Dark Cloud Ghosting

[passballtotucker]

You can see it just by turning the camera while in the first town. I tried in standalone pcsx2 and there was no ghosting.

LRPS2

PCSX2

Here are my settings:

pcsx2_align_sprite = "disabled"
pcsx2_anisotropic_filtering = "disabled"
pcsx2_auto_flush = "disabled"
pcsx2_auto_flush_software = "enabled"
pcsx2_axis_deadzone1 = "15%"
pcsx2_axis_deadzone2 = "15%"
pcsx2_axis_scale1 = "133%"
pcsx2_axis_scale2 = "133%"
pcsx2_bios = "scph39001.bin"
pcsx2_blending_accuracy = "Basic"
pcsx2_button_deadzone1 = "0%"
pcsx2_button_deadzone2 = "0%"
pcsx2_cpu_sprite_level = "Sprites Only"
pcsx2_cpu_sprite_size = "0"
pcsx2_deinterlace_mode = "Automatic"
pcsx2_disable_depth_conversion = "disabled"
pcsx2_disable_interlace_offset = "disabled"
pcsx2_disable_partial_invalidation = "disabled"
pcsx2_dithering = "Unscaled"
pcsx2_ee_cycle_rate = "100% (Normal Speed)"
pcsx2_ee_cycle_skip = "disabled"
pcsx2_enable_cheats = "disabled"
pcsx2_enable_hw_hacks = "disabled"
pcsx2_enable_rumble1 = "100%"
pcsx2_enable_rumble2 = "100%"
pcsx2_fastboot = "enabled"
pcsx2_fastcdvd = "disabled"
pcsx2_force_sprite_position = "disabled"
pcsx2_framebuffer_conversion = "disabled"
pcsx2_game_enhancements_hint = "disabled"
pcsx2_gpu_palette_conversion = "disabled"
pcsx2_gpu_target_clut = "disabled"
pcsx2_half_pixel_offset = "disabled"
pcsx2_hint_language_unlock = "disabled"
pcsx2_invert_left_stick1 = "disabled"
pcsx2_invert_left_stick2 = "disabled"
pcsx2_invert_right_stick1 = "disabled"
pcsx2_invert_right_stick2 = "disabled"
pcsx2_merge_sprite = "disabled"
pcsx2_native_scaling = "disabled"
pcsx2_nointerlacing_hint = "enabled"
pcsx2_pcrtc_antiblur = "disabled"
pcsx2_pcrtc_screen_offsets = "disabled"
pcsx2_pgs_deblur = "disabled"
pcsx2_pgs_disable_mipmaps = "disabled"
pcsx2_pgs_high_res_scanout = "disabled"
pcsx2_pgs_ss_tex = "disabled"
pcsx2_pgs_ssaa = "Native"
pcsx2_preload_frame_data = "disabled"
pcsx2_renderer = "paraLLEl-GS"
pcsx2_round_sprite = "disabled"
pcsx2_shared_memory_cards = "enabled"
pcsx2_software_clut_render = "disabled"
pcsx2_texture_filtering = "Bilinear (PS2)"
pcsx2_texture_inside_rt = "disabled"
pcsx2_trilinear_filtering = "Automatic"
pcsx2_uncapped_framerate_hint = "disabled"
pcsx2_unscaled_palette_draw = "disabled"
pcsx2_upscale_multiplier = "1x Native (PS2)"
pcsx2_widescreen_hint = "disabled"

[hizzlekizzle]

That looks like combing/interlacing. Try changing the deinterlacing mode from "automatic" to something else.

[passballtotucker]

It's there with all of the deinterlacing modes, including off.

[hizzlekizzle]

Yeah, I just checked and all of the deinterlacing methods miss at least a little bit. The TFF flavors get the closest, but the only way to get rid of all of it on my end was to use the software renderer and disable deinterlacing entirely, then apply a deinterlacing shader on top of the woven output.

[passballtotucker]

So I just changed the video driver to glcore (because the software renderer doesn't work on vulkan) and setting it to Bob BFF looks great. Thanks for your help.

[hizzlekizzle]

heh, weird. The BFF deinterlacers all looked terrible on my end. I guess it might not do the same field first each time or something. anyway, I'm glad that got you going.

[passballtotucker]

I guess I'll have to deal with the ghosting or use standalone pcsx2. The bob deinterlacer causes image retention on my display so I can't use it. What deinterlacing shader did you use? None of them seemed to do anything.