Chess Titans

[viral cypress]

How much time it takes to convert materials Is it something that could be automated?

[sick flint]

They are under the academic software license (?). I checked it out, it can be distributed as a demo of hardware or software.

[sick flint]

About a day. It has to be done by hand cause of how remix materials are setup.

[sly root]

seems great then. i know i'd love to mess around with this

[sly root]

i haven't found a single game (that i like) that i've been able to do mesh replacements in 😦

so this should be fun 🙂

also wow that upload speed. very jealous, lol

[sick flint]

It's over wifi too

[sly root]

i just got an internet upgrade, and can now upload at 2 MB/s 😛

[viral cypress]

Yea I barely get 1

[sly root]

same for me for the last 10 years

[sick flint]

I had gigabit at one point

[sly root]

10mbps on a $90 internet plan is just sad

[sick flint]

1400Mb/s down, ~700Mb/s up. But nothing really was able to use it fully cause it was so hard on residental hardware

[sly root]

wow

[sick flint]

Maybe add the ivy and candles next

[viral cypress]

Thats even worse than the prices here

[viral cypress]

Replace the knight with that one

[sly root]

what are your prices, and where do you live?

[viral cypress]

Damn I wish we had something similar to the chess game in harry p 1

[sly root]

i'm in Florida

[sick flint]

[Removed link]
REMEMBER You must setup you rtx.conf to not have enhanced assets enabled when launching! You have to launch the game and then enable them other wise it'll hang on loading the USD. This is Intel's Sponza scene converted to USD for remix.

Oh and the green room test stage can be used by switching to the other mod usda via renaming

[sly root]

may i pin this?

[sick flint]

And you'll want to use the x32dbg patch from the repo

[viral cypress]

Turkey, 100Mbit/s down, 8Mbit/s up. Its ~300 Turkish lira per month which translates to ~11$

[sly root]

for $90, my download speed was 300 to be clear. i forgot to mention that

only with a $120 500 mbps plan (promotional pricing btw) do you get 20mbps

[sick flint]

Sure, but I ain't providing much support for it

[sly root]

lol, that's fine. i just wanted people to be able to find it easily

[viral cypress]

Why upload speeds are too low? Does it really put pressure on the infrastructure?

[sly root]

afaik they're just cheaping out. they claim it does but i really doubt it

[sick flint]

Greedy ISPs here

[sly root]

plus they rake in so much profit that they could easily upgrade everything

[viral cypress]

I thought the only ones are here in Turkey 😄

[sly root]

or just install fiber everywhere

[sick flint]

I grew up with 5Mb/s down and 1Mb/s up till like 2015/16

[sly root]

megabytes?

[sick flint]

Ha

No

[sly root]

Mb is megabit

so i'm confused, lol

[sick flint]

I should go to sleep. My cat is demanding it

[sly root]

i had 1/1 until 2012, and 10/1 until 2018 (megabits)

[sly root]

sleep well. enjoy cat 😛

[viral cypress]

My neighboor pays the half of what I do but he gets 6Mbit down and ~1Mbit upload

[sick flint]

Ya'll have fun melting your GPUs with sponza

Lemme know if it works on your guys machines

Bonus points for anyone with a 4090 who runs it at full resolution

[sly root]

i'm gonna try it with my 3090 at full res 1440p, lol

i get around 25 FPS in Portal RTX that way

[sick flint]

I can run the base game with nicer materials at 1440p at like 40fps

[viral cypress]

Can it run Chess Titans lol

[sick flint]

Yea, 1440p at full res

Sponza is seemed fluid. Felt like it was in the 60 to 40 fps range maybe? Someone better at reading frametimes could tell from my charts.

Oh I found the post with the tri count, it's actually 5.7mill #1110245358040260668 message

So anyone wondering if remix can handle high poly, guess this shows it can

[sly root]

hm

opening the remix overlay freezes the game for me, even without replacements

info: [RTX Opacity Micromap] Out of memory budget. Requested: 206103848 bytes. Free: 186791032 bytes, Budget: 1610612736 bytes
umm

[dim delta]

Are you using the modified exe?

[sly root]

lol oops

i followed all of the steps, but was indeed running the wrong exe

actually i need to run it though that powershell script

[hidden elk]

20 mbits up/down

Ain't the best, but it works

[sick flint]

I couldn’t get the ps script to work. You can find the path in the script and modify the xml yourself

[sly root]

okay, having followed all of the steps, i'm just getting a rasterized full screen version of the game, no Remix hook

[sly root]

the script does seem to work, just not the rest 😦

[sick flint]

Got the d3d8 DLL?

[sly root]

the steps call for d3d9

is it actually d3d8?

[sick flint]

Oh no it’s d3d9.dll that’s the one for the conversion. I forgot

[hidden elk]

Forgor

💀

[sly root]

i have no idea what's wrong then

[sick flint]

Try modifying the xml file to make sure it got changed

[dim delta]

Well from when I was last playing around with this fullscreen caused issues

[sly root]

seems to match

[sick flint]

Is full screen set to false in it?

[viral cypress]

Hello

whats wrong with the script

[sly root]

it's not the script, it's the steps

or rather, dxwrapper. it seems to just not hook remix at all for me

[viral cypress]

you need to rename the dxwrapper to d3d9.dll and the ini

[sly root]

this is very unstable though. it crashed a couple times for me already

[sly root]

i did

[sick flint]

Shift change. I go to sleep now

[viral cypress]

I take it from here

[viral cypress]

Like this?

[sly root]

yes

[viral cypress]

And you used the config in the repo

which has this line: RealDllPath = bridge_d3d9.dll

[sly root]

yes

[viral cypress]

weird, you sure you're using the 32 bit version?

[sly root]

yup

i followed all of the steps exactly as they said

[viral cypress]

And yet dxwrapper doesn't generate a log

[sick flint]

I think I renamed mine to d3d9_bridge or get it to work

[sly root]

dxwrapper works, but it's not hooking remix

[viral cypress]

Wait

[sly root]

well that'd do it

[viral cypress]

Ah I mistyped it

[sick flint]

Oh yes I remember that typo now

[sly root]

what's the purpose of the wrapper anyway?

[viral cypress]

borderless fullscreen

[sly root]

it was doing that for me before dxwrapper, lol

[viral cypress]

the script is there to enforce the required settings to get fullscreen working which resets every time

[sly root]

but using dxwrapper seems to eliminate all of the instability i had

[viral cypress]

what

[sly root]

yeah, no idea

[viral cypress]

Does it work now?

the dxwrapper, remix and the script

I gotta fix everything before much complain 🙂

[sly root]

seems to

you should note in the steps that users need to change their resolution in the script though

[viral cypress]

Ah yes

[sly root]

also, what's the rtx.conf setting to disable enhancements?

i tried rtx.enableReplacementAssets = 0 with no luck

[sick flint]

I posted my RTX conf in the repo

[sly root]

ah, good

[viral cypress]

rtx.enableReplacementAssets = false

[sly root]

mm

[sick flint]

I launched the game and turned it off

[sly root]

it doesn't let you do that unless you have some replacements already

i just forgot it was true and false rather than 1 or 0

[sick flint]

Oh I turned off sponza and then did it so the game started

[sly root]

hmmm

it's still trying to load the assets?

[sick flint]

Yea it will, but it’ll actually finish loading them

[sly root]

never mind. still extremely unstable. crashed 4 times now

[sly root]

you should sleep

[sick flint]

Getting there slowly

[sly root]

apparently it's crashing my GPU Driver

[sick flint]

I launch the game with x32dbg, apply the patch, and the unpause x32 to let the game run.

[viral cypress]

Weird, mine runs just fine with the patched binary

[viral cypress]

I mean I regularly launch the exe not from a debugger

[sly root]

i'm definitely using the patch 😦

[sick flint]

I’ve been having issues with psyching lately

[sly root]

but i'll run the exe and it'll suddenly just crash. bridge gets stuck in background

[sick flint]

Oh yea

[viral cypress]

I say to Adam, I didn't actually tried the sponza yet

[sick flint]

It does that

[sly root]

also it's definitely not loading those assets. it's been frozen for over 2 minutes

[sly root]

that's when the driver is crashing

[sick flint]

It’ll load instantly or crash

[sly root]

i'm running into these issues without sponza

[sly root]

ya, that's what's happening. glad it's not just me then, i was worried my GPU was failing or something, lol

[viral cypress]

Does it always crash on loading?

[sick flint]

You might wanna use the green room mod usda to make sure things are working before going to sponza

[viral cypress]

Wait you uploaded that?

Where

[sly root]

sometimes, not other times

this time i was able to finally load in far enough to open the remix menu to even turn on the replacements

[sick flint]

In the mega 7z I posted

[viral cypress]

I am trying the sponza now

[sly root]

that one does work

[viral cypress]

No green room

[sick flint]

Might of needed to build shader cache

[sly root]

well, no. the board and pieces changed

[sly root]

definitely. it launches much faster now

replacements off

[viral cypress]

Yea I noticed, did you disabled mesh replacements?

[sly root]

no

[viral cypress]

the pieces are done by replacing the material

[viral cypress]

Why the room is not there tho

@sick flint

[sly root]

lol, so much for sleep

[sick flint]

I think it’s on the wooden board

[viral cypress]

Its the porcelain

I can confirm sponza crashes on 6gb of vram

at least I tried

[sick flint]

Rip

[sly root]

okay

this is doing some weird shit with my GPU that i don't like, so i'm gonna not try this anymore

[viral cypress]

But green room works 💚

[sly root]

when i disabled reflex, it corrupted the remix overlay and then crashed the driver

[viral cypress]

Try green room, its on the porcelain table

my 2060 can handle it

[sly root]

that was with just basic enhancements

something weird is going on

i'm just gonna not mess with it anymore

[viral cypress]

loving it

[sly root]

yeah. i updated my GPU Driver just to see and it's still crashing. when i enable enhanced assets (just green room) it crashes my driver. it only worked twice

[sly root]

looks very nice indeed

[viral cypress]

Its very unstable with enhancemets for me as well, mine doesn't crash the whole driver tho

[sly root]

hm

well, i just hope it's not my GPU. i'd have a breakdown

i don't see why it would be. i can run anything else with Remix without issue

[viral cypress]

I noticed that just like Mark said, refractions don't work through reflected surfaces

The bottles on the mirror don't have refractions

[sly root]

btw to see if it's crashing your driver, open Event Viewer, and go to Windows Logs>System

it doesn't always flash the screen black

[sly root]

aw, that sucks

[viral cypress]

Hmm, mine might be crashing as well then 👀

yea

\Device\Video3
Error occurred on GPUID: 900

What does yours say

in the log

[sly root]

what's that labelled under?

[viral cypress]

same nvlddmkm

[sly root]

Error 9/18/2023 4:29:05 AM nvlddmkm 0 None

Error occurred on GPUID: 700```

okay

[viral cypress]

Yea mine is crashing as well

[sly root]

so something is definitely sad, lol

[viral cypress]

Noice

[sly root]

well, thanks for verifying. i feel a lot less anxious now

[viral cypress]

So it doesn't flicker because its windowed right?

it would be if that was real fullscreen

[sly root]

i don't know why it doesn't flicker. sometimes things crash the driver lightly enough that it doesn't, i guess?

i don't think it's related solely to fullscreen

it did flash black a couple times for me, and not others

[viral cypress]

Its okay, my gpu driver should have been crashed like 1000 times in this case

While playing with chess titans

[sly root]

you can see here what it did to the remix GUI

it also started moving text all over on the right side

[viral cypress]

I haven't seen such thing

[sly root]

it happened when i disabled Reflex

[viral cypress]

let me see

[sly root]

after enabling the greenroom enhancements

[viral cypress]

Alright mine briefly messes up the menu

then goes to normal again

[sly root]

interesting

what exactly did it do? did it corrupt text or visual elements?

[viral cypress]

just a blue triangle covered half of the thing, I'll have a video hold on

[sly root]

i bet this game is doing some wild DX API calls

[viral cypress]

Okay the same thing happened with the performance profiler on

But crashed way sooner

Here

[sly root]

wow, that's even worse than mine

that's exactly it though

[viral cypress]

Maybe its just the sudden change in gpu clocks causing this

Btw I just realized the default sky works again

Its just too dark

set the sky brightness to somehting like 100

[sick flint]

I rise from slumber

No one able to tame sponza?

[hidden elk]

I'd try it but I don't know where to start

[rocky minnow]

i'll give you a headstart

start from ||somewhere||

[hidden elk]

thx

[viral cypress]

I updated the instructions, I would recommend you to patch the binary yourself. If you reall want I can send but virustotal might give red flag

I made a video showing how to patch the binary

[rocky minnow]

@viral cypress can you make rooms with the software i mentioned before, it can make home designs and place props but i think designing simple-ish rooms would do

i want to learn how to import it as a mesh inside remix

as mesh replacements

[sick flint]

You'd export it to a fbx/obj, then use blender to convert it to a single USD, then attach it to the board

[rocky minnow]

i have a room idea

gonna try real quick

[rocky minnow]

thinking of something like this

ignore my old 2007 renderer for a moment

[sick flint]

I was thinking about doing that with the living room test render scene

[rocky minnow]

i don't know about remix detecting lights so you gotta add it yourself if i ever finish this

[rocky minnow]

how about this lol

[sick flint]

The table lamps will look better than candles since we don't have flame animation

[rocky minnow]

oh yeah

right on!

[rocky minnow]

@sick flint got any suggestion on what i should decorate on with the table

your had this collection of glasses to show the reflective properties

as well as refraction

[rocky minnow]

well that's my living room with the chess in the middle

now to export it as .obj

[rocky minnow]

think we can scale this to fit the chess board perfectly?

[viral cypress]

How its going

[rocky minnow]

I have the obj saved

For my room model

[viral cypress]

How many child objects does it have

[rocky minnow]

Probably a few 50 or under it

I will share it in 5 hours if you're online

Idk how to use blender

[storm oar]

Chess Titans is not working with non-rtx gpus

[viral cypress]

What issue do you have?

[storm oar]

crashing at startup during loading

[viral cypress]

upload logs

[viral cypress]

what gpu do you have

[storm oar]

7900 XTX

There is an exception on the Ray Query thread

[viral cypress]

Try putting this into dxvk.conf: d3d9.maxFrameLatency = 100

[storm oar]

still crashing it does not work

[viral cypress]

Hmm.. we didn't have someone tried this with a non-rtx gpu before so..

Do you have any other game working with remix?

This doesn't sound like an issue with the game itself

[storm oar]

no i only tried chess titans

[viral cypress]

There are other small games you could quickly test like https://discord.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1147888305833246782 which is free and open source

[viral cypress]

Not even Portal or Prelude?

[storm oar]

no i did not try them, i will try minetest

[viral cypress]

Any updates?

[storm oar]

I saw the thread in remix-projects about minetest but it says that i have to install remix in the game and i don't know how. I can not run the remix executable downloaded from nvidia's github because i don't have nvidia gpu

[viral cypress]

Oh, so you're not even sure you've installed the remix properly in Chess Titans

[viral cypress]

Download the latest binaries using https://discord.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1132988164814934167
Copy the files inside the remix folder near the chess.exe

You don't actually need the NvRemixLauncher32.exe

or the licence files of course

Don't forget to do the steps specific to chess titans #1110245358040260668 message

[viral cypress]

Btw this has nothing to do with your gpu, its a cli app used when some game refuses to load the d3d9.dll

[storm oar]

i downloaded chess titans from google drive so remix should be already installed into that

[rocky minnow]

@viral cypress heres my room in .obj format

[storm oar]

I successfully installed remix in minetest but the whole game is black (i can open remix ui but crashing while recompiling shaders)

[viral cypress]

Recompiling what

[viral cypress]

Did you put the dxvk.conf? It should include a light source

[storm oar]

yes but the light is black

[viral cypress]

You sure? should be inside the bin folder

Try enabling sky auto detection from game setup -> parameter tuning -> sky options

tho I remember it wasn't working in Minetest

[storm oar]

tried disabling and enabling and it works but only on menu, in game the whole screen is black except for the UI

[viral cypress]

Enable debug mode in the debug section

Everything but sky should have a tone of red

[storm oar]

clouds are red and the sky is black, if i start the game i am "stuck" in a red cube

in the d3d9.log the log ends with this lines

info: RenderPass GBuffer Raytrace Mode: Ray Query (CS)
info: RenderPass Integrate Direct Raytrace Mode: Ray Query (CS)
info: RenderPass Integrate Indirect Raytrace Mode: Ray Query (CS)
info: Presenter: Actual swap chain properties:
info: Format: VK_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UNORM
info: Present mode: VK_PRESENT_MODE_IMMEDIATE_KHR
info: Buffer size: 1024x600
info: Image count: 2
info: Exclusive FS: 2
info: [RTX-Compatibility-Info] Trying to raytrace but not detecting a valid camera.
info: [RTX-Compatibility-Info] Trying to raytrace an unsupported primitive topology [2]. Ignoring.
info: Camera cut detected on frame 2401
err: D3D9SwapChainEx: Failed to recreate swap chain
err: [36] common device objects were not disposed of.

[viral cypress]

Ah you need to find the player model texture and mark it as ignored

The box is your head lol

This was in notes, I should've mentione it in the installation section

So you can definetely run remix

No idea why it doesn't in chess titans tho, where exactly you get it? From reddit?

[storm oar]

yes reddit, i also tried to install remix into "vanilla" chess and with patched exe the game closes without errors during loading

[viral cypress]

That one was uploaded by @rocky minnow, we later switched to x32 build of the game to avoid some issues. Not sure if it would fix your problem tho

Follow these steps #1110245358040260668 message

[storm oar]

yes i followed these steps but it does not work

[viral cypress]

You've said you got the game from drive

[gleaming sable]

Tis is creepy

[viral cypress]

Its the player head

[storm oar]

yes i tried both ways, the already modded game from drive and installing remix on vanilla game following the steps

[viral cypress]

Where did you get the vanilla game the one mentioned in Installation section?

Unless you you have an x86 system the win7games.com installer installs the x64 version

[storm oar]

yes maybe is the 64bit version, i can not open the exe with x32dgb, only with x64dgb

[viral cypress]

yea thats why

#1110245358040260668 message
Get the 32 bit version from here, you shouldn't blindly trust people online so do a virustotal scan

Then follow the installation steps exactly, I am here for some time if steps wasn't clear to you

[rocky minnow]

Can someone umm... Test my room?

[viral cypress]

Oh okay, I'll give it a shot

[storm oar]

where do i find the dxwrapper.dll file? in the previous installation i downloaded it from github (not remix github) but don't know if is the right file

[viral cypress]

https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/actions
You need to sign into github

This one Release binaries.zip/Build/dxwrapper.dll

[storm oar]

oh ok so i was doing right, this is where i downloaded it previously

[viral cypress]

You got the dll from the build folder inside the zip right?

[viral cypress]

Why Rar tho, are you a caveman 🙂 (7zip)

I'll use octotex for pbr then

[rocky minnow]

I'll use what I have

Tony stark made stuff from scrap in a cave

[viral cypress]

Sorry, I didn't meant offense

[rocky minnow]

btw isn't obj joining all the models as one ?

[viral cypress]

The textures are separate so it still requires manual work

[rocky minnow]

hmm

Do you know how to do it in blender

The separation process

[viral cypress]

Separation of what

[rocky minnow]

nvm

how does it look when you load it with all the textures

[viral cypress]

I'll try get this working for now, the pbr is secondary

[viral cypress]

Give me some time

[rocky minnow]

ok

Thank you

[storm oar]

I tried to run chess 32bit with remix but it crashes during loading without errors

[viral cypress]

Do you run it with the fullscreen.ps1 script?

[storm oar]

yes

[viral cypress]

The same error?

[storm oar]

no, it looks like there are no errors in the chess_d3d9.log file

[viral cypress]

What about other ones

especially bridge

[storm oar]

the bridge log says that the server is launched and received ack completing the handshake, no errors

[viral cypress]

I have no idea about your problem then, could ask to NV people when they're available

[storm oar]

can i upload here my chess remix folder?

[viral cypress]

your remix folder?

[storm oar]

the whole folder with chess + remix

[viral cypress]

okay, but delete it after I got

[storm oar]

ok

i will send it splitted into parts or is too big, i have used 7zip

[viral cypress]

Okay I have it

[storm oar]

there is a start.bat inside with the powershell command to start using fullscreen.ps1

[viral cypress]

Where did you get the dxwrapper exactly?

its faulty

[storm oar]

from the github (elishacloud)

[viral cypress]

yes but there are two dxwrapper.dll file in the archive

wait yours is not even that

Tell me exactly where do you get, from the zip you download

The difference in file sizes is huge

Uh okay you get it from the releases

[storm oar]

https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/releases here, i have copied dxwrapper.dll and renamed d3d9.dll

[viral cypress]

The link I pointed out is for nightlies

which is what you need

[storm oar]

you mean the dxwrapper that is 700kb instead of 1900?

[viral cypress]

This is my fault tho, should've mentioned this

[sly root]

download the zip file listed in the link @viral cypress provided

[viral cypress]

It is 1.9mb, nighlies are around 7

[sly root]

however, you need a github account

the license allows redistribution iirc @viral cypress

might be able to just upload it here

[viral cypress]

Uh okay

I have an dxwrapper downloader script in my repo, just trying to get it working when compiled

[storm oar]

i downloaded it, its 3mb

[viral cypress]

$PSScriptRoot points to c drive for some reason

[viral cypress]

Here rename this to d3d9.dll

do a virustotal scan, don't blindly trust people online

[viral cypress]

This

[rocky minnow]

yeah sometimes unprotected files are injected with torjan without your actions

[storm oar]

now it works but a funny thing happens, it shrinks the window

[viral cypress]

Your room model has its children as GeomSubset, not sure if remix supports it

[rocky minnow]

can i fix that?

[viral cypress]

You launch it with the script? And the d3d9.ini in the repo?

