How long before a X800 wrapper (Ruby demo) appears?
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At this stage i'm leaning to the 'probably wont happen' stage. 3Dc isn't a problem. Emulating that will be 'easy'. The problem is the demo requires PS_2_b and VS_2_b HLSL compile targets, that suggests that there are shaders that can not be run on the R300 in there somewhere. Of course I"m going to see what I can do, but no promises.
It won't run on an nV40. It'll start loading, but crash out.Evildeus said:
It fits the requirement for PS2.0b or better which is all the game checks for starting up, but it has a problem with the 390MB of memory needed since it lacks 3Dc or whatever. (Or else it's a texture format issue...whichever, it crashes.)
390MB of viddy data is a BIT of an "issue" to get over!Evildeus said:Yes, but i suppose that 3dc is the issue over here, otherwise i don't see why
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tb said:
Well, whatever you did...just do the opposite and you'll have yourself the "Nude" patch.
Really? How did it run? How did you get it to work?Evildeus said:The NV40 is able to play this demo if you reduce the quality it seems
I'm REALLY interested!
Thank you kind sir, you are a scholar and a gentleman. 8)Evildeus said:I'm asking, i will give you the answer when available
A teaser from a 9700 Pro:
It's not quite right (shader on her face is too dark among other things) yet, but it kind of works. It's also 'really' slow for me. Mostly caused by oh so much ram paging... ow, this thing likes a LOT of memory (especially since I have to make it use the Managed pool for textures instead of the Default pool).
Simplifing shaders isn't difficult, but it takes a while. In all there are just under 40 shaders that are too long.
I'll try to get a DLL out 'soonish' that will allow others to play. The thing about it is, it will not look like what you get on an X800.
I've also put some 'stuff' here for people http://www.users.on.net/triforce/ruby/. Note that the DLL's will allow you to run the demo, but the output will be far from correct (and no, you will not get output like the teaser pic).
It's not quite right (shader on her face is too dark among other things) yet, but it kind of works. It's also 'really' slow for me. Mostly caused by oh so much ram paging... ow, this thing likes a LOT of memory (especially since I have to make it use the Managed pool for textures instead of the Default pool).
Simplifing shaders isn't difficult, but it takes a while. In all there are just under 40 shaders that are too long.
I'll try to get a DLL out 'soonish' that will allow others to play. The thing about it is, it will not look like what you get on an X800.
I've also put some 'stuff' here for people http://www.users.on.net/triforce/ruby/. Note that the DLL's will allow you to run the demo, but the output will be far from correct (and no, you will not get output like the teaser pic).
I don't think I've ever been so happy to be proven wrong! Thanks Colorless!
An addition to my post above. The someruby.zip file 'might' make it possible to run the demo on Nvidia cards. I'd expect that it would be extremely slow on NV3x cards though. Those cards shouldn't have a problem using the shaders, they might just have a problem running them at a reasonable speed (you think ATI uses partial precision! ).
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You're on our frontpage Colourless, nice work! 8)
