(09-04-2011, 01:20 PM)refraction Wrote: Are you referring to the Alpha hack and Skipdraw hacks? Because if youd done "AllowHacks=1" you would be able to get to them from the GUI.
I'm not really sure about your point. Those were the two settings I changed, but how is that relevant to me reinstalling PCSX2 to enable my .db for the game settings?
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Anyway the reason i don't care if it's in the UI or not is because i still need to change it in notepad when I'm doing testing. Here's my process, run game, game starts, leave game running where there's issue, take savestate. Open ini file, edit it press ctrl+s and open new instance while the old instance is running, press f3 to load savestate so both are in the same place and compare. If improvement is made, leave as is. I can't do that propperly in the GUI because it hangs one of the instances of PCSX2 so I don't get to compare.
This was particularly useful when pixel offsetting but that's not so relevant here in yakuza. But i digress.
While we're offtopic I've just mocked up a couple of short youtubes to give the config differences between hardware vs software, and hardware with ini file changes (or ini enabling the gui userhacks options, however you want to say it, ignoring the redundancy of being in the ini file anyway so you might as well enable them while you're there..).
They're not real HD they're just two instances of PCSX2 running side by side during a specific part of the game. The goal is to get Hardware mode of GSDX to run a likeness of the pure PS2 like Software mode. Hardware mode both has great speed benefits as well as fabulous resolution options.
Software mode VS Hardware mode
Hardware mode before and after config changes
The loss of the blur filter and shading/lighting.. which is a shame if anyone knows how to maybe.. you know add another filter to the filter which would reduce the filters effect by like 50% that would be sweet.. the blur is just too heavy..