Oh now I remember

Don't maximize it

the script should do that for you

[storm oar]

yes, it starts in fullscreen then it shrinks to the size in the screenshot

[viral cypress]

No idea, I am a newbie to 3d modelling

[viral cypress]

Now rename d3d9.dll to something else temporarily, fire the game, demaximize the window

window should never be maximized

I think script was enforcing this already but I might be wrong

Then rename it back & try again

[storm oar]

it does not shrink anymore but is not full screen

[viral cypress]

What is your monitor res

[storm oar]

1920x1080

[viral cypress]

if not 1080 edit the line in the script

Uh

[viral cypress]

Can you send the %LOCALAPPDATA%/Microsoft Games/Chess Titans/ChessTitans.xml

[viral cypress]

I tried to convert them to regular meshes in blender but it doesn't seem to be working

[storm oar]

i edited the resolution in the xml and now is fixed

[viral cypress]

You sure the script is working?

[storm oar]

i don't know, the game is in fullscreen

[viral cypress]

It'll reset if the game crashes or just random reasons I am not aware of

[viral cypress]

The script is supposed to do that for you

[viral cypress]

Is it working properly now at least

[storm oar]

yes but if i put quality to maximum the board disappears

[viral cypress]

yea you're not supposed to do that anyway

[storm oar]

ok so is normal

[viral cypress]

The script sets it to 3 every launch in case you change it

[storm oar]

to have transparent pawns do i have to install a mod?

[viral cypress]

Yes, tadpole's mod. Linked in the first post

[storm oar]

thx for the help

[viral cypress]

@sly root You could link to https://nightly.link/elishacloud/dxwrapper/workflows/ci/master/Release binaries.zip for the latest dxwrapper build, it doesn't require a github account this way.

In this thread https://discord.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1099010051294908446

[sly root]

okay

thanks

[viral cypress]

Btw is it possible to write linked text, (text)[url] doesn't work for some reason

security measures maybe?

[sly root]

it's the other way around

[viral cypress]

uh

[sly root]

text

[text](<https://nightly.link/elishacloud/dxwrapper/workflows/ci/master/Release%20binaries.zip>)

[viral cypress]

my bad 😄

[sly root]

lol, no worries

i don't like doing that for basic posts like that, but i did do it for most others in #1055002308649427004

[rocky minnow]

wait

how did you do that

https://tenor.com/view/report-calling-the-police-im-disturbed-gif-14028290

[sick flint]

Magic

🪄

[viral cypress]

@sick flint do these work with remix?

def GeomSubset "room_22_124_003" (
    prepend apiSchemas = ["MaterialBindingAPI"]
)
{
    uniform token elementType = "face"
    uniform token familyName = "materialBind"
    int[] indices = [430, 431, 432, 433]
    rel material:binding = </_materials/room_22_124_003>
}

[storm oar]

is there a way to reduce the noise in the transparent pawns?

[viral cypress]

Increase the resolution, also the replaced skydome on one of the boards reduced it iirc

[viral cypress]

Btw you patched the executable right? If not it will stop updating frames when you don't move the pointer around, causing extreme noise & temporal artifacts

[storm oar]

yes i did

the noise is only in transparent pawns

[viral cypress]

Yes because the refractions causes the traced rays to distrube less evenly

[viral cypress]

If it is for screenshots, enable reference mode

[sick flint]

What is that

[viral cypress]

@rocky minnow sent me a room model, the some property of children objects are defined like that I guess

[sick flint]

Uh, you can put it in OV and see what happens. I won’t be near a computer for a week so

[storm oar]

so if i have a non nvidia gpu can i add ray tracing to DX9 games too?

[viral cypress]

You can "add" raytracing, but you can't use the official tools for remastering

[storm oar]

omniverse?

[viral cypress]

Omniverse and the toolkit

[storm oar]

what does the toolkit do?

[viral cypress]

Remastering process is currently manual and requires a lot of jumping around, the toolkit is supposed to make the process straightforward & faster

[rocky minnow]

he can use OctoTex

that will only do textures

PBR

@storm oar https://github.com/alex-suspicious/OctoTex/tree/master

here

[storm oar]

and why is only for nvidia? it uses tensor core or cuda?

[viral cypress]

Seriously, we are not to answer this, do have your own thoughts

[viral cypress]

Yes it does btw

[storm oar]

do i need to have an rtx card? i have a cuda enabled gtx card that i don't use, if i put it in my pc could is use octotex?

[rocky minnow]

need rtx card

[viral cypress]

You only need a cuda enabled card for the gpu acceleration in octotex, can still run it on the cpu without cuda

for omniverse and the toolkit you need an rtx card

Otherwise you would enjoy a productive 0.1 fps in the viewport

[sick flint]

If you don’t have an RTX card, RTX remix is not for you. Sorry

It’s going to run pretty poorly on anything else

[storm oar]

mhh...

[viral cypress]

Wish it didn't really, I hope AMD will catch up with the RT game

Arc is good at rt but doesn't work with remix, lack of drivers maybe?

[viral cypress]

Send couple screenshots from the chess

I wanna enjoy an hour of troubleshooting 🙂

[viral cypress]

I don't see noise tho

Is this reference mode

[storm oar]

yes

[viral cypress]

Also the shadows on the translucent pieces look odd

[viral cypress]

How does it look without the reference mode

[sick flint]

Non DLSS shadows look different if I remember right.

[viral cypress]

I see..

Increase the sky brightness to something like 100

also disable volumetric lightning and fog from Post Processing -> Composition -> Enable Fog

[viral cypress]

It should be somewhere in game setup -> parameter tuning -> sky options

[storm oar]

there is a skybox that is clipping with the original sky and when i increase the sky brightness to 100 there are some clipping pieces of the original sky that glows

[viral cypress]

Hmm, try a different board, I think this is the one its skydome replaced

Btw there is a free camera in debug tab, you can hold down lmb and wasd

You can use it to get a close up view

[storm oar]

if i am too close i start getting colored artifacts

[viral cypress]

Mine looks like this, it'll get less noisy as more rays go into the glass

This is an old screenshot

[viral cypress]

A screenshot please?

[sly root]

oh, @viral cypress let me know if you resolve the driver crashing please

[viral cypress]

@violet phoenix Do you know what might be causing this?

[storm oar]

i got very close and now they are imprinted in the screen until i restart the game

[sick flint]

That’s blue is a broken texture from my memory. Might be encoding problem?

[storm oar]

if i get closer to the board i get white, purple and green rectangles all over the screen

[viral cypress]

Does it happen without enhanced assets

[sly root]

i got similar corruption when enabling enhanced assets for the greenroom

i think for me it was a solid green band though

[sick flint]

I kinda slapped the green room together so it’s probably got some textures that needed encoded better

[viral cypress]

I only had something similar when sky texture wasn't marked as sky

[storm oar]

yes

[rocky minnow]

oh yeah that only happens with AMD

[viral cypress]

Wow

[storm oar]

kek so amd is the problem

[viral cypress]

Yea your issue definetely has nothing to do with encoding

[viral cypress]

don't know for sure, but I can definetely say RTX Remix was developed with NV hardware in mind

[storm oar]

I also tried to click on capture scene but the whole thing freezes. is normal that is taking time or something is wrong?

[viral cypress]

Do you have the usd folder inside .trex

and its contents

[storm oar]

yes

[viral cypress]

something is wrong then

[viral cypress]

It should take couple seconds at most

[storm oar]

info: [GameCapturer] DXVK_RTX_CAPTURE_ENABLE_ON_FRAME:
warn: [GameCapturer] LSS USD Plugins failed to load.
err: NVIDIA NGX is not available on this hardware/platform: (code: 0xbad00001, info: NVSDK_NGX_Result_FAIL_FeatureNotSupported)
err: Unable to initialize Reflex: NvLLVk support library cannot be loaded.

this is inside chess_d3d9.log

[viral cypress]

Oh the whole capture thing doesn't work on non nv hardware

[viral cypress]

reflex option is grayed out right?

