ReShade path names not accepting Windows Environment Variables

So I'm not sure where to ask this or if anyone has run into this problem.

If I want to use %USERNAME% from Windows Environmental Variables I should be able to use it in a path in the ReShade.ini
EffectSearchPaths=C:\users\%USERNAME%\Documents\reshade,C:\users\%USERNAME%\Documents\reshade-alt
or
EffectSearchPaths=C:\users\%USERNAME%\Documents\reshade

Instead it fails to use the search path and says the path doesn't exist even though USERNAME is set to givenusername or USERNAME=givenusername

I'm guessing this is intentional?

You should not assume that user-specific paths can be replaced by environment variables.

For example, the document folder you mentioned in your example is actually managed in the registry.
We should to use these Win32 API to identify them.

SHGetKnownFolderPath
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/...shgetknownfolderpath

KNOWNFOLDERID
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/knownfolderid
 

Use ExpandEnvironmentStrings (...) , it's a very simple API designed for this purpose.

So in the reshade.ini file would I include the GUID?

EffectSearchPaths=C:\users\{9B74B6A3-0DFD-4f11-9E78-5F7800F2E772}\Documents\reshade

Or is this also incorrect? seri14 Kaldaien

I also noticed in the github repository that there is already a function that can resolve the environment variables.
github.com/crosire/reshade/blob/7c811127...rce/dll_main.cpp#L58

it seems they do get expanded for some things...