[Alpha|Test] SA Gfx

[_CP_]

Dexx, try recompile it, give a separately effects, one archive is with reflection, with buildings etc. and send it.

[ikt]

He's sleeping. Anyway, maybe you compiled it with software that's too new. Or maybe one that is only compatible with Vista.

[Darecki]

Ech, it doesn't work for me too..

And.. We want .asi version!!

[Kiabbo]

He's sleeping. Anyway, maybe you compiled it with software that's too new. Or maybe one that is only compatible with Vista.

No, ikt, you're wrong...

I have Windows Vista Business and my game crashes...

Well, let's hope who DexX have good dreams, so him wake up so happy and make an asi file faster than possible

See ya!

[ikt]

1: Connect to his router

2: ???

3: Profit

[game4life]

I have the same problem, the game crash.

[freak2121]

I still have no reflections, it doesn't seem to f*cking work and when I set it to 2.0 pipetype for vehicle it crashes.

[DexX]

Enough. i'll unlock the topic when all my testers have a mod that works. Stop testing it, please, so i can stop reading 40 variations on "it doesn't work". i understand that.

 

It works for jostvice, whose system is similar to mine, and i re-compiled spookies speedo mod (also d3d9.dll) yesterday for 3nix, and we got that to work. it seems it has to do with the dll configuration (how i'm compiling the dll), rather than the actual code. In any case, the problem is on my end.

 

Current compatibility list (actual mod, not text-only dlls):

-DexX (Vista Home Premium Sp1 Nvidia Geforce 9800 GT)

-Jost_Vice (Vista Home Sp1 Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT)

-Morsolo (Vista Ultimate Sp1 Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTX)

 

I need someone with XP to tell me if this works;

Text-only d3d9.dll

It works for H13N on Vista, but i haven't had any XP testers for it yet.

[morsolo]

There's a lot of bugs in the version DexX is working on...

 

 

I just re-installed the game, so I'll have to go source my necessity mod pack so I can make everything look nicer (Modded).

I'll grab some really nice looking cars to to show off the mod for DexX

 

On a more technical note:

• There are currently some zBuffer issues that come up, screwing the games draw distance and texture drawing up.
• Also the game decides to crash at random times, I have looked and I can't find the trigger that makes it crash, so for now, it is 100% random crashing.

[game4life]

i'm using windows xp, and the mod works.

[freak2121]

Non of the reflections appear still, even the ancient fake cube maps version doesn't work.

Maybe it's because I'm on a 64-bit version of Vista...I don't know I guess I'll stick to ENB.

By doesn't work I don't mean it crashes I mean that the reflections aren't changed even by 1 pixel.

Edited November 28, 2008 by freak2121

[3niX]

Well...

 

Yes, the text appears and the new d3d9.dll doesnt crash.

 

@freak2121 - Its not supposed to have reflections... the file is stripped down.

[morsolo]

 

~SNIP~ I'm on a 64-bit version of Vista... ~SNIP~

I'm pretty sure it would be because you're using x64, DexX will be able to confirm my theory though.

 

However, here we are, some freshly baked Screenies from the oven!

 

Wow, doesn't she look beautiful?

 

Just some advertising

 

 

Technicalities

 

I've found the crashes to occur during daylight hours of the game.

I have crashed numerous times in numerous places during the day, but not once in the same places at night.

This could be an issue of something to do with the sun effects (Shadowing perhaps?)

Edited November 28, 2008 by morsolo

[ikt]

This new DLL doesn't make me crash :V

[freak2121]

@freak2121 - Its not supposed to have reflections... the file is stripped down.

I tried it with and without the stripped file.

[morsolo]

 

~SNIP~ I'm on a 64-bit version of Vista... ~SNIP~

I'm pretty sure it would be because you're using x64, DexX will be able to confirm my theory though.

 

~SNIP~

Apparently DexX is on a x64 Machine, so that would mean your problem isn't the architecture. Which also means I have no clue

[myster92]

I love this car-material! I crying...

Maybe mod not working, because I use ATI/AMD Radeon HD4850?

I have OS Windows Ultimate SP1 x64, Catalyst 8.11

[DexX]

Yea, i'm on a 64-bit machine, that shouldn't be a problem.

 

i updated the mod, based on the code from the text-only dll. If this doesn't get you ingame, i'll...have to try something else.

 

Try it AGAIN!

 

For the people who do have it working, all 4 of you afaik, you should be able to play with the frame limiter on or off. This isn't mentioned anywhere in the documentation.

 

50 pages - Jesus Christ!

[_CP_]

On me works but with bugs

[myster92]

WOW!!!

It's amazing!!

SA GFX 0.3 is much better than SA GFX 0.2a

[ParoXum]

My feedback on 0.3 pr :

 

It all works fine, sometimes it lags like hell. Looks like it has to do with places on our map where occluders are. I get an error message on process exit (after the game is exited) which we had in the past when first developing gostown dlls.

 

Else it's ok, refs are fast, sometimes a bit weird on some cars until you touch the car with CJ, then the ref changes.