[storm oar]

where?

[storm oar]

reflex failed to initialize or is disabled

[viral cypress]

I mean in ui, is this option grayed out

[storm oar]

no it says "reflex failed to initialize or is disabled"

there is no option just the text

[viral cypress]

Put this into the rtx.conf (create one if there isn't)
rtx.isReflexEnabled = false then try to capture. I don't think it has a relationship but worth a try I guess

It must be UTF-8, line endings doesn't matter

[storm oar]

still having the same text, reflex failed to initialize or is disabled

[viral cypress]

No idea then

@violet phoenix Could you have a look please

Does non nvidia hardware support captures?

[viral cypress]

What might be causing this issue

[violet phoenix]

not sure.. it looks like some kind of memory corruption?

AFAIK capturing shouldn't care about the GPU involved, it's all done on the CPU

[viral cypress]

He's getting this error

It's RDNA3 btw

[violet phoenix]

LSS USD Plugins does he have files in the .trex/usd/ folder?

[viral cypress]

he says he does

@storm oar

[violet phoenix]

Sounds like a bug then, though if capture is broken on AMD generally, I'm surprised we haven't heard of that before

[violet phoenix]

what happens if he gets rid of rtx.conf then tries to launch the game? It may be trying to use quality / graphics settings from whoever uploaded the mod pack

[storm oar]

without rtx.conf i don't get artifacts but the whole scene's graphics is degraded

[viral cypress]

@storm oar can you try with this config its bare bones

[viral cypress]

Ah you're using the rtx.conf from the repo?

[storm oar]

yes

[viral cypress]

It has some wild settings to fix custom skybox flashbang issue

[violet phoenix]

Right now we (rather stupidly) store both game setup and user quality settings in the same file. so it's possible something that's supposed to be disabled on AMD is being enabled by the conf file.

What happens when you try to capture without the rtx.conf file?

[viral cypress]

I use dxvk.conf for the game setup, it works 👍

[violet phoenix]

ah. Can someone share the rtx.conf that's causing mure problems?

[viral cypress]

https://github.com/Kamilkampfwagen-II/Chess-Titans-RTX/blob/main/rtx.conf

[storm oar]

still stuck at 60% during USD exporting

[violet phoenix]

do you have the same errors in the log?

[storm oar]

yes

[viral cypress]

This video shows that RDNA3 gpus have some artifacts in Portal RTX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrAnoDKTQAQ

[violet phoenix]

rtx.graphicsPreset = 4
rtx.qualityDLSS = 3
rtx.dlssPreset = 2``` those should probably be user settings, not game settings

[viral cypress]

Yea they're leftovers of mine

[violet phoenix]

also, mure, are you on the latest AMD drivers?

[sly root]

@violet phoenix it's worth noting that this game does some weird stuff, enough that we can consistently crash the Nvidia driver by changing Reflex settings

[violet phoenix]

If you have a reliably reproducible crash, please make a github issue with full repro instructions

[viral cypress]

It's a game specific issue tho, you would need the installation

[sly root]

i'm pretty confident the issue lies in the game itself, not Remix. the overall behavior is just very strange. opening an issue wouldn't do any harm though

[violet phoenix]

even just knowing the steps and seeing the logs / dmp files could be enough to find a bug

The issue may lie in how the game interacts with D3D9, which may be capturing using an API trace

[storm oar]

i am on the september driver but i have to update

[viral cypress]

I could attach one to the issue

[violet phoenix]

I think one of the rendering guys mentioned that AMD had recently fixed a driver bug that was effecting Remix, so you may want to make sure you're fully updated

[violet phoenix]

that would be appreciated

[sly root]

here's a video of the crash: #1110245358040260668 message

[storm oar]

ok now i install the update and try remix

[sly root]

@viral cypress please don't delete your message after a ping, it just makes it really confusing. i don't know of any logs like what you asked for though

https://github.com/NVIDIA/go-nvml

[viral cypress]

Sorry, I immediately found the folder after asked that's why I deleted it. Won't be happening again

[sly root]

i do know of this, but i don't think it's quite relevant

and no worries. where was the folder?

[viral cypress]

ProgramData/NVIDIA

it contains the display container logs, not sure if they are actual driver logs tho

[sly root]

afaik that wouldn't contain the info you're looking for, but definitely worth looking at just in case

[storm oar]

i still have the artifacts but it does not look like before, i only have the square artifacts and not the colored shapes

[versed coyote]

isnt NIS supported on amd gpus?

[violet phoenix]

I know basically nothing about how framegen actually works, so I can't really help with issues related to is

[viral cypress]

Weird, the game just doesn't even create a window with apitrace

apitrace.exe trace --api d3d9 chess.exe

warning: C:\Users\Kamil\Desktop\apitrace-latest-win32\bin\..\lib\wrappers\d3d9.dll was never used: application probably does not use this API
taskkilled

inject: error: failed to load C:\Users\Kamil\Desktop\apitrace-latest-win32\bin\injectee_iat.dll into the remote process 8012

uh

[viral cypress]

Its universal?

[violet phoenix]

err, I think d3d9 trace will only work if remix isn't there. Remix sends out vulkan commands instead

[versed coyote]

i thought nis was supported on amd gpus

[viral cypress]

I already disabled that

and dxwrapper

(the game is dx9 dxwrapper used for other functions)

We use it for borderless fullscreen

[violet phoenix]

just upload the issue without it. I'm not familiar enough with API trace to help with it.

If whoever gets assigned the bug needs more info, they can always ask

[viral cypress]

Oh it worked with a unpatched executable It is caused by the path for some reason

[violet phoenix]

Do you still get artifacts if you disable the volumetrics?
Also, please file a github issue about being unable to capture on AMD

(presuming that capture in this game works for other people)

[storm oar]

with volumetric lighting disabled i don't have artifacts

[viral cypress]

Volumterics should've been already disabled in dxvk.conf

[storm oar]

in the rtx.conf is enabled

[viral cypress]

The installation instructions don't include rtx.conf

[storm oar]

yes i know, it was for the mod with transparent pawns

[viral cypress]

Ah the mod 🤦‍♂️

To clarify, I didn't knew volumetrics was causing issues on AMD hardware, it was just disabled because this game had nothing to do with it

[viral cypress]

I should include this to the instructions, thank you

[viral cypress]

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix/issues/251

Couldn't upload apitrace files because they're too big, even tho I shut the game as soon as it creates a 3D scene

@sly root I couldn't reproduce the issue we had exactly as it was before

Toggling reflex used to always crash the driver, now it still does majority of the time but not always

Enabling the enhanced assets, when the old assets are drawn always causes a driver crash tho

[sly root]

i did it once without it crashing

it's just mostly consistent 😛

[sly root]

i tacked some extra info on just now

[viral cypress]

Hmm I suspected opacity micromap for a second looking at the logs

but no, it doesn't seem to be related

[viral cypress]

I compiled the launcher script tho it is flagged as malware by 3 vendors

[sick flint]

The powershell one?

[viral cypress]

Is there another

[viral cypress]

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/292e865ee128013c1cbc0a4ac7f69b0c01b436fb400548ba392e9231b66ec080

[sick flint]

Would it be possible to write it as a batch file?

