Mega Bezel Reflection Shader! - Feedback and Updates

[HyperspaceMadness]

Welcome to the forum @razaigon! Glad you are enjoying the Mega Bezel

@razaigon

Is there a recommended setting for 1080P monitors?

Hmm good question, the things that can sometimes suffer at 1080p is if you get moire distortions/artifacts on the screen when using curvature or possibly uneven scanlines when not using integer scale. Also the lcd shader can have difficulty at 1080p in top/bottom layout.

If you are getting the moire artifacts you can reduce the curvature.

For the uneven scanlines or lcd artifacts at non-integer scale this is really just a resolution limitation.

@razaigon

Does HSM Mega Bezel can show dramatic changes by resolutions too? If that is true, I will consider buying higher resolution monitor.

I definitely think it’s nicer on higher resolution (I regularly run it at both HD and 4K), this is partly because by its nature the Mega Bezel makes the screen area smaller on the monitor so the more pixels you can give the screen area the better, and any moire is reduced,it also gives you more flexibility with what masks in guest-dr-venom can look good. If you use any of @Duimon’s presets and art they really look fantastic at 4K.

One thing to keep in mind is the gpu requirements for 4k are about 4x what is needed for 2K. I have a Nvidia RTX2060 and I get about 90fps with the ADVANCED preset at 4K.

[razaigon]

Oh, The things that you mentioned is what I saw on crt-royale kurozumi shader.

Fortunately I didn’t find any problem with guest-dr-venom standard presets.(or just lucky so far?)

But Anyway the benefits of 4K seems obvious, so I’ll prepare 4k monitor and VGA.

And I’m already using Duimon’s presets. combination of HSM Mega Bezel and Duimon’s Overlay Is stunning!

[HyperspaceMadness]

@razaigon

Oh, The things that you mentioned is what I saw on crt-royale kurozumi shader.

Fortunately I didn’t find any problem with guest-dr-venom standard presets.(or just lucky so far?)

Yeah, Royale has the most problems with these issues because of how it is designed. It’s one of the reasons I decided to remove it from the Mega Bezel (as well as the difficulty maintaining it)

GUEST-DrVENOM has much fewer issues like this so it’s a great choice :).

[tdslaine]

Hi everyone - this shader pack is a BLAST! holy cow… i can put my 34kv now into the basement for other projects… any advice on how to set this beauty up for a LG cx9 4k tv? i see a lot of dotmatrix scanlines on the screenshots - couldnt find those in the settings…gotta dig deeper.

[HyperspaceMadness]

@tdslaine

any advice on how to set this beauty up for a LG cx9 4k tv?

Not sure there is anything particular, except make sure you are outputting 4K, otherwise you will get blurryness. You can also use the Glass preset if you are concerned about burn in on the sides.

@tdslaine

i see a lot of dotmatrix scanlines on the screenshots - couldnt find those in the settings…gotta dig deeper.

Not sure what you mean about dot matrix scanlines… Maybe you mean an LCD screen for handhelds like the GBA?

If so you just want the LCD preset which is in the Base_CRT_Presets folder

[HyperspaceMadness]

Hi all, I am looking at Guest’s new Guest-DrVenom advanced shader.

Let me know if you are interested in me updating the Guest-DrVenom in the Mega Bezel to this new version. Keep in mind that this would replace the version which is currently there.

You can like this post to let me know if you are interested in this.

[Uno]

Hi I really like your shaders but is it possible to just apply the background image and nothing else? Like instead of having black bars on each side I just want something that covers them and makes it all look nice? Disabling all of the CRT filters and just leave the games at 8x internal res with FXAA.

[Defrag]

Ohh I’d love to mess with this!

Also, and I know you hear it all too often, but thank you and the people working on this because it’s really something special. I came back after 2 years from when I’d begun building a little setup to play my old games, life got in the way and coming back to it all this week has been a breath of fresh air, and then some, finding this incredible Shader suite.

