Direct 3D 9.0c Quake

mh · Post by mh » Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:25 pm

Just in case anyone misses it.

http://mhquake.blogspot.com/2008/12/sti ... in-it.html

Baker · Post by **Baker** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:37 pm

Mirrored download at Quaketastic:

http://www.quaketastic.com/cgi-bin/file ... ws/engines

Vista is crazy ...

mh · Post by mh » Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:56 pm

You just need to upgrade your DirectX, that's all.

Baker · Post by **Baker** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:58 pm

mh wrote:You just need to upgrade your DirectX, that's all.

Vista runs DirectX 10

MeTcHsteekle · Post by **MeTcHsteekle** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:28 pm

hmm works great for me

metlslime · Post by **metlslime** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:28 pm

your directx is -1 versions too old.

ceriux · Post by **ceriux** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:35 pm

here's me testing my mod in glquake

it crashed the first time but after that it was good... also -dedicated doesnt work for making dedicated servers.

mh · Post by mh » Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:49 pm

Baker wrote:
mh wrote:You just need to upgrade your DirectX, that's all.
Vista runs DirectX 10

In a normal logical world that would make sense, but this is DirectX we're talking about.

Anyway, what's happening is that there have been many updates to DirectX 9 since the original release; the missing DLL you got in your error was released with a March-of-this-year update. I would expect that the same is the case for 10, and grabbing a recent release will resolve everything.

Re: dedicated server; yup, that's the old GLQuake crash-on-dedicated-server bug. I did say I was replicating GLQuake, didn't I?

It's caused by trying to load a texture when video isn't initialized, and will be removed in a future version. No real reason not to use WQ or any other engine if you want a dedicated server, is there?

ceriux · Post by **ceriux** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:54 pm

was just testing :d also will you be adding in a server list and mouse support (other than holding my mouse wheel in?)

other wise its very nice looking very smooth and so far has played better than DP for me, although DPextension support would be nice to see (also know this wont happen but DP server [list?] support.)

Baker · Post by **Baker** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:03 am

mh wrote:
Baker wrote:
mh wrote:You just need to upgrade your DirectX, that's all.
Vista runs DirectX 10
In a normal logical world that would make sense, but this is DirectX we're talking about.

Anyway, what's happening is that there have been many updates to DirectX 9 since the original release; the missing DLL you got in your error was released with a March-of-this-year update. I would expect that the same is the case for 10, and grabbing a recent release will resolve everything.

Well I'll try to figure out how to do an update.

My XP SP1 machine has DirectX 9.0c installed on it and I get the same error. Now I would run the DirectX updater, but my XP computer always fails the Windows Genuine Advantage check (nice! My Dell computer runs the OEM-installed XP that it came with ... gj Microsoft!)

Update: what do you know, my computer passed the Genuine Advantage check. It never did before.

Post by **scar3crow** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:06 am

Hardly tested it yet, but it loaded very smooth and ran very smooth... This is exciting mh =D

ceriux · Post by **ceriux** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:10 am

yep

its very much appreciated. i just hope it has some cool things in store for it in the future

Baker · Post by **Baker** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:17 am

Nice work, MH.

For anyone who needs to update DirectX drivers to run:

Microsoft DirectX update page

A pure port, I love it.

Great work and pioneering.

Some random notes from a quick run through:

1. Writes screenshots = yes
2. Brightness slider = no effect (original d3dquake does have this)
3. Video options = crashes it
4. ALT-TAB = crashes it (the original d3dquake has this problem)

I also noticed no z-fighting on e1m1.

mh · Post by mh » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:43 am

Thanks, everyone. So long since I've released anything new that this is a bit weird...

Baker wrote:3. Video options = crashes it

You have more than 27 modes and I'm overflowing an array!

That one will be fixed shortly.

MeTcHsteekle · Post by **MeTcHsteekle** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 3:23 am

oh, and um

when u play online, when the map changes it crashes, it happened to me twice on ||bigfoot.quake1.net|| and it happened to =peg= also.

not to be a nucence or anything, but we have found the d3d to be VARY VARY smooth compared to gl, in booth look and feel,

oh and the team colors on the scoreboard are greyscale, but we also came to the conclusion that that was 1337 just before we had an axe fight..70 7h3 d347h