Tales of Zestiria "Fix" - Community Patch

This project fixes:

• The 30 FPS cap! (Author: DrDaxxy)
  
• Stutter caused by Namco's Framerate Limiter
  
• Shimmering Artifacts
  
  • Caused by Poor Quality Post-Processing
    
  • Caused by Missing and Incomplete Mipmaps
• 7.1 Channel Audio Crashes (PATCHED: 11/3/2015)
  
• Crashes and Audio Distortion caused by Sample Rate
  
• Aspect Ratio
  
  • In Full-Motion Videos
    
  • In the field
    
  • In Menus
  
  
• Steam Broadcasting
  
  • Enable this yourself by editing tzfix.ini
    
  • Or open the console (Ctrl+Shift+Tab) and type AllowBroadcasts 1

It also adds:

• Custom intro videos
  
  • Play ANY .bk2 file
• Increased character shadow detail (Author: Durante)
  
• Framerate counter with advanced frametime statistics
  
• Support for framerates below 30 FPS at normal game speed
  
• Steam achievement unlock sound
  
  • PSN trophy sound is the default, but you can use any .wav file

Problem Description

While this is a very respectable port, especially for a first-attempt at this platform, it does have some issues.

1. The game has a faulty framerate limiter that prevents 30 FPS from ever happening on a lot of high-end hardware.
   
   
2. The game has audio mixing problems when sample rates greater than 44.1 or 48.0 kHz are selected; incorrectly set sample rate causes audio distortion (hissing and popping).
   
   
3. The game has post-processing shenanigans that can ruin image quality
   
   
4. The game does not support aspect ratios other than 16:9
   
   
5. The game disables Steam broadcasting even though OBS, Twitch, YouTube and every other conceivable form of broadcasting is not locked-down
   
   
6. The game has shockingly low resolution character shadows that are not changed using the in-game Shadow Quality setting

The generally accepted solution for audio problems is to edit your system-wide speaker settings to accommodate the game. That is very inconvenient and in some cases impossible, so a fix that only affects this game is desirable.

Everything else listed above is impossible to fix without a patch (be it community or official).

Download and Install

1. Download SKIM64 (Special K Install Manager)[github.com]

   (Preferred — Requires No Additional Software)

   
   The Install Manager is shared by all of my software, make sure you select the correct product.
   
   
   The Special K Global Injector is an optional unrelated product!
   
   
   SKIM64 will locate your Tales of Zestiria installation, download and install the mod. It also verifies that the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Runtime is correctly installed.
   
   Software updates are automatic
   
   You will be given the option to upgrade when one is released (see step 3).
   
   

2. Run SKIM64.exe and select Tales of Zestiria "Fix" from the product list

   
   
   
   
   

3. Select an Update Schedule
   (Branch as seen in SKIM64)

   Compatibility Frozen 1.6.1	Use as a last resort if the Main branch gives you trouble.
   Main 1.8.1	Default install Updated infrequently, but generally stable.
   Testing 1.8.x	All the cool kids run Testing ... When stuff crashes they know how to submit bug reports.

   
   

4. Press Manage/Repair (optional) to run Tales of Zestiria Tweak and configure the mod.

NOTE: Step 4 is obsolete in v 1.8.x+, simply press Ctrl + Shift + Backspace in-game :)

Download and Install

(Strongly Discouraged — Requires 7-zip Software and Easy to Mess Up)

Download the Dependencies

Visual C++ 2015 Runtime

This mod requires the (x86) version, grab the installer here.[www.microsoft.com]

Download the Community Patch

TZFix

The latest version (1.8.4) is available from GitHub here (grab tzfix.7z only, not the source code):

Testing:	v 1.8.4 [github.com]
Release:	v 1.7.0 [github.com]
History:	All Releases [github.com]

Configuration Utility

Tales of Zestiria Tweak

Latest:

v 1.1.0 is included with TZFix 1.6.0+

Please stop by the development thread for a more thorough discussion of this project; it is here.

Install

1. Extract tzfix.7z to your ToZ install path
   
2. Copy default_tzfix.ini to tzfix.ini and default_d3d9.ini to d3d9.ini
   
   
   • Leave the original INI files in-place; the auto-updater uses these to determine when a change has been made to default configuration and will overwrite your customized config if they are missing.

Uninstall

1. Delete d3d9.dll and tzfix.dll from your ToS install path
   
2. Delete the config files for tzfix.ini and d3d9.ini as well as logs stored in logs/

Configuration

The preferred method of configuring the community patch is the in-game config menu (Ctrl + Shift + Backspace) With it you can quickly enable/disable and configure most of the features. 3rd Party Plug-In (e.g. ReShade) support is not implemented yet, but everything else is.

To use ReShade, you must manually edit d3d9.ini and add the following lines:

[Import.ReShade]
Architecture=Win32
Filename=ReShade32.dll
When=Proxy
Role=d3d9

This will resolve conflicts between my injector (d3d9.dll) and ReShade (which usually needs to be named d3d9.dll as well). Rename ReShade's d3d9.dll to ReShade32.dll and it will happily work.

