Side effects playing the game at 60 FPS

Polymega commented 6 years ago

You can use this save folder to reference some of the framerate issues mentioned below. Go to <path-to-game>\data\save\ and make a backup of your Folder 01 folder within here. Then, completely replace your Folder 01 folder with this new one.

Important (noticeably affects audio, visuals, gameplay)

[x] The fog speed moves twice as fast (too fast).
- Solution found by Aero_. Implemented by mercury501.
[x] For the Eddie boss rooms, the fog that slowly pours out the holes/vents in the walls is affected by the 60fps fog speed fix (right above). It will create a near-motionless "blanket" of fog on the wall. This would need its own, special adjustment.
- Solution found by Aero_. Implemented by mercury501.
[x] The water animates/moves twice as fast.
- Water areas: RPT Apartment boss fight, lake water while rowing, and water throughout the Labyrinth/Alternate Hotel.
- Load save file Data 57, Data 58, Data 59, Data 60 to test. There are many water spots throughout the Labyrinth and Alternate Hotel areas.
- Solution found by Polymega. Implemented by mercury501.
[x] The physics of the bullet casings dropping from the handgun and shotgun become wrong. This causes the SFX of them hitting the ground to wig out. This affects the handgun and shotgun.
- Solution found by Aero_. Implemented by mercury501.
[x] The "Ritual" prison monster's footsteps go crazy fast.
- Load save file Data 61 to test.
- Solution found by Murugo. Implemented by Murugo.
[x] AudioClipDetection can crash the game when playing in 60 fps.
- Solution found and implemented by Elisha.
[x] The animation process whenever James transcribes notes onto his map is twice as fast (too fast).
- Map transcription areas: Motorhome, BAR Neely's, Town West (at broken bridge), and Hospital Director's Room.
- Load save file Data 62, Data 63, Data 64, Data 65 to test.
- Solution found by Murugo. Implemented by Murugo.
[x] The intensity/effectiveness of the motion blur is reduced by half.
- Load save file Data 66, Data 67 to test. These are just two motion blur example spots.
- Solution found by Aero_. Implemented by mercury501.
[X] PS2CameraSpeed moves twice as fast (too fast).
- Solution found and implemented by Aero_.
[x] The visual range of the Lying Figure's spray attack is twice as long. The spray can look like it's hitting James when it actually isn't.
- Load save file Data 70 to test.
- Solution found by Murugo. Implemented by Murugo.
[x] The visual range of the Hyper Spray's spray is twice as long. The spray can look like it's hitting enemies when it actually isn't.
- Load save file Data 70 to test.
- Solution found by Murugo. Implemented by Murugo.
[x] Enemies that hold you in place for attacks do twice as much damage. This is due to damage being accrued per frame. This can make the final boss unbeatable in certain situations.
- Enemies that hold you in place: Flesh Lips, Abstract Daddies, Final Boss (tentacle choke and moth attack [?]).
- Load save file Data 1 to test Flesh Lips. Load save file Data 2 to test Abstract Daddies. Load save file Data 3 to test Final Boss.
- Solution found by Murugo. Would need to be implemented.

Other

[x] The flashlight's light turns on and off twice as fast.
- Solution found by Aero_. Implemented by mercury501.
[x] The flashlight dies out twice as fast in the prison bug room.
- Solution found by Polymega. Implemented by mercury501.
[x] The low health indicator flashes twice as fast.
- Load save file Data 68 to test.
- Solution found by Polymega. Implemented by mercury501.
[x] The flames in Angela's staircase move twice as fast, and the "animated lights" in this room (such as seen on James/Angela) move twice as fast.
- Load save file Data 69 to test.
- Solution found by Polymega. Implemented by mercury501.
[x] The water drains twice as fast at the end of the RPT Apartment boss fight.
- Load save file Data 57 to test. Defeat Pyramid Head to make water drain.
- Solution found by Polymega. Implemented by mercury501.
[x] The water rises twice as fast when the Alternate Hotel elevator door opens.
- Load save file Data 4 to test. Go in the elevator and go to the Basement (B) Floor.
- Solution found by Polymega. Implemented by mercury501.
[x] The time in which the game shows the pre-cutscene death animation of Eddie is cut in half.
- Solution found by Aero_. Implemented by mercury501.
[x] For the Eddie boss room, the physics of when the hanging meat is hit moves the meat twice as much/far.
- Solution found by Aero_. Implemented by mercury501.

