InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Apparently turning off Steam Community or playing windowed helps there!
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Valkyria Chronicles PC |OT| May the bloodline live forever
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Apparently turning off Steam Community or playing windowed helps there!
well made it through chapter 7,wasn't really anywhere near as hard as I was expecting from the talk around here
that big tank was scary looking but really wasn't very tough,I actually thought it was easier than chapter 6 right up until Selvaria showed up then it was kinda tricky not losing the units I had around and had to save and reload a few times to retreat them and get one set up for the third radiator etc,once all the radiators were gone I just used the Edelweiss over and over to take out the big tank
ambientmystic
Member
I just got the game and am trying to apply Gedosato to the game to make it look better.
The game launches when Gedosato is off/deactivated.
The game launches but displays nothing when Gedosato is activated/on. The executable is present in the Task Manager and just pegs one core of my i5-4690k completely and doesn't do anything else. I have to manually terminate the executable in the Task Manager to shut it down.
Deactivating Gedosato (which resets the rendering resolution back to the default 640x480) makes the game launch and work properly again.
I am using the latest version of Gedosato with the default out of the box settings and no further alterations. Gedosato also works perfectly with some of the other games that I use with it like Dark Souls 2 and Final Fantasy XIII. I just changed the resolution in the Launcher to 3200x1800 which is twice the resolution of my screen (1600x900).
Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
The game launches when Gedosato is off/deactivated.
The game launches but displays nothing when Gedosato is activated/on. The executable is present in the Task Manager and just pegs one core of my i5-4690k completely and doesn't do anything else. I have to manually terminate the executable in the Task Manager to shut it down.
Deactivating Gedosato (which resets the rendering resolution back to the default 640x480) makes the game launch and work properly again.
I am using the latest version of Gedosato with the default out of the box settings and no further alterations. Gedosato also works perfectly with some of the other games that I use with it like Dark Souls 2 and Final Fantasy XIII. I just changed the resolution in the Launcher to 3200x1800 which is twice the resolution of my screen (1600x900).
Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
ieptbarakat
Member
I played on windowed mode when it happened so it's probably the steam overlay causing it to crash.
texhnolyze
Banned
Wow, thank you for this. I'll try it later at home.
I'd like to ask for your permission as well, I'm going to put your mod & tutorial on my local forum, if you don't mind. I'll be sure to credit you and link your post.
Don't worry about A ranks on the first time through.
Ranking is STRICTLY number of turns. And yes, it's possible to do some of these maps in 1 turn. Remember the goal in a lot of these maps is capture the flag.
As for the anime, even Alicia being cranked up to 11 on the tsundere meter wasn't the worst part of it to me. They pretty much changed Welkin; from just an odd guy that seemed to be moving to the beat of his own drum to a completely oblivious guy that shouldn't be in command of anything. Game Welkin is just odd, but he's acutely aware of the situation. He just thinks about things in a different way. I felt the anime Welkin was changed into some weird guy lost in his own thoughts for most of the show. It's been a while since I saw the anime, maybe I'll refresh my memories, but I had a bad reaction; it brought nearly nothing to the table while obliterating what I liked about the game's plot (with one exception).
I knew I recognized that voice as soon as I heard it.
wait
the same guy voices Jann that voices Bender from Futurama?
Basileus777
Member
That's it. Money isn't a big limiting factor.
Sure, I don't mind. Just keep in mind this is not the final version of the mod. I'm gonna edit some textures for those people who prefer the European/US style of Playstation prompts, and there might be some unknown problems. I disable almost all UI texture replacements, and I'm not sure if I'm disabling something I shouldn't.
jediyoshi
Member
Best we've got is watching Sora no Woto and pretending it takes place in the same universe somehow
Durante told me to deactivate vsynch ingame and it fixed that problem for me.
ambientmystic
Member
Okay, so i resolved the issue that I had with Gedosato earlier on.
I had to head into the config\GeDoSaTo.ini file and change the delayDetouring setting from false to true.
Hope that helps anyone else who may have the issue with Gedosato and VC.
I had to head into the config\GeDoSaTo.ini file and change the delayDetouring setting from false to true.
Hope that helps anyone else who may have the issue with Gedosato and VC.
