Sims 4 Crashes with Reshade installed

Hi all,

I've been trying to use Reshade in Sims 4 for the past few weeks without luck. It will either crash immediately at launch, during a loading screen, or once I apply any shader.
I've been trying to troubleshoot and fix it myself, but I'm getting desperate! 

The version I was running is the latest Reshade with addons (only installed REST), for Direct 11/12. I've tried many different shaders, as well as installing without legacy effects as I had heard they could cause problems. It should not be a performance issue, as I'm running it on my desktop with a 3080 gpu (10gb vram) and have 80gb RAM. I have tried reinstalling reshade and trying new shaders, changing game to direct 9 and installing the correct version for that, as well as running as administrator. I think it might be an issue with some of the shaders or their effects used, although I made sure the corresponding effects were installed correctly. Additionally, the crashes seem to happen no matter which shader I try. Without having used any shaders yet, the game appears to load fine (sometimes), and I was able to toggle some of the effects on (without a preset loaded), until it crashed. '

Things I've considered/tried:
- Different shaders, double checking effects are installed
- Turning off overlay in any other apps/programs, such as EA, Discord, Razer Synapse, Steam etc etc 
- Trying to run it with Direct 9 (game and reshade)
- Running as administrator
- Setting performance priority to real time or high in task manager 
- Installing different effects packs upon Reshade install
- Deleting thumb cache
- Tried Gshade (although I would much prefer to use Reshade), but ran into the same problem with Gshade
- Making sure the .dll file is named correctly for whichever Direct version I am running the game in
- Forcing game to load in Direct 11 by prompting it to in game properties, just in case

Please help a girl out! I came back to Sims after years of not playing, and would love to make my game a little prettier. I do have a ton of CC and mods (that I have been updating after recent patch, and that run fine without Reshade). Could any UI mods affect Reshade?


 

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".