I just installed Reshade on The Sims 4 and I didn't install by default but I selected all the filters from the start, something you shouldn't do. Install Reshade with the basic selection without anything else and then go into the game and configure a few things, e.g., shortcuts, then quit the game, go back to the Reshade installation and update the filters. Normally, the game starts without problems with more filters. On the first launch with all the filters, I noticed that the reshade.ini file is empty and my game stays on a black screen. I uninstalled Reshade then reset to default, launched the game and everything works. Finished the configuration, I put my preset in a folder named reshade-preset instead of the game root, opened the reshade.ini then added like this to the line "PresetPath=.\reshade-preset\Off.ini" instead of "PresetPath=.\Off.ini".