SpaceDrake
Member
So one last thing from me for the evening: HardcoreGamer does a little article on the differences between the PS3 and PC versions, in ways Durante didn't cover.
http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2014/11/12/how-much-better-does-valkyria-chronicles-look-on-pc/116972/
Specifically, they pick up on some improvements made, such as improved water reflections. It appears the game does have improved effects and whatnot! So I'm not just high when I imagine the maps look better.
Gotta bump the framerate down to 30-60 for that mission, sadly. Hopefully Little Stone can address the tank physics issue at >60FPS soon.
http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2014/11/12/how-much-better-does-valkyria-chronicles-look-on-pc/116972/
Specifically, they pick up on some improvements made, such as improved water reflections. It appears the game does have improved effects and whatnot! So I'm not just high when I imagine the maps look better.
Gotta bump the framerate down to 30-60 for that mission, sadly. Hopefully Little Stone can address the tank physics issue at >60FPS soon.
Man, getting through only one story mission is draining, took me about an hour and a half to get past Chapter 4 without anyone dying on me.
Chapter 7 is going to murder me, it seems.
Also, what's the recommended leveling strategy? I'm kind of doing skirmishes so that my scouts, shock troopers and snipers are the same level as the mission I'm on with the others one level behind. Also, I've purchased all upgrades from R&D so far. It doesn't seem like I can spend money on anything else other than that reporter's thing, so I guess that's alright?
Chapter 7 is going to murder me, it seems.
Also, what's the recommended leveling strategy? I'm kind of doing skirmishes so that my scouts, shock troopers and snipers are the same level as the mission I'm on with the others one level behind. Also, I've purchased all upgrades from R&D so far. It doesn't seem like I can spend money on anything else other than that reporter's thing, so I guess that's alright?
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Unity's #1 now, having displaced us. What's strange is that VC's been #1 for several hours today and yesterday, around this same time, before subsiding to a lower position. Not as glorious as Trails in the Sky occupying the top slot for two full days, but it sure ain't summer we're dealing with.
As long as you pick up the bodies (calls in the medic), deaths do not really matter.
CertifiedFP
Member
Tales had the thing of not being during the Steam Summer Sale IIRC, and that the only AAA releases that would have been able to push it down on Steam's charts were console exclusives, at least one of them being a port from last-gen.
That said, surprised to see Unity still selling - I'd imagine that all the bad news around the PC port of it would make it take a bit of a hit.
WilltheMagicAsian
Member
Awesome, also you can dump the save screen textures with gedesato, so you can replace them too, I assume fixing the X and O issue would be as simple as swapping positions in 3358280212318419906.dds
e: looks like swapping the button locations on that dds file does not work, also the same for gedesato texture override
I recommend replacing/disabling the boot up movies. It makes launching into the game a lot zippier, you go straight to the title screen.
Backup Opening.SFD and SegaLogo.SFD, then replace them with empty text files that are renamed Opening.SFD and SegaLogo.SFD respectively.
Backup Opening.SFD and SegaLogo.SFD, then replace them with empty text files that are renamed Opening.SFD and SegaLogo.SFD respectively.
That happened to me a lot on the PS3 version. Always running into mines. Gotta be careful.
Awesome, also you can dump the save screen textures with gedesato, so you can replace them too, I assume fixing the X and O issue would be as simple as swapping positions in 3358280212318419906.dds
e: looks like swapping the button locations on that dds file does not work, also the same for gedesato texture override
The textures in "texture_replace" aren't used at all. You can rename the folder and the game doesn't care. I think I found where the battle controller icons are, and they're in the DLC_0002\DLC_0002_val_in_action.htx.
The save/load icons would be a bother to replace since they have no PS3 equivalent. I'd have to edit the controller icons which are stored in the game's executable. I might be lazy and just leave them be.
Anyway, I should have an updated version of the mod later.
texhnolyze
Banned
Cool, thanks. I'll keep that in mind.
What if I left the dead bodies until I completed the mission (bodies not picked up by enemies)? Will he/she permanently die?
xBladeM6x
Member
Niceeeeeeeeeeeeee.
