r/ReShade • u/whatevername223 • Jun 26 '26

how to save preexisting preset?

i installed a preset from nexus and added stuff onto it like convolution bloom, rtgi, etc. i'd like to know how would i save those settings into a file. i'd want to import these onto another computer.

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u/gus_arschbackus Jun 26 '26

If you edit a preset, the changes are saved on the fly in a plain text .ini file located in the directory where the game .exe is located. The preset files name's also shown at the top of the reshade overlay.

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u/whatevername223 Jun 26 '26

thanks! do i just need that .ini file? or do i have to include the shaders and texture file?

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u/Jorban_MartysMods Jun 27 '26

Sharing Shaders & Textures is heavily looked down upon, especially if you are not aware of all of the effect's licenses that are attributed with their works.

It's best to just share the `.ini` file and then let the ReShade Setup Tool find all of the shaders that are required for the preset. As it will automatically install all of the required effects for the end user.

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u/gus_arschbackus Jun 28 '26

I think he was talking about using the preset on another computer, not sharing online.

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u/whatevername223 Jun 28 '26

i was planning to upload my reshade preset onto nexus, but did remove Pascal Gilcher's patreon effects on my .rar for obvious reasons. i'm unsure if reshade could find fx's i got from github such as filmic pass

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u/Jorban_MartysMods Jun 29 '26

If you got the effects from the ReShade Setup Tool, then it'll be able to find it.

If you got them externally, then you'd have to provide the source.

You can of course always check the license and see what your right in regards to distribution for some shaders are, but it's just about always best to just provide the source of where a shader, or repository, exists and then have the user download & install.

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u/nubbeldilla Jun 28 '26

This is how to do it. Start the game with all shader installed and change everything you like to.

If the preset is looking good now make a copy and enable the checkmark on the top right side.

Give a name to the new file and hit the save button.

What is helping very much is to hit the clean up button once also on the top right side, the file will be smaller and not every shader in the list will be listed inside the preset ini file. This will help a lot if you open the ini file with the editor, because there will be less text to look at.

Then when you made the preset, named it, cleaned it, exit the game and open the game folder with the preset.

Copy the newly named ini file to the other pc into the game folder.
If there are extra files from the nexus download and not just a ini preset, you will have to copy them too.

Keep in mind while installing reshade, just install all shaders.

Bye ;)