the latest versions of RS and GS).
Please note:
Each time you install and uninstall DXVK, switching the game between Vulkan and d3d9, is essentially changing the graphics card ID again, which results in the settings in your options.ini file being repeatedly reset.
ReShade interface
Choose – Vulcan
Click next and choose your preferred shaders.
Hopefully this install method works and it won't install its own d3d9.dll file.
If it doesn't work, then choose DirectX9 in RS, but you must make sure to replace the d3d9.dll file with DXVK's d3d9.dll (the one from its 32bit folder, checking its size is 3.86mb.)
GShade interface
Choose –
Executable Architecture: 32bit
Graphics API: DXVK
Hooking: Normal Mode
GShade is very problematic, it won't work straight out of the box and the overlay doesn't show up, which defeats the purpose of using it if you can't add or edit the shaders you want to use.
Check the game's bin folder, making sure the d3d9.dll is still there and its size is 3.86mb - that is DXVK's dll file.
If installing using the DXVK method doesn't work, you can choose the DirectX method, but there is no guarantee it works either.
The game will not run with these files in the folder:
d3d10core.dll
d3d11.dll
dxgi.dll
If you delete them, the game will start but you can't access GShade! It might be better to use ReShade.
Some Vulcan and DirectX information, if you’re interested:
Vulcan is for rather high end graphic cards but is backward compatible with some older cards. Try this method with ReShade or GShade first.
DirectX is more stable and works best with older cards and systems. Try this method if Vulcan doesn't work with ReShade/GShade in your game – remember to replace the d3d9.dll with DXVK's d3d9.dll.
For more information on the difference between Vulcan and DirectX, see this article:
