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kriller2 · 03-02-08, 11:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ATR-42

during sunrise i get the red circle not the shining sun. do you guys have any idea of a setting i can change to get it back? its the only anomie i have.

nvidia evga 8800 GTS current drivers.

Yes I have heard a rumour about you have to be below 4xAA and 16 AF to enable them (in your graphics options for the video card), but I haven't tested it since I don't have a Nvidia gfx-card.

ATR-42 · 03-02-08, 11:38 AM

Thanks Kriller! i'll give that a shot.

DrBeast · 03-02-08, 12:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kriller2

If you can't see the sun flair with your ATI graphics card here is how to enable it.

GUIDE TO ENABLE SUN FLAIR AND BLOOM ON ATI - GFX-CARDS:
First you have to download this program:
GPU PerfStudio
Install the GPUPerfstudio 1.2 program and be sure to enable the internet in your firewall for both the program and SH4.

Check that the program "Performance server program" is running, if not start it from the start menu.

Now start GPUstudio folow this picture. First press the blue button "All" ( see the picture )

Go to your desktop find the shortcut "DirectX App Launcher", drop your SH4 icon on to the app launchers icon (be sure that the shortcut for SH4 is not a shortcut to the "gu.exe" (game updater) program, but to the sh4.exe"!

Now the game will start with GPUperfstudio running in the background, when the title screen shows, quit to desktop. Go in to GPUperfstudio 1.2 and set the options on the picture, "Force Z test enable" to true.

Press "Enable all" nr. 1 on the picture, go to your desktop find the shortcut "DirectX App Launcher", drop your SH4 icon on to the app launchers icon again and watch those sun sets the way Dave designed them

Yes! They finally worked out a solution? Great news! Gonna try as soon as I get home

I wonder how it will play with the Omega drivers' ATi Tool I'm using, though :hmm:
BTW kriller2, those guidelines about temporarily seeing sun halo seem remarkably familiar to the ones I posted a while ago

Just looked funny the way you addressed it to me

MONOLITH · 03-02-08, 01:36 PM

Kriller.... does that fix process have to be done everytime you launch the game, or just once, and then just make sure the app is running in the background?

MONOLITH · 03-02-08, 02:13 PM

Alright, I'm following the directions above...

I have the performance server program running.

I start GPUStudio, and at the bottom of it's screen I get the repeating "trying to connect" thing happening, and I cannot click any of the Z options yet.

Minimize to desktop.

Drag the SH4.exe on top of the Direct X Launcher, and I get this.....

?

But the SH4 game launches fine by itself. So why wouldn't I have the d3l9.dll? I just reinstalled yesterday.

kriller2 · 03-02-08, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MONOLITH

Alright, I'm following the directions above...

I have the performance server program running.

I start GPUStudio, and at the bottom of it's screen I get the repeating "trying to connect" thing happening, and I cannot click any of the Z options yet.

Minimize to desktop.

Drag the SH4.exe on top of the Direct X Launcher, and I get this.....

?

But the SH4 game launches fine by itself. So why wouldn't I have the d3l9.dll? I just reinstalled yesterday.

Hi Monolith, Thats strange... I haven't had any problems like that :hmm: Maybe it's because you need a new directx driver or something?

MONOLITH · 03-02-08, 05:16 PM

UPDATE.

I'm passed the d3l9 problem.

I was using the 7.9 drivers. On the install of the GPUStudio, it made a reference about "not being able to get certain hardware and driver info with this driver version, please update to a later driver version".

So I did, and I am now on the latest 8.2 drivers.

Ok, so I no longer get the screen above.

But please check the instructions as you posted them, and make sure everything is exact, cause I'm having a different problem.

Here is what I do...

Firewall off.
Start performance server...leave running.
Start GPUStudio... click ALL...minimize.

Drag my SH4.exe on top of the direct X App starter.
Little DOS window comes up, then SH4 starts.

I cannot see the ubi vid or the opening video with the poem, but I can hear them.
Once I'm past those, I see the main loading screen.
It loads, I get to the menu screen, and I quit to desktop.

Go into GPUStudio and and set the Force Z options. Minimize and keep running.

Drop the SH4 onto the Direct X app starter.

The first time, the game ran, but the sun flare was not there.

The second time, now right after the ubi video (that i can't see) the game crashes and I get "Sh4 has encountered an error" window.

Am I messing up a step in the instructions? I'm confused as to why you have to drop the exe on twice, something seems wrong about this.

Torps · 03-02-08, 05:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ATR-42

during sunrise i get the red circle not the shining sun. do you guys have any idea of a setting i can change to get it back? its the only anomaly i have.

nvidia evga 8800 GTS current drivers.

Same problems for me, I think its a change made to a file in the data/shaders file folder. However if you install a older version of ROW you do not get the red sky and fancy cloud affects, but you get the good sunset. So we need to know what changes Kriller2 made in those files to correct the settings for Nvidia.

Dave optimized ROW for Nvidia and helped out ATI users on how to get the same affects except the halo which is a software issue. Someone with a nvidia card needs to work with Kriller2 to make sure we all get the same benefits.

