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- This tool can upscale and use different graphic filters to display JA2 1.13 with better graphics - For more infos see "Tools\ExShell\read_me.txt" - Additional infos and screenshot results (for different filters) on the Bears Pit: http://www.ja-galaxy-forum.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/336350/1 - INFO: Using upscaling and filters improves the graphics, but on the other side slows down the game!! git-svn-id: https://ja2svn.mooo.com/source/ja2_v1.13_data@2160 4f8fa57e-7814-0410-bad4-adc449f26b7c
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______ ______ ______ ______ __ __ ______ ______
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\/_____/ \/_____/ \/_____/ \/_____/ \/_/ \/_/ \/_____/ \/_____/
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/\_\_\_\ /\ \ _ \ \ /\ "-.\ \ /\ __-. /\ ___\ /\ \_\ \ /\ ___\ /\ \ /\ \
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\/_/\_\/_\ \ \/ ".\ \\ \ \-. \\ \ \/\ \ \ \___ \\ \ __ \\ \ __\ \ \ \____\ \ \____
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/\_\/\_\\ \__/".~\_\\ \_\\"\_\\ \____- \/\_____\\ \_\ \_\\ \_____\\ \_____\\ \_____\
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\/_/\/_/ \/_/ \/_/ \/_/ \/_/ \/____/ \/_____/ \/_/\/_/ \/_____/ \/_____/ \/_____/
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2014 (c) StaticZ <staticz@uoquint.ru>
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CONTENT
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1.0 About ExShell
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2.0 Install and Running
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3.0 Requirements
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4.0 Perfomance
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5.0 Tested Games
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6.0 Change Log
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(1.0) About ExShell
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"Essence XWnd Shell" aka ExShell is hook based application for force running old
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games (or ant other full screen applications) in windowed mode with different
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graphic filters (for example upscalers like 2xSaI). ExShell also provide some other
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abilities, like setting FPS limit or lowing CPU usage (see config for more details).
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(2.0) Install and Running
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For installing copy ExShell to any directory you whant and open exshell.ecd config
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file in any text editor (recomended Notepad++, you can import to it syntax higlight
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from *.xml file that are distributed with ExShell). To lunch your application you
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have to set path to it and it's screen resolution. The application you whant to run
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must be set in fullscreen mode (ja2.ini: SCREEN_MODE_WINDOWED = 0), otherwise you
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get many problems and errors.
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Check other options and see comments there for more details.
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Important exshell.ecd entries:
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- Set $StartPEPath for profile [EXSProfile01] to the ja2.exe file (full path).
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- Set $FScreenMode to the same resoultion like JA2 1.13 (see: ja2.ini -> SCREEN_RESOLUTION)
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-> Also set SCREEN_MODE_WINDOWED = 0 in ja2.ini
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- Set $WindowFrame to the double size (if you use 2x upscaling filters) of your JA2 1.13 screen resolution
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- Set $ImageFilter to your liking. For best image quality set the filter to #2022
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-> This means 2x upscaling the screen resolution and using xbra filter
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Be carefully, while saving
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config file, check that you use UTF8 (without BOM) encoding. Otherwise ExShell will
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have problems with reading it.
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To start the JA2 1.13 with the exShell tool, just run the exshell.exe
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Additional informations can be found on the Bears Pit Forum:
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http://www.ja-galaxy-forum.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/336350/1
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(3.0) Requirements
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ExShell supports only windows x86 applications, that are based on DirectDraw or GDI.
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System requirements:
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Windows(R) XP/Vista/7
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DirectX 9.0
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Monitor, keybord, mouse, cheese, beer
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(4.0) Perfomance
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For compare speed of different filters, see table below. There values are average
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number of processor ticks for proccesing each pixel. All values were got by filtering
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screen 640x480 and dividing result for pixels count. As procesor ticks are very
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small values and exaclty value depends on many things, like current CPU loading
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the result where get as avarage for several minutes.
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| Filter Type | Speed |
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| None* | <1 |
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| Simple | 5 |
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| Pixelate | 10 |
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| Scanlines | 10 |
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| ScanlinesTV | 17 |
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| AdMame | 17 |
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| Super2xSaI | 117 |
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| 2xSaI | 121 |
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| HQ | 680 |
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| LQ | 685 |
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| XBR | 696 |
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*---------------^-------*
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* According to exshell architecture "None filter" is real filter, that simply copy
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screen from one memmory block to other. So infact it's speed more depends on RAM
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speed then on CPU.
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As you can see ower winner is AdMame, it is very fast and give nice result, close to
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smth similar for Super2xSaI.
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(5.0) Tested Games
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ExShell was tested for compatibility with this games:
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1. Jagged Alliance 2: Feeding Ground [OK]
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2. Jagged Alliance 2: 1.13 [OK]
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3. Jagged Alliance 2: Metavira [OK]
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(6.0) Change Log
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(2014.09.28) ver 0.01 rev 011 build 14271
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* Intial realise
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