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AsaSK
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Hi all,
I've noticed in Mafia recently there's this lag that happens every 1 second on the menu screen that makes the camera judder. Performance demand is fine in windows and there's no FPS lag. Anyone ever come across this?  _________________
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Yes. But I have no solution. |
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I haven't experienced that personally yet. The only thing I've noticed so far is omnipresent microstuttering which is however only really noticeable if one focuses a moving point on screen.
Have you tried running the game in windowed mode or otherwise played around with the graphics settings?
Also, just for the record, does this only happen in 00menu? |
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ASM. wrote: | The only thing I've noticed so far is omnipresent microstuttering which is however only really noticeable if one focuses a moving point on screen. |
I think you're describing exactly what I'm getting. I've tried tweaking every graphical setting including fullscreen and sadly no joy, and no it isn't just the menu - any 'moving' camera (i.e. camera_lock on a moving frame) also produces the error  _________________
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Found the solution! For anyone who has this in future - ENBseries released a Dx8-to-Dx9 converter .DLL, which can be found here. It seems the game running DirectX 8 was causing the lag, possibly because of newer hardware it couldn't keep up with.
(Unfortunately I found this out not before I did a complete reformat/downgrade to a pre-Creators Update version of Win10 ) _________________
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Good to hear and thanks for the heads up.
I wonder, doesn't Reshade ship with a D3D8 -> D3D9 conversion .dll, too? If so, it would be interesting to know whether this one also fixes the stuttering you've experienced.
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(Unfortunately I found this out not before I did a complete reformat/downgrade to a pre-Creators Update version of Win10 )
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D'oh!  |
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ASM. wrote: | I wonder, doesn't Reshade ship with a D3D8 -> D3D9 conversion .dll, too? If so, it would be interesting to know whether this one also fixes the stuttering you've experienced.  |
I hope you don't mind me answering my own post but yes, crosire d3d8to9 wrapper also fixes the micro stuttering. I gave it a try recently and now the game runs butter-smooth again.  |
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ASM. wrote: |
I hope you don't mind me answering my own post but yes, crosire d3d8to9 wrapper also fixes the micro stuttering. I gave it a try recently and now the game runs butter-smooth again.  |
I hate that you have to build it. Hasn't someone uploaded a compiled one somewhere?
IIRC I tried what Asa shared and it prevented the game from starting. |
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Thanks, ASM.
How did you install it? |
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I simply copied the d3d8.dll to my game's installation directory. |
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I was afraid of that. That's what I tried. No effect. :|
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I'm still on v1.9.2. Maybe there're issues with the latest version.
Have you already tried ENBseries' converter as mentioned by AsaSK a few posts up? |
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ASM. wrote: |
Have you already tried ENBseries' converter as mentioned by AsaSK a few posts up? |
Causes immediate crash. (Implying to me that it does work but something is incompatible).
Tried 1.9.2. No effect. Screen tears about 1.5 times a second when moving around the menu scene. |
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