WilltheMagicAsian
Member
I made some with the texture I dumped for the save screen, although the only ones I could find that were high res enough were from a scan or photo of the buttons. Also, there's another val_in_action.htx in data>resource>slg_interface
Here's newest version of my Playstation button prompts mod: http://www.tzarsectus.com/tools/VCPS3buttons.rar
This version lets you swap X/O icons so they'll correspond to Western Playstation controls. They might not appear so in a few screens though (for instance, I couldn't find the texture for the personnel tab in book mode).
DLC overrides val_in_action.htx, and since everyone always owns the DLC, that means val_in_action.htx is never used.
I think you found the right button textures for save screen. Some of the button icons are really low res (same resolution as on PS3), but for the save screen they decided to have super high res textures. The annoying thing is that they're in the executable which makes them more fiddly to replace, and I have no idea which generic number button prompts would correspond to X and O.
This version lets you swap X/O icons so they'll correspond to Western Playstation controls. They might not appear so in a few screens though (for instance, I couldn't find the texture for the personnel tab in book mode).
DLC overrides val_in_action.htx, and since everyone always owns the DLC, that means val_in_action.htx is never used.
I think you found the right button textures for save screen. Some of the button icons are really low res (same resolution as on PS3), but for the save screen they decided to have super high res textures. The annoying thing is that they're in the executable which makes them more fiddly to replace, and I have no idea which generic number button prompts would correspond to X and O.
Orthogonal
Member
You have to pick them up before 3 full turns or an enemy gets to them. Death is permanent for non story characters.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Been watching a lot of different streams and its funny and sad watching newbies play this game wrong.
texhnolyze
Banned
Thanks, I'm aware of that condition. What I mean is what if I completed the mission where there is a character dying on the field? The character is just died, so it's still 1 turn. Will I lose him/her?
Winning the mission will save any charters that are 'knocked out'
Don't forget about the loading times. I think those (or rather, the lack of them) make a huge difference as well.
Well, I'm getting 55% GPU usage in native 768p60 on my 750TI (with AF forced through NVInspector)...
Guess 4k is out of the question for me? There's a lot of shimmering going on in the talking heads scenes - the glasses on commanding officer most notably...
Those are realtime, not prerendered, right?
Guess 4k is out of the question for me? There's a lot of shimmering going on in the talking heads scenes - the glasses on commanding officer most notably...
Those are realtime, not prerendered, right?
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
Anyone getting major slow down around long grass? Like the game goes in slow motion rather than just a janky frame rate.
Running on a GTX 780 here downsampling from 4k
Running on a GTX 780 here downsampling from 4k
ThePeoplesBureau
Member
Brilliant, thanks for this.
Are you talking about these?
If so, yes, luckily they are all realtime. Even the backgrounds are pre-rendered in realtime
Disable the in-game V-sync in the settings, force adaptive v-sync in inspector.
Scrooge McDuck
Member
I had this problem and disabling Vsync fixed it for me.
If so, yes, luckily they are all realtime. Even the backgrounds are pre-rendered in realtime
Why would the devs do that?
Doesn't seem to save any space considering the assets needed to render the background are probably few times larger than a 720p PNG file...
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I think many of the backgrounds are parts of levels, so they are already there. And sometimes they have sweeping camera shots across them before the scene starts. Also, the character models are placed in those backgrounds for rendering the heads.
A very select few of them actually are pictures, and you immediately notice if you're playing at high resolutions.
I'm alright. Just had to really force myself through that.
It was a bit more frustrating than it should have been, I think. If I was enjoying the game a bit less than I was, I honestly would have just dropped it and played something else.
Also,
knocking down the walls seemed like a bad strategy to me. It seemed the tank didn't open up its radiators til it knocked down a wall itself, so I often spent turns just getting fucked by the enemy while I waited for the tank to finally move on. Probably could have done it quicker if I just kept it moving as I had a team of scouts ready to climb aboard at pretty much all times
Unless I really misunderstood the mission,
you have to knock down walls for the radiators to show up at all. I think there's 2 walls which are always in the way which the tank has to shoot (which results in radiators being exposed). And there's 3 walls you can bring down. If you don't bring them down, the tank will drive right past them.