Clownacy's Corner

In the last update, I mentioned that the survivor display popups had broken layering. The reason for this is that the game never creates a depth buffer for these popups, allowing polygons to be layered in any order, regardless of whether it makes sense or not. Fixing this required learning a lot about how theContinue reading "Fixing Dead Rising 2’s Glitchy Survivor Popups"

Though ClownDR2Fix improves the resolution of mirrors and the survivor displays, there was one problem which it did not address: they were rendered without any anti-aliasing! Once again, I dived into the game's code to find out how and where it specified the anti-aliasing of its render targets. Soon, I was able to force theseContinue reading "ClownDR2Fix v1.3"

Whilst playing Dead Rising 2 with my fiancée, I noticed that the little character render that appears when a survivor is off-screen was low-resolution. As with the game's mirrors, this was simple enough to adjust by increasing the width and height of its render target texture. I also updated SDL to v3.4.14, as v3.4.12 apparentlyContinue reading "ClownDR2Fix v1.2"

Increasing the resolution of Dead Rising 2's shadows was great, but it made another of the game's limitations stand out: the mirrors displayed very blocky low-resolution reflections! I figured that correcting this would be as simple as increasing the width and height arguments to Direct3D9's texture creation function, so this is what I tried. ToContinue reading "Enhancing Dead Rising 2’s Mirrors"

I wanted to play Dead Rising 2 in co-op with my fiancée, but we were surprised to see just how shoddy the PC port is; controllers refuse to work, there is no windowed mode, and various graphical effects are broken. Installing a mod (DR2Fix) fixed the graphics, but it failed to fix the other issues,Continue reading "Making My Own Enhancements to Dead Rising 2’s PC Port"