Visible Upgrade Full Edition
Patch 19 commentsCode patch, tweak tool and the Unified Texture Pack. First release, 1.2.0.
The patch contains various bugfixes and game improvements such as widescreen support, and provides a few tweaks. It optionally bundles the Unified Texture Pack. It works with the GOG and Steam versions of the game.
Original game bugs and issues that have been fixed or improved:
- Multicore fix. Can be switched off for better performance (when it works)
- Some speed-up of level loading, especially with vsync on
- Fix for the desktop being visible during level loading on Vista and up. (Fullscreen only)
- Fix for the mouse freezing or becoming invisible when using large font size settings in Windows
Game improvements:
- All resolutions reported by the system, plus an optional custom display mode, are available from the options screen. The aspect ratio is shown as well
- Easy switching between fullscreen and windowed mode
- Field of view adjustment for widescreen is automatic - the horizontal view is extended instead of cropping off the top and bottom. This includes conversations and binocular/scope zoom
- In addition the FOV can be adjusted to the user's preference
- The HUD and menus are shown correctly, regardless of resolution and aspect ratio. In 3-monitor modes, the HUD is constricted to the middle monitor by default
- Loading screens are shown correctly, at 4:3 aspect
- The intro and cutscenes, which are letterboxed, are allowed to crop to fit the monitor (up to 16:9, a bit less when subtitles are on)
- The fullscreen game can run on a display other than the primary. (Experimental)
Additionally some optional tweaks have been incorporated:
- Minor HUD and GUI tweaks: Alternative reticles, disable the HUD or only the compass, symmetrically letterboxed conversations, disable the short intro movies
- Walk by default, hold the qualifier key to run
- Mouse sensitivity, which is normally stored in savegames, can be overridden using a central value
- 'No Target' cheat: Make the NPCs ignore you
All tweaks are disabled by default.
The full edition includes the mod the Unified Texture Pack (a.k.a. John P, original installer found here). Please see the included readme file for more information. The update edition only includes the VU patch and the VisibleTweaker tool. It provides a much smaller download in cases where no mods have been changed or added since the last release.
Acknowledgements:
Tester hall of fame: lowenz, Stingm. Thanks to Vorob for the name and to mensch and Thirith for additional naming suggestions.
This patch builds on fixes and ideas etc. from the following sources: tolsen64, NotCarolKaye, Lolwutman, swaaye and le Corbeau.
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Visible Upgrade Update Edition
Patch 1 commentCode patch and tweak tool only - for the Unified Texture Pack get the Full Edition instead. First release, 1.2.0.
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Mod crashes when I start a game after install. Tried reinstalling but still doesn't work. Gives out a 0xc0000005 error.
Is borderless fullscreen possible at all? I use a program called fullscreenizer to set it to borderless in windowed mode but loading screens resets the window and I have to set it again.
I have a problem with this game, i'm guessing it is my AMD video card not liking the lighting tech in this game. Everytime i load a new level, i getting severe fps drop and lags. After traversing some distance allowiing more of the level to load the lags dissapear, but you know the frustration when there are enemies next to level start or whatever.
I'm 100% sure it is the fault of dynamic shadows, beacouse swithcing them off in options fixes the problem. The problem is, that it only works in 1.1 patch. You cannot switch shadows off in 1.2, theres no diifference between "off" and "low" setting in options, and 1.1v patch is VERY unstable, so theres no point in downgrading.
I heard there was similar problem with video card, or video card drivers in Thief 3, and was fixed in similar patch to VU. Does anyone know any solution, maybe one from Thief or from own experience, how to make this game run smoothly?
I've made a note to check if the Off setting not working is a simple bug - unfortunately an update is not happening anytime soon. All I can suggest is to compensate by lowering the resolution and disabling postprocessing.
Edit: Can you upload the v1.1 exe files somewhere? I remember now not being able to extract the contents of the patch because I don't have the matching version of the game.
Got the "not-a-virus:VHO:adware.win32.hpdefender.gen" warning from Kaspersky for the file data0791, inside the .exe of the full version of this mod.
Anyone got any warning?
When you get virus warnings, please run the exe through virustotal.com to get a second (and a 52nd) opinion. Allow for a few false positives.
This mod is great, was it easy to modify the textures?
the unified texture pack option is grayed out how do i fix that