Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare

[upper rampart]

fg works only on 40 series

[timid salmon]

mh how did he manage to enable frame gen on a 30 series card?

[solemn wigeon]

im the guy who filmed that lmao

[upper rampart]

I've seen this exact same bug when people figured out to force remix to use fg

[solemn wigeon]

i had to upload the video on yt because i have to pay nitro if im trying to upload a 500mb video here

[upper rampart]

Regardless

only 40 series

[solemn wigeon]

sadly yes but the amd fg mod that works with the cyberpunk 2077 and other games work just fine

[upper rampart]

That's amd fg

[timid salmon]

huh ik that was just a general question towards burrito. How did you enable frame gen

[upper rampart]

Not nvidia fg

There's a difference

[solemn wigeon]

lol srry, i uploaded a video few months ago, in which I forced FG to work in Portal. I did the same steps to activate it in cod 4

[upper rampart]

Did it work for portal?

[solemn wigeon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXA8kCbtoBA&t=76s

i will try to do the same with portal rtx but idk if it will work

[upper rampart]

If you pay attention, it's just the last frame playing double. In the case of call of duty, it's replaying from a couple of frames back instead of the immediate previous.

So there's no interpolated frames

[solemn wigeon]

i need at least 30 frames in-game to play without that buggy missed frames, without the optical flow accelerators on my card its kinda hard

[upper rampart]

Yeah but even without the buggy frames, the "generated" frames are literally the previous frame repeated

[neon bronze]

@solemn wigeon why don't you try LSFG

[woeful pewter]

What's LSFG?

[neon bronze]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/

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[solemn wigeon]

its worse in terms of imput lag and latency, btw with LSFG i currently had to lock my 240hz monitor to 120hz or if my framerates got worse to 60hz, so with that way i can get the correctly "generated frames" without losing performance

[real ingot]

nah in the new update u can use it unlocked, just make sure u get ok-ish frame times

[real ingot]

just look at the result

nvm obs doesn't capture LSFG

[neon bronze]

i mean

40 fps

looks fine?

was it like 70-80fps with Frame Gen?

[real ingot]

the minimum should be 50 fps native, in order to use LSFG

[solemn wigeon]

even without any FG you can run the game at least with 30-50 fps with a 4000 card on a Singleplayer campaign map, my card goes to the lows 20 and even worse in some cases in multiplayer maps, just imagine if i want to play a singleplayer map, maybe just 20-30 its all i will get with my 3080

look here, only 32 fps without moving, when i start moving those framerates goes to 25-20 depending the zone of the map

[upper rampart]

I think the fix for that was implemented for multiplayer

[solemn wigeon]

btw how you can run the game with the dx11 build instead of vulkan?

[solemn wigeon]

what i have to download?

[timid salmon]

lmao reminds me of videos that use corruptions as translations 😂

[wide moth]

Reminds me of Windows XP

[neon bronze]

https://tenor.com/view/solitaire-solitaire-ending-solitaire-end-ending-bounce-gif-12792838

[upper rampart]

Were you playing with fog?

[timid salmon]

yup 👍🏻

[upper rampart]

Seen it before

apparently if you make the color 1,1,1, the fog gets so thick that it becomes solid

[timid salmon]

I've pushed release v1.1 which should now be on par with cod5-sp feature wise:
https://github.com/xoxor4d/iw3sp-mod-rtx/releases/tag/v1.1 (also updated the 📌 message in this thread)

Changelog:

• fixed function rendering of effects, brushmodels and skinned static models
• per map settings via ini file to setup sky and fog
• aspect ratio is truly auto now if set to auto
• fix issue where not all resolutions could be chosen
• force / set proper dvar defaults that cause issues with remix
• disable culling of animated trees
• add borderless console command
• add windowed console command

Known Issues:

• objects might flicker due to disabled culling on LARGE maps (there is just too much going on and the iw3 engine just cant keep up)
• ^ this can also affect the spawned skybox (looks like it moves with the camera)

[proper ether]

reminds me of foveated rendering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8piCZz0p-Y

[young moss]

(EPILEPSY WARNING) whenever I try to ajust the game's refresh rate this happens

I didn't do the optional steps so that might be why

it seems to have dissapeared after a restart

[woeful pewter]

Holy fuck lmao

[young moss]

I've added some lights to a scene, how do I import the changes into the game?

[real ingot]

Can u provide these changes here? I am also thinking about lighting up the game a bit

[solemn wigeon]

with this new update the cpu usage goes insane, at 100 all 8 cores %

[real ingot]

good

[real ingot]

Very efficient process I'm seeing

[solemn wigeon]

yes but my cpu is power hungry

[upper rampart]

Then get yo money up, not Ur funny up

And pay the bills

[solemn wigeon]

i live in Argentina, here's the life is too expensive in every way soo yes i pay my bills and taxes... i was just saying...

btw the performance is way better in this new update

[upper rampart]

hm

[flint heart]

Just wondering, but with this project, is the aim to just work on multiplayer, or also SP campaign as well?

[patent cradle]

it works on SP

[flint heart]

Ah, okay. Just trying to figure out the state of the project at the moment!

[patent cradle]

afair some features of MP are missing in SP?

[flint heart]

I was wondering if there was a specific demo, sort of similar to what Max Payne or Tomb Raider 1 has, or is progress more open ended at the moment?

[timid salmon]

Support for sp is currently better then mp (on pair with the state of cod5 sp)

But the client mods are just meant to make the game work with remix. There is no actual remix mod (materials / meshes) for cod4 yet …

I’ve made a demo remix mod for cod5 (zombies) that can be found on modDB. I’ve uploaded the wrong file tho so will have to fix that when I’m home later today

[foggy bison]

I got a lot of the original games materials ported over to remix with some additional lighting 👀

[turbid sundial]

what did you do?

[timid salmon]

decreased fog distance waay to much and this was the result

[turbid sundial]

I remember seeing smth like this in portal rtx, but instead I made the emissive properties like over 9 billion or smth

[young moss]

currently the light passes through the meshes so Im trying to figure that out

[jagged oriole]

@timid salmon how looks the day&night cycle and volumetrics clouds with rtx ?

[timid salmon]

@jagged oriole they dont work as they are shader based

[jagged oriole]

ohok

[timid salmon]

mw3 custom map in cod4. Could make a nice project to pbr'ify 🫣

[woeful pewter]

👁️ 👁️

Ngl with the lighting though it looks similar to MW19's Hardhat

[shrewd jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/bts-gif-19731482

that makes me wish MW3 Remix

[livid hare]

Has anyone ever experimented with mw remaster before?

[woeful pewter]

Define "experimented"?

[neon bronze]

tried to run MWR with remix

i think it won't ever work

[livid hare]

yes sir

[woeful pewter]

Yeah not happening, MWR is DX11

[livid hare]

thank you... for a moment I was hopeful

[woeful pewter]

To be fair though I think MWR's lighting is definitely pretty enough to not need RTX

[analog gull]

what about original mw2

[neon bronze]

possible if you know how to get camera matrices

[woeful pewter]

I know xoxor's planning on working on it along with black ops 1 once WaW and CoD4 are done, though we'll just have to wait and see how that goes, knowing him though I'm sure he'll get it to work

[neon bronze]

i say get one game developed with remix to a desired level then move on to the next

[lilac ingot]

It'll probably work for longer than most series with CoD just since the games have so much in common rendering wise, but eventually he's gonna hit a wall where the black magic he does to these games won't be feasible anymore. Thankfully it'll be a little bit till then, but each game does take time so patience is key 🙏

[proper ether]

the devil is in the details

after mw3/bo1 they upgraded the render engine pipeline quite a bit

and since bo3 again

iirc

i wish nvidia would just release it as a easy RenderAPI to use for non-mods aswell

since basically what u can do is just revert back the complicated render pipeline to a simpler one (because they had to back then for old gen hardware and + people already use a RTX card and have better HW nowadays, it should still get reasonable fps) and use the API to let the nvidia gfx backend server know of assets e.g PBR materials if the game has them

but it'll still look "off" or different but thats fine because ur already drastically changing the way the game looks with RTX

[lilac ingot]

Right, which will be a while from now until he reaches that point. Most games post 2006 are a no-go, getting MW/WaW and potentially a couple more CoD games is a unique situation with Remix

[lilac ingot]

I don't really understand this part, do you mean a hybrid renderer that's part rasterized and part raytraced?

