FFXI HD Mods

Hmm, wasn't sure where to stick this as its own topic so i'll put it here for now.
Was wondering if anyone might have Devifox's Dat collection. I thought i had it on one of my old laptops harddrives but alas not and i can't find anywhere online :/

Anyone else having an issue where the zones load only black screens? When I am multiboxing 3 or 4 characters will be fine zoning into the HD zones and then 1 or 2 will get nothing but blackness. I can see character models and npcs but cant move. Curious if anyone had this issue and knows of a fix. I really like the HD looks but wont sacrifice having to continuously log characters for it.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/511547531537416220/542467644381462595/image0.jpg

I think we figured the issue is with FFXI limiting vram usage to 1GB max. I believe someone said this can be increased through a file edit with dgvoodoo

Yea, i tried there, thats where i originally got it from im pretty sure but can't find it again :/

dgvoodoo only goes to 1024 from what I can tell. I reinstalled that then to. give it a shot.

If it were accurate, I wouldn't even care that you said it.

However.

That is not true. The black screen with visible players has NOTHING to do with it being amelilas mods or any other mod specifically.
I get that you mean well, by trying to limit mod size, and it's future problems that may come from sizes getting out of hand, but it's starting to sound like you're waiting for someone to ask about a problem, and then attributing it to amelilas. (It SEEMS this way. it may not be that way. that's just my opinion.)


I have been getting that black screen issue a couple of times a week for around 2 years now.

I didn't start modding my textures, or using overhauled dat mods like amelilas until october of 2018.

Amelilas mods DO cause it to happen far more often i think though, for the reasons you stated. which sucks :(

That's your graphics drivers not liking something FFXI is doing. Assuming you have dgVodoo, do you also have ReShade? Does this appear on every instance or only when your running your own party? Also what kind of graphics card do you have and what is the resolution for each of your instances?

Kireek - I will double check to see if my bump mapping is on or off when I get home. I just turned dgvoodoo back on as I just built a new pc. I didnt have the issues with the last one I was using whatsoever. I attributed it to being a new gpu not liking it. I will certainly give that a shot.

Saevel, it's very strange. it doesnt happen everytime, sometimes I have no issues at all. I could load all 4 or 5 characters with no issues but every like 15th or 20th time it just gives me the middle finger. My buddy was having the same issue and I just assumed it just a glitch. It only happens in the larger zones like lower jeuno or reisen. I am now using a RTX 2080ti and I just turned dgvoodoo back on last night and i have reshade but haven't messed with it. All instances are running full screen 2560x1440. I didn't think that would be a problem since I was able to run the same characters on my laptop and didnt have this issue. The card in that is the AMD equivalant of the GTX 1050. I cant recall the name off the top of my head.

I will give the bump mapping a try and make sure I have dgvoodoo set correctly and go from there.

Thanks for the assist! Keep you posted if there continues to be issues.

Appreciate the quick responses! As soon as I get home from work I will give this a shot. Crossing fingers!

Darkside you are pushing well beyond your capabilities rynning 4-6 instances at 1440p. You are likely running out of texture memory at the DirextX layer and it's loading 0s in place of textures. Amelia's mods make the game look great but eat up more graphics resources. By themselves its not a big deal but combined with dgVoodoo and your into several GB worth of data.

What would you recommend? Run a few at smaller resolutions? Just run the game straight up? I should be home in a few hours just trying to gather up a few plans of attack. Thanks.

dgvoodoo writes a text file into the folder, inside the text file is a human-readable and editable value for the vram setting. I tripled it from 1024 on my gtx1070. Could have gone higher, but it didn't seem to change anything so I stopped at 3x.

Turns out I was running the game with the bump mapping. I turned that off. So far so good. I pretty much zoned in and out of Reisenjima for about 15 min straight on all of my characters running and no issues.

You can put in whatever you want but the d3d8.dll that dgVodooo use's will only allocate up to 1GB of virtual graphics memory. This is more of a DX8 issue. The actual reason that value exists in the first place is that some DX8 and below games have issues if they see too much graphics memory is available. Back then 256MB cards were nice. FFXI is a DX8 game at it's heart, and no matter how much we spruce it up we still got to live with those limitations.

What I so is run one Windower Profile is full resolution with all the stuff turned on, then have a separate profile for my other characters that's running a lower resolution without SSAA, Bump Mapping and with ReShade turned off.

Hmm. I can't explain the incredible boost to load times then. The only thing I changed is VRAM and changing back brings back the long load times.

FFXI doesn't approach the 1GB limit even with Amelia's mod. When I get a chance I can poke around the process. This might be a driver side issue and those are really annoying to diagnose. Do you have ReShade loaded? Remember the VRAM limit is a per-instance limit, each running instance of FFXI would see 1GB of "max available graphics memory". All it does is tell the program what it's memory limit is to fix issues with some older programs breaking when seeing the entire memory available to the system.

It'not HD dat(or I am not sure), but for hume female, I really recommand delusional *** "How SE should have made"

http://forum.neko-sentai.com/showthread.php?t=8176

http://forum.neko-sentai.com/showthread.php?t=11944

They are good redesign faithful to the original, but better

I have a few questions:

Is there a single download for all this stuff? I had grabbed several of them but I can't keep up individually and not sure what I'm missing.

Is this safe? https://reshade.me/ ( I assume it is) but windows is complaining about a virus and I'm having trouble getting the newest one to install. I have an older one but don't recall this issue.

Is there some recommended settings that are good for FFXI? (anyone have a .ini file?)

Has anyone experienced after updating HD skins/zones that FastCS no longer has an impact? It is loaded, says its going, but truly doesn't do anything and in some instances the FPS are worse. I have updated the HD from FFXIAH and Amelila, recently his NPC pack. Any advice or way to improve it would be much appreciated.

Also, Kireek, your contributions, skill, and eye for what players are looking for in HD updates is not only admired, but needed. Thank you for everything you have done! /kneel

Maybe try to make some new mods for weapons or armor. I loved all the unique weapon ideas and armors that were cool looking. Things that moshi made with all the effects in the past, nobody does that anymore.

Think I found my own answer. I removed the reshade folders/program and everything reverted back to working. i'm sure it makes the game look better for some, but the HD still looks amazing without added effects (to me) and it didn't disable my FPS cap and FastCS, dunno if that will help anyone else, other than me LOL