Thanks! Something's off here, could you try this instead:
https://nirvtek.com/downloads/3DBVLB32.20260518.004.7z
MD5: 110a853157bb25f822d154bff6645d56

Hot linked drivers produce things like this now:

1026/5/18|17:26:17.180 !!! CGL SendStream
22026/5/18|17:26:17.180 !!! Ptr is 00264DA0, int param is 00000005
32026/5/18|17:26:17.180 ^^^^ Render Operation 0001 (CGL_TRIANGLE (0200)), num vertices 6, mask 0011 (Props Shader,Texture,)
42026/5/18|17:26:17.180 pVertex is 00252710
52026/5/18|17:26:17.180 (413.625000, 198.500000)
6(410.375000, 197.062500)
7(410.812500, 197.625000)
8(410.375000, 197.062500)
9(408.062500, 195.000000)
10(410.812500, 197.625000)

and

1026/5/18|17:26:17.180 ^^^^ Render Operation 0001 (CGL_QUAD (0300)), num vertices 8, mask 0011 (Props Shader,Texture,)
22026/5/18|17:26:17.180 pVertex is 00252710
32026/5/18|17:26:17.180 (406.125000, 191.500000)
4(406.000000, 192.375000)
5(407.437500, 192.187500)
6(407.687500, 191.250000)
7(413.625000, 192.250000)
8(421.687500, 191.000000)
9(419.625000, 189.000000)
10(414.687500, 189.750000)
11

and with that back to ICR2 tomorrow.

Battle Arena Toshinden (flat shaded polygons):
https://youtu.be/fd1cmn1u1Io

This can run at 60 fps BTW, even though it's not doing that here.
Update: Also running on core=simple, leftover from an ICR2 test.

Also on Patreon with a few more details:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/battle-arena-cg … ntent=join_link

Final Toshinden video of the week with texturing and blending working. Polygons are another matter:
https://youtu.be/I0IVEQpSuLQ
or at 1080p.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgl-update-1586 … ntent=join_link

new discovering's:
EarthSiege 3: StarSiege Alpha Tech Release 2.1
have rbdgfx.dll which refers to redline and verite dlls with many exports, game seems can't use it or i can't find a way how to enable or force it. in game it called software renderer. i didn't started new game , just messed around in menu and options.

Need for Speed III
have veritea.dll and unfortunately it can't be used. game simply not runs.

RaVeN-05 wrote on 2026-05-21, 12:29:

new discovering's: EarthSiege 3: StarSiege Alpha Tech Release 2.1 have rbdgfx.dll which refers to redline and verite dlls with m […]
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new discovering's:
EarthSiege 3: StarSiege Alpha Tech Release 2.1
have rbdgfx.dll which refers to redline and verite dlls with many exports, game seems can't use it or i can't find a way how to enable or force it. in game it called software renderer. i didn't started new game , just messed around in menu and options.

Need for Speed III
have veritea.dll and unfortunately it can't be used. game simply not runs.

That's great news. Maybe they can be hacked.

sharangad wrote on 2026-05-18, 11:20:

Thanks! Something's off here, could you try this instead:
https://nirvtek.com/downloads/3DBVLB32.20260518.004.7z
MD5: 110a853157bb25f822d154bff6645d56

@gonaeu, when you get a chance, I'd like logs from this, if possible. There's no rush.

Sure, here it is.

Gona wrote on 2026-05-24, 19:00:

Sure, here it is.

Thanks @Gona, but I think you need to run run.bat. It's a low priority task.

RReady widescreen again:
https://youtu.be/rvMuXuJjC80

( or on my Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/posts/indycar-racing- … ntent=join_link)

I used two of Hacker's tricks to make this work. The game internally renders at 1600x1200 instead of 640x480 and matrix scaling gets used for widescreen. The problem is that at 32:9 there's a fair bit of fish-eye. At 21:9 it's fairly mild and at 16:9 pretty much non-existent.

sharangad wrote on 2026-05-26, 12:59:

Thanks @Gona, but I think you need to run run.bat. It's a low priority task. […]
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Thanks @Gona, but I think you need to run run.bat. It's a low priority task.

RReady widescreen again:
https://youtu.be/rvMuXuJjC80

( or on my Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/posts/indycar-racing- … ntent=join_link)

I used two of Hacker's tricks to make this work. The game internally renders at 1600x1200 instead of 640x480 and matrix scaling gets used for widescreen. The problem is that at 32:9 there's a fair bit of fish-eye. At 21:9 it's fairly mild and at 16:9 pretty much non-existent.

I'have copied run.bat line to the autoexec.bat
Now I have ran it separate. Same size, some bite different.

Gona wrote on 2026-05-26, 16:58:

sharangad wrote on 2026-05-26, 12:59:

Thanks @Gona, but I think you need to run run.bat. It's a low priority task. […]
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Thanks @Gona, but I think you need to run run.bat. It's a low priority task.

