CRT Emudriver - Non emulated compatible games

[Rion]

Street Fighter X Tekken

Street Fighter X Tekken 640x480@60

[alex2005]

Anyone had success with Wild Guns Reloaded? (426x240@60) (112%) on a 15khz monitor?

I've been trying all possible resolutions I could, but it will never display correctly (the image is centered but it has big black borders, so not a "real" fullscreen)
Tried also to append these parameters at the end of the command line, but no luck so far

-screen-fullscreen 0 -popupwindow
-screen-fullscreen 1 -window-mode exclusive

Thanks in advance

[phasermaniac]

Yes, It's 426x270.
Windowed at 480x270 and set Ratio and scale to 100%.
Then you can just create an ahk to create a false fullscreen and move to -27,0

[psakhis]

I don't know why, i added -forced3d9 on Wild Guns too.

[alex2005]

Thank you guys for the hints. Apparently I cannot change the resolution in game, no matter windowed or fullscreen. Its set to something like 1520x720 (not sure about the first digits, they're unreadable
Would you mind sharing the switchres call for this game, or the ahk used?
Normally I do like this:
switchres.exe -s 640x480x60 -f 426 480 60 -l "WildGunsReloaded.exe"
Thanks a lot!

[psakhis]

You can try with shortcut but always with same resolution, on shorcut you can set params.

switchres.exe -s 426x240x60 -f 426 240 60 -l "WildGunsReloaded.lnk"

[alex2005]

thats strange. all i get with the command is:

Switchres: could not find a video mode that meets your specs

Anything I need to tweak in the switchres.ini file? adding the user modes ini as well, just in case it helps.

[psakhis]

Try with allow_hardware_refresh    1

[psakhis]

Vengeful-Guardian-Moonrider 428x240

[alex2005]

Try with allow_hardware_refresh    1

thank you! one step forward. Now it switches the resolution, but the borders are still there, doesnt fill the screen completely
Switchres: Modeline "426x480_60i 15.690000KHz 60.000000Hz" 8.676570 426 443 484 553 480 483 489 523 interlace  -hsync -vsync

[psakhis]

Try with allow_hardware_refresh    1

thank you! one step forward. Now it switches the resolution, but the borders are still there, doesnt fill the screen completely
Switchres: Modeline "426x480_60i 15.690000KHz 60.000000Hz" 8.676570 426 443 484 553 480 483 489 523 interlace  -hsync -vsync

Why do you set interlaced resolution?
Check register, probably is wrong, HKCU -> Software -> NatsumeAtari and check resolution here

[alex2005]

Try with allow_hardware_refresh    1

thank you! one step forward. Now it switches the resolution, but the borders are still there, doesnt fill the screen completely
Switchres: Modeline "426x480_60i 15.690000KHz 60.000000Hz" 8.676570 426 443 484 553 480 483 489 523 interlace  -hsync -vsync

Why do you set interlaced resolution?
Check register, probably is wrong, HKCU -> Software -> NatsumeAtari and check resolution here

Thank you psakhis! The register settings were the issue. Once I set there the right resolution, it worked! This was driving me a bit crazy  thanks so much! And I took the chance also to remove some of these interlaced resolutions that I was no longer using

[CRTFTW]

Vengeful-Guardian-Moonrider

Ugh, I just picked this game up on steam, and it only works with DX12 cards!

On my HD 5450 it gave me an error saying my GPU doesn't support the right feature level or something, even though the game is supposed to run in DX11.

Can you guys drop in and make a (friendly) comment on the "error 69" thread in the "technical support" section on the steam forums? I really don't think there's a reason any 240p 2D game needs DX12 features. I hope they can fix this.

[Rion]

Vengeful-Guardian-Moonrider

Ugh, I just picked this game up on steam, and it only works with DX12 cards!

On my HD 5450 it gave me an error saying my GPU doesn't support the right feature level or something, even though the game is supposed to run in DX11.

Can you guys drop in and make a (friendly) comment on the "error 69" thread in the "technical support" section on the steam forums? I really don't think there's a reason any 240p 2D game needs DX12 features. I hope they can fix this.

That won't happen anytime soon if ever

The question would more be why on earth are you using such an old card? I mean any cheap R9 would do and then you would have at least DX12 support and Vulcan.

[CRTFTW]

The question would more be why on earth are you using such an old card? I mean any cheap R9 would do and then you would have at least DX12 support and Vulcan.

Huh? Isn't this forum full of people using older low power cards like the HD 5450?

This GPU has handled everything I've thrown at it. Whether it's a 2D game on Steam, GroovyMAME, Retroarch, whatever.

This is the first game I can't play, and it's only because the game engine is configured (likey misconfigured) to look for the DX12 feature level

It's a great looking game, but at the end of the day, it's just pixel art. They could have designed this on DX9 no problem.

[psakhis]

Mmmmm...weird...

I'm playing on a W7 (not DX12). Can you test with compatibility W7?

[CRTFTW]

Mmmmm...weird...

I'm playing on a W7 (not DX12). Can you test with compatibility W7?

Well.... I think I found my answer when I went into the folder to do that.

It has files with "vulkan" in the filename.

Namely vk_swiftshader.dll and vulkan-1.dll

So even though the game runs in DX11, it must be running some of its graphics with Vulkan and then outputting to DX11's frame buffer, or something like that.

Maybe just for the 3D levels? Digital Foundry mentioned these levels are done with a different engine entirely: 

I guess I'm screwed with this one. Doubt that's something the programmer is interested in modifying for likely an incredibly small number of users who are on cards older than 400-series Nvidia or HD 6000-series AMD

[PTSamurai]

Has anyone messed around with the demo for Grim Guardians yet? I forgot it was launching 2 weeks from now and it's by Inti Creates so I'm hoping it can do 240p.

[psakhis]

Probably not. Seems >= 480p.

[DukyNuky567]

Has anyone messed around with the demo for Grim Guardians yet? I forgot it was launching 2 weeks from now and it's by Inti Creates so I'm hoping it can do 240p.

I actually did, for the most part it works with 400*240 @60hz, but the text isn't readable at all and cutscenes look really bad due to the low resolution.
I wonder if anyone could make a patch to change the text in the game.
You could also use English dub to avoid reading the text.
I've also tried Gunvolt 1 and 2, they also worked fine with 400*240 @60hz and the text this time is readable, because the game was made for a handheld device.
I don't know why no one has added them before to the list.

[CRTFTW]

I actually did, for the most part it works with 400*240 @60hz,

I'm guessing that's not the right resolution, based on your screenshots. They look a bit blurry, and those grey patterns on the wall don't look symmetrical (I'm guessing they're supposed to be symmetrical).

The easiest way to find out a pixel art game's native resolution is to run it in windowed 1x mode and inject Special K. Special K's UI will tell you the window (and thus the game's) resolution

Also, I have Azure Striker Gunvolt 1, and I noticed it has some sort of background pattern when it letterboxes. And I found the only way to get rid of that is to run it at 400x224. So for that game at least, native res is 400x224. Later games probably change that. Like none of the Blaster Master games run at the same resolution

[Rion]

Vernal Edge

Got the resolution by using Special-K in 1x window mode. Thanks @CRTFTW

GOG
Vernal Edge

Steam
Vernal Edge

480x270

Edit corrections from psakhis.
480x240 in-game