somebody can answer to this?

[NexXxus]

i wrote that thread a week ago but no one answered

http://forums.ngemu.com/pcsx2-offici...hlight=overlay

[zero-frag]

ZeroGS requires your graphic card to have PS 2.0 to work, so it uses the graphic card.

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[NexXxus]

Originally Posted by zero-frag

ZeroGS requires your graphic card to have PS 2.0 to work, so it uses the graphic card.

the graphic card renders all 3D geometry from a game like FFX?
i don't believe that...

[thc]

I your GPU getting hot ? If Yes it's working. overlay can hardly heat anything.
mine is going from 40° to 90°. Also other hints like Pixel Shader required etc are showing it's not software render.

seems like I was slow in PS answer that's coz I was LOLing a lot.

Originally Posted by elitegamer

i don't believe that...

Why.

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[NexXxus]

Originally Posted by thc

Why.

i dunno. i think the plugins renders the 3D scenes with the CPU and it send just images/screenshots (one image per frame) to the graphic card.
And pixelshader is needed to accelerate that.

[thc]

- pixelshaders are programs which are run per pixel to change it's properties/color. they can't speed up memory transfers (as they are used only during rendering and they're mostly slowing things down)
- try software renderer in GSDX9 how fast (slow) it is. CPU is not RISC processor and performs poorly for these kind of actions.
- ask ZeroFrog to give out sources of ZeroGS I also would like to look at them, however for different purpose

And I still wonder why ? You must have some reason to think of it (maybe it's slow, it's FFX-2 bluescreen texture over background)

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[Barius]

Originally Posted by elitegamer

i dunno. i think the plugins renders the 3D scenes with the CPU and it send just images/screenshots (one image per frame) to the graphic card.
And pixelshader is needed to accelerate that.

No, it really does render all the ploygons etc. Remember, this is emulation, all of the functions of the PS2 are being emulated, and that includes the graphics card. Only movies are pre-generated, and that's because they exist that way in the game itself.

The GS plugins (well GSdx9 anyways, I haven't seen code for ZeroGS) do some rendering on the CPU, but not as much as you might think. Mostly the CPU is used to perform the memory transfers and overhead stuff, while the GPU is accessed through DX9 (or OGL in future plugins).

[thc]

Originally Posted by Barius

(or OGL in future plugins).

There are some plans for OGL (due to linux) ?

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[Barius]

Yes. The devs have stated several times that there will be (is?) an OGL plugin in the works. Don't ask when though

I'm hoping it will be OpenSource so I can explore it. I'm disappointed that ZeroGS isn't open since it is the only plugin that supports MTGS...