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Etrian Oddysey flickering menus

Open NineKain opened this issue 3 years ago • 11 comments

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/72826232/137344963-444871c8-012c-4403-876a-0a888f023025.mp4

software mode does not solve this issue

NineKain avatar Oct 14 '21 15:10 NineKain

needs hw verification

RSDuck avatar Oct 26 '21 20:10 RSDuck

needs hw verification

you mean my specs?

3060ti, R5 5600x, 16gb ram, win 10

NineKain avatar Oct 26 '21 20:10 NineKain

no it needs to be tried on a real DS, ideally with a capture card.

RSDuck avatar Oct 26 '21 20:10 RSDuck

no it needs to be tried on a real DS, ideally with a capture card.

doesnt happen on ds iirc, I played the game before

NineKain avatar Oct 26 '21 20:10 NineKain

the display of real DS's have a lot of ghosting which can easily hide a bit of flickering like this.

RSDuck avatar Oct 26 '21 20:10 RSDuck

idk if nds-bootstrap counts, but it definitely doesn't seem to happen on my DSi with nds-bootstrap.

poudink avatar Oct 29 '21 02:10 poudink

later DS models and even 3DS only have a slightly better screen, so depending on the frequency of the flickering it might not be possible to spot it on those models either.

RSDuck avatar Oct 29 '21 09:10 RSDuck

eh, I see games do flickering for fake transparency pretty often and it's noticeable enough

poudink avatar Oct 30 '21 04:10 poudink

It works with Software mode for me. The shop has lots of difference between Software/OpenGL.

EO3 Shop Soft/OpenGL Comparison

Notice that the dark blue bars between the shop items are missing? I think the flickering is part of those bars flicking in and out of view. Here's the flickering in OpenGL, zoomed in, and slowed down.

Zoomed in flickering

scurest avatar Nov 01 '21 18:11 scurest

It works with Software mode for me. The shop has lots of difference between Software/OpenGL.

EO3 Shop Soft/OpenGL Comparison

Notice that the dark blue bars between the shop items are missing? I think the flickering is part of those bars flicking in and out of view. Here's the flickering in OpenGL, zoomed in, and slowed down.

Zoomed in flickering

Thanks for the in-depth explanation, so is it fixable? Or is just the way it is?

NineKain avatar Nov 01 '21 19:11 NineKain

looking at this again, this seems to be really just a typical OpenGL issue.

RSDuck avatar Aug 06 '22 19:08 RSDuck