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~Hakurei Shrine~ => Help Me, Eirin! => Tech Support => Topic started by: MrLolrus on March 20, 2015, 04:03:29 PM

Title: Touhou Games Pixelated in Windowed Mode (Vpatch)
Post by: MrLolrus on March 20, 2015, 04:03:29 PM

I like to play Touhou games windowed on the left side of a 1920x1080 monitor.

(http://i.imgur.com/QYGUoMG.jpg)

I used to be running Intel HD 2000 integrated graphics to play the games, and it worked great, but after installing an AMD Radeon HD 7770 as a replacement, all the Touhou games I play in windowed mode have pixelation.

The two screenshots below compare EoSD ran on Intel HD 2000 and on the HD 7770, both using the exact same vpatch.ini settings which can be found at http://pastebin.com/rJqtyB9u

(http://i.imgur.com/QJ0yeqK.jpg)  (http://i.imgur.com/om6FTxv.png)

Open the full image to clearly see. (Intel HD 2000 Left | AMD Radeon HD 7770 Right)

I have Windows 7 64bit and CCC Omega 14.12 drivers (latest) and have been messing with the settings with no luck at a solution. How can I stop the pixelation?

Title: Re: Touhou Games Pixelated in Windowed Mode (Vpatch)
Post by: shockdude on March 22, 2015, 07:54:00 AM

That's a bizarre issue.
What happens if you try a dedicated borderless fullscreen application instead of vpatch?
Also out of curiosity, how do the games look in fullscreen for Intel vs AMD? While fullscreen, if you open your monitor's setup menu and look at the "information" section, what resolution is your monitor reporting?

Title: Re: Touhou Games Pixelated in Windowed Mode (Vpatch)
Post by: Drake on March 22, 2015, 11:24:29 AM

I had this issue with a 5770 years back, and I couldn't find any solution then, so I'm interested in finding one. It probably has to do with some 3D setting. Try setting the Mipmap quality higher in CCC.

Title: Re: Touhou Games Pixelated in Windowed Mode (Vpatch)
Post by: Jirachi on March 22, 2015, 02:20:16 PM

My CCC has a profile thing on Gaming > 3D Application Settings for selecting custom profiles for applications, did you try it? (ofc select the Touhou exe and not vpatch)

Title: Re: Touhou Games Pixelated in Windowed Mode (Vpatch)
Post by: MrLolrus on March 23, 2015, 08:06:28 AM

Quote from: shockdude on March 22, 2015, 07:54:00 AM

That's a bizarre issue.
What happens if you try a dedicated borderless fullscreen application instead of vpatch?
Also out of curiosity, how do the games look in fullscreen for Intel vs AMD? While fullscreen, if you open your monitor's setup menu and look at the "information" section, what resolution is your monitor reporting?

Both play fine fullscreen without pixelation. Only AMD windowed has pixelation. Thankfully I can resort to fullscreen as a last resort.

Quote from: Drake on March 22, 2015, 11:24:29 AM

I had this issue with a 5770 years back, and I couldn't find any solution then, so I'm interested in finding one. It probably has to do with some 3D setting. Try setting the Mipmap quality higher in CCC.

I'm guessing you meant this slider here.

(http://i.imgur.com/OdfuUNP.png)

No effect, but after messing with the Anti-aliasing options, setting it to override the application settings gave me this blurry mess (ie. nothing good).

(http://i.imgur.com/ECMIQRk.png)

Quote from: Jirachi on March 22, 2015, 02:20:16 PM

My CCC has a profile thing on Gaming > 3D Application Settings for selecting custom profiles for applications, did you try it? (ofc select the Touhou exe and not vpatch)

I figured that playing with the global profile settings and testing with those would give the same result.

Title: Re: Touhou Games Pixelated in Windowed Mode (Vpatch)
Post by: MrLolrus on March 26, 2015, 01:51:48 PM

I'm actually starting to dig playing on full screen. The game seems to run better with less screen tearing, along with not being pixelated af.

Looks like I won't need a fix after all.