Try updating slang shaders through RetroArch and then reinstall the latest guest.r shader afterwards and see what happens. Don’t copy files over either, delete the 5 guest.r shaders and delete the guest folder and replace them with the updated ones.
that is what i did & nothing changed
Strange. When they were last working for you do you remember making any changes to your setup somewhere between then and when they started acting like this?
sorry i don’t remember when it changed
Not sure how else I can help you here besides telling you to Reinstall RetroArch itself and do everything over from scratch, sounds like a one off case that’s happening from something happening on your end.
still thanks for the help
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nope. official statement from optician. had no clue this was a thing as I thought LCD monitors were harmless
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@sonkun is there a way to make the black levels higher
this is not black enough there is black level & can set it to -15.0 but it needs to go lower i could force it via the slang config file that that option is not working anymore
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B, you have to change Base (black) Mask Strength to 0.00 down at the bottom of Mask options.
Sonkun I am wondering if you will be changing the Base (black) Mask strength to 0.00 for your presets now that multiple people with OLED/Plasma TV’s and monitors have weighed in that the setting is incorrect on both Full and Limited color options?
Likely this was a black crush or an ALM thing you have going on with your LCD that leads to it not appearing gray on your end.
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That probably would work if that area of the screen was more on the black scale, it’s more of a dark grayish color even with no shader:
Probably either lowering “post brightness” or raising the contrast setting will darken that area more for you. Then again I think that contrast setting was giving you the “black screen but can still hear sound” issue.
Hmm that’s a good question. I get darker blacks on my TV from a setting I enabled on my set up, so far I believe it’s mostly pc monitor users (especially 1440p) I’ve noticed having that issue. I figure oled users should be good since I’m always seeing people throw around “perfect blacks” on those things.
For me that setting is perfect, in fact with this recent issue from above I noticed that setting actually got rid of moire patterns in those dark areas which caught me by surprise, I’m always trying to reduce moire any chance I get. But yeah I’m not sure what I’ll do, I actually want more testing done especially from oled users if they get “grayish blacks” from that setting.
fixed it got a old version of crt guest
How did that fix it though? Let me see a image what you were aiming for. Also what do you plan to do going forward? I’m already working on my next pack incorporating those new settings guest.r just added into his latest update.
this is what i was looking for genesis i use nr 38 from the aperture 1080p curved folder
but what i was looking for is the smoothing of dithering
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Oh that issue. I definitely see it’s blended again but then now what, you plan to just stay with that old release? The sonkun presets get updated periodically you know. I rather you try to solve the issue that was happening on the latest release or moreso the release that I used on my current pack from the link in my first post. The latest guest.r update flipped a few things around that I need to rearrange so probably not good to use his latest update yet.
if your preset has blending from dithering & has a pal warm preset i use the newest
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It will like it always has been lol. In any case I’ll let you know right away when I release the next pack, I’ll ping you on discord.
Hey there sonkun, here to let you know that i find your custom shaders extremely gorgeous, I’m personally more towards the Sony Megatron very nice mask, but it lacks updates and features that would enhance it and keep it refreshing to setup.
After that i only really like your base and then i work on it for my personal taste.
Hopefully you receive my cuddle, the updates have been impressive these months also thanks to guest
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Thank you I appreciate it. It’s good that you go around sampling the different packs around here as everyone has something different to offer which I think keeps things unique.
I’m currently in the lab as of this posting playing around with settings lol, playing around with the new “gamma correct” guest.r just implemented. My goal for my next pack will most likely be to enhance the colors a bit more, I want to make the colors pop out even more than it already is and I might rearrange the brightness/glow so I’m just experimenting around. If I don’t come up with satisfying results then I’ll just keep things how they look and just adapt the few new settings that just got added into the shader. Hoping to release something new by tonight or at least by the weekend.
Here’s my current rgb preset:
Here’s after adding in the new gamma correct setting plus some other minor tweaks:
Another before and after shot:
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New Version Release (01-27-2025)
Changes Made
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Uses guest.r shader version 2025-01-23-r1.
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Incorporates the new “Complementary Gamma Correct” setting, in return standard “Gamma Correct” and “Bright Boost Dark Pixels” settings has been lowered.
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Incorporates the newly added “NTSC Preserve ‘Edge’ Colors 3-phase” setting, all composite "Chroma Scaling (2-phase) settings have been adjusted.
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Switched to different “crt mask” settings for 4K Shadow Mask presets.
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Grade shader “CRT U Multiplier” setting raised a little (saturation adjustment), “Green-Red Tint” slightly lowered.
Screenies:
Download this latest pack in the first post.
First new release of the year. My aim for this release was to try to enhance the colors a bit more, I hope I didn’t over do things like usual lol. Let’s see how you guys like this latest experiment.
Edit: Readjusted Gamma Correct settings (both of them), dark areas were looking too dark, barely seeable so now we’re going from this:
To this:
Grab the new “v2” revision in the same spot as always.
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