Garry's Mod

[meager oar]

idk wat i changed

[subtle bison]

this is cosmetic, i get the same thing but my game works fine

[compact blaze]

Hm ok

[subtle bison]

ok then it's probably patching not working, or something else

are any of yall willing to install visual studio and hook up a debugger to the game

we really aint gonna know the issue unless we know where it crashes

[compact blaze]

I’ll try play the game more to see if it crashes since when I installed the update and launched stuff that usually crashed the game (like shooting an mw base pistol) doesn’t crash anymore

Just send a guide here for others to use

[wispy crest]

all of my crash logs just talk about lua getting panicked

[runic gale]

I'm assume it's only replace the newer files.

[subtle bison]

no it even does it on a clean install

[thorny crag]

where is this?

actually where do you even enable nrc

ok so turns out i have nrc as indirect illumination, but when i click on the drop down it just crashes

huh, when i open it in game it doesn't crash, okay

[lapis delta]

in main menu?

[subtle bison]

explain

[subtle bison]

ok optiscaler support will be coming to the launcher very soon

team red time

[distant crystal]

https://tenor.com/view/smile-fade-smile-fade-to-dumb-happy-to-straight-face-smile-fade-to-shock-smile-fade-to-curious-gif-4098180333973202457

We lost another one to the AMD plague boys

[subtle bison]

im still keeping my 2080 in my PC so i can still use the toolkit

[lapis delta]

basically it crashes randomly no matter what you did

[runic gale]

Which one?

[subtle bison]

wdym

[runic gale]

Which AMD

[subtle bison]

ah, 9070 XT

[runic gale]

oh

[subtle bison]

binary module isnt at fault then, its most likely a patch issue

[runic gale]

Not going to run well

[subtle bison]

yeah it will lol

thats why i mentined optiscaler 💀

DLSS > FSR3

its at least twice as fast as my 2080 in RT/PT scenarios as well

[runic gale]

How well does it run

will it run HL2 RTX?

[subtle bison]

from a linux discord server:
70fps with @ 1440p dlss performance (FS3 internally)

not my results but someone i know who has the card

its muuuch faster than my old gpu lol

[runic gale]

What GPU

[subtle bison]

what do you think 💀

[runic gale]

same as your?

[subtle bison]

yes

[runic gale]

How you install optiscaler?

[runic gale]

Is there benchmark for portal rtx?

[subtle bison]

probably not, but expect similar performance

[subtle bison]

if you want the easy way, use king vulpe's repo
https://github.com/NightSightProductions/Portal-RTX-AMD-mod

im going to add an option to the rtxlauncher though once i get the card

[runic gale]

My Dad's PC has 7800 XT

With a 1080p Montior

[thorny crag]

ye

it doesn't crash in game though so i aint complaining

[subtle bison]

i have made a manual archive for 0.6.6.1, but it's for x32 only, please test on a clean gmod install (rtxlauncher is included)
https://github.com/Xenthio/gmod-rtx-fixes-2/releases/download/gmrtx_0.6.6.1/gmrtx-0.6.6.1-manual-x32.zip

i verified mw base is stable, deleting props doesnt crash the game, etc

[turbid barn]

Lemme test

[earnest yew]

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-darkside-star-wars-evil-innerme-gif-12686883553708718330

[turbid barn]

yup, crashing has been fixed

on x64

[subtle bison]

guh its for x32 only 💀

[subtle bison]

unless you downloaded the x64 ver via the launcher

[turbid barn]

yup

ik im on x64

i've just came home so i've just saw 0.6.6.1 was released

[subtle bison]

do something for me rq, if you just reinstall 0.6.6, does the game start crashing again?

using that same fixes package thing

[turbid barn]

okay, downgrading

[turbid barn]

0.6.6 is still crasing

unlike 0.6.5/0.6.6.1

[subtle bison]

ok so its the binary module i guess then lol

[turbid barn]

do you need any of log files?

[subtle bison]

need a few more people to test and see if they get the same results

[subtle bison]

not yet

[turbid barn]

@lapis delta
does your gmod rtx x64 on 0.6.5 crashed when you pressed Z?

Or that was only glide issue?

[turbid barn]

btw, i reinstalled gmod few times, deleted all addons - still crashed on 0.6.6

[subtle bison]

ok cool

[turbid barn]

so that's not my instance issue

[meager oar]

what was the setting again to enable rtx conf to use old hashes?

[subtle bison]

rtx.useObsoleteHashOnTextureUpload = True

[meager oar]

tanks

[meager oar]

why does the atmosphere option makes the height sideways on some maps in 64bit

[turbid barn]

i have no notifications on this server lol

[willow fog]

look carefully

[subtle bison]

very carefulIy

[turbid barn]

pizdez kak carefully

i think that's aliens

[willow fog]

probably

[turbid barn]

they'r trying to distract us while stealing cowsa and farms

[subtle bison]

this fucking april fools server badge

[meager oar]

yea i have a notification aswell but theres nothing here

[subtle bison]

its fooling me now

ok the manual archives for x64 and x32 are up

https://github.com/Xenthio/gmod-rtx-fixes-2/releases/tag/gmrtx_0.6.6.1

[meager oar]

ohhh its apiril 1st

damn fake logo, who did tat

ohhh its this setting

[lapis delta]

nuh uh

[keen rivet]

It's over...

Did you try a build with the new extra safety checks?

[subtle bison]

i can push it but cant test it myself

i still dont have enough results from users that the binary module is at fault

those manual install archives also have pre-patched binaries and i definitely think its those

[keen rivet]

Ohhhh I fixed this

Lmao

[subtle bison]

what

[keen rivet]

If that's the crash then I fixed that already

[turbid barn]

it is in 0.6.6.1 already?

[subtle bison]

bruh

[keen rivet]

Yeah it was the model render hook

But it's fixed

[subtle bison]

ok definitely pushing new binary module lmao

[keen rivet]

I pressed z many many times and it never happened so I assumed it's fixed

[turbid barn]

Ooo, nice
btw, why it didn't crashed for others on 0.6.6?

