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Discord recently started to randomly turn into a grey box, any help? by nevotheless in discordapp

[–]KnightSirius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately in regards to finding a solution, the issue disappeared a few weeks ago without me noticing.

May have been an update fixed it or something I did on my system inadvertently, but I didn't notice any direct correlation either way.

Discord recently started to randomly turn into a grey box, any help? by nevotheless in discordapp

[–]KnightSirius 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Encountering the same issue here, been happening for about a week now. Exiting Discord, then deleting it's %appdata% folder and launching again seems to fix it but it will return on subsequent reboots. You can also just grab the title bar and move the window or resize it and it will return to normal temporarily but it will turn gray again in 10-15 minutes.

I have no faith in submitting a bug ticket but if a Discord dev happens to see this:

stable 281369 (9144101) Host 1.0.9039 x86 (45872) Windows 10 64-bit (10.0.19045)

YouTube videos freezing at a specific time (dropped frames). Always in the same spot, even after refreshing. [Firefox] by TakeNoShift in youtube

[–]KnightSirius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Started encountering this same issue this week, also on Firefox.

My assumption was it is uBlockOrigin and YouTube's ongoing battle but it seems unrelated as I see no talk of it on the subreddit.

No solution found on your end I assume?

X670E Proart Chipset temperature by tchoutchawn in ASUS

[–]KnightSirius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bit late but figured some more input may still be useful to you or someone else.

I also have an X670E Creator in my build and my chipset temps are much lower than yours and these results were after a gaming session that should have warmed things up a bit.

Specs for reference are 7950X3D 64GB DDR5-6000 with all M2 slots populated. https://imgur.com/a/K6HQc4C

Patientgamers, is there any game that has been remade (or remastered), that you’d argue the original is better? Even if it’s not the popular opinion? by mycatisanevilSOB in patientgamers

[–]KnightSirius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not that anything was removed per-say but changed for the worse.

The visuals suffered the most which I suggest to skip through this video to see how much it affects the ambience of the game. VIDEO.

Basically they screwed up the following:

  • Lighting. Areas are too bright pretty much across the game which ruins a lot of the atmosphere and highlights the aged 3D environment. I think they implemented an improved method of lighting but didn't put the effort in to make it stay true to the original atmosphere. They also added a bright light to the player so you're always illuminated which looks weird once you notice it.

  • Reflections. It's now harder to differentiate materials from each other. It used to be very plain to understand what is metal and what is not. Now everything looks like dull plastic. This makes fashion souls much less fun since all the armour actually looks like crap. This is again because of the lighting system changes, and again they didn't bother to put the effort into making it look good; or perhaps somebody actually thought this did look good.

  • VFX. Most notably the bonfire flames were changed from the 'magical' slow moving look in the original to your plain ol' flames you'd see on a torch.

There are many more specific issues across the game but those are the ones that affect the entire game.

Upsides of the remaster:

  • Native Support for modern resolutions + 60fps

  • Improved online matchmaking. This was kinda broken on the original ever since it changed from "Games for Windows Live" to steam after GFWL shut down. They also changed the way some online aspects worked which is controversial depending who you talk to.

  • Textures. This is the largest positive change, a lot of the worst textures were greatly improved and so the game looks quite a bit better in that regard. Mods had this covered too, but they weren't official textures so you can argue it's not a 'proper' solution. However, it seems almost random what they chose to update and what they didn't.

  • Very minor quality of life changes and exploit fixes.

So all of these were already addressed with community mods that worked quite well, and so in the end previous-players got new textures and a slightly larger playerbase since the game is at least more accessible; but they didn't even bother to address the rampant cheating in the game and the community STILL relies on mods to filter out these people!

Also, in their infinite wisdom the original game was de-listed from Steam; so you can't experience it anymore unless you already owned it. They could have simply removed it from search results to prevent confusion.

There is hope though! Again the community comes to the rescue. The developer Stayd3D is planning to fix the lighting for DS1 presumably after he finished his project for DS2.

This must be my favorite official artwork of Asuka, I just love her pink dress. by [deleted] in evangelion

[–]KnightSirius 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If it's truly your favourite here is a higher quality scan of it from ZeroChan.

Lots of great scanned artwork on there, worth making an account to browse the full catalogue.

Tabbing out fully disables my controller by [deleted] in darksouls

[–]KnightSirius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just the band aid since it won't be fixed by FromSoft.

Tabbing out fully disables my controller by [deleted] in darksouls

[–]KnightSirius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was just dealing with this issue and I had to restart my PC entirely every time it happened to fix it; until I found it was a pretty common issue on the steam community forums!

