Rice Daedalus 5.4.0 released

[grahf]

It seems rice has release an update to his video plugin, now with pixel shading support.

What's new:

1. A complicated and comprehensive software vertex clipper
2. DirectX pixel shader 1.1
3. Better CPU frame buffer support



The software triangle/vertex clipper is a very big deal, together with the existing Force Software T&L feature, it should get rid off almost all the geometry problems for most new video cards (video cards that were working slightly better with Force Software T&L feature on).

Pixel shader feature is another very big deal. Version 1.1 is just enough to support N64 combiners, and is widely supported by any DirectX 8/9 video cards. (See my previous video card poll thread). If your video card is DX8 or DX9 compatible, you will be very happy since almost all combiner problems should be gone.

Dr. Mario, Mario Tennis should working better now, at least these frame buffer effects are finally working on my Radeon 9600 now. (Yes, I have bought a 9600, so I can understand the Radeon problem and program the pixel shader feature.)

I will post a few shots later.



Rice
2/9/2004

http://emutalk.net/showpost.php?post...22&postcount=1

[didamangi]

It's already posted on the main page, thanks anyway.

[Sir Key]

very nice progress i can already play a lot of games with this plugin... not quite as many as with jabo's but it's still quite nice...

[Kirby]

Originally Posted by didamangi

It's already posted on the main page, thanks anyway.

since the mainpage isn't working for most people, it wouldn't actually hurt to post news in here for the meantime

[Archlyn]

Sort of a heads up to all those (maybe?) with a GF4: I'm having a nasty problem with this version of the plugin (see attched image). Everytime I start it, the graphics are garbled and slow. When I go to close the emulator I receive this error.

I've tried setting it to the lowest mode possible and it still gives me problems.