That would run a fk ton better, but there are technical reasons that make this significantly harder than an all encompassing solution like pathtracing

Adding complex visuals to an existing renderer is a huge leap beyond replacing the existing renderer

[proper ether]

i mean a general renderer because they already have one iirc in dxvk-remix

renderer->set_material(material) renderer->draw_mesh(...); renderer->primitive(QUAD) renderer->debugLine()

etc

[lilac ingot]

I'm sure it's possible but what's the point? That's a ton of work with little to no noticeable benefit

Like if they made an alternative renderer you might get filtered shadows, maybe a bit higher res textures than the game would otherwise allow

It would be nice but it makes more sense to focus on something that has a much stronger impact. Adding pathtracing to old games is giving it whole new life. Putting next gen rendering into classics, rather vs making the basic rendering a little better but still basic

[proper ether]

it depends on who the person doing the work is, either NVIDIA or in this case a modder like xoxor, you'd still have to patch game by game though 😦

[neon bronze]

some people just want updated models without the path tracing, or form of advanced lighting that's also not path tracing

[lilac ingot]

No I mean like the actual capabilities of the new rasterized renderer. Pathtracing opens up literally everything since it's systemic, rasterization has limits

[lilac ingot]

You can't do a non systemic form of advanced lighting. The best lighting in games today is baked, not realtime

[proper ether]

tbh yrs ago when i had idea of porting cod to e.g unreal ppl said it would ruin the feel of the game, i think overdoing the raytracing also does that too

[lilac ingot]

That's more about the gameplay feel though. The way Unreal handles and filters inputs compared to the original, the way it handles stuff behind the scenes

It'll look pretty but it'll literally FEEL different.

Remix doesn't touch that, only the visuals

[proper ether]

not entirely true

but ye overall its a net positive ofc

[neon bronze]

i also want to point out here that most of the implementations done with Remix is entirely upto the modders choice

there are bad implementations but if you know how to do it better then any game can look great with path tracing

[lilac ingot]

The point of it being systemic is that the implementation is always the same, unlike rasterization

To get an unreal style rasterized rendering, you need tons of fancy effects to fake things that will look really bad in different games with different artstyles

Ambient occlusion, screenspace GI, screenspace reflections, the heavy tone mapping, the native shadow filtering, etc

Remix doesn't affect the game's visual identity as much as a full port to unreal would

It essentially says "here's proper light simulation. Now do your thing"

And people only have to worry about making the assets look good to fit the original style

[narrow coyote]

Anyone able to play at 1920x1080? The option isn't in game for me anymore, and editing the config.cfg always launches at 648x480. Like the game doesn't save the 1920x1080 😦

[lilac ingot]

I was able to do it with the config when I tried a while back

couldn't tell you how it might be different from what you did, but it should be possible

[narrow coyote]

Hmm, was it line r_mode or something like that?

[woeful pewter]

Yeah r_mode is the resolution command, swear xoxor fixed that though, at least he did for WaW, dunno if the changes got added to CoD4 yet though

[narrow coyote]

Ahhh I got it! r_customMode "1920x1080"

It has to have seta r_fullscreen "0" tho, it resets to 640x if it's in fullscreen for some reason

[timid salmon]

Resolution issues should be fixed on both cod4 and 5. Your current issue might be due to your monitor setup? I recall you having 2 monitors right? Does one of the two maybe not support 1920x1080?

[narrow coyote]

The issue was me, I was using the iw3sp.exe instead of the iw3sp_mod.exe 💀 Had it all installed correctly, just didn't use the right launcher

I noticed the roughness is set to the default 0.70 in the runtime rtx.conf - this is usually pretty shiny. I usually have it set to 1.0, here's a side by side and where it's located

Might make remix easier, project scale wise

[timid salmon]

Well the person creating a remix mod will probably ship their own conf anyway. I like a little shine on default materials

[narrow coyote]

The rtx.conf is soooooo good, I appreciate it being so fleshed out It’s grab and play

[timid salmon]

remix can now also render debug polygons (a iw3xo feature) eg. displaying the mantle material (that is marked as worldspace ui so it emits light) 😂

[woeful pewter]

Bro is literally rendering traversals

[timid salmon]

or player clip

[woeful pewter]

This is hilarious for no reason

[narrow coyote]

Oof good lord, I thought about doing a capture for the game to remix just one level, there's like 1089 textures

[foggy bison]

They get reused a lot

[narrow coyote]

cowl ef dooti

[analog gull]

call of pixels

[timid salmon]

Nice LOD

[neon bronze]

Why is LOD not 0 (for original high poly models)

[timid salmon]

Because he modified the dvar that tweaks the lodscale (distance)

[woeful pewter]

I love LODScale 6

[narrow coyote]

I forgot where I modified the LOD, but I got the opposite effect of what I was going for

[woeful pewter]

Oh yeah you always want lower numbers when it comes to LOD afaik

[timid salmon]

devgui console command -> rtx tab -> lod scale skinned

[narrow coyote]

Thank you!

[narrow coyote]

After 4 hours of upscaling and ingesting, I've finally captured a scene to remix lmaoo

[analog gull]

nice

[vestal saffron]

Amazing🥹

[orchid trench]

will it at some point be possible to import MWR assets?

[timid salmon]

what makes you think that it isn't possible right now? (it is)

[orchid trench]

good point xd

[neon bronze]

If you want to then yes but there will be copyright issues

Since the assets you used are without license and just general copyright infringement

💀

[edgy cypress]

is the newest nvidia game ready driver compatible. Cant set a higher res than 1280x960 and evertime i try to load into a map. The game just freezes or black screenes, never see anthing past the initail map png loading screen

[timid salmon]

Indeed. Activision doesn't really do anything about that as long as its used in other call of duty games + you not gaining a dime. If they would, they would have to completely shutdown the workshop for black ops 3 😂

[ruby citrus]

Actually I'm curious as to whether there will be some official policy inherited from Microsoft. Microsoft is known for allowing fan works but gets real touchy once they involve distributing private assets.

[grim linden]

@timid salmon do you know how to fix the bug where you get stuck on the loading screen?

btw i have the same issue as precast

[timid salmon]

I need more info .. sp or mp?
Post your d3d9.log and iw3xo_d3d9.log or iw3sp_mod_d3d9.log

[grim linden]

d3d9.log btw

[timid salmon]

are you running the game with the batch file?

[grim linden]

yes

[timid salmon]

ok then try the following: open the game and when you are within the main menu, open the in-game console using ~

then type exec rtx

then restart the game and try loading into a map

[grim linden]

you mean /vid_restart or completely restart the game?

[timid salmon]

restart

[grim linden]

works now thanks!

[timid salmon]

perfect!

I'll make sure to force all these dvars with the next update so there is no need for the cfg

[red willow]

https://youtu.be/_gVhT6wwQEc

[red willow]

https://youtu.be/Jeki_rpkOjw one of the most visually appealing codjumper maps getting a nice upgrade from @hoary flame

[fluid coral]

What the heck is that?

[foggy bison]

Just a small tweak of carentan

[fluid coral]

Thought so

More mario than call of duty

[upper rampart]

Speaking of

Where's tadpole

[foggy bison]

Hes backpacking his way to carentan to scan the whole town

[fluid coral]

I'm poorly 😞 it's nothing serious just a nasty cold knocked me on my ass for two weeks but now I got the flu. Currently feeling very nauseous. Be a few weeks yet til I can get back to remixing.

[timid salmon]

bump - no more guessing image names

[fluid coral]

It's got a soviet womble video appeal about it. Pew pew pew

[tight moon]

3xp codjumper jesus haven't seen that in a long time. I used to be heavy into Cod4 glitching scene. The bounces really made it an entire game on its own. I remember before I got PC being one of the first people to do pipeline bounce no rpg with a sniper on xbox good times...

[red willow]

CJ is still going strong all these years later and old timers are always welcome back :) More RTX vids on the way to garner more interest haha

[upper rampart]

Now thurn those normal and specular maps into realtime replacements

[timid salmon]

needs x86 api 🫣

[spring ledge]

Deathrun with the Mario world map, skypillar, bounce 🥰

Used to play it a hell lot

[timid salmon]

proper player shadows without having to mark everything as player body (does require engine tweaks tho)

[fluid coral]

Oh sick double sided as well, cooling damn good.

Poop texture, nice

[timid salmon]

haha yea I'll change that to to some generic dark grayish texture (might look a bit odd on highly reflective materials otherwise)

[timid salmon]

almost doubled the framerate by replacing alpha tested grass and river reeds against actual meshes (without any alpha)

[upper rampart]

Told ya

It even looks better

[woeful pewter]

WATER

Instead of Arabic letters and numbers

[timid salmon]

[wide moth]

Nice, but isn't that a problem for reflections?

