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Reply 1940 of 3949, by lowenz

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Dege, GREAT NEWS!

I tested dgVoodoo2 2.52 on a multi-gpu system: Win7 SP1 with a GeForce 960 and the CPU-integrated Intel HD4400 forced-active, with *ONLY* the first connected to the monitor but setting "extend the desktop" option for the second (in the same way used to activate QuickSync support in several video compression softwares -> https://mirillis.com/en/products/tutorials/ac … r_desktops.html )

Well, dgVoodoo2 can work with the iGPU (choosing it in the configurator) letting the dGPU connected! The game (Unreal, DDRAW->D3D11 feat. level 10.0) is correctly executed by the iGPU and the frames passed to the dGPU and then to the monitor!

IT'S AWESOME, man! But have you already tested this scenario (perfect for old games) or is it totally accidental?

Reply 1941 of 3949, by Dege

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Uhhmm, cool!! 😎

I didn't tested THIS scenario you mentioned however multi GPU/multimonitor support is not accidental, it was introduced in 2.45 for DX emulation and I continuously test it since then on a real multiGPU system with 2 monitors.
I suppose using the dGPU as an output is virtually the same (to dgVoodoo) as an ordinary monitor, so it's not so surprising if it works, in this respect. 😀

Reply 1942 of 3949, by leileilol

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Offtopic(without the wrapper), but i've noticed the Radeon GCN cards have better legacy D3D compatibility than the Radeon HD5-6 series with the recent crimson drivers, in Win7 at least. For two things, I can play an unpatched 1998-dated Blood 2 in 1920x1080x16 and can properly see the fog not covering everything in Episode I Racer.

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Reply 1943 of 3949, by mudlord

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Is there any options to force running games into running in a window?

Would greatly help for game debugging.

edit: nvm, there is such an option. Now wish OGL titles were able to have the same done to them.

Reply 1944 of 3949, by Dege

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leileilol wrote:

I can play an unpatched 1998-dated Blood 2 in 1920x1080x16

The bug in unpatched Blood2 executable is not driver-related. It's a buffer overrun bug on the stack, depending on the vertical resolution.
It allocates some kind of scanline data on the stack for 1000 lines in one of its functions.

Reply 1945 of 3949, by lowenz

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About Blood 2, it *really* benefits from trilinear filter forcing with dgVoodoo2 😁
Ah, the power of memories 😁

Blood 2 (with Res Patch) + dgVoodoo2 + Trilinear + AF 16x + MSAA 4x (original resolution 1920x1080): you can see the perfectly filtered terrain

https://youtu.be/U99nk1dsijw

Reply 1946 of 3949, by Firtasik

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Monster Truck Madness:
No cinematics and only the truck interior/HUD is visible when hardware acceleration is enabled.
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Reply 1947 of 3949, by lowenz

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Reporting!
Heavy Gear 2 is perfectly working! (Win98 compatibility needed to overcome DX6 check on Win7SP1 64)

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No need for other fixes.....WOW

Reply 1948 of 3949, by lowenz

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HG1 too, but only in centered mode (with Stretched with fixed AR the cursor goes mad, but hey, it's a miracle to see HG1 working today! 😁 Mech 2 Merc technology!)

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Reply 1949 of 3949, by sam767

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Did anyone managed to run Jane's Longbow Gold from (Anthology version) under Windows 7 x64 Dgvoodoo 2.5 ?
game almost run , i did patched GoldFX
the two intro video worked , However the game crashed when i click on Tutorial (walk around) with message DDInit failed!
any help please ?

Reply 1950 of 3949, by Dege

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Quick reply: thx for the reports, Guys!

I'm going to release a new WIP soon, but now, I've been kinda busy with tying up loose ends on resolution overriding for DX emulation.
(The code was already more or less ready for that feature so I decided to finish it.)

There are some cases where it doesn't work (well) (8-bit ddraw stuffs) or causes serious glitches (software mouse cursors in some game) but otherwise it's quite good so far.
I mostly tried it on some demos fixed to 640x480, they looked beautifully in high resolutions with MSAA. 😁

Reply 1951 of 3949, by lowenz

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About WARP, did you find some workarounds for the problems you encountered (gamma, etc.)?

