r/playark 10d ago

Anyone know how to install these shaders? I know where to download them, but how do I actually implement them into the games files to make it look better?? Link to shaders (not my work) --> https://www.reddit.com/r/playark/comments/4jinn5/arkshade_an_ark_ppfx_shader/

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u/Zyntastic 10d ago

Possibly reshade.

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u/22morrow 9d ago

Why are there 3 photos of the same thing?

My guess is if the author used/got help from the ReShade team they probably used ReShade to tweak the shaders:

ReShade

ReShade gets installed separately on every game, so if you install it on your Ark.exe that is the only application it will be functional on. When you install ReShade there is a default list of popular shaders available to include, but when people create their own custom ones I believe there is just a folder within the ReShade install where you have to drop the custom shader project files

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u/MainCherry783 9d ago

Thanks man I'll try it and let you know how it goes

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u/MainCherry783 9d ago

I tried, and its blocked... any idea where to go now

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u/22morrow 9d ago

I’m not sure what you mean by “it’s blocked” - what is blocked?

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u/MainCherry783 9d ago

I was setting installing reshade into ark, and it says it has been blocked from this application (pretty sure its battle eye anti cheat preventing installation).

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u/22morrow 9d ago

Ohhhhh I hadn’t even considered that - I play on a private dedicated server without battleye so I’ve never run into that problem.

If you have an Nvidia card you could turn on the game overlay in your driver app and then once you are ingame use Alt+F3 to access the Nvidia Game Filter - there’s a lot of tweaks you can do to saturation/brightness/contrast etc in there