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Posted on 2014-10-06, 17:24
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Re: nGlide vs dgVoodoo
Posted on 2014-07-26, 09:31
vote for dgVoodoo
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-24, 23:10
I never said that. Nice job putting words in my mouth. of couse you did. you even listed some files in quake2 related to the support of these apis. should i quote it? I'd like to think arrogance and pathological lying is worse. lying? who? where? I don't think John Carmack would have wanted to lead …
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-24, 20:39
Quake2, apart from the software renderer only had hardware accelerated output to OpenGL. It provided MiniGLs for 3dfx and PowerVR cards to wrap to their Glide and SGL APIs respectively since they lack a full ICD as a complimentary. It did not support Direct3D at all. Ever. Just like Quake3's …
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-23, 16:15
The first part of your post can basically be shortened to " Only people with really fast machines could play the game properly ". And that's true. Not really amateurish, just typical 90's PC mindset, when basically every year there would be this one game that made most peoples' PC look obsolete. …
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-23, 13:39
for example, a good fallback method to run on old graphics drivers used widely in that time on 3dfx, 3dlabs, intel, and sis graphics cards, seriously limiting the number of users. also, quake3 lacks a good software renderer, which was good to have at that time. for example, the renderer engine in …
Re: OS-es with weak OpenGL
Posted on 2013-08-22, 01:34
Jorpho wrote: How about Syllable? thankyou, this seems interesting. i will investigate it.
Re: OS-es with weak OpenGL
Posted on 2013-08-22, 01:31
Stiletto: after i quickly rolled over his site, it seems he only interested into mainsteam os-es, he would not probably the ideal person to bother about this. leileilol: i alreday started to make a port to that in last year, however there is a brutal overindexing bug somewhere that grinds important …
OS-es with weak OpenGL
Posted on 2013-08-21, 21:15
hi if anybody know operating systems / platforms with weak or missing opengl support (for example: no hardware drivers), its welcome to post it here. it can be pc operating system, or pc-like platform (not necessarry x86), the only thing is that it must be still in development. even oneman os-es are …
Re: Sound cards - from best to worst
Posted on 2013-08-21, 20:24
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Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-21, 20:21
i was wrong then, according to the other topic GL_VENDOR: Microsoft Corp. GL_RENDERER: DIRECT3D GL_VERSION: 1.1
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-21, 20:11
thats a different topic if vista or win7/ have built-in d3d wrapper, or not. but it also runs on xp without opengl drivers in d3d.
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-21, 19:53
leileilol wrote: How would you know how the engine works if you keep falsely claiming there's a wrapper in it? i dont. i made a possible presumption.
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-21, 19:52
no, its amateur becouse it does not use technology that was required in 1999 to cover the market.
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-21, 19:48
F2bnp wrote: Geri wrote: but the graphics engine is still a very amatheur work. lel Don't feed the troll. i can explain the topic more, if you are curious.
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-21, 19:40
p.s. not a simple renderer at all if it pretty much flushed the poop in the video card industry. ofc it is. its just a pure vertex array renderer, with most simple texture modes and alpha formats. and also its full of bugs, its a wonder that it does not crashed on most of configs back then. the …
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-21, 19:37
nothing forces carmack to give out informations about anything, or give out all of his sources about anything. this is capitalism.
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-21, 19:29
leileilol wrote: Including a complete GL wrapper would send it far over 800kb... quake3 does not need a complete gl wrapper, just only 10-30 function. it have very simply renderer engine.
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-21, 19:27
well, the release its capable to run in d3d, so its not a placebo. somewhere should be a wrapper located.
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-21, 19:25
the original quake3 does work in d3d mode, if there is no opengl. public q3 source code is probably highly downgraded. you also cant do anything with analyzing dependencies, if it queries the libraries dynamically.
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