FMVs

[x] FMV playback is affected if FMVs are saved as 60 fps. We only want one version of the FMV Enhancement Pack to maintain, so if we make the FMVs 60 fps we need to ensure 60 fps FMVs can also playback correctly if the game is set to 30 fps, for those that want to play at its original framerate.
- Here is a test FMV at 60 fps. Go to <path-to-game>\sh2e\movie\, make a backup of toilet.bik, then replace it with this test 60 fps version. You can easily test this FMV by starting a new game or by watching "James in the Restroom" through the game's "MOVIE" menu found on the title screen.
- Solution found by Aero_. Implemented by mercury501.

To help visualize the to-do list a bit easier:

Issue	1.0 Fixed?	1.1 Fixed?	DC Fixed?
The fog speed moves twice as fast (too fast).	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
For the Eddie boss rooms, the fog that slowly pours out the holes/vents in the walls is affected by the 60fps fog speed fix (right above). It will create a near-motionless "blanket" of fog on the wall. This would need its own, special adjustment.	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
The water animates/moves twice as fast.	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
The physics of the bullet casings dropping from the handgun and shotgun wig out.	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
The "Ritual" prison monster's footsteps go crazy fast.	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
`AudioClipDetection` can crash the game when playing in 60 fps.	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
The animation process whenever James transcribes notes onto his map is twice as fast (too fast).	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
The intensity/effectiveness of the motion blur is reduced by half.	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
`PS2CameraSpeed` moves twice as fast (too fast).	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
The visual range of the Lying Figure's spray attack is twice as long.	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
The visual range of the Hyper Spray's spray is twice as long.	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
Enemies that hold you in place for attacks do twice as much damage.	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
The flashlight's light turns on and off twice as fast.	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
The flashlight dies out twice as fast in the prison bug room.	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
The low health indicator flashes twice as fast.	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
The flames in Angela's staircase move twice as fast, and the "animated lights" in this room (such as seen on James/Angela) move twice as fast.	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
The water drains twice as fast at the end of the RPT Apartment boss fight.	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
The water rises twice as fast when the Alternate Hotel elevator door opens.	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
The time in which the game shows the pre-cutscene death animation of Eddie is cut in half.	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
For the Eddie boss room, the physics of when the hanging meat is hit moves the meat twice as much/far.	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
FMV playback is affected if FMVs are saved as 60 fps.	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:

illusion0001 commented 2 years ago

Hyper spray 004a4a10 or whatever this effect is

Polymega commented 2 years ago

@illusion0001 Check out this video for easy testing: https://youtu.be/JgFjuwrQ1FY

Kill all but one Lying Figure here, then bait the last one to do a spray attack while you're on any stair of the pool. If you time/position yourself right, the creature will stay in place and keep spraying infinitely without moving. This video also shows the Hyper Spray (spray can weapon) in action along with monitoring those two addresses I mentioned.

After giving yourself the Hyper Spray and killing two of these enemies, make a Quick Save (F5) so you can Quick Load (F9) back to this spot quickly, if desired.

Polymega commented 2 years ago

I suggest doing a playthrough [to test 006BC194 for water/flame animations] to ensure it's not changing anything we don't want to be changed. But my guess is that it's fine.

Did a full playthrough and everything was fine. This value is safe to change.

Oh, while playing, I noticed the physics of the spray from the Hospital puzzle box is not affected by framerate. I don't know if we can use this to our advantage with fixing the Lying Figure's/Hyper Spray's spray, but thought I'd point that out.

My memory has gone a bit rusty. That spray effect for the Hospital puzzle box is moving twice as fast. I was streaming a test playthrough when myself and the chat were convinced this particular spray wasn't affected.

Assuming finding a fix for one spray physics doesn't globally fix it for all spray physics, this particular scenario is not important at all. It's fine to be left alone. Just the Lying Figure (enemy) and Hyper Spray (weapon) sprays are important to look into.

Alexbeav commented 2 years ago

I thought [...] saving it as a blank wav file would be enough though

Are you just renaming a blank .txt to .wav or something? That would be the problem why, then. You'll need an actual, legit silent audio .wav file for it to work.

