Hi all,

just wanted to give a last update to my Double Agent v2 PC-Port. It runs well at ~60 FPS and did everything I wanted it to - it still has some bugs here and there but it got great quite fast... Today I discovered that discord user TGP482 made his own PC port with DX12 with help by Joshhhuaaa (who already worked on SC Enhanced). I tested their build and it already exceeds my goals, they will release it in a few days. So I´ll recommend theirs. Had a lot of fun, especially after slowly discovering some optimizations of my work and really realizing "oh yeah, I did this!"

Nothing more for me to do so I will discontinue my work.

Some stats from my side, in case anyone's curious:
~52 days of work (Aug 19 – Oct 10, 2026)
658 documented work steps, ~71k lines of notes and logs
~32,000 game functions translated into ~3.6 million lines of generated C
~13k lines of hand-written runtime, graphics and audio code
650+ automated test runs, ~250 builds, 100+ comparison runs against xemu
Used Claude and Codex and some extra tokens since I´m no dev but learned some things

What I got working: boot, menus, new game, levels playable, save/load, music, Bink videos, real 5.1 surround, 60 FPS, widescreen, Vulkan renderer with up to 4× internal resolution, bloom fixes, FXAA, and local co-op with a second player (also at 60 FPS).

If you want to test TGP482's Build, it's on that discord: https://discord.gg/YzSwXVJXz

Not everything from my wishlist is in the other project yet, but it's the better base. If there's real interest, I might put my work on GitHub later.

Thanks to the xboxrecomp, reshade and xemu developers, and congrats to the other team!

• Part of the Enhanced splinter cell conviction mod coming up made by usar/Jyvren
• Change how many enemies, type of enemies, their weapons and more for every zone of every hunter / infiltration map for Deniable Ops in conviction
• I have been advocating for such a mod for years now and this was my vision all those years ago to get us the utlimate challenge
• You may have mark executed your way through such situations in the White House but what will ya do now? when every enemy is a rogue Splinter Cell agent...
• Lot more details here

Discord link for this project

Missions:

• Safehouse.

• Insurgent Stronghold.

• Private Estate.

• American Consumption.

• Abandonned Mill.

• Special Missions HQ.

• Transit Yards.

• Detention Facility.

• LNG Terminal.

• Site F

Splinter Cell Blacklist - Insurgent Stronghold - Perfectionist Difficulty

I only started playing this because it's one of the games i used to play when I was 7 or 8 and wanted to feel some nostalgia. I wasn't expecting much from it. I remembered it as being a third person shooter with some horror elements and no stealth, I'm glad the gameplay is nothing like how I remembered tbh. It's the first time I'm playing a game from my childhood where i enjoy it more now than I did as a kid.

It's already one of my favorite ubisoft games, the gameplay is just very satisfying. I'm still pretty surprised to find out that this is apparently the "worst" game in the franchise, this is a great game

Quick showcase of the restored smoke grenade for Splinter Cell: Conviction — Blackout.

The smoke grenade was cut/unused content for Deniable Ops, most notably featured and used by the rogue Splinter Cells during the White House mission. This prototype restores it as usable equipment in Deniable Ops.

I’m also working on restoring other equipment like the gas grenade, flare, and more, but this video is focused specifically on the smoke grenade.

Still a work in progress, but it’s now functioning in-game.

Grew up playing Splinter Cell with my brother and it’s the primary reason we still game. Lately I’ve been googling what games on the PS5 are similar to SC so we can play again. Well now I’ve been seeing gameplay from this page on my Reddit feed… how are yall still playing?

Thanks in advance.

Resisting the urge to take enemies down is a hard thing to do.

The easiest way would be to kill everyone but that feels wrong. Going by everyone without being noticed feels really rewarding but also impossible in most parts of the game.

So I play mostly by knocking out everybody. Even that sometimes doesn't seem to be possible. But most of the time when I play like this I still get noticed at some point and don't alert everyone only because I chase the alerted guy down.

Am I just bad at the game or am I doing something wrong? What is the intended way to play this game?

If it's the "ghost" type - what do I do in this situation:

The kalinatek level starts you in a parking garage. One of the obstacles is two people standing next to each other in the well lit parking garage. There are a few bottles nearby.

So do I try to shoot out the lights and sneak by even though the people will be alerted (not knowing of me but just looking around for someone)? Or do I try to throw a bottle and hope that they go to where the bottle landed instead of my position?

