lostsupper
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Beautiful colors in those God of War 2 shots. Well done.
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Emulator Screenshot Thread
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Shark Attack
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At 1080p what looks better, GoW2 on PS3 or PC?
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
PS3 is only 720p for GOW2 HD so PC wins by a long shot. Especially since the screens being posted are internally rendered at resolutions far greater than 1080p.
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
Never realised the God Of War games on PS2 have such fantastic art direction. Nintendo quality, really.
Thanks! here is a split screen comparison, I tried to boost the colors but not over saturate everything.
Thanks! got more on the way
Depends on a few small things. Using PCSX2 1.3.1-58 to emulate GoW2 there are still a few issues. Player and NPC shadows do not work/show using Hardware rendering and are missing from all my shots. Some areas have graphical glitches (bright white square showing in the middle of the screen) with hardware rendering but can be fixed by using "Skipdraw=2". Using software rendering, it will look identical to the PS2 version.
Software Rendering using native PS2 resolution:
Software Rendering using native PS2 resolution blown up to my monitors native 2650x1440 res:
fully agree
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Those are very impressive. Could easily pass for a game a generation above. I felt the same playing Soul Reaver 2 and LoK Defiance on PC, both look astonishingly good for such old games.
ThatsMytrunks
Member
I'm loving the God of War shots, but you should really slow it down and check the OP.
Also, it'd help if you'd put the images in quote tags so they don't stretch everyone's browsers like crazy.
Also, it'd help if you'd put the images in quote tags so they don't stretch everyone's browsers like crazy.
I keep seeing people say stuff like this but GAF images never bleed offscreen for me. If they're too big, the forum automatically shrinks them to the width of my Chrome window. Doesn't it work like that for everyone?
ThatsMytrunks
Member
It does, you're right, but it's still massive. I like being able to see more than one post at a time, and I'm sure I'm not totally alone in that.
I did check the rules. The thread was moving kind of slow so I figured I'd keep posting. I'm done with the GoW II shots and I can delete some of the posts if needed.
Done!
Sorry, there's another one you might want to take care of that as well. Just don't want to see you get banned!
Anyway, love the shots and thanks for the contribution they're seriously gorgeous.
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pinkurocket
Member
Hnnng yesssss. That Metroid Prime Varia Suit is so good. God, it looks amazing in HD.
I'm looking for the best PSX emulator setup for a clean, high resolution picture for my games. I have absolutely no interest in an "authentic" experience with scanlines and CRT shaders. Last time I played around with PSX emulation, it seemed that using the AA shader + Natural Vision was the probably my best bet. Does anyone else have any recommendations?
epsxe is the only one I know of that works without a bios.
I'm familiar with the all of the various emulators and their requirements. I was looking more for things like settings and recommended plugins and shaders to get the best visuals, but I appreciate the reply!
I use PCSX-R, one of the plugins features an anti-judder fix for games. It fixes many of the issues with the PlayStations juddering textures and polygons. Lines become straight and it acts like anisotropic filtering with how good everything looks far away. You could also use shaders if you want, but I don't meddle with that stuff.
Looks great. Are you using ReShade?
SunBroDave
Member
I really gotta get ahold of this game at some point. A Level-5 (Dark Cloud, Ni No Kuni) game combined with the Akira Toriyama art style sounds incredible1500x900 4x IR, Edge AA, FXAA, Reshade.
Thought this place looked cool
It's really fun but also incredibly long 80+ hours i've been going at it off and on for weeks and still am not finished
flashbandit16
Member
Been playing Drakengard because some recent updates to pcsx2 made it more playable but there is still a graphical glitch that happens when you use a special attack. Although the game doesn't look great even when emulated and the game used a strong amount of motion blur that makes it hard to get good screenshots. The combat is bad but whenever you fly the dragon it is okay. Settings: You can not use custom resolution and "Automatic Gamefixes" must be check.
Been playing Drakengard because some recent updates to pcsx2 made it more playable but there is still a graphical glitch that happens when you use a special attack. Although the game doesn't look great even when emulated and the game used a strong amount of motion blur that makes it hard to get good screenshots. The combat is bad but whenever you fly the dragon it is okay. Settings: You can not use custom resolution and "Automatic Gamefixes" must be check.
I was about to ask why that was so blurry but your post cleared it up. Could you try getting some shots of things sitting still? You could also try enabling skipdraw to some amounts or enabling aggressive CRC which may get rid of it.
Edit: and Sonic Riders 1080p 8xAA
Hey hey, looks good I should be getting my new GPU today so I'll be jumping back in here soon
.If you play this game on a Sony PVM CRT... even in 480i... it honestly looks as good as any other game I've seen. Such strong art direction and it really shines on the right display.
I really wish I had a 480p CRT to see it the way it was really meant to be seen. Still, even upscaled to 1080p, it looks great.
And here, rendered in HD natively, it also looks phenomenal. It seems to be one of those games that just looks "right" no matter how you choose to experience it.
flashbandit16
Member
Tried using skipdraw and aggressive CRC but neither of them removed the motion blur unfortunately. I did find out last night that when using Hardware mode some graphical effects are missing so I am not sure if there is a graphical glitch cause by the emulation. Here are some screenshot when standing still:
Tried using skipdraw and aggressive CRC but neither of them removed the motion blur unfortunately. I did find out last night that when using Hardware mode some graphical effects are missing so I am not sure if there is a graphical glitch cause by the emulation. Here are some screenshot when standing still:
Try holding Triangle and X at the same time (using full boot not fast) as the game comes on to make it run in progressive scan mode. It does look a little better standing still though.
There's nothing stopping you from using a real controller.
flashbandit16
Member
Thanks for the help but after holding Triangle and X the motion blur was still there. Anyway I beat the game (or at least got 4 out of the 5 endings) so I am moving on to the second game. Luckily I found some settings that make the second playable in hardware mode and I should be able to beat it by the time Drakengard 3 gets here from Amazon.
Well that's good at least. Sorry that I didn't have a solution.
Make sure you set your controller to "emulated wii remote"
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