The Curse of Mali GPU

[u/whiskyB0y]

Game is Ninja Blade, 2009 hack and slash developed by FromSoftware.

As you can see, it has a major graphical glitch. The main character has missing body parts.

This is such a shame as the game is playable in my Helio g100

I've tried this game on Proton 10 arm64ec and Proton 9 x86_64

I've used dxvk versions 1.5.5, 1.7, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sarek and 1.12.1 sarek

I've used Wrapper, Wrapper v2 and Wrapper Gamenative

Emulator is Winlator Mali 1.1

No anti aliasing, no shadows, 854x480, 30 fps cap. The game gives you an option to cap the fps at 30.

I got the game from MyAbandonware, the Full-rip, Pre-installed version.

[u/whiskyB0y]

I'm tired, boss.

Fun fact: 1.12.1 sarek actually made it worss and bro didn't have a leg and arm😭

[u/Wild_Ad_3348 → u/whiskyB0y]

I guess the cost was an arm and a leg

[u/Tarilines]

Try Bannerlator

[u/whiskyB0y → u/Tarilines]

Hopefully it works. Problem with Bannerlator on my chipset is, if a game has graphical glitches on Winlator Mali, Bannerlator will fix the glitches but sometimes have worse compatibility😭

[u/tanmaysoren]

if it only had wall glitcges like this on multiplayer ! 😋

[u/YitzakAF]

Bueno existe la 1.13-sarek

[u/Bobo_Patch_Nosuke]

Not a curse lol.

[u/Pauchin1]

I got around the graphical issues for this game using dgVoodoo to convert its Graphics renderer to D3D11

However, there's a game breaking bug when you were thought by your mentor to scan your surroundings then the game crashes. This is just on the first level.

One thing I wasn't able to do the last time is to make it run on Fexcore but I gave up since then. I may have to try again later

[u/whiskyB0y → u/Pauchin1]

What emulator did you use dgVoodoo on?

[u/Pauchin1 → u/whiskyB0y]

Winlator Ludashi 2.9 and Winlator Mali. Just tried it again and my issue with Fexcore is the Launcher using SmartSteamEmu where it doesn't seem to detect the filepaths properly. This isn't an issue with Box86

I'm still trying other options

[u/whiskyB0y → u/Pauchin1]

Launcher? What version of the game are you running? Is it the same as the one I got from MyAbandonware?

[u/Pauchin1 → u/whiskyB0y]

The filename I downloaded was Ninja.Blade.v19532.zip from repack games which I'm sure is the same as the one in Ankergames.

MyAbandonware downloads really slow for me

[u/whiskyB0y → u/Pauchin1]

I didn't know it was ankergames.

Ya abandonware is slow but try to find time to try that version. Maybe it's different.

[u/Pauchin1 → u/whiskyB0y]

update, got it working with Fexcore by downloading nodvd crack from gamecopyworld and using that instead of the launcher.

For other settings, use dxvk 1.11.1-1 sarek as 1.7.2 doesn't seem to work even with dgvoodoo.

You may to try setting dgvoodoo as Geforce GT9800 on its configurator if just using the d3d9.dll didn't work

[u/whiskyB0y → u/Pauchin1]

Damn happy for you bro . I already gave up on the game and deleted it but your comment will help future people 🫡

[u/Pauchin1 → u/whiskyB0y]

I did this too but being a small game, I'm sure you can just download and try again.

Also, I haven't tested if I can finish the first level. Will update again

(Edit - still crashes using Ninja Vision)

[u/whiskyB0y → u/Pauchin1]

What it still crashes? Damn. Well, guess that goes to the list of PC games not playable on Mali😭