[keen rivet]

no idea

[subtle bison]

pretty sure it did

[turbid barn]

you've said everything if fine for you

[jade edge]

The funniest thing is that i noticed it after i had a real one

[keen rivet]

Glad this crashing mystery was already solved ages ago lmao

[subtle bison]

yes but my results dont matter because everything has worked for me 😭

[subtle bison]

lets see 😅

[keen rivet]

Yeah I noticed deleting entities would sometimes crash a while ago and fixed it

Man it's almost like I should remember to release my bug fixes

[copper ibex]

does anybody know how to use the least vram with the remix? i already disabled weapons but my usage is always 80% in an empty small map.
(dlss performance on)
and i have 8gb VRAM

[subtle bison]

did you try disabling all addons except niknaks and load into gm_construct on a fresh boot?

it should not use any more than 2GB of vram

[copper ibex]

do i disable all and undisable them after? or just enable a few

i have ALOT of addons (ragdolls)

[subtle bison]

disable all and then just enable niknaks only

but its important you reboot the game after you do that

[copper ibex]

is that mod preinstalled in the remix or i gotta install

[subtle bison]

you should have subscribed to it as per the install instructions

[copper ibex]

oh.. alr ima install it

[subtle bison]

how have you been playing the game without it... 💀

the entire compat mod relies on it

[keen rivet]

remix will just use the vram it has available to it

[subtle bison]

it doesnt use 80% out of the bat, it only holds onto resources for as long as the game requires to

any addons that precache textures like arc9 will eat vram very quickly and you will run out doing stuff after that

[copper ibex]

i never knew i needed it 😭

[keen rivet]

should make the launcher install niknaks from git

aswell as copy the stdshader dlls from portal rtx or hl2 rtx if available

[subtle bison]

is that permissible with niknak's license? they explicity say the addon cannot be reuploaded anywhere but idk if cloning via git counts

also we would have to worry about conflicts from the workshop version for other addons that use it

[keen rivet]

could ask nak himself

[subtle bison]

https://github.com/Xenthio/gmod-rtx-fixes-2/releases/tag/gmrtx_0.6.7

🙂

[compact blaze]

@subtle bison insta crashed after i installed the new update

was anything changed to make crash logs be more helpful?

[subtle bison]

prob not unless you had a full dump, it seems like the game only ever drops partial ones

[subtle bison]

also do a fully clean install

once again the insta crash issues sounds like materialsystem/shaderapidx9 patches not applying.

just tried a clean x32 install, still no issues for me

[compact blaze]

lmao whats up with bro

[earnest yew]

its so ass

[wispy crest]

activate wondows

[meager oar]

no

😏

[brittle token]

watch the "activate windows" on w10 become an aesthetic in 2030

[subtle bison]

no freaking way i got a crash 🙀

too bad i did not have VS open to see why it did

[brittle token]

gotta love this texture

[subtle bison]

finally

async my beloved

updates very fast now

[subtle bison]

revisited my custom static prop rendering idea

its definitely more visually stable than FVF will ever be, we're pretty much on par with x32 now.
not sure if i can really optimize it, its currently rendering all static props in the map at once

ok i fixed the perf 🤓

[meager oar]

cool

[pulsar flicker]

you know, you could just fix it urself

also hl2 rtx textures work when

also also @compact blaze what gun mod is that

[potent agate]

who needs to wait for rt64 ray tracing when you have gmod
the textures though...

and this
but besides that could've been worse

not bad, at least this works
manually tweaking sky settings to make it dark

[brittle token]

never let me around a displacement map again 🔥

[runic gale]

displacement won't work well on prop

[thorny crag]

i did a clean install on this and it instantly crashes when i try to take a capture

yes, i did not forget to turn on capture mode

[subtle bison]

does this happen every time?

[thorny crag]

yes

[subtle bison]

send your remix log here

[thorny crag]

bro i did a clean install already i dont have it anymore 💀

[subtle bison]

well if its still happening on your "clean install", send it

[thorny crag]

No I meant I deleted that Install already and made another clean install

That install is using 0.6.6.1

it doesn't crash when taking a captrue

[keen rivet]

Wtf

[meager oar]

hmm the lighting color changes in different scene unit scale

[subtle bison]

its weird because scene scale was only ever intended for captures i believe

at least that's how i perceived it

[willow fog]

No it does affect rendering unists and such

[modern quest]

it does affect terrain baking

afaik that's the only other thing

[meager oar]

wat is the best value for it then

[subtle bison]

1.000 it seems

[distant crystal]

Doesn't it also adjust clip planes? I remember NV suggested it in the toolkit-help thread about floating point errors

[modern quest]

if you're adjusting for terrain, setting it to the absolute lowest always seems to be best

at least it has been in the 10+ games i tested it in

so like 0.0001

[subtle bison]

setting it to anything other than 1.000 breaks volumetrics

at least in source

[lapis pewter]

affects atmospherics a lot too

i have to set scene scale to 0.02 for realistic values

(not in gmod)

[modern quest]

mm. i'll try that

[subtle bison]

ye 0.0001 seems to break lighting in source

[subtle bison]

didnt i before?

[quasi blaze]

oh i remember now

i forgot you already did it

i apologize

[subtle bison]

ok FVF is definitely gonna be removed next release

i've found good performance with the static prop renderer rendering stuff near and somewhat far away, and then letting the engine handle anything past that

if voidplaces is playable, everything else is lmao

seriously it looks just like x32, no visible culling

[willow fog]

says you

[subtle bison]

yes says me, i want the best for x64 until we get culling patches 🤓

there are a few issues since its pretty early, anything that isnt a prop_static culls, so ill need to do something for those

[compact blaze]

I wonder if x64 finally gets full culling patches we can finally leave behind fvf?

[subtle bison]

yes

[winter radish]

So like, bringing this over to Portal 2 with RTX?

https://tenor.com/view/anime-gun-gif-625056655053984019

[subtle bison]

xoxor4d already does some pretty good selective culling

[winter radish]

Yeah, there was only one area our testers noticed

[subtle bison]

probably fixable since you can define cull/nocull zones

[winter radish]

Mhm, that's what I said to them

That it's probally an easy fix

[subtle bison]

ye

[willow fog]

can I be a tester

[winter radish]

What's your GPU?

