Topic on Talk:Sonic Adventure DX (Steam)

I know that SADX Mod Installer is now the de-facto patcher/modding utility for this game and the previous (compatible) PC ports, however, the BetterSADX Steam Guide page also brings up SADX Mod Installer as a suggestion for advanced users or those that want more bleeding edge updates with mods (along with a custom GUI configuration tool that can also remap keys), so I was thinking maybe we could possibly feature BetterSADX for those that want a quicker/easier way to patch and mod Sonic Adventure DX while SADX Mod Installer can also be available for those that want to fine-tune the patching process and get the newer mod updates.

EDIT: Forgot to bring this up as well, but could it be possible to bring back the list of recommended mods as well so that all versions of Sonic Adventure DX can have something to recommend as far as patching the game goes?

If it's no longer severely outdated and being actively maintained now, then I guess maybe. I don't see why, though. I'm not convinced that the guided installation of SADX Mod Installer is that much more complicated to understand than a one-click BetterSADX. Seems like a waste of real estate to me 🤷‍♂️

Does the recommended mods list really need to be on every SA1 page? It seems redundant and hard to maintain, especially since basically all of them require "downgrading" to the 2004 port anyway.

Well I was thinking we can link the other version's pages to the 2004 version's recommended mods if it became redundant or difficult to have them listing mods for the different versions available.

And as for SADX Mod Loader, I'm not sure it's how the mods are compiled/setup with it, but I get some weird frame-pacing and frame rate hiccup issues with SADX Mod Loader when using its Dreamcast Conversion preset (yet strangely not for its Enhanced SADX preset) whereas BetterSADX's Dreamcast Conversion preset doesn't give me this problem at all, and I doubt it's my PC since it's more than capable of playing Sonic Adventure DX, vanilla or modded.

EDIT: I think I found what may be the cause of my frame-pacing issues with SADX Mod Installer, it seems to be that crosire's d3d8to9 v1.11.0 some to have some issue with the game where as v1.10.1 that was used in BetterSADX doesn't have this issue. I'll do some further testing to be sure.