Pete OGL 1.64 is working!!!!

[chp]

Since I read a thread concerning the Pete's OGL 1.64 I retryed to install it on my Radeon and surprise: It works fine in any game at full details (best settings).

To be precise it works faster at 1280*960*32 than 1024*768*32 .
Strange? not realy (it's a multiple of 320*240).

Pete I erase what I said before against your new plugin....

[Kellicros]

does the framebuffer works correctly? I meant the speed.

[chp]

Originally posted by Evil Squall
does the framebuffer works correctly? I meant the speed.

Yes and except for 2xsai I would say everything is at 50 or 60 fps even for swirls and so on.
[question: why one week ago it was so slow??]

[Pete Bernert]

Originally posted by chp
Pete I erase what I said before against your new plugin....

After every plugin release I get mails who are telling me the new plugin is faster/slower/less colorful/brighter/darker/whatever you can imagine...

There are so many systems with so many different hardware and drivers out there, that tracking every single problem down is nearly impossible.

So I usually just sit back and watch if there are many mails with the same reported issues. And if yes (like for example reports about black colored skies in NTSC games with 1.63/64), I try to take care about it...

anyway, thanx for your post... not many people are reporting back if they have solved a specific problem by themselves

[Neojag]

hum, chp, do u mind posting your complete settings? i still havent managed to make my Radeon 8500 work correctly with Pete's OpenGL plugin, still using D3d...


edit - er, nevermind, i got it to work correctly

[chp]

Ok NeoJag,

Soon I'll be back at home I'll post my setings.

I re-played some critic parts of FF9 and I'm impressed. Now I run better than my GF2 and the quality is amazing in OpenGL @ 1280*960*32 on my AIW Radeon (7200).

BTW: I use the Omega / Plutonium XK 1118 Drivers for ATI.

I just downloaded the 1.65 plugins so I'll do some tests with them too.

[Neojag]

no need to now thkx i've worked it out.

btw, i noticed that d3D seems to be a bit faster then OpenGL on my card, maybe you should try it

PS - using the last Catalyst drivers here

[chp]

As promised I send you my settings:

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.65
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
GFX card: Radeon 7200 DDR x86

Resolution/Color:
- 1280x960 Fullscreen - Desktop changing [32 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 2
- Hi-Res textures: off
- Palettized tex windows: on
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 3
- Framebuffer access: 4
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: off
- Advanced blending: on

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Game fixes: on [00000600]

Hope it will help you

(as I said I use special drivers from Omega)

[Pete Bernert]

> Palettized tex windows: on

just a small warning: from the reports I have seen so far, pal textures doesn't work on ATI cards... so you should better turn that option off, or games using texture windows will produce garbage.

[chp]

Since now I had or found any pbs... I'm slowly testing many other games to see if something is wrong . Unfortunately one of my friends borrowed my Chrono Cross and Xenogears but I still have almost 60 others to test.

[Kellicros]

I remembered when I still have a Radeon 7000, the frame buffer effects drops my fps to 10 even in D3D plugin. That's also one of the reasons I replaced it with a Geforce2MX.

[Neojag]

the Framebuffer effects run amazingly good here (stuff like Xenogears' inicial sequence and such at 55FPS

[Raziel]

Fullspeed on my GF2 Pro at 1280x1024 ^^, I guess ATI has some problem with framebuffer ^^ (or are you using FSAA ?)

[Neojag]

4XFSAA full speed withtout it too ^^

[chp]

I tryed the begining sequence of Xenogears w/o pbs at 60 fps.
This scene was incredibily slow and distorded some time ago....

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.65
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
GFX card: Radeon 7200 DDR x86

Resolution/Color:
- 1280x960 Fullscreen - Desktop changing [32 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 1 - edge clamping supported
- Hi-Res textures: off
- Palettized tex windows: on
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 0 MBytes - 196 textures usable

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 3
- Framebuffer access: 4
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: off
- Advanced blending: on (hardware)
- Subtractive blending: NOT supported!

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Game fixes: on [00000600]