You can open a short .wav file in Audacity, select the track , click the "silence" button , and save it out as sddata349.wav. Just be sure to save it as mono and not stereo.

Edit: Here's a roughly 1-second silent .wav file for you to use: sddata349.zip

Hello, I am using that file along with splitbin/mergebin to put together an sddata.bin with a 'silent' bullet/shell casing, but even after I replace the file with the blank sddata349 and merging the files, the shell casing audio still plays. Is sddata349 the ONLY sound effect of shell casing, or is it possible there are more depending on floor type? I am testing this in nightmare hospital and the sound is still glitching.

Thanks.

filipinowhiteboy commented 2 years ago

I thought [...] saving it as a blank wav file would be enough though

Are you just renaming a blank .txt to .wav or something? That would be the problem why, then. You'll need an actual, legit silent audio .wav file for it to work. You can open a short .wav file in Audacity, select the track , click the "silence" button , and save it out as sddata349.wav. Just be sure to save it as mono and not stereo. Edit: Here's a roughly 1-second silent .wav file for you to use: sddata349.zip

Hello, I am using that file along with splitbin/mergebin to put together an sddata.bin with a 'silent' bullet/shell casing, but even after I replace the file with the blank sddata349 and merging the files, the shell casing audio still plays. Is sddata349 the ONLY sound effect of shell casing, or is it possible there are more depending on floor type? I am testing this in nightmare hospital and the sound is still glitching.

Thanks.

No, It should just be that one sound bite.

Alexbeav commented 2 years ago

I thought [...] saving it as a blank wav file would be enough though

Are you just renaming a blank .txt to .wav or something? That would be the problem why, then. You'll need an actual, legit silent audio .wav file for it to work. You can open a short .wav file in Audacity, select the track , click the "silence" button , and save it out as sddata349.wav. Just be sure to save it as mono and not stereo. Edit: Here's a roughly 1-second silent .wav file for you to use: sddata349.zip

Hello, I am using that file along with splitbin/mergebin to put together an sddata.bin with a 'silent' bullet/shell casing, but even after I replace the file with the blank sddata349 and merging the files, the shell casing audio still plays. Is sddata349 the ONLY sound effect of shell casing, or is it possible there are more depending on floor type? I am testing this in nightmare hospital and the sound is still glitching. Thanks.

No, It should just be that one sound bite.

I wonder why it's not working then. Do I need to enable anything in the configuration? Is it rejecting the custom sddata.bin?

Could you please share your sddata.bin file with the blank casing effect? Thanks!

mercury501 commented 2 years ago

Hi there, I was lurking and thought it'd be fun to implement a couple of the solutions found so far. For now I wrote the solutions found by @AeroWidescreen for the fog and bullet shells, here's a build if you'd like to try it. d3d8.zip

And here is the branch I'm experimenting on if you want to see the code!

I'll try and help with other issues!

mercury501 commented 2 years ago

Oh, and here's a Release build, last one was Debug. d3d8.zip

filipinowhiteboy commented 2 years ago

Could you please share your sddata.bin file with the blank casing effect? Thanks!

No problem Here's the link to my sddata file. It's called sdata.bin60fps. If you want to use it, remove the "60fps" at the end of the .bin The file also needs to be placed in the custom sound folder of the sh2e folder. I'd recommend making a copy of the original sddata.bin file too just in case you want to play the game at 30fps again and want to keep the shell casing sfx.

Polymega commented 2 years ago

Oh, and here's a Release build, last one was Debug.

Wonderful! Thank you. It looks like the fog speed fix is working as intended, but the bullet casing fix is still bugged.

mercury501 commented 2 years ago

It looks like the fog speed fix is working as intended, but the bullet casing fix is still bugged.

Yeah I noticed, tomorrow I'll check my implementation and report back!

Edit- I literally halved the value for the bullets instead of doubling it, I'll fix ASAP. 😅

filipinowhiteboy commented 2 years ago

It looks like the fog speed fix is working as intended, but the bullet casing fix is still bugged.

Yeah I noticed, tomorrow I'll check my implementation and report back!

