Syberia I & II - High Resolution Guide

[toni.rhcp]

Hi, I've seen that if you search a little you can play Syberia I & II in high resolution but this topic is no clear to figure out, so I've decided to make this 6 steps . . . guide? I'll use 1080p resolution in windows 10 but you can use whatever you want. No need to tick any compatibility option in the exe propierties compatibility tab. No more "No 3d accelerator" error too.

First of all, you should create a custom 1080p 4:3 aspect ratio resolution in your gpu control panel. In this case will be 1440x1080. And select the keep aspect ratio scaling or whatever.

Then, you must download dgvoodoo2 and extract the exe file and the 3 dlls in the "MS" folder into the game directory. In Syberia I isn't necesary the D3D8.dll file, in Syberia II is a must.

Link to dgvoodoo [dege.freeweb.hu]

What to extract
Files to extract 1 [image.ibb.co]
Files to extract 2 [image.ibb.co]

At this point you can already set the configuration. I'll leave a capture of that. If you are having low framerates, set a lower atialiasing sample.
dgvoodoo setup [image.ibb.co]

Where to copy the files
Syberia I location [image.ibb.co]
Syberia II location (I have it on Origin, but it works anyway) [image.ibb.co]

Profit on glorious high resolution
Glorious Syberia I [image.ibb.co]
Glorious Syberia II [image.ibb.co]

[Silencium]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย REkAB:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Polygonien:

according to the description in the config that option should fix it but unfortunately it does not help in my case. Deactivating AF isn't helping with the black lines either. Are you using an Nvidia card or AMD? I'm beginning to think that it might be related to AMD drivers. :wasted:

What card and drivers are you using? I'm running on a 5600XT on 20.10.1 drivers and don't have any issues

That didn't solved me neither. Black micro lines still appears. BTW: my GPU is ASUS RTX 2080.

[alberto_magno]

OK, here I am back again.
The solution to my problem was to install the Gold Edition, which includes both chapters, and give up on the Steam versions. I still had to use dgVooDoo, but this time the picture didn't stretch.
So, playing the game I found out I had the problem with the black lines, too. The fix suggested doesn't work, so I tried a lot and the only solution that actually works is if I set the original 800x600 resolution on dgVooDoo.
Unfortunately, this makes the picture very small on my Full HD screen. I figured I simply had to change my own resolution, but unfortunately my laptop doesn't allow me to got under 1024x768.
With this resolution the image becomes acceptable and the black lines are gone, but on a 15'' monitor it would have been nice to have it full screen.

[jstil44]

Hello Alberto_mango, Where would i find this "gold Edition"?

[alberto_magno]

I have an old physical copy, I even had to use an external drive for my laptop (always handy).

[Dryspace]

I bought a boxed copy of Syberia online, and got Syberia II via a boxed copy of the 'Viva Adventure Anthology'. You should still be able to find them on eBay, or elsewhere.

[Raymond the cat]

I have created a video where i show how to install dgvoodoo2, and where i also discuss some other topics related to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49SFJNZbnN8&feature=youtu.be

I also found out that enabling "Displaying pointer trails" in mouse properties hides the mouse when playing! I might not be the first to have found this solution or any for that matters. I'm just trying to make it even clearer to people how to make this work best for them.

Very big thanks to toni.rhcp for creating this thread!

I'm also crediting this guide as it is where i found out about dgvoodoo2.

[petoka]

I did this and it's working good so far, however there's one issue - sometimes there are weird black lines running across the screen in different places. It's similar to what Silencium described, but it's still there no matter if I turn the AF on or off.

Is anybody else having the same problem? I honestly don't know what's worse, playing this game at default resolution, or playing in HD but with those weird lines...

[Raymond the cat]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Voxovan:

I did this and it's working good so far, however there's one issue - sometimes there are weird black lines running across the screen in different places. It's similar to what Silencium described, but it's still there no matter if I turn the AF on or off.

Is anybody else having the same problem? I honestly don't know what's worse, playing this game at default resolution, or playing in HD but with those weird lines...

It seems to be a known issue with the software.. Haven't either found a solution to that.

[NovemberRain]

thank you~!

[toni.rhcp]

I was revisiting the game to check this black lines and I have bad news, I believe it is impossible to get rid of them because the game it's so scaled to high resolutions the game assets don't align/blend perfectly, resulting in this black lines hopefuly (imagine red/green lines).

It would be something similar like scaling an old 3d game and see the background between the poligons.

[toni.rhcp]

On the other hand, there is a new version of dgvoodoo2 that supports dx12 as backend but for some reason (awful amd drivers surely) in Syberia the videos play in another "window" but doesn't get on top, so you have to alt+tab to see the cinematics and when it finishes you have to alt+tab again to go back to the game "window".

This doesn't happen when you use dx11 as backend in dgvoodoo2 but thanks to f****** amd drivers the graphics looks all white or corrupted. This didn't happen when I post the guide.

[alberto_magno]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Voxovan:

I did this and it's working good so far, however there's one issue - sometimes there are weird black lines running across the screen in different places. It's similar to what Silencium described, but it's still there no matter if I turn the AF on or off.

Is anybody else having the same problem? I honestly don't know what's worse, playing this game at default resolution, or playing in HD but with those weird lines...

I had the same problem, my "solution" was to play the game in the original 800x600 resolution and change my monitor's resolution to have it "sort of" full screen. "Sort of" means my monitor doesn't allow me to lower my resolution to 800x600, but with 1280x720 (or 1280x600, which in this case gives the same outcome) the picture is large enough to play the game on my 15' laptop (to my calculation, the picture I get has the size of a full screen on a 12,5' screen, which is the best solution I could find to get rid of the lines and play the game with an acceptable picture size with the original quality).

I hope this helped you.

[Acid Snow]

I tried this but it led to the display being missing for all text and most objects: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2392320074.

I had also tried to follow the instructions here to get rid of the "No 3D accelerator" issue: https://steamcommunity.com/app/46500/discussions/0/2765630416809470215/, but the problem there is that the game takes minutes to open.

[toni.rhcp]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Acid Snow:

I tried this but it led to the display being missing for all text and most objects: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2392320074.

I had also tried to follow the instructions here to get rid of the "No 3D accelerator" issue: https://steamcommunity.com/app/46500/discussions/0/2765630416809470215/, but the problem there is that the game takes minutes to open.

I commented about this, couldn't find a proper solution. If you card supports dx12, download the latest version of dgvoodoo 2.72 and set it up using dx12 as backend renderer in main tab "Output API" option. There is a problem with cinematics tough (in my pc at least)

Wined3d and dgvoodoo can't be used at the same time, there can be only one.

[Acid Snow]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย toni.rhcp:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Acid Snow:

I tried this but it led to the display being missing for all text and most objects: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2392320074.

I had also tried to follow the instructions here to get rid of the "No 3D accelerator" issue: https://steamcommunity.com/app/46500/discussions/0/2765630416809470215/, but the problem there is that the game takes minutes to open.

I commented about this, couldn't find a proper solution. If you card supports dx12, download the latest version of dgvoodoo 2.72 and set it up using dx12 as backend renderer in main tab "Output API" option. There is a problem with cinematics tough (in my pc at least)

Wined3d and dgvoodoo can't be used at the same time, there can be only one.

I did try this but it did not change anything: the opening scenes were fine, but then the main menu and game looked like in the screenshot. It's a curious problem but I don't know where to look to debug it beyond the Syberia startup logs.

Yes, you cannot use both Wine3D and dgVoodoo at once. When switching between them I have to remove the .dll files associated with one before I can run it with another.