If you're interested I've collected most Tomb Raider patch versions. Here are all the versions for the Rendition Vérité. I haven't made a post yet but they were hard to find. The .uc files seem to be the same in all versions.

Improvements to Tomb Raider and swimming right at the end.

https://youtu.be/2yTjscFJqUM

chuky wrote on 2024-04-23, 12:16:

If you're interested I've collected most Tomb Raider patch versions. Here are all the versions for the Rendition Vérité. I haven't made a post yet but they were hard to find. The .uc files seem to be the same in all versions.

Thanks @chuky. What're the differences between them? Are they significant enough to test one by one?

robertmo3 wrote on 2024-04-23, 11:44:

all tr games have swimming pool inside 😀

I briefly played TR2 back in the 90s. I seem to remember a pool outdoors. Can't remember the indoor areas very well. There was a butler who bumbled about.

Rendition Ready in 4k without front buffer capture.:

https://youtu.be/v7eWNE8iiVk

In fullscreen mode front buffer effects can't be captured, unless you're using an external capture device or something clever.

robertmo3 wrote on 2024-04-23, 11:44:

all tr games have swimming pool inside 😀

Maybe it's a pond in the garden I'm thinking of.

There are changelogs for the Tomb Raider patches. Older ones disable mipmapping by default, have a lower quality mipmapping and don't have the water deformation effect.

chuky wrote on 2024-04-23, 12:42:

There are changelogs for the Tomb Raider patches. Older ones disable mipmapping by default, have a lower quality mipmapping and don't have the water deformation effect.

I did grab the zip, but won't be able to actually test anything until tomorrow. There's a tropical thunderstorm here and lightning strikes/sudden power outages are common. If it's not an outage the frickin breaker trips.

As a quick performance test and for some early feedback (for ICR2 only) an alpha build (an actual alpha not like the regular RReady Alpha):

Only for ICR2 (still extremely buggy).

[EDIT2]
Smaller pipe slow but stable[Not recommended):
RReady Alpha^3 (20240426)
https://1drv.ms/u/s!As-dKk-N73dSmHF4CMlMCmq6Nggx?e=0UpUZq
(Recommended) Large pipe buffer, randomly unstable (but not that unstable 😀. My videos use a larger buffer):
RReady Alpha^3 (20240426) 003.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!As-dKk-N73dSmHSbI_Oqe9qKW0qP?e=4kNO9T
MD5: 31b7f5b1e3333d48084f1d7123fa6ea8
[/EDIT2}
MD5: cab8882533e459fe1e8d8fd5fadff4df
Dosbox Alpha^3 (20240426)
https://1drv.ms/u/s!As-dKk-N73dSmHIlbDF7JglTLDO4?e=nnboFN
MD5: c860b3dae811542cd65d860cd8c08928

[EDIT] You'll need a temp folder in C: drive.

Dosbox-Rendition and DosClient source is available here https://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox-rendition/.

Dosclient and dosbox-Rendition are GPL 2.0 and Dosclient has a license exception to support closed source system libraries like the Rendition ones. A compatible V1000 BIOS (VBI files) has been supplied. Other BIOSs will not work. Certain parameters have to be configured for each BIOS and this release has hard coded parameters for the supplied BIOS.

Download and unzip the dosbox package and and add dosbox as an application to RLauncher. Always launch Dosbox from RLauncher as this will update dosclient.

DO NOT RUN MORE THAN ONE Speedy3D APP IN SEQUENCE. Close Dosbox and relaunch it from RLauncher. This means no cartfast,bat or cartsafe.bat run cart.exe or indycar.exe directly. RR.exe still has issues.

This is only for ICR2 and it will still be buggy. You can try running other Speedy3D apps but they're not supported in this release. NR1999R has regressed and will not work correctly here.

This release is to gauge whether the CPU requirements are too high. I *think* you'll need at least a quad core and a discrete gpu.

Hopefully during testing nothing disgusting will happen. I've shrunk the named pipe buffer down, so the CPU load will be higher, but more stable.

Rebel Moon mostly working:

https://youtu.be/xgfpYEBpNNs

whiplash

robertmo3 wrote on 2024-04-27, 08:55:

whiplash

Whiplash doesn't work.

robertmo3 wrote on 2024-04-27, 08:55:

whiplash

Is that with RReady/Dosbox-Rendition? It doesn't work for me.

I've got fifo speeds on par with DMA mode. Descent II seems to use fifo mode and produces nothing on screen.

[EDIT] I'll do another build tomorrow.

it has to be whiplash (not fatal racing)
fatal racing doesn't work

it works but very slow
once the black screen with "rready rendition alpha 1" appears, you have to wait 20 seconds for the game to start showing fps counter, few more seconds you got game logo, and intro starts with very slow 1 fps

it is interesting you can copy "rebel moon rising" folders to "rebel moon" game
It works in original dosbox 0.74-3 with "rebelmoon.exe -vga" switch,
but doesn't work in dosbox-rendition.

robertmo3 wrote on 2024-04-27, 10:24:

it is interesting you can copy "rebel moon rising" folders to "rebel moon" game
It works in dosbox with "rebelmoon.exe -vga" switch,
but doesn't work in dosbox-rendition.

There's some no-standard VGA behaviour with DOsbox-Rendition. I need to fix that as well.

i don't care about rebelmoon.exe -vga
but rebelmoon.exe doesn't work too in rendition mode 😉

ef2000 complains about missing vesa support

NASCAR Racing II works

Scorched Planet freezes on red screen

robertmo3 wrote on 2024-04-27, 10:22:

it has to be whiplash (not fatal racing) fatal racing doesn't work […]
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it has to be whiplash (not fatal racing)
fatal racing doesn't work

it works but very slow
once the black screen with "rready rendition alpha 1" appears, you have to wait 20 seconds for the game to start showing fps counter, few more seconds you got game logo, and intro starts with very slow 1 fps

It's probably a FIFO based game. I've got FIFOs speeds on par with DMA now. Will do a release tomorrow.