Func_Msgboard: Direct3D 8 Porting Project

Posted by metlslime on 2009/12/21 02:20:25

Baker and mh have been working on Direct3D 8 ports of popular Quake engines. The benefit of this is that people whose video cards have poor-quality OpenGL drivers can take advantage of better Direct3D drivers (many ATI and intel cards are in this boat, apparently.)

Engines ported so far:
* AguirRe's enhanced GLQuake
* Fitzquake
* FuhQuake
* JoeQuake
* TomazQuake
* ZQuake

More info and downloads: http://quakeone.com/mh/

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Huge

#1 posted by stevenaaus on 2009/12/21 21:08:55

I guess they're not using direct-sound / direct-input. Is there any issues about (not) using them apart from the extra coding.

No Issues

#2 posted by Baker on 2009/12/21 22:07:26

More or less, this is an extra level of insulation against bad drivers.

OpenGL driver bad or not installed? Windows 7 OpenGL performance is terrible? Bug X, Y, Z in the driver? No long a killer or source of aggravation.

MH's wrapper version 1 took about 6 hours for me to add to another engine.

The final one requires maybe a good 10 minutes (sounds so hard to believe, yet true), the wrapper is written that well.

Really although I think what MH did is an incredible think for Quake, I think the implications of this really go a bit beyond Quake or at least could.

I am thinking that many non-Quake games that used the OpenGL 1.1 or OpenGL 1.2 API set could be nearly insta-converted to DirectX API (Direct3D).

I mean Quake uses a large set of OpenGL 2D functions and 3D functions.

Mingw

#3 posted by megaman on 2009/12/22 03:54:11

it needs support.

I See He Didn't Do...

#4 posted by Gleeb on 2009/12/22 18:20:50

GQ! The best engine evar! >:(

Yeah...

#5 posted by metlslime on 2009/12/22 21:53:24

what would we do without features such as "fish spleening" and "hand"

#6 posted by meTch on 2009/12/23 01:45:05

...what?

Bees

#7 posted by ijed on 2009/12/23 03:37:30

Hmm

#8 posted by nonentity on 2009/12/23 09:24:15

Nice work. Certainly makes the game run a hell of a lot faster on my laptop. (ie, I can play quake on my laptop now :)

Unfortunately it seems to cause firstly some strange hue/saturation distortion (this may be my settings, will test), and more importantly, some strange glitching of polys. Looks almost like individual polys are breaking from their verts and 'jumping' slightly. I will do some testing/footage capturing/more informed description when I'm not rushing about.

Still, at least I can run high end maps, so it's an improvement :)

(intel x4500 gma btw)

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