[timid salmon]

It is indeed but I don’t think there will be many mirror surfaces that you’ll really notice that so it’s worth the tradeoff

[gaunt atlas]

@timid salmon i updated the moddb entry for this game just now. i mirrored your rtx.conf file, i hope that's okay

[timid salmon]

Thats fine! I'd suggest not writing specifics (like dvars or additional settings) into the readme as stuff likely changes with newer releases.
Could you also add that for mp, you'd need this modification: https://github.com/xoxor4d/iw3xo-dev
and for sp, you need this: https://github.com/xoxor4d/iw3sp-mod-rtx (well you've linked that one already 🙏 )

[gaunt atlas]

great, thank you 🙂

[timid salmon]

just noticed Tested by xorxor4d on 12/2/2023

[upper rampart]

I wonder what the helicopter crash looks like in the pripyat mission

[timid salmon]

you get bulldozer instead

[upper rampart]

Uhh

Thx

I guess

[timid salmon]

ported a car from the remastered version 🙈

[foggy bison]

Fits right in

[upper rampart]

Now rebuild crash mwr again, but this time in remix

You backported crash remaster right?

I'm pretty sure that's yours

[timid salmon]

well kinda yea. Put my own touch on that

[upper rampart]

Yeah I played around alone in it back when you first posted it.

Looked really nice for what was possible at the time. And what my core2duo laptop could handle.

[shrewd jetty]

Nice, now get ready for cease & desease 🤣

[lilac ingot]

Only time acti has done that are full free cod remakes

Like there were a couple projects that were supposed to be all-in-one multiplayer cod, multiple games' guns maps mechanics etc

[timid salmon]

rip sm2

[lilac ingot]

There was a non zero chance remix could've worked with that

[shrewd jetty]

I was just joking

[timid salmon]

wagon done

[shrewd jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/delicious-yummy-wow-tasty-vince-gif-24052077

[frank walrus]

Hi guys, how did you manage to add a working sky to this game? Did you mod in a sphere and slapped on a sky texture and tagged it as sky in remix UI?

[fluid coral]

thats what i did in cod2

made a bunch of them and gave them all unique textures with text on like "sky001" and texture replace with a hdr dds

[frank walrus]

Oh, well I don't know classic modding for my game. So no idea how to get a big ass sphere in there 😅 Saw some sexy HDRi skydomes in composer provided by nvidia in the environments tab, could get them working in composer but didn't find a way to attach them to a parent mesh and get it ingame 😮‍💨

Also, creating a Domelight under a select parent mesh does work, but when I attach a custom sky texture it doesn't show up, perhaps it does need a specific hdr image format, not sure 🤔

[timid salmon]

Yea currently spawning a little sphere mesh marked as sky at the center of the player thats following the player. Vertices can be scaled or rotated dynamically via code

[frank walrus]

Unfortunately that's not an option since the player character has unstable hashes in my game 🫤

[fluid coral]

you can use any anchor mesh you like. as long as it's stable and can be marked as sky. maybe a stable little prop you dont care about disapearing. capture scene, delete reference, mark texture as sky in game

attach reference of your sky dome and job done

[frank walrus]

Problem with this is Max Payne's agressive culling, if the parent gets culled, so does the sky connected to it.

[timid salmon]

💡

[woeful pewter]

Bro's almost adding Blackcell cosmetics to CoD4

[shrewd jetty]

Oh yeah, modernization!

[timid salmon]

pom is such a nice feature

[woeful pewter]

Ooooooo

[upper rampart]

I also like porn

[analog gull]

💀

https://tenor.com/view/caught-in8k-caight-in8k-memee-caught-in8k-samham-samham-caught-in4k-gif-24826364

[woeful pewter]

https://tenor.com/view/caught-in-5000k-gif-20880260

[shrewd jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/asian-thumbsup-you-yeah-okay-gif-5765245

[green cliff]

Does this just change the visual mesh or also the hitbox?

Curious if it break the bounce

https://streamable.com/8sfs0x

[timid salmon]

remix cant change the collision of something

[shrewd jetty]

Remix is basically just an overlay, game logic with collision stays the same

That way visuals can be easily switched to original real fast, as its just a layer techinacally

[spring ledge]

Maybe a stupid question but, how does this doesn't break stuff when the model is different ?

[timid salmon]

what exactly are you talking about?

remix can only change visuals .. I could very well delete the model from the scene and you wouldn't see the car at all .. but the collision would still be the same original one

so if the replacement mesh is almost 1:1 - collision will feel right ... so I obv. cant put a tanker there if its playable space

[spring ledge]

Yes, that's what i'm talking about, if you delete the model it would be like hitting an invisible wall, right ? So if the model isn't scale properly or has some geometry difference, could fuck a bit the collisions no ?

[timid salmon]

collision wouldn't match up with the visuals yes

[shrewd jetty]

Yes, from game's side everything stays the same with same collision, as i said before, Remix is just a visual overlay

[ruby citrus]

Wait this isn't the Halo Anniversary thread, what's going on? 😏

But yeah Remix is just a new renderer replacing the old one, as long as the new assets match the old ones in form collision shouldn't feel too off. In most games you'll even find the vanilla assets aren't exactly 1:1 with collision which will be convex and simplified where possible for performance reasons.

[timid salmon]

cant take proper comparison shots as remix crashes when using snipping tool 😂

[shrewd jetty]

Its nothing, the difference is noticable, brick got depth, and its truly nice

[shrewd jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/йвйв-gif-17410664305885425651

[sand folio]

Look into using ChaiNNer with esrgan-based upscaler models trained specifically for textures. The Nvidia upscaler is really bad, it just looks like the textures got an instagram filter. Open source solutions from years ago were better than this

[timid salmon]

I have not used the nvidia ai tools at all. This was done using a mix of stable diffusion and upscaling but yea its a little off

[sand folio]

funnily the results looks similar to what Nvidia outputs

the current state of the art would be ControlNet tile upscale, but esrgan based models might still work better overall

[gaunt atlas]

ESRGAN is really outdated. DAT, HAT, and RGT are generally the best

SPAN is also good

[sand folio]

lol no it's not for game textures, all the best texture trained models are still made with ESRGAN, and most of them were made years ago

[gaunt atlas]

they're not. i train these models myself

[sand folio]

well I won't mind seeing examples

[gaunt atlas]

ESRGAN is very outdated and the AI community barely uses it anymore. the architectures i mentioned all outperform it in some way

LSDIRDAT is really good for game textures, if you want to try that one. there are some others as well. the biggest problem is that afaik no one has trained a dedicated game texture upscaler on these architectures, only for realistic photos or anime recovery

the realistic models do work well on game textures

[gaunt atlas]

which model do you prefer?

this should be moved to #offtopic btw

[sand folio]

Well maybe that's why, even if there are technically better architectures, there's basically nothing made on it. https://openmodeldb.info/?t=game-textures&sort=date-desc
Nearly all of those ESRGAN based ones still do better than anything else I've seen

[gaunt atlas]

even so, LSDIRDAT outperforms basically all of them. there's a couple others like this too

[frank walrus]

How is LSDIRDAT compared to for example Topaz upscalers, when it comes to game textures?

[gaunt atlas]

it compares well on many textures, (in some it looks better) but Gigapixel still has a huge lead overall

[frank walrus]

Rodger that, thanks Kim! 🥰

[fluid coral]

thats lovely mate. where did you find those hole textures? would look good in cod2 as well 🙂

[timid salmon]

Indeed! They are from the remastered version of cod4 so nothing you would use ig 🫣

[fluid coral]

Ah fair enough 😛

[shrewd jetty]

Whoops, you've got into a trap of your own decision 🤣

[fluid coral]

Oh no, I have to do my hobby and make art! Fuck!

[shrewd jetty]

Yes, making things fully yourself makes you do sacrifices of ability to do something faster by using someone material

[fluid coral]

and you have to go fast cause the lawyers are on your ass for stealing copyrighted material

[timid salmon]

Well that has never happend in "regular" call of duty modding. Should be fine as long as it stays within cod and you are not making a profit

[shrewd jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/drinking-coffee-john-weir-rabbit-hole-sipping-coffee-sips-coffee-gif-10394633733585820317

Rooftops 2 used MWR models as i remember, SPi is still alive

so yeah, as long you keep that in COD and you don't make any money profit from it, you should be safe

[sand folio]

I'm confused you're saying that Gigapixel is now better?

[gaunt atlas]

gigapixel is better in many ways

which is unfortunate because of how much it costs

[sand folio]

Never seen it be better for textures

[gaunt atlas]

not gigapixel, Photo AI

got mixed up

[gaunt atlas]

yeah, imo it does quite good

definitely competes with many of the free models, and in many cases outperforms them. i tested it pretty extensively a couple months ago

[sand folio]

is it also from Topaz?

[lilac ingot]

Are these shots using AI upscales from photo AI?