[willow fog]

Uh oh

Four thousand and ninety

[winter radish]

Yeah, we have someone with that already 😅

[wind yoke]

the fire hazard control group

[willow fog]

Time to test the new tonemapper

Mars sand lmao

[lapis pewter]

is that in github build or do you have to rip from hl2rtx

[willow fog]

github

[lapis pewter]

Noice

[willow fog]

was able to get this b4 crash

[brittle token]

is it me or displacement map's intensity doesn't look the same in the toolkit as in the game?

[night bramble]

that's been a thing for a long time
it's cause it has it's own setting in-game

[brittle token]

absolute crashfest

[winter radish]

We’re about to get a RTX 5090 tester as well

[hasty sonnet]

my keyboard is tweaking

[frozen charm]

how did you get vfire working?

[subtle bison]

as i said, the compat mod has specific fixes for it

[frozen charm]

is it like pinned?

[subtle bison]

yes

[frozen charm]

this is silly

wait i just forgot a step lmao

[subtle bison]

did you run the launcher as admin? it has to symlink all of your main gmod files to the folder

ah

[frozen charm]

actually no i didnt i completed the install (ran as admin) and i still get that error

[subtle bison]

hmm, where is your gmod install located? C:\ drive?

[frozen charm]

yep

[subtle bison]

weird, it shouldnt have any issues then.
just to be sure, you did it exactly like this?
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1355538332813365308/1355552960628920320/2025-03-29_09-41-57.mp4?ex=67ef4752&is=67edf5d2&hm=fb53e0445e18f47547e34fd339d7956e16a611f35bf1b7f760e3460f9533bd7f&

[frozen charm]

ill just start again because i think something went wrong

[subtle bison]

make sure the main gmod install is clean (no previous remix installs, etc)

[frozen charm]

my main gmod install should be fine since i recently wiped my entire pc

ok i jus installed it again and it worked lmao

[subtle bison]

lol

[frozen charm]

ill have to move all my remix mods over to this install

[subtle bison]

they might not work btw, we switched to a old hash system to maintain compatility with old remix mods and hl2rtx

you can enable the old hash system but it will break everything else in the compat mod's release config

maybe just copy your rtx.conf from your previous install

[frozen charm]

lucky i only just begun remaking stuff and all i have remastered are just some combine models

vfire still doesent work lmao

is it the specific one i downloaded off the workshop?

[subtle bison]

i only made fixes for the main addon

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1525218777&searchtext=vfire

this

[frozen charm]

i think i have custom one i made

ill try that

[subtle bison]

you might be able to get yours working, the fixes were modifying VMT and pcf files to use a different sprite system basically

[subtle bison]

also for the hashes stuff, you can go back and forth between hash systems by modifying rtx.useObsoleteHashOnTextureUpload = True in rtx.conf

true = old hashes
false = new hashes

[frozen charm]

have you figured out why the sprite system vfire uses doesent work with remix?

i have zero idea

[subtle bison]

its more than vfire, anything using $spritecard without a FF fallback will not render at all, even outside of remix

its just a engine limitation when rendering in fixed function

[frozen charm]

im lucky i remembered about this server because other wise i would be screwed lmao

[brittle token]

went to tf2rtx, crashed 10 times before even seeing the second frame of raytraced lights.

suddently garry's mod feels like the most stable game ever

[subtle bison]

oh wtf vfire did break with this release lmao

ik why tho

i made some changes in the addon folder structure and forgot to include the vfire stuff

lemme push a hotfix rq lmao

[frozen charm]

shit it is still broken

i just realised

[subtle bison]

gimmie a sec im still working on pushing the hotfix

[frozen charm]

i threw a grenade i was taking damage and i couldn't see that i was on fire

[brittle token]

😮 whats this

[subtle bison]

i think it just toggles remix? idk xenthio added it

i havent tried it

[brittle token]

neat

[frozen charm]

mine is greyed out

[brittle token]

any idea what the tools mode does in advanced?

[subtle bison]

particle editor

[frozen charm]

i love adding in all the emissive materials, its probably the best part of rtx remix.

[brittle token]

oooh, fancyy

[frozen charm]

making shit glow is fun

[brittle token]

would be nicer if they weren't stopped from casting light when the player doesn't have a direct line of sight of it

[frozen charm]

also when the hotfix is pushed will update install apply it?

[subtle bison]

im going to push it under the same release build so i would just wipe out the entire install just to be safe

[subtle bison]

go to x32 🙂

oh wait you mean for emissives only

NRC should fix that

[brittle token]

ooh, maybe, i remember it happened in the toolkit and in game, but at that time i was using restir

[subtle bison]

yea restir had that issue

[brittle token]

rare Restir L

[frozen charm]

i dont want to be annoying but has the hotfix been uploaded yet?

[subtle bison]

ill let you know

[frozen charm]

🙂

[brittle token]

WOOAH

[frozen charm]

why can you see through the map? is there no culling or something

[brittle token]

3dsky was more necessary than i thought on this one.

on the other hand, im glad it loaded and it didn't crash

[brittle token]

map is crazy, and uses 3dskies to hide it, 3dsky no work in rtx, equals that

[frozen charm]

i have managed to get 3dsky to work in remix

[subtle bison]

3dsky's work

[brittle token]

damn, how?

