God Eater 2

[Black_Avassalador]

(01-24-2015 02:46 PM)LunaMoo Wrote:  This thread is always depressing @_@, time for at least a bit good news at least for people that can play it in high res.
As probably everyone who can play in higher res noticed this game bloom looks awful and it's abused for pretty much everything including characters and pretty much whole screen in most cutscenes:]. Finally thanks to [Unknown] brilliant idea we now can deal with it using "Lower resolution for effects (reduces artifacts)" hack.
It basically detects lower buffer sizes which is used usually for bloom and other blurry effects and keeps them at x1 res. It has 3 presets because it can also potentially decrease resolution of things which aren't effects if game also uses lower buffer size for them and would make them look pixelate, however from my testing I did not noticed anything like that happening in games which had bloom, and "safe" preset should be good enough to deal with GE2.

Here's a comparism of cutscene(without subs, so no spoilers:3) made in x10 res:

- one in which you can clearly notice kind of like a ghost of character and messed up edges of the screen which all is caused by bloom being too sharp in high res,


- and one with a hack which keeps the low res for effect making them appear like psp bloom without decreasing resolution for other stuff.



I don't really have to say which one looks better :]. Ofc the hack does nothing in x1 res, and in lower res like x2/x3 the difference will not be as obvious either, but still should help with making psp like bloom improving the experience in our broken game.:3

What cause this problem isnt the resolution itself, the problem is caused by buffer render, just change it to cpu or gpu buff render and it will be fixed (buffer render still have a long way to be completed).