Hello! I think I’m misunderstanding how to configure the resolution for the filters. When I put the resolution pcsx2 runs the game at under Resolution_X and Resolution_Y for the preshader and CRT Guest Advanced, the image appears blurry. I would send a screenshot, but the image actually looks fine when I use the snipping tool
I’m unsure what happened but I used to be able to set Resolution X/Y at the top of the list of settings then set Resolution_X/Y at the bottom but the Resolution X/Y is just gone now. Setting just the setting at the bottom makes the image dance up and down. The setting is also gone in previous set ups, what kind of dumb mistake I’ve done?
Some games use an unusual native resolution and then ‘center’ their output, causing every pixel to be ‘halfway’ offset vertically. Crosscode is one of those games.
This means no matter if we use the correct native resolution of the game, it ends up looking vertically fuzzy because every scanline is halfway between two pixels. I’ve seen positioning issues in some other games that cause the CRT filters to not render correctly.
One fix would be to add an “Offset” value we can use, similar to what CRTGeomMOD does in GShade. So we input the resolution values, and then pick an offset if the scanlines need to start somewhere other than 0. So that we can line them up correctly.
It’s especially annoying on 1920x1200 screens (16:10), where I already have to use a 16:10 version of the resolution value.
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Hi, thanks for porting this to ReShade
But why crt mask in ReShade is not the same as Retroarch? For example shadowMask=7.000000 in ReShade == shadowMask=6.000000 in retrorach, it’s confusing
I wonder if there are another option like this that I missed and messed up me preset
Updated the shaders to the latest (crt-guest-advanced-2024-03-27-release1) version!
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Just set Interlacing mode to 4 or 5 to fix the up and down flickering. Other then that the Resolution settings should work the same as the old version.
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This is something I myself have wanted for this shader (an option for Even/Odd scanlines). You should msg @guest.r for this feature, as he’s the original creator of these shaders and I only just ported them to ReShade.
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ReShade doesn’t like negative values for some settings and breaks. That’s why Shadow Mask was changed from (-1 to 13) in RetroArch to (0 to 14) in ReShade.
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Hey i really like the reshade, but i’m running into an issue with it. I’m running Xenogears through Duckstation with the shaders after following this guide here
At first the game seems to be running well but certain moments or effects (i think?) seem to cause a white screen that can only be solved by quitting and resetting the game or deleting the shaders, the game is still running, it’s not a crash but the screen is pure white. I’m only using the two shaders from the vid but any idea on what might be causing it and if it’s fixable, i love how these shaders look.
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Can you post the error logs here? Maybe then I will be able to help you.
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Here’s a link to the duckstation log, i would’ve posted it directly or a set of screenshots but I’m a new user and it won’t let me post more then 1 image at a time. [https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZwji9Zymtt1B0zsN0dGLTl9xInefLAaMFy]
I was messing around with it yesterday to test it and it’s not just Xenogears but other games, Crash Bandicoot 2 had a consistent white screen near the end of the first cutscene of the game. I assume it’s a steamdeck or linux issue as testing it on PC didn’t cause any problems. I did also notice that taking duckstation out of full screen mode seemed to not trigger the white screen, during the crash 2 intro at-least, I’ve not been able to test that with Xenogears yet. thanks for the help!.
There’s nothing in the log about the shaders. Maybe try OpenGL instead of Vulkan and see if that helps.
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Apologies if this use case is out of your wheelhouse, if it is and there’s nothing you can do I entirely understand. But CRT-Guest-Advanced-NTSC is by far my favorite shader to use in Retroarch on the Steam Deck. But some emulators like PS2 don’t have a functioning Retroarch core, meaning you have to use reshade shaders system wide instead. When I try to use any of these shaders, my screen becomes a massive blurry mess. Screenshots don’t work with the system wide shaders, so here’s a phone pic instead with the CRT-Guest-NTSC shader active. But the others look functionally the same. Any help on what the issue could be?
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You just need to change the resolution settings (labled Resolution_X and Resolution_Y) in the ReShade menu under Preprocessor Definitions.
EXAMPLE -
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Been testing it and this seems to have fixed it, thank you very much!.
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Hello, for some reason the shader at the standard 320x240 resolution (or any standard resolution) doesn’t seem to work correctly unless I set the horizontal resolution to something like 1280, which seems to mess up some effects like blurring. Any idea why this is happening?
- Retroarch NTSC default settings
- Reshade NTSC default settings (ares emulator, had to snip tool for file size but the important part is visible)
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What do you mean by “standard resolution” ? Have you tried 256 x 224 or 512 x 224 for SNES?
Also, have you read this?
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Thanks for the tip, 224 doesn’t seem to work properly either with or without integer scaling so I just stuck with 240. 256 looks even more broken and 512 looks better but still off. (Before you ask why I don’t just use retroarch, I just like using standalone emulators more)
- 256
- 512
I have a question, I’ve been playing the kingdom hearts steam ports with guest ntsc, is it better to render the game at my native screen res and set resolutionX/Y to a lower multiple res (1440p - > 360p) or is it better to just run the game at the lowest possible res and using the same values in resX/Y? Tysm
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