squall_leonhart
The Great Gunblade Wielder
i figure its safe to remove one of the THE LEGEND OF ZELDA#4B69C4A0#3#1_all pngs as well
First off, I want to say magnificent job to all the people who participated in the retexturing. I just have a quick question about folder hierarchy. I did noticed a few incorrectly spelled folders such as "Enemys" and "Friendlys". I'm guessing it doesn't make a difference because I believe it just looks for all .pngs with the associated rom. However, I just wanted to hear some insight on how it should be structured and whether it made a difference?
This is kind of unrelated, but is there a way to make it load textures in real-time without any pausing? For example, whenever the sky transitions, there is about a second pause. Also, when opening the menu screen, it takes probably 4 seconds to load. When I tick the option "cache textures" on the latest 1964 r75 plugin release, it wouldn't load hi-res textures properly. Other than that, I'm pretty satisfied with it. Wondered what the optimal settings for Project64 or 1964 would be to reduce the latency. I'm running winxp sp3, 2 GB ram, amd x2, nVidia 7950 GT, and project64 1.6 with Rice Video 6.1.4. Thanks in advance.
Reason is the texture caching. By default, windows restricts the memory that can be occupied by one process to 1GB. As the decompressed textures in memory will need more than that, the plugin crashes.
Fixes:
either turn off texture caching or let windows assign more memory to the process. Somewhere in the 1964 community thread someone posted how to do that. If I remember right I posted a link to that instruction somewhen. So search my posts & you'll find it.
Exactly. The texture caching of Rice is still rudimentary. (I think, I also explained it in the plugin configuration option, if you enable hints & hover over the caching option). It still lacks the implementation of on the fly texture compression.
i expect its an issue with Radeon/AMD drivers, as i don't have that issue with Rice based plugins.
I don't think so, because the old r35 worked with 1680*1050 without problems, same for molurd or whatever it was called.
Wow, I still haven't tried out this Rice Video thing. Im about to give it a shot. I think if you enable that Cache Hi Res Textures options, it'll cause the emulator to crash. Well thats what happens to me, but I'll let you guys know what happens to me. As of right now, I heard something called Glide 64 Easy Background got released on this forums, but didn't have time to read what it does exactly.
Check my post on the previous page about how to fix the crashing issue when Hi-Res caching is enabled.
Thats for emu 1964, I use Pj64, unless it works on Pj64 as well. Plus, seems a bit to difficult, and the link to that Fall out 3 doesnt work, which idk what fall out 3 has to do with this. I have no idea how to work this Explorer Suite at all.
It should work on PJ64 as well, but I really recommend switching to 1964 v0.9.9
Ah, it looks like that file was taken down because someone was bitching about its freeware status. Anyway, here's what you need to do.
You can download the needed tool at this link:
http://www.ntcore.com/files/ExplorerSuite.exe
Install this!
Next, right click on your emulator exe and click "Open with CFF Explorer"
Now, in the new window that opens, click "File Header" in the left hand pane.
Next, in the right hand pane, click the button in the bottom right that says "Click here"
A new window will now appear with a bunch of checkboxes. Simply check the one that says "App can handle >2gb addressset
Click ok
Close out the program, and say yes to saving and yes to overwriting original file.
Voila! No more crashing when hi-res is enabled.
If for whatever reason this doesn't work for you on PJ64 (it did for me) then switch to 1964 and it will DEFINITELY work.
Oh, sorry, I forgot to mention.
Don't use r75, lol. r35 is the last version I was able to get working with hi-res caching. You can find that easily in the plugins forum, it's in the first post in the 1964 devtalk thread.
http://emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=49671