(10-02-2021, 01:03 AM)Swift016 Wrote: Update: I have reinstalled CUDA and pretty much everything else in the chain. Even now, running SFTGAN seems to take an inordinate amount of time. I am doing a test batch of 15 textures (one 4096, the rest are 2048) and after 23 minutes the progress bar is at 6% and has spit out only one image. Is this normal behaviour?
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I can't get SFTGAN to run at all. I have textures in PNG format that I ran through ESRGAN a while ago that I'd like to put through SFTGAN as well.
I am able to run ESRGAN without issues (using [Joey's version of upscale.py](https://github.com/JoeyBallentine/ESRGAN)), so I know that I have the correct versions of PyTorch, CUDA, etc. I have not been able to get test_segmentation.py and test_sftgan.py to work on any images other than the default brick wall and cat photos that it comes with (the console spits out some Python errors that I can share). I have given CTT a try to see if it's an issue with having the right version of everything in the chain but have had no success; CTT hangs at "Filtering Textures" when I try to run the SFTGAN upscale option (have tried 1x and 2x). Right now I am at 18 minutes elapsed and no progress.
Unfortunately this is normal, SFTGAN is incredibly slow especially if you have to divide the image into segments. It's a bit hard to explain, and this is how I understand it anyway. ESRGAN upscales an image using the original size, so if you are upscaling 256x256 to 1024x1024, ESRGAN will work with the 256x256 image and output a 1024x1024 image. SFTGAN on the other hand, works on the upscale. CTT-PS upscales the image using point filtering by the upscale amount before being fed to SFTGAN. So the input texture into SFTGAN is the 1024x1024 texture. Basically, SFTGAN is working with 4x the pixels as ESRGAN.
(10-03-2021, 08:12 AM)ghyujkilop Wrote: What's your way to extract .arc files? I've tried extracting the audiostr.arc file (which was already extracted from The Urbz: Sims in the city DATA folder using its ISO) where I used Freearc & Wiiexplorer to attempt extraction but I pretty much get nowhere. Anybody else have success or wanna try it? My purpose is to upscale dem textures.
I have no idea what ".arc" files are, and this has nothing to do with this tool. You would be better off asking in the general help or somewhere else.