Hmm, airflow in my current case is pretty weak right now as well, another reason to change cases. The front intake fans are blocked by all the drives i’m using.
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Yep, ambient temps, airflow and the occasional pet and needing some more frequent compressed air appliances to de-dust and de-fur the fans and everything ha ha.
It runs at 30fps outside of battles and 15fps in battles (not sure if it changes anywhere else, that’s just what I know for sure) and game speed is tied to framerate, so I’d have to keep changing the fps going in and out of battles, etc if I wanted the original speed.
Toggling sleepless would let it run at the original speed when off and when on speeds up to match SK’s Frame Limit or the refresh rate, I was thinking of having the FPS macro too to set the speed
Didn’t know if the game was 32-bit or 64-bit, so here’s both…
SpecialK64.7z (7.6 MB) SpecialK32.7z (6.3 MB)
I added command console variables for:
Render.FrameRate.SleeplessRenderThreadRender.FrameRate.SleeplessWindowThread
Just tried it and it worked great, thanks. Wasn’t expecting it to be added so soon.
It was 32bit btw but thank you for posting both.
If anyone else wants it, only tried Final Fantasy 4 but should be the same for FF3 and FF4: After Years
F1 = 1x Overworld & 2x Battle, F2 = 2x Overworld & 4x Battle, F3 = Revert to normal speed
[Macro.SpeedupSleepless]
F1=Render.FrameRate.SleeplessWindowThread true
F2=Render.FrameRate.SleeplessWindowThread true
F3=Render.FrameRate.SleeplessWindowThread false
[Macro.SpeedupFPS]
F1=TargetFPS 30
F2=TargetFPS 60
What “Render.FrameRate.SleeplessWindowThread” this does exactly ?
Note that these are just commands hooked up to the “Sleepless render thread” and “Sleepless window thread” options of the in-game control panel of Special K.
What they do is prevent those specific threads (the ones responsible for rendering and the window of the game itself) from sleeping.
A nice side effect of preventing those from sleeping is that in some games it also uncaps the frame rate of the game, as those games relied on sleeping to cap the FPS.
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And I think this is what avoids timing or other limiter issues possibly also mitigating stuttering when poorly implemented sleep functionality is implemented, Silent has a few blogs and a couple of fan patches for that which you can also override with SpecialK and use it’s framerate limiter instead. 
The render one if I’m not mixing the two up again can however cause the official version of ReShade to hang on start if hooked up, think the latest few commits have made the hook functionality a bit more robust there but it’s probably entirely separate from the ReShade issue or it’s issue from a third party component like what ImGUI is to SpecialK.
(Kaldaien mentioned it probably at some point in this topic as well but I have a tendency to often forget these details.)
EDIT: These.
Ties into this as well.
Does anyone know of an AI that automatically recreates characters from an image? I have the right font, but intend to recreate the font textures from N:A in a higher resolution. I don’t mind doing it by hand, but if there’s a convenient way forward, i’d rather be aware.
I was guessing right the main behavior, but didn’t know that about the frame uncap in certain instances.
This is a good article of him about this: SilentPatch for The Wonderful 101: Remastered, fixing frame pacing issues | Silent’s Blog
Have you tried Waifu2x? It works well for logos, so it could work well for text.
Us both being members of the PCGW Discord server are valuable for these sorts of occasional times where SK or one of its features becomes the topic of discussion.
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Yeah what Aemony said, FF4 (and I’m assuming FF3 and FF4 After Years) seem to sleep to cap to 30fps overworld/15fps in battles, enabling Sleepless Window Thread stops that and makes the game run “uncapped” (Not sure if actually capped to refresh rate or 60fps, only have 60hz monitor)
Those macros enable that option and sets a framecap to run at a certain speed, F1 caps at 30fps, so the overworld is still normal speed, but battles will run twice as fast, F2 caps at 60fps, so it’s 2x overworld speed and 4x battle speed, which is good for grinding and similar to how later FF game ports have speed up modifiers
Hype is real
Got this GPU
Couldn´t wait for 3060ti as prices in my country(Argentina) are extremely volatile. So you gotta take
a leap as soon as you got some money lol
Tried different upscaling methods, of which none looked good. It’s an alpha texture as well, so there’s artifacts on the edges of text when upscaling.
can anyone explain to me how to use framerate limiter to actualy iron out stuttering?
It can vary on a per game basis. I believe the most common way to get good frame-pacing is to run games in borderless mode, and enable flip model in the SK window, then restart the game. Don’t expect this method to work for every game though.
yeah K has already told me that, but what I was wondering how Backbuffer and additional options work in FrameRate Limiter window and Flip presentation, what to adjust?
How to increase render latency? Is there a full guide on how to actually use Special K, in wiki there are just descriptions of functions, but no actual values to achieve results.
I assume you mean decrease? There’s a low latency option added recently, but iirc it requires a stable frame rate.
As for backbuffers, you can keep pushing it one at a time, and restarting the game. Keep monitoring frame-pacing and stability while you push backbuffer count and find the sweet spot. For further info, someone else would be better at providing such, as i’m not very knowledgeable with the frame limiter options.
Iron out stuttering and decreasing render latency past a certain point does not go hand to hand, as the latter increases the former.
A general approach though is the following:
- Enable flip model presentation
- Enable waitable swapchains
- Set back buffers to 4, and max device latency to 5
- Cap the frame rate to a few frames /below/ the average lowest you can hit.
- Lower graphical fidelity if it is necessary to hit a specific frame rate target. E.g. if you want to be able to hit 60 FPS you need to actually have graphics settings of the game lowered enough that the game essentially always runs above 60 FPS.
- If you have G-Sync / FreeSync then you’re essentially finished now. If however you don’t, then you might also want to disable V-Sync as that’s where the most gains will be had.
- Special K also have “Low Latency” and “Ultra Low Latency” modes but their benefit is minimal at best while adding stuttering if the frame pacing isn’t perfect. They would only improve the situation a few milliseconds at best.
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