Strange graphical glitch (Majora's Mask)

[zarakon]

It might happen in other games, but Majora's Mask is the only one I've seen it in...

It only happens during scenes where they use blurring effects, which happens to be a lot in Majora's Mask. There's this strange zig-zag down the middle-left side of the display, with the left side blurred more than the right side. Lines also seem to not match up sometimes, as if the two sides are a bit out of sync.

Very noticeable at the startup:

Not as noticeable, but still there in other scenes:

Jabo's Direct3D 8 1.6
nVidia GeForce 4 Ti4600

happens in fullscreen and window, regardless of AA setting.

 

[zarakon]

here's another that shows the whole line

seems pretty random.. the lines aren't parallel or anything. yet they're in the same place every time

 

[Smiff]

heh, yeah i was just looking at this, and hadnt made the connection with motion blur. well spotted thanks

 

[MooglyTwo]

It's what you get for not using a good software rasterizer to eliminate the various issues that come with hardware rendering. :king:

 

[zarakon]

that's a joke, right?

 

[Smiff]

nah its ok MooglyTwo is a member, i know what he means and he knows what he's talking about

 

[zarakon]

now i'm curious. How can you get equal or superior quality through software without counting seconds per frame?

 

[Smiff]

we can't, it's just for debugging.
it's slow, incomplete and looks rather worse. blur doesn't work at all in this case.