Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2025-04-10, 17:57

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It's not a texture size issue, I *think*, because Cars95 doesn't work with the MIP reduced Mexico. It does work with other MIP reduced carsets, most of which have much larger textures. Cars95 is relatively lightweight. I noticed the same thing with CARS95 which I initially used for baseline testing …

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Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2025-04-10, 17:49

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So the differences are somewhat minor. Are the replacement textures you used the same size as the original? Yes, the mips in my hand made fix are smaller. But I noticed some of the tree and horizon mips have the same size so it's likely I could skip those. I swapped those two groups en masse for …

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Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2025-04-08, 19:02

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Side by side comparison of Mexico; almost identical with a few small things of note: both good performers - Practice full field starts in 50s and hits 60 leaving pit. Oddly, I'd say my hand built version has a hard to pin point "smoother" feel at times even with both running at 60 - really subtle. …

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Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2025-04-07, 21:15

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Mexico City (Max 5 mip maps per texture) Now Rendition Ready: Cool - works. ...now just need to prevail on the modders to edit in the corner 12 complex to match CART 2002-2007... Yesterday I was curious why this track was so tricky and brute-forced a working version. Unpacked the track then …

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Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2025-04-07, 03:09

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Thanks for buying a copy. For every store release there should be a matching Alpha release... No thank you. And no watermark now haha. I basically got it down after I figured out how/where files were being installed and sorted it out. For some reason working with the alpha was easier for me - but …

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Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2025-04-07, 02:49

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Yes - snagged it yesterday. A nice upgrade to the stock rendition DETROIT. sharangad wrote on 2025-04-07, 00:09: Belle Isle track - Brand new Rendition Ready track, courtesty of Samsepi https://youtu.be/82QsmEft1iY

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Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2025-04-06, 16:06

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hmmm ...I still get the "Problem Loading Track" error. Quick question - I've been testing with the free alpha builds as I find it easy to make/tweak standalone installs for each season skipping the launcher. I bought the retail version. Can I just copy the new dosbox/staging folders into my installs …

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Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2025-04-05, 19:21

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I've just about completed testing of all the good tracks/cars I have - CART and IRL - 1980s thru 2000s. Not bad at all. Echoing my intitial assessment a bit more than half tracks need reducing and all carsets. Not concerning myself with formation lap/race start performan hit for now. Mainly …

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Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2025-03-30, 21:30

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Where can I find these? I think the problem with the carset is that there're a lot of cars and they all have to be rendered at high detail. You'll find Pavel's reyn1999 and his other carsets/tracks in this link. I found it in a forum thread at ICR2.net - they should really sticky it in the forum. …

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Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2025-03-28, 00:24

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EDIT: Probably the worst combo I've seen is reyn1999 + Clevland (7-23-2012 dat); formation lap never above 30s. Where can I find these? I think the problem with the carset is that there're a lot of cars and they all have to be rendered at high detail. You'll find Pavel's reyn1999 and his other …

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Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2025-03-27, 20:52

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Quick observation regarding carsets vs tracks: heavy carsets seem account for most/all performance dropoff. Simpler carsets barely dropoff during formation laps and first corner or two before the pack spreads out. OTOH the whole library of nice Pavel cars 1990-2001 (lola1990-95, reyn1996-2000) …

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Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2025-03-27, 18:38

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@tincup, what would you say the worst performing tracks and carsets are? I can look at optimising performance. The tracks that I have, don't suffer a massive performance hit while racing. I'll need to go through things in more detail. Till now I've tested almost exclusively using Pavel's carsets …

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Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2025-03-26, 16:25

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Testing: I had some free time so I took a shot at TREDIT. First pass was testing a light carset with a complte set of the best/heaviest addon tracks 1990-2001, to identify tracks that needed reducing. A fair number didn't load so I reduced those. Then I switched to Pavel's nice/heavy carsets 1990- …

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Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2025-03-24, 04:39

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sharangad wrote on 2025-03-24, 03:15: One thing to note is that some tracks will just work with just a mip reduced carset (surfers' paradise, Meadowlands and Nashville are three that I tested). Cool - thanks. I'll give another shot tomorrow...

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Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2025-03-24, 02:00

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@sharangad ...I tried reducing track MIPs with TRedit.exe for an unpacked dat track (Pavel's lbeach96) but can't get a result yet. I put TRedit.exe in .\ICR2 and made a dosbox_MIP.conf with [autoexec] to start tredit .\ICR2\TRACKS\lbeach96 - reduce -convert .\ICR2\TRACKS\_TEMP but nothing happened. …

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Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2025-02-26, 17:05

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Time out just to say ...wow! Been testing ICR2 with the latest Alpha build and the Rendition experience/fidelity is extrordinary. Yes, there are currently issues with a lot addon tracks - especially track/carset related conflicts - and it's taking a while to test all the content as there's a ton of …

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Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2024-11-26, 19:40

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You're welcome! The issue with the custom tracks and carsets is there with the original game on real hardware, at least on the ones I tested. For some reason the accelerated version of the game has some bizarre memory restrictions. [EDIT] I take it you're running on a quad-core or better cpu with a …

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Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2024-11-26, 15:40

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@sharangad - may I just say I'm blown away by this Rendition wrapper - at last! I just tested your alpha release and my old CART Rendition fired right up in all it's primal 3D glory. One of the reasons I got into retro PCs was to run this old beauty so I know what it looks and feels like on original …

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Re: MiG Alley

Posted on 2024-08-12, 03:32

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.....There just must be something I'm missing... No compatibility mode - let Wine do it's thing. If that doesn't work try turning on/off the FSAA/MSAA for your GTX. Like I said we have very similar sytems so it's probably just a matter of some trial and error. I don't think it's an exotic setting …

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Re: MiG Alley

Posted on 2024-08-09, 21:17

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... I've tried DDrawcompat 0.5.3. and Wined3d, but to no avail. Compatibility modes don't seem to help either... I gave up on DDrawcompat but had glorious success with Wined3d. Specifically the 3 files dated 10-13-2018; ddraw.dll (593kb), libwine.dll (1,770kb), wined3d.dll (1,486kb). However a more …

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