[timid salmon]

If you are talking about the shots above, no. Raw shots directly from the game with dlss balanced

The ones above that are upscales via photo AI

[lilac ingot]

Original textures hold up better than I thought then! I wonder how it might look with manually set PBR values. Like the fence having full metalness, ground having full roughness, that type of thing

[timid salmon]

There is not a single stock texture in these screenshots

[lilac ingot]

[lilac ingot]

Misleading statement

[timid salmon]

I thought you were talking about the screenshots themselves 😂

[lilac ingot]

I would never

Lol that would be funny though. Sharing screenshots that themselves are AI upscaled

[red willow]

https://youtu.be/1FYOBNyaG3k

[shrewd jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-yeah-oh-shock-surprised-doojoon-gif-17594527

just another example of how Remix can drastically change graphics

it really starts to remind me Unreal goddamn Engine, its THAT impressive

[crude robin]

I use et for Max Payne 2 but...is there a way to Batch .dds with topaz photo ai?
not neceseraly to process all of them automatically , i know every single texture requires tender lovin care/reasesing which model is most organic per pic(a...bespoke treatment 🙂 )
But to queue them up would much faster. all things considered

I dont like A.I. in general but this one is the only one that looks organic (most of the time at least) and works for 90-95% of the textures i tried. Way better than Nvidias or any other & the processing doesnt even cause a GPU ruckus.

[crude robin]

Pro tip for anyone using Topaz A.I.
Be aware!
Do..not..use..the REMOVE NOISE model/option. It adds a dark line on the edge of the pic(on top and/or on left side for me at least) that you cant easily see cause the background is dark.Youll see it ingame tho 😄

[timid salmon]

🍓

[woeful pewter]

Bro's playing prophunt and thought we wouldn't notice

[timid salmon]

Am I missing something or are you talking about the waterbottle 😂

[woeful pewter]

Yeah I am lmao

[timid salmon]

no enhancements 😜

[woeful pewter]

Why's it just chilling there though, random-ass bottle in the middle of the road

[shrewd jetty]

If somebody would told me that this is a screenshot of a game from 2007, i would never believe it

[timid salmon]

highlighting unreplaced materials

[woeful pewter]

That looks like a BO1 campaign cutscene 😭😭😭

[upper rampart]

This is what video game graphics will look like in 2013

[woeful pewter]

https://tenor.com/view/fun-fun-begins-star-wars-skywalker-gif-18356472

[sand folio]

Stops being a "2007 game" once you give it path tracing, PBR and new textures/materials and even models

[shrewd jetty]

Exactly, thanks to Remix

[upper rampart]

Gun 🍓

[shrewd jetty]

Berrygun

[woeful pewter]

Gunberry...? 🤔

[shrewd jetty]

yes

[woeful pewter]

How about Strawgun?

Nah, that sounds more like a gun made out of Straw actually

[shrewd jetty]

Exactly

[red willow]

https://youtu.be/oIfq8Vp8J3w remixing by @hoary flame (was a very basic codjumper custom map!)

[timid salmon]

proper acog with zoom (but its kinda noisy so I'll probably change it to thin glass so it does not refract)

[woeful pewter]

Very fucking neat

[timid salmon]

red dot working 👍🏻

[upper rampart]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-thumbs-up-cat-thumbs-up-meme-stock-image-gif-27117830

oof

[timid salmon]

I kinda like that ngl

[gaunt atlas]

definitely can't agree there

but it's cool you got it working

[young vessel]

I like it

[gaunt atlas]

what's appealing about it?

[young vessel]

have you ever used a red dot irl?

well whatever here's the punchline

that's what it looks like when you look through the reddot at an angle

[gaunt atlas]

the moving around/wiggling in motion isn't what i'm talking about to be clear

i'm talking about the ghosting after the dot

[gaunt atlas]

this here

[young vessel]

oh didn't notice that lol

didn't look at the vid full screen

yea unfortunate

[gaunt atlas]

using DLSSTweaks to switch DLSS presets should help it

Preset E eliminated most ghosting for me

but yeah, otherwise i like it quite a lot. looks very good

[wide moth]

Wow how the model looks like 👀

[timid salmon]

Haha thanks! My first modeling attempts in blender - remade the outer shell - then painted the whole thing in instamat 👍🏻

[fluid coral]

Looking damn good xoxor4d. Nailed the scope

[wide moth]

I meant the lenses :), mine weren't so useful unless you stick the thing onto your head (very short eye relief).

[timid salmon]

that`s it .. a single low poly lense 😂

[wide moth]

Huh

My best attempt: https://youtu.be/U8uXNrzYISY, I modeled it from the SVG export from https://phydemo.app/ray-optics/gallery/NL-simulation

[timid salmon]

[wide moth]

It is upside down because I had to remove the prisms in the original, because iirc they don't work with the way remix handles perfect reflections

[timid salmon]

no replacements, pom, no pom (upscaled via gigapixel, pbr made with instaMat, manual height via photoshop )

and a quick look inside 😂

[foggy bison]

Looks ||trashy ||

[jagged oriole]

Bad riddance to good rubbish. That looks good.

😅

[solar echo]

Amazing what you can do without needing to replace the model and just texture/pbr work. Real nice stuff!

[shrewd jetty]

Remix be like:

just kidding

[real ingot]

Ok

it's been a while, what's new with the remix landscape for COD 4

[real ingot]

@timid salmon u should have a dedicated discord server imo

[timid salmon]

I do. Its linked on the github repository's

[shrewd jetty]

May i wonder how its icon looks like?

of server

[timid salmon]

^ your thought is probably wrong 😄 (its really generic)

[shrewd jetty]

...wow

Let me cook in an hour

[timid salmon]

😂

[shrewd jetty]

I done cooking, here, take it

okay, jokes aside, here is real cooking

[timid salmon]

I should have added that it’s not a remix-only server 😜
Looking good tho!

[upper rampart]

amazing

[fluid coral]

xoxor4d made his own editor for cod4. the guys a legend

it's what the strawberry thing is you keep seeing in his work

[upper rampart]

I know that. Been following him for many years

[fluid coral]

i know you do dude, just filling yosuke in 😉

https://xoxor4d.github.io/projects/iw3xo/

dat water tho

[upper rampart]

ye

[timid salmon]

🫣

I'll try and implement physx next. PhysX + pathtracing .. should be fun to play with

[patent cradle]

Physx fluid simulation 🙏

[upper rampart]

Isn't that in gmod anyways

[patent cradle]

Well the physics is handled by flex

Rendering is not

[upper rampart]

[sand folio]

They don't work together

[timid salmon]

uhm why wouldnt they? They dont have anything to do with each other

[sand folio]

The particle based Flow physx probably don't work with it

Seems like the only place where physx coexists with path tracing is Omniverse enterprise products

And even then stuff like Flex doesn't seem to work with it, also it's mostly deprecated, there doesn't seem to be any official support for it in years now

Only soft body physics

Due to how it's rendered I don't think they can work together in principle, you can't ray trace it, so it would look out of place

[turbid sundial]

How will physx work tho?

[wide moth]

PhysX, just like any other physics engine mostly runs on the cpu, you guys are talking about the gpu particles right?

[turbid sundial]

yes ik put how will they add it to cod 4?

does rtx remix somehow have support for physx

or there's a mod that adds physx to cod 4

[timid salmon]

Cod4 is only compatible because of a lot of engine tweaks. These tweaks are incorporated into a client modification that existed way before remix. Implementing physx has nothing to do with remix.
And I was just thinking about physics for rigid objects .. if it’s possible to do fluids (with stable hashes) I’ll do that too

[turbid sundial]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eYYZFyjOhw

no way cs2 smoke?

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/technologies/physx/

omg look at the physx page

it hasn't been updated since ghosts wow

they dont even list physx anymore lol

[sand folio]

aside from the generic rigid body physx that also runs on CPU and some GPU physx used for soft body simulation, it's been pretty much abandonware for many years

[burnt grove]

I just updated my nvidia driver to the latest version and noticed that physx was updated, previous driver versions didn't change anything for physx as far as I'm aware

maybe they're bringing it back or something? who knows

[sand folio]

that happens often in driver updates

doesn't really mean anything

it's because they're still maintainin aspects of physx

really the place where they're really active with it is Omniverse based simulation

[upper rampart]

Physx's rigid body system is still used today

Even in aaa titles

[peak swallow]

I want to see crazy overdone fluid dynamic smoke emitting from a gun upon firing it

I feel like there was a game that did that back in the PhysX days

In the early Ageia/exclusive PhysX effects days

[woeful pewter]

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick

[upper rampart]

Carl of doody

[jagged oriole]

ready for some fruit killing skills (those watermelons gunna pay)

Their reign of ujuicy terror shall come to an end

[turbid sundial]

Do you know of ways to bring back the original vibe and environment of the game while still using rtx remix?