[frozen charm]

yeah

[subtle bison]

https://tenor.com/view/how-it-feels-when-you-meme-nanami-jjk-gif-10683277372535996893

[brittle token]

then idk what's going on in here

[subtle bison]

they've been working 💀

[frozen charm]

i just changed one setting and 3d sky worked lemme get remix up and all check what it was

[subtle bison]

reproject to main camera?

all of the required settings for 3dsky are already set in the compat mod

[frozen charm]

yes

i setup gmod rtx myself and thats probably why all the settings were not the same

[subtle bison]

the only 2 issues is that some maps hide the 3dsky weirdly and it can show from the main map
the other is clipping when the 3dsky and the main world intersect (but this is a remix itssue)

you can see the 2nd issue on gm_construct

but its very rare

[frozen charm]

some maps have the skybox above them and you can see the small version from the map

[brittle token]

rtx remix could really use a search bar

[frozen charm]

nah gotta scroll untill carpel tunnel

[keen rivet]

just toggles the remix dlls from existing

[subtle bison]

"fuck you"
unexists your remix dlls

[brittle token]

"fuck you"
resets your texture hashes

[subtle bison]

🤭

@frozen charm hotfix is out

[frozen charm]

this isnt a joke but this remix install improved my performance over 100% from my own one 💀

[subtle bison]

also added hl2rtx aces tonemapper cuz why not

[frozen charm]

lets goo

[keen rivet]

[brittle token]

new update!?? 🔥

[keen rivet]

legacy hashes were for the greater good

[subtle bison]

nothing major, just vfire stuff

[keen rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/hot-fuzz-greater-good-evil-funny-gif-5283257

[brittle token]

still cool

vfire probably looks great, imma try installing it, why not

[subtle bison]

🤤

back in business

[frozen charm]

lets go

have you guys every tried using maps like rp_unioncity with remix? i can get like 40 fps because of all the lights

[subtle bison]

ffs this stupid issue came back, i guess ignoring hashes is never enough

[brittle token]

that's the New york map right? thing's massive iirc

[subtle bison]

ill have to find the texture and make it a empty vtf or something

[frozen charm]

nah unioncity is the smaller one

[subtle bison]

nycity works fine

i havent tried x32, but that map is so well optimized it would probably be fine

[frozen charm]

nycity is honestlly really well optimized

[brittle token]

wait, union city isn't based on NY?

tbh im like, on the other hemisphere of the world, but still, damn i missed

[frozen charm]

they are both based in or around new york

[brittle token]

HOLYYY SHIT

[subtle bison]

wow thats a lot lower than i expected 😦

is the fps the same with RT off?

[brittle token]

im not even far

[frozen charm]

bruh im getting above 50

maybe its some rt settings

[brittle token]

i just did a reinstall, imma try resetting stuff again

[subtle bison]

most likely not, there are some serious engine bottlenecks on larger maps. x64 can be faster since we dont have culling patches for it atm but it has loads of other issues

also, i guess to clarify, both of you are on x32?

[brittle token]

went lower, but it looks nicer, still, something is eating my GPU up

might be .. this, whatever it is whining about

[frozen charm]

its the smoke in the skybox

[subtle bison]

nah those errors wont hurt fps, but those are custom sprites that need to be fixed manually

@brittle token turn off RT in the remix menu, do you get the same fps?

thats how you know if you're GPU bound or engine bound very quickly

[brittle token]

imma check

an increase, but still not normal

[subtle bison]

so cpu/engine

i guess ill see how it runs for me rq

[brittle token]

i5-12400

pretty sure this map would run over 300 fps without the rtx binaries, so still strange

[subtle bison]

its not remix

if its x32, its the culling patches

there is no way to improve this without introducing visual issues

[brittle token]

yeah, it could be that

[subtle bison]

it is

[brittle token]

imma search for another big map

[keen rivet]

anyways guys what if

[subtle bison]

xenthio 👄

is this windowblinds or the actual fucking launcher lmfao

[frozen charm]

i saw what you were doing in the s&box server

[keen rivet]

FUCK

[keen rivet]

HAHAHA

ILLUSION RUINED

[frozen charm]

your atually just going to turn everything into that

[keen rivet]

[keen rivet]

its over for me

[subtle bison]

motherucker

💀

[frozen charm]

i really want a tool that turns windows into the half life ui, i already managed to get linux mint looking half life

[brittle token]

strangely, i still see the message lol

[subtle bison]

engine for sure, im on a 7950X3D and im about the same lmfao

[keen rivet]

i could do this but it would involve me turning everything into a blazor semi web app

[subtle bison]

this map suffers bad on x32 rip

[subtle bison]

embrace your inner react native/vue

[brittle token]

straight up Struggling

[frozen charm]

all of this guys maps are meant for x64 anyway

[keen rivet]

you CANNOT customise the individual border colours in windows forms lmao

[frozen charm]

nooooo

[brittle token]

this sign cant stop me cuz i cant read

[frozen charm]

in linux i could change every ui element and edit everything to look like half life

[frozen charm]

thats probably why all the errors

[keen rivet]

i could make a windowblinds theme but

[frozen charm]

i enabled hl2rtx mounting lmao

[subtle bison]

ye its broken if you have more than 1 remix mod installed

[keen rivet]

still not fixed 😔

[frozen charm]

like in hl2rtx?

[subtle bison]

so delete the water fix and it should start working

[frozen charm]

oooh

ill try that

completley unrelated but have you guys ever tried making ur own 3d game engine?

opengl my beloved

[subtle bison]

meanwhile x64 😦

[brittle token]

yea, but i usually get tired of it almost inmediately

hopefully that could change if i actually get on learning c++

[frozen charm]

i made mine in a mixture of c and c++

[brittle token]

meanwhile on x32

[frozen charm]

what happened

[subtle bison]

cannot wait for x64 to get culling patches one day

https://tenor.com/view/man-praying-black-man-praying-black-man-praying-and-crying-man-praying-and-crying-gif-23376408540985609

[brittle token]

southside happened

[frozen charm]

southside has issues that i think are with the skybox

[subtle bison]

nycity's 3dsky is perfect

other than particles

[frozen charm]

gm_rhine is killing me tho, beutiful map but 0 fps

[brittle token]

i swear this thing isn't running two frames per second, it's running 1 second per frame.

it is perfectly described as: powerpoint presentation

[subtle bison]

gonna test this one

[frozen charm]

i dont litterally get 0 fps but its closer to 20 which is unplayable

[subtle bison]

its pretty fucked with remix itself, it has the usual vertex explosion issue that destroys FPS while RT is active

i think this is a remix bug though

[frozen charm]

whats the verte explosion issue?

[subtle bison]

RT off for comparison

[brittle token]

rt is just the final punch lol

[frozen charm]

14 fps is actually hell

[subtle bison]

see the big black rectangle in RT that isnt there with it off?

