I hope it's not 320x200 X-mode because it is not supported by dgVoodoo.

MMMmmm, after all it is 320x200x8 modeX...
But, as I forgot about the fact that all of the modes are linearized toward the application in DirectX, adding support for it is not a big deal, I've just done it and the game runs fine now.
So I guess modeX modes made sense only for the ability to creating more than one buffer (front, back, ...) on an old VGA with 256kB VRAM, since the linearizing itself is costly.

I tried with Tomb Raider 3 and Gothic,but the wrapper causes some of the graphics to turn white.

I've just tried 2.43 with TR3 to see if I broke sg but the game ran fine.
Do white textures appear at once you start the game or playing with it for a while is needed?

That's awesome! Is there any plan for when the next beta/WIP version might be out?

I wonder if the 320x200x8 modeX support will help other old games too?

I can upload it now, after all it's not in a half-state right now:

http://dege.fw.hu/temp/dgVoodooWIP5.zip

- Mirrored blitting is fixed
- Support for ModeX
- Transforming normal vectors are changed in the lighting calculations because it wasn't compatible with MS D3D; also doing the normalizing of normals weren't OK in pre-DX7 interfaces, fixed

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I hope it's not 320x200 X-mode because it is not supported by dgVoodoo.

MMMmmm, after all it is 320x200x8 modeX...
But, as I forgot about the fact that all of the modes are linearized toward the application in DirectX, adding support for it is not a big deal, I've just done it and the game runs fine now.
So I guess modeX modes made sense only for the ability to creating more than one buffer (front, back, ...) on an old VGA with 256kB VRAM, since the linearizing itself is costly.

I tried with Tomb Raider 3 and Gothic,but the wrapper causes some of the graphics to turn white.

I've just tried 2.43 with TR3 to see if I broke sg but the game ran fine.
Do white textures appear at once you start the game or playing with it for a while is needed?

It appears at once(the passport on the title screen is completely white),but if It works fine for you then It must be problem with my specs.Thank you.
Edit:
Gothic works pretty nice with the new WIP.Thank you.

Windows 7 x64-i7 4790k-GTX660ti-8gb ram

MageSlayer and Take No Prisoners both work now... but they only detect 320x200 software as a supported resolution. The games support resolutions up to 800x600 and d3d acceleration, neither which is available.

Planescape Torment works, but not GoG's build.

Icewind Dale II looks very close to perfect, but there's some really annoying cursor flickering. Performance is perfect though.

It appears at once(the passport on the title screen is completely white),but if It works fine for you then It must be problem with my specs.Thank you.

It's strange... because the wrapper should give the same results (as for appearance) on each videocard since it uses the same guaranteed gpu features and runs on one code path. The only explanation could be that the texture for the passport couldn't be allocated for some reason and so only its diffuse lighting appears in place of that. But I see no reason for that, as you have 8GB vram.

I experimented a little with TR3, and found (and fixed) a bug: the game setup dialog is unreachable because the game crashes before it could even pop up. Also, if I force 8 bit textures, then 2D background textures are black. But otherwise it works ok without paletted textures.

MageSlayer and Take No Prisoners both work now... but they only detect 320x200 software as a supported resolution. The games support resolutions up to 800x600 and d3d acceleration, neither which is available.

Must be something with d3d device capability flags. I will check it.

Icewind Dale II looks very close to perfect, but there's some really annoying cursor flickering.

Yes, I know. I got strongly flicker-free cursor with unforced vSync though. Unfortunately it's a problem related to direct writing to the primary surface. The emulation cannot be as perfect as the native mechanism.

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Icewind Dale II looks very close to perfect, but there's some really annoying cursor flickering.

Yes, I know. I got strongly flicker-free cursor with unforced vSync though. Unfortunately it's a problem related to direct writing to the primary surface. The emulation cannot be as perfect as the native mechanism.

Can you explain what you mean with unenforced vSync? as far as I see the game has no native vsync support, so only vsync I can think of is either forcing it through dgVoodoo2... or forcing it through graphic driver (I could select let 3d application decide, but that would still be the driver handling vsync... I tried that of course).

TNT doesn't support 8bit textures. Geforce 256 was the first.
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample/regist … ted_texture.txt

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TNT doesn't support 8bit textures. Geforce 256 was the first.
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample/regist … ted_texture.txt

Thanks for the info!!
I don't know if Suzuki ran on a GeForce but in the worst case the game itself should be patched to avoid paletted textures.

Can you explain what you mean with unenforced vSync? as far as I see the game has no native vsync support, so only vsync I can think of is either forcing it through dgVoodoo2...

Sorry, I mean through dgVoodoo.
I usually enable 'Force vSync' for myself and first when I ran Icewind II I got a madly flashing cursor. But when I disabled it and ran Icewind again, flashing was gone.
(This is because drawing menu elements or cursors usually splits into more than one parts and dgVoodoo updates the screen after each finished part when the drawing is directly going to the screen (the primary surface in DDraw terminologies). However if vSync is forced then a complete screen refresh occurs at each step, that's why visible flashing or slow appearance is experienced. For example, I guess Icewind first restores the background behind the cursor (first step, screen refresh) then draws it to the new position (second step, screen refresh again), so the cursor-free state is clearly visible by eye.)

