Those shader are absolutely ghastly. Just terrible, just nope.
For DOS, try our CRT shaders. These are quite authentic to the real thing. Example images on the front page:
Screen curvature aside, it seems like there's too much blurring in the displayed image. Some C.R.T. shaders incorporate bilinear filtering, but this seems more like it might be due to filtering applied by the wrapper on upscaling the resolution, perhaps? I think those shaders are intended to be used with unfiltered upscaled image, so nearest neighbour scaling, and preferably integer scaling to avoid uneven distribution of the pattern or additional blurring.Going through Bear's Gay 1 for the first time in a long time using the windowcast retroarch core. Playing as a Cleric/Thief also for the first time. Reminds me a lot of my Warhammer: Online runepriest, if he could backstab with a big quarterstaff.
That's a losing battle. Lottes is better, but still not that close. Looks more like a higher quality small TV, not a PC monitor, and the phospor mask is way too strong.
Yes, I realize that Lottes was made to emulate other types of screens, but it tends to be fairly balanced looking out of all the options that are usually provided in C.R.T. shader sets. The second screenshot is of the easymode shader, which I think is supposed to be more faithful to PC monitors?
As I said, I used the above shaders only as a demonstration. But does nearest neighbour scaling performed by the card achieve a different effect compared to just using this scaling mode within a wrapper? I do have an RTX card now. Do you mean the integer scaling in the scaling section in Adjust Desktop Size and Position or Image Scaling in Manage 3D Settings? I'm not sure if Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) could also be used for 2-D DirectDraw games.
Screen curvature aside, it seems like there's too much blurring in the displayed image. Some C.R.T. shaders incorporate bilinear filtering, but this seems more like it might be due to filtering applied by the wrapper on upscaling the resolution, perhaps? I think those shaders are intended to be used with unfiltered upscaled image, so nearest neighbour scaling, and preferably integer scaling to avoid uneven distribution of the pattern or additional blurring.
CNC-DDraw seems to handle Infinity Engine games very well. It comes with all the elementary scaling options and compatibility fixes, and it has some of the popular C.R.T. shaders bundled. Some of them apply bilinear filtering, while others don't, but it feels to me—without having a real C.R.T. monitor with which to compare them—that a very modest amount of blurring is welcome if the real monitor's size is much larger than that of a 15–17" C.R.T. monitor.
It may be possible to use CNC-DDraw as a basis for other shader injectors too, as it doesn't seem it's compatible with just any other GLSL shaders if they're placed in its shaders folder.
I've taken some screenshots using a variant of Lottes's shader and just two at the end with yee64. Inserting just two because of their size, the rest is available from the links below:
modified Lottes
yee64
I suppose CNC-DDraw doesn't offer anything different, if you know what you're doing with Retroarch. It's just a question of choosing the right shader and tweaking it, if necessary. It seems like console emulation has been receiving much more attention in that area so far, so we just need something like preconfigured shaders that work well with specific resolutions. As regards the screenshots you've uploaded, I would just try setting the scaling resampling to nearest neighbour, or turn off bilinear filtering, if possible. As for curvature, it's a matter of preference, as I don't think it contributed anything to the presentation and the ultimate aim was to reduce it as much as possible.Screen curvature aside, it seems like there's too much blurring in the displayed image. Some C.R.T. shaders incorporate bilinear filtering, but this seems more like it might be due to filtering applied by the wrapper on upscaling the resolution, perhaps? I think those shaders are intended to be used with unfiltered upscaled image, so nearest neighbour scaling, and preferably integer scaling to avoid uneven distribution of the pattern or additional blurring.
CNC-DDraw seems to handle Infinity Engine games very well. It comes with all the elementary scaling options and compatibility fixes, and it has some of the popular C.R.T. shaders bundled. Some of them apply bilinear filtering, while others don't, but it feels to me—without having a real C.R.T. monitor with which to compare them—that a very modest amount of blurring is welcome if the real monitor's size is much larger than that of a 15–17" C.R.T. monitor.
It may be possible to use CNC-DDraw as a basis for other shader injectors too, as it doesn't seem it's compatible with just any other GLSL shaders if they're placed in its shaders folder.
I've taken some screenshots using a variant of Lottes's shader and just two at the end with yee64. Inserting just two because of their size, the rest is available from the links below:
modified Lottes
yee64
I'll give it a looking into. Really it's my first time messing around with the Windowcast core. I'm predisposed to the bezel-type shaders in retroarch, and have in more recent days been using Zomb's Bezel Megapack. But it just looks completely wrong in BG1, the text is very tiny.
I didn't think my current setup looked *that* bad, but then again I am a retard. It's been a fun exercise to tinker around with regardless.
The VGA double scanning of 320x200 content does look chunky. That's how all VGA cards in existence work.
Dear ds. Since when does the ability to understand somewhat subtle but important differences equal to "autism"? Please use a dictionary and learn the definition of the term
