New sonkun crt guest advanced hd presets thread

[sonkun]

@RetroGames4K

For me looks very good, looks like Scart RGB to me

That’s exactly what I’m aiming for, for it to basically look like “RGB” but still have blended dithering effects, I feel im very close to that now. I believe it’s almost at the point where you can put composite and RGB side by side and not see much of a difference depending on the game.

I have read comments of people prefering Svideo presets but they don’t blend vertical line dithering like composite do, they do have a slight edge on composite colors wise though, they’re as vibrant as the RGB ones but composite is now closing that gap with vibrant colors as well with the new “edge colors” setting.

[Superdonkeyjack]

Sonkun, question. Why does the signal type have either Composite or RG in the shader parameters settings?

[sonkun]

I was confused on what you meant until I realized you’re talking about the ntsc-adaptive shader itself. That’s the way Maister labeled them I believe.

[Superdonkeyjack]

Lmao, oh , ok. I thought it was based on Blarrgg’s NTSC for some reason.

[sonkun]

Oh no not at all, two different things lol.

[Superdonkeyjack]

Sorry about that. This NTSC/CRT Shaders are still new to me to the point I can’t play games pre-2005 without them. I took a break from the PS2 Emulator due to not being able to use your shaders on there.

[sonkun]

That’s how you know it’s real lol, I don’t think I can game without them either. I’ve never tried it but aren’t there now ways you can use Libretro shaders on stand alone emulators now? I think one is Shader Glass?

[Superdonkeyjack]

Shader glass? It’s that on the nightly build? Because I’m using reshade but it’s annoying that I can’t read my retroachievements when I unlock them.

[sonkun]

Or I think it’s called Windowcast which is a RetroArch core. Shader Glass is something different.

[Superdonkeyjack]

Windowcast can play something PCSX2, Dolphin and RCPS3?

[sonkun]

I believe so. I never used it but I think it allows you to run an application through RetroArch so that you can then use shaders on it.

[JosepMC]

The PS2 core is getting into pretty good shape with the work being done so far. paraLLEl-GS is being implemented into it and the results are extremely promising.

@sonkun Sorry to say I’m not satisfied with how the current presets look on my end. The improvement for composite is great, but the current “smoothed” look makes everything look more plastic-like and I preferred how things blended together better back in October or so. Also S-Video now looks less sharp than Composite.

[sonkun]

You don’t hold any punches and I love that lol. Yeah it’s true I’m going with a new look currently as far as sharpness due to me rearranging some glow and sharpness settings. For me personally I currently like this new look so I plan to let it run its course for a bit unless I decide to make some changes.

But for you if you want that previous blurrier look you can try this, there’s two options, one of them is what I’ve been seeing guest.r recommend for users to crank up:

That will blur the image as much as you need. The second option is going back to my previous settings which I believe were:

Default that “Horizontal Blur Sigma” setting back to 50 and the setting right under it “Subtractive Sharpness” bring that down to 0.00 and it should look like how it use to. For me personally I was getting tired of that look especially on arcade games.

Also don’t know if you were around at the time but I did put out a quick low key “v2” pack where I changed up the glow settings on the svideo and rgb presets. I noticed svideo and rgb were looking a little too sharp so I switched over to the same glow settings I’m using on the composite presets.

If I were to add more blur the highest I would go with that “Internal Resolution” setting is 2.00 or .20 with the “Horizontal Blur Sigma”.

[klazo]

Hi! I ended up trying to use these shaders but for some reason the colors are just… very wrong, as can be clearly seen with the provided screenshot. I tried running it with vulkan, glcore, and swapping between presets (AV styles, resolutions, curved/flat, regions), but they all gave this weird color effect.

For context, I’m running on a 4K screen, with the Steam version of Retroarch, running on Arch Linux.

[sonkun]

Hello klazo and welcome to the forum. It’s unfortunate that your first post is you running into a issue with my presets but let’s see if we can get to the bottom of things. To start I’m assuming you’re using my latest pack and that you’ve downloaded guest.r’s latest shader update and manually installed it. That update is not yet available to download through RetroArch itself and my pack requires that very guest.r shader update.

From there we’ll see which setting might be causing your issue.

[Superdonkeyjack]

Which preset did you use?

[sonkun]

I think he tried them all. The key word I noticed was “Linux” for some reason Linux and the grade shader stay having issues working together. I have a feeling it might just be the “Display Color Space” setting, I’ll see if him defaulting that setting will do anything first.

[JosepMC]

Tried playing with these settings, but that’s not what I meant. I’m actually fine with things being crisp and I haven’t really had an issue with your presets aside from the November 6th regression that you fixed. I think it started happening when you began playing around with upscalers like ddt-xbr-lv1. I’m not sure if you just can’t see it in the pictures I posted or if I’m not explaining myself properly, but I’m referring to that smooth filtered look, which stands out even moreso in the shadow mask presets than in the aperture grille ones. I don’t think it looks good/accurate and it simply takes me out. Also, I don’t think S-Video used to look like that before.

I know I went back to the wrong version back in December 4th to illustrate my point back then, but you can already see there what I’m talking about.

[klazo]

Oh my bad, I had forgotten to read further below to find the new guest shaders. Installing the new version of those fixed the problem, thanks!!

[PU786]

I figured I should weigh in on this one. On my 12 bit KRP-111FD Plasma panel, set to full, 12bpc, I definitely still need to lower that setting to 0.

I do perceive it brighter when set to Limited, and Limited definitely makes my movie files appear to not have true black, so take from this what you will.