Is GShade allowed?

[HollowedDoll]

if Gshade isn't allowed then neither is Geforce Experience, since it has Freestyle built in.

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[Larirawiel]

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Too bad. Because AMD Adrenalin has also some image altering functionality in it.

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[Packetdancer]

if Gshade isn't allowed then neither is Geforce Experience, since it has Freestyle built in.

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Freestyle actually does not function in the same way.

ReShade (and GShade) actually modify the FFXIV game process -- they replace DirectX at the time FFXIV tries to load it, so FFXIV ends up using GShade (pretending to be DirectX) which basically sits in the middle and loads the real DirectX on behalf of the game; GShade's code is thus loaded into FFXIV (and in so doing, does technically modify the game process and state).

Freestyle, however, does its modifications to graphics down in the Nvidia driver layer itself; it doesn't touch the game process at all and is functionally no different than something like monitor color calibration (at least from the point of view of the game). (AMD Adrenaline works similarly, I believe, though I've not tinkered with Adrenaline at all.)