Re: OpenGL DirectX to software wrapper?
Posted on Today, 02:56
Cyberdyne wrote on Yesterday, 20:38: Tulatin 1400 A software renderer driver ain't going to speed up 2002's struggling PC games on a 2001 processor...
Re: OpenGL DirectX to software wrapper?
Posted on Yesterday, 11:04
kinda Swiftshader was once a thing covering DX9 in software but that's been eaten and spat around corporately.
Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"
Posted on 2024-05-07, 00:47
Another advantage was the installer. There was something better about the graphics mode setting. Unfortunately I can't remember what it was exactly. Maybe using VESA at a higher resolution with more colors by default? That'd be the second stage after the first reboot where the detected graphics …
Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?
Posted on 2024-05-06, 02:13
agent_x007 wrote on 2024-05-05, 09:15: Bit of a monologue, but bare with me. The Pentium 4 launched before 9/11 so I have a hard time being convinced it's not retro.
Re: Patches and updates for games
Posted on 2024-05-05, 15:38
There'd been only one patch and it's v2.3 (no 0).
Re: 2004 Condition Zero resolution limit?
Posted on 2024-05-05, 15:21
myne wrote on 2024-05-05, 09:04: I had a quick look. CZ =counterstrike =half life =quake 2 derived Correct? no
Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?
Posted on 2024-05-05, 02:12
A p4's great for a PCX2 😀
Re: 3D Game Engine Development
Posted on 2024-05-05, 00:51
Re: The Dreamcast's XG MIDI support: just how does this even really work, anyway!?
Posted on 2024-05-04, 04:20
The most MIDI's anyone ever heard out of a Dreamcast had been through that synth coming with the web browsers like Planetweb, which had a limited patch set and sounded rather basic. Wouldn't be surprised if audio capabilities were exaggerated as much as what CLX2 gets all the time though, so much …
Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?
Posted on 2024-05-04, 00:59
Supersampling the screen was something mutual with the others so it's not a 3dfx only idea (FSAA hype was off the charts before pixel shaders hit). 3dfx's gimmick that didn't go through was FXT1 texture compression though :) FSAA/SSAA itself was a bit gimmicky only because it was a slow, brute force …
Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?
Posted on 2024-05-03, 01:10
I can't speak for everyone but my point is that fixed function T&L was more valuable as a marketing tool than as a hardware feature. You could say that for any big featured graphic advancement years ahead of the games that use them. It only got more gimmicky after DirectX 10, because how are you …
Re: ATi RagePro OpenGL files
Posted on 2024-05-03, 01:07
I believe rage's noise dither follows a 1D lookup table. If you want better dithering on an ATI card you'd have to jump ahead to R300
Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?
Posted on 2024-05-02, 02:33
rasz_pl wrote on 2024-05-02, 02:17: even GLQuake uses glTranslatef(); glRotatef(); glScalef(); and afaik those are automagically TnL powered when possible. Of those functions, only glTranslate was used for drawing the sky.
Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?
Posted on 2024-05-01, 21:22
is there a 'hwtnl is a lie' going on here because please do tell that to the v5/intel/tnt2/savage/kyro gamers in late 2002 who can't play bf1942 Also bear in mind, all of Quake3's transforms and lighting are entirely software calculated (regardless of hardware - this is by design) and most …
Re: Video/Audio stuttering
Posted on 2024-05-01, 01:20
0.74-3 had a lot of reworking of cycles=max/auto because CPUs got tremendously faster since the previous version
Re: What would you do different?
Posted on 2024-04-30, 04:11
Re: Doubts about ATI rage, SiS and others with 8MB
Posted on 2024-04-29, 00:55
, rectangular textures can also be compressed. I have never seen a rectangle VQ either - only squares ever. When the PVR plugin saves a non-square texture, VQ compression isn't available. ( When Quake3 was ported, all the tall textures got chopped up into square 256's, for example.) Maybe you're …
Re: PCem forums - registering issue
Posted on 2024-04-28, 08:19
there's recently been spambot attacks, bots that think the pcem place is a fine way to market WoW GoLd and roof replacements, so I am not shocked the registration is currently disabled.
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2024-04-27, 18:31
Want silly? Do the high jump glitch (jump when cycling a weapon as soon as the ammo numbers are set). That'll open new opportunities of fun
Re: Doubts about ATI rage, SiS and others with 8MB
Posted on 2024-04-27, 18:04
November 1998 (DC JPN)/September 1999 (DC US/Neon 250)'s well after June 1998. PowerVR1 had no implied texture compression. DC’s VQTC can even compress palette textures, which I don’t think it’s possible with S3TC? how are rgb565/ argb1555 / argb4444 paletted formats? Furthermore the official PVR PS …
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