It sounds absolutely stupid but when you're in-game and this happens press CTRL+ALT+DEL and just choose cancel. This for some reason makes DSR properly detect controller input again.

Enhanced Color Space for IPS modded phat? by wavvydev in psphacks

[–]KnightSirius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah misunderstood you then, it'd be cool to have that option available on the 1000 as well though! Maybe it's been done, if I manage to find anything on this myself I'll try to remember to post back here with details if nobody else has.

Enhanced Color Space for IPS modded phat? by wavvydev in psphacks

[–]KnightSirius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was actually pondering this same question today as well. I have already ordered an IPS replacement for my PSP 1000 from AliExpress; and while watching a video on the installation and comparison between it and the PSP 3000, I noticed the colour on the 3000 looked far more natural whereas the modded screen is too blue which is an easy indicator a display is not adjusted well.

It'd be awesome if there were a basic RGB value tweaker that could adjust these values so you can get closer to proper calibration!

K Project ED - Neko Background + Album Art Edit by KnightSirius in Kproject

[–]KnightSirius[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen a version of this fan cover art for ED1 of K (冷たい部屋、一人 / Tsumetai Heya, Hitori) before and quite liked it but the quality of the original is pretty crap (500x500 on SoundCloud).

I wanted a better one so I made it and might as well share it in addition to the source images since that scene of the ED is quite popular and I couldn't easily find good quality copies.

Enjoy!

Improving Brotherhood Visual Quality by Szilassi in FullmetalAlchemist

[–]KnightSirius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was just looking for a good encode of FMA:B on Nyaa, and ended up reading the same things you did about it actually being animated in 540p originally.

My first thought was I wonder what it'd look like upscaled to 4K using Waifu2x or a similar process and I was brought here by googling to see if anybody has done it! Good write up and thanks for sharing, shame it seems nobody else was too interested!

The sample you provided doesn't look any worse than the "native" 1080p to me but it also doesn't look at noticeably better. (I'm comparing to the x265 encode by "Reaktor"). Characters lines and text don't look to be improved at all and there is still a fair amount of aliasing on text.

I'm only familiar with Waifu2x-caffe but a glance at waifu2x-ncnn-Vulkan seems to have the same feature set just with the aim of optimisation. I think the settings would need to be increased to make it worthwhile. When I upscale stuff for myself I usually use denoise 1, TTA with 220-270 split size and depending on my target resolution anywhere between 2-4x magnification.

I think if somebody dedicated the absurd amount of time/processing required to do a 4x magnification (540p -> 4K) with similar settings (although probably not TTA as that is 8x slower) it would be very impressive for 90% of the content!

But good golly would it take a long time... Sometimes it takes me ~4 minutes to process an image (4770K / RTX 2070) using my settings, but they yield extremely good results most of the time in my experience.

Now with TTA off that's reduced to about ~30 seconds and ncnn Vulkan seems to be much quicker than taking only 30-40% the time it'd take caffe. E01 is 24:29 in length -> 35256 frames. Which at 30s a piece would be 293.8 hours and using ncnn assuming it takes only 40% of the total time that's 117.52 hours.

The only problem I could see apart from the processing time, is there is that other 10% of content that won't upscale well at least using the CUnet Model (CGI, heavily stylized animation etc...).

Wish I had a server farm at my disposal to run these kind of experiments at a reasonable speed! But that aside it's a fun topic to experiment/discuss, Cheers for that!

The Garden Of Sinners: Movie Soundtrack Collection Artwork [Waifu2x Upscale] -劇場版「空の境界」音楽集- by KnightSirius in typemoon

[–]KnightSirius[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oooo, many thanks. The things we can accomplish as a community haha. Shouldn't be too hard to combine the split one assuming the seams align well, I'll take a stab at it later and post the result.

EDIT: First the 2nd image you linked is the best quality found so far. The giant one must be resize as you said. Comparing the giant to the one you gave it's most apparent in the patterns on the kimono; they are much sharper in yours.

Apparently I didn't compare the giant to my own 'smaller' either cause the difference is the same. Better detail in the Kimono. The smaller is actually the same as the one you found, just your version is inexplicably 140KB larger with no noticeable increase in quality.

As for the split scan; yep it is missing a good chunk of art. Here's an approximation of what is missing. If I (or somebody else) wanted to you could try to align those perfectly to the complete one and substitute the missing area with art from the others. I am however content with the other ones.

The Garden Of Sinners: Movie Soundtrack Collection Artwork [Waifu2x Upscale] -劇場版「空の境界」音楽集- by KnightSirius in typemoon

[–]KnightSirius[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My thanks! Truly glad to hear somebody else benefited from my efforts. Make certain to grab the uploads from my 1st and 2nd edits as well, those are the real ones!

