Reshade & MSFS

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

Just now, CFIJose said:

I'll try it out.

Rock on you will like it - same gui in sim but windows based gui before your in sim - very nice for what it is - I'm on steam so no idea how well it works on windows store version 

[CFIJose 5,485]

1 minute ago, Richard Sennett said:

Rock on you will like it - same gui in sim but windows based gui before your in sim - very nice for what it is - I'm on steam so no idea how well it works on windows store version 

If it needs to be installed into the main folder, it will not work.

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

1 minute ago, CFIJose said:

If it needs to be installed into the main folder, it will not work.

Are you on steam version of sim ?

[CFIJose 5,485]

2 minutes ago, Richard Sennett said:

Rock on you will like it - same gui in sim but windows based gui before your in sim - very nice for what it is - I'm on steam so no idea how well it works on windows store version 

I'll see if I can get it to work if reshade fails to work with SI 10. It should work with the store version.

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

Main installer just root to your sim.exe file thats it

[CFIJose 5,485]

Just now, Richard Sennett said:

Main installer just root to your sim.exe file thats it

It will not work with my store version. Unless someone hacks it like they did with reshade.

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

3 minutes ago, CFIJose said:

I'll see if I can get it to work if reshade fails to work with SI 10. It should work with the store version.

Be careful make a screenshot of your main sim folder before you load Reshade - to know what you will have to manually uninstall

I made the mistake of not doing so and now I think there may be few extra files that dont belong - this was before I found Gshade - I think its cleaned up well but best to take screenshot first - its a manual uninstall for reshade

Edited July 14, 2022 by Richard Sennett

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

2 minutes ago, CFIJose said:

It will not work with my store version. Unless someone hacks it like they did with reshade.

Why not it should you just need to find the folder - its harder than steam version but should work - its not right protected is it - take ownership of that entire MSFS folder

[CFIJose 5,485]

1 hour ago, Gerwil said:

I have the MS Store version of MSFS and I also could drop the files in the Flight Simulator folder 😊

This makes me wonder, am I the only one for whom the Flightsimulator.exe is no longer encrypted?

It happened when I reïnstalled the sim, MS Store told me to install via the Xbox app, the Xbox app asked me for a folder to install into, and voila: Everything there, unencrypted.

Where your folder located? Just checking to see if mine is different.

[CFIJose 5,485]

12 minutes ago, Richard Sennett said:

Why not it should you just need to find the folder - its harder than steam version but should work - its not right protected is it - take ownership of that entire MSFS folder

Already done that. I'll see if there's some other folder I don't know about.

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

4 minutes ago, CFIJose said:

Already done that. I'll see if there's some other folder I don't know about.

Windows store version:
C:\Users<YourUserName>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe

Steam version:
steam\steamapps\common

[CFIJose 5,485]

8 minutes ago, Richard Sennett said:

Windows store version:
C:\Users<YourUserName>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe

Steam version:
steam\steamapps\common

Again, it's not going to work because that's not the location of fs.exe. Hence the reshade hack.

This is the location of my FlightSimulator.exe.

C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.26.5.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

When you try to access the folder, even with permission, nothing can be added to the folder.

I could be wrong.

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

2 minutes ago, CFIJose said:

Again, it's not going to work because that's not the location of fs.exe. Hence the reshade hack.

This is the location of my FlightSimulator.exe.

C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.26.5.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

When you try to access the folder, even with permission, nothing can be added to the folder.

I could be wrong.

Well thats not good - glad I trashed windows store version 

[CFIJose 5,485]

I'd like to say that I wish I would have done this sooner. It makes a huge difference. Reshade still kicks word not allowed. The "finallight" preset is really nice.

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

11 minutes ago, CFIJose said:

I'd like to say that I wish I would have done this sooner. It makes a huge difference. Reshade still kicks word not allowed. The "finallight" preset is really nice.

Thanks for heads up - actually not hard to do it your self also 🙂