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Graphical Glitches Fixes & Upscaling for 1440p/4K

By survfate | ryz3n

Looking for solving the very first puzzle of the game which is getting it to run properly? This should help you. This guide contain the steps to get the game to run on modern system via dgVoodoo2 and upscaling to higher resolution using Magpie

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Graphical Glitches Fixes with dgVoodoo2

Upscaling for 1440p/4K using Magpie

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Notes

Your current GPU must support DirectX 11
It's highly recommended that you Disable the Steam Overlay for this game.
There appeared to be some FPS cap issue when playing on high refresh monitor now and then

Graphical Glitches Fixes with dgVoodoo2

dgVoodoo2 is a piece of software that allow to wrap the outdated DirectX 9 implementation of Safecracker with a layer, allowing running the game on DirectX 11 - which eliminate the graphical issues (think of it as some sort of 'emulation' layer)

Get the latest version here: https://github.com/dege-diosg/dgVoodoo2/releases - dgVoodoo2_75_1.zip at the time of writing this guide
Extract dgVoodooCpl.exe in the root of the zip file into your \steamapps\common\Safecracker 2 directory
Extract D3D9.dll, D3D8.dll, DDraw.dll, D3DImm.dll in the path \MS\x86 of the zip into your \steamapps\common\Safecracker 2 directory
Run dgVoodooCpl.exe, click on the [.\] button to add the current folder in to the list
On the General tab, configure everything like this
Click on the DirectX tab, change it to something like this
If you not planning to using the upscale step later, then I personally find the configuration below giving some improvement at 1440p
Hit Apply and exit the dgVoodooCpl tool, you can play the game now and all of the graphical glitches should be gone.

Upscaling for 1440p/4K using Magpie

Magpie can enlarge any window to full screen and supports a variety of advanced zoom algorithms, including Lanczos, Anime4K, FSR, FSRCNNX, etc. We use this to upscale the original game window into much higher resolution like 1440p or 4K

Make sure you have applied the graphic fixes in the previous dgVoodoo2 section
First, open the steamapps\common\Safecracker 2\config.ini, change bFullScreen=1 to bFullScreen=0, save and close.
Get the latest Magpie English Patch version here: https://github.com/7Brandyn7/Magpie/releases - I would suggest getting the Reduced.Sharpen.zip but it is up to you.
Extract the Magpie download into some location, launch \Release\Magpie.exe
Edit the Hotkey to anything you want or leave it default
For Scaling Mode, pick FSR (heavier, sharper) or Lanczos (lighter, less sharp compare to FSR). It's up to you which one you prefer.
Launch the game and it should open in Windowed mode, press the Hotkey combination defined in Magpie and it will upscale the game window for you. Enjoy!

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GRomPES 12 Mar @ 12:57pm

Заработало. После инструкций в другом руководстве (где просили скачать Win3d) у меня после второй заставки появлялся белый прямоугольник в углу экрана, а должно было появиться меню игры. После копирвоания файлов из папки MS (входит в программу) у меня меню стало отображаться нормально по центру экрана

Captain Link 13 Feb @ 9:15pm

@survfate | ryz3n RTX 3070 (8GB GDDR6), AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, 32GB DDR4 3200MT/s, Win 10 Pro

survfate | ryz3n [author] 13 Feb @ 6:26am

What is your specs @Captain Link?

Captain Link 12 Feb @ 10:09pm

Anyone still on this thread? I'm having severe framerate issues, but otherwise it works

KorickSlipstream 12 Aug, 2023 @ 10:45am

Can confirm that this works.

adriatic.c 14 Oct, 2022 @ 12:24am

For the rare Linux user who stumbles into this problem: I tried dgVoodoo2 w/ wine and proton, but had no luck. dgVoodoo2 does in fact work on Linux once in a while. I tried numerous older proton versions, but what worked for me was *attempting* to run with proton 3.16 (the game does not launch) and THEN running on proton 3.7.

I uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times to confirm this behavior. I had steam input disabled btw. I don't know what's happening, but I've expended all my patience. After launching the game, my Safecracker 2\config.ini looks like:

[OPTION]
MIXING=S
SAVE=1
SPEED=-1
SUBTITLE=1
AMBIENT=100
SFX=100
VOICE=100
LOC =US

bUseHardware=1
bUse32BitsSprites=1
bUse32BitsScreen=1
bFullScreen=1
bScreenResolution=2
dataset=2
nProfiles=1
nVolume=100
bSoftBilinear=0
bCenterMouse = 1

[INSTALL]
PATH=Z:\path\to\steam\folder\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Safecracker 2\Datas

Razmahwata 12 Apr, 2022 @ 2:34am

Thanks to this tip, I can get stuck at the second puzzle of the game again :)

Wires96 15 Mar, 2022 @ 10:12am

OMG THANK YO, I've been wanting to play this for months and doing what you said has helped make the game playable

trish.hyers 1 Jan, 2022 @ 11:01am

I have a new laptop with DirectX 12 on a new Windows 11 system and this still appears to be an issue. The main screen has five option bars to choose with no text, mouse is extra glitchy, and if you just click the top option bar the following screen has no text either. I was really looking forward to playing this.

Nekonoaijin 24 Nov, 2021 @ 4:22pm

No, I get it. I was just putting that there for some clarity. I've actually recommended the guide in several places. dgVoodoo2 is not new to me, in fact I have been making use of it, on and off, for literally years at this point, but your guide is great at telling someone exactly what to do to get this game to work, so kudos.

This is definitely the better way compared to janky solutions like grabbing old DLL from obsolete WINE builds, etc.

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