Edit- I literally halved the value for the bullets instead of doubling it, I'll fix ASAP. 😅

Oooh can't wait to try that. Does it fix the bullet casings from hugging the floor?

mercury501 commented 2 years ago

mmm I'm not sure actually. Here's a build with the right value for the bullets d3d8.zip

filipinowhiteboy commented 2 years ago

@mercury501 I'll check it out. Thank you.

mercury501 commented 2 years ago

Here's a new build with flashlight, flames and red cross fixes d3d8.zip

Polymega commented 2 years ago

Everything looks good so far except for the bullet casing fix; shooting the handgun will instantly crash the game back to desktop.

mercury501 commented 2 years ago

You are absolutely right, I got confused with the offsets to find the functions, before I had them hard coded! There you go d3d8.zip

Polymega commented 2 years ago

Sweet! Thank you 👍

mercury501 commented 2 years ago

Hi all, I was rummaging through memory looking for other values when I stumbled upon this one, I think it's a float and it seems to control game speed. Maybe it can be useful to somebody! Here's the address 932d34

Cheers

Murugo commented 1 year ago

Hey all, I have an attempted fix for the "Ritual" prison monster footsteps in an experimental branch here, following mercury501's example on how to create patches. d3d8.zip (Working only for US V1.0 for now, but I will look into other versions soon.)

0x004AE615:
jmp PrisonerTimerFix

PrisonerTimerFix:
sal dword ptr [esi + 0xA0],1
ret

mercury501 commented 1 year ago

Hi @Murugo , just tested it now and seem to work!

one thing @Polymega I was shooting in the cell just for funsies, basically I: shot a shotgun shell kept holding the aim button

and the sound for the shell hitting the ground kept playing, and at a high speed. Did anyone else notice this?

Polymega commented 1 year ago

Hi @Murugo, What a great surprise to wake up to! Thank you very much. I'll test this out as well when I return home from work. We really appreciate you coming in to help with this cause. 😊

@mercury501 Were you testing with a build using the 60 fps fixes you've integrated so far? I believe Murugo's 60 fps test branch (above) was forked from Elisha's repo, so it wouldn't include the 60 fps fixes you've integrated into your test branch.

Polymega commented 1 year ago

@Murugo Awesome work here! The ritual prison monster has never sounded better! 😄

Murugo commented 1 year ago

Good to hear! One downside is that this kind of patch will only work when FPSLimit = 60. In general, is there a need to support frame limits other than 30 or 60?

Polymega commented 1 year ago

Just the original 30 and new 60 will be supported, so we're good here. :) The main reason for this is the exact reason you stated here.

Plus, this is a slow, story-driven game, so the bump to 60 fps will more than suffice.

Caladbolg95 commented 1 year ago

Would love to see in the near future after 60fps is fixed that 120fps could be worked on as well? Having unlocked framerate would most likely completely kill everything but fps in multiples of 30 or 60 should seemingly work fine

Murugo commented 1 year ago

Some notes on the Lying Figure spray and Hyper Spray effects:

FUN_4A3EC0: Update function for a Lying Figure spray particle. Controls the location, size and alpha of the particle each frame.
FUN_4A4A10: Allocates a new Lying Figure spray particle struct and sets initial values. Called once per frame while the effect is active.
FUN_4A43F0: Update function for a Hyper Spray particle. Very similar to the update function for the Lying Figure.
FUN_4A5090: Allocates a new Hyper Spray particle struct and sets initial values.

Dividing float values by 2 that control speed in FUN_4A3EC0 and FUN_4A43F0 can fix the visual range in 60 FPS. However, because FUN_4A4A10 and FUN_4A5090 are called every frame, the effect will have up to 2x as many particles compared to 30 FPS.

The workaround I'm using is to add logic to the beginning of FUN_4A4A10 and FUN_4A5090 to skip allocating a new particle every other frame. The fix should not interfere with other effects since it is very specific to the Lying Figure and Hyper Spray.

LyingFigureSprayPatches

(IMO, the Hyper Spray looks a bit nicer with twice as many particles :) but the spawn rate fix is good for accuracy.)