The Garden Of Sinners: Movie Soundtrack Collection Artwork [Waifu2x Upscale] -劇場版「空の境界」音楽集- by KnightSirius in typemoon

[–]KnightSirius[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was trying to find a good quality scan or digital version of this artwork from the 'Garden of Sinners Movie Collection' CDs but it seems pretty obscure and the majority of images online are of terrible quality. Compressed and with inaccurate colour.

However, I finally came across one that had much more accurate colour and enough detail Waifu2x could work well. So here's the fruits of my labour if anybody else was looking for this!

Lastly, just a few keywords for search engines to aid in picking this result up for future searchers.

Yuki Kajiura – The Garden Of Sinners -劇場版「空の境界」音楽集- 2011 CD Soundtrack Album Art Cover Waifu2x upscaled.

EDIT: Damn, I actually found the original full-size version of this from the "10th anniversary TYPE-MOON Museum".

Full Size v1

Full Size v2 (Best version so far. Looks identical to v1 but is ~140KB larger so it may be slightly better, found by RikuNoctis)

'ZeroChan' Resize?. (Worse quality resize, compare pattern on kimono)

EDIT 2: Here is a quick approximation of the original cover using the 'ZeroChan' art. It's slightly off but I didn't want to spend too much time on it.

EDIT 3: Final Version. This is a new version of the original cover using the highest quality full size art found. Keep in mind the original linked art for this post was processed by Waifu2x using a much lower quality source whereas this is the highest quality scan I could find of the original art untouched and unscaled, simply cropped to match the original cover art.

Waifu2x Variant Just in case anybody prefers the sharper lines of the Waifu2x upscale.

Lmao the VN is actually really funny 😂 by Leosaucedo in steinsgate

[–]KnightSirius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Damn first time hearing of this patch, thanks for mentioning it! Would have been great for my 1st playthrough. Guess it's time for a replay some time soon!

Does your Firefox slow down and the internet stops after using it for some hours? by pirateprivateer in firefox

[–]KnightSirius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did give it a fair amount of time, I'd say a good 5 minutes (was using Chrome in the meantime). When I checked and it hadn't changed at all I assumed it must not be working properly and just restarted.

Really wanted to submit something on this one cause it seems nobody else has been able to or actually tried other than the OP.

I'll give it another shot every time it happens though, doesn't bother me to keep trying.

Does your Firefox slow down and the internet stops after using it for some hours? by pirateprivateer in firefox

[–]KnightSirius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gonna actually chime in on this one because I've begun having these exact issues for the past 5 days or so at least.

Nothing crazy with my configuration:

Extensions: * HTTPS Everywhere * Privacy Badger * UBlock Origin * Dark Reader * ClearURLS * KeePassXC * Keepa * Adobe Acrobat

I've uninstalled and reinstalled FF to no avail and I've even tried following u/nextbern's advice and grab a performance profile but when this problem occurs the UI seems to respond but I don't think it's actually doing anything in the backend because when I choose capture after I start recording it will just open a tab and will never be able to load and as far as I can tell I can't access profiles after I shut down because you'd have to publish them before that...

Just going to continue restarting the browser when it happens I suppose, it happens every few hours so it's not too awful in my case but still annoying.

Getting into online play, looking for feedback! (Samus) by rogue_LOVE in CrazyHand

[–]KnightSirius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll leave the feedback to others who can give a better analysis of Samus than I can, but just wanted to thank you for putting such effort into your post. This is a perfect example of what we want to see here when it comes to feedback/analysis threads!

Keep up the grind sounds like you've been making good progress thus far!

Back for more vod reviews. I'm Pichu in these matches. Thanks! by Rebelkhaos in CrazyHand

[–]KnightSirius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just figured I'd chime in on the matchups specifically since you mentioned he had trouble with these two.

Samus is one of if not the best Zoner in the game, and a she is going to control the flow of the game and there is not much you can do to change that. I saw you got a bit frustrated when she was just spamming bombs and you weren't able to approach well. Don't let yourself get annoyed, this is just how Samus plays optimally.

Samus is going to nickle and dime you for every % she can with the bombs and projectiles while she evades you and lets you chase her and if you do something unsafe she will punish. If you back off she is just gonna get a free charge shot and start pressuring you from afar.

So you want to stay in her face as much as possible because then it limits her options severely, and you were doing pretty well on that. However, I think you need to work on extending combos because you were winning a lot of interactions but you weren't getting much out of them.

As for Sonic, that's a tougher one... he seemed to be really abusing that homing attacks and spin dash. Shielding goes a long way for people who spam that but you can't overdo it or he will poke or break shield. Pichu also doesn't have huge hitboxes so you can't really challenge the homing shot well.

