Alright so, for anyone who doesnât actually know about this because it was a few years ago now: the person who made/maintains the official Gshade is a petulant toddler who previously placed malware within a Gshade update (which anyone who uses it knows, if you want your Gshade to work again it HAS TO BE updated).
If youâre going to use Gshade instead of Reshade, use a fork that isnât the official one â but frankly, Iâd STRONGLY suggest Reshade instead, give its open source nature and the fact you can ignore updates for literally ever if you want and itâll still function perfectly.
For a quick summary of what happened: Gshade was always infamous for having absurd amounts of updates, and as they became more excessive people started to complain about having to update almost every damn day. Someone got fed up and created a fork that would bypass the âyou must update to use itâ bullshit. The catalyst was the petulant child literally dropping a couple ACTUALLY EMPTY updates just to piss people off further because of the complaints about the excessive updates. Just for the extra context of âhe very much did bullshit like this even before the malware bombâ.
This turned into an arms race between him and the person maintaining the version that gave updates the middle finger, which eventually ended in him placing code that would âdetect if someone was using a third-party non-official Gshadeâ and forcibly shut down their entire PC. Not the program (which still would have been bad, mind you, but at least SOMEWHAT more reasonable), but your entire fucking PC. Anyone whose dealt with things that âdetect third party softwareâ KNOWS that this shit always has false positives from some other ENTIRELY unrelated programs, and thatâs exactly what happened.
The devâs response to this was basically quadrupling down, with one quote from them being pretty much âI could have done something actually harmful, but I didnât!â (spoiler: forcibly shutting down a PC is harmful if youâre unlucky â thatâs why âhold power button to force shutdownâ is a last resort, because youâre basically spinning a roulette wheel). So, âIâll fuckinâ do it again!â level of response to the concerns, basically.
Thereâs more bits to the story, but thatâs the gist of it. Given the price of PC parts and PCs in general right now, unless youâre willing to risk that potential $2k on a replacement rig if baby has a tantrum again, I suggest folks ditch Gshade in favor of Reshade. The 'convenience' is not worth it.
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