I don't either. But to be fair the game is not released yet. Maybe wait a few days to be safe when forum members start getting it? I'm sure by wen you will have all the reviews you need to make up your mind. I will post about it if its true, trust me.

We're what - 36 hours from having a number of reviews, on different machines and monitors, and more screenshots than we can possibly handle.

I'm not disappointed in the game - don't know enough about it yet - but I can't say I'm impressed with some of the posts today. Used to be the best forum I've ever participated in. Hopefully that spirit will return.

I'm going to the Atlantic, see you all in three days.

Yes the game is not released yet, but enough people have it to make things worrisome.

It will be in my hands wednesday afternoon by the grace of overnight shipping either way, I'm just a bit concerned as I have a widescreen lcd. While I will be rather upset if the game fakes widescreen support, by no means will I return or cancel my pre-order over that issue.

@malkuth74

guess i misunterstood your problem. i said i canceled my pre-order, just don't want to buy it, when it is more than a pre-release thread (or myth) on subsim.com. ;)

when the guys in romania fix it soon, i would still buy it when it's already launched. but it's no reason to be so harshly here. :down:

Tin soldier, nope the mod injected a d3d.dll(Direct3D) that changed the reso completely.....Not just upscaling but TRUE resolution.....

Deep Six

100% agreed.:nope::cry:

BUT WHAT RESOLUTION IS THIS SET AS? If it's on the friggin' moon then my framerates will be the footspeed of Peppo the Dwarf.

Ok I'm doing a little test. Maybe this test doesnt mean much I don't know. But basically I took SHIII and shut off AA in my Drivers. Since SHIII uses 1024*768 and people in this thread are saying that the 3d In SHIV only uses 1024*768 they should be comparable. Now to test this I have an image at 1024*768 taken from sime (jpg might downgrade a little) And a second pic of the same picture Resized to 800*600. You tell me what you think?

First Pic 1024*768
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/8830/shiiiyj3.th.jpg

Again at 800*600
http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/9092/shiiion8.th.jpg

Another Pic 1024*768
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/194/shiii2no5.th.jpg

Same at 800*600
http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/7...iii2ou6.th.jpg

Possible fix to FSAA issue?
 

Just a thought, here, but...maybe...I dare not hope, but MAYBE...could it be...

Everyone remembers the .DLL for SH3 that allowed resolutions other than the 'locked-in' 1024x768, right?

As the DLL is changing how the rendering occurs...it SHOULD be possible for something like this to resolve the FSAA limitations.

And DXTweaker allows for tweaks in the rendering engine to fix issues with Jane's F/A-18 on modern systems with video cards and FSAA.

Can anyone with Sh4 do some exploring in this area?

Can't speak for anyone else, but at this moment you're right, I don't own it. Tomorrow when it's released in US, I will, if I can find a copy. I'll try hard to overlook any faults I find and hope that patches and the mods to come will fix any probs ;)

But you gotta admit, the OP's screenie looks pretty bad. Only one of 2 possibilities I can see:

1. It's how the game really looks. Not promising.
2. The OP took a lo-rez shot, and a hi-rez shot, then cut-pasted the hi-rez HUD onto the lo-rez 3D world. Why would he go to all that trouble? Don't make sense...

At any rate, I'll find out tomorrow, if I can find a copy. As long as the gameplay is absorbing, that's really all I care about. Awesome eye-candy is cool, but it don't make a game really. The 2 most engrossing games I ever played were F-19 Stealth Fighter (1988) and Silent Service II (1990) on my Commodore Amiga 1000 and I bet the young guys here wouldn't give either a 2nd look. 300x200 rez, 32 colors, blocky graphics, no way they would ;) But the gameplay was fantastic!

That said, I'll go on to say it will be a little disappointing if UBI is upscaling 1024x728. Not a deal-breaker for me, because I want it ;) But a disappointment. If the gameplay is good, I'll be happy. Because it's the gameplay that counts, right?

This is a pic of SHIV from Gronbeck lastnight. Look in the Screenshot forum and you decide if the pics are faked by Downgraded a 1024*768 pic to smaller one to hide the Jaggies And the Resolution of the game.

http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/8...aft2pu8.th.jpg

I also noted that the OP uses a Gif for his screen shots. Which can cause some problems.

If true, that's....quite shocking. Not hard to believe, lots of older games do that, but...wow.

That would explain why the aliasing looks so BAD in the screenshots, too.

What he said. If the guts are great, I can overlook a good deal of stuff on the surface.

Unfortunately that's not true. Widescreen resolutions were still distorted (stretched) to accomadate 16:10 aspect ratio resolutions. The dll hack was better than nothing, but it absolutely didn't provide true native widescreen resolution. Nothing short of the devs painstakingly engineering and coding that into their engine could accomplish that.

That is a 1024 x 768 pic. The majority of this discussion is regarding widescreen hi-res configurations.

http://www.demowarp.se/video/sh4.wmv

That video is from the sticky above. You can see the lack of AA in the entire thing.

It is? But if SHIV only has 1024 *768 then the screens should be simular. Even with scaled down. They don't look simular to me. The question in the thread is if the 3d Part of the game is actually 1024*768. If that is true then their should be some simularities between My pics from SHIII and The pics of SHIV.

Or the other answer is all these sh4 shots we've seen that appear to have AA have been touched up...even though the official forum faq denied it.

I call conspiracy :rotfl:

Yea... this is really odd.. when you upscale anything it gets worse looking.. .. I am going to wait till I get the game and actually see it before I start to be disappointed though.

The screenshots on this page are clearly not taken with FSAA. They look like 1024x768 shots that have been resized to around 800x600 resolution. Of course, if you scale down the whole pic, the jaggies are scaled down, too. And JPEG compression further decreases image detail, blurring the jaggies.

So far I haven't seen a single screenshot of SH4 with enabled FSAA.