Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2022-06-04, 19:20

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Yesterplay80 wrote on 2022-05-29, 08:15: Alright, with r4477 I (hopefully) re-added the external Glide wrapper, please give it a try. Works perfectly fine again as far as I can tell. Tested with Tomb Raider, Descent 2 and Screamer 2. Big THANKS! Totally awesome.

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2022-05-20, 10:26

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Just wanted to add my voice to the list of those who would very much like the Glide wrapper support back. Demand might not be high, but that's probably just because most don't know how much better an advanced wrapper like dgVoodo0 with its unmatched resolution/antialiasing etc. options is compared …

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Re: [REQUEST] Force texture filtering only if not point sampled

Posted on 2021-08-15, 09:10

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Personally I would go the additional checkbox approach. At least without having thought through all potential implications in detail that seems to be the least confusing one. Just knowing what point filtering is would be enough for users to understand what the option does in general, a little …

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[REQUEST] Force texture filtering only if not point sampled

Posted on 2021-08-10, 13:00

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Not sure whether that would be possible, but it would be great to have an option that applies forced texture filtering only to non-point-filtered textures. Why would it be useful? E.g. in Ultima IX some transparent textures (most prominently trees/scrubs) are point sampled. Forcing anisotropic …

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Re: Artificial academy 2 - dgvoodoo watermark

Posted on 2020-06-06, 11:04

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I have a halfway related suggestion: while I find the logo pretty useful to see whether dgVoodoo is currently handling a game, I actually never use it since it stays on all the time. Would be great if there was an option to only show it briefly (10 secs. or so) after a game launch.

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Re: some more shaders for SVN r4319 and later

Posted on 2020-06-05, 13:36

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Thanks. Most CRT shader presets just aren't well suited for anything newer than CGA monitors since they are mostly made for replicating the look of an early game console on a (cheap) TV. They do great in that regard, but that's just not how VGA/SVGA looked on a PC monitor. For making DosBox look …

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Re: some more shaders for SVN r4319 and later

Posted on 2020-05-31, 13:43

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Not sure if this will be of any use for someone. I did a little modification of the lottes-fast CRT shader that suits my personal taste. It provides a rather subtle CRT sim effect, basically mimicking a 'modern' CRT with good image quality. Most importantly scanlines have been set to zero, the …

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Re: some more shaders for SVN r4319 and later

Posted on 2020-05-30, 13:12

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That's what I figured myself in the meantime. Thanks for the confirmation. 1600x1200 are perfect, 1000 height already produces an almost correct result that comes close enough for my taste (1280x1000, so 1.28 instead of the ideal 1.33). Below 1000 height things fall apart completely. Should have …

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Re: some more shaders for SVN r4319 and later

Posted on 2020-05-30, 13:03

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OK, to partially answer my own question, the issue does not seem to be related to fullscreen/windowed, but to the resolution used. Without having dived into the algorithm I'd say the shaders's aspect ratio correction produces usable results with 320x200 input for output resolutions at and above 1000 …

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Re: some more shaders for SVN r4319 and later

Posted on 2020-05-30, 11:41

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Just a brief question re the pixel perfect shader: is the aspect ratio supposed to be right windowed? I'm wondering whether I'm doing something wrong or maybe the shader just isn't supposed to work right in a window. It seems to work fullscreen for me, but if I run DosBox windowed, the aspect ratio …

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Re: DOSBox speed vs real DOS PC?

Posted on 2020-05-25, 23:15

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If you want to measure and compare the 3d gaming performance of your own DosBox setup, I can highly recommend pcpbench (PC Player Benchmark), which renders a little 3D flyby scene and compares your result to some common 486/Pentium machines. As far as I understand a benchmark like this does not …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2.6.x and related WIP versions

Posted on 2020-01-04, 22:31

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Just a heads-up that Eurofighter Typhoon (DX7 I believe) fails to start with 2.63. The last version I had before was 2.60, which works fine. Haven't tried anything between these two. Error message below, unfortunately not exactly helpful in regard to the actual D3D error: C:\Projects\Rage\3dream.win …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2015-05-28, 13:09

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What about a loader/injector that starts the game suspended and injects your ddraw.dll (or an extra .dll with the hook) before allowing it to run? With some luck this way the .dll may get initialized before CoCreateInstance is ever called. Not sure about that though. The registry issue may be …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2015-05-28, 11:35

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It should be possible to hook CoCreateInstance on init in your d3d wrapper dll if required by a program. There are a lot of libraries that make this a painless process (detours, easyhook etc.). Caveat 1: It's not exactly best practice like recommended by MS to do something like that in a dll init …

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Re: New Descent game on KS

Posted on 2015-03-18, 21:50

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For me the Descent series will always be the best FPS game series ever. Slowly advancing through the claustrophobic and sometimes mindboggling complex levels (only wimps use the guide bot ;)) filled with enemies that were a lot smarter than anything else at the time. Together with the great …

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Wheel of Time - Choppy QuickTime Video Problem Fix

Posted on 2014-12-08, 14:25

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Legend's great (and heavily underrated) Unreal engine based Wheel of Time shooter from 1999 basically still works on newer Windows versions except for the QuickTime videos used to tell the story, which play extremely choppy (<1 fps), if at all. The file below contains all that is required to fix …

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Re: D-Fend Reloaded (DOSBox frontend)

Posted on 2014-05-07, 20:01

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Thanks! Although it really wasn't neccessary that you invest the time yourself, I would have done it myself. The following Codeproject article seems to contain everything you need to know. Code is C and some assembler, but a ready to use DLL, which should be easy to use from Delphi, is also provided …

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Re: D-Fend Reloaded (DOSBox frontend)

Posted on 2014-04-30, 08:55

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There might be things in programming that are too complex to do. However, starting a process from another one in any way imaginable is very clearly not among those things. A google search for 'CreateProcess elevated privileges' returns several solutions people have found years ago. So, as with most …

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Re: D-Fend Reloaded (DOSBox frontend)

Posted on 2014-04-29, 12:41

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Thanks for explaining the reasoning behind restricted accounts... ;) Maybe I should have been more specific about the reason for the request: 1. For Dosbox it makes sense in regard to a Windows 95 - Dosbox installation I use that relies on a portable version of WinPCap for networking, which requires …

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Re: D-Fend Reloaded (DOSBox frontend)

Posted on 2014-04-27, 18:17

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I would like to request a small feature: the option in game profiles to launch programs with elevated rights. I could use this for Dosbox profiles as well as Windows profiles. I'd happily do it myself, should be pretty straight forward to implement. All I would need is a little heads up how to …

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