Guild Wars 2

I started using SweetFX to make GW2 look more vibrant and colorful. It doesn’t give any advantage gameplay wise, It just enchances the colors and sharpness the picture.
SweetFX GW2 settings

Does Arenanet allow using this?

There have been dev posts about this and the only “real” info they have given is that they cannot take a stance on this. But considering that its about as harmless as nvidia inspector and other such tools, I personally assume that its safe and will keep on using it. There is already a big thread on this on the general section though, with dev posts included.

There was a post made by a german rep a few weeks ago, that says he strongly advises against it as it breaks the terms of the game.

However, as Blackwolfe pointed out, it doesnt actually hook into the game. It hooks into directx and pretty much redirects the shaders etc through sweetfx’s files. It works with almost any directx game that has a 32 bit executable.

The only reason i can think of for the rep to say this, is either he misunderstands what the files do, or Arenanet misunderstand it and are simply blanket covering it.

I dont think the german rep had any clue whatsoever honestly.

Blackwolfe.5649:

I dont think the german rep had any clue whatsoever honestly.

Maybe not, but its the official reply that we need to take as fact.

Considering that its not the only official reply we have gotten, taking that one reply that stands out from the others. No, we dont need to take it as a fact.

Use at your own risk is the safest answer. Reading their replies (they won’t answer your question directly), it sounds safe. But it will be their discretion if they choose, they would also have to program on their end how to figure this out.

In my case I do use it, if I get banned, first I’ll try to get that turned, but if not, it then becomes simple consumer steps, I wouldn’t buy anymore anet products again. No real hate just what would have to be done. Right or wrong.

For example, I’m done with Blizzard games, I played WoW for a while, but years after I was long gone I would continue to get emails that my account has been hacked and has suspicious activities. My first thing is and how are they playing since my credit card surely isn’t being pinged a monthly? But when rubber hit the road, I went to try out the Diablo 3 beta, I went to log in, my account was suspended as the emails suggested. I went to clear it, sounded like it would be a week to clear it up from their end. I told them don’t bother, they don’t understand this is a GAME to me. I’m not going to jump through hoops like this for a game and their heavy handed policies will not just affect WoW for me, but everything else they offer. Now they don’t care, the person I’m speaking to is not affected at all and working on a contractors wage as Blizzard farms out support to the lowest bidder. But this is just they way I am, if it were a car wreck and I’m working with insurance that is when I’m hoop jumping. But a game? No, I’m not going to deal with hours of my time on something that had absolute zero to do with me, I’ve been gone for years, I have to monitor my dead account from future hacks? Please child.

So you have to know how conservative you are about your account I reckon.