Here's a build so far with patches for both effects (1.0 only, branch). Made a quick fix for the spawn rate code when multiple spray effects are on screen, but this could still use more testing. d3d8.zip

Polymega commented 1 year ago

@Murugo you're on fire!! Another great email to wake up to! 😄

Thank you so much for taking this initiative. A fully treated 60 fps mode is becoming more and more real each day... Gives me goosebumps... 😍

I'll try and test myself in the near future. I'm currently engulfed with hosting provider issues for the site that's demanding a lot of my free time. I'm eager to test but, in the meantime, if anyone else can help Murugo test that would be helpful. 👍

AeroWidescreen commented 1 year ago

@Murugo Amazing! We're quickly narrowing down all of the important issues thanks to the help of you and all of the others that have contributed so far. 👍

@Polymega I don't remember if I shared the code for this before, but I believe the best solution for 60fps FMVs is to unlock the framerate while an FMV is playing. This unlocked framerate should theoretically allow you to use any combination of FMV. 60fps with 30fps FMVs. 30fps with 60fps FMVs. Or a mix of 30fps and 60fps FMVs. It shouldn't matter anymore.

Assembly:

0043DD90:
nop 
nop 
nop 
nop 
nop

Cheat Table: Save as .CT and open in Cheat Engine.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CheatTable CheatEngineTableVersion="42">
  <CheatEntries>
    <CheatEntry>
      <ID>0</ID>
      <Description>"Unlocked Framerate (FMV)"</Description>
      <VariableType>Auto Assembler Script</VariableType>
      <AssemblerScript>[ENABLE]
"sh2pc.exe"+3DD90:
nop 5

[DISABLE]
"sh2pc.exe"+3DD90:
call 004F6CE0

</AssemblerScript>
    </CheatEntry>
  </CheatEntries>
  <UserdefinedSymbols/>
</CheatTable>

Polymega commented 1 year ago

The intensity/effectiveness of the motion blur is reduced by half.

Thank you to @AeroWidescreen for his original research on this way-back-when and confirmation on this very simple adjustment.

When played in 60 fps, change MotionBlurValue from 0.25f to 0.125f.

Polymega commented 1 year ago

This unlocked framerate should theoretically allow you to use any combination of FMV. 60fps with 30fps FMVs. 30fps with 60fps FMVs. Or a mix of 30fps and 60fps FMVs. It shouldn't matter anymore.

That's great! Thank you for this.

Polymega commented 1 year ago

Enemies that hold you in place for attacks do twice as much damage. This is due to damage being accrued per frame. This can make the final boss unbeatable in certain situations.

Enemies that hold you in place: Flesh Lips, Abstract Daddies, Final Boss (tentacle choke and moth attack [?]).

Maybe something in here? (Find out what accesses 01FB111C while having an enemy attack hold you in place)

01F8FD20 byte changes to a 1 whenever you're held in place by an enemy attack. It'll sometimes flicker to 1 when being attacked "normally", but doesn't happen often from what I could tell. This wouldn't be elegant, but perhaps a Hail Mary could be reducing damage input by half whenever this value is 1 if we can't find a more reliable way to detect "stun lock attacks?"

Murugo commented 1 year ago

There is a chance that 005359E8 is only executed during a stun lock attack (setting a breakpoint might help confirm). This updates James' HP (01FB113C) by subtracting enemy damage (01FB111C) every frame, but only if damage occurs while player movement is paused during an enemy attack ([01FB8118] == 1). If this is the case, then dividing enemy damage by 2 at this point might work:

inject:  // 005359D5: D9 86 3C 01 00 00
  jmp update

update:
  fld dword ptr [esi+0x11C]
  fmul dword ptr []  // Multiply damage by 0.5f
  fld dword ptr [esi+0x13C]
  fsub st,st(1)
  fstp dword ptr [esi+0x13C]
  mov edx,[esi+0x13C]
  push edx
  jmp sh2pc.exe+1359EE

Polymega commented 1 year ago

Thanks so much, Murugo. We'll investigate 005359E8 soon. Hopefully that'll be the ticket and your work here will be good to go as-is!

Another question/favor: You've kind of taken on the lead role with 60 fps work, and we thank you dearly for this. I'd like to properly add your name/details to the project's credits. In other words, we'd love to have you and add you to the team roster. 😃

May I ask you to send me a message through this form so I can get more info from you?

elishacloud commented 1 year ago

then dividing enemy damage by 2 at this point might work:

When we implement this in the code, I think we should be using a formula for this type of thing rather than statically dividing by 2. For example we should use a formula like this:

divisor = X / 30 (where X is the currently set FPS)

MasterDarkseid commented 1 year ago

I see that most Issues are fixed and implemented, The FMV at 60 FPS will be a piece of cake in comparison to all you've have done, Your work is awesome team, I'll be ready to test it intensively when it's ready to be tested.

