FIFO mode was broken in the last release, this should correct it and optimise it a bit more and produce kind of a largish speed boost; I'm getting nearly double the framerate in Descent 2 (18 fps instead of 8 ) and some of the missing textures now actually render in the wrong format.

Scorched Planet seems to be smoother. Eurofighter Typhoon shot up from 22 fps to 38-45. All three of these games only run in FIFO mode.

https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Alpha.20260102.001.7z
MD5: c100d52043eee0893bd21cd6e91d3176

I would be very interested in your SP framerate @Raven-05.

Descent 2 runs faster yes, can't see fps.
Scorched Planet from 20 to 60 fps.
Eurofighter main mission Quick Start runs for me in 20fps.

I spot other bugs, regression in NASCAR Racings - mouse pointer is not draws at bottom and its difficult to blindly quit game or start race. Also red arrows inside car is have a lot of hall of mirrors.

Probably regression in Whiplash. Suspect that a lot of polygons sometimes not draws at distance. Sometimes.

RaVeN-05 wrote on 2026-01-02, 18:38:

Descent 2 runs faster yes, can't see fps. Scorched Planet from 20 to 60 fps. Eurofighter main mission Quick Start runs for me in […]
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Descent 2 runs faster yes, can't see fps.
Scorched Planet from 20 to 60 fps.
Eurofighter main mission Quick Start runs for me in 20fps.

I spot other bugs, regression in NASCAR Racings - mouse pointer is not draws at bottom and its difficult to blindly quit game or start race. Also red arrows inside car is have a lot of hall of mirrors.

Probably regression in Whiplash. Suspect that a lot of polygons sometimes not draws at distance. Sometimes.

You can get the framerate when you hit F3. It's actually faster when the cockpit is hidden because of the weird way the cockpit is drawn, with front buffer rendering.

NR1999 and N2 have that problem in both FIFO and DMA mode. So it's some other thing that's broken them.

Whiplash looks the same in FIFO and DMA modes. One of the demos (the one with the loop) has missing polygons in DMA mode as well, unless this is a new regression.

I was hoping to do a release soon with the bug fixes. ICR2 widescreen isn't ready yet.

The Nascar menu problems were caused by ICR2 widescreen code. I never seem to learn. This should have improved FIFO and working menus:
https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Alpha.20260103.001.7z
MD5: 3a2df5a2541dcde89f1bbc28c0bc57af

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RReady Alpha (January 06, 2026, 1.0.46) (Fully tested Alpha Release)
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https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Alpha.20260106.001.7z
MD5: be306ffa6e2dac8601207e58f396bc01

- Grand Prix Legends transparency issues with windscreen fixed
- Eurofigher 2000+ gamma correction functional but not quite 100%.
- Native support for XInput controllers (SDL1) and axis remapping (Dosbox-Rendition)
- Joystick polling can be done on a separate thread for improved performance (requires multi-core CPU)(Dosbox-Rendition)
- FIFO performance improvements (Dosbox-Rendition)
- Improved compatibility with standard VGA apps (Both Dosboxen)
- Support OPL-3 ‘nuked’ core FM synthesis (Dosbox-Rendition)
- Descent II menu textures corrected and performance boost, though still quite slow.

This should be live on the store within the next 2-3 days.

[EDIT] This release has a bug which could dosbox-rendition to crash to the desktop at startup with a wheel connected. To correct this in dosbox-Rendition.conf (RLauncher->Dos tab->Dosbox-Rendition settings) add or modify the following 3 lines under the [joystick] section:
[joystick]
multithreaded = false
usejoystickids = true
joystickids = 0

https://www.rready.com/about-us
😉

robertmo3 wrote on 2026-01-07, 18:44:

https://www.rready.com/about-us
😉

🤣! There's a think tank called verité research as well.

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

RaVeN-05 wrote on 2026-01-08, 12:17:

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Thanks RaVeN-05!

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RReady Alpha(January 16, 2026, 1.0.47)(Hotfix release for 1.0.46)
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https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Alpha.20 … %20Hotfix%29.7z
MD5: e90b2554e5f87afeaa23c96c09b05a31
- Corrects Dosbox-Rendition crash with usejoystickids=false
- Updates documentation for i76/Nitro and MW2

Sorry for the delay, fell ill again and now I seem to be having swollen feet along with fever. Fell ill right after the last release. My hands were swollen and red until yesterday.

I am back from illness probably coronavirus again oh damn.

Bless you Sharanga ! Wish good health.

Testings:
Heavy Gear
Everything rendered parfectly.

Some issues with game which could be fixed:
use dgVoodoo to avoid black screens.

videos may not render .

to fix negative thread error use:
http://www.thief-thecircle.com/guides/hyperthreading/

imagecfg utility.
make reserve copy of hg.exe
from cmd with admin rights, and kill hg.exe from taskmgr before executing.
IMAGECFG.EXE -U HG.EXE
IMAGECFG.EXE -A 0X1 HG.EXE

this will force game to use single core, game will act like it executed on old CPU's

and exiting game will not leave hg.exe hanging in tasks .
Also stabilizes game a little bit.

