OpenGL

Denzil · Post by **Denzil** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:34 am

Copy&Paste from IRC

[05 Feb 05 00:15] ** blight_ has joined
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[05 Feb 05 00:15] blight_: couldnt wait to get back into windows ... if i'd drink alcohol you could send me beer ....

)))
[05 Feb 05 00:16] blight_: brb
[05 Feb 05 00:17] blight_: whats up guys?
[05 Feb 05 00:17] blight_: are you sleeping?
[05 Feb 05 00:17] blight_: OPENGL WORKS!
[05 Feb 05 00:17] blight_: lol
[05 Feb 05 00:18] filip0402: tamlin - nothing is sacrificed, that's how it should work. do you really want to check if 0xf0000000 physical page is occupied by BIOS?
[05 Feb 05 00:18] filip0402: blight_ - are you kidding?
[05 Feb 05 00:18] blight_: no!
[05 Feb 05 00:18] blight_: no joke
[05 Feb 05 00:18] blight_: i tried the NVIDIA treemark demo ... and it was FAST!
[05 Feb 05 00:18] filip0402: good work

[05 Feb 05 00:18] tamlin: filip: Just FYI I've now checked bootini options at even sysinternals, and the only stuff it mentions is BURNMEMORY and MAXMEM. No "exclude this range of phys ram".
[05 Feb 05 00:18] filip0402: wow
[05 Feb 05 00:19] blight_: it was not really slower than in windows i think
[05 Feb 05 00:19] blight_: maybe a few FPS... but the big speed improvement is there
[05 Feb 05 00:19] diab0l: whui
[05 Feb 05 00:19] blight_: =D
[05 Feb 05 00:19] tamlin: blight_: Wow! Indeed Good Work(tm)!

Pentiumforever · Post by **Pentiumforever** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:05 am

Cool only bad that the most games use directX

Headstrong · Post by **Headstrong** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:12 am

LOL, nice one

but that was over an hour ago why is it not at http://reactos.com/wiki/index.php/HOWTO

j/k obviously!!

uniQ · Post by **uniQ** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:23 am

I just hope ppl follow the pattern when adding to Wiki.

-Q

SirTalon · Post by **SirTalon** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:04 am

Thats really weird, I thought OpenGL on windows just translated the commands into DirectX commands??? Good to see I didn't remember correctly!

DirectX shouldn't be a huge issue, since Cedega (the important parts are LGPL) translates DirectX commands into OpenGL commands and the same method could be used for ROS (at least till a better replacement is made).

Hopefully blight posts screenshots and a guide on how to do it!

GvG · Post by **GvG** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:23 am

SirTalon wrote:DirectX shouldn't be a huge issue, since Cedega (the important parts are LGPL) translates DirectX commands into OpenGL commands and the same method could be used for ROS (at least till a better replacement is made).

I don't think that is the route we should go. Most of DirectX is implemented by drivers. Wine/Cedega can't use the driver implementation 'cause they can't use the manufacturers drivers. ReactOS can and should. Cut out the middle man (OpenGL), DirectX is all about speed, isn't it.

Linuxhippy · Post by **Linuxhippy** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:28 am

Wine does translate DirectX into OpenGL only because they cannot use the native DirectX-Drivers manufacturers provide.
Create DirectX under ROS should be much easier than on windows.

PS: Cedega isn't GPL!

lg Clemens

Elledan · Post by **Elledan** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 12:21 pm

pentiumforever wrote:Cool only bad that the most games use directX

At least you'll be able to run Doom III now

Post by **w3seek** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 12:59 pm

it should be rather easy to implement Direct3D and DirectDraw in ROS, most calls can more or less be just redirected to the graphics drivers (if they implement it)

Asraniel · Post by **Asraniel** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:07 pm

can you now, i dont know how, take the wine openGL implementation (wine has more or less DX9 working now!!) and integrate it into ROS so that the DX calls get translated into openGL calls? at least under wine i think this isnt a real performance problem

AcetoliNe · Post by **AcetoliNe** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:13 pm

can you now, i dont know how, take the wine openGL implementation (wine has more or less DX9 working now!!) and integrate it into ROS so that the DX calls get translated into openGL calls? at least under wine i think this isnt a real performance problem

Sure it's possible, but wouldn't it be great if all that programming effort were saved to implement DirectX in the flesh? It would be a lot cleaner and faster that way.

forart · Post by **forart** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:19 pm

DirectX OpenGL Wrapper emulates API calls thru OpenGL commands and other platform specific commands in order to run DirectX 8 application running on other platform than Windows

check it out

Asraniel · Post by **Asraniel** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:30 pm

AcetoliNe wrote: Sure it's possible, but wouldn't it be great if all that programming effort were saved to implement DirectX in the flesh? It would be a lot cleaner and faster that way.

sure, but i think it would be implemented much faster than a newly written dx version. You could gain time, and like that you would share even more code with wine, wich is also great

mf · Post by mf » Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:50 pm

patchworks wrote:
DirectX OpenGL Wrapper emulates API calls thru OpenGL commands and other platform specific commands in order to run DirectX 8 application running on other platform than Windows
check it out

If it can be quickly hacked in without a hassle, and hacked out just as easily when people want to work on a real DirectX, it could be cool. But is it the thing(tm) for ROS to do right now?

Pentiumforever · Post by **Pentiumforever** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:15 pm

Elledan wrote:
pentiumforever wrote:Cool only bad that the most games use directX
At least you'll be able to run Doom III now

no i cant my hardware didnt, want ist

OpenGL

OpenGL

Yes

try this

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