Re: Scaling algorithms and their implementations in dgVoodoo

Posted on 2024-06-26, 13:46

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If Dege still doesn't want to add foreign code, I'd recommend taking a look at Dolphin's implementation of area sampling (aka pixel mixing, pixel averaging, or area map) for downsampling, specifically lines 190-338 of "Data/Sys/Shaders/default_pre_post_process.glsl"as it also contains links to …

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Are PPC Mac OS (aka Mac OS Classic) applications/games 32-bit only?

Posted on 2023-06-26, 14:14

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First, apologizes if this is the wrong forum for this. After searching around the VOGONS forums, this seemed like the most appropriate forum to put this in. Anyways, I recently came across a claim I hadn't heard before: namely, games and applications which run on PPC Mac OS (aka Mac OS Classic) are …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2022-03-14, 15:25

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Ancient DOS Games Filler #90 - Tails Adventure is online! I kinda wanted to kick back with a favourite of mine given that the past couple weeks have been kinda crazy for me, world events notwithstanding as there's a LOT of stupid going on right now... >_>; Tails Adventure seemed like a good pick as …

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Re: dgVodooo 2.7.x and related WIP versions (2)

Posted on 2021-10-04, 17:29

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lowenz wrote on 2021-10-04, 17:15: Dege wrote on 2021-10-04, 16:51: Also, x64 D3D9 has problems with state blocks (crash). I fixed both. Don't waste your time with the D3D9 renderer of UT 2004, it's (graphically) bugged by its own 😜 How are future generations supposed to know that if they can't run …

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Re: ATI TruForm

Posted on 2021-10-02, 19:44

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========================= WIP81 ========================= - Replacing the FF vertex pipeline in D3Ds with a new code generator to use specialized shaders * This might be enabled only for N-patch tesselation in subsequent versions - Adding a option DirectXExt\NPatchTesselationLevel to force N-patch …

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Re: dgVodooo 2.7.x and related WIP versions (2)

Posted on 2021-09-03, 15:46

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Dege wrote on 2021-09-03, 08:25: ========================= WIP80.1 ========================= […] Show full quote ========================= WIP80.1 ========================= - Fixing a tesselation incompatibility http://dege.fw.hu/temp/dgVoodooWIP80_1.zip http://dege.fw.hu/temp/dgVoodooWIP80_1_dbg. …

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Re: ATI TruForm

Posted on 2021-09-02, 13:57

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It'd be easy to add such an option, but it's not a wise idea in regard of the performance. When the game is aware of n-patches then the engine controls what objects are subject to tesselation, at what level (e.g. depending on the distance), etc (see Morrowind FPS optimizer, how fine granurality of …

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Re: ATI TruForm

Posted on 2021-09-01, 19:51

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FINALLY!!! Thanks so much for this, Dege! Also, out of curiosity, how hard would it be to add a "force n-patches" feature to dgVoodoo2? My hope for such a feature would be that, since it would be hijacking the render pipeline, would help debug n-patch support in games which do support it but, for …

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Re: ATI TruForm

Posted on 2021-09-01, 14:11

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This is crazy to see working and with good performance. I guess modern hardware can compensate with good raw performance. :D It's sad that you don't have time to work on this fully. This is something that should be made OFFICIALLY by Windows, GPU developers or whatever. Microsoft should hire you …

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Re: Advent Rising - getting "full" shadows working with Advent Revising and dgVoodoo2 2.74?

Posted on 2021-05-18, 19:42

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I'd read that thread, but I'd hoped things had changed since then. Thanks for responding, though!

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2021-05-09, 14:31

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With how ubiquitous OpenTTD is these days, I think a post in your YouTube channel's Community tab clarifying why you find it to be legally-dubious is in order. I mean, I understand why you feel that way - unlike with, say, Daggerfall Unity, even without the original files (or the open-source …

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Advent Rising - getting "full" shadows working with Advent Revising and dgVoodoo2 2.74?

Posted on 2021-04-24, 15:53

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As a follow-up to all the various "broken shadows in Advent Rising" threads, recently a fairly-popular YouTuber put a spotlight on the game ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUk3_3eBD_M ), also noting the broken shadows and how they, supposedly, only work properly on a specific ATi GPU. What I …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2.6.x and related WIP versions

Posted on 2020-02-10, 01:08

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Hello! found that Z.A.R game d3d version can't work with dgVoodoo it says "Z.A.R. Error 3D hardware NOT found." without it can be played in Direct3D using 800x600x32 resolution mode. Am I missing something?: ZAR_D3D 2020-02-10 01-12-38-01.jpg Resolution forcing, MSAA and AF seem to work too. This …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2.6.x and related WIP versions

Posted on 2020-01-21, 16:46

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From the blog: What can you do with the code? Make the move to D3D12 more quickly. Leverage the D3D12 Translation Layer library as-is in your game to port your existing work to D3D12 faster. ???? Why would replacing a DX11 layer with a DX11->12 wrapper be useful? I don't get it. It's basically the …

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Re: Xanadu Next (GOG) cannot initialize D3D with WIP67

Posted on 2019-11-19, 19:32

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That, indeed, fixed the problem. Thanks, Dege! 😊

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Xanadu Next (GOG) cannot initialize D3D with WIP67

Posted on 2019-11-19, 16:17

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As the title says, the GOG version of Xanadu Next, which uses DirectX 8.x, cannot initialize D3D when using dgVoodoo2 WIP67. Attached is the debug log as well as the settings I have set up in the game's external options application. I am running Windows 10 v1909 and using the notebook variant of the …

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Re: WIP versions

Posted on 2019-06-09, 14:59

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About DX9 games using POM/parallax map effects on some surfaces (TimeShift, Crysis, Gothic 4: Arcania, etc).....it would be awesome if dgVoodoo2 can force the AF on those surfaces. Normally it's impossible without tweaking the shaders (Crysis got some POM tweaks via mod to enable the AF effective …

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Re: WIP versions

Posted on 2019-03-29, 12:32

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Quick question - G-Police crashes if you task switch (so if it loses focus, when you switch back to it it crashes). Can DgVoodoo prevent that at all? Could it hide the task switch from the game, and force the game to keep running as if it had focus? Thanks The only thing I can think of is running …

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Re: Possible to enumerate resolution with non-existent refresh rate?

Posted on 2019-03-21, 20:39

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Sorry for not clarifying sooner, ZellSF. Life has gotten in the way for the past couple of days. As to your actual question, the reason I'm trying for more than 60 FPS is because of this ReShade shader I like to use. In my experience, it requires 300 FPS minimum to get a low-quality, but IMO …

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Re: Possible to enumerate resolution with non-existent refresh rate?

Posted on 2019-03-20, 18:58

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Um. Why do you want to do this? Darkstone will output more than 60 FPS just fine, how unique those frames are is another matter entirely of course. I don't know why, but even with my NVIDIA Optimus setup set to fully disable vsync, the game will only output 60 FPS. This is an in-game cap as far as …

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