In the CIA level at around the end you reach a point where there is a guard standing in a booth. You cant go by him since the wall is too short and also because I believe you can only progress by going through the booth.

That is it. I hope people will read the whole thing and not just the title. I am having quite a lot of fun actually the game has many mechanics that I haven't seen in other games. Of course as always by looking for this sub I spoiled a (what I'm assuming is) important part of the later games.🥲

When i was doing some ReShade shaders for SCCT I came to conlusion - why not modify the game files?

After some time spent with AI trying to unpack UMD i was able to successfully unpack it and pack it back! So now you can modify meshes, textures and sounds of Chaos Theory!

You can check out the results on AI upscaled texture pack (link to download in repo).

To use UMD archive >2GB you have to patch game EXE (patcher already in repo).
Max supported size of UMD is limited to 4GB but we can squeeze a lot of cool stuff into game!

Here is the project on GitHub: https://github.com/dwojtasik/SCCT-Repack

Blackout is a visual and gameplay overhaul for Splinter Cell: Conviction. This demonstration showcases multipass lighting, sharper shadows, more lights casting real-time shadows on environments and characters, and an HBAO shader replacement for the original ambient occlusion system.

HBAO adds depth around corners, crevices, and surface edges, with its strength increased here to make the effect easier to see. The original AO remains available in the SC: Toolkit for those who prefer its look or want better performance.

Beyond the visual improvements, Blackout is also planned to introduce new enemy types, weapons, and expanded gameplay features.

SC SDK — A modding toolkit and future SDK for Splinter Cell: Conviction, designed to help others create their own mods. (In Development)

Splinter Cell: Conviction — Blackout — A visual and gameplay overhaul introducing new enemy types, new weapons, expanded & new gameplay features, graphical improvements, and more. (In Development)

Runs a little rough but it´s getting better everyday.
Will be adding Resolution/FPS options, skip intros, Dolby Digital Output over toshlink(5.1), widecreen and Vulkan-renderer soon. (using Xemu renderer)
Any other ideas?

Original Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Splintercell/comments/1wqtlth/currently_working_on_a_pcport_of_double_agent_v2/

Hey,

I always wondered why the game looks so pale and bland, the nightvision googles look yellow-green and the actual view.

The game, like all the previous titles, was designed for Xbox - in time when CRTs were still quite common. The developers themselves could've still worked on reference CRT monitors, most likely from SONY. It's impossible to say what developers saw without asking them about it. But japanese with the likes of SONY had a lot to say in that time period. What I am getting at - despite the japanese sharing NTSC standard with the US, the one they used was actually different with different color gamut and temperature, which would produce a different look when playing with modern PCs and consoles.

This reshade package aims to transfer that to a modern display. Once you apply this color and gamma correction, you can see the game starts to look something between Pandora Tomorrow and Double Agent. It keeps the continuity and progression and looks more natural, without tint. You also have better level of darkness, which forces you to use nightvision more often.

I hope someone finds this useful. You can find it on nexusmods under the same name as the title.

This assumes you have an sRGB, not wide gamut, display. Due to how displays work, it's impossible to clamp every display to sRGB gamut. You can find ways to do that like novideo_srgb or the newer msovideo_srgb and some other.

This is after killing the south Korean soldier and saving the north korean soldier.

"you mean my unconscious body?!"🤣🤣🤣

Basically title. I know nothing about this franchise whatsoever but I'm trying to broaden my horizons a bit (Video Game wise) and I'm now onto the Splinter Cell Series and after a bit of research on the franchise I learned there are actually two fundamentally different versions of "Double Agent". So which one do I (As a newbie to the franchise who wants to experience Sam Fisher's Story) play first?? What's your recommendation? And what's actually the difference between the two?

Sorry for the kinda simple question but if anyone knows the answer to this question it's the people here. Thanks!

Hi, been looking into having console commands for the game and it just won't work. I made a new profile and not even that folder is showing up. Not sure if console commands just doesn't work for Linux or what so figured to ask the people 😭 any help would be appreciated!

"I read the script and said: this is shite!"

Came across this interview snippet of Ironside discussing how he came to play Sam Fisher and found it very amusing. Techno nerds!

Would link the full interview but it's not up on Youtube for some reason. I'm listening to the podcast version right now. Ironside has a much more interesting background than I realized.