(03-28-2016, 10:20 PM)DrHouse64 Wrote: Sooooo I tried the texture pack. Here are my firsts thoughts about it :
Note that my goal isn't to criticize it, but to give a real feedback.
First about the installation process :
- Import Ishiiruka config files is a very bad strategy imo. My XAudio2 backend was broken this way for me. Also, config files that are included on the pack have some strange options, like Phong Lightning enabled. From a clean Ishiiruka install, you only need to enable cheat codes, force 16:9, enable load custom textures and material maps.
- If you don't do OPTIONAL shaders steps, the gamesettings ini file is missing and so the 16:9 and no bloom codes.
Then about gameplay :
- The gamesettings ini file included kills performance. To fix it, open it, and erase everything on it except codes and patches.
- The shaders are WAY too HEAVY for the GPU, especially the Gritty one. I mean, I have a 770 GTX, which is a high-end GPU not that old, and I can't play fullspeed with shaders enabled, even with IR 2x (for 720p).
Shaders off : 20% GPU usage. Shaders on : 100% GPU usage.
That's why I made my own shader that don't overload my GPU, with the default IshiirukaFX shader.
Here I'm getting constantly full speed 1080p, only stutters 1s when loading textures in a new scenario. (gritty one) The only thing I don't like it, was the plastic aspect of the horse. So I lowered phong lightning a little bit.
I have a GTX 760 4GB, and decided to set the gpu cache option activated on dolphin's graphics menu, maybe it helps.