Hey guys, I use ReShade on DBD (since I don’t have Nvidia filters) and I have seen discussion of it used on WoW for some people to make their games look prettier. I want to use ReShade on WoW also so I can make the game look how I would like as well but I haven’t found any solid evidence on if using filters for WoW is bannable or not. Quite obviously I don’t wanna be banned so if anyone knows it would be really appreciated.
You won’t get an official answer. However anything which sits in the rendering pipeline - like ReShade - can potentially get you banned due to the possibilities it opens up.
Whether it will or not? Yeah, much as I’d like to say it’s unlikely (I ran an SMAA injector for years without issue) there’s always a chance.
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IDK but what about nvidia filters? does that count as offense?
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Again, potentially yes. Just whether it gets actioned or not is the variance - it only takes one malicious user to bring it crashing down for everyone else.
Years ago I had a Radeon HD 2900XT. It included a number of graphic filters which ranged from curious antialiasing techniques (“tent” antialiasing which considered the pixels around the one affected) to artistic filters like making everything look like ASCII art. It also had a filter which would render in wireframe instead, which also happened to turn off GPU-based occlusion culling and let me see through walls in many titles of the day (including WoW).
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necro’ing this because this is just false. Nvidia filters are 100% safe.
And you would have zero proof of that, being that you’re commenting as an outsider.
Again, it should be safe. It should almost be undetectable, too, being that it occurs at or near the driver level. That doesn’t mean it is, though. It’s extremely unlikely to cause any issues, but I’ve been playing this game long enough to see an entire cohort banned because they used WINE just to play the game - zero malicious intent on their part (and most of them - at least those that requested it - were subsequently unbanned), but the method of operation could be used maliciously.
Official answer: Grey area / no stance.
ReShade isn’t whitelisted, but you can find screenshots of people demonstrating and using it.
I’ve never seen a single report, even anecdotal, of someone being banned for it. It’s been used by some for years and years.
As long as it doesn’t trigger Warden it should be considered okay, but due to the lack of an official word, this perspective is regarded as dubious. Use at your own risk.
Yeah. If NVidia filters were bannable, then things like Auto-HDR would have to be bannable also. It just wouldn’t make sense.
That had nothing to do with filters and everything to do with the built-in anti-cheat software not working correctly when installed into an OS environment in which it was not intended to operate.