Ford Bold Moves Street Racing GFX issue

[theboy181]

Windows 10
ppsspp Gold 1.8

Game has an issue where the gfx look lower resolution than the first 25% of the lower screen. You can see a shadowed line across the road where the issues starts. Software doesn't have this issue, but there are LARGE blocks of garbage all over the screen.

[theboy181]

Posted a video on Discord

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/480103153803460614/617609566921687051/2019-08-31_23-38-18.mov

[Leopard20]

That looks like a PP effect (on the game side)

[theboy181]

What is the PP effect? Is there more information on it?

[hrydgard]

I think he just means post-processing, and it's something the game is doing on top of the image.

[LunaMoo]

It's some foggy bloom effect, I remember making workarounds to remove it for a bunch of "Ford" games since they all had this problem.

[theboy181]

You have these hacks available? Also this game doesn't have this issue in SW mode.

[unknownbrackets]

Could you try exporting a GE frame dump? These help a lot.

See here for instructions - it's not hard and works on Android too:
https://github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp/wiki/How-to-create-a-frame-dump

You can zip that and then drag and drop it into a reply here.

-[Unknown]

[Leopard20]

@theboy181
The workarounds are here: https://github.com/LunaMoo/PPSSPP_workarounds
Place the cheat.db file in:
PPSSPP (main folder)\ memstick\PSP\CHEATS
If the "CHEATS" folder doesn't exist, make one.
Then just enable the cheats for the game and import the cheats from the database.

[theboy181]

That worked @LunaMoo Thank you!!

Here is a code I worked on to make this game shine!

_G Ford Moves Street Racing  [Public Version 1.0]

_C1 60FPS
_L 0x2021B644 0x00000001

_C1 Improved Draw Distance
_L 0x20197B34 0x00000000

_C1 Car Level Of Detail Max
_L 0x20176340 0x24630008

_C1 Remove glitchy effect
_L 0xE0010002 0x00014248
_L 0x20014248 0x0000C021

I would like to understand how to remove these post-processing effects for other games though. How are you locating them in PPSSPP to create codes?

[theboy181]

@LunaMoo

I would like to understand how to remove these post-processing effects for other games though. How are you locating them in PPSSPP to create codes?

any tips?

[Panderner]

Here's a GE Dump:
GE Dump.ppdmp.zip

[Panderner]

It's seems #13262 fixes fog for Vulkan but not OpenGL:

[hrydgard]

Good find, then this is just depth texturing and once I implement that for OpenGL ES 3.0, it will work on devices that support that. It's a bit trickier than VK though due to the different depth buffer range we use so it'll be a while.

[Panderner]

Ford Racing: Off Road had a same problem:

OpenGL:

Vulkan:

[ghost]

I cannot reproduce this issue after #16961 is merged.

Snapdragon 439 tried and tested both opengl and vulkan.

[hrydgard]

Hm, that's curious since the new stuff there is only enabled by a compatibility flag. But it might have included some bug fixes too, heh.

[Panderner]

D3D9 results:

[hrydgard]

Well, that's better than the early pictures in this thread, as far as I can tell, but looks like the fog is missing.