Icewind Dale The Icewind Dale Series Thread

[Jigby]

despite both having integer scaling options.

integer scaling is going to affect only the size of the scaling. Plus, you're already at integer since you're playing at half your desktop resolution. So the integer option at that resolution should have no effect. For filters, switch the shaders. I guess the common ones are nearest-neighbor, sharp bilinear, catmull-rom, catmull-rom-sharp and fsr. FSR was added only in 6.5.0.0, so you might have to update (the version packaged with iwd2ee seems to be ~6.0.0.0). Also some of those shaders might be in the shader-package.zip (shader-package.zip\interpolation\...)

 

[Melcar]

Downloaded the most recent cnc-ddraw (6.9 something). Been playing with the filters. Nearest neighbor looks much crappier than what I get in gamescope. Catmulll-rom-bilinear seems to be the best one for me.

 

[Jigby]

I think FSR has the sharpest look, but it doesn't look good with the old fog of war and I don't like the one in EE. So I can't really use it...

Nearest neighbor looks much crappier

Yeah, I also dislike nearest neighbor, some people like though, even Codex has plenty of recommendations with set resolution to your desktop half and the integer scale application etc...

 

[Melcar]

Nearest neighbor looks rather good and crisp in gamescope, so not sure what is happening with cnc-ddraw. Haven't tried fsr, but at least in gamescope it tends to smudge the edges of sprites a bit too much and some colors look messed up (like reds). Text rendering with gamescope and fsr is much better than with other filters. The EE fog of war looks weird, but I prefer it over the constant flickering with the original fog.

 

[cretin]

Guys can you bash together a quick summary for what you did to get IWD2EE running on wine? Ive been having trouble all morning.

 

[Melcar]

Got it running on a WINE staging prefix (ver 9.19) with nothing extra except cnc-ddraw. Mod installs fine (just takes a while like all weidu mods). Using IWD2 Complete from GOG.

• Install IWD2 (preferably on its own WINE prefix)
• Download the latest IWD2EE and extract it to your IWD2 install folder
• Run the IWD2EE setup and install desired components
• Get the latest cnc-ddraw from here
• Extract the cnc-ddraw archive to your IWD2 install folder
• Add a ddraw override to your WINE prefix and set it to "native"
• Run cnc-ddraw config utility (it should be inside your IWD2 installatin folder too) and set preferences to your liking

 

[Melcar]

Better install and run cnc-ddraw after the mod so you use the latest version.