I actually have been putting it through it’s paces, trying to get as much as possible running via RetroArch, and right now, I’m up to my gamecube games, using the Dolphin core in RA. Something I’ve noticed with HSM and this core is that, it seem to be auto adjusting the aspect ratio quite a lot, with no clear way (least not for myself, I’m a bit green to all of this) to stop it. I think whatever it issue is, is also linked to some of the visual graphic glitches i’m seeing on screen, because when I turn off the HSM shader, I don’t get any of these issues on the RA Dolphin core.

Is this something you’ve experienced before? Trying to tick off things I can do to narrow down what I may have done to cause this myself, but appreciate any help/expertise from the good folks here.

[Duimon]

Are you using the plain shader or my presets?

Either way you can change the aspect in the shader parameters. For the Game Cube, since it is a higher resolution system you may get more moire. You can adjust the scanline direction multiple and/or turn on integer scaling for the vertical axis.

[HyperspaceMadness]

@Uno

Disabling all of the CRT filters and just leave the games at 8x internal res with FXAA.

Hi, so you can set the

[ CRT vs ORIGINAL A/B COMPARE ]

• Compare ON
• Splitscreen Position

To 1 and 100

This will give you just the raw pixels

[Defrag]

Hey, so I was using the n64 preset (as it actually happened with n64 games too) and when I tried a plain preset, the shaking stopped. I turned on the on screen info and it looks like it was the sample res constantly adjusting itself, creating a “shaking” feeling.

It isn’t shaking now on the plain shader presets (in the root folder of HSM shaders), however there’s still some artefacts appearing in game (Die Hard: Vengeance was my test for this) on screen, only when using the shader, not when running the game shader free.

[HyperspaceMadness]

@Defrag

Hey, so I was using the n64 preset (as it actually happened with n64 games too) and when I tried a plain preset, the shaking stopped. I turned on the on screen info and it looks like it was the sample res constantly adjusting itself, creating a “shaking” feeling.

Ah, so I think this is the crop black option which is on in the N64 preset. It’s meant to crop only black around the edges to avoid the letterboxing that happens on Mario 64 for example. If you change the cropping to not do this the problem will go away. You can also reduce the black threshold so it doesn’t trigger on stuff that isn’t absolutely black

@Defrag

however there’s still some artefacts appearing in game (Die Hard: Vengeance was my test for this) on screen, only when using the shader,

Can you post some screenshots of the artifacts you are seeing?

[Uno]

Sorry I’m new to this but where can I find this? I didn’t see anything similar on the shader options menu and I didn’t see that line on the file either.

Edit: nvm I found it thank you!!

[Defrag]

The crop black option was indeed the culprit! I’ve fixed the “shaking” now from that, thank you so much.

The visual glitch which only tends to appear when using HSM, I’ve not been able to catch a screenshot of, since it only happens during motion, so I recorded a tiny video, hope that’s OK, shows the shader on and the artefacting, then the shader off, with no artefacts. You can see it here.

[HyperspaceMadness]

@Defrag

The visual glitch which only tends to appear when using HSM, I’ve not been able to catch a screenshot of, since it only happens during motion, so I recorded a tiny video, hope that’s OK, shows the shader on and the artefacting, then the shader off, with no artefacts. You can see it here .

Thanks for the video, that really helps me!

I see the issue, this is one I haven’t seen before.

Try turning off the anti-flicker parameter, that’s my first guess at what might be causing it.

@Defrag

Also, and I know you hear it all too often, but thank you and the people working on this because it’s really something special.

Thanks! On the contrary, we can never hear this too often! It’s great to hear when this thing helps bring some joy

[Defrag]

The anti-flicker worked! Wonderful. I’ve n64 and GameCube up and running now, looking wonderful in the HSM presets ^^

Pretty much been able to get everything else running via RA, besides PCSX2 - it just seems to not run in RA, even with the right video render set: tried glcore and d3d11 both turn up failed to load content, and I believe I’ve the correct bios in place. They seem to run in the standalone PCSX2 just fine, though.

The reason I bring this up is, has anybody had success in combining ReShade and these Shaders? My thought would be, since I can’t get RA to run PS2 games atm, I can use PCSX2, with ReShade, and combine these shaders (I feel like I’m saying reshade, ???, profit here since I don’t know how difficult or impossible that may be) to get the same beautiful HSM output I’m getting for every other platform so far… is this doable?

