Belle Epoque Rose - Reshade Preset

Very lightweight, performance-friendly Reshade presets. Bringing more gorgeous and poetic light and shadow effects. Suitable for screenshots and standard gaming experience.

BELLE EPOQUE ROSE - Reshade Default

🎨 Do you feel as if the green spell effect cast by Skyrim Magic Academy on your eyes has not dissipated?

🌧️ Can you smell the tea brewed by the rain falling from the dark Scottish sky?

🎬 That “you-know-who” guy hasn’t been born yet in this inherited world, but you’re breathing heavy air, like in the second half of the movie, aren’t you?

💖 Of course, that’s our favorite feeling. But...yeah :-)

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✨ Default Features

This Reshade preset is **very lightweight and performance friendly**.

It makes the game world look blasphemously gorgeous and poetic. Its sweetness...is more like the nectar in the poems of the romantic poet John Keats.

• **🌳 The sun ** shines brighter through the trees.
• **🌸 Flowers** are more colorful.
• **👕 Fabric** and **skin** appear clear and soft.
• **👥 People talking side by side** seem to love each other.

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🎮 Visual experience optimization

Even if you want to use a beautiful high-contrast preset, your gaming experience will suffer if the shadows are too dark to see.

This preset **minimizes this visual inconvenience** and is **highly recommended** for both **screenshots** and **actual play**.

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📥 Installation Guide

• **Prepare Folder**: Create a new folder with any name to store the preset file (.ini).
• *Example path*: `:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Hogwarts Legacy\Phoenix\Binaries\Win64\reshade-presets`

• **Install module file**: Download this module and put **`BelleEpoqueRose.ini`** into the folder created in step 1.

• **Download and run Reshade**: Go to the Reshade official website to download and run the latest version of Reshade (**make sure to check for full add-on support**).

• **Select Game Program**: Select `HogwardLegacy.exe`.
• *Tip*: If there are two programs and you are not sure which one to choose, choose the one with the longer path**.
• *Example path*: `:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Hogwarts Legacy\Phoenix\Binaries\Win64\HogwardLegacy.exe`

• **Select Rendering API**: Click **`Direct3D 10/11/12`**.

• **Select Default Folder**: Browse to the folder created in step 1 and select the **`.ini` file** in it.

• **Select effects package**: In the effects package selection interface, please make sure to check the following three items:
• ✅ **Standard effects**
• ✅ **SweetFX**
• ✅ **AstrayFX**

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⚙️ Shaders used by default

This preset uses the following shader files:

• `Clarity.fx`
• `FakeHDR.fx`
• `LumaSharpen.fx`
• `Sepia.fx`
• `Tonemap.fx`
• `Vibrance.fx`
• `Vignette.fx`

**⚠️ IMPORTANT**: Some Reshade versions may not include the `Clarity.fx`** file when installed.

Please check your shader folder:

`:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Hogwarts Legacy\Phoenix\Binaries\Win64\reshade-shaders\Shaders`

If `Clarity.fx` does not exist, please press the **`Home`** key in the game to call out the Reshade overlay menu, and use the "**Add Effect**" option to download and install the FX file from the Internet to the `Shaders` folder.

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🚀 Usage and tips

After the installation is complete, you will see a loading prompt for Reshade in the upper left corner of the screen when you start the game.

By default, you can bring up the Reshade overlay menu by pressing the **`Home`** key on your keyboard, browse to and select your loaded `.ini` preset file from the top menu bar.

*💡 Personal settings advice (provided by the author): For performance, I turned off ray tracing and set key image quality options except for vegetation, fog, and special effects to "Ultra High". *