I think the antivirus gets scared from writing to the app data folder

[viral cypress]

You can call powershell inside batch so you could have a ps script inside a bat file too

Oh and btw this doesn't get affected by execution policy

so secure

[viral cypress]

Those 3 vendors will probably flag anything without a signature

what

Uhh

[sly root]

looks like Chrome shit

[viral cypress]

I just uploaded a simple program that just exits with code 0 and its flagged by 6 lol

[viral cypress]

?

[sly root]

google chrome

[viral cypress]

So chrome auto update works at background but the sandbox software thinks my exe does this ?

[sly root]

their VMs shouldn't have Chrome on them at all

this is probably actually from your exe somehow

[viral cypress]

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/58a2780df39abd816d69b6561f30401a898645719e8c78d138e80b61ff9e72b3/behavior
Yea that one has a much cleaner behaviour page

[viral cypress]

I just modified a string which has no impact on the behaviour & recompiled now its marked by 8 vendors but its behaviour page makes much more sense
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/c376d8620a9b34eaade00712bbe9b5d423258e4e65e5e8c2a84fb7d27c570081/behavior

no more chrome stuff

[sly root]

did something malicious attach to your original exe?

[viral cypress]

Don't think so

So if I recompile the same script with same parameters it generates a different file each time?

Btw powershell don't have an actual way of compiling, the ps2exe has reimplemented almost all the cmdlets powershell has in .net

[viral cypress]

So modified the version info of the original exe with those chrome stuff which should't affect anything but its hash (right?) and its behaviour report is clean

I think it was an inaccuracy with the sandbox software they've

but I should remove it from the releases anyway

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/93a44ed1bd0446c0331948d08ae934084b0e238da9bdae7a0b1c57e0d1a739b5/behavior

and its flagged by just one 😄

[sly root]

that's very weird

i've never seen VT mess up like that

[viral cypress]

Uh not again

I recompiled the original script which generated a file with a different hash, hoping for a clean report

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2212090dd1e85047eb211e0141e304b554f21d91386d84b92498f69c93648fea/behavior

The first one had the hash: 292e865ee128013c1cbc0a4ac7f69b0c01b436fb400548ba392e9231b66ec080

Okay this one has a clean behaviour report too yet the only thing I changed is the default config for chess titans
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/438d97af1a21f6933c3a817c7f10bc3dc938387097739ed3be52931938d8292b/behavior

Its Microsoft Sysinternals reporting those chrome files btw

Okay I think I could add this one as release, there is no way I pay for the signature to avoid those 3 red flags

[sly root]

yeah, lol

[viral cypress]

Oh crap that should've been 2, the array starts from 0 🤦‍♂️

Why everything interesting must happen while I am sleeping 👀

[viral cypress]

Here we go

This is AWESOME

It grayscales everything else so it's easier to distinguish

This is incredible

can't stress enough how happy I am

#remix-updates message
What does this mean for us other than being able to redistribute the remix along with a mod?

[hidden elk]

Nothing. It's just that before, there was no official statement regarding distribution of remix.

Now there is

You can package the latest remix binaries with your mod.

[viral cypress]

I found this DisableMaxWindowedMode in the dxwrapper config but it doesn't seem to be doing what I thought it would :/

And it's not documented in https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/wiki/Configuration#compatibility

[reef comet]

Max Windowed Mode controls if fullscreen is exclusive fullscreen or just a fake maximized window, I.E typical borderless fullscreen

[viral cypress]

@violet phoenix Why this might be happening? The camera is inside a translucent chess piece

If I enable volumetrics, I can at least somewhat see the rest

[violet phoenix]

When you're inside a translucent mesh that is not marked as thin walled, the rays treat the rest of the world as glass, and the inside of that surface as normal air

[sick flint]

That’s some not fun math

[viral cypress]

Why those yellow-blue regions?

and the rest is pitch black without volumetrics

[violet phoenix]

We need a better way to indicate that the camera is inside a translucent medium. that's normally something we would depend on the game engine for, or on carefully conditioning meshes so normals always point outwards... neither of which Remix can actually depend on

[violet phoenix]

Not sure, but I'm guessing the volumetrics and the translucent shader are interacting in some odd way.

[rocky minnow]

the rays are bending

🧠

[viral cypress]

I wish remix had ability to anchor the debug camera to something

like meshes

[sick flint]

You can turn off relative debug camera

No idea on how to get it into a nice position but

[viral cypress]

This doesn't help for moving things

Play the game from rook's perspective

[sick flint]

Now this is remixing

[viral cypress]

I wonder what is that blue shade over some squares

[viral cypress]

Oh its on the texture itself 👀

[sly root]

https://tenor.com/view/blue-color-gif-26141033

[sly root]

@viral cypress https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/dxvk-remix/commit/7fcb5e3e5229316ac5539b9b792d718cbe6aa3b1

this commit fixed the corruption in Flatout. it may be fixed in this game too

[viral cypress]

It did indeed, I closed the issue #251

[rocky minnow]

what kind of corruption are we talking here?

did it fix the motion vectors

[viral cypress]

Upon toggling things like reflex, dlss and sometimes enhanced assets, imgui was getting corrupted and crashing the display driver in chess titans. I initially thought this is an issue with the game itself but it turned out to be not the case

[viral cypress]

probably not

[rocky minnow]

oh that

yeah i remember it

[viral cypress]

[insert game here] wItH rEsHaDe LoOkS gOoD aS hEcK

nOw EvEn BeTtEr

[rocky minnow]

LSD chess

[sick flint]

[cursive bridge]

Chessman: Into the chess-verse

[viral cypress]

Was trying to recreate the night vision effect you did

[cursive bridge]

Yea looks like a cool vision kinda of effect

[viral cypress]

The first time ever I find vignette useful

[viral cypress]

To be honest I don't see much difference with RTXDI and ReSTIR GI (considering we won't have many bounces) and I think we could disable both for this game in exchange of better performance.

RTXDI has an issue (or is it) at where the shadows start from

[viral cypress]

I can get somewhat more realistic shadows from translucents by increasing the sky brightness and decreasing the exposure, but then the shadows on opaque stuff looks odd.

[viral cypress]

Anyone remembers if we had an issue where the game refuses to launch with the patch applied?

[mystic lance]

I can't launch the game, here is the log file.

[viral cypress]

Oh Adam you're online seconds ago

[sick flint]

What’s up?

I’m chronically online.

[viral cypress]

Hemry can't get his game working with the patch, we checked the patched exe hashes and they match

I remember you having a similar issue and you were using x32dbg to patch it in the memory instead

[sick flint]

Ohhhhhh yea

[sick flint]

I didn’t find a solution for that.

Just kept applying it by hand

[viral cypress]

So weird

What Hemry has with you in common while not with me and tadpole

[sick flint]

Prob some windows thing ngl.

[mystic lance]

How?

[viral cypress]

by not saving the patched exe :D

Didn't you use x32dbg

[mystic lance]

Yes

[viral cypress]

Yea just try without saving it

[mystic lance]

Something like cheat engine edit the memory?

[viral cypress]

Nah just apply the patch and let it run

don't save it

[mystic lance]

OK, let me try

[viral cypress]

If it works, I could move all this patching and launcher thingy to a custom DLL that will do the job of both

[sick flint]

If you know how to do it please do.

