Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-06-29, 04:06

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Just for the record, for anyone finding this thread in the future, dgVoodoo 2.79, now publicly available on Dege's site, seems to work perfectly. Unless something breaks in the future, I would expect all future versions to also work perfectly.

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-06-07, 19:49

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Hi Dege, Sorrydough seems to have fixed his crashing issue, you may be unsurprised to hear it was a Linux-related complication. The linux-using community for Forged Alliance Forever is really excited about this test build of 2.79, as it allows Linux players to play the game correctly. May I ask you …

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-05-05, 13:13

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A little background, if my quick research is correct. Proton is running Supreme Commander / dgVoodoo through a translation layer called DXVK. This support DX9 through DX11, and outputs to Vulkan. DXVK apparently has the same difficulties with shaders that dgVoodoo did before Dege kludged it in the …

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-29, 00:47

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Interesting. I had "Fake" Fullscreen mode turned *off*. When I turned it *on*, the problem went away. Seems more reliable as far as actually getting focus and displaying properly on startup, too. "Capture mouse" on the General tab doesn't seem to be doing anything though. For anyone finding this …

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-28, 02:09

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You are a god among men! The game works, though I once had it fail to actually go fullscreen - the fullscreen was "behind" my desktop and the secondary display did not appear. I had to alt-tab out and click Supreme Commander on the taskbar, which showed two "windows" for the program, and I then had …

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-27, 05:54

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Regarding the missing visual effects, perhaps my in-game graphics settings have something to do with it?

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-26, 12:45

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For the rendering errors, what if you set the output API to D3D12? I've tried all 5 in the dgVoodoo control panel - no change. D3D 11 feature 10.0 D3D 11 feature 10.1 D3D 11 feature 11.0 D3D 12 feature 11.0 D3D 12 feature 12.0 As for the resolutions, if you just set the native resolution for each …

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-26, 02:37

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Very interesting. My computer is the basket edge-case of edge-cases. So the game *does* run in full-screen dual-monitor mode with only two displays attached. It really doesn't like my rotated second screen though, constantly flickers showing both a rotated and non-rotated view. With dgVoodoo …

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-25, 13:33

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Just to be sure we're testing apples-to-apples, I've gone and installed the base Supreme Commander. It's behaving just like Forged Alliance, in terms of secondary display and missing gate-in visual effect.

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-25, 13:02

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edit: redacted

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-25, 11:48

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I presume that debug DLL is supposed to write a logfile somewhere when the game is run? Where would that be?

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-25, 11:40

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> Btw, Supreme Commander Forged Alliance is the same game as plain Supreme Commander? I have the latter one. Substantially the same game. I don't know if engine improvements were made, but if there was they were pretty minor. There's a couple new units, an entire new faction, and a new campaign with …

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-25, 06:15

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Missing gate-in effects https://imgur.com/a/WO2PJkc

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-25, 05:46

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Game behaves differently, but not correctly. https://i.imgur.com/CNbyPpr.png Second display is not initializing. Primary display also flickers and locks up upon entering into a match. Game behaves correctly if I disable the Secondary display. I think there's also some visual effects not showing up …

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Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-12, 01:54

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First of all, thank you so much for this project. It has enabled me to play several old games I'd given up for dead on modern computers! One of the things Supreme Commander was very notable for when it launched in 2007, was the ability to use two monitors - typically you'd have a "primary" monitor …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2021-08-05, 16:57

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Sorry to say, but you are wrong. Here is the rather short list of All games that do NOT use custom instruments. All the other ones do (many hundreds). ... ... https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=48500 https://minirevver.weebly.com/mt-32-music.html I take some exception to that list. Just …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2021-08-05, 04:32

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Since few MT-32 games/Midi files use only the default instrument set That's not my experience. Almost all games use the default instruments for music reproduction. Some will use custom instruments for sound effects. A very few will use a couple of custom instruments for music. The only game I can …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2021-08-04, 19:36

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Sounds easy. Is that really only a different mapping of instruments? No traps like percussion is on different channel or alike? Could you provide the MT32 list, or point me at a resource where I could find it? MT-32 percussion is on channel 10 I think, same as General MIDI. Some googling found …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2021-08-04, 17:57

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Would it be at all possible to get MT-32 instrument mappings in DOSMid such that when playing back MT-32 MIDI the program will show the correct instruments? I'm not even asking for autodetection of MT-32 MIDI (Which can be troublesome), but just a command-line argument that tells the program "Show …

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Re: Any DOS/iMUSE hackers up for fixing X-Wing?

Posted on 2021-07-26, 02:40

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In both cases, the actual executable is BWING.EXE The floppy BWING.EXE contains one reference to ROLAND.LFD, and several other occurrences of the string 'roland'. whereas the CD BWING.EXE does not include the string 'roland' anywhere.

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