[ FF7 ] Direct3D9 sprite transparency rendering glitch

[fscanp]

Using Direct3D9 will result in what seems to be a sprite transparency rendering glitch. Everything else seems to work just fine. I understand that d3d9 rendering is labeled as a tech review and is not recommended to be used, but since I installed this ff7 on my old pc with old GeForce 8600gt card that does not fully support d3d11, I have no other options as that rendering is the only one that works on this card. Well either that or just stop using mods all together.

I'm using '98 version of FF7 with whatever version of FFNx is shipped with 7th Heaven 2.3.3. The top lines of the log is:
[00000000] INFO: FFNx driver version 1.9.0.208
[00000000] TRACE: v1: 0x99CE0805, v2: 0xAC0D8B00
so I'm guessing that's the version of FFNx they're bundling. I see that the latest version is 1.10 so if you say it's already fixed in that version, please just ignore this and let me know where I can try to update manuallyto that version

[eve-atum]

The "tech review" aspect of D3D9 is because the graphics library FFNx uses, bgfx, has some bugs in that pipeline. Since fixing D9 requires the upstream to fix, you might have better luck switching to OpenGL instead.

[julianxhokaxhiu]

Thanks for reporting back. The log file doesn't contain anything useful but perhaps because you forgot to enable these flags on the FFNx.toml file:

renderer_backend = 1
renderer_debug = true

Please enable them and try again, and post the log file afterwards.

[fscanp]

that's weird. my ffnx.toml already hv renderer_backend set to 1 and renderer_debug set to true. here's the file (renamed to txt so I can attach it here) just in case I'm missing something?

FFNx.txt

[julianxhokaxhiu]

Config looks good, If you're using 7th make sure you're editing the config file without 7th open otherwise any change will not have an impact. I tested it here locally and it outputs the log as intended ( as your last valid log file )

[fscanp]

Lol ok it gets even weirder then. For some reason it just keep making the same useless log file no matter what I try. I've tried changing the renderer option in 7h, close 7h, change it back to 1 in notepad, save, run, and the same useless log file is created each and every time. To make sure, I set the renderer back to dx9 (both in 7h, and then manually in .toml) and ran it (with the same transparency glitch), before then setting it back to openGL (again, both in 7h, and then manually in .toml file). All while checking and deleting the created log file before retrying. The same useless log entries each time.

A bit more info: I tried running the ff7 exe without 7h and reunion but now it just kept asking me to insert disc 1/2/3 even though the CD is already in the drive (yes it's a physical CD that I managed to keep for 20+ years lol and not iso image file). Maybe it's because i've copied the movie files to hdd and one of the mod manager made the registry changes enough for it not to be able to find my real drive. But this unfortunately also means I cant launch the exe without 7h (or reunion for that matter) to test ffnx

[julianxhokaxhiu]

Well, I'm not sure how to help in here.

Regarding Reunion: FFNx is not compatible with Reunion so please make sure you test FFNx on top of a vanilla ff7 installation which has not been patched by anything else on top.

About 7th: If applying changes to the toml file ( for eg. changing renderer backend ) takes effect, then just make sure the other flag is enabled as well. Once you run the game check the log file and see if it's bigger than a few KB ( and it should print WAY MORE log ).

Not sure what is going on and why it worked fine before and why now is not.

//EDIT: Sorry, I just checked the latest canary and indeed I'm not able to output GPU debug info as well. Let me double check what is going on, I tested the functionality only on my own build version I use to check the code quality. I'll ping you again as soon as i fix it.

//EDIT2: Can you please approach me on Discord? Thank you.