It's quite impressive how far this has come, so fast.

How is it achitected? Is it basically a generic "hal" interface, with a kind of card specific driver of sorts?

myne wrote on Today, 11:29:

It's quite impressive how far this has come, so fast.

How is it achitected? Is it basically a generic "hal" interface, with a kind of card specific driver of sorts?

Yep 100%, it is a shared 3D core for all cards and then GPU specific override as required.

My Remote Agent allows AI to automate most of the testing process, so this speeds things up significantly.

I've decided my next card is the ATi Rage 128, maybe not the most interesting but I own a Rage Fury Maxx (Dual CPU Rage 128) so I want to get that going, and in future get it working in Windows 2000/XP.

I'm already building a ground up 2000/XP driver, but that has a very specific card I'm focusing on at the moment, taking lots of time that one. Not releasing it yet.

Nice.
How's the clarkdale going?

myne wrote on Today, 11:44:

Nice.
How's the clarkdale going?

"done" was added in 0.24! Please test on your machine!

Amazing.
Are you finding any issues with variants, or is one of a family/architecture basically fine?

Eg rx460 =rx590 with/without issues

myne wrote on Today, 11:53:

Amazing.
Are you finding any issues with variants, or is one of a family basically fine?

Eg rx460 =rx590 with/without issues

I haven't done new ATi/AMD cards yet but the Intel iGPUs change a lot, real pain actually! Still haven't worked on dynmaic shared ram, the GMA 950 is limited to only 8mb currently, so need to fix that, at least the newer intel GPUs do 32mb by default.

My goal is to get Far Cry/HL2 working and DX9, but that is a while off.

I just used those as an example of an architecture family. They're all Polaris.

Are you finding that once one Xxx works, others of the same family and generation are automatically working?

Like, you did a 4th gen Intel driver for some relatively decent chip. If someone pulls out a Gen4 celeron, it isn't an issue that it has fewer units or anything?

Or is it too early to tell?

For ram, I'd suggest having a cap at 256mb for the mean time. 512 had issues back in the day, so best to avoid that headache until you're ready to figure out what it is

myne wrote on Today, 12:00:

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I just used those as an example of an architecture family. They're all Polaris.

Are you finding that once one Xxx works, others of the same family and generation are automatically working?

Like, you did a 4th gen Intel driver for some relatively decent chip. If someone pulls out a Gen4 celeron, it isn't an issue that it has fewer units or anything?

Or is it too early to tell?

For ram, I'd suggest having a cap at 256mb for the mean time. 512 had issues back in the day, so best to avoid that headache until you're ready to figure out what it is

Yes the gens are mostly the same if not exactlly the same the PCI ID matches. Intel did some interesting things with Gen 7 vs 7.5 and Gen 4/5.

I had Gen 3 and Gen 7.5 done so was hoping Gen 4 would be easy, but no, was very different.

Well at least that's a win. There simply aren't that many generations of gpu period.
25ish or so for Intel, 30ish for amd and nvidia, and then a bunch of didn't make its.
Maybe 100-120 in total to date.