MONOLITH · 03-02-08, 05:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrBeast

Gonna try as soon as I get home

Please let me know if you get this working, and exactly what steps you do; because I cannot get it working.

When you fist start the GPUStudio, you cannot click on the Z setting until you connect it with the game.

Redragging the exe onto the DirectX app launcher a second time, after the Z settings are changed, is causing me to crash before the game gets to the loading window.

I'm thoroughly frustrated.

Kriller, when you say "quit to desktop", you are actually ending the SH4 program, and starting it a second time when you drag the exe the second time, yes? And at what point are you quitting the game after the first drop...It seems you can't get out of it until you see the menu screen. Correct?

kriller2 · 03-02-08, 06:10 PM

Firewall off.
Start performance server...leave running.
Start GPUStudio... click ALL...minimize.

Drag my SH4.exe on top of the direct X App starter.
Little DOS window comes up, then SH4 starts.

I cannot see the ubi vid or the opening video with the poem, but I can hear them.
Once I'm past those, I see the main loading screen.
It loads, I get to the menu screen, and I quit to desktop.

Correct untill now Monolith

Go into GPUStudio and and set the Force Z options.
Now you need to push the blue button "all" (nr. 1 on the picture) and do the thing underneath this sentence
Minimize and keep running.

Drop the SH4 onto the Direct X app starter.

Try that and let me hear if it works now

One warning never press the windows button or try to go to desktop when the game runs with GPUperfstudio in the background, go to main menu and allways quit the game first or else you will get error / crash

The first time, the game ran, but the sun flare was not there.

The second time, now right after the ubi video (that i can't see) the game crashes and I get "Sh4 has encountered an error" window.

Am I messing up a step in the instructions? I'm confused as to why you have to drop the exe on twice, something seems wrong about this.

I allso had ALOT of troubles getting this to work following a guide, but once you get it running it's worth it! ..and you do have to follow the same procedure everytime you start the game..

MONOLITH · 03-02-08, 07:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kriller2

One warning never press the windows button or try to go to desktop when the game runs with GPUperfstudio in the background, go to main menu and allways quit the game first or else you will get error / crash

This might have been part of the problem.

Will try again and report back.

Thanks Kriller.

MONOLITH · 03-02-08, 09:19 PM

This is how it's going for me every time.

Start the server.
Start the GPUStudio, click all.
Drop the SH4.exe onto the DirectxApp launcher.

SH4 starts, I can hear the UBI video, but cannot see it. (black screen)

When the second video tries to start, game crashes.

kriller2 · 03-03-08, 02:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MONOLITH

This is how it's going for me every time.

Start the server.
Start the GPUStudio, click all.
Drop the SH4.exe onto the DirectxApp launcher.

SH4 starts, I can hear the UBI video, but cannot see it. (black screen)

When the second video tries to sart, game crashes.

Aha! now I know what is, it's the video going bananas. Try this go to this folder:
Silent Hunter 4 Wolves of the Pacific\Data\Movies\Intro

Rename the 2 files "intro.wmv" and "logo.wmv" to "intro_old.wmv" and "logo_old.wmv"

Try again, it should work this time?

mikehcl · 03-03-08, 03:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kriller2

Quote:

Originally Posted by MONOLITH

This is how it's going for me every time.

Start the server.
Start the GPUStudio, click all.
Drop the SH4.exe onto the DirectxApp launcher.

SH4 starts, I can hear the UBI video, but cannot see it. (black screen)

When the second video tries to sart, game crashes.

Aha! now I know what is, it's the video going bananas. Try this go to this folder:
Silent Hunter 4 Wolves of the Pacific\Data\Movies\Intro

Rename the 2 files "intro.wmv" and "logo.wmv" to "intro_old.wmv" and "logo_old.wmv"

Try again, it should work this time?

Killer also to me some time goes in crasch, but not always. I have not renamed the 2 files "intro.wmv" and "logo.wmv", better renamed these 2 files? thanks

DrBeast · 03-03-08, 06:07 AM

Yes, renaming the logo and intro videos will take care of the CTD problems. I chose to rename their extension (added a .bak), and the game runs fine. And bloody hell yeah! I can see the halo!

BUT...yes, there's a big BUT there. Well, four actually, one of which has already been covered. Here's what I mean:

1. I suffer a huge performance hit when GPUperfstudio is running on the background, no matter if I apply the fix or not. My already borderline FPS plummet from 23 to 13! And I can clearly see a fluctuation there, FPS go from 8 to 13 and back again all the time, following a pattern that clearly follows the applications' monitoring progress in the background
2. I can't Alt-Tab out of the game (already covered)
3. The sun halo shows through the submarine, when I align it with the rising/setting sun
4. The submarine's wake loses its crispness. It looks more like some white oily substance, and nothing like sea foam.