MageSlayer and Take No Prisoners both work now... but they only detect 320x200 software as a supported resolution. The games support resolutions up to 800x600 and d3d acceleration, neither which is available.

I've just fixed that. At least for Take No Prisoners.

Seeing what the code of MS DX does and what the games' code sometimes check against implies that DX code changed compared to a, say, Win98 version of DX. I guess a Win7 is not the best choice for reverse engineering DX, an old hw with a real Win98 would be the best.

Finally I patched Suzuki Altare ER because I can't see any bug in the wrapper code.

If this game encounters a paletted texture format then it stores it and at a later point this is the only one available texture format for some reason.
But the game realizes that it cannot use that. 😀

http://dege.fw.hu/temp/SuzukiAlstareExtremeRacingPatch.zip

It works with the latest WIP.

Just tried my Rally Challenge v1.2 (which looks like this http://s.ecrater.com/stores/88021/4c8ebcc5b0008_88021b.jpg) with dgVoodoo WIP5 and it still fails to start with the "DirectDraw Error: cannot attach pal to front buffer UNDEF. DD ERROR" and not closing the game in Task Manager.

I'll send you something to look at Dege...

Is there a way to get Shadow Company: Left for Dead to work with this?

1CPU: Intel i7-4790K
2GPU: GTX 970
3RAM: 16Gb DDR3-1600
4Chipset: Z97
5OS: Windows 7 Pro x64

Steam versions of X-Wing, Tie Fighter and XvT have been released recently. In native DirectX only software mode is available. The games come with their own ddraw.dll wrapper and when you replace it with dgVoodoo's the games just fail to launch. However I managed to enable 3D mode using WineD3D so apperantly it hasn't been deactivated like the GoG edition and the problems with 3D acceleration are probably some sort of incompatibility.

Dege, can you take a look?

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1CPU: Intel i7-4790K
2GPU: GTX 970
3RAM: 16Gb DDR3-1600
4Chipset: Z97
5OS: Windows 7 Pro x64

Yes. It does not work with WIP5 but I tried with the latest build and it worked. It seems that a resolution related fix for TNP fixed this one too.
However the menu text/subtitles seem a bit unreadable, I don't know if it's normal, I couldn't run this game natively.
I also experienced some mouse problems but I don't know if it has to do with my multimonitor system.

Steam versions of X-Wing, Tie Fighter and XvT have been released recently. In native DirectX only software mode is available. The games come with their own ddraw.dll wrapper and when you replace it with dgVoodoo's the games just fail to launch. However I managed to enable 3D mode using WineD3D so apperantly it hasn't been deactivated like the GoG edition and the problems with 3D acceleration are probably some sort of incompatibility.

Dege, can you take a look?

Yes, I could. It's a stupid question, but is there maybe a demo version of them? 😀

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Yes, I could. It's a stupid question, but is there maybe a demo version of them? 😀

I don't think so. I know someone who owns all 3 games on Steam. I'll ask him if he could maybe set up a family sharing option for you. Do you already have Steam?

Im kinda of new to all of this, what is WIP5 and TNP? Did you have to update the game to 1.3 or 1.31? I tried that Windows 7 patch from moddb and that didnt work.

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1CPU: Intel i7-4790K
2GPU: GTX 970
3RAM: 16Gb DDR3-1600
4Chipset: Z97
5OS: Windows 7 Pro x64

Yes. It does not work with WIP5 but I tried with the latest build and it worked. It seems that a resolution related fix for TNP fixed this one too.
However the menu text/subtitles seem a bit unreadable, I don't know if it's normal, I couldn't run this game natively.
I also experienced some mouse problems but I don't know if it has to do with my multimonitor system.

Steam versions of X-Wing, Tie Fighter and XvT have been released recently. In native DirectX only software mode is available. The games come with their own ddraw.dll wrapper and when you replace it with dgVoodoo's the games just fail to launch. However I managed to enable 3D mode using WineD3D so apperantly it hasn't been deactivated like the GoG edition and the problems with 3D acceleration are probably some sort of incompatibility.

Dege, can you take a look?

Yes, I could. It's a stupid question, but is there maybe a demo version of them? 😀

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Im kinda of new to all of this, what is WIP5 and TNP?

WIP = Work in Progress

TNP = fix for Take No Prisoners

Black squares on the water in Gruntz are gone, but borderless windows still kick the game out of a full screen mode.

Example:

I put the latest version in the install folder of Shadow Company but when I run it I get the following:

"No usable 3D Devices installed."

Am I doing something wrong?

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I put the latest version in the install folder of Shadow Company but when I run it I get the following:

"No usable 3D Devices installed."

Am I doing something wrong?

It doesn't work until the next release (or WIP release).