How to Install ReShade/SweetFX for ArmA 3 on Windows 10/8.1/7

An easy to follow, concise guide to install ReShade for use with ArmA 3.

DOWNLOAD LINKS

ReShade: http://reshade.me/sweetfx#download
Real Light V5 [created by Solano]: www.videopilot.link/rl/v5/Real_Light_V5_package.zip

STEP 1: DOWNLOAD + EXTRACT

Download both .zip files linked in the dowload section and extract them into their seperate folders.

STEP 2: INSTALL RESHADE

1. Open the extracted ReShade folder.
   
2. Run "ReShade Setup" as administrator.
   
3. Click select game.
   
4. Navigate to your ArmA 3 directory and select "arma3.exe" and click "Open".
   
5. In the ReShade installer, it should read "Success!" in the top left.

STEP 3: INSTALL REAL LIGHT V5

1. In the "Real_Light_V5_Package.zip" extracted folder select the following files:
   
   
   • "KeyCodes.txt"
     
   • "Reshade.fx"
     
   • "Reshade_settings.txt"
     
   • "Sweet.fx"
     
   • "SweetFX readme.txt"
     
   • "SweetFX_preset.txt"
     
   • "SweetFX_settings.txt"
   
   
2. Copy and replace the selected files into your ArmA 3 root directory.

STEP 4: ENJOY!

Press Scroll Lock to Enable/Disable in game

[「Sk™」]

Arma crashes with reshade

[six_peas]

and move the dxgi.dll as Deadpool states below, the rest of the stuff I dumped

[six_peas]

ReShade setup_4.5.3 is standalone NO extract it is .exe

[six_peas]

from your link above, I get my previous posting

[six_peas]

ReShade + SweetFX is deprecated. Please use standalone ReShade instead.
Version 4.5.3 was released on Jan 12th 2020. (this is stand alone)

[adam,.... (CANNOT FLY LOACH)]

The issue is that depth doesn't work on Arma 3... I've got a raytracing mod but I cant use it since it needs depth

[gl1tch2gh0st]

If: "Unable to copy file ReShade32.dll" — try:

It is no longer relevant, but:

Just try running "ReShade Setup.exe" (and only this single file) from any other folder (i.e., not from the game folder directly) — so everything began to work

* "ReShade Setup.exe" — at next the program versions are a separate and independent program and the only file, so it’s probably there too — so it will work correctly from any place (and not just from the game folder)

[Deadpool]

Copy the dxgi.dll from the real light folder into the arma main

[Hamlet Du Fromage]

Hi Leo,
First i'd like to thank you :) but i have some troubles.. Even if i do the install proper the way you do it, i still got this message:


reshade 2.0.3.1120
loading failed...
F:/steamlibrary/steamapps/common/arma3/Reshade.fx (3591,10) : processor error redefinition of 'Fxaatexttop'
F:/steamlibrary/steamapps/common/arma3/Reshade.fx (3592,10) : processor error redefinition of 'Fxaatextoff'
F:/steamlibrary/steamapps/common/arma3/Reshade.fx (3593,10) : processor error redefinition of 'FXAA_QUALITY__SUBPIX_TRIM_SCALE'

i can launch the game but still, no Fx to be activated nor disactivated..
Hope you'll respond me or a dear fellow who know the answer.
Take care :*

[FrOsTbIt3]

I get a status access violation error