Do your eyes feel strained from playing CoH3?
Can you not distinguish units from the terrain?
Does it look to you like the game is using some kind of filter?
Then this might be the guide for you. Reshade is a post-processing injector that allows you to change the way the game looks. I've personally used it for CoH2 for years and now updated it for CoH3, taking into account feedback of people who used it.
Small preview
Without Reshade (medium settings):
With Reshade (medium settings):
Installing the configuration
1. Install my configuration here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11TflkcEfwNL89e7p93KIVTTnZaYlFbCZ/view?usp=share_link
2. Ideally you want to put it in your CoH3 installation folder, but any folder where you won't accidentally delete it is fine.
Installing reshade
Make sure CoH3 is closed during the installation.
3. Go to https://reshade.me and download the latest version without add-on support.
4. After downloading, run the setup.
5. Select the CoH3 executable, it should automatically show up as RelicCoH3.exe, NEXT.
6. Select DirectX 10/11/12 as API, NEXT.
7. Select my configuration when it asks, this will automatically make it select all required effects, you can then spam NEXT until the installation is done.
Reshade should now be working for CoH3, if you run CoH3, you should see text in the top left appearing about it loading effects, if you want you can leave it here. To make the text disappear after first install Reshade, you want open the in-game Reshade menu by clicking the default key "home".
Optional reshade settings
There's two things you probably want to do still after installing in the Reshade menu. The first is enabling performance mode, which disables configuration so reshade runs more efficiently. The second is setting a toggle key, so you can see how the game looks with and without Reshade.
when opening the Reshade menu, make sure to skip the tutorial and then keep clicking continue until you can click finish.
A. Performance mode - Open the reshade menu and check the toggle for performance mode in the bottom right.
B. Reshade toggle key - Go the the settings tab on top, there you will see "effect toggle key", set it to a key you don't use, like \ or end.
Troubleshooting
If you don't see RelicCoH3.exe when running the Reshade installation, you either have to wait a while until the setup can find it, or manually browse for it by going to your CoH3 installation folder. (By default: Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Company of Heroes 3\RelicCoH3.exe)
If you don't have a "home" key on your keyboard, I would advice googling how to change this in the Reshade settings file. You can find this file where you installed CoH3.
If you did something wrong during the installation, you can rerun the setup and select modify. You can then do the same steps again.
