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PowerVR-SGL-Wrapper v0.1.0 BETA for Windows

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Reply 20 of 29, by ralonsoj

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Oh, it’s a Moon Racer clone—what a gem! Thanks a lot for the help, really appreciate it. But yeah, taking it step by step. Right now I’m focusing on all the SGL demos, and hopefully I’ll upload a video in a few days showing how the implementation is going.
Sadly, since I don’t have a PowerVR card, I’m relying on YouTube gameplays—some of them even from people here on Vogons—as reference. Just working with that.
My main goal is simply to get things working and make it look reasonably close to the original. I’m already pretty happy with that for now. I’ll polish it more later on.

By the way, does anyone know when a newbie can send private messages on Vogons?

Reply 21 of 29, by marxveix

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ralonsoj wrote on 2026-04-17, 17:16:

By the way, does anyone know when a newbie can send private messages on Vogons?

Dont know exactly, maybe 100 replays / posts and it opens it, maybe something else, at one point it opens if you use your Vogons account.

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Reply 22 of 29, by VirtuaIceMan

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Here's some footage I took at high quality of a couple of games:

Moon Racer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyOG1SLNYVI
Ground Master (not a good example as it's an PCX1 game running badly on PCX2/Pentium 4, from the NEC PC 3D Engine driver CD): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThPoVjv1yp8

Other games I have: Purevex, Revolte, Virtual On, Ultim@te Race 1 track and 3 track (inc. Gateway edition).

Other useful PowerVR related people on here:

vetz aka RetroCompaqGuy on YouTube (helped with finding some software) see videos here (some PowerVR ones in there): https://www.youtube.com/@vetzRetro

Tuxality was working on a PowerVR wrapper and got so far into getting Virtual On to work, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rk-wo2wewM there's a long thread on Is this the possibility of a Power VR SGL Wrapper? but his wrapper didn't release

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Reply 23 of 29, by robertmo3

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most probably you need to have number 20 under your nick

Reply 24 of 29, by ralonsoj

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Well, I’ll keep posting and see if at some point the option to send private messages shows up. Oh, and being able to edit posts would be nice too… because right now if I mess up, I can’t change anything 🙄
VirtuaIceMan… yeah, I’ve checked out all those videos and a few more, like Raven’s, which are really well done. As for games, I’ve got quite a few downloaded and others I can’t find for PowerVR, like Virtual On. But yeah, it’s still early days to really test this properly. I might release a new version in a few days since, for example, OmegaField is pretty playable already.

Reply 25 of 29, by marxveix

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Any chance to lower CPU requirements, at the moment it requires SSE2 capable CPU.

Best ATi Rage3 drivers for 3DCIF / Direct3D / OpenGL / GLUT / DVD : ATi RagePro drivers and software
33+MiniGL / OpenGL Win 9x dll files for all ATi-Rage3 based cards : ATi RagePro OpenGL files

Reply 26 of 29, by ralonsoj

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In the new version I’ll compile two DLLs — a standard one and another for CPUs without SSE2. I’ll test it on my Pentium III and see how it runs.

Reply 27 of 29, by VirtuaIceMan

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I tried Virtual-On PowerVR version and when you launch the game it says "Error! Can not set display mode both of 640x480x16 320x240x16. Exit game."

I tried forcing 16bit colour and 640x480 res with Windows Compatibility settings but no difference. Just reporting my results 😀

I also tried the original single track version of Ultim@te Race, but that doesn't really start, if you click the screen it goes black, then white, then stops responding.

Purevex seems to work great! I think the background space is lacking bilinear texture filtering though (not able to fire up PowerVR rig to compare right this moment though).

Last edited by VirtuaIceMan on 2026-04-20, 14:49. Edited 2 times in total.

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Reply 28 of 29, by VirtuaIceMan

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Note: these older games won't install on Windows 10 so you just drag the setup.exe file into OTVDM and they install fine 😀

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Reply 29 of 29, by kon

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