Midnight Racing error at launch

Posted on 2022-08-29, 12:18

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by eddman

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

With dgvoodoo applied the game shows the following error at launch: "Unable to open video device". The log shows an error regarding enumerating primary device failing. I've attached the log. I don't know if this would help, but in case it's an exe file incompatibility, I've included a hex export.

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Reporting DirectDraw and/or Pre-8 Direct3D versions in the debug log?

Posted on 2022-08-28, 21:52

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by eddman

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in dgVoodoo General

EDIT: I should've put "pre-7" in the title. Ddraw7 and d3d7 can already be identified: "Object implementation is DX7 DirectDraw. Only D3D7 can be used via this one, old D3D device implementations are not available." ----------------------------------------- For older versions the log simply says " …

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Inverting mouse y-axis for a DOS game on windows 98?

Posted on 2022-08-26, 14:04

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by eddman

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The DOS shooter game I'm trying to play has an inverted y-axis but there is no option to change it. Is there a way either on windows 98 or through DOS (perhaps by setting up a bat file) to change it?

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Re: Terrible PCem speed when running Terminator Future Shock

Posted on 2022-08-12, 05:12

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by eddman

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in PC Emulation

Future Shock is infamous for its poor performance and instability. It can be a challenge getting it to run well in SVGA mode even in Dosbox. PCem is even slower, sadly. It's PCem itself that's slowing down. In the quake example that I mentioned, the frame rate is in single digits, practically …

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2022-07-13, 12:37

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by eddman

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in Marvin \ Video

Sure, for example there's a Glide (not what this thread is about, I know) version of GTA, a 2D game. I am pretty sure GTA is true 3D. looks like eddman is confused with game perspective over game graphics quality No; I was simply under the impression that acceleration applies to games with true 3D …

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2022-07-11, 12:35

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by eddman

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in DOSBox Patches

I don't understand the question. It's dosbox-x; everything is emulated. If you mean internal voodoo or pass-through, as I mentioned, it's the latter that's having the error.

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2022-07-10, 22:11

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by eddman

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I'm using the 64-bit SDL1 VS build. I've installed windows 98 se and the latest Voodoo1 V3.01.00 drivers. I've done the following steps to enable pass-through: 1. Added the following to windows' .conf file: [voodoo] voodoo_card=auto voodoo_maxmem=true glide=true lfb=full_noaux splash=false 2. Copied …

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2022-07-09, 10:13

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by eddman

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Are these APIs only for 3D acceleration, or can they be used for 2.5D games? IINM rebel moon is not a true 3D game, correct?

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Terrible PCem speed when running Terminator Future Shock

Posted on 2022-07-08, 18:34

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by eddman

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Windows 10 64-bit / Ryzen 2600 / PCem v17 Windows 98 SE / P MMX 200 / Voodoo3 Future shock drops the speed to 30-36%. If I walk into a wall and stare at it, it'd jump to 100% though. I can run quake 2 in software mode, even at 1280 x 960, and the speed stays at 100% (+/- 1%). Anyone experienced …

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Re: vmware workstation 16.2.3 player WinXp D3D OpenGL

Posted on 2022-06-27, 19:30

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by eddman

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I have that exact 16.2.2 full file. All 3d is broken? Is d3d9 broken too? It works here. Maybe it's OS or video processor related. I'm using windows 10 64-bit 21H2 (19044), and geforce 1060 with driver 511.23.

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Re: vmware workstation 16.2.3 player WinXp D3D OpenGL

Posted on 2022-06-27, 18:32

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by eddman

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I have vmware player 16.2.2 build-19200509 installed, and d3d8/8.1 and 9 acceleration works under XP. I use the d3d8to9 wrapper to get better compatibility and performance with d3d8/8.1 games. I haven't tried 16.2.3 yet, but it'd be really odd if they stopped supporting acceleration under XP in a, …

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Re: Hitman Contracts Missing Waterfall Effect

Posted on 2022-06-22, 07:07

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by eddman

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Hello. Could you pls upload the file once more. Sadly, the link doesn´t work anymore. Thank you Always check archive.org. You'd be surprised what gets archived there. Honestly I didn't expect this to work, but it did. https://web.archive.org/web/20210701000000*/http://dege.fw.hu/temp/ …

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Re: Possibility of a dgvoodoo2 version for windows XP?

Posted on 2022-02-20, 21:29

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by eddman

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That makes sense. Targeting a different driver model would require a lot of coding that wouldn't even benefit the program on modern windows. But anyway, old games do not necessarily work properly on an XP machine? It's weird, as far as I remember I didn't have problems with them but not that I'm a …

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Possibility of a dgvoodoo2 version for windows XP?

Posted on 2022-02-19, 19:59

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by eddman

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I have to apologize in advance; this is not a request by any means, just a simple inquiry. Would a windows xp version with d3d9 output be feasible? I've been testing and researching the viability of running old games on windows xp, specifically in a VM. The majority of d3d9 games work fine; some …

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Re: Windows 98 DirectX Framerate Limiter

Posted on 2022-02-19, 17:47

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by eddman

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KCompRoom2000 wrote on 2022-02-19, 08:16: By any chance would the dxfpscap utility work with the PC version of Spiderman (2000) on Windows 9x? Why don't you try it yourself? It's very simple to do. If the game uses ddraw, then it might work.

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Stress testing in PCem with HeavyLoad?

Posted on 2022-02-13, 15:59

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by eddman

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On my ryzen 2600, I can get away with emulating a pentium MMX 200 in most games on windows 98, but there are cases where I have to go one or two models lower to maintain the emulation speed. It then occurred to me, maybe a stress test program could be a better gauge. I tried prime95 but it throws an …

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Re: Disabling voodoo cards' dither pattern in PCem?

Posted on 2022-02-12, 21:48

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by eddman

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This is interesting. On a voodoo3, in Turok both D3D and glide modes have a dither pattern, but in MDK while glide does have it, D3D does not.

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Re: Disabling voodoo cards' dither pattern in PCem?

Posted on 2022-02-11, 22:01

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by eddman

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I have to mention that I don't know enough about old graphics cards' rendering pipelines, or voodoo cards and their features, variables, etc. I know some basics but not much above that. Dither subtraction's something else. It doesn't remove dither, it just attempts to subtract against it so the …

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Re: Disabling voodoo cards' dither pattern in PCem?

Posted on 2022-02-11, 12:08

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by eddman

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If it were disabled in the emulation, then the voodoo drivers would not be able to validate the card and function. That makes sense. If it's performed by the chip, then the driver expects it. So does that mean "Bilinear filtering" and "Dither subtraction" are RAMDAC features, since they can be …

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Disabling voodoo cards' dither pattern in PCem?

Posted on 2022-02-10, 22:12

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by eddman

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I don't know if this thread belongs here or in the video card section. Since it is about voodoo in PCem, I suppose here is fine? Please move if it's not. Is there a way to disable the dithering (dots) pattern for a voodoo card? I know about the Screen Filter option, but IINM it's for achieving the " …

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