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Glide-only games and the 256x256 texture size

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First post, by infiniteclouds

Posted on 2018-08-29, 18:43

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Of games that supported Glide & Software -- no OpenGL or DirectX -- and exempting those games that were meant to be run specifically on an original Voodoo, would the texture quality be the same on a Voodoo 2/3 as it would on a Voodoo 5?

Reply 1 of 2, by Gamecollector

Posted on 2018-08-29, 21:32

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Have tested around 350 glide games. Only "minigl" ones use the TEXFMT extension.

Asus P4P800 SE/Pentium4 3.2E/2 Gb DDR400B,
Radeon HD3850 Agp (Sapphire), Catalyst 14.4 (XpProSp3).
Voodoo2 12 MB SLI, Win2k drivers 1.02.00 (XpProSp3).

Reply 2 of 2, by leileilol

Posted on 2018-08-29, 21:54

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Yes it'd be the same because back then the Glide 2.x API only supported power-of-2 texture sizes up to 256x256 and there'a rarely ever a uncompressed texture beyond that size in the Glide days. I think Unreal had a few 512x512s (vandora for example) but they always get resized to 256x256 before Glide gets them. Renderer module implementations for Glide always had to do their own texture management

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