[brittle token]

heaven considering what moving in 2 fps with motion blur was like

[frozen charm]

yeah i dont have that, im not on x64 tho

[subtle bison]

i dont know where it originates but its from some model with vertex explosions and remix hates it

[brittle token]

this time i press a button and the game moves

[subtle bison]

it should also happen on x32

kleiner center had this issue on both platforms as well

[frozen charm]

mine was fine apart from fps and water

[subtle bison]

i managed to ignore the fps killing texture but yeah this map is really buggy

[frozen charm]

yeah im not getting any of the buggyness at all, just fps and slight jank but no glitches

no idea why

[subtle bison]

idk maybe my rtx 2080 is cursed

[frozen charm]

2080??? in the big 25

[brittle token]

the entire pc 🔫 one 64x64 texture

[subtle bison]

yes, if you look at something like a 4060, it performs the exact same

if you dont add the MFG to it

[frozen charm]

fair

i have 3070ti myself but idk how good it is, its been holding out tho

[subtle bison]

i bought a RX 9070 yesterday lol

i cannot wait any longer

[frozen charm]

i have no money but when i do i will get a toughbook 40 and try mod it with an rtx card because its so fat and the motherboard on that laptop somehow has a compatible gpu slot

gonna be lit

ignore that the laptop is $7000 aud 😦

my friend recently got a 4060 and he just basically got scammed lmao

[brittle token]

... ok. another map

[frozen charm]

freak ass skybox lmao

[brittle token]

the skybox getting quirky

[pulsar flicker]

forbiden sky

[brittle token]

no way

what's this lil dude doing here

horror story time.

you had to go to the toilet in the middle of the night

but there only was evil toilet

for some reason this happens, seems to figure it out over time, but meanwhile it gets this no indirect lights and the vram usage changes quickly between a range of percentages

here's how it looks like afterwards

might be NRC

pressing escape and staying on the menu for a few seconds seems to help it

culling? (32 bits)

[lapis delta]

"reset scene" also helps

or bounds

[brittle token]

is that a button? .. somewhere?

[frozen charm]

gmod keeps crashing

not sure why

[frozen charm]

does anyone else get a shit on of crashing for no reason

just after around 50 seconds of playing gmod crashes

its getting really annoing and its caused by vfire of all things

[hasty sonnet]

for me i crash after loading into maps too fast

"I can always restart." is the correct line for me

but never from scratch

[subtle bison]

a few people have been having this issue since 0.6.6 and i still haven't been able to reproduce these crashes. are you able to hook up the visual studio debugger while playing to see where it crashes at?

[hasty sonnet]

any updates on the hdri?

[subtle bison]

you can try the latest update but im not sure if it will fix your issue

[turbid barn]

tech me how to use that and i will downgrade back to 0.6.6 and do smth useful

[subtle bison]

you dont have the issue on 0.6.7?

[turbid barn]

wait, 0.6.7 has been released?

[subtle bison]

yea

[turbid barn]

i don't have that issue on 0.6.6.1 & 0.6.5

0.6.6 is the only ver have this issue

lemme try 0.6.7

crashed

after pressing z

[compact blaze]

@subtle bison I wanna ask what was exactly removed between 6.6 and 6.6.1

[subtle bison]

i disabled a few hooks xenthio put in

but im still not sure if they're the exact cause

that's why i need someone to use a debugger since i cant reproduce anything

[turbid barn]

maybe on weekends

because tommorow I perform in other city

[compact blaze]

do you have a guide you use on setting up a full debugger?

[subtle bison]

i can try to make one later today

[compact blaze]

Nah nah it’s ok genuinely, u can just find a guide out there that’s useful enough for us

Don’t want you to feel like ur wasting ur time

[subtle bison]

you can follow this all the way to step 4
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/install-visual-studio?view=vs-2022

for components you just want this one

[onyx ridge]

hello i pop in again

any new developments

[weak ermine]

dead internet

theory

[hasty sonnet]

why the fuck is everything null textured

yes i got the hl2rtx thing working

[subtle bison]

💀

[hasty sonnet]

tf do i do

[subtle bison]

click the Problems button in the pause menu, take a screenshot or send the lua error here

[hasty sonnet]

[remixbinary] addons/remixbinary/lua/entities/rtx_pseudoplayer.lua:132: bad argument #2 to 'SetTexture' (ITexture expected, got nil)
1. SetTexture - [C]:-1
2. MaterialSet - addons/remixbinary/lua/entities/rtx_pseudoplayer.lua:132
3. unknown - addons/remixbinary/lua/entities/rtx_pseudoplayer.lua:203

[subtle bison]

hmm i've seen this one before, this usually happens if you toggle a bunch of addons

try rebooting the game if not already

[hasty sonnet]

also i have the hl2rtx thing done

now what

[subtle bison]

what does that mean 💀

[hasty sonnet]

yk

the

uhhh

hl2 rtx enhancements

[subtle bison]

can you use at least 20% more of your brain power to explain what the issue is

[hasty sonnet]

humans use 10% of their brain

i did this

and now

everything is

W H I T E

[subtle bison]

if you copied everything over, disable mounting in the launcher

also ensure you properly extracted all of the files from the mod_*.pkg archives

[hasty sonnet]

thats what i did

[subtle bison]

idfk try enabling mounting ig

hl2rtx mounting is cursed

[hasty sonnet]

i uninstalled it for space

rn

im reinstalling it

[wispy crest]

oh this is why all your footage is super blurry, because your running it on ultra performance dlss

[subtle bison]

gotta do what u gotta do

[wispy crest]

i run full resolution dlss

[subtle bison]

good for you

[wispy crest]

which is dlaa, I think

[compact blaze]

What’s ur card?

[wispy crest]

4070S

[hasty sonnet]

guys

the built in mounter works

[weak quiver]

Wait what 🤣 mine is only 120 gb

[pulsar flicker]

Damn

[weak quiver]

Did u install campaign, warzone, warzone 2, etc etc or something

[brittle token]

WHAT THE-

[pulsar flicker]

YEP

[wispy crest]

mine over 200 on xbox

[night bramble]

X2 5090 for real? Running mega ai?