Murugo commented 1 year ago

May I ask you to send me a message through this form so I can get more info from you?

Will do, thanks!

When we implement this in the code, I think we should be using a formula for this type of thing rather than statically dividing by 2.

Yes I agree. I've also seen FUN_00447830 used in several places that acts as a delta time function, i.e. returns a float 1 / FPSLimit, which could be used in place of the static factor.

elishacloud commented 1 year ago

Yes I agree. I've also seen FUN_00447830 used in several places that acts as a delta time function

Perfect. 👍

Polymega commented 1 year ago

@Murugo @AeroWidescreen checked over 005359E8 and found this will be safe to use for our purposes in fixing damage-per-frame stun lock attacks. :blush:

A huge thanks to Bigmanjapan for his research on this. It led me in the right direction to find (what should hopefully be) the addresses to fix this.

The water drains twice as fast at the end of the RPT Apartment boss fight.

0089C1A4 float tells the game how many steps/increments to lower the water in the Apartment Stairwell. Default value is 10f. Change to 20f to fix speed at 60 fps.

The water rises twice as fast when the Alternate Hotel elevator door opens.

006BC1F4 float tells the game how many steps/increments to rise the water in the Alternate Hotel Elevator. Default value is 10.66666698f. Change to 5.333333492f to fix speed at 60 fps.

@AeroWidescreen May I ask you to verify 0089C1A4 and 006BC1F4 are safe for us to use/adjust?

Murugo commented 1 year ago

The animation process whenever James transcribes notes onto his map is twice as fast (too fast).

Some useful addresses for the map animation:

0094D934: Current map animation state
- 0 = inactive, 1 = wait for screen fade-out, 2 = init, 3 = screen fade-in, 4 = active, 5 = done
0094D8DC: Current active marker state
- 0 = inactive, 1 = pause, 2 = zoom, 3 = marker fade-in, 4 = pause, 5 = pan to next marker
0094D8D4: Pause frame counter (used by active marker states 1 and 4)
FUN_0049E060: State handler for the map animation
FUN_0049C610: State handler for the active marker

The following active marker states need to be patched to play the animation at the correct framerate:

State 1: Waits 16 frames before moving to state 2 (instruction at 0049C6A8)
State 3: While alpha < 0x80, increments the alpha value of the marker by 8 each frame (instruction at 0049C6FA)
State 4: Waits 24 frames after the marker is completely visible (instruction at 0049C722)

There are also some 1-frame state transitions that could be extended to 2 frames while in 60 FPS to help match the original speed of the animation. For example, active marker state 2 moves directly to state 3 if the map is already zoomed in.

While testing the above, I found that the pause between each fade-in & fade-out transition is faster by roughly ~150 ms when playing in 60 FPS. This also affects fade transitions between rooms (comparison video). Maybe this has been noticed before?

I'm guessing most players will either not notice the difference or appreciate the speed improvement. Speedrunners might find that they can save a lot of frames going between rooms when playing at a higher framerate. This might give them an unfair advantage over anyone speedrunning the game at 30 FPS.

Polymega commented 1 year ago

Thanks again, Murugo!

While testing the above, I found that the pause between each fade-in & fade-out transition is faster by roughly ~150 ms when playing in 60 FPS. [...] Maybe this has been noticed before?

While testing high framerate issues I've noticed a fair amount of minor discrepancies like this but, since we have to "hand fix" these issues one-by-one, I decided it was best to just list the worst offenders for us to work on. By "worst offenders" I mean issues that affect actual gameplay or are super-noticeable in the audio/visual department.

When the 60 fps feature goes live, I will quickly make mention in the update video that there are surely other minute high framerate issues but we won't be addressing them; we just wanted to fix the worst offenders.

However...... In regards to the fade-in/-out speeds between entering new rooms, I also noticed at 60 fps you can sometimes see Maria "spawn in" to the next room you enter. The fade-in is just quick enough to catch this if you know what you're looking for.

So, @Murugo, I leave this ball in your court: If you know of an easy way to keep fade-ins/-outs the same as with 30 fps and it's relatively easy to do, then by all means please share!

mercury501 commented 1 year ago

The flames in Angela's staircase move twice as fast. The water animates/moves twice as fast.