You can all understand that I'm sticking to the boring red orb, until ATi comes up with a solution in its new set of drivers, now that the problem has been pin-pointed (high hopes, I know

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03-02-08, 01:36 PM	#3349
MONOLITH Grey Wolf Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 997 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Kriller.... does that fix process have to be done everytime you launch the game, or just once, and then just make sure the app is running in the background? __________________

03-02-08, 02:13 PM	#3350
MONOLITH Grey Wolf Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 997 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Alright, I'm following the directions above... I have the performance server program running. I start GPUStudio, and at the bottom of it's screen I get the repeating "trying to connect" thing happening, and I cannot click any of the Z options yet. Minimize to desktop. Drag the SH4.exe on top of the Direct X Launcher, and I get this..... ? But the SH4 game launches fine by itself. So why wouldn't I have the d3l9.dll? I just reinstalled yesterday. __________________ Last edited by MONOLITH; 03-02-08 at 02:27 PM.

03-02-08, 05:16 PM	#3352
MONOLITH Grey Wolf Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 997 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	UPDATE. I'm passed the d3l9 problem. I was using the 7.9 drivers. On the install of the GPUStudio, it made a reference about "not being able to get certain hardware and driver info with this driver version, please update to a later driver version". So I did, and I am now on the latest 8.2 drivers. Ok, so I no longer get the screen above. But please check the instructions as you posted them, and make sure everything is exact, cause I'm having a different problem. Here is what I do... Firewall off. Start performance server...leave running. Start GPUStudio... click ALL...minimize. Drag my SH4.exe on top of the direct X App starter. Little DOS window comes up, then SH4 starts. I cannot see the ubi vid or the opening video with the poem, but I can hear them. Once I'm past those, I see the main loading screen. It loads, I get to the menu screen, and I quit to desktop. Go into GPUStudio and and set the Force Z options. Minimize and keep running. Drop the SH4 onto the Direct X app starter. The first time, the game ran, but the sun flare was not there. The second time, now right after the ubi video (that i can't see) the game crashes and I get "Sh4 has encountered an error" window. Am I messing up a step in the instructions? I'm confused as to why you have to drop the exe on twice, something seems wrong about this. __________________

03-02-08, 06:10 PM	#3355
kriller2 Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,227 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	Firewall off. Start performance server...leave running. Start GPUStudio... click ALL...minimize. Drag my SH4.exe on top of the direct X App starter. Little DOS window comes up, then SH4 starts. I cannot see the ubi vid or the opening video with the poem, but I can hear them. Once I'm past those, I see the main loading screen. It loads, I get to the menu screen, and I quit to desktop. Correct untill now Monolith Go into GPUStudio and and set the Force Z options. Now you need to push the blue button "all" (nr. 1 on the picture) and do the thing underneath this sentence Minimize and keep running. Drop the SH4 onto the Direct X app starter. Try that and let me hear if it works now One warning never press the windows button or try to go to desktop when the game runs with GPUperfstudio in the background, go to main menu and allways quit the game first or else you will get error / crash The first time, the game ran, but the sun flare was not there. The second time, now right after the ubi video (that i can't see) the game crashes and I get "Sh4 has encountered an error" window. Am I messing up a step in the instructions? I'm confused as to why you have to drop the exe on twice, something seems wrong about this. I allso had ALOT of troubles getting this to work following a guide, but once you get it running it's worth it! ..and you do have to follow the same procedure everytime you start the game.. __________________ *Kriller2.* [MODs] Real Environment mod and Pacific Enviroments 4 mod Last edited by kriller2; 03-02-08 at 06:23 PM.

03-02-08, 11:38 AM	#3347
ATR-42 Commodore Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Jersey Shore Posts: 606 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 6	Thanks Kriller! i'll give that a shot.

03-02-08, 09:19 PM	#3357
MONOLITH Grey Wolf Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 997 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	This is how it's going for me every time. Start the server. Start the GPUStudio, click all. Drop the SH4.exe onto the DirectxApp launcher. SH4 starts, I can hear the UBI video, but cannot see it. (black screen) When the second video tries to start, game crashes. __________________ Last edited by MONOLITH; 03-03-08 at 11:49 AM.

03-03-08, 06:07 AM	#3360
DrBeast The Old Man Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Somewhere Out In Space Posts: 1,408 Downloads: 36 Uploads: 0	Yes, renaming the logo and intro videos will take care of the CTD problems. I chose to rename their extension (added a .bak), and the game runs fine. And bloody hell yeah! I can see the halo! BUT...yes, there's a big BUT there. Well, four actually, one of which has already been covered. Here's what I mean: 1. I suffer a huge performance hit when GPUperfstudio is running on the background, no matter if I apply the fix or not. My already borderline FPS plummet from 23 to 13! And I can clearly see a fluctuation there, FPS go from 8 to 13 and back again all the time, following a pattern that clearly follows the applications' monitoring progress in the background 2. I can't Alt-Tab out of the game (already covered) 3. The sun halo shows through the submarine, when I align it with the rising/setting sun 4. The submarine's wake loses its crispness. It looks more like some white oily substance, and nothing like sea foam. You can all understand that I'm sticking to the boring red orb, until ATi comes up with a solution in its new set of drivers, now that the problem has been pin-pointed (high hopes, I know ) __________________ Let the Beast inside you free!