I don’t have a dev setup so compiling junk is kinda a chore for me :/

[viral cypress]

I learned a bit about DLLs when I tried to attach a window to the bridge to see if it allows reshade to capture mouse & keyboard

Spoiler alert: It didn't worked

[mystic lance]

I pressed "F9" to Run the game, still not launch🥲

[viral cypress]

I hate this game

I hate windows
I hate batch
I hate windows powershell

[mystic lance]

I hate myself

[sick flint]

Uh I can mess with it later tonight if I have the energy 🫡

[cursive bridge]

goes into your rtx-remix folder. all CC0 textures here 🙂

[viral cypress]

Added a giant cube to the game itself

with the help of tadpole

[cursive bridge]

not me, a literal baby frog he's been consulting about rtx remix

[viral cypress]

lol

[sick flint]

Patch still seems to work fine

[mystic lance]

😩

[viral cypress]

Oh my, the first time ever my code worked first try

ChatGPT's my code

[rocky minnow]

What code

[viral cypress]

A dll that will patch the game at runtime instead of doing it ahead of time

It will also replace the functionality of the launcher script

because it sucks rn

[viral cypress]

Now that's some gamer resistant remix project

It would be a better idea to prevent this slider from moving at all

but I am no Adam

[viral cypress]

Or somehow sync this with the game logic

[mystic lance]

Which tools should I use for this reverse engineering stuff?

[viral cypress]

If you ask me, I am not doing any RE. Adam made the patches, I just wrote a DLL that will apply them in runtime. This should hopefully resolve the issues Adam had. Maybe even yours.
You should ask this to Adam or xoxor4d

[mystic lance]

Which tools can I use to detect changes in game settings and write DLL files? I'm interested in learning that aspect. Currently, I rely on certain libraries to modify game settings in GTASA, but I want to create my own library that can directly access game memory. If you could provide me with the name of the tool, I'll search for tutorials on YouTube to guide me through the process.😉

[viral cypress]

I use cheat engine to determine the offset of that variable relative to the base address of the game exe.
I used Rust for writing the DLL, but almost all tutorials you'll find online are for c/cpp for good reason. For doing anything windows specific in Rust, you need to use 3rd party Rust libraries (called crates) like windows crate (this one is by Microsoft) and you'll be writing extra boilerplate compared to just calling that winapi function in c/cpp.

In this case, the dll applies patches when loaded which is blocking the game thread until done, then spawns a separate thread to watch for the settings.
This is not a preferrable approach as it makes much more sense to block the user from doing that change in the first place. The reason I didn't, is simply becasuse I have no idea how to :)

[mystic lance]

I am using lua for scripting, so the c/cpp tutorials is suitable for me, thanks❤️

[sly root]

adam recommended x32dbg and ghidra to me before, which is what i've been using

cheat engine is also very good for debugging or messing around in real time

[mystic lance]

Thanks Kim.❤️

[viral cypress]

Don't forget to get the stripped down version of Cheat Engine as the other one is bundled with adware

if you will

[sly root]

they lock the portable one without adware behind patreon, which is what i've been using. it's a pretty old version now

can you link the proper one to get so i can recommend it in the future?

[viral cypress]

I don't know where I got it (it might not even be appropriate), I will try to find

https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/releases/download/7.4/CheatEngine74Lite.exe
The "light" installer

@sly root

[sly root]

thanks

[sick flint]

I forget if ghidra gets pdbs from microsoft but all the symbols for this game are online so it disassembles nicely

[viral cypress]

@sick flint Do you happen to have rust toolchain installed?

Could you try the dll

[sick flint]

Nope

[mystic lance]

The secret country cannot be detected; the installation has failed.🤔

[viral cypress]

You can get the gnu linker, it's very easy to install & uninstall afterwards

The file will be VERY large but should have the same func

[sick flint]

Lemme cook for a bit. I wanna see if I can figure out how to make them fancy asi mods

[viral cypress]

I did #1110245358040260668 message

[sly root]

i really shouldn't have started learning with a game that has no symbols

[viral cypress]

That's like learning how to ride a bicycle

but with your eyes closed

[sick flint]

My fav part is having all the camera variables already found and what type they are

[viral cypress]

Is this barnyard or chess titans

[sick flint]

Chess

[sly root]

soooooo much easier

[sly root]

lmao yeah

[balmy dagger]

Wut u guys cooking/patching?

[sick flint]

Uh

Nothing

[viral cypress]

@sick flint I made the asi mod for Chess Titans and the patching part is working as intended, can you please try it when available? I want to see if it will resolve the issue you had. I can't ask anyone to inject a dll they got from a random guy on the internet so I will link you the repo, you should compile it yourself (if you wish to try). It shouldn't take more than a minute to inspect its code.

[balmy dagger]

I'm not aware of this project's status lol, have never touched it

[sick flint]

Where's the code?

[viral cypress]

Hold on

[viral cypress]

https://github.com/Kamilkampfwagen-II/chess-titans-rtx-asi

The build.bat expects you to have the msvc linker, so if you don't have MS c/cpp build tools installed, switch to x86 gnu linker

run rustup target add i686-pc-windows-gnu
and
replace the build command in the build.bat with cargo build --release --target i686-pc-windows-gnu

[sick flint]

Uh

[viral cypress]

what happened

[sick flint]

I have no idea how to run this 😦

[viral cypress]

https://www.rust-lang.org/learn/get-started
get the x64 rustup-init

It will install rust compiler and cargo which is the build and project management system

It should ask you which linker you wanna use, select gnu

[sick flint]

Okay built the program, where is the resulting build?

[viral cypress]

\target\i686-pc-windows-gnu\release

chess_titans_rtx.asi

You need Ultimate ASI Loader btw

actually dxwrapper has built in functionality for that 🤔

[sick flint]

||Can you just send the asi file? I can't get it to change the linker it seems :(||

[viral cypress]

:/

Do a virustotal, if I do you would then need to check if hashes match, it's easier if you do it

[sick flint]

Works fine for me

[viral cypress]

You didn't needed to use x32dbg?

[sick flint]

Nope

[viral cypress]

Nice, thank you for testing. Now I should get launcher logic in

Btw try to change the graphics level

[sick flint]

But I already closed it

[viral cypress]

Btw when you did make this table and chair

[sick flint]

Last night I just grabbed it from polyhaven to test out the toolkit

[viral cypress]

Looks sick

how do you see the old version of an edited message

[sick flint]

vencord

[viral cypress]

I thought I was good editing my messages 2 times per second

Yea I should probably go in a typing bootcamp

[rocky minnow]

[hidden elk]

Vencord user spotted

[viral cypress]

Was it stuck in x64 gnu ?

[sick flint]

I have no idea

[viral cypress]

What folders are there in \target\

I should probably create a build task in Github

I think free accounts have some limited cloud use

oh no

[sly root]

o nooo end of da world

VT loves to give false positives on asi files 😦

[viral cypress]

I created a build task for the main branch, now you don't need to compile it yourself nor have to trust a random guy on the internet that being me

[cursive bridge]

I've set up chess with toolkit now, nice and easy 🙂

[sick flint]

It’s so smooth being able to just toss an fbx in there and have it appear

[cursive bridge]

damn right, have you managed to get a sky working?

I found a small, tiny, little poly plane where the camera should be and added a sky dome mesh but when i mark sky my mesh disapears

[viral cypress]

We can now replace meshes in Chess Titans from the game's part

@cursive bridge Btw I wanted to ask, do this sky mesh you gave me has UVs?