[HyperspaceMadness]

@Defrag

The anti-flicker worked! Wonderful. I’ve n64 and GameCube up and running now, looking wonderful in the HSM presets ^^

Thanks for confirming this, I’ll probably turn off anti-flicker by default since it can create this kind of artifact when used in a 3D game.

@Defrag

Pretty much been able to get everything else running via RA, besides PCSX2 - it just seems to not run in RA, even with the right video render set: tried glcore and d3d11 both turn up failed to load content, and I believe I’ve the correct bios in place. They seem to run in the standalone PCSX2 just fine, though.

A number of people have gotten PCSX2 running, so it might be something with your setup. Try a fresh install of Retroarch just in case.

@Defrag

The reason I bring this up is, has anybody had success in combining ReShade and these Shaders? My thought would be, since I can’t get RA to run PS2 games atm, I can use PCSX2, with ReShade, and combine these shaders (I feel like I’m saying reshade, ???, profit here since I don’t know how difficult or impossible that may be) to get the same beautiful HSM output I’m getting for every other platform so far… is this doable?

I would recommend continuing to work on getting PXSX2 working in Retroarch.

Reshade is a whole new system, and the only way to get the Mega Bezel running in it would be to port the whole thing to Reshade which would be a huge amount of work, and certainly won’t be happening any time soon by me

@Defrag

Something I’ve noticed with HSM and this core is that, it seem to be auto adjusting the aspect ratio quite a lot, with no clear way (least not for myself, I’m a bit green to all of this) to stop it.

Hi I realized that I never answered this. if you are still getting the aspect ratio changing when it’s unexpected could you post what the debug text looks like so I can see what the resolution is? This will help me improve the auto aspect ratio.

To work around if the aspect ratio is wrong set your aspect ratio to explicit, or one of the predefined ratios instead of auto and it will stay stable.

[Defrag]

In the spirit of updating past my initial queries, I thought I would just drop this in.

I’ve been sitting for a while on how to get past that “Failed to load content” issue, and I actually just now, went into the cores folder, removed the pcsx2 dll (and a .dll.zip of the same file name? Not sure what that is) dropped this: https://github.com/aliaspider/pcsx2/releases/tag/v0.1-libretro in, ran RA and ran a PS2 ISO. And it just worked. Loaded the HSM shader without a hitch, and I’m chasing apes with a net who have flashing red lights on their noggins, I couldn’t be happier

Hoping this may help anybody else who is going through the RA PS2 journey and maybe hasn’t quite found the right away about it. I followed all the usual guides (using the binary build of pcsx2 etc, getting the right bios) but I’m just happy to confirm I’ve finally got this working with this little process above.

The aspect ratio thing was the black cropping issue actually, I should have really clarified that it was the same issue I’d just explained it differently on two occasions, sorry! Consider all my concerns quashed!

[soqueroeu]

@HyperspaceMadness

Hi all, I am looking at Guest’s new Guest-DrVenom advanced shader.

Let me know if you are interested in me updating the Guest-DrVenom in the Mega Bezel to this new version. Keep in mind that this would replace the version which is currently there.

You can like this post to let me know if you are interested in this.

Hey @HyperspaceMadness, can you tell if there is any really significant difference in performance and features with this new shader? Visually I didn’t see any major changes.

[HyperspaceMadness]

Performance wise I am getting on RTX 2060 at 4K with the ADVANCED preset:

• Old Guest-DrVenom ------------------------ 80fps
• New Guest-DrVenom-Advanced ----- 76fps

Feature wise it’s definitely an improvement, the interlacing options are better. There is also a slight blur that you can add which does a nice softening on the scalefx stuff or high res input.

It has deconvergance & noise

Afterglow has been corrected to work with brightened black so you can get scanlines on black and afterglow

The Glow should be more consistent than past versions, there are also some scanline pixel smoothing stuff which is better as well. Better organization & control of the Glow, Bloom, Brightness

It will have the color options put back in (Color Space, Color Profile, Temperature, Saturation & LUTs (This stuff is obviously in Grade, but this is much more accessable since it’s much fewer parameters, and Grade is really for the tweakers)