good news to voodoo's funs: Rice 531 works!

well, with mesa opengl library it's posible to run games in openGL with rice 5.3.1, these are the steps:
1- download a compiled library (official page www.mesa3d.org)
from this url: http://www.falconfly.de/downloads/mesafx-0.51h.zip its 944kb. (thanks to Diego Borca for compiling, one of the authors www.geocities.com/dborca and Falcon for hosting http://falconfly.de/tools.htm)
2- decompress opengl32.dll to 1964/PJ64 exe folder and glide3x (its the new beta version:3.10.0.40404) to c:\$winDIR$\system in 9x or \system32 in 2k/xp.
3- select rice video pluing, and config this one to use render engine: openGL, the combiner that will use its seem to be the 1.1... but if you want leave the "to fit your video card".
4- thats all, u shouldn't have problems.. the resolution i recommend it's the default 640*480.
EDIT: i forget to mention another step
5- in Options, set the emu to star the rom in windowed mode, cause in full-screen doen's work for me. This is rare too, cause the video is showing in fullscreen however... (when u set to run in window mode).

post here yours results, to continue speaking...

PS: Conker bud for day looks awesome!!!!! better than jabo's 1.51 (has some shadows bugs in voodoos direct 3d drivers)

please, can someone compile the new mesa 0.6 in visual studio, because i don't have it?

download the source from (2.9mb):
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mesa3d/MesaLib-6.0.zip?download

and from http://www.mesa3d.org/README.WIN32
i'll take the compiling procedure:

"The build system has been changed to use Microsoft Visual Studio project
workspaces and projects. Makefiles are no longer shipped or supported, but
can be generated from the projects using Visual Studio.

-->> Details and Notes <<--

- To build the Mesa libraries, open the Mesa.dsw workspace file in the top directory. You can build each project one-by-one, or build the glut project to build everything except osmesa, which needs to be built separately. The build process will create a lib directory in the top directory and will put the following files there:
OPENGL32.LIB, GLU32.LIB, GLUT32.LIB, OSMESA32.LIB
OPENGL32.DLL, GLU32.DLL, GLUT32.DLL, OSMESA32.DLL"

i want the OPENGL32.DLL file you got after compiling....
i'll be wainting to someone how can do this little work, i wanna try this new DLL with 1964 and see the new features (openGL 1.5 complaint)

D Borca tell me something about my previus question, from here i take the following reply:
http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=358&whichpage=16
anyway, i'll post:


quote:
"download a compiled library (official page www.mesa3d.org)
from this url: http://www.falconfly.de/downloads/mesafx-0.51h.zip its 944kb.
(thanks to Daniel Borca for compiling, one of the authors
www.geocities.com/dborca and Falcon for hosting
http://falconfly.de/tools.htm)"


The binaries are hosted by 3dfxzone and FalconFly. They used to be hosted on my page also, but geocities enters DoS when exceeding a certain hits. The reason of this is my wish to provide users with updates in the shortest time. Note: only 3dfxzone and FalconFly are sites authorized by me to host MY binaries. Mesa is free and can be found everywhere, but MY builds will always be found only there.


quote:
"please, can someone compile the new mesa 0.6 in
visual studio, because i don't have it?
download the source from (2.9mb):
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mesa3d/MesaLib-6.0.zip?download
and from http://www.mesa3d.org/README.WIN32
i'll take the compiling procedure:
"The build system has been changed to use Microsoft
Visual Studio project workspaces and projects.
Makefiles are no longer shipped or supported, but can be
generated from the projects using Visual Studio."


The Visual Studio workspace approach will only build SW renderer. The MesaFX driver must be compiled the "hard" way, using either make (MinGW) or nmake (M$VC). Please note that Koolsmoky reported unstable binaries for M$VC. I didn't even bothered, since I am a gcc guy. Mesa's primary target is Linux, hence it might be silently tuned for gcc...

I am releasing rev H(SR) today. It fixes something in the windoze interface crap (some games which require exotic pixelformats, ex: GORE). No other improvements for now...

I'll upload to my page and send the update to Amigamerlin and FalconFly). By the time geocities locks my account, the new DLL should get mirrored on 3dfxzone and FalconFly.

Flash (and all), download a new version of MesaFX (for voodoos) and try again with Conker BFD

http://www.traumatic.de/pphlogger/dlcount.php?id=FalconFly&url=http://www.falconfly.de/downloads/mesafx-0.51h(TE).zip

check my images with this game, with jabo 1.51 and rice 5.31&5.4, with rice is better... (at least for me, all voodoos except vodoo2?? i don't know)

did u try mesafx-0.51h(TE).zip\Voodoo2 files:
..\Voodoo2\fxmemmap.vxd 8kb
..\Voodoo2\glide3x.dll 256kb

there are only for voodoo 2, i guess... put them (or replace) when the original v2 driver files are copied, (glide3x in system, and fxmemmap.vxd ??, well u can search this file path with window's file&folder finder, just press F3 in any folder, and search in C

any doubt, you can ask to LazerTag, cause he also has a voodoo2... or in the forum of 3dfxzone.it:
http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/default.asp

update for the mesaFX dll
now is more stable in all games: )))
download, with this link
http://www.3dfxzone.it/public/files/MesaFx_051h-FR.zip

enjoy it!!!

PS: no new 3dfx users that try Rice543 via opengl???

-->>another update MesaFx 0.51H 5a :
(from http://www.3dfxzone.it/news/puntatore.php?uid=217 )

"Newer update of MesaFx is online: 0.51H 5a Release. This release fixes other PIXELFORMAT issues for pre-Napalm cores and fix some minor bug. Moreover the resolution limitation at 1600x1200 in mesafx was removed.
The package contain (in CVG dir) a specific file for Voodoo2 user: a Glide3x for Win9x/me - Win2k - WinXP and FXmemmap for win9x/ME user only. Another Glide3x (in the root) should be used for voodoo 3/4/5 User ."


-->>and from daniel borca:
(here http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=358&whichpage=19 )

"However, I am sending the latest MesaFX DLL to Amigamerlin right now. This is not a release, yet... But if proven working ok, it'll be the last 0.51 release.

Fixes:
the resolution is not limited inside Mesa anymore.
hopefully fixed a regression bug wrt stencil in 4th release.

I hope I find the time to look into the Mesa core again and gain some speed for 0.60!

Regards,
Daniel Borca
Edited by - dborca on 03/01/2004 08:32:54"


-->>some other advice:

"the glide3x 3.10.00.40404 BETA which comes with MesaFX, Don't copy this glide3x to %windir%\system, it's definitely not a good idea.
Why ? It's early beta and it's buggy like hell, for example try to run Tribes 2 with MesaFX and this DLL - lots of gfx bugs... Same UT2K3 - sky on DM-Antalus is broken, various errors with Glide64, texture bugs in Unreal. So, copy this dll to game directory instead, if all works fine - use it as this dll is faster than 30303, bugs - try to delete this glide3x.dll and use older 30303 until bugs in 40404 will be fixed."

post by "Flash" from http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=952


-->>
-->> download the file from (970kb):
-->> http://www.3dfxzone.it/public/files/MesaFx_051h-5a Release.zip
-->>

PS:

:
Originally Posted by LazerTag
but if I don't have my desktop resolution set to 640x480 the displayed game screen is sunk to the lower left of the screen and actually some is off the viewable area.

Click to expand...

yes u are right, i don't has this issue, because with my v3 and tv out, i play in 640, and before launch any game in Rice's, i move the screen to fix into the TV (in all the tv screen), in the 3dfx hub, tv out section.
PS2:from "various errors with Glide64" i don't test that yet....