I believe I found the address to fix this. Check it out here.

To slow down the flames: Change 006BC194 float from 0.0333f to 0.0165f.

To slow down the animated lighting effects: Change 0070AE40 float from 0.0005555444513f to 0.00027777222565f.

Hi all, so I've added this fix to my branch, the value is correctly overwritten but I can't manage to see the difference, here's the build: d3d8.zip

Oh and great work, @Murugo ! That is some advanced stuff. How did you find the map related values and functions, it's so hard to find a way to isolate those with something like cheat engine

mercury501 commented 1 year ago

@Murugo @AeroWidescreen checked over 005359E8 and found this will be safe to use for our purposes in fixing damage-per-frame stun lock attacks. 😊

A huge thanks to Bigmanjapan for his research on this. It led me in the right direction to find (what should hopefully be) the addresses to fix this.

The water drains twice as fast at the end of the RPT Apartment boss fight.

0089C1A4 float tells the game how many steps/increments to lower the water in the Apartment Stairwell. Default value is 10f. Change to 20f to fix speed at 60 fps.

The water rises twice as fast when the Alternate Hotel elevator door opens.

006BC1F4 float tells the game how many steps/increments to rise the water in the Alternate Hotel Elevator. Default value is 10.66666698f. Change to 5.333333492f to fix speed at 60 fps.

@AeroWidescreen May I ask you to verify 0089C1A4 and 006BC1F4 are safe for us to use/adjust?

Should I add these fixes to my branch?

Polymega commented 1 year ago

Should I add these fixes to my branch?

If you wouldn't mind, that would be great! It might be good to merge Murugo's 60 fps branch into your branch at some point so it's all together.

Polymega commented 1 year ago

So, @Murugo, I leave this ball in your court: If you know of an easy way to keep fade-ins/-outs the same as with 30 fps and it's relatively easy to do, then by all means please share!

Wait, could this be as easy as changing a value in FastTransitions found in the line below?

https://github.com/ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack/blob/master/source/SilentHill2.WidescreenFix/dllmain.cpp#L490

Change from 0.5f to either 0.25f or 1f?

This feature is part of the Widescreen Fixes Pack (WFP). I believe this project pulls in the WFP code as an external resource. (See here ) Knowing all that, does it make sense/is it plausible to change the value here when in 60 fps mode?

Murugo commented 1 year ago

Wait, could this be as easy as changing a value in FastTransitions found in the line below?

Thanks for pointing this out! It looks like this feature speeds up the fade itself. The fade speed is actually the same between 30 FPS and 60 FPS - the discrepancy is in the number of frames in between while the screen is black. Setting 1.0f appears to be too slow, unfortunately. There might be some value close to 0.5f which can help offset the difference.

I'll start with patching map transcription animation first and see if I can come back to this a bit later.

Oh and great work, @Murugo ! That is some advanced stuff. How did you find the map related values and functions, it's so hard to find a way to isolate those with something like cheat engine

IIRC, I was able to find the alpha value of the current marker using Cheat Engine, then got lucky searching adjacent memory for anything that seemed related to the animation :)

mercury501 commented 1 year ago

Thank you @Murugo for your explanation! We can merge the branches anytime, and however you want. Here's a build with the water level speed fix, tested it on RPT apartment fight and seems to work, couldn't find the save for the elevator tho. d3d8.zip

Polymega commented 1 year ago

Water level speed fixes and fire animated lights are good (at least for v1.0)! Will still need to confirm all these addresses are safe to use in the future.

Polymega commented 1 year ago

The flashlight dies out twice as fast in the prison bug room.

I don't believe this is correctly fixed using the global flashlight on/off speed fix. See video below:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/27395260/202585469-ecb0849c-7b30-4e8b-87f4-397aacf1e26a.mp4

The lens flare timing looks correct, but the actual light is still dying out twice as fast. I believe to fix this we need to change 006C10A8 float from 0.18666666597f to 0.093333332985f.

This appears to be a special address for instruction sh2pc.exe+10AA66 - fsub dword ptr [006C10A8]. Although note that I have not tested to see if this address is used elsewhere in the game.

matheusvb3 commented 1 year ago

Are you looking for playtesters for 60FPS yet? I can test on Linux like I did for the mouse controls.

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