
Here you can setup a couple of global settings for your profile, e.g. Or you can just work with that Default profile by left-clicking it.Īfter selecting the profile of your choice (or default), to the left of the "Profiles" tab a new "Profile Settings" will appear. You can work with multiple profiles if you want, in that case click the "+" icon above "Default" and create a new profile.

You will start in the "Assistant Settings" by default thereafter. On the first start, the EULA will appear in an editor window, you can just close it after reading and understanding the contents:

Run "ReShade Assistant.exe" in your IL-2 game folder.

All of these post-processing graphics features are implemented through a free, open-source tool called ReShade.

Gamers equipped with powerful systems can make games even better-looking by improving lighting and color correction while adding advanced graphics features such as ambient occlusion, depth of field, shadows, HDR, and advanced motion blur. Some of these techniques involve injecting post-process effects such as image sharpening to run games at a lower resolution with resolution scaling while not sacrificing image quality. The capability to either tweak graphics settings or just add more powerful hardware for better visuals as well as framerates provides gamers with varying hardware specifications the complete flexibility to have a great gaming experience. From significantly better graphical fidelity to a whole rabbit hole of modding and customizationm PC gaming gives you a degree of customizability over your video game experience that would be hard to even imagine on consoles. But that’s a small price to pay for the sheer control you can exercise over your gaming experience. PC gaming is an expensive and complicated beast for the most part.
