ThunderGL

[mcmagostini]

Just Amazing!!!

Keep it up Geri! Fantastic work.

Thx for your effort.

[Geri]

I am glad to see that you all like this stuff!
Use it joyful!

[m14radu]

Of course that we like this stuff
Keep up the good work !

Greetings.
Radu.

[Raff3DC]

Which OGL games run faster now? Medal of Honor? Quake 4? Call of Duty?

Greetings,
Raff

[Geri]

From your list, currently the Medal Of Honor runs much faster.
Quake4 is the same like before, Call Of Duty get a small fps decrase.

Of course you can get speed up with every game, yust modify the ini file with the commands.

[bloodworm]

has anybody tried Neverwinter Nights yet with the ThunderGL??

[Raff3DC]

Hm. I don't know what's wrong, but I can't run any game with the TGL. Neither MoHAA nor CoD ... Which files must be put where? I've tried the system32 folder and the game directories.

Greetings from Germany,
Raff

[Geri]

What is the game version number? I only tested it with the demo.
You should not put nothing to system32, only to game dir.

I will repack the package and will create a directory to all game with the files that should be copyed, like it was in minigl, to avoid problems like this.

[Raff3DC]

After my posting I noticed that no OGL game could run at all, no matter which ICD I used. I'll try it again in a few days ... the system is "clean" now.

Greetings,
Raff

[Raff3DC]

What about support for Quake 4, Prey & co.?

Greetings,
Raff

[Geri]

Raff3DC: currently i havent time to manage the wrapper.

Latest modify's in the wrapper:
Added support for Ti4200 with Plastik.pl scene demos.

[Geri]

NEWZ!

ThunderGL 'POLYBOOSTGL' n-patch / nurbs renderer using Truform by ATi!

http://legend.uw.hu/projects/program/thundergl/polyboostgl.rar

What is this?
This special version of ThunderGL alowws to render the games with nurbs. It will convert all of the polygons to nurbs, and then reconvert them to polygons with hardware acceleration (only ATi 8500 (VS 1.1, PS 1.4) and above supports it!). This make the game's visuality to a LOT better, becouse we will not see those evil polygons (only in some buggy places )

WITHOUT ThunderGL:


WITH ThunderGL:










okay lets take a closer look:
BEFORE:


AFTER:










WITHOUT ThunderGL:


WITH ThunderGL:







lets look it from closer:
BEFORE:


AFTER:



Please note that this will incrase the detail, but maybee degrade your performance, hard. For me, on a 2 Ghz Athlon and a 9800PRO, in Alice, Quake2, and in Kingpin was no noticable performance loss, but in newer games may it will be.

[benna]

Good job Geri!
This is a great idea, but it's hard to see differences while playing

[Geri]

benna: sorry but i fux0rd the first version, that you downloaded.
Now i uploaded the correct one.

To turn trueform on:



Catalyst 5.7:
http://www.fileshack.com/login.x?fid=7354&uri=%2Ffile.x%2F7354%2FATI%2BCatalyst%2B5.7%2BDriver%2B-%2BWindows%2BXP%2F2000

[Geri]

Tell me slow/buggy opengl games that should be fixed, please.

Cards under focus:
-Voodoo 5
-ATi Radeon 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800 series
-nVidia GeForce3, GeForce4Ti series




VOODOO5:
The games that i CANT fix right now:
-Prey: i cant fix it currently, becouse BSOD happens.
-Far Cry: i cant fix it currently, becouse it exits from Voodoo5's Device ID with -unsupported video card- style error message (modifying .dll-s somehow didnt helped, if somebody can HAX that .dll in some binary editor, please inform me. Or if ppls very very want this game, i will try to create a modifyed Voodoo5 bios with costum device ID.)

Games in queue:
-Chronicles of Riddick: escape from butcher bay

ATi Radeon 9500-9800 series
No games yet in queue.

nVidia GeForce3, GeForce4Ti series
No games yet in queue.