Author Topic: What kind of new things are there going to be in 3.6.10? (Read 23229 times)

Mustang19 · **Reply #40 on:** June 13, 2007, 08:14:17 am

Well, of course. For about $100 I could make my computer a vastly superior game machine. It's my parents, jr2.

jr2 · **Reply #41 on:** June 13, 2007, 09:10:12 am

Oh.

Well, if you save money for awhile, you can buy your own compy for cheap, and get a decent GFX card & RAM for it... unless they'd mind that.

ShivanSpS · **Reply #42 on:** June 13, 2007, 10:30:06 am

I think that even an older 6200TC card whould run in OpenGL just fine...

the same is as for 7300xx series... cheap cards... and remember in from Argentina... the hardware price for me is about x8 than yours... here the price is about 600 dolars for an 8800GTS 640MB card and then the corvercion to our local money 600*3.1=1860$!!! yours may no have an idea of how many is that... well imagine yourselfs having to pay 1860 dolars for an 8800GTS card...

So you can imagine that is hard to belive for me that some of yours may having troubles to buy hard...

jr2 · **Reply #43 on:** June 14, 2007, 03:41:49 am

ebay. 'slong as they ship internationally

blackhole · **Reply #44 on:** June 14, 2007, 01:55:06 pm

I get rendering errors in OpenGL that i don't get in DX8, such as nebulas not rendering and several particle effects having no alpha blending. On the other hand, DX doesn't seem to support movies. I think continued support of both APIs would be most beneficial, as drivers are often biased toward one or the other and a choice between the two would probably help.

jr2 · **Reply #45 on:** June 14, 2007, 04:17:37 pm

@blackhole: what's your GFX card?

blackhole · **Reply #46 on:** June 14, 2007, 05:06:46 pm

I'm running vista.

nVidia GeForce 7900 GS

Mongoose · **Reply #47 on:** June 14, 2007, 08:52:15 pm

Quote from: blackhole on June 14, 2007, 01:55:06 pm

I get rendering errors in OpenGL that i don't get in DX8, such as nebulas not rendering and several particle effects having no alpha blending. On the other hand, DX doesn't seem to support movies. I think continued support of both APIs would be most beneficial, as drivers are often biased toward one or the other and a choice between the two would probably help.

Support of both APIs really isn't an option at the present time, as the SCP team currently doesn't have anyone who's a qualified D3D programmer. Taylor's an OpenGL coder, and since he's done the majority of graphics-related work over the past few years, OGL is the only API that's been supported. From everything I've heard, Vista has had some pretty abysmal driver support up until this point in its lifetime, so it's pretty likely that the problem with OGL lies on your end. If someone who knows D3D coding ever joins the SCP, the team will be more than willing to re-institute support, but until that day comes, you'll need to find a way to resolve whatever it is that's wrong.

jr2 · **Reply #48 on:** June 15, 2007, 03:15:05 am

I heard that nVidia just ironed out OGL support for Vista... check and see that you've got the latest drivers...

Rico · **Reply #49 on:** June 15, 2007, 05:00:03 am

Is SCP going Vista?
Because I won't touch vista with a 10 foot pole

, no way in hell I'm going to waste $$ on some OS thats less stable then XP (Which im very happy with), just for a crummy DX10 that:
1)

of old games don't work on (considering there are

more old games i prefer over NO new 1's worth getting atm)
2) I would need to get a new PC for since its hardware requirements are rediculasely selective

So my question is, will SCP go Vista only? Or are

of people deciding to stay with the stable (and superior) windows XP?

karajorma · **Reply #50 on:** June 15, 2007, 05:03:03 am

Whatever gave you idea we were going Vista only?

Hell, if I remember correctly the reason we didn't move to DX9 a couple of years ago was because incompatibilities with Win98! Just because we want to make sure the game works with Vista doesn't mean that we're going to make the game ONLY work with Vista.

Rico · **Reply #51 on:** June 15, 2007, 08:16:29 am

lol, sorry. With people talking of Vista in here and others on MSN trying to tell me that vista is inevitable, i think i jumped the gun

lol, oh well

blackhole · **Reply #52 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:12:45 pm

From what i've seen most of the people who play FS2 have really bad computers, and running vista on any of them would be computer homocide. I run Vista because i've got a computer powerful enough to handle it. And yes, i updated my drivers very recently, after i found out that nVidia fixed their OGL support. I saw results immediately, so i'm fairly certain its not driver related...

But i can't wait to see if someone can test my new DX9 code

If it works i can start optimizing... or rather, restructering the entire damn rendering engine. Then maybe we can have SHADERS!

wolf · **Reply #53 on:** June 15, 2007, 04:14:19 pm

Quote from: blackhole on June 15, 2007, 02:12:45 pm

From what i've seen most of the people who play FS2 have really bad computers

"From what I've seen" means completly nothing.

blackhole · **Reply #54 on:** June 15, 2007, 04:41:24 pm

Ok, a sizeable percentage

Snail · **Reply #55 on:** June 15, 2007, 04:51:15 pm

The ability to enable FS1 nebulae!

Topgun · **Reply #56 on:** June 15, 2007, 06:50:45 pm

Quote from: Snail on June 15, 2007, 04:51:15 pm

The ability to enable FS1 nebulae!

but, there ugly

jr2 · **Reply #57 on:** June 16, 2007, 01:48:52 am

How about making them pretty? They are sort of pretty in FS1, but I imagine you could improve them whilst keeping their feel.

blackhole · **Reply #58 on:** June 16, 2007, 03:09:13 am

Naw, screw that, how about full 3D volumetric nebulas? Like THIS!

CKid · **Reply #59 on:** June 16, 2007, 10:49:04 pm

Quote from: blackhole on June 16, 2007, 03:09:13 am

Naw, screw that, how about full 3D volumetric nebulas? Like THIS!

That is very cool.

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