[weak quiver]

Gfx , 3d, sfx etc

[weak quiver]

My second system has 4x 4090 lol

[night bramble]

damn

I've seen the 4x 4090 path tracer times pretty insane

even at 50% util

[brittle token]

ooh

[subtle bison]

i think you need one more \mods\alleys

🤭

[brittle token]

second time, no idea what's up

[subtle bison]

the bridge is just randomly unstable, its been a long going issue

doesnt help that the latest drivers have stability issues too

[brittle token]

they should hire poly bridge speedrunners

https://tenor.com/view/poly-bridge-3-skill-issue-skill-issue-poly-bridge-3-gif-16799255773385409578

[subtle bison]

real

[thorny crag]

How do i get rid of the grey textures?

I mounted hl2 rtx and ravenholm is just grey

[keen rivet]

What the

[keen rivet]

Do you have the installer in your main gmod folder? Don't do that

[hasty sonnet]

imagine using NRC

use ReStir like a real man

[thorny crag]

does CR's rtx remix support rtx skin's SSS and stuff like that?

because those things dont show up on my rtx remix toolkit

idk where to find them

[hasty sonnet]

like from addons?

then nope

the models will load but it wont look as intended

overly shiny or other stuff

you gotta load it through NVIDIA Omniverse/RTX remix

[thorny crag]

wait so what you're trying to say is it works in remix toolkit but not in game

Where do I even find rtx skin and sss in the remix toolkit

I literally can't find it

[hasty sonnet]

what do you mean by rtx skins

[thorny crag]

the new rtx skin stuff in remix 1.0

And the new subsurface scattering stuff

[hasty sonnet]

rtx skins?

textures?

[thorny crag]

look at the rtx remix 1.0 release notes bru

[hasty sonnet]

this?

it prob does

you might have to put subsurface scattering in using omniverse as a enhancement

i thought you meant gmod addons

[thorny crag]

Omniverse is the thing you download from nvidia app right?

[hasty sonnet]

mhm

its called Rtx remix now

[thorny crag]

yeah I cant find the subsurface thing in the app

Except for the one that says unused

[hasty sonnet]

iOSkull

just play around till you find out

close stuff like wallpaper engine when using remix

@thorny crag

[thorny crag]

Ye that's the one that says unused

[hasty sonnet]

try playing around

[thorny crag]

turns out I have to build it myself

apparently

[hasty sonnet]

always play around

[lapis delta]

imagine using screen space instead world space

[subtle bison]

yes

[hasty sonnet]

@subtle bison https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2821179466

this map is unstable asf

total crashfes

eyboard not working right

[distant crystal]

Nah omniverse is it's own app / launcher which is more or less not needed as Remix is on the NVIDIA app now, but like you said earlier it's probably best to build from the github until they push the recent toolkit fixes to the app version

[subtle bison]

wow this is a cool map

[hasty sonnet]

i had to modify some shit to bits

but once you adjust the roughness and add normals and stuff

its good

the textures are already HD

1K is fine

[subtle bison]

wow its well optimized

a fucking massive map

it got them vertex explosions tho rip

[hasty sonnet]

sad

i adjusted the roughness and shi

to make it a bit more nicer

the extra eye candy paid off

heres a image of pre crash

@subtle bison why is there a RTX on button thats locked

[subtle bison]

idk xenthio added it

[hasty sonnet]

understandable have a nice day

for adding a pointless button ong

[subtle bison]

who shat in the backrooms

[hasty sonnet]

who got vaporised*

[subtle bison]

finally this map is fuckin playable

[thorny crag]

does the screen still go crazy during the shaking sequence

[subtle bison]

how do i trigger that again

[thorny crag]

uh

i think it was picking up the keys

or just no clip into the place the door appears

i think??

[subtle bison]

oh i remember now

lemme see

also how do i make NRC update quicker

rooms take forever to dim whenever deleting a light

[thorny crag]

disable adaptive training dimensions

or something something adaptive

[subtle bison]

found it ty

[subtle bison]

😊

[distant crystal]

https://tenor.com/view/want-me-to-kill-them-gif-6251244462156201526

[subtle bison]

https://tenor.com/view/dog-nose-butterfly-dog-puppy-peaceful-gif-14700589898488542320

no light culling

and no render bounds modifications to speak of

these kitty0706 sounds omfg

[compact blaze]

What mod is this

[subtle bison]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3456031847

@keen rivet
#github-updates message

[hasty sonnet]

what is bro doing

[subtle bison]

blud was saying "hay"

[meager oar]

help the poor man he stuck

[subtle bison]

i leave him to his doom

[thorny crag]

Where does gmod store addon config files

Like i swear everytime after i update the remix version i have to configure everything again

[subtle bison]

client.vdf and server.vdf in garrysmod/cfg

[thorny crag]

thank

[willow fog]

Increase this to 8 or 12

[compact blaze]

I can’t be the only one noticing how nrc always does this where when you go from one room to another the light from the previous room somehow copies over to the new room before slowly disappearing

[willow fog]

hey @subtle bison you pushed the no fvf yet?

[compact blaze]

Is it related to target number of training iterations or adaptive training dimensions

[subtle bison]

no because killing fvf means i have to find new ways to solve some problems

its gonna be a while but hopefully the outcome is something much less janky

[onyx ridge]

have you found a fix for the janky hl2 rtx stuff not working right thing

[subtle bison]

its a remix bug that nvidia needs to fix

[compact blaze]

What bug exactly?

[subtle bison]

hl2rtx stuff being gray when mounted

[onyx ridge]

yea

[subtle bison]

remix can only load rtxio stuff if there is only 1 remix mod (which would be hl2rtx itself)

so deleting the water replacement or anything else works around it

[onyx ridge]

i will probably not be playing until it's sorted because i appreciate having storage space and being able to use my silly textures

[subtle bison]

@willow fog #general-remix message
x32 exists if you dont want culling 😜

[willow fog]

Can I make steam have 2 installs at the same time?

[subtle bison]

i dont think so

idk for sure tho

[meager oar]

u can try the anti culling option in remix though, i used it on a map and it was wrking but the non culled shadows got abit noisy and u do lose fps

[subtle bison]

i think its best to avoid using remix's anti-culling wherever possible

[compact blaze]

How’s the performance of this compared to fvf?

