Tales of Berseria: Coming back after eons and...

[Velen]

I re-downloaded the old SKIM64 installer from the link via the old Tales of Berseria thread and had it uninstall and reinstall the Special K fix for Tales of Berseria but I noticed that...

1. The Ctrl+Shift+Backspace command for Special K no longer works.
2. That I can't tell whether or not Special K is working in the BG while the game is playing.

To be frank, having been so long since I played ToB (2017 in fact) because the last time I tried to play it with Special K implemented it was having problems with the lighting engine (namely seeing a constant lens flare on-screen).

I guess what I'm saying is how the heck do I know/ensure that Special K is doing what it's been designed to do?

For reference: my computer is a 2017 MSI GE62 6QF Apache Pro with Windows 10 installed on it.

Any help in figuring this out so I can have the best game experience with Tales of Berseria would be greatly appreciated. I really don't want to shell out another 60 bones just to experience the game on a console.

[Kaldaien]

Special K has been having a lot of trouble with D3D9 games lately. I have not tested versions 2 years old, but they do still share some code and that leads me to believe SK didn't break, some third-party software changed.

Since the Steam overlay's the most likely thing to change, try disabling that. If that doesn't help, try all other overlays you can think of.

If it still doesn't work, I'll take a look at your logs if you paste them to pastebin.com, I cannot make any guarantees that anything in the log will be familiar after this long though :)

FYI, even if the OSD / control panel are not working, pressing Ctrl + Shift + T can be used to verify that at least part of Special K is working -- that'll produce a PSN trophy unlock sound.

[Velen]

I'll give it a go and see what happens. I'll come back with a post with the results of the troubleshooting.

EDIT: So good news, everything is working properly now. Thanks Kaldaien.

[Dr. Dreambeard]

I just got it working on windows 10 using D3D9 without any issues. Make sure you're not running any of the applications the author says break it. Nahimic etc.

[chrcoluk]

I been playing Berseria again the past week or so, and its running better than it ever did before.

If I remember correctly I originally played Berseria with this spec.

Win 8.1
8600k
1070 GTX

I was always told more threads would help and to move to win10 as Special K always been designed to work on windows 10.

It played reasonably well, but I always had micro stuttering, usually noticable on he scrolling text on equipment and the 1070 couldnt quite handle 4xSGSSAA 60fps.

Fast forward to today.

Win 10
9900k
3080 RTX

The game is buttery smooth not even any micro stutters, all I had to do was enabled legacy filename support on my partition the game is on, and all is well, using the same dll that was installed years ago.

Shame the draw distances couldnt be fixed though as they really are hideous in this game.