RReady widescreen again:
https://youtu.be/rvMuXuJjC80

( or on my Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/posts/indycar-racing- … ntent=join_link)

I used two of Hacker's tricks to make this work. The game internally renders at 1600x1200 instead of 640x480 and matrix scaling gets used for widescreen. The problem is that at 32:9 there's a fair bit of fish-eye. At 21:9 it's fairly mild and at 16:9 pretty much non-existent.

I'have copied run.bat line to the autoexec.bat
Now I have ran it separate. Same size, some bite different.

You're right! I seem to have lost track of what I was doing with this.

Thanks!

Yet another Gona:
https://nirvtek.com/downloads/3DBVLB32.20260526.001.7z
MD5: c7f2e98efa86acb7c458cd5bc089c1a

I haven't spend much time on Toshinden, but enough to get it a bit more functional:
https://youtu.be/aXsFiMj9xxA

sharangad wrote on 2026-05-26, 22:41:

I haven't spend much time on Toshinden, but enough to get it a bit more functional:
https://youtu.be/aXsFiMj9xxA

Aargh! My motherboard /cpu is dead. 3 long beeps+boot led comes on. It powers on automatically without the power led. Hitting the power switch flips the error led from boot to vga. All the fans spin.

I have to find a b450 mobo tomorrow or I'll be out of action until Tuesday, thanks to the Buddha's birthday being on Saturday. Most of the places here are out of stock or in pre-order states. That's assuming the cpu isn't toast. Currently running on a lowly core 2 duo. Visual studio can't even track the mouse or register keystrokes.

I may be forced to optimize this for slower machines now.

Swapped over to an old b350 board and the same thing. Machine powers up immediately and no power or hdd light, but the fans spin.

I have tried swapping out gpus with no luck.

So it's either the cpu or the psu. It's the same without any ram.

Back to my sandy bridge i7 for now.

Update : swapping out the psu changed nothing.

The brand new Reno track built by checkpoint10. Works on every known version of ICR2 and is built with his new track builder, which minimizes texture and palette data without losing any detail:

Reno Hilton track at a lowly 720p. That's on an i7 2600 with a Radeon R7 250. The framerate isn't fantastic, just like the resolution.

https://youtu.be/T9Qgi1Y8nIY
(Update: with link 03/06/2026) https://www.patreon.com/posts/indycar-racing- … ntent=join_link)
Only the cockpit/HUD and the sprite scaling remain. Also do I need to support 16:10?

Got a new Ryzen and a mobo, DDR4 based. So I'm back in action. I've still got a problem with the RGB lighting coming on when the PSU is powered on.

Updated on 03/06/2026: it was a faulty PSU.

Round # 2 of Second Wind vs RReady. RReady seems to have a distorted aspect ratio:

https://youtu.be/SEL4-xzT-1k

Here's a better look at the aspect ratio involved for 16:9 for ICR2 wide:

https://youtu.be/ExRAVjBNfmg

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RReady ICR2 Widescreen (16:9 only) Alpha Test Release (June 05, 20206)
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This is a highly unstable and untested alpha release released for feedback.

To run ICR2 in 16:9 widescreen, two things are needed:
https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Alpha.20260605.002.7z
MD5: 758dfc33a699f728faddc9ddb3749881

and a patched version of ICR2 (available in indycar and car flavours) from here:
https://nirvtek.com/downloads/ICR2.Widescreen … .20260605.01.7z
MD5: cb259749e20003e9adace6696ca2bdad
In Rendition settings:
1) Monitor aspect ratio needs to be set to match your monitor and the game aspect must be 16:9.
2) The ICR2 widescreen option needs to be ticked

Limitations:
- the super-resolution multiplier may have to be reduced as the game's internal resolution has been increased from 640x480 to 1600x1200. Your GPU might not have enough VRAM. With 8gb of VRAM the multiplier can't be higher than 3.
- Currently only 16:9 is supported [This will be fixed soon]
- Cockpit colours won't change with the selected car and will be wrong if your car isn't red. [This will be fixed soon].
- Cockpit PCX files are supplied externally, how ever this release uses an internally embedded image.
- Cockpit/HUD may continue to linger when switching cameras between views.
- Cockpit/HUD may randomly disappear.
- There may be stability issues.
- The aspect ratio *might* be a little wonky.
- This will only work in dosbox-rendition. Support for Dosbox-staging-rendition will come in a future release.

Very early support for CGL (Toshinden only, with rendering defects in FIFO mode and with logging) is possible with this driver with dosbox-rendition. Dosbox-staging-rendition has partially broken support for this:
https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.CGLDrive … 20260605.001.7z
MD5: e426524aef509a71b9bccb0ff95739f8

All the existing CGL files needs to be backed up and removed to another folder and this driver needs to b placed in there.
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