I've made a custom launcher with a little bit more options

[SkacikPL]

Final Fantasy XIII(series) Combined Custom Launcher

FFXIIICCL is merely an "unlocked" version of default launcher Square provides with games from FF XIII series

It looks like this:
http://www.skacik.pl/images/FFXIIICCL.png

As for the added feature set:

• Ability to set any render resolution (much like gedosato).
  
• Ability to disable MSAA entirely.
  
• Ability to set shadow resolution below 512 and above 8192.
  
• One launcher for both (all three in the future) games with shared settings.
  
• Automatic game path detection (with option to specify manual path in case automated process fails to find the game).
  
• Ability to replace default launcher for each game of the trilogy.

If you're worrying about it being scam/virus/malware, here's a jotti log[CLICK][virusscan.jotti.org]

The launcher was built using VB .NET, so making anything that your generic AV software wouldn't pickup would be hard.


You can get the launcher from here[CLICK][www66.zippyshare.com]

Only reported issue which may or may not occur is that it may not launch XIII correctly if it's placed in the same folder as XIII-2 default launcher

Few important notes:

1. This launcher CANNOT fix the game, if you've issues with the game, the launcher can mitigate the issue, but most certainly if the game is fundamentally broken on PC, don't count on me(lol)/durante or anyone besides SE to fix it.
   
2. This launcher requires .NET framework 4.5 Which is NOT available on Windows XP.
   
3. Game relies on MSAA for rendering transparent textures, thus disabling it (using 0 samples) will result in broken transparency.

Cheers.

[Rando]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von SkacikPL:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Prodigal Son:

don't work too, i replace the launcher in E:\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY XIII-2
same result

Read few posts back, i've explained how it does work and why it might not work.
It relies on registry keys which i've mentioned earlier, if you don't have them then most likely something is wrong with your installation or there's something i don't know.

Technically it could be "installed" correctly. Steam only creates installation registry keys for apps on first install. If you move the library or load from a partial it simply verifies the files in-place and doesn't create any registry keys/shortcuts.

To force Steam to create these keys you need ensure Steam is closed, delete the app manifest (appmanifest_292140.acf for FFXIII-2), then relauch Steam and install the app. This will also force a full verification of the 28/60GB though.

[Geist]

Thanks for making this. The game is actually playable on a 200 dollar laptop. Before no matter what settings I used it would just go in slow motion. Now it works perfectly (at low resolution of course)

[Kebess]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Geist:

Thanks for making this. The game is actually playable on a 200 dollar laptop. Before no matter what settings I used it would just go in slow motion. Now it works perfectly (at low resolution of course)

what did you do to stop the slow motion?

[Prodigal Son]

THANK YOU SO MUCH it's works

[Prodigal Son]

creator you are a genius !

[Panteleimon]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von MetalPlateMage:

Technically it could be "installed" correctly. Steam only creates installation registry keys for apps on first install. If you move the library or load from a partial it simply verifies the files in-place and doesn't create any registry keys/shortcuts.

To force Steam to create these keys you need ensure Steam is closed, delete the app manifest (appmanifest_292140.acf for FFXIII-2), then relauch Steam and install the app. This will also force a full verification of the 28/60GB though.

That is bad :( I'm going to install Windows 7... So the registry data will be lost...
Maybe it's good idea to not do a registry search for a game? Or make a button "Browse for the game" (so we can manually choose where our games are)?

[SkacikPL]

Yeah, i'll do that, but later.

[Kebess]

FPS feedback:

From what I could see, Shadow and MSAA don't have much influence on FPS variation.
What actually does is Resolution (I actually didn't know resolution had "that" much controle over FPS - I was very surprised to see this).

From a rough estimation, every change in resolution of about 80p nets you about 1 FPS change (this is only meaningful within 10 to 30 FPS, since I couldn't managed to consistently go higher or much lower).

So when actually playing at 1300x800 resolution, I only have an upper lock of 15 FPS.
However, at 700x430 resolution, I get an upper lock of 23 FPS.

I actually managed to get a 30+ FPS lock by reducing resolution further (to 300x170 lol) but then I also lost a lot of stability as it was then varying between 17 and 30 FPS for no reason at all...