NOTE 1: I have access to real Hardware
NOTE 2:I can do all the tests before push to MS store.

RaVeN-05 wrote on 2026-01-22, 12:52:

I am back from illness probably coronavirus again oh damn. […]
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I am back from illness probably coronavirus again oh damn.

Bless you Sharanga ! Wish good health.

Testings:
Heavy Gear
Everything rendered parfectly.

Some issues with game which could be fixed:
use dgVoodoo to avoid black screens.

videos may not render .

to fix negative thread error use:
http://www.thief-thecircle.com/guides/hyperthreading/

imagecfg utility.
make reserve copy of hg.exe
from cmd with admin rights, and kill hg.exe from taskmgr before executing.
IMAGECFG.EXE -U HG.EXE
IMAGECFG.EXE -A 0X1 HG.EXE

this will force game to use single core, game will act like it executed on old CPU's

and exiting game will not leave hg.exe hanging in tasks .
Also stabilizes game a little bit.

NOTE 1: I have access to real Hardware
NOTE 2:I can do all the tests before push to MS store.

Thanks RaVeN-05. There doesn't appear to be a fix for the broken directshow videos, apparently that's a win11 exclusive feature ! I'm glad you're better, but I'm not still. My doctor is trying to admit me to her ward (at a fee paying private hospital) , she won't give me any tests, just an antibiotic for a sinus infection and some gastritis meds (I don't know why). My friends think I have a mosquito borne disease from called Chikungunya involving swollen joints, muscle aches and recurring fever.

I'm a bit rudderless at the moment.

Ok, following a rash of complaints about i76 not working flooding my inbox, I've made a brief video guide on setting up i76 with DxWnd and dgvoodoo:
https://youtu.be/QSvOQ7NEG1w

Hopefully this'll simplify the setup process.

Nice good video ! =)
some discoverings at CGL side Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster also

RaVeN-05 wrote on Yesterday, 18:34:

Nice good video ! =)
some discoverings at CGL side Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster also

So that's with the 3dbpci as a second card?

Yes

RaVeN-05 wrote on Today, 09:10:

Yes

It would've never occurred to me to try that. Excellent find.

sharangad wrote on Today, 09:32:

RaVeN-05 wrote on Today, 09:10:

Yes

It would've never occurred to me to try that. Excellent find.

Does that mean that when the 3dbpci is the only card, menu rendering and 3d rendering conflict with other?

only on Battle Race , Fatal Racing, Whiplash. because those 3 are not officially supported by PCI. i think black screen is caused by VRIT*.CGL driver when we use them unofficially, and on VLB its not happens.
All the other games are ok.

So every time when API activates it switches to other video mode. In case where we have 2 cards , primary VGA and 3d blaster pci secondary, all the API activations turn on video output on 3d b PCI, primary VGA works all time. in some games you can see logs on Primary and 3D on secondary.

in case when you have primary only 3d b pci , the API have higher priority to draw on top of everything else, in case of Whiplash/Fatal Racing i guess API doesn't get to be deactivating that why after single intro of race we do not see menu, because API still active and only shows black screen, to do fast 3d rendering for next scenes, without re-initialization API.

Hi-Octane since it beta patch which actually seems working great it have odd thing , Primary+Secondary causes Secondary (3d b PCI) to not turn off video signal, and we see last frame of game. in single PCI , that last frame doesn't prevent VGA to draw anything else.

the CGL on VLB in some games are statically linked in game files in exe , so those will require exact same function addresses , making wrapping more difficult, much like low level emulation . The other CGL files , if they whenever will be decompiled could be recompiled to have any addresses, even probably make CGL to work on other 3d capable video cards or rendition verite which are non creative.

i have Cirrus Logic CLGD5464 which also CGL compatible and L3D*.CGL files used.

gona have Permedia + IBM RAM DAC which also CGL compatible and PDL*.CGL is used.

So CGL is key to access 3d functions on any video card supported by CGL driver.

VLB is like voodoo2 uses cable passthrough from primary VGA (2d) to VLB(3D) VLB outs to monitor , if there is no 3d than it passtru 2d from primary card, if there is 3d it output video from VLB card. Much like voodoo2 you know.

ask furan , he made partial CGL API reconstruction.

CGL files probably seek Vendor ID and Device ID to find CGL compatible card to knew where it can be activated.

Hey have idea to try TWO cards any 2d and CLGD5464 as 2nd and see if that statement is right.

all those is what i guess.

EDIT:
Nope cirrus Logics can't be used as 2nd card.
The battle arena toshinden gives error twice:
DISPLAY LIST OVERRUN
Rebel Moon is activating CGL api on matrox mystique.
Whaat, it means if clgd5464 is present than condition of veryfing vendor ID and device ID passed, than CGL gets activated, and tries to render on matrox, clgd is 2nd card, with a lot of glitches it works game is playable.