I definitely don't get the gray boxes on the exits with shaders enabled, I can confirm r1885 the bgm audio doesn't work , the first intro where it shows the text had voice in r1884, the second video had audio, and game had more voices
(I'm not sure if its just playing already decoded voices from r1884, will need to check that later to see if its really decoding in r1885, however voices that play can be skipped in r1885 so some improvement there)
heres a video in r1885 (had to skip a few scenes so it wasn't a 30 min video)
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=CP6X21ZY
Edit;
If I disable shaders I get the grey box effect and no menu video like you described...
Edit
BGM, audio is fixed in r1890
but still no voice on the intro where it says "do you know the name adol christion" (right after new game, last worked r1884), most other voices seem to work fine though
(I'm not sure if its just playing already decoded voices from r1884, will need to check that later to see if its really decoding in r1885, however voices that play can be skipped in r1885 so some improvement there)
heres a video in r1885 (had to skip a few scenes so it wasn't a 30 min video)
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=CP6X21ZY
Edit;
If I disable shaders I get the grey box effect and no menu video like you described...
Edit
BGM, audio is fixed in r1890
but still no voice on the intro where it says "do you know the name adol christion" (right after new game, last worked r1884), most other voices seem to work fine though
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