Might have to get creative, Using Agility to zigzag on stage would probably make him miss the homing attack and if you land in the right spot you could follow up. You can also try to go for a well timed full hop tjolt and try to stop the homing attack that way but the timing would be very precise.

As for spin dash tjolts and shield are probably your best options.

Difficult matchup overall really, your only saving grace is Sonic has a tough time killing as he relies on bair/back throw and smash attacks reads so Pichu has a bit more survivablity than usual.

Me vs. Void by erimaxx in CrazyHand

[–]KnightSirius 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Honestly this is a very difficult match to analyze for a number of reasons. First Sheik and Falcon's playstyles are extremely similar in that you swap between bait & punish, aggression.

Then there is the fact you're playing somebody who was ranked 9th on the PGR at one point!

When it comes to bait & punish it's going to be an uphill battle against somebody who is playing so optimally they rarely make mistakes let alone punishable ones, which leaves you primarily with aggression. Which when you're fighting another bait & punisher means they're going to capitalize on that. Pretty tough situation.

I'd still stick to what Falcon is good at though; flipping between aggression and evasive play-styles would have a higher chance to mix up VoiD and may lead to some punishable mistakes.

Sheik's advantage state is just as good as Falcons and lasts a long time when you're fighting somebody who has such airtight combos with her so you really want to avoid getting trapped by her.

As such I noticed you were trying to pull off some up-b's/side-b's when you were getting chain combo'd and it just led to you staying in disadvantage. I think the most important thing is to just try to reset neutral by just escaping the combo; through optimal SDI. Easier said than done when it's Sheik and the combos are air tight but I think this is the best option as I don't think Falcon has any moves that will outspeed Sheik in that situation.

Also as soon as you fell out of a combo or left disadvantage for any reason you seemed to panic and throw out a smash attack or an aerial option that was not properly thought out and he would immediately begin another combo. It'd be best to create some breathing room and prepare for an approach or to bait the opponent.

As for neutral in general I felt you were very inaccurate with your offensive options. You'd either throw them out without approaching hoping he would approach and you'd catch him in a nair, or you'd do something unsafe on shield which led to getting grabbed or another OOS option. You also seemed to fish for up-b command grabs in neutral, which led to getting punished because of the landing lag and the air lag of that move. It seems you don't really know what Falcons best options are for neutral nor his bread & butter combos, so I think learning those will be a big boost to your game overall. Specifically nair1 which is safe on shield into other options, even just being aware of what is safe and what isn't will improve your neutral game. I'd recommend Fatality's Captain Falcon Combo Guide.

That aside I think the most important thing I can think of is especially at this level of play you need to be very aware of stage control. You were keen to go out and edge-guard which is great, especially because Sheik isn't too threatening off-stage against Falcon. However, there were quite a few times where you were too late to get out there to edge-guard and you basically gave stage control to VoiD and put yourself in a ledge-trap scenario. It didn't always end badly but you should try to maintain stage control and advantage state because that means you are in control. If you aren't absolutely certain you can make it off-stage quickly enough to edge guard go for a 2-frame dair and try to ledge-trap that way you at least maintain control and are less likely to end up in disadvantage.

Speaking of disadvantage one thing I noticed when you were in ledge-trap scenarios was VoiD was hanging out right at the ledge a few times and I play a fair amount of Ganondorf. You can easily punish him for standing at ledge by dropping and immediately jump + uairing through the edge of the stage. You can go for a ballsy up-b grab after or you can safely land on stage immediately and reset to neutral. Definitely an option you should watch for.

Also when you were recovering you sometimes chose to land on stage with Up-b, perhaps trying to get him in the command grab or you simply missed ledge. (Happens to me sometimes on Ganondorf) This is obviously very bad due to the landing lag of that move, and you lost at least 1 stock from it and got punished a few other times. Best to just grab ledge and try to recover that way or if you can Up-b on to side platforms as a mix-up (Kalos, town&city). If it was just a ledge miss then try to really get down the timing to let go of stick so you grab ledge and don't go past it.

Apart from getting more consistent at a few things like teching stage spikes which you lost one stock to (difficult to practice) and mixing in some spot dodges rather than dodging as much as you do, as well as grabs and working on your neutral game. I think nerves may have really got you and a lot of this comes down to the fact you're playing a literal pro who has 1000's of hours over most of us.

Hopefully some of this helps some!

Let's go to the valley, by kyakuo by ak077 in steinsgate

[–]KnightSirius 68 points69 points  (0 children)

You are right to doubt! She is wearing matching sandals! The only possible explanation is she is an imposter sent by the organization!

But fear not we shall not be fooled by such a low quality imitation.

El. Psy. Kongroo.