Depth buffer detection modifications

Koubarov wrote: Update regarding Skyrim.

I had to disable the weapon and stencil fixes in order to get an almost perfect Depth Buffer.

Objects no longer disappear from the Depth Buffer while panning the camera although at times some flickering (Depth Buffer turns off for a split second) and minor artifacts at the bottom of the screen are occurring. Most of the time it works so definitely an improvement.

Lastly there is a weird bug happening that I don't know if it's the modified .dll that does it or Marty's Quint MXAO.

If I enable MXAO_Quint from the start, the main menu screen and loading screen are blackened severely and the other Depth Buffer effects (namely Adaptive Fog) can't access the Depth Buffer in game, if then I force a reload of ReShade everything works as intended and when exiting to the main menu there is no blackening of the 2D image.

To remedy this I have ΜΧΑΟ_Quint disabled in my profile and I re-enabled (through a key stroke) it on the first in-game load of my save game and everything works fine after that.

0nimare wrote:

thalixte wrote: Is it with the mod ?
Could you please send a video of the pb, displaying the dx9 tab ? Thks.

It actually happens in just hl2upd and vanilla hl2

HL2:Update with auto preserve (223 mb)
HL2:Update with index 1 preserved (509 mb)
Vanilla HL2 with auto preserve (246 mb)
Vanilla HL2 with index 1 preserved (231 mb)

thalixte wrote:
Thks for your feedback. Have you tried to enable the "Focus on the best original depthstencil source" checkbox to see if it removes the blacken in the main menus ?

For the weapon, have you try to tick the "Fix for user weapon or cockpit" checkbox ?

0nimare wrote: Thanks a lot! Works perfectly for vanilla and update. Tested all maps and places that had issues before.
Settings:

[DX9_BUFFER_DETECTION]
DisableINTZ=0
PreserveDepthBuffer=1
PreserveDepthBufferIndex=4294967295
AutoPreserve=0
BruteForceFix=0
FocusOnBestOriginalDepthstencilSource=0

Works almost perfectly in hl2:update:mmod, occasionally when rotating camera depth buffer becomes empty for like a frame causing a flicker.
Also if I change any setting when map is loaded will cause rendering issue, like making whole map invisible, flickering map parts, background part displaying in front , BUT if I just launch the game with settings above and don't change anything it doesn't happen. FocusOnBestOriginalDepthstencilSource=1 fixes the rendering issue but makes weapon and doors invisible on depth buffer. Alt-tabbing also seems to cause or fix the rendering issue.

Thanks again!

Update: i.imgur.com/bCdlth5.jpg - another issue, happens with PreserveDepthBuffer=1 in update, update:mmod, but not in vanilla hl2

0nimare wrote: I think this one made it worse
imgur.com/a/bni2aii

thalixte wrote: And with this one, same pb ?

d3d9_hl2.zip

dedicateddark wrote: Reshade 4.2.1 seems to not be able to access the depth buffer on Arkham Asylum, so far I have tried turning off the MSAA, lowering all the settings & cut-off internet connection. As well as cycling through every available setting on the depth buffer.

Wanted to tryout the path tracing shader on the game. And also MXAO. Help would be much appreciated. I have no idea on how to compile or code or anything, so can't do anything with github links.

[DX9_BUFFER_DETECTION]
DisableINTZ=0
PreserveDepthBuffer=1
PreserveDepthBufferIndex=0
AutoPreserve=1
FocusOnBestOriginalDepthstencilSource=0
BruteForceFix=0

Koubarov wrote: Update 2 on Skyrim.

I managed to eliminate the blackening problem which seems related to the new HQ Ground-Truth AO mode in MXAO_Quint.

I reverted back to the normal AO mode and the problem is solved no longer the menu gets darkened on first load.

Plus I managed to solve the problem of AO "stealing" the Depth Buffer by moving Adaptive Fog at the top with ΜΧΑΟ following after.

Now both effects are working as intended on first load and no longer a reload is needed.

So to sum it up, so far it seems that the disparity between the Depth Buffer and Viewport on internal cells is solved (at least to the dungeons I've checked).

Plus on external cells Depth Buffer works as intended but with flickering and minor artifacts at the bottom of the screen at times.

0nimare wrote:

thalixte wrote: And with this one, same pb ?

d3d9_hl2.zip

Yep, same issue. I tried playing in windowed (so there is no alt tab) ignoring small rendering glitches but crashed few times. I assume crash happens when game tries to unload bugged model - killing enemies, map changing or just going back to main menu.

Insomnia wrote: I can't believe I've missed out on this for so long.
Thank you for releasing this.

Is it available for OpenGL as well? Would love to use this for Doom 3.

Sweren wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a way to make depth buffer work on Euro Truck Simulator 2 (DX11)

I don't know nothing about coding so I can't use your repository, excuse me

x8009 wrote: Stated happen with 4.3.0 when I alt tab for example in NFS Payback I get this

Any idea what is the issue ?

In the pictures it shows the Distortion when alt tabbing , then the Depth View issue then after clicking Reload depth view and normal . It doesn't cause issue when first launching the game , I do use AfterBurner to take the screenshots and such but I don't think that what causing the issue. it was working fine before it.

Only Reload button fix the issue, no other changes , changing depth buffer, disabling shaders fix the issue.
To fix it I need to open the Reshade menu and Reload , then it fixes the issue, with 4.2.x it didn't happen or many versions before.