Cause tbh the lighting and environment looks kinda bland compared to the original and even remaster

I hope custom post processing effects come in to bring back that old feel the devs intended

[timid salmon]

I was just playing with the lighting in some of the screenshots. I think the lighting tone in the van shot is pretty close to the original. There is no post processing rn (well there is tonemapping but that’s global)

[turbid sundial]

i hope tone mapping gets changed to be for specific maps or moments y'know?

[timid salmon]

That would require either post processing volumes or some kind of settings object that could be attached to some unique mesh

[ruby citrus]

There are some Remix API options now-- it's possible in theory to change post processing global settings on your helper's end.

In games running stock Remix this won't be as useful, but my guestimation is that if you're able to make use of said API you'll be able to hack in some control based on what objects are near, what map is loaded, etc. by defining the values and passing the command to Remix.

[timid salmon]

I’d love to but the api is 64bit only tho … or are you talking about something else?

[ruby citrus]

No, you're right. 😔

[timid salmon]

first pic is how it will probably look like when I release the mod. The others use heavy volumetric settings that conflicts with other maps / fog settings :x

[young vessel]

amazing

[gaunt atlas]

absolutely amazing 😛

[upper rampart]

Looks great

[shrewd jetty]

Quite sad that Heavy volumetric won't be used because of conflicts

[analog gull]

looks like the remaster lol

i wonder how MW2 will be with remix

https://tenor.com/view/no-russian-mw2-call-of-duty-modern-warfare2-gif-18546572

[shrewd jetty]

When somebody start remixing MW2, they already will have a logo for it

[analog gull]

xD

[upper rampart]

Lol

[proper ether]

are logo makers the ideasguys now

[shrewd jetty]

Wha?

[proper ether]

making logo: few minutes to hour
making the actual remix/mod: can take months up to years

[shrewd jetty]

Yes, its fact, but what that does have to do with your last words?

[proper ether]

its just a meme in gamedev that all the ideaguys already have all the ideas available and ready to make a game but making said game is way more involved and they never get to it

so just jokingly that theres already a logo for something that may never come to fruition 😂

[shrewd jetty]

Okay, but i never said i'm ready to do a remixation, i'm just doing a logos so creators could use it when they will start Remixations (if they will)

Most of the time i'm making a logos to projects that are already in a works

[lilac ingot]

Yep, Yosuke is the logo guy. It's always clean stuff

[timid salmon]

we need post processing per scene/map 🫣

[upper rampart]

We need fog volumes per scene/ map

We need colour management

We need agx view transform

If only someone with coding experience could do that

[turbid sundial]

omg if u get the fog and emmsives just right it'll start to look exactly like the og game but with real time lighting this is awesome omg

like here

[upper rampart]

There's this gritty look to the textures in the OG that's getting smoothed out for some reason

[turbid sundial]

ya, shame modern games don't have that gritty look anymore, miss it a lot

[timid salmon]

Issue here being that the sign is not emissive on each and every map .. so I‘d have to overlay a flat plane there ig

[red willow]

[Custom map] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdoCb-e92cY credit to @hoary flame with thanks to @timid salmon 🍓

[upper rampart]

God damn @timid salmon

This goes high up in my list of best looking remix mods

How many mwr assets?

[woeful pewter]

All of them :?)

[timid salmon]

Models, almost all. I’ve only made a little plastic crate myself (first ever 3d model I’ve made 😂)
Textures are a mix of mwr (spec-gloss) to pbr, cc0 and a few I made with instaMat/substance

I’ve slightly increased polycounts and fixed holes in 5 or so guns + painted them in substance

[real ingot]

can use comfy ui to make things look more correct to the OG version

[dull merlin]

what is this numbers

[shrewd jetty]

Dragovich...Kravchenko...Steiner...All MUST Die

sorry, coudln't handle myself, yet i could handle myself from THE MOST obvious joke

[dull merlin]

.d

black ops reference

[woeful pewter]

That's what the actual water texture is when it's in fullbright

[stiff thicket]

@timid salmon just saw this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkHlCm3yglA

The bullet holes for the sniper rifle have single handedly convinced me that POM-on-decals is absolutely worth the perf expense and I shouldn't even consider disabling that as a feature. Amazing work there.

[timid salmon]

Yeah I was blown away the first time I shot a wall. It is really satisfying. Thanks mark!

From how you phrased your sentence, it sounds like pom is more expensive on alpha blended surfaces? Why is that the case?

[stiff thicket]

It's not like it's particularly more expensive, but there can be multiple decals stacked in a single place, and we resolve POM separately for each of them.

[lilac ingot]

@timid salmon random question, but what's the status of multiplayer being playable? I checked the GitHub but it seems a little vague. I think it'd be real fun to do a community game night sometime where we're all using Remix 🙂

[upper rampart]

Only remix players can play multiplayer together

[timid salmon]

well I'd just have to create a proper release with everything included and upload the mod (which is almost complete)

[lilac ingot]

I somewhat figured that, but I mean if the functionality is there. If I host a game everything will work like normal CoD 4?

[lilac ingot]

By almost complete you mean that specific map from the video mark shared?

[upper rampart]

Yes. I got into a game with xoxor back when cod4 was in testing phase

[timid salmon]

almost complete for what I intended for that initial release (backlot, showdown, district, bog, cargoship)

[upper rampart]

No shipment

[woeful pewter]

Shipment is cringe

[upper rampart]

U're

[woeful pewter]

https://tenor.com/view/crying-emoji-gif-21922016

[lilac ingot]

Holy based, fuck that map

[timid salmon]

could do way more but I kinda want to get back into coding 😂

[lilac ingot]

You're already doing a whole bunch at once, don't overwork yourself brother

[upper rampart]

make mw2 work with sp support

[timid salmon]

there is some ... cooking where I'll most likely assist when the time comes

[young vessel]

how much attention does it take to fix each of the maps

[timid salmon]

The only thing that needs fixing is culling (can be tweaked per map with a .ini) and that takes around 15 minutes. Then it’s up to whatever standard you set for yourself (pbr / meshes etc)

[young vessel]

culling is handled by the code you wrote with iw3xo?

[timid salmon]

Culling is still done by the game but behavior was slightly modified. You can override culling of individual zones via the ini file

[cedar acorn]

Is the sp process different from fixing/implementing/remastering the mp maps ?

[timid salmon]

Not really no (but the sp client does not have the latest features like manual culling overrides yet) + textures and replacement meshes also carry over from sp and vise versa

[amber frigate]

Gives me major fear vibes

[timid salmon]

Created a new GitHub release for the compatibility mod: https://github.com/xoxor4d/iw3xo-dev/releases/tag/3537

• Uploaded the remix mod to ModDB: https://www.moddb.com/mods/cod4-mp-rtx-remix-iw3xo

[upper rampart]

Sweet

[narrow coyote]

I could do this all day, great work xoxor

[timid salmon]

Oh you loaded an sp map in mp right? 😜

[upper rampart]

A few hundred more assets to go

Get to work

[narrow coyote]

Oh, I loaded it wrong?

[narrow coyote]

holy smokes

[timid salmon]

Never thought about loading sp maps in mp with remix .. but this could be used to create a mod for SP until I ported all the features to the sp client mod 👍

[woeful pewter]

You can load SP maps in MP...?

[timid salmon]

Yea! But levels are static as scripts and AI are missing

[woeful pewter]

That's insane, typically you'd get a server script compile error, was that something you did or is CoD4 just like that?

[timid salmon]

You need to load a mod called spmod thats shipped with the client. It overrides the maps gsc`s. It also comes with custom mapEnts and thus needs some engine tweaks

[upper rampart]

That don't look raytraced to me

@timid salmon halp!

[timid salmon]

uh did you install iw3xo and started it with the batch file? You should see some wavy-green menu paird with the old nvidia intro sound 😄

[upper rampart]

no

this is better

what was the key for the in-game remix menu

This is strange

[upper rampart]

Very cool

Will force xoxor to start a mp server tomorrow

[timid salmon]

Use console command devgui or bind devgui F5

[timid salmon]

Huh

[upper rampart]

Particles visible through everything

But only for a few seconds after spawning

[upper rampart]

Impressive. Your fruit killing skills are remarkable.

[timid salmon]

sp is running pretty good now. Ported most of the stuff from mp.
Nightly is currently building if someone is interested 👍

[gaunt atlas]

never thought i'd see the game like this

very amazing

[woeful pewter]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/369840630819454977/1251969863463997472/cat_dance.webm?ex=6670834b&is=666f31cb&hm=11a9b0a3ba28c2e2d74062c829f805b1dc36382c54ec3cfdac80470ca7d7bc0c&
Average reaction to xoxor post
(He's fucking baller as usual)

[timid salmon]

lmao

[amber frigate]

I haven't been following this too closely but is this with material replacements or does remix automatically detect normal maps from the renderer?

