[SOLVED] need help updating

i came here looking for help and i hope thats ok. i hope i m not posting in the wrong section as well. dont wanna be a bother! but i see reshade is now up to the 3.0 version and it seems like i m still running the 1.1.0.963 version. i downloaded and installed the 3.0 version, but my watermark still says 1.1.0.963 and i dont seem to have the 3.0 version. can someone please help? i dont wanna break my game or my settings

thanks in advance!

You will loose your settings one way or another. ReShade 3.0 uses a different format, all preset settings are stored in a single INI file and everything is configurable in realtime from the in-game GUI. So you'd have to manually copy over the values from your current settings.
Installation: Make sure you point the setup tool to the actual game executable, the same location you installed 1.1 to and hit "Yes" if it asks you whether it should overwrite the existing installation.

ok i did that but i still see the same old watermark. its like it didnt really overwrite the old version. what do i do? oh yea i forgot to mention the game is guild wars 2.

and thanks for responding and lending a helping hand! i really appreciate it.

Ah, 1.1 did probably install it as symlink if you didn't select "Push to application". In that case you'll have to manually delete ReShade from the game first (d3d9.dll/dxgi.dll/opengl32.dll). The 3.0 setup tool should print an error though? It would say "Done!" if installation was successfully otherwise.

ok i deleted those files. i didnt get any error messages from 3.0 setup before. it said DONE. i ll reinstall 3.0 now to see what happens.

now it says NO EFFECT FOUND but the old watermark is still there.

ok watermark is gone and i installed 3.0 but i dont kno how to make it work

You are in the games installation directory, right? Because it doesn't sound like it. Steam games for instance are usually found at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common". That's where you'll find the game executable and the location to uninstall ReShade 1.1 from and ReShade 3.0 to. Not some launch game shortcut or similar, the actual game executable (*.exe file).

yep, i m in the game installation directory for sure. C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 is a special case . You need to install ReShade to the bin folder there. Since the 3.0 setup tool already copied the DLL to the main folder, the only thing you need to do is move the 3.0 d3d9.dll from "C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2" to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\bin" and overwrite the existing one (which is likely 1.1). Do the same for d3d9.ini.

Tip: reshade.me/compatibility has instructions for special cases like this.

that did it! ok now on to the tutorial. i think i should be fine from here on out. if i run into something i cant fix after trying for hours searching the forum and compatibility page, sorry but u will hear from me again

thanks again!!!