Reply 1952 of 3949, by teleguy

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Any progress concerning the DirectX 10.0 issue?

Reply 1953 of 3949, by teleguy

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Found a problem with Jedi Knight and v2.51. When you untick "Disable Alt-Enter" the game will either crash immediately you press Esc to go from 3D mode to the menu or it will crash when you press Esc after using Alt-Enter.
This seems to happen with or without the -"windowgui" switch.

v2.45 still works fine. I didn't test 2.5.

Reply 1954 of 3949, by teleguy

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Also can anything be done to hide the original cursor when "Stretch with Aspect Ratio kept" is used?

Reply 1955 of 3949, by stranno

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lowenz wrote:

HG1 too, but only in centered mode (with Stretched with fixed AR the cursor goes mad, but hey, it's a miracle to see HG1 working today! 😁 Mech 2 Merc technology!)

It works but i have three problems.

Blue screen on videos. SMK videos (background stuff, hud interactive animations and so on) works but intro and other cgis dont. They are Intel Indeo video and it plays fine with LAV filters, i dont understand where is the problem. I have tried the latest beta with DirectShow support, no change.
DP.DLL Error (Bug Negative Threads) at the beginning. Not a big deal since you can accept it and continue with the game.
Game goes to Windows while changing DirectDraw screens to Direct3D5 engine, even with software. You have to enter the game again.

Windows 10 64-bit.

This game have the worst control configuration screen ever seen 😵

Reply 1956 of 3949, by Tarvis

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Is it possible for the emulated cursor in stretched mode to update independent of the game's framerate/screen draws?

In Jedi Knight in particular, the menu only redraws if something changes (e.g. another menu option is moused over) so the cursor in the stretched mode only updates during then, effectively meaning you don't see the cursor move.

I understand if it can't be done, it's just that Jedi Knight is one of those games that could really use the stretched modes to avoid the resolution changing every time the menu is opened, and the stretched mode works fine save for that issue

I also noticed that Steam recently updated the game, and whatever it did uses some kind of alternate method for drawing the menu screens, one which DgVoodoo doesn't emulate. (meaning scaling, windowed modes, resolution forcing, watermark, etc don't have any effect until getting into a level) I can upload the exe if you want to take a look at it (I don't think it requires Steam running)

Even more of a longshot, do you think there will ever be a custom framerate cap option? Perhaps specifying an FPS for Vsync? Reason is Jedi Knight's optimal fps is 47, anything higher causes the game to cap itself to 30fps. I can use a modified Aqrit's ddwrapper which loads DgVoodoo's ddraw to do the same effect, but it would be nice to have it all in one place.

teleguy wrote:

Found a problem with Jedi Knight and v2.51. When you untick "Disable Alt-Enter" the game will either crash immediately you press Esc to go from 3D mode to the menu or it will crash when you press Esc after using Alt-Enter.
This seems to happen with or without the -"windowgui" switch.

v2.45 still works fine. I didn't test 2.5.

I find the "Backbuffer in system memory" option in Jedi Knight tends to cause crashes going to the Esc menu and back, try turning it off

Reply 1957 of 3949, by teleguy

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Tarvis wrote:
teleguy wrote:

Found a problem with Jedi Knight and v2.51. When you untick "Disable Alt-Enter" the game will either crash immediately you press Esc to go from 3D mode to the menu or it will crash when you press Esc after using Alt-Enter.
This seems to happen with or without the -"windowgui" switch.

v2.45 still works fine. I didn't test 2.5.

I find the "Backbuffer in system memory" option in Jedi Knight tends to cause crashes going to the Esc menu and back, try turning it off

That was turned off.

The fault module is dxgi.dll btw.

Reply 1958 of 3949, by teleguy

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Just passing this on from other forums:
Several people have requested being able to turn off bilinear filtering.

Like this:

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Reply 1959 of 3949, by willow

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Problem with dgvoodoo2.51 and dethkarz
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intro works but after intro, it doens't work. It said:
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I have tried all options and it doesn't work.