Obviously, the extreme is not valuable, as it would be ridiculously insane to play at 300x170 resolution... However, if you aren't too whiny about resolution loss, simply switching it down to some 900x550, will at least get you 5-6 nets FPS gain (possibly more, if you reduce Shadow as well).


PS: If you're gonna try this, do it in windowed mode, not full-screen, as this tends to help.

PPS: Your launcher did more than just "mitigate" my FPS issues SkacikPL. Allowing me to reduce things a bit is that little edge I needed to make the game stop running in slow motion (for unsure reasons) on my system, which actually looked worse than it sounds... Great job.

[Mandrakon]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Kebess:

PS: If you're gonna try this, do it in windowed mode, not full-screen, as this tends to help.

That... helped. Thank You, good sir. Have a chocobo -

[Kebess]

Glad this helped, :)
I might have found a way to actually get the full effect of this "resolution reduction FPS booster -.-" IN full-screen.

But, I'd need some help from SkacikPL for that. Do you think you could add an option or even a simple command to allow the Launcher to be run in screen resolution of 720x405 or 800x450?

Right now, I'm using the option in the Properties>Compatibility tab of the launcher to run it, but that only allows 640x480, which is too low.

Allowing to run it in a low resolution, then setting the game resolution on 720x405 Full-screen (or 800x450, depending on the Launcher's) would actually allow to get the game in full-screen mode at that resolution, which wouldn't look too ugly, and net some nice FPS increase. ("ugly" is relative, obviously ;)

I watched too much Macgyver as a kid... Thanks mate.

[Ops]

GJ on the launcher, works well for me and solves all framerate issues ive been having

[SkacikPL]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Kebess:

But, I'd need some help from SkacikPL for that. Do you think you could add an option or even a simple command to allow the Launcher to be run in screen resolution of 720x405 or 800x450?

Right now, I'm using the option in the Properties>Compatibility tab of the launcher to run it, but that only allows 640x480, which is too low.

Allowing to run it in a low resolution, then setting the game resolution on 720x405 Full-screen (or 800x450, depending on the Launcher's) would actually allow to get the game in full-screen mode at that resolution, which wouldn't look too ugly, and net some nice FPS increase. ("ugly" is relative, obviously ;)

I watched too much Macgyver as a kid... Thanks mate.

Not sure what do you mean at all.

Launcher by default is 739px by 589px, do you really need an option to make it smaller?
If so, then does it have to be sub-640x480 resolution?

I assume if you're relating to how launcher looks/works when game is ran at low resolution then i guess you can simply close it after it launches the game, it was an ommission on my side that it doesn't do that automatically.

[K.o.K]

can you add Aspect Ratio fix ?? i want to run the game with a 21:9 aspect ratio resolution

[SkacikPL]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Khaled.o.Khaled:

can you add Aspect Ratio fix ?? i want to run the game with a 21:9 aspect ratio resolution

If the game does not run properly when you specify a 21:9 resolution then there's nothing i can do, you should ask Square, not me.

[Kebess]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von SkacikPL:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Kebess:

But, I'd need some help from SkacikPL for that. Do you think you could add an option or even a simple command to allow the Launcher to be run in screen resolution of 720x405 or 800x450?

Right now, I'm using the option in the Properties>Compatibility tab of the launcher to run it, but that only allows 640x480, which is too low.

Allowing to run it in a low resolution, then setting the game resolution on 720x405 Full-screen (or 800x450, depending on the Launcher's) would actually allow to get the game in full-screen mode at that resolution, which wouldn't look too ugly, and net some nice FPS increase. ("ugly" is relative, obviously ;)

I watched too much Macgyver as a kid... Thanks mate.

Not sure what do you mean at all.

Launcher by default is 739px by 589px, do you really need an option to make it smaller?
If so, then does it have to be sub-640x480 resolution?

I assume if you're relating to how launcher looks/works when game is ran at low resolution then i guess you can simply close it after it launches the game, it was an ommission on my side that it doesn't do that automatically.

Yep, I was afraid I wouldn't be clear enough. I don't mean the launcher's size at all.
Right click the Launcher, then select Properties, then the Compatibility tab, then tick the box that says "Run with screen resolution 640x480", then click Apply, then OK.

Now when you run the Launcher your screen resolution will become 640x480. My question was, is it possible to turn it into 720x405, or 800x450, or have both options?