[grave lava]

how do you install the mod

[subtle bison]

its between x32 and x64 with fvf

so quite a bit lower but static props dont visibly cull

[brittle token]

but... more light 🥺

[grave lava]

is there any easy way to install the mod onto gmod?

[brittle token]

https://github.com/Xenthio/gmod-rtx-fixes-2/

just got a Z crash

fuc

k

[subtle bison]

@willow fog do you get Z (undo) crashes on the latest release

@brittle token ur on 0.6.7 right

xenthio said he fixed this iirc

[brittle token]

yep, in theory yeah

[subtle bison]

wdym "in theory"

you're either on that ver or not

[brittle token]

the launcher's install tab doesn't show the installed settings, only the default

i know that cuz the binary patches keep on resetting to blueAmulet despite me installing sambow

[subtle bison]

only quick install defaults to my repo when it detects x64. the install tab leaves it up to the user to choose what they want

i absolutely do not recommend using the install tab on a clean install, quick install is what's supposed to be used

also to update to a new release, select 0.6.7 and press install

[brittle token]

still, this is what i left on, but well, i suppose here i go re-installing again

[subtle bison]

you dont have to reinstall anything

just press the install button with 0.6.7 selected as in your pic

if that doesnt work i guess try a reinstall using quick install

[brittle token]

mid crash screenshot

[brittle token]

ok not gonna lie, the rtx remix versions without the brightness sliders feel unplayeable to me, shit's too dim by default

[subtle bison]

i think x32 defaults to the 1.0.0 release from nvidia

the modified remix for x64 with the brightness slider should also work on x32

or just download the latest commit of remix

that also works

[brittle token]

yep, but if i do a "quick install" im somewhat sure it will just give me the nvidia version

[subtle bison]

you are using x32 right?

[brittle token]

yep

[subtle bison]

ah yeah it will

you can change it afterward tho

[brittle token]

are the installs on the install tab on a specific order? would anything break if i install them, let's say, from bottom to top?

[subtle bison]

yes its top to bottom

but like i said they shouldnt be used unless you're updating a specific component

[brittle token]

then how could it be changed afterwards?

[subtle bison]

one sec ill show you

[brittle token]

just wondering, is the blueAmulet binary patches outdated?

[subtle bison]

no they're up to date

[brittle token]

👍

[subtle bison]

the sambow23 and xenthio repos were just there before blueamulet merged our PRs

so let's assume i already have the compat mod installed for x32 using quick install. to update the rtx-remix build, go to the install tab and select sambow23/dxvk-remix-gmod and press install

but fr, you should be manually downloading the latest artifact of dxvk-remix from github and just manually replacing the files for x32

[brittle token]

and that wouldn't break anything for being installed afterwards despite being at the top?

[subtle bison]

yes

its just replacing remix files

the order is still valid as that's just how the order is, but each package is seperate

[brittle token]

so, not the release, but directly what's on the github page?

[subtle bison]

ye like this

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/dxvk-remix/actions/runs/14269342859

dont do this for x64 tho

it requires a custom remix build since it doesnt have a bridge

[brittle token]

mmm

ooh, from the official

got the same crash, im going to try with a different map and a different object

[subtle bison]

so i guess for clarification, you have tried a empty folder with only rtx launcher in it, ran quick install, loaded into a map, and the game still crashes under certain conditions?

[brittle token]

yep

doesn't seem to matter what prop

im going to try disabling all workshop addons except niknaks

[subtle bison]

im also gonna send you something

[brittle token]

yep, no addons, niknaks, = crash

[subtle bison]

keep ur game that way for a sec

1.go to this dir and delete the 2 dlls
2. open the archive sent and extract the garrysmod folder into the root of your gmod rtx install, replace when prompted

open the game and see if it crashes

[brittle token]

booting

[brittle token]

it doesn't crash anymore

[subtle bison]

bingo

its the binary module 💀

@keen rivet 🙂

[brittle token]

the module is misbehaving 🙀

[subtle bison]

fuckin finally

now how to fix it, not sure

i think its probably the model hooks since those are the only things active in the 32-bit module

@brittle token can you reinstall 0.6.7 in the install tab so it restores those files? I'm gonna compile a new binary module with the hooks disabled and see if it still crashes

[keen rivet]

Guh

[brittle token]

👍

getting mixed messages here

[keen rivet]

I thought I fixed the crashing

[subtle bison]

me too

[keen rivet]

I did a fix for the undo crashing

[subtle bison]

ye thats what i pushed for 0.6.7

[keen rivet]

And extra safety checks

[subtle bison]

@keen rivet do you get those crashes at all?

cuz i dont

[keen rivet]

nope

[subtle bison]

even without the safety checks

[brittle token]

reinstalled 0.6.7, now it crashes again

[subtle bison]

ye put in that dll i just sent

same place where u deleted them from my screenshot

[brittle token]

ok

[brittle token]

that fixed it

[subtle bison]

oml

how interested are you in installing visual studio and hooking up a debugger?

[brittle token]

oh lord.. ehh, might as well. why not

[subtle bison]

i think i sent steps a few days ago
#1116089843479498782 message

lmk when you get the C++ components installed

[brittle token]

there

setted the settings to ultra, played around with a prop, deleted it, and kabloom

[subtle bison]

bridge errors are unrelated to the binary module crashes

[turbid barn]

yup i have same problem

downgrade to 0.6.6.1

[subtle bison]

@brittle token

open vs and do what i do in the vid

what will be different for you is that the game should crash and VS's debugger will catch it

[brittle token]

imma try it

@subtle bison do i re-install the v0.6.7?

[subtle bison]

ye

[brittle token]

👍

[subtle bison]

also wait

you migh need debug headers for VS to properly locate the crash

one sec

dump all of this in that dll folder like before

[brittle token]

oks

woah, that was fast, didn't even get into the map

• it doesn't crash, were those the 0.6.7 binaries?

