Re: GLQuake dynamic lighting performance request
Posted on 2019-01-10, 03:27
You should be able to scroll in the console with Page Up. Vid_wait 0 disables Vsync.
Re: GLQuake dynamic lighting performance request
Posted on 2019-01-08, 23:54
That S3 result is very telling of why flashblend was a thing, though this automatic enabling sounds mysterious to me. I never recall seeing a switch in the game code for automatically controlling the variable, so I suspect the driver is doing something fishy, ironically tanking the performance.
Re: Fastest Tualatin Chipset / Best Pentium III Motherboard
Posted on 2019-01-08, 14:09
You are welcome :) What other games from 1999-2002 are good benchmarks as well? Perhaps that Crytek X-Isle demo? Certainly a mouthful for a CPU when there's no hardware T&L. Assuming it can run with that hardware at all. If it doesn't work on Ati, then there sure is some impressive backwards …
Re: GLQuake dynamic lighting performance request
Posted on 2019-01-07, 23:37
The oldest system I have working right now it a Athlon 1.4 with a Voodoo 4 4500. 1024x768 gl_flashblend 1: 78.4 fps gl_flashblend 0, r_dynamic 1: 85.7 fps gl_flashblend 0, r_dynamic 0: 95.2 fps Interesting how flashblend is actually slower. I guess the trend reverses once you go back to the PCI era …
GLQuake dynamic lighting performance request
Posted on 2019-01-07, 20:20
One graphical feature that GLQuake omitted over its software rendered counterpart is the dynamic lighting that was used profusely throughout the game, supposedly to save a non-trivial amount of performance. Luckily, a console variable lets one restore this lost feature that makes the game really …
Re: Giveaway: lots of retro pc stuff (Copenhagen, Denmark) - [Picked up]
Posted on 2019-01-05, 22:21
It's not a a pleasant feeling to miss out on such a good opportunity, but at least someone else excitingly got home today after a trip to a metaphorical gold mine.
Re: Intel 810 and OpenGL
Posted on 2019-01-05, 16:08
I still think the claim of a GL->Direct3D driver is wrong (other than perhaps the software implementation using DirectX to draw its pixels, probably because of the new Aero DWM introduced in Vista). But even if it were true, it's no different than a software renderer really: it's a hardware- …
Re: Intel 810 and OpenGL
Posted on 2019-01-04, 21:19
spiroyster wrote: M$ You really have a quarrel with Microsoft, don't you?
Re: Fastest Tualatin Chipset / Best Pentium III Motherboard
Posted on 2019-01-04, 17:22
I thought the same or maybe that is just some Intel optimatisation for those chips? I815 is also doing great here... besides I think that Half-Life is not the most reliable benchmark for video cards ;) Whatever the cause, its lead is pretty consistent with both PCI cards. It seems like everything …
Re: Intel 810 and OpenGL
Posted on 2019-01-04, 16:39
Try the well known OpenGL caps viewer. On a mostly unrelated note, my 2013 portable PC includes an Intel graphics driver with basic Windows features and no OpenGL in the driver store. The pre-installed driver includes OpenGL, but no OpenCL. So yeah, Intel driver packages can be a bit shoddy.
Re: Fastest Tualatin Chipset / Best Pentium III Motherboard
Posted on 2019-01-04, 01:36
http://u.cubeupload.com/roksana/5fRad9200HalfLifeOpe.jpg […] Show full quote My heart skipped a beat. What the hell is going on here, considering how the 820 fared poorly elsewhere?
Re: Doom vs Heretic VGA performance difference
Posted on 2019-01-04, 00:09
Because everything is slow on ISA. But everything except Doom is up to 2x more playable. Heck, even Quake is faster. Yeah, on this abysmal card, but does the same apply to "bad" cards in general? There has to be at least one working class friendly card out there with the courage to gracefully …
Re: Doom vs Heretic VGA performance difference
Posted on 2019-01-03, 00:28
dondiego wrote: Mode Y was very slow on old crappy isa cards, on my trident 8900C and a DX4 Boom was much faster. Especially slow or simply slow? Because everything is slow on ISA.
Re: Doom vs Heretic VGA performance difference
Posted on 2019-01-02, 12:44
Bump for interest in more Mode Y and Mode 13h comparisons. Carmack claims that the direct hardware access to VGA memory that the former provides boosts the performance by 10-15%. Evidently, this is far from the case on some configurations. Speed aside, Heretic's lack of Vsync stinks. The least they …
Re: Quake (Specifically, WinQuake)
Posted on 2019-01-02, 07:26
Runs too fast, eh? What PC?
Re: Half-Life OpenGL integrated graphics flashlight fix (and overbrights)
Posted on 2018-12-30, 09:47
The problem with gl_overbright is that it only works on the environment. Entities are not multitextured, and are thus only at most 100% bright. Steam's Half-Life however attempts to overbrighten whether you want it to or not, only to clamp it at the default max brightness value if the multitexture …
Re: Mid-1999 GPU That Takes Rendering Load from the CPU
Posted on 2018-12-30, 09:22
Half-Life's OpenGL interfacing is anachronistic, to say the least. There are a couple of things John Carmack and Brian Hook addressed since the release of GLQuake that the Valve engineers did not. For example, Half-Life is still using the immediate mode with an API call for every vertex or strip. …
Re: 44.1 KHz VS 48 KHz
Posted on 2018-08-09, 15:23
For games you're out of luck, all older stuff is 44KHz based while newer stuff is 48KHz based and you'll not have any control over how their sound gets output for the most part. Cards supporting both 44 and 48 don't support things like EAX and A3D but games using those should also use 48 so there …
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2018-07-08, 23:49
They weren't high when I started making my videos. They weren't also high in their original release either ;) They were budget cards to the core. I'm guessing the whole Dreamcast fandom baggage is what keeps it high like it's a "beta" dreamcast GPU (wrong) or something Is this Dreamcast fanbase as …
Bloom/HDR on old GPUs
Posted on 2018-07-06, 21:37
As I was chronologically going through the old GPU demos, I was intrigued by seeing how early novel effects had been put into practice on real-time consumer rendering hardware. I was in particular reminded of the bloom boom that took place in the mid-2000's. I was wondering how many examples there …
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