What does the DW7 fix in pete plugin do?

Soylvak · December 23rd, 2001

I pete's plugins thers a Dragon warrior fix in it but i don't see any difference in the game. it works the same.

JAZ · December 23rd, 2001

Heres a quote from the read me supplied with petes plugin---

- OGL/D3D plugins: repaired a small scissoring issue and
coded a new special game fix... this time it's an option
called "Lazy upload detection", and it can be used with
Dragon Warrior 7, to repair the flickering effects with
text boxes in that game. It's not a 100% fix, since the text
boxes will not get semi-transparent if the fix is enabled,
and the bkg graphics will not be animated anymore, but
at least the flickering is gone... well, you can also turn off
the fix and turn on "Full vram primitives", if you have a
powerfull cpu, that will emulate the text boxes more
accurate, but the bkg gfx will get ugly low-res... well, it's up
to you

I only had a save state, not the full game, so I can't tell you
if there are more issues with DW7... but if the rest of the
game is coded like the text boxes (using a third display
buffer for uploads, bah), I am sure there will be more problems

Oh, and the text boxes are using the psx mask bit as well
(sure... simple pseudo triple-buffering would be too easy

So if you don't see any text boxes at all, try to turn off the
"mask bit" gpu option... that will help gfx cards which don't
like my mask bit emulation.

Soylvak · December 23rd, 2001

oh, i guess i didn't notice about the text boxes.thanx

December 23rd, 2001	#1 (permalink)
Soylvak CONFUSED Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Submit Modifications Posts: 668	What does the DW7 fix in pete plugin do? I pete's plugins thers a Dragon warrior fix in it but i don't see any difference in the game. it works the same. __________________ WTF is going on here?It's the end of unconfused people as we know it...uuuhhh what..did a..oh dammit!....oh welll

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Soylvak CONFUSED Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Submit Modifications Posts: 668	oh, i guess i didn't notice about the text boxes.thanx __________________ WTF is going on here?It's the end of unconfused people as we know it...uuuhhh what..did a..oh dammit!....oh welll

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December 23rd, 2001	#2 (permalink)
JAZ Nintendo Zealot Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: UK Posts: 1,424	Heres a quote from the read me supplied with petes plugin--- - OGL/D3D plugins: repaired a small scissoring issue and coded a new special game fix... this time it's an option called "Lazy upload detection", and it can be used with Dragon Warrior 7, to repair the flickering effects with text boxes in that game. It's not a 100% fix, since the text boxes will not get semi-transparent if the fix is enabled, and the bkg graphics will not be animated anymore, but at least the flickering is gone... well, you can also turn off the fix and turn on "Full vram primitives", if you have a powerfull cpu, that will emulate the text boxes more accurate, but the bkg gfx will get ugly low-res... well, it's up to you I only had a save state, not the full game, so I can't tell you if there are more issues with DW7... but if the rest of the game is coded like the text boxes (using a third display buffer for uploads, bah), I am sure there will be more problems Oh, and the text boxes are using the psx mask bit as well (sure... simple pseudo triple-buffering would be too easy So if you don't see any text boxes at all, try to turn off the "mask bit" gpu option... that will help gfx cards which don't like my mask bit emulation.