[subtle bison]

oops i forgot to turn the hooks back on

here u go

[brittle token]

you sure these aren't the fixed ones? cuz they dont crash

it just gives this silly error

and works fine afterwards

[subtle bison]

guh

i dunno anymore

[brittle token]

reinstalled the v0.6.7 and got this

[subtle bison]

yea rip this doesnt show much

was hoping it would crash with the debug module

[keen rivet]

:(

[earnest yew]

Balls

[royal vortex]

does my rtx.conf file contain all the material changes i made? (like decals, ignoring textures... etc?)

[modern quest]

yes

[royal vortex]

ok thanks.

[subtle bison]

how do you feel about disabling them for now?

i don't really want to but i can't reproduce these crashes

[royal vortex]

wait, is the 64 bit of gmod now usable with rtx? and if so should i use the 64 bit or the 32 bit?

[subtle bison]

x64 works alright but its missing a few patches and uses some wonky workarounds. x32 is preferred

[royal vortex]

ah okay thank you so much

do they have the same preformance? or are they the same in terms of prefromance as of now.

[subtle bison]

very different

x32 has culling patches which degrade performance but gives consistent visuals. x64 uses a few lua addons to attempt the same thing. while x64 is marginally faster, there is more visual issues compared to x32

[royal vortex]

alright. i also got another question, i used Skurtyy's installer for my gmod, if i use the new rtx remix fixes 2 installer, do i just drag and drop my rtx.conf into the new install and all my textures and stuff that i modified to work still work?

[subtle bison]

you can, but we have migrated to a old hash system and a rtx.conf based on hl2rtx. I don't know what issues you may run into using your own, but feel free to try it out.

[royal vortex]

whats the difference between skurtyys instaler and th new rtx remix fixes 2 installer? i used skurtyys

[subtle bison]

skurtyys was before ours, i dont think he updates his anymore

im surprised his still works

[subtle bison]

his deploys a fully contained archive with all the required files iirc. Ours selectively downloads certain components so its easier to maintain. it also can mount hl2rtx and some other misc stuff

[royal vortex]

crazy cool stuff. Massive respect unto you guys

[brittle token]

is there any way to add an image to the emission of an object?

like, for example, these mfs

[subtle bison]

guh

[lapis pewter]

of course! you can do this in the rtx remix toolkit

[brittle token]

is it the emissive mask thing? i'd think it would only take black or white

[lapis pewter]

yep! and it takes full color images

[brittle token]

oooohhh, nice

[lapis pewter]

for example (not gmod)

[twilit oriole]

hello my gmod rtx is crashing randomly, within 5 minutes of playing with no error, i have installed it with the installer with admin privileges.

[keen rivet]

D:

[hasty sonnet]

whats your hardware?

[subtle bison]

ok i've disabled the hooks for now in the latest release

[hasty sonnet]

i found this randomly

the last one is very funny

[subtle bison]

there goes 90% of my brain cells

[hasty sonnet]

the only reason i kept my braincells

[subtle bison]

yea i saw lmao

[hasty sonnet]

is because i can enter a warehouse door or some door in a building

by complete accident

[subtle bison]

hey try deleting everything in that folder except rtxlauncher and try reinstalling again

[meager oar]

😂

[subtle bison]

lmao no way

[hasty sonnet]

my shat low quality editing skills in microsoft clipchamp

i only use clipchamp cuz the speed settings are better

in capcut its only

1 > 1.5 > 2 etc etc

[subtle bison]

i have never heard of these 2 apps in my life

[hasty sonnet]

editing software

capcut is way more popular

[willow fog]

capcut is mostly used by tiktok kids to make their next big hit because it works on a phone and is free with tons of templates

Clipchamp is for grandmas on their home computer

[subtle bison]

davinci resolve and adobe premiere my beloved

[willow fog]

hell yeah

[thorny crag]

blender 😎

[subtle bison]

oh right blender has a video editor

[hasty sonnet]

who the fuck will use that

[subtle bison]

they also used to have a game engine

in 2.7 and below

[thorny crag]

who needs to use a video editor

just use an image chain

or whatever it's called

[willow fog]

Yeah blender vse is really good. I use it for quick edits

[thorny crag]

image sequence

[willow fog]

Oh yeah

I did make the first ever garn47 mod a while ago

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1128613316059734087/1294465866078879804/bandicam_2024-10-11_20-03-10-183_1.mp4?ex=67f27c08&is=67f12a88&hm=a4d11a8c79970490a37aaa90d4a46d06263e5c3355a4314110cb36971086b642&

need for speed

garn for speed: Under the soil two

here's another

Garn rtx

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1064420257969754122/1294431608081743883/blender_NNKW2zWNNK.mp4?ex=67f25c20&is=67f10aa0&hm=28788891eb6e3babfb2496ca23bd11046b158d02c9f9fcf80e49f4bd3eeaacd1&

[hasty sonnet]

can it run CYCLES

[willow fog]

No

[hasty sonnet]

bruh

[willow fog]

eevee hardcoded

[subtle bison]

blender rtx

[hasty sonnet]

[LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]

Blender CYCLES

[thorny crag]

man who needs these software

[subtle bison]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3302395737

[thorny crag]

we already have the best raytracing we can ever see

[thorny crag]

yeah i saw this pop up and was dumbfounded lmao

[subtle bison]

gotta try this in gmod rtx

[hasty sonnet]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1089130/Quake_II_RTX/

Steam

Quake II RTX

Download Quake II RTXQuake II RTX is fully ray-traced and includes the 3 levels from the original shareware distribution.
Game DescriptionShortly after landing on an alien surface, you learn that hundreds of your men have been reduced to just a few. Now you must fight your way through heavily fortified military installations, lower the city's d…

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[subtle bison]

naw gmod rtx quake 2 better 🤓

LOL

[thorny crag]

wadehell

[winter radish]

Import the Quake 2 RTX assets now

[subtle bison]

lol maps created with only static props run stupid fast on x64

with r_drawstaticprops 0 lmao

[finite mason]

wuhu island

[hasty sonnet]

i mean gpu and cpu

and RAM

[twilit oriole]

how do i see that?

its not this is it?

[half viper]

Thats 2/3

Figure out where to find your gpu

[twilit oriole]

this?

[hasty sonnet]

no wonder