Demo HD Texture Pack Still Broken

[metaleggman]

Seems like the HD Texture Pack DLC broke the HD Texture packs because the depots were done incorrectly, and while I'm guessing the proper game was done right, the Demo's DLC for the HD Texture Pack is broken. Doubt Ubisoft will care, but, hey, thought I'd let someone know.

[RMJ]

The demo is under 40 gig, The game is well over 100. You think something maybe missing?
I would just be thankful there is a demo, Many refuse to do this.

Even the "arge yee matee" version which was made from the demo, has all kinds of graphic issues, When I finally bought the game they all went away. Except the "in friendly camp" issues.

[metaleggman]

Origineel geplaatst door RMJ:

The demo is under 40 gig, The game is well over 100. You think something maybe missing?
I would just be thankful there is a demo, Many refuse to do this.

Yes the demo is smaller than the game; your point in making such an inane comment is what exactly?

Ubisoft originally included the HD texture pack within the original downloads for both the demo and the game, which increased the size dramatically. They then separated the HD Textures into a free DLC download, both for the retail game and the Demo, but failed to properly connect the files to the depot. The current package for the DLC is 1B, 48B downloaded. These are all well-known facts and why the HD Texture Pack DLC got fixed on the retail version.

The demo released over a year ago with the game, but there were depot updates in February of this year, hence why I thought I'd let a dev or mod, assuming any are even active or available, that it's still broken. It's one of the points of a game's Discussion section.

I also fixed the issue by simply copying the files from the Ubisoft Connect Trial version, which proves that this is a problem with the depot and a missing intended feature, not me complaining about something, as was seemingly insinuated.

Origineel geplaatst door RMJ:

Even the "arge yee matee" version which was made from the demo, has all kinds of graphic issues, When I finally bought the game they all went away. Except the "in friendly camp" issues.

I'm not really sure what your experience with a pirated copy of a game has anything to do with the demo's DLC being broken.

[metaleggman]

As to anyone who wants a fix for this, it's kind of annoying, but eh, do it if you want.

First, you'll need to download the Demo from the Ubisoft Connect Store. Once installed, go to the directory of the of the Ubisoft version of the demo. Open up the steam version's directory as well, and copy over the following files from and to the same directories for each corresponding version.

Go to 'data_final', then 'pc', and copy over 'common_hd.dat' and 'coimmon_hd.fat'.

Then go 'worlds' and copy 'fctworlds_hd.dat', 'fctworlds_hd.fat', 'installpkg_hd.dat', and 'installpkg_hd.fat'.

The versions of the demos seem to be different (I can't tell if one is newer or older than the other, tbh), but the HD texture data seems to be fully compatible between the two of them.

Anyways, I believe I only copied over those six files and the HD texture option not only was no longer grayed out, but also did increase my VRAM usage, meaning it worked. It felt it improved the game a fair bit, which is worth it for anyone with more than six to eight gigabytes of VRAM.

[RMJ]

UBI spends limited time -resources on demos, Again, just be glad they make one. And if someone wants to spend their time working out issues they have on "demos", so be it.
As for the "ARGE" version it was based off the trail version to allow it to be created. As this was the only way. And has the same issues that the trail version had - has.

[metaleggman]

Origineel geplaatst door RMJ:

UBI spends limited time -resources on demos, Again, just be glad they make one. And if someone wants to spend their time working out issues they have on "demos", so be it.
As for the "ARGE" version it was based off the trail version to allow it to be created. As this was the only way. And has the same issues that the trail version had - has.

And again, none of that has to do with me pointing this out in the appropriate discussion section. I even said it's likely they won't care. While I appreciate they provided a demo, we shouldn't feel the need to feel blessed that they provided a demo for which they then broke functionality. The whole point of these forums is literally to provide feedback. Which I did.

I'm also not sure why you think the PIRATED (PIRATE HE DOWNLOADED A PIRATED COPY OF A GAME PIRATE PIRATE RMJ DOWNLOADED A PIRATED COPY OF A GAME AND HE KEEPS DISCUSSING IT THIS IS IMPORTANT SO HE KEEPS TALKING ABOUT IT AND CALLING IT "ARGE YEE PIRATE") version has anything to do with the steam demo. Empress cracked it eight months after release, before the game was released on Steam, possibly before there was a demo. Either way, it still has literally nothing to do with my topic. You're just spamming to talk about how you pirated a game. Stop. Get help.

I literally had an aneurysm from you calling it "arge yee pirate", because you're the only person saying that. We get it, you pirated a game. You illegally downloaded a game. You went online, violated international copyrights and downloaded a game illegally. Seriously, shut up about it.

[SteahmChip]

These games are monstrous in size. I got Dwarf Fortress and just looked at the size of it with some mods in there, less than 350mb,
did a tripletake when downloading as less than 275mb!!!

Used to seeing these days almost any game weighing out at least 3-10gig with AAA titles 50-150 gig
Outer Worlds install fldr is 55 gig
UbiSoft are as follows (some have mod stuff as indicated)
FC4 43gig (some backups patch_hd.dat mods )
FC5 88gig (got old Resistance mod versions I have to clear out)
New Dawn 33 gig (got Scavanger mod old versions to clear out)
FC 6 93 gig (no HD texture packs) but it is the largest even without those things

Just gotta have the GIGs for storage and video card muscle to move those textures around

[metaleggman]

Origineel geplaatst door SteahmChip:

These games are monstrous in size. I got Dwarf Fortress and just looked at the size of it with some mods in there, less than 350mb,
did a tripletake when downloading as less than 275mb!!!

Used to seeing these days almost any game weighing out at least 3-10gig with AAA titles 50-150 gig
Outer Worlds install fldr is 55 gig
UbiSoft are as follows (some have mod stuff as indicated)
FC4 43gig (some backups patch_hd.dat mods )
FC5 88gig (got old Resistance mod versions I have to clear out)
New Dawn 33 gig (got Scavanger mod old versions to clear out)
FC 6 93 gig (no HD texture packs) but it is the largest even without those things

Just gotta have the GIGs for storage and video card muscle to move those textures around

This is why they separated the HD textures from the main game AND the demo. The problem is that when they setup the depots for both, they linked to nothing. They fixed the depots for the full game's HD texture DLC pack, but not the Demo's HD texture DLC pack. As I have shown, it can be manually be fixed, since the Ubisoft connect version seems to have the HD textures intact.

I get that the games are large, no one is disputing that. The issue is just that they made a DLC for the demo and it doesn't work properly, hence why I made a post. I've got 4GB of nvme storage, a tb of sata ssd storage, and over 40tb of HDD storage, along with 24gb of VRAM. So this isn't an issue with storage, vram, anything, just that they borked the HD Texture pack when they separated it into a DLC for the Demo.

[SteahmChip]

Origineel geplaatst door metaleggman:

I get that the games are large, no one is disputing that. The issue is just that they made a DLC for the demo and it doesn't work properly, hence why I made a post. ,,,, just that they borked the HD Texture pack when they separated it into a DLC for the Demo.

OK I get it now, you could run it just fine if UBI had set it up properly to begin with
thanks for the clarification!

[Hauwexis]

Its still broken. I cant activate HD Textures in the Game Options. Stays greyed