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Guide to removing filters - making this game look good again

By bliss and 1 collaborators

Do yourself a favor and enjoy the pixels!

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Guide Index

Overview

Why??

Which files to remove

How to access the config.ini

nvidia GPUs btfo

Credits and Speedrun Discord

Disclaimer that's conveniently placed at the bottom of the guide even though it's kind of important information!!

Comments

Why??

Because:

(TW: smoothening of beautiful pixel art🤢🤢🤢)

Which files to remove

To remove the filtering you'll have to mess with the game files.
For me the game files are located here:

S:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\GRANDIA HD Remaster

Delete all .tpk files inside the content\BATLE folder (5 in total)
Delete the pgmdt_pgmdt__spriteinfo.bin file inside the content\BIN folder (1 in total)
Delete all spriteinfo.bin files inside the content\FIELD folder (1434 in total)

If you plan on reverting the changes for some weird reason you can always right click the game in your Steam Library and click "Verify Integrity of Game Files" files to redownload the missing ones. Imagine creating backups pff.

Your BATLE, BIN and FIELD folders should contain 2665 files after this process:

How to access the config.ini

After this you may head to

%appdata%/Grandia1

(just type/paste it into your windows explorer and hit enter)
Inside this folder you'll find config.ini which you can edit with whatever editor you like.

Set the "video_antialiasing" variable to 1 to disable AA to prevent graphical glitches.

video_antialiasing=1

If you'd like you can also set the resolution to 4:3 WHICH the launcher doesn't allow for some reason! (Probably because they couldn't be arsed to remove the blurry edges from the fmvs LOL)

EDIT:
someone let me know that you don't need to modify the config.ini file if you're just looking to change the resolution:

Originally posted by Albus Percival Dumbledore:
Thanks for the guide, really appreciated.

Just a small note, you don't need to modify the config.ini file if you're just looking to change the resolution. You can manually erase and type in the resolution you want via the pre-launch settings and it'll work.

Thanks!

To achieve this just set the X and Y video resolution variables to your desired resolution, e.g.:

video_resolution_x=1280 video_resolution_y=960

nvidia GPUs btfo

If you're not on an AMD GPU you might encounter graphical glitches on black textures.

But fret not, some dude in the comment section found a solution for that. Added edits for it!

As to why it's only affecting NVIDIA GPUs is currently unknown.

I've played through the entire game on a NVIDIA GPU (RTX 3070) so I've encountered the glitches on the black textures which got kinda bad at some parts. Here's how bad it can get:

You don't encounter them on AMD GPUs as far as I'm aware (tested on RX 580) so if you can't run the game on AMD GPUs you're out of luck.

IMHO the game looks infinitely better without the filters that I'm willing to take that con but in the end it's up to you to decide!

EDIT:

According to DkZ in the comments it might be worth a try to to set the game to energy saving mode to remove the texture errors on NVIDIA GPUs:

Originally posted by DkZ:
I found a way to make it work without texture errors on Nvidia gpus, I don't know it's running on nvidia card, but it worked. as the game does not require a powerful gpu, intel integrated cards work without a problem.
1. Just go to the windows settings and look for: Graphics Settings and add the game executable.
2. in options you switch from high performance mode to energy saving.
that way when I opened the game it was without the errors in the dark textures.
apparently it works, at least for me.

EDIT2:

According to Scouali in the comments there's a way to get rid of the flickering:

Originally posted by Scouali:
For Nvidia users who don't want to remove the filter on the terrain to avoid weird flickering but still want to remove it from sprites, you can follow the guide but just dont touch the "maps__spriteinfo.bin" files from the "field" folder.
That way all the terrain will still have the filter applied to it so no flickering but the sprites should be ok.

Credits and Speedrun Discord

Big thanks to jblackan for figuring out all this filter removal business Link to original thread

Did I mention that this version is the best one for Speedrunners since it's the fastest one? There's also some cool PC-specific bugs which only drive the fastest possible time even lower!

Link to the Grandia Speedrunning discord for those who're interested in learning the HD Remaster exclusive Glitched any% category run: Discord invite[discord.com]

Enjoy this game! =)

Disclaimer that's conveniently placed at the bottom of the guide even though it's kind of important information!!

love yourself, take care

58 Comments

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Guy_Manley 29 Jul @ 3:46am

This has been nice to play without the insanely intrusive blur filters on everything. I'm 20 hours in now and only place I found an issue so far was the swab the decks mini game. Still had all the filters on it. No biggie.

Chalk Eater 13 Jun @ 6:11pm

can't find config.ini

shru 12 Mar @ 4:04pm

Anyways, thanks for this guide.

I think some will find it useful, but I ended up not playing this way because I found that there were some drawing rounding errors that caused 1px-tall "edges" of sprites to be drawn erroneously -- like an off-by-1 error when drawing a texture, basically. It's possible that running at a lower resolution would fix it, but I haven't experimented with it yet.

shru 12 Mar @ 3:59pm

(guy who has watched 1 video about how CRTs "added anti-aliasing" voice) hmmm, yes this HD port where all of the sprite assets are processed beyond recognition looks exactly like playing the original on a CRT

Mago Negro 19 Feb @ 2:59am

Thanks mate

Zilkenian Davenport 12 Jan @ 8:10am

Thank you SO much for this. I always get super dizzy playing the "remastered" version, I'll try and see how it goes with the original version.

Zanrkand 23 Dec, 2024 @ 10:49am

Also, for anyone struggling to run the game on the Deck follow the guide below written by h_19 from ProtonDB.com :

1-Go into Desktop Mode of your Steam Deck.
2-From the taskbar Iaunch app "Discover" (Software Center).
3-Search for "ProtonUp-Qt" and install it. Wait to finish. Close "Discover" app window.
4-On the Linux desktop find the shortcut/icon named "ProtonUp-Qt". Launch it.
5-In "ProtonUp-Qt" find button "Add version" (see bottom of app window) and klick it.
6-Now, select "Compatibility tool" from drop down list: Find item "Proton Tkg", select/klick it.
7-Then, select "Version" from drop down list: Scroll down and find item "7.6.r12.g51472395", select/klick it.
9-Close "ProtonUp-Qt" app window.
10-From the desktop, return to the Gaming Mode of your Steam Deck.
11-In the properties/settings for "GRANDIA HD Remaster" in section "Compatibility" check box to force use of a compatibility tool and select item "Proton-tkg 7.6.r12.g51472395.release".

Zanrkand 23 Dec, 2024 @ 10:46am

Works great with Steam Deck! What you need to do is SSH into the Deck and follow the guide.

This is the emulated path on the Deck:
/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/GRANDIA HD Remaster/content/

motaku96 27 Nov, 2024 @ 2:24pm

Thanks for this. I didn't feel the need to edit the config file.

MushyOnion 10 Oct, 2024 @ 8:54am

I'm using an NVIDIA card and was able to resolve the visual glitches by going to the Graphics Settings in Windows (11) and setting Grandia to "Power Saving". This runs it using Integrated Graphics.

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