[cursive bridge]

yea thats all good

download something from polyhaven and ingest away 🙂

no way to ingest as hdr though @brisk ruin @violet phoenix

@viral cypress

[viral cypress]

How did you get the mesh in

[cursive bridge]

ingested and attached to the board frame

doesnt work as a sky though

when i mark the board texture as sky it comes back for some reason

and my replacement goes away, unmark it and the sky comes back

[viral cypress]

Hmm why it looks so weird

[cursive bridge]

i have no idea what that represents, it's a 3ds max default sphere with 64 sub div's that i inverted the normals of and reset xforms before exporting to fbx

[viral cypress]

Uh tool crashing every time :/

[viral cypress]

I think it's rasterizing the outer board

Like as if it was a 3D skybox

Intentionally

[cursive bridge]

this is it rasterized

[viral cypress]

Hey I can't get the toolkit running, can you do the sky if I pass you the captures

[cursive bridge]

sure

is your board normals backwards in toolkit?

i took a screenshot of toolkit 😛 felt so naughty

i have no outter board

or sky, just the inner board and pieces

@viral cypress might need to capture with the modded board of yours with no tags?

[viral cypress]

On it

[cursive bridge]

oh yea it's got no smoothing or uv's now

@viral cypress

[sly root]

reminds me of a disco ball

[cursive bridge]

oh yea

we partying in chess titans

[viral cypress]

Oh no

[viral cypress]

It looks like a pixelization shader rather than naturally occuring

[cursive bridge]

metalic 1, roughness 0.1, diffuse 1 makes a disco ball

[viral cypress]

Is lack of normals really an issue for sky? I mean it looks fine when the sky is a "box"

[cursive bridge]

no thats fine, uvs though is an issue

[viral cypress]

So the converted version has no UVs, that would explain why I don't get the board frame textuere on the sphere

[cursive bridge]

yea, normals and uv's are both gone 😦

[brisk ruin]

Just wondering, did someone tag me in this thread? I'm part of the thread but can't find any mentions lol

[viral cypress]

Actually, @cursive bridge can you check Blender addons for DirectX X Format, or DirectX Import

[cursive bridge]

oh i was saying currently we have no way to ingest high dynamic range images as bsc6 😦

[viral cypress]

@brisk ruin this

[brisk ruin]

Oh right! Yeah you can create a GitHub feature request for that! Definitely something useful!

[cursive bridge]

sorry no .x format in blender either

[cursive bridge]

will do 🙂

[brisk ruin]

Thank you!

[cursive bridge]

sorry whats the github page for toolkit issues?

[sly root]

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix/issues/new/choose

[viral cypress]

I wonder how people used this .X format, it seems like MS pushed it for its studios. Some modding wiki pages might have a tool mentioned, maybe something like Flight Simulator's

[cursive bridge]

think max has flight sim options

.flt format

[viral cypress]

Even they realized how bad it is D:

MS page says its deprecated as of 2014, which I am sure is a lot later than no one on the earth left using it.

We really need the ability to make custom skyboxes :/

[brisk ruin]

The combined repo

Yeah the one Kim sent!

[viral cypress]

Offtopic question, does the tag "jira" refer to that software or is it an abbreviation

[sly root]

jira is issue tracking software

i'd guess it just means that it was added to it 😛

ya (label description on github)

just realized you were asking Pete, sorry

[viral cypress]

No I just asked here, doesnt matter who responds

[cursive bridge]

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix/issues/319
sorted, bump it to the top of the pile pete and kim said they will get you any size pizza sent straight to your house

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-pikachu-clap-clapping-clapping-gif-gif-13465728489229726846

very generous of you kim, thank you

[viral cypress]

(shipping: inf business days)

[cursive bridge]

oh hey look it's a "pal" from that new game 😛

[viral cypress]

Seriously how did they get away with it.

[cursive bridge]

they aint yet, nintendo lawyers are like hungry dogs

[viral cypress]

I am sure they are working day & night

[balmy dagger]

fun fact: In pt-BR, "pau" (pronounced the same as "pal") is used a lot to mean "d*ck", so you can imagine it has taken the internet around here into a storm

[viral cypress]

I realized .1337 files are just text, could we use an asi mod that would patch its parent process with all the .1337 files it founds in say ./patches? Not for Chess Titans (as I have a dedicated one for that) but for all games in general.
Actually there might be such thing already 🤔

[viral cypress]

Why fix a bug when you can prevent the user from getting there in the first place :)

[rocky minnow]

But

What about 4k path traced chess

[viral cypress]

?

We never used that for fullscreen

It causes a strange bug where the window keeps getting smaller and smaller

[rocky minnow]

oh well

It was never Fullscreen in the first place

[viral cypress]

We used dxwrapper to make it borderless instead, now I am trying to figure out to make it in my dll so we can get rid of dxwrapper as well

[sick flint]

I believe it's set when it creates the window.

[viral cypress]

I figured out how to make it borderless + move it to the top left corner, but it still requires me to set the resolution through the xml config which I don't like messing with :/

Maybe I could find the offsets where it stores those values before creating the window, and forcefully set them

[viral cypress]

Alright, now you don't need the crappy powershell script for anything

I can set the window width/height in the asi, with the dumbest way possible 😛

fn res_watcher() {
    const WIDTH_OFFSET: u32 = 0x131154;
    const HEIGHT_OFFSET: u32 = 0x131158;

    let width = get_address_by_offset(WIDTH_OFFSET);
    let height = get_address_by_offset(HEIGHT_OFFSET);
    loop {
        if unsafe { *width } != 1920 {
           write_to(width , 1920);
        }

        if unsafe { *height } != 1080 {
            write_to(height, 1080);
        }
        thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(1));
    }
}

Oh actually, I think VirtualProtect can be used to make it read only

That might crash the game tho :/

yep, instant crash :(

[viral cypress]

Ahaha

[hidden elk]

help

[viral cypress]

I spent around 3 hours finding every single instruction writing to that offset, noped them all. Got some scary warnings from x32dbg about the modifications I made being in a realignment region or whatever.
I think that means it may not work on other computers?

[viral cypress]

Now I can set whatever res I want, including this 😛

Actually seems like I still can't go under 100x100

[rocky minnow]

i think this person wants help

[cursive bridge]

Professional help, but none of us are qualified so we leave him to his mods

[hidden elk]

I think the game is asking for help

[viral cypress]

No Chess Titans instances were harmed during development of this project

[viral cypress]

Yep it's broken

great

[viral cypress]

I should now implement the config system and update the chess titans rtx repo but man this is the most boring part of the job

[rocky minnow]

what job

[viral cypress]

Implementing a config system

It's repetitive, it's not any exciting, it's hard to get right, it's not making my brain release any dopamine

I am now experimenting with a simple command line thing where you can set some parameters live, "parameters" being only the fov :)

I would like to implement some sort of ui, but this is already getting too bloated

Also I don't think anyone cares about Chess Titans at this point :/

[rocky minnow]

that's the point, work on something that no one cares

[hidden elk]

I don't think anyone really cared much to begin with

For me, it's a meme project

[sick flint]

I care about making my memes dreams with chess titans.

It’s the titan of the chess world

[sly root]

i care, but i don't know if i'd play it. sorry 😦

do it for you

[rocky minnow]

it's okay i mean i didn't have any intention of bringing the mood down. Just work on whatever you like

the community here is genuinely very supportive

[cursive bridge]

A lot of potential for a good solid playable demo of remix. Nice simple project

[rocky minnow]

It's like a mid tier interactable remix sample application to test with toolkit

[sly root]

yes indeed. it's an amazing showcase too