 

 

My config :

 

Windows Vista Ultimate X64.

nv9600GT

[Kiabbo]

DexX, I'll reinstall my San Andreas without any mods and with hoodlum exe.

The instalation it's fast, so I'll post here again after something like 15 minutes.

See ya!

~~

EDIT:

Yeah, I reinstalled the game and it works!But I'll need to make a new config, 'cause the normal config lag as hell and don't reflect anything(pypetipe 3)

See ya!

EDIT 2:

I put pipetype to 0 but I still can't see any reflections.I disable real reflections and nothing happens!

Why?!

Edited November 28, 2008 by Kiabbo

[game4life]

the latest update work for me, but all the car turn blue in colour and the reflection work.

[3niX]

Well...

 

*The real refs. work.

*It stopped crashing randomly when I changed reflection size to 256.

*All cars and some objects are very dark/black.

*LODs are dark blue.

*All textures with alphas dont show up (trees, fences etc.).

Okay, so its all objects which dont reflect that become black/dark.

 

The performance drop isnt very big for me (doesnt ever get below 25 fps).

 

 

Edited November 28, 2008 by 3niX

[Rugshtyne]

How i could fix this? :

 

 

My videocard is old. It's GeForce 3 Ti200 . I don't need any real reflections. I only need the PS2 refmap..

[Garfield 2]

If this is 0.3 PR try these settings

 

 

iCubesize	512bEnablerealrefs	0fCamdist	500.0fFresnelref	0.0fFresneledge	0.0fSpecpower	40.0fSpecbase	0.1bReplaceref	1bReplacespec	0fVehnewref	0.5fVehnewspec	0.35bUsealphatest	0hAlpharef	0x40iVehiclepipe	0iBuildpipe	0bPs2refmaps	1hScreenkey	0x74hCubekey	0x75

 

 

Works perfectly for me

 

Here:

 

 

 

 

BTW. DeXX is Bloom gone now? It looked really nice in 0.2a

 

My specs btw.

 

Intel Celeron M 1.7GHZ

512MB RAM

Intel 915GM 128MB of Shared Memory

80GB HDD

18-27 FPS

 

(My old)

 

Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2GHZ

4GB RAM

ATI Radeon X1800 256MB up to 1024MB of Shared Memory

250GB HDD

 

Full FPS on High Details, AA MAX, 1680x1050

Edited November 28, 2008 by Garfield 2

[ikt]

i WTF'd.

 

lol

 

http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l399/ik.../screen_0-2.jpg

http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l399/ik.../screen_1-2.jpg

 

Settings i used:

 

iCubesize	512bEnablerealrefs	1fCamdist	1000.0fFresnelref	3.0fFresneledge	1.0fSpecpower	40.0fSpecbase	0.1bReplaceref	1bReplacespec	0fVehnewref	0.2fVehnewspec	0.35bUsealphatest	1hAlpharef	0x40iVehiclepipe	0iBuildpipe	0bPs2refmaps	0hScreenkey	0x74hCubekey	0x75

 

[Rugshtyne]

If this is 0.3 PR try these settings

 

 

iCubesize	512bEnablerealrefs	0fCamdist	500.0fFresnelref	0.0fFresneledge	0.0fSpecpower	40.0fSpecbase	0.1bReplaceref	1bReplacespec	0fVehnewref	0.5fVehnewspec	0.35bUsealphatest	0hAlpharef	0x40iVehiclepipe	0iBuildpipe	0bPs2refmaps	1hScreenkey	0x74hCubekey	0x75

 

 

Works perfectly for me

 

Here:

 

 

 

 

BTW. DeXX is Bloom gone now? It looked really nice in 0.2a

 

My specs btw.

 

Intel Celeron M 1.7GHZ

512MB RAM

Intel 915GM 128MB of Shared Memory

80GB HDD

18-27 FPS

 

(My old)

 

Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2GHZ

4GB RAM

ATI Radeon X1800 256MB up to 1024MB of Shared Memory

250GB HDD

 

Full FPS on High Details, AA MAX, 1680x1050

Erm.. Same sh*t happens.. Black cars, no plants.. BTW, the videocard memory is 64 mb.. And i think it's 1.1 shader.. So somebody please help.

[freak2121]

Crap DexX this mod is amazing, it finally works but when there was a storm there were no more reflections after it =(

Well atleast it worked, I've been dieing to play SA with this mod for months.

[Arvis]

I though that most of this should work nicely on pre-shader cards, but oh well, here is result:

As you can see refs are working, but cars are dark-blue.

PS2 style refs just make cars appear absolutely black with only speclight working.

Setting i'm using:

 

iCubesize	128bEnablerealrefs	1fCamdist	300.0fFresnelref	1.0fFresneledge	1.0fSpecpower	40.0fSpecbase	0.1bReplaceref	0bReplacespec	0fVehnewref	0.2fVehnewspec	0.35bUsealphatest	0hAlpharef	0x40iVehiclepipe	0iBuildpipe	0bPs2refmaps	0hScreenkey	0x74hCubekey	0x75

 

Oh right, new dll at least fixed crashing for me.