Sacred 2 (Steam) instantly crashes with ReShade enabled

Hello, just wanted to say I love ReShade and funnily enough, I found about it when I reinstalled Sacred 1 recently (and have had stunning results with it with much newer releases, such as Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition).

However, oddly enough, I can't get it to work with Sacred 2 (Steam version) - which I thought would be easier, as I believe it should be a straightforward DirectX 9 setup. However, whenever ReShade is installed on Sacred 2 with the DirectX9 version, the game instantly crashes with a "Sacred 2 - Game Server stopped working" message. I tried applying ReShade both to the Sacred2.exe and the game server file, but that doesn't fix anything. (I have the community patch and everything that normally makes the game work like a charm, so it's definitely ReShade specific.)

I have definitely seen videos and guides of people making it work, and that it should be straightforward. Does anyone have any experience here, by any chance? Would be very grateful

[I don't think it matters btw, but I am still on Windows 8.1 - but since ReShade apparently works from 7 up and this is for a 15-year old game...]