#crt shaders

[subvertcity]

Spending 15 minutes dialing in the RoyalCRT Filter for my FF VII playthrough IS a good use of my limited time on this earth thank you very much.

[auntiealiasing]

I am playing World Racing 2 for PC... partially emulated on my PC. This sounds weird, but it's running with programs that translate code from an old GPU and sound card!

I have WR2 set to 640x480 windowed at max settings, wrapped to Vulkan with DXVK to fix the game's awful flashing and frame stutter issues on modern Windows and/or GPUs.

I then used a program called Magpie to rescale the window to 4K with its Lottes-CRT scaling mode, plus some tweaks Magpie lets you do to whatever shaders you've picked (In my case, Lottes-CRT).

For audio I'm using Creative ALchemy modded with the restriction remover, so I can get the EAX effects and better positionality WR2 supports.

DXVK and ALchemy translate (recompile) calls that a program makes (to the graphics card and EAX-supported sound card respectively) into something that works properly with modern OSes and hardware. This kinda thing's very important for preservation of old PC games!