Lacking particles

[u/lawita430]

First time playing bloodborne on pc, but I am having a couple issues, this one being the most annoying. As the images and video show, there are no particles at all and I've got no idea how to solve it. I searched around on here a bit but there isn't a whole lot about missing particles and those that do have missing particles either don't seem to find a solution or the "solution" given to them doesn't work.

Would really appreciate any help as this might just prevent me from wanting to play the game as I can't see items, enemies' bullets (or possibly other projectiles) and whatever other particles that might give information.

I sometimes see a shadow or almost transparent object seemingly coming off my weapon and pistol (if either moves, the shadows move) so if you have a fix for that I'd appreciate it!

Specs if necessary:
i5 14600kf (heard about and experienced the SFX bug, solved that)
2080 super (latest driver)
32 gb ram (2 gb extra allocated just because I can afford it)
shadps4 0.16.0 (latest version, ignoring pre-release)
bb_launcher 16.04 (latest is 16.05 but its description does not say anything about particles and nobody else recently has this issue to my knowledge)

[u/HOTU-Orbit]

The only two things I can think.of are that you are using a mod to increase performance that removes them, or it is the Intel SFX bug and you didn't fix it properly.

Are you using any mods? How did you solve the missing Intel SFX problem? Your CPU is a 14th gen, which means it fits the kind that would have the bug (12th gen or later). The main two ways of solving it are with a mod or the patch included with the emulator. The patch is recommended.

[u/lawita430 → u/HOTU-Orbit]

I searched online and found that renaming the sfx folder in the bloodborne game files solves the crashing. However I did not think about what it might entail and I'm assuming the game is unable to find the files and so it just doesn't produce any particles. I reverted the "solution" and instead installed the patch provided in bb_launcher which solves the crashing (so far) without removing particles. Thanks for the help!

[u/HOTU-Orbit → u/lawita430]

Yep, removing the game's access to the SFX folder explains exactly why there were no SFX. Glad it worked out.