On-Screen Display

Toggle Framerate Counter	Ctrl + Shift + F
Toggle Clock / Version	Ctrl + Shift + T
Toggle GPU Monitor	Ctrl + Shift + G
Toggle CPU Monitor	Ctrl + Shift + C
Toggle Memory Monitor	Ctrl + Shift + M
Toggle I/O Monitor	Ctrl + Shift + I
Toggle Disk Monitor	Ctrl + Shift + D
Toggle Page File Monitor	Ctrl + Shift + P

Resize	Ctrl + Shift + +/-
Show / Hide	Ctrl + Shift + O


Color and Scale Config


Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Global\osd.ini




Changes made using hotkeys are saved in osd.ini at (normal) game termination.




Command Console




Activate / Deactivate	Ctrl + Shift + Tab
Cycle Commands	Up / Down






The Special K Global Injector (optional), includes documentation:

%UserProfile%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\ReadMe\cvars.txt

Framerate Limits

60 FPS Fixed	Ctrl + Shift + 1
30 FPS Fixed	Ctrl + Shift + 2
20 FPS Fixed	Ctrl + Shift + 3
15 FPS Fixed	Ctrl + Shift + 4
12 FPS Fixed	Ctrl + Shift + 5
10 FPS Fixed	Ctrl + Shift + 6
60 FPS Adaptive	Ctrl + Shift + 9

Timing Hacks

15 Tick Time Skip

Press and HOLD Ctrl + Shift + .

Incompatible Software

Certain third-party software is known to be incompatible with TZFix.

• Dxtory and FRAPS

  
  
  • Dxtory and FRAPS set up hooks non-cooperatively and are not compatible with my software.
    
    
  • There is nothing that can be done about this.
    • Please disable or replace these pieces of software with something else.
  
  If you need video capture or framerate monitoring software, RivaTuner Statistics Server is suggested. It can be installed and configured using Tales of Zestiria Tweak, please make sure that its "Custom D3D" option is not turned on or weird things will happen.

Twitchy Cutscenes (at 60 FPS)

The game has problems with timing during cutscene camera transitions at 60 FPS.

Additionally, cloth simulation sometimes goes haywire.

These are purely visual problems, but if they bother you the mod supports running cutscenes at 30 FPS and everything else at 60 FPS -- use the config tool to set this up under the Framerate tab.

VSYNC in Version 1.1.0

Beginning with 1.1.0, the framerate limiter is built-in to the software and is no longer based on VSYNC or a driver-based limiter (NVIDIA). All versions since the 60 FPS option was introduced forced VSYNC on and this is the first version that does not do that.

The unmodified game itself has a known issue related to VSYNC where changing this setting in-game does not stick until you restart. If you notice tearing in 1.1.0 and did not before you probably need to turn VSYNC on in-game and restart the game.

Alternatively, you can override the game's VSYNC settings by editing d3d9.ini

[Render.D3D9]
PresentationInterval=1

The fix may not work in all cases. If after installing this fix, problems persist, please paste the output of logs/crash.log, logs/tzfix.log, logs/d3d9.log, logs/preloads.log and logs/audio.log to pastebin.com and leave a message in this fix's development thread so that I can debug the problem.

[BRUZ]

Does this work on steam deck?

[Fahmi4869]

@Make I see the patch is working as you suggested, thanks

[Make]

@Fahmi4869: TZFix cannot be installed from SKIM if TOZ is on a different drive. After you install TZFix, you can move TOZ back to the other drive (in your case D: )

[Fahmi4869]

Can I install SKIM64 without needed to move my game directory? My Steam app is installed in drive C but my game is installed in drive D

[Make]

@stphnl329: Where did you download SKIM64? Are you using the proper version?

For SKIM to detect Tales of Zestiria, you need to install TOZ in the steamapps\common subfolder on the same drive where Steam is installed. For an example:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Tales of Zestiria

If Steam and TOZ are installed on different drives, then simply move "Tales of Zestiria" directory from the other drive:
1) In Steam Library view, right click on "Tales of Zestiria".
2) Choose "Properties..."
3) Click "Installed Files" -tab.
4) Click "Move install folder"
5) Choose the drive where you have installed Steam (in my example, Steam is installed on C:).
6) Click "Move".

How to install "Tales of Zestiria Fix":
1) Download "SKIM v0.7.5.15" from https://wiki.special-k.info/SpecialK/Custom#install-type-skim
2) Run SKIM64.exe
3) Choose "Tales of Zestiria Fix" from the list.
4) Click "Install"

[stphnl329]

C:\.......\Tales of Zesteria\d3d9.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation media or contact your system administrator or the software vendor for support. Error status 0xc000012f.

Ran SKIM64.exe with admin privileges, returns that error.

[elmaton04]

@Sleepy, Thanks!

[SylveonLover]

This mod is amazing. I´m playing this on 2023 and it looks and plays super smooth.

[Sleepy]

hey man, I think you might want to update the link to this [github.com] instead of hardcoding it to specific release as there are newer version of it.

[TinkleWinklePot]

ive had problems with roblox after downloading this thing i legit had to factory reset my pc to get rid of skim