GameDB: GS HW renderer fixes for Tales of the Abyss

[ghost]

Description of Changes

Added Half-Pixel Offset: Special (Texture) to fix ghosting when you're upscaling. The wiki mentions black boxes as an issue too and suggests Workarounds (Trilinear + Mipmapping Full). However I can't reproduce the issue when Half-Pixel Offset is set to Special (Texture).

Rationale behind Changes

Upscaling goodness & helping out the GameDB

Suggested Testing Steps

Test Abyss. Bad ghosting shouldn't occur.

[ghost]

If you don't succeed at first....

Hopefully this will be ok.

[RedDevilus]

I know there is an area (docking city iirc) much later in the game that is a pain for upscaling. But better than nothing. Normal (Vertex) is fine for start but yeah you can't forget about those other areas. Normally one game is fine with it set to one mode.

[ghost]

Normal (Vertex) is actually not fine. Produces the black box issue and leads to flicker on the side of the screen.

I halfway (but maybe misremember) it being fine in the past too, but its not now. Tested on latest master.

[RedDevilus]

No idea why but Normal (Vertex) exposes the texture cache issues (mainly the sides as a rainbow mess) but the others don't in the latest builds.

[refractionpcsx2]

So Special Texture is fine?

[ghost]

Yes. Game and title screen looks the best with it on. Normally there would be strong ghosting on both + black boxes.

[refractionpcsx2]

Cool, thanks

[Illynir]

With these settings you can't see the grid problems etc. at the beginning of the game. But you can see them easily by continuing the intro (until the teleportation with the girl).

To my knowledge I have never found an effective solution with the options to solve this problem permanently. Except to remove the bloom completely with cheats.