[timid salmon]

Material replacement

[amber frigate]

i see

[narrow coyote]

so pretty

[narrow coyote]

Is the performance better for anyone else? It feels notably smoother now. Great work xoxor

Peaked around a few levels, it looks great!

[narrow coyote]

Anyone know a fix for when fullscreen native resolution opens and a little bit of the desktop shows?

I wonder if there's an nvida control panel setting

[timid salmon]

does it go back into windowed mode on its own?

[narrow coyote]

Yeah, it looks like if I restart my computer and launch it for the first time, it's fullscreen at my native resolution. But if I close and reopen the game, it has that little sliver where the desktop shows

[timid salmon]

Weird! Well you could either add +set r_fullscreen 1 to the commandline or use r_noborder 1 to make it borderless fullscreen

[narrow coyote]

Thanks! I found the issue - my nvidia settings were set to "aspect ratio", switching it to "No scaling" fixed the issue

[narrow coyote]

@timid salmon Any plans to add /devgui feature to the SP mod? 👀

[timid salmon]

Uh no not really 😜
What would you use it for in sp?

[narrow coyote]

The ease of use changing the skyboxes, and the coolness

[timid salmon]

Mhh i thought that the map settings logic is enough since you can reload it with a command

[narrow coyote]

Yeah the map logic is good, it works the same 👍

[narrow coyote]

👨‍🍳 slowly cooking

[narrow coyote]

Very WIP, I think I'll continue working on this level when the POV camera light is fixed, it's really hard to see in the vents

[timid salmon]

A flashlight for the entire level would be enough right? Or do you need to turn it off for certain sections?

[red nest]

That or nightvision

If it even works 😁

[timid salmon]

oooh true! Could tweak a lot of remix settings to get that effect and then use the api to set the variables

[wide moth]

It even comes with noise for free 😛

[narrow coyote]

Oh I meant like in the remix toolkit - there’s supposed to be a flashlight that lights up scenes as we fly around and edit, but it’s broken (a tickets in to fix)

But night vision and a flashlight in game would be siiiiick 👀

[sly mauve]

cpu bottleneck? Anyone also have one? Laptop i7 12700h, gpu can pull 130-140w but only pulls ~100w. Game is on nvme

[lilac ingot]

iirc CPU bottlenecks aren't especially rare since by default all culling is disabled I wanna say?

I dunno if xoxor implemented that sector "streaming" system which is more selective of what stays without getting culled

[timid salmon]

SP and MP are both using the new culling system. It still draws more then it needs to in some places

You could try with a lower resolution to see if fps increase. Might as well be gpu memory related because of all the replacement textures

[blissful vale]

Hello, folks. Taking a moment here to ask whether there's anything more the Remix team can on our end do to assist the Modern Warfare project.
GitHub Issues that may have gone stale or other issues not captured here that are blocking.

[narrow coyote]

@timid salmon ^

[timid salmon]

Hey Nick, thanks for reaching out! I don't think that there are any show stoppers atm. Compatibility is pretty much perfect at this point.
The only somewhat limiting factor I can think of right now is the "inability" to use the api (I'll ship a bridge build with bridgeApi) until its eventually part of the official bridge build.

The utmost useful thing is the ability to set remix variables like sky brightness, bloom and tonemap settings. An api function to retrieve the current value of a variable would be a really nice addition to that! That would give one the ability to create a system (game sided) to lerp between two values of a variable to create a transition effect. This is not really possible atm as you'd have to hard code the starting value and edit it every time you change the saved var in the rtx.conf (Now that I think about it, I could parse the rtx.conf and store the contents in some structured way, I'll just have to keep track of the variables on my side and update them if I make any changes via the api)

As for per map settings, I'm currently reloading the entire rtx.conf, excluding variables that contain hashes, and then apply the .conf file of the map I'm loading. So I guess an api function to reload the rtx.conf might be a useful addition as well!

Should I file a feature request for that?

[blissful vale]

Hot reload of conf files has been a debated topic on our end. Some conf settings lend themselves better to hot reload than others, and even then making sure that such a process is thread safe adds other considerations. It's not impossible, but hasn't been prioritized. Writing this up as a feature request would certainly go a long way to make the case.

As for the bridge API stuff, it's still in the pipeline 🙃

But I appreciate all the above input. Sets good expectations, and helps us priortize stuff.

[timid salmon]

I'll carefully craft a feature request then 👍
Reloading the entire conf is a little overkill if the aim is to reset one or two values only yea .. so I guess adding a ResetConfigVariable + GetConfigVariable method would suffice. The SetConfigVariable should already be thread safe, I guess and hope? 😜

[blissful vale]

Yeah ofc setting dirty bits and not reloading everything is the efficient way to do it, all I meant is that it's non-trivial and there's a reason we've dragged our feet on it 🙃 But getting good reasons to prioritize and solve some of these things is always welcome!

[stone shore]

where can i download the game?

[fluid coral]

Buy the disc version on eBay

[timid salmon]

steam version should work as well

[humble gorge]

💚 Hello Project Leads! 💚
Are you leading a Remix Mod Project? I'm eager to hear all about it! Please feel free to send me a direct message so we can discuss your project in more detail.

[lilac ingot]

@timid salmon you haven't happened to see this yet have you 😛

[timid salmon]

I do but I’m not really leading any project .. I guess? 😁

[lilac ingot]

Looks like no Nvidia sponsored CoD4 Remix version for now

[fluid coral]

Wendy was just about to post out a new 5 series card for you and everything xoxor4ds. Nevermind

[narrow coyote]

It'd be so sick if game studios used RTX-Remix to remaster their games. Like a free udpate/anniversary edition for all those that owned the base game kinda thing. COD 4 RTX would've been so cool

[stable bison]

Hi everyone, I just downloaded the IW3xo RTX Remix mod from ModDB, but I'm new to Nvidia RTX Remix and not sure how to get it running. Can anyone help? Thanks ^^

To clarify, I followed the documentation on xoxor4d's GitHub page to get the client mod running. I assume that since it includes support for RTX Remix, I just need to open Nvidia Omniverse and select the folder with the new materials and assets in .usda format somehow? (just my noob guess lol), but I haven't found a way to do it yet.

[timid salmon]

You don’t need to run or install the toolkit to use the mod itself. You are supposed to place the downloaded mod into the rtx-remix folder that is within your cod4 install dir

The main “mod” (not the download) on moddb should have install instructions that you can expand

[stable bison]

So what do I need to do to get the new improved models and textures? Do I have to copy the moddb somewhere.

Also thank you for the fast reply

:)

[stable bison]

oh

I see it

thanks

to load your remix-mod do I have to use any console commands?

or just select this in mods

[timid salmon]

You have to put the mod from modDB into the rtx-remix folder and not the games mod folder

It’s not a game mod

[stable bison]

where is the rtx-remix folder ?

[timid salmon]

I think the mod from moddb has that folder included in the zip. You just drop that folder into the cod4 directory

[stable bison]

Some screenshots I took in game, wonderful mod @timid salmon 🫶

[solemn wigeon]

well i cant make it run like him

its sttuters and alot...

and i have an 3080, why is that?

[timid salmon]

Did you install the modDB mod?

[solemn wigeon]

which one?

[timid salmon]

check pins

[solemn wigeon]

i installed this one

[timid salmon]

This is only the compatibility mod that makes the game work with remix. The modDB mot is an actual "remix mod"

[solemn wigeon]

btw i cant download the lastests "action" builds

[timid salmon]

The latest release contains the latest commit so no need for that

[solemn wigeon]

you mean this one, right?

because im trying to run the sp side

[timid salmon]

Correct. It's compatible for both sp and mp. Make sure to edit the included mod.usda as instructed in the readme of iw3sp-mod-rtx

[solemn wigeon]

oh okey then il try

[solemn wigeon]

if i want to run the sp client what exactly do i need to change/edit?

because in this file i did not find any "readme" text file

[timid salmon]

Its in rtx-remix\mods\cod4rtx.

1. Install iw3sp-mod-rtx
2. Extract modDB mod files
3. Re-extract the rtx-remix folder from iw3sp-mod-rtx

[solemn wigeon]

omg

i assume that i did something wrong bc cant play at all like this, its a stuttery mess

dk why sttuters like this 😦

here's its doing very well but look at the frametime graph

[timid salmon]

I'm getting a stable 60 in there on a 3080

could you try with a fresh player config?

[solemn wigeon]

will try give me a sec

[timid salmon]

your game looks a little different for some reason ..

maybe try replacing the rtx.conf in the root folder with this

[solemn wigeon]

so now runs worse for some reason, dont know why or what exactly its causing this issue

[solemn wigeon]

you need to disable nvidia reflex inside the remix menu, that is causing the bottleneck

[timid salmon]

Is it a dedicated 3080 or laptop?
Trying the latest action builds of the bridge and runtime might help out here?

