vQuake with Dosbox-Rendition/RReady 16 MB of VRAM:

https://youtu.be/9Dwsj9xeNZ8

Skip to 03:55 for a little bit of mipscale_0 action.
d_mipscale 0 is fully playable. It's not in the vid, but I've been able to playthrough the first 2 levels at a solid 60 fps (with a few dips).

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RReady Alpha January 03, 2025 (Untested Alpha Release)
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https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Alpha.20250103.001.7z
MD5: 863a01108132a9ceaf5a03a7f85067c4
MD5: 5e5e8967fcf5a7e3681f1cd08b6b2d47

- Ups Speedy3D VRAM limit to 16 MB from 4 MB (Speedy3D hardware limit. Note RRedline has access to a full 128 MB thanks to higher level abstraction). The MiroV1k.VBI BIOS needs to be used.
- Includes previous fixes:
- Corrects OpenGL glsl shader "error C7011: implicit cast from "uint" to "int'" error
- 60 fps Frame Generation/interpolation supported for Gr*nd Pr*x L*egends and "Die by the Sword." Note GPL will have to be run at default resolution/4:3 (fill screen aspect) aspect as the game has a mouse lock. Higher resolutions can be selected from within the game, Your GPU's internal aspect ratio controls from its control panel should be used for aspect ratio selection. "Die by the Sword" can be upscaled without issue.
- Fixes Eur*figher 2000+ texture corruption when switching between menu and active mission. This was caused by the game writing to 8 MB of VRAM and choosing textures within the 4 MB range. Rounding write addresses modulo 4 MB, effectively restricting writes to the first 4 MB for this game, corrects the issue.[Update] This issue is fixed with 16 MB of VRAM as well. The previous fix is unnecessary,
- Whiplash minor fixes.

This release won't go into testing (and then on to to a store release) for at least another week.

Having more VRAM seems to have unlocked a few more resolutions, but selecting them causes a v_malloc error (verite_malloc?).

vQuake at 1280x1024:

https://youtu.be/tUTsOUq3sXc

Kind of buggy at the moment.

Managed to increase the heap size for ICR2 to 49 MB and full fat carsets work just fine natively. The tracks are another matter though and will probably need DOSBox to support 128 MB of RAM or something.
These should work on original hardware provided the machine has at least 64 MB of RAM.
https://nirvtek.com/downloads/ICR2.IncreasedHeapSize.7z
MD5:44a72b1efc15fbc2171b906a63f5133e

For best results you'll need the upcoming build of RReady with 16 MB of VRAM. I'll try and release that as soon as possible.

Videos:
https://youtu.be/AvqAliIQKHQ

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robertmo3 wrote on 2025-01-04, 11:42:

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Thanks! Is that just daum or all dosboxen?

512 😉
i don't know 😉

maybe daum mem can be carried from its source code into dosbox src .
Amazing progress. Seen video.

dosbox-ece has 512 too

dosbox-x 512 too

staging has 4gb 😉

Ok. That's my job for tomorrow.

Make dosbox-rendition and staging capable of 512 MB.

I think this is what they call scope creep.

robertmo3 wrote on 2025-01-04, 12:12:

staging has 4gb 😉

Oh wow. I'll try that now.

The game appears to be unable to use a heap size bigger than 55 MB. Tracks and carsets don't load, not even the intro.

vHexen 2 resolution unlocked (natively), with glitches:
https://youtu.be/Ppqk_fLn3Pk

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RReady Alpha, January 5, 2025 (Untested release, undergoing testing)
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https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Alpha.20250105.001.7z
MD5: 95a9426d295887198bfc6f442f7d9ee7
- Support for a full 16 MB of VRAM for Speedy3D apps. This is the upper limit for Speedy3D (24 bit).
For Speedy3D apps, VRAM is configured in dosbox-rendition.conf (or ...-staging.conf) with
[rendition]
MaxVRAM =nn (nn is in MB, range 4-16, default 16)
For RRedline MaxVRAM=nn can be set in rendition.cfg and it defaults to 128 MB
- vQuake beta 1.06 is once again playable and joins betas 1.07 and 1.08 (recommended beta)
- Higher resolutions may be selectable in vQuake but currently have issues. This will be resolved in a future release.
- Bilinear filtering can be disabled by adding nofilter=1 to rendition.cfg. Some games might not render correctly with this setting.
- vHexen II additional resolutions can be unlocked by selecting the game in the WinApps tab of RLauncher and clicking "App Settings."->Unlock resolutions. There may be rendering bugs with higher resolutions. This will be fixed in a future update.

ICR2 with bilinear filtering disabled:
https://youtu.be/HpgfJQsdJx0

Filtering can be disabled by adding nofilter=1 to rendition.cfg (Requires January 5 2025, build 001 release of RReady).

[EDIT] Partially broken, will be fixed in the stable alpha[/EDIT]

it is strange that with latest modded "1982cart" carsets:
- 1982CART.Mi4.Dithering.RenditionReady
- 1982CART.Mi4.NoDither.RenditionReady
you can load "phoenix new" track, but cannot load "phoenix" track

robertmo3 wrote on 2025-01-05, 14:47:

it is strange that with latest modded "1982cart" carsets: - 1982CART.Mi4.Dithering.RenditionReady - 1982CART.Mi4.NoDither.Rendit […]
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it is strange that with latest modded "1982cart" carsets:
- 1982CART.Mi4.Dithering.RenditionReady
- 1982CART.Mi4.NoDither.RenditionReady
you can load "phoenix new" track, but cannot load "phoenix" track

That's weird. Oddly enough both work in any one after another in any order with the full set.