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Re: S3 Virge Dithering Pattern Normal?

Posted on 2025-02-20, 21:17

It's possible few S3d games are willing to use 24 bit color unless you modify them. S3d itself supports 24 bit modes but they weren't often used. Try something in Direct3D and be sure it's running in 24 bit without guesswork. It'll get rid of not only the overall dithering but also the alpha bug …

Re: Best software for Miro DC30 capture card?

Posted on 2025-02-20, 01:47

Since it's supported in Video4Linux I'd just write my own software for it. In fact I already did that with another retro capture card and it worked a treat. The key is to do everything on the CPU, then you have maximum speed, maximum compatibility, and maximum feature set.

Re: S3d wrappers

Posted on 2025-02-19, 10:32

in PC Emulation
Updated with changes to the Glide wrapper: - Custom video modes - Added some more unimplemented LFB stuff - Perspective correction automatically disabled for polys with out of range UV coordinates, to prevent freezing - Some other things The Grand Prix Legends demo is now able to display the title …

Re: Best software for Miro DC30 capture card?

Posted on 2025-02-18, 06:50

A miro ViRGE driver readme mentions this: Important hint for DC30 and PCTV users: ======================================= The recent introduction of Microsoft DirectX technology has made it possible to use the free memory of a graphics board for an overlay by transferring the video data directly via …

Re: Best software for Miro DC30 capture card?

Posted on 2025-02-18, 03:46

if you translate this , they say it works about as good in a p100 as in a ppro 200, it's just that slower bus speeds will drag it down. and the latest driver basically needs 64mb minimum, it's setting vcache to a fixed 16mb. SCSI > IDE too obviously. I'd say forget the overlays, just move up to a …

Re: Dead Voodoos being sold

Posted on 2025-02-17, 20:23

in Milliways
I'm not convinced that 3dfx hardware is somehow more fragile or prone to failure than anything else. I think it's just the market conditions and cult like status it has causing more broken cards to be sold Wouldn't make a big difference from the perspective of a buyer. If the 3dfx that're available …

Re: Best software for Miro DC30 capture card?

Posted on 2025-02-17, 19:19

Unless you want a genuine experience I'd say forget overlay surfaces on 2 MB cards and period correct Windows 9x systems. The card looks to have drivers for up to Windows XP and be supported by Video4Linux in Linux, so it might work on all machines with a PCI slot, and may well work in a VM if your …

Re: S3d wrappers

Posted on 2025-02-17, 05:45

in PC Emulation
Updated with changes to the Ignition wrapper. Added support for chromakey transparency and 4-bit alpha blending, with and without dithering in the texture conversion. So now it's a choice between chromakey + alpha test, alpha test + stippled blend, or 4-bit blend. Can't have it all. Maybe I'll get …

Re: Dead Voodoos being sold

Posted on 2025-02-17, 04:14

in Milliways
This can be true for anything sold online. Buy from a reputable seller. Everything else could be a gamble. It could be true but isn't. I've bought scores of old graphics cards and the bad experiences are almost all Voodoo, by far the highest brand dissatisfaction rate. I don't buy joblots of …

Re: Dead Voodoos being sold

Posted on 2025-02-16, 19:31

in Milliways
This can be true for anything sold online. Buy from a reputable seller. Everything else could be a gamble. It could be true but isn't. I've bought scores of old graphics cards and the bad experiences are almost all Voodoo, by far the highest brand dissatisfaction rate. I don't buy joblots of …

Re: Dead Voodoos being sold

Posted on 2025-02-16, 10:53

in Milliways
Can't nope out of tax but there's a threshold for everything else, if my experiences are representative the current situation with 3dfx has crossed it in a fundamental way. The cards themselves are alright when they work, nothing amazing, but it's so easy to end up paying a premium for trash with …

Re: Dead Voodoos being sold

Posted on 2025-02-16, 09:11

in Milliways
There seems to be a combination of dubious build quality, poor handling in earlier times, price inflation now, and more than enough sellers willing to bullshit. Easily fixable cheap ones would've been hoovered up pretty effectively by now and the harder or hopeless to fix ones poisoning the well. …

Dead Voodoos being sold

Posted on 2025-02-16, 06:03

in Milliways
The first two 3dfx Voodoos (3) I bought as retro, many years back, worked without problems. The next four after them have all been more or less broken, three of them bought in the last year or so. One was sold as not working but where the seller forgot to describe details like the smell of burnt …

Re: S3d wrappers

Posted on 2025-02-15, 09:36

in PC Emulation
I've seen the emulated Trio3D/2X fail to run S3d in Windows, and now that I had a chance to test my real one it also fails. In fact it fails just like the emulated one, when attempting to initialize the S3d library, so it's not the case that it doesn't support some particular functionality of S3d …

Re: S3d wrappers

Posted on 2025-02-15, 04:00

in PC Emulation
Updated with changes to the Ignition wrapper. There's now a choice between 640 x 400 and 320 x 200, as well as 24 bit modes for each. Also an extra performance option to cull alpha effects. On a 2 MB ViRGE I get a fairly solid 35 FPS (half the refresh rate) at 24 bit 320 x 200 with bilinear …

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