[solemn wigeon]

yeah i tried but i cant download the lastest action builds and idk why...

[timid salmon]

You need a github account for that

[solemn wigeon]

i forgot to sign up, my bad

[rigid lantern]

How good is the perfomance for the rtx 3060 mobile

[timid salmon]

weird .. not sure what might be causing that. Do you have a second display? Game is not on a hdd right?

[solemn wigeon]

i re-installed the whole game trough steam and follow this steps but had no luck sadly...

its frustrating...

[solemn wigeon]

its installed on a nvme

neither have a second display, so idk what its causing this weird issue

[timid salmon]

That texture is broken for some reason?`

should look like this:

[solemn wigeon]

thats weird, why is that?

[timid salmon]

did you set your texture quality to extra?

[solemn wigeon]

in-game?

yeah

look

those are my setttings

i had to uncheck that first option to fix that weird texture

i noticed that when i try to look to those trees on the left side of the screen my fps dies instantly and drops to 5-2 fps

i mean this

[timid salmon]

Mhh looks like the packed mod might be a little broken. Same texture issue for me

[solemn wigeon]

those trees are killing my 3080 for some reason, and in the second mission its so much worse lol, im getting around 2-4 fps when the mission starts

with stutters included, all over the place, the frametimes speaks for themselves

this is broken, at least for me... so sad

[timid salmon]

getting 38fps at that spot. I've repackaged the mod. Uploading rn

[solemn wigeon]

oh okey

[timid salmon]

@solemn wigeon I think I found the missing files. Could you try extracting that into rtx-remix/mods/cod4rtx?

[solemn wigeon]

yeah sure

still the same,

[timid salmon]

weird, try replacing this one

btw. what text is that in the bottom left corner? Are you running any dlls tweaks of sorts?

[solemn wigeon]

its just a dlss hud indicator, provides info about the render scales resolution dpeding on the dlss quality setting and im not using any tweaks for that

[rigid lantern]

is that normal to see the game freezed more than 10 seconds after the cutscene is finished?

[rigid lantern]

oh the perfomance is slow to me

even the vram is exceeding with no texture replacement

[solemn wigeon]

well i tried that as well and did not work :(, idk what happen

[timid salmon]

that did not fix the broken texture?

[solemn wigeon]

nope 😦

[timid salmon]

I've maybe found the issue you are having. Can you check if console command r_smp_worker is set to 0?

[solemn wigeon]

thanks!

that worked well

finally, problem resolved

[rigid lantern]

do i miss somethnig

[solemn wigeon]

@timid salmon i noticed than you been running the game with the "vulkan" api, how can i change that? because mine its running with DX11

[timid salmon]

remix is always running vulkan so its probably just some visual "error".
Just noticed that your red dot is messed up lmao

[timid salmon]

Install the modDB mod ---- then re-extract the rtx-remix folder that comes with the compatibility mod.
Last would be to override this file: #1135531755764453477 message

[solemn wigeon]

i would try to update RTSS maybe will fix the issue

[lilac ingot]

someone else reported the same, it's an incorrect reading

[rigid lantern]

is there anyway to improve the performance in cod4rtx?

My end is getting lagging horrendously even its like 1 fps

Most of time its now like 0 fps

[solemn wigeon]

you need to enter th follow command in console "r_smp_worker 0"

and the same for "r_smp_worker_thread1 and thread0" to 0

[fluid coral]

Just blink a lot and your 1fps can become many

[woeful pewter]

Realest advice I've ever heard

[shrewd jetty]

Power of 1
Power of 2
Power of MANY

https://tenor.com/view/sorry-i-couldnt-resist-head-shake-gif-15656389

[willow ermine]

Wise words from a wise man

[solemn wigeon]

this is amazing

[upper rampart]

I think he likes it

[shrewd jetty]

Why it looks like OG vs Remastered comparison 😂

[timid salmon]

@ember charm you need to uninstall cod4x

[ember charm]

How can I play multiplayer without it, there are no official servers anymore

[upper rampart]

You dont

[still spindle]

horrors beyond my comprehension

I dont get it

[timid salmon]

Every game has these “errors” because that stuff is hardcoded into the remix runtime

[still spindle]

Okay, but it crashes my game, any idea how to fix? I even copied all the files over from portal rtx so they were no longer missing.

But then it just says they are corrupted

[timid salmon]

You have to use the cod4 release. Don’t mix and match files because that wont work

[still spindle]

Why is it called remix if I can't even re mix the files

[timid salmon]

You do know that this game is normally not supported by remix right? That means special tweaks have to be done to the game to get it to work with remix. Thus, using files from other games wont work

[still spindle]

My comment was a joke, but I did thought I understood how to run remix using the iw3xo rtx version, which makes it compatible and then installing the mod with enhanced textures and models.

But after that didn't work I just threw everything at it so that was my bad

[timid salmon]

So it was working until you added the mod from moddb?

Anyhow, please post the log files that remix creates. I think it puts them next to the game exe and should be called something like bridge32.log bridge64.log and dxvk.log?

[still spindle]

Not home rn but will do, I'll also just start from a clean slate see if that fixes it

Appreciate you actually trying to help, since this channel was very inactive I just posted as a joke before giving up but you gave me the motivation to retry

[timid salmon]

Well yea I was or still am quite busy with other games atm but I will come back to this one as this is what got me into remix in the first place

[still spindle]

I get this because it wants to use integrated graphics, I then disable it in the bios, force it use my 4080 in nvidia 3d settings, force it to use my 4080 in windows graphics settings, and i STILL get this error

how do I know that is the issue? because when i shut it down in device manager it works, but that also bricked my pc a couple minutes later

[timid salmon]

uh that is odd .. make sure your monitor is not plugged into the igpu 😄

and send the log it mentions

[still spindle]

proof that its not missing

so i got both monitors plugged into my gpu, if i disable this there will be no issues?

[pallid pebble]

depends if your laptop actually sends video out through the dGPU

i guess find out lol

you could also try setting the preferred gpu in nvidia control panel, not sure if vulkan apps listen to that over the windows gpu settings

[still spindle]

why did you think i have a laptop

[pallid pebble]

idk that issue usually stems from setups like that

if its a desktop, just disable the igpu

[still spindle]

I did, in 3 seperate places

disabled it in bios, force 4080 inwindows settings and force 4080 nvidia control panel

[pallid pebble]

i assume you've already updated your drivers?

[still spindle]

yes and i even wiped them with ddu and restalled the newest

[pallid pebble]

weird

does every remix game do this or just cod

[still spindle]

idk I only tried cod

but imma try rtx portal

[timid salmon]

I think it's a cod issue

[still spindle]

yep it works

[timid salmon]

nothing I can do about that now .. will try to fix that when I come back to this game

[still spindle]

Other people got it working so it must be something I did wrong

[still spindle]

holy moly

[pallid pebble]

did SP ever work with this mod?

curious to mess with it

[still spindle]

ye it works

wait i tought u meant sp maps

actual sp idk

[pallid pebble]

yea

[timid salmon]

I’ve also made a comp mod for sp yeah

[light jasper]

This might actually be the best looking Project yet

[light jasper]

Damn cs2

[still spindle]

Do you perhaps know any good mod for spawning bots, PEZbots is my usual one but it causes a lot of lag combined with rtx-remix

[still spindle]

If It didn't have the attachment on the ak it couldve passed as a cs2 screenshot, crazy

[timid salmon]

Uhm that shouldn’t cause any issues .. it might be related to the player shadow “hacks” I have implemented .. I think k there is a dvar to turn them off and should be mentioned on the repo read me somewhere

[still spindle]

disablding shadows didnt have any impact for me, it was actually the dead bodies that caused the frame drops

[shrewd jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/worldcup-donald-trumph-raised-eyebrow-gif-12011780

Oh wow

[turbid sundial]

This is so stupid I love it 😭 😭

10/10

[light jasper]

Are PiP Scopes possible?

[timid salmon]

the what

this game has texture overlay scopes and acog which does not zoom

[light jasper]

Pictures in Picture scopes

Rendering a second instance inside the scope

[timid salmon]

Oh so you mean dual rendering. Well that would be supported by remix in theory but this game does not have that.
You can model and use actual lenses to create a real working scope with remix

[timid salmon]

#1135531755764453477 message
or
#1135531755764453477 message

[light jasper]

Thats fire.

Yall are so talented, my dream

[upper rampart]

.

[lilac ingot]

.

[willow ermine]

.

[pallid pebble]

.

[rigid lantern]

.:;';:.

