And for benchmarking FRAPS is really outdated! Afterburner+RTSS is a good choice (mine), but this looks fantastic too!
https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/0 … an-benchmarking#
wrote:The shininess is present rotating the camera!
-1 time, when the surface is in front of the sun (native d3d8, modern hw)
-2 times (!) with dgVoodoo2.
It's possible that this bug it's indeed the shiny texture bug which i was talking about all this time. It happens on all hardware except original GF4 cards. It seems it appears on both modes: projector and shadow buffers.
I'll try with a sw reference d3d8 like Swiftshader 2.01 or WineD3D.
wrote:I'll try with a sw reference d3d8 like Swiftshader 2.01 or WineD3D.
EDIT: SwiftShader D3D8 has serious lighting bug, will try Wine.
I ended up using WARP.
WARP:
AMD D3D8:
dgVoodoo2 D3D11:
If we assume WARP to be a sort of "reference implementation" (it's not but it's from MS), the correct cubemap is the AMD one.
And if we assume I'm right, the problem lies in some camera-lightsource angle issue in cubemap processing (the angle between the surface normals and the lightsource direction).
If you use dgVoodoo then behavior is always emulated so using WARP should be same as hardware, you need to use Reference Rasterizer for old D3D8 (D3DDEVTYPE_REF device type I think) which i think will not work at all, so only proper check is to have old graphic card with old Windows and drivers configuration.
Also reference device can render differently than hardware because of hacks such like in Spliter Cell shadows which depends on hardware/driver behavior.
WARP disabling the GPU in Windows Devices, not through dgVoodoo2.
That is "Pure WARP" and it's the one I used in UT2004.
And I don't think UT2004 uses some advanced lighting hacks.
WARP is based on the reference rasterizer codebase. Therefore, WARP uses the same software interface to both Direct3D 10 and later and DXGI. WARP is included in Windows 7 in the D3d10warp.dll, located in Windows systems folders.
I think WARP is only available trough DX10/DX11 runtime (DXGI) and is not available in D3D8/D3D9 but maybe I'm wrong.
wrote:WARP is based on the reference rasterizer codebase. Therefore, WARP uses the same software interface to both Direct3D 10 and later and DXGI. WARP is included in Windows 7 in the D3d10warp.dll, located in Windows systems folders.
I think WARP is only available trough DX10/DX11 runtime (DXGI) and is not available in D3D8/D3D9 but maybe I'm wrong.
It's what I thought myself.
But it's working. DDraw too.
Tested now Unreal DDraw (D3D7). It's working with WARP, with and without dgVoodoo2 wrapping. Same framerate (14 FPS @1920x1080).
Tested obscure game called "Sentinel Returns" - works fine with resolution forcing but... it seems mouse speed is depended on resolution so is -VERY- slow (read: unplayable) in FHD (4:3 MAX) res 🙁
About the "remove more profile than selected ones" problem in the configurator, I experienced one again the issue:
-added today the DXIW profile
-removed NOLF2 profile just now
-DXIW profile vanished too (from the list, not the file in the game folder)
So maybe it's a problem with the last entry.....
Here's a non-working game report... sort of: Star Trek Deep Space 9 - Dominion Wars
In Windows 10, if the game is ran using dgVoodoo alone, it just crashes. It does this if you attempt to run natively too. There is an old fix from here, http://jiridvorak.webpark.cz/dw/
, that no longer fixes the game natively (the mouse is broken in the menus, and I suspect the game would be sluggish even if it could get that far). However, it seems to work well if combined with dgVoodoo.
It would be nice if that fix wasn't needed though, and the game could run through dgVoodoo alone.
Komat (the author of that fix) is a member of these forums, you can contact him.
I am new to using dgVoodoo and just gave the latest WIP build a try with Splinter Cell. It works, but I have a couple of issues that may be very basic, but I hope someone can help:
I have a GTX 285 (DirectX 10.1) on W7x64. Every time Splinter Cell switches resolution, from menu/movie clips to game (which I have set to 1600x1200), the game only takes up 1/4 of the top left of my screen space. Alt-Entering to windowed mode and back to full screen fixes it, but several graphical glitches then occur. For instance, the windows in the training level show up as overbright white rectangles that shine through everything. Back to windowed makes the problems disappear. Is there a known fix or workaround for this?
Also, I noticed the 'shimmering' effect of light rays (like in the office in the intro) seems way too fast. After forcing vsync the fast flickering turns into more of the expected shimmer, but it's still way too fast. Is this just that the game expects to run at a certain (lower) frame rate, I assume around 30, or is there a way to fix this?
Thanks!
In Blood 2, when I use the mouse, it just randomly jerks to the top of my screen. It works fine native (without dgVoodoo 2)
wrote:Also, I noticed the 'shimmering' effect of light rays (like in the office in the intro) seems way too fast. After forcing vsync the fast flickering turns into more of the expected shimmer, but it's still way too fast. Is this just that the game expects to run at a certain (lower) frame rate, I assume around 30, or is there a way to fix this?
No problems for me @60 FPS.
wrote:No problems for me @60 FPS.
Taking Phil's recording on actual hardware as benchmark, for me the light beams move a lot quicker, even with vsync on, more like the speed of projectors mode here (mabe even faster):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB9BTbtNyDw#t=18m2s
*edit: looking at the full video it does seems like it's related to the framerate. The FX card (projectors) runs at twice the frame rate of the period-specific Ti-4800 (buffers). I guess the slower ~20-30 fps is just how I remember it from playing the game back in the day.
Is there an easy way to limit dgVoodoo to 30 fps to see if that looks better to me?
@Dege
Starfleet Command III is terrible broken with and without dgVoodoo, can you look a it ? I love Star Trek 😀 It even sets for me interlaced resolution at 30Hz ignoring dgVoodoo settings 🙁
EDIT: Here is a mod which -almost- work: http://www.moddb.com/games/star-trek-starflee … -upgrade-mod-30 - it's working in window without borders on half of screen in 30Hz interlaced mode 🙁
any idea why every game is forced vsync on?
dgvoodoo has it off, graphics driver has it forced off, still forced vsync for NFS 4, NFS 2 SE and every other game is vsynched.
NFS 4 doesnt force to use vsync though. It has just a framelimiter of 64 while driving. ESC menu is uncapped, main menu I remember being uncapped too.
NFS 2 was completely uncapped, even ingame.
Why is now every game with glide forced to use vsync now? And nGlide has the same problem. What is going on here?
In Blood 2, when I use the mouse, it just randomly jerks to the top of my screen. It works fine native (without dgVoodoo 2)
Had the same problem. Use 2.50 for blood. That version works fine.
