• Another 720p to 4K GigaPixel AI Demo

    Just shot something quick a few hours ago. Wanted to show how awesome AI enhancement can be. On the left is the original 720p screenshot. On the right is the upscaled to 2160p (aka 4K) screenshot. Impressive as hell, innit? But pay close attention to what the AI got wrong. Notice the extra hair it generated on my palm and forehead. LOLOL. And the patches under by eyes are extremely ghoulish and exaggerated. But it was able to detect my chapped lips, so that’s incredible as hell.

    Notice how the word “Michigan” doesn’t quite look right. But this is only for a few frames, so in motion it doesn’t matter at all. You wouldn’t even catch it. But a human would be able to figure it out. Otherwise, yes, very impressive.

  • Glorious 320×240 Resolution Returns!!!

    It’s starting to resemble something more familiar, innit?

  • SDXM Update 60,000 Polygons Per Frame Per Second!!!

    Look at the quality! But also look at that poor performance. LOL.

  • SDXM Game Engine Update: 2,000,000 Polygons Per Second Confirmed!!!

    A little bit late with the updates and posting an older video update, but we’re not at just 320,000 polygons anymore. I can easily draw 2,000,000 polygons per second now. But it’ll drop all the way down averaging around 20 to 25 frames per second. But it still runs buttery smooth. Of course, it’s not production ready yet, meaning I won’t be starting the actual game project anytime soon until there is ZERO crashes. And this sumbitch crashes. LOL

  • SDXM 3D Game Engine Progress LOL

    Getting very good performance. Confident will get 30fps when it’s ready to run. Right now it’s only chewing on “simple” graphics.

  • Doom 3 with patch 1.3.1 Windows 11 Escape From Alpha Labs

    Irritating playing on easiest mode and not having full control of the mouse trigger. It’s clear the trigger is “bricked” at times to induce fear and panic. Something to do with detecting that you’re “too good”, have too much health, too much ammo at any given time. But otherwise, the game runs perfectly on Windows 11 as long as you install the community patch version 1.3.1. I have the original Doom 3 retail CDs and it’s at version 1.0.1, so that shit just didn’t run on Windows 11 off the bat. You have to move the contents from discs 2 and 3 into the first setup folder just so the installer can find all the pak files.

  • AI Upscale Side By Side Compare 720p To 4K

    A demo comparison between original 720p video upscaled 6x using Topaz Gigapixel AI and Topaz Sharpen AI.

  • Fix PCSX2 2.2.0 Audio Sync Latency for Windows 11

    By Chongchen Saelee

    Recently got a new Windows 11 mini PC with however many cores, a powerful little beast for crunching graphics editing. But it’s still newish technology, so you can’t rely on it to run older tech like video game emulators fully. In this case, I’m trying out the latest version, as of this writing, of PCSX2 version 2.2.0 which is a PlayStation 2 emulator. (Mind you, I use PCSX2 version 1.6.0 on my much older, decade old Windows 7 machine and it runs perfectly on it, no additional tinkering)

    The installation went smoothly. And I’m testing out Grand Theft Auto 3 ROM. Everything boots up smoothly with the default settings. However, it’s a subtle gripe, but I notice there being some delay in the audio. You can test this for yourself, maybe your results will vary.

    When you shoot any gun or pay attention to the footstep and hopping sounds, or crash cars into each other or into a wall, or pay close attention to explosions, the audio is coming in slightly late. Maybe a few frames late. However many milliseconds late. It means there is something wrong with the timing of the video and audio.

    Video output clearly isn’t the problem. As it is very responsive to my controller inputs.

    So it’s an audio problem. It’s coming in too late, a fraction of a second too late. So here are the best settings for the most “accurate” synchronized audio results for PCSX2 version 2.2.0. (more…)

  • Forza Horizon 5 4K 60 FPS XBox Series X Capture Test

  • Northern Lights Green Bay, WI Oct 10 2024

    By Chongchen Saelee www.eastfist.com

    By Chongchen Saelee www.eastfist.com

    By Chongchen Saelee www.eastfist.com

    The colors are off because I had to pull them out with Photoshop. By eye, of course, it’s very faint, but you can see the “streaks” against the pitch dark night sky. The camera however saw it in the liveview on my Nikon D3200 as a red/pink rainbowish looking thing. Used a prime lens. That’s why you need specialized equipment like a huge lens for night photography. These weren’t even long exposures either. Look at all the motion blur stars! LOL