[visual bluff]

▲
▲▲

[shadow pond]

Which COD right now is most mature? BLOPS or MW or another?

[shrewd jetty]

you mean what game got the most of progress?

[gaunt atlas]

@timid salmon

[timid salmon]

CoD4 MW - its stable - has player shadows - has enhanced assets (moddb)

[shadow pond]

Cool! Is anyone working to remaster assets? Is there an active project or not yet?

[timid salmon]

I don't think so no 😕
There is only this afaik: https://www.moddb.com/mods/cod4-mp-rtx-remix-iw3xo

[lilac ingot]

I began work on a PBR AK but dropped it

[gritty quartz]

Wonder If you could port the MWR models/textures into remix and get those normals setup

pretty much every asset that was in the OG was redone for that remaster

[timid salmon]

a lot of models and materials in the above mentioned mod come from mwr

[gritty quartz]

I thought so. But unfortunately it is just the middle-east assets. How difficult would it be to port over the weapons? Since they are already in a format for the CoD engine (well the H1 engine but close enough lol)

[timid salmon]

You'd have to replace the gun models with a real cod4 game mod and then replace their textures with a remix mod

Most of the weapons were already ported to this game afaik

not a fan of the new models personally

[gritty quartz]

Dang. I LOVE the mwr M4, m14, g36c, mp5 and AK

the 1911 looked a bit funny though id admit

[timid salmon]

dunno the ak looks so fat in mwr but might just be the fov. They fucked up the left hand tho. I mean look at this:

[shrewd jetty]

I always felt strange from thin AK

[timid salmon]

totally random shot of crash

[gritty quartz]

they do be lookin the same width bro.

[timid salmon]

Like I said might be fov or the lower ads position

[gritty quartz]

Is there a name for the weapon postion on the screen? I usually just end up calling it the "anchor"

[nimble plover]

this happens all the time, im trying the coup mission with the sp mod it runs 50 70 fps at 4k rtx 5080 but it freezes and crashes. Pls any help ? @timid salmon

[timid salmon]

try setting r_smp_worker to 0

[nimble plover]

ok i will let me restart

[timid salmon]

but I think I'm already forcing that value to 0 .. are you using the 0.5.1 release of remix or something newer?

[nimble plover]

i fixed it but is blackout supposed to look like this ?

@timid salmon

[timid salmon]

I have not remixed any of the campaign so yea thats up to the community

[nimble plover]

@timid salmon when i try to capture scenes in cod 4 rtx remix it doesnt capture anything just fragments of map and black areas. Do you know how to go around this issue please?

also theres crashing a lot of crashing, Should i specifically change any of the settings in the video settings in the game?

[timid salmon]

Trust me, be grateful that it does not capture the entire map because performance within the toolkit would be really bad

[nimble plover]

it crashes on most maps just freezes and not responding

[timid salmon]

Are you using the latest remix version or not?

[nimble plover]

yes 1.1.0

@timid salmon

[timid salmon]

Will take a look later today

[nimble plover]

Thanks freezes like that for example @timid salmon Thank u i wanna work on it but cant get past crashes

[nimble plover]

@timid salmon hows it looking any update?

[nimble plover]

beauty 😛

[fluid coral]

add some of the fog mate, give it some depth 🙂

[timid salmon]

Can you try with this config (players_profiles/your_name/) - make a backup of yours tho

Not crashing for me ... Testing this reminded me how broken the SP is on some maps. Game can't draw all of the skinned meshes so they start to flicker.
Will have to tackle that at some point

[nimble plover]

yo bro you think you could just point me please in the right direction i can't seem to wrap my head around how to properly do it without messing with other textures etc.

[nimble plover]

i'm not getting the crashing after applying r_smp_worker 0 so its just that command and i get now why it fixes the crash

"r_smp_worker turns on a second renderer “front-end” thread in the IW engine family (CoD4/MW2/BO2). That extra thread builds draw lists & issues parts of the D3D9 work in parallel with the main thread. RTX Remix injects a D3D9 shim (the Bridge + DXVK-Remix stack) that intercepts and replays those calls to a 64-bit path-traced renderer. On CoD4 SP, the extra front-end thread causes concurrent D3D9/Bridge activity, which (a) the game’s D3D9 device likely didn’t create with multi-thread safety and (b) historically tripped Bridge/DXVK-Remix concurrency/queue bugs. Forcing r_smp_worker 0 serializes the renderer front-end back onto the main thread, restoring deterministic call order and avoiding the crash."

[timid salmon]

uh I had suggested that to you before 😂

[nimble plover]

ill be happy to work with you on this im 100% wanting to help u in any way

i love the game

ive been getting views on the coup video i made running the rtx remix on that mission

i love the thought to play with path traced rendering in a new light

i fixed some of the textures missin or not appearing in some maps now

im trying to work on the fog because there's no depth

[timid salmon]

I'd love that too but I don't have much time on my hands and the comp.mod definitely requires some love

[nimble plover]

but cant seem to get it working

[timid salmon]

You'll need to use the latest version of remix and enable volumetric fog + disable legacy fog remapping

[nimble plover]

@timid salmon any tips and ideas working on SP? anything you realized or got to know that you didnt know about before working on this sp?

enable volumetric fog + disable legacy fog remapping, you're talking in the settings of the game?

or rtx remix

[fluid coral]

these are my fog settings

[timid salmon]

uh dont think so no. Learned everything whilst doing mp

[nimble plover]

oh shit thanks ill try that

[fluid coral]

looks like this

[nimble plover]

damn

do i need to do anything else to makei t working

other than the settigns

sorry im still working on getting everything in my head etc

[fluid coral]

nope, that should get you started

you'll want to capture the actual level fog so you can have different settings per volume like the old game but this'll do

[nimble plover]

the problem is i cant capture in cod4

it just makes everything of the world everywhere in rtx remix engine

like random things

appearing

etc

thats what ive been dealing with

ill show you

@fluid coral @timid salmon

[fluid coral]

yea just focus on what you wanna change. its not going to capture the whole level all neatly for you

[nimble plover]

i can just change something like upscale a building and just apply it and it will render normally? @fluid coral

[fluid coral]

if the building is stable yea

[nimble plover]

am i understanding it correctly?

[fluid coral]

start with a texture

[nimble plover]

okay

if i go to the other side of the map can it capture better or can i merge two captures or multiple captures to see more?

[timid salmon]

no

[nimble plover]

damn

🙂

[timid salmon]

you just load the other capture

[nimble plover]

:*(

[timid salmon]

trust me its good that you dont see everything

[fluid coral]

you swap catpures when you want something else

[timid salmon]

performance tanks hard in the toolkit

[fluid coral]

it noms vram

[nimble plover]

but how does it know that it should get textures and assets replaced from multiple captures

[fluid coral]

the hesh is always the same

[nimble plover]

i thought u need one cap

oh okay

sorry i love understanding things

adhd type

[timid salmon]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4w6jm6S2lzvgJ97T1_VbLGBR_l6zzOUm

[fluid coral]

you can capture two levels and if they share the same model or texture it'll get replaced with the same replacement in both levels

[nimble plover]

oh wow okay, that makes perfect sense. So i can capture multiple replace assets there and one asset that couldn't be replaced or wasnt in the first capture i can repalce from a second better capture

[fluid coral]

yea thats it

capture what you wanna work on, work on it, capture something else, work on that. both are going to be in game at the same time

[nimble plover]

@fluid coral i cant see any fog tho

am i doing some wrong

[fluid coral]

Under enhancements check your scale is 1

[nimble plover]

i dont see any scale setting under enhancements @fluid coral

you mean this? scene unit scale? in parameter tuning?

@fluid coral

[fluid coral]

Looks correct to me, that's a shame

Lower transmission distance to 1. It should get real foggy

[nimble plover]

transmission distance is located where 😄 @fluid coral

[timid salmon]

set scene scale to 0.393

[nimble plover]

i had it low it was the same tho

@timid salmon

[timid salmon]

do that and then use the heavy fog preset

[nimble plover]

ok

[nimble plover]

maybe the map doesnt work

its the same

[timid salmon]

@fluid coral shouldnt your scene scale be at 0.393 as well? Because 1 unit in the game = 1 inch .. and 1 inch are 2.54 cm ... so 1 cm / 2.54 cm = 0.393

what about these settings

[nimble plover]

maybe the map is just fucked the other one i tried charlie dont surf now

@timid salmon

[timid salmon]

well you have athmosphere enabled

[nimble plover]

oh

lol

shit

yes

ahahahahah

[timid salmon]

disable that or set it to

[nimble plover]

it works now

i have it disabled now

@timid salmon youre a legend

i would completely miss it

[fluid coral]

i have no idea, American measurement's wild. I just scale things to match by eye