As someone who obsesses over the historical preservation of demos, tech demos and files that are lost to time I want to thank you all for forcing me down this rabbit hole (I say this in a loving way 😉). Anyway, another old NVidia style demo I completely forgot about and never really paid much attention to back in the "before GPUs were more scarce than Bigfoot" times was the SpeedTree: Trees of Pangaea Demo. Just grab the top file as it has all the different forests. You can control helicopters and I am sure a host of other things to do and change which I haven't explored yet.

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Crytek's X-Isle tech demos:

I also pursued every early pre Far Cry tech demo with nothing to show for it except the NVidia X-Isle demos which were publicly available. There were a few variants and some official and unofficial patches you could try out which I go through here. To unknowing minds this was the tech demo NVidia asked Crytek for from their E3 2000 demo CD. This eventually turned into Far Cry. Luckily the demos have survived Internet rot and thankfully are still downloadable in various places as I listed in that link. It's pretty cool to explore those islands knowing this was to be Far Cry eventually. Too bad the dinosaurs didn't stick around in the final game. Make sure to download v1.02 with the v1.03 patch and then install the "hidden settings" fan patches after that. Should work in Windows 10 once that is all installed. It's the earliest version of X-Isle and looks quite different than the final 2001 X-Isle: Dinosaur Island tech demo which works fine in Windows 10. The 2001 tech demo has better GeForce 3 enabled graphics and a soundtrack.

Crytek's Engalus tech demo:

Oh what a rabbit hole this is. A hole I've explored often and thoroughly. You can read more about it here. Unfortunately, the tech demo files are lost to time as all links are dead minus the doc files on this site. Even the Deus Ex mod that recreates and expands on the original Engalus tech demo, for what was to be, is also lost. If you read the bottom comment here you will see the author lost access to those files long ago. There is even an original Crytek E3 2000 demo CD at a video game museum in Italy which holds some of those digital treasures sealed away in a framed prison. Engalus was another early Crytek CryEngine tech demo that was put out to pasture when Far Cry became the focus. One of the original programmers did find a very early build of the tech demo, but unfortunately that was also never released for public consumption.

You can see Engalus on the disk right there!! They must have made an image first, surely! The thought of it under the heat of those spotlights is giving me anxiety! 🙁

BUT WAIT, hang on! https://twitter.com/dickwhitehouse/status/118 … 383012894048256
Sorry! Sorry! I should really read to the very end of people's posts...

Hello! I have a "corrupted JPEG" problem when starting the XL-R8R. I think this is the same problem as MP1 and 3DM2000 when you run the program on AMD Ryzen. I tried replacing the HEX code in rlmfc.dll on line 130B0 "F3 E0 0F" with "90 90 90" but that didn't help. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this error?

yea, the same here. it shows an error "Corrupt JPEG Data: Bad Huffman Code"
PS: i'm trying the dgvoodoo exe submited bye UCyborg in the 4 page
download/file.php?id=33304

Hello I'm new here.
I'm not good at english, sorry if I'm saying something wrong.

VAN wrote on 2024-02-27, 06:54:

Hello! I have a "corrupted JPEG" problem when starting the XL-R8R.

SolivaN wrote on 2024-03-28, 01:59:

yea, the same here. it shows an error "Corrupt JPEG Data: Bad Huffman Code"

I fixed rlmfc.dll for XL-R8R JPG error using this luigoalma's method : https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/dr5f0b/ … omment/f6q2krp/
It works for me.
I hope it works for you too, VAN and SolivaN.

UCyborg wrote on 2017-04-11, 00:10:

Here's the XL-R8R executable that doesn't query graphics card information.

and thank you UCyborg for XL-R8R dgvoodoo fix, it works for me.

many thanks Jooon, it works flawessly.

How can I force XL-R8R to render in higher than 640x480 resolution?
Thanks!

CoolGamer wrote on 2017-03-29, 21:08:

Video2000's GUI does start via dgVoodoo but when I try to start the benchmark it gives an error that says "Surface Exception: Couldn't query VideoPort interface!". Default DVD filters list is empty via dgVoodoo. This benchmark might shed some light into the reason why videos do not work in some old games. This benchmark works fine natively. You can choose the tests that you want to perform such as image upscaling/downscaling, mpeg encoding/decoding, video memory copy, etc.

Dege wrote on 2017-04-01, 13:53:

Kyro demos, LKCC demos, Fog City and Tirtanium should now work with the new WIP.
However videoport interfaces are not implemented in dgVoodoo, so Video2000 won't work.

Hey, has this ever been fixed? Or are there any other alternatives to running Video2000 on modern systems? Cheers!

umisery wrote on 2026-08-14, 02:56:

CoolGamer wrote on 2017-03-29, 21:08:

Video2000's GUI does start via dgVoodoo but when I try to start the benchmark it gives an error that says "Surface Exception: Couldn't query VideoPort interface!". Default DVD filters list is empty via dgVoodoo. This benchmark might shed some light into the reason why videos do not work in some old games. This benchmark works fine natively. You can choose the tests that you want to perform such as image upscaling/downscaling, mpeg encoding/decoding, video memory copy, etc.

Dege wrote on 2017-04-01, 13:53:

Kyro demos, LKCC demos, Fog City and Tirtanium should now work with the new WIP.
However videoport interfaces are not implemented in dgVoodoo, so Video2000 won't work.

Hey, has this ever been fixed? Or are there any other alternatives to running Video2000 on modern systems? Cheers!

There is no DD Videoport support in dgVoodoo. I added the base interface but the impl methods are empty.
Btw, what does this demo do? It renders some video from a video capture device?