RReady Rendition Verité Wrapper

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RReady September 25, 2024

[EDIT: Wrong build, do not download]
https://1drv.ms/u/c/5277ef8d4f2a9dcf/EU ... A?e=66N51k
OR
https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 25.002.zip
MD5: 4de5601802af58cabc04a55077c04737
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Fixes: Nascar 1999 Racing performance boost
MDK : Power up indictator on bottom right has correct background colour
Regressions: ICR2 may have audio pops. This is because of the Nascar fixes. This isn't going on to the store/sourceforge until I fix it. If someone could confirm that they do get audio popping in ICR2 it would be useful, to make sure it's not just my machine.

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I'm not doing anything weird while posting and I don't seem to get any notifications.

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Another RReady compatible carset u.2024 in action:
(https://www.icr2.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=1550)

https://youtu.be/bgKdjUxOF1Q

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RReady Alpha September 30, 2024 (Fully Tested Alpha release)
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https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 30.001.zip
MD5: cede5fd862e0bf5d02ade7dc7417006d
- Nascar some texture clamping issues fixed
- MDK weapon power up blended background in HUD

The Nascar 1999 optimisations aren't there (they won't be necessary and the performance boost will be there in the next release without this)
and neither are the new vQuake engine edge AA shaders.

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Upcoming optimisations for Speedy3D apps in the next release, everything should run at at least 30 fps:

- vQuake no static with Dosbox-Rendition, almost as fast as Dosbox-Staging-Rendition without embedding
- Rebel Moon, no slowdown
- ICR2 full frame with replays and carsets:

The sluggish cars95.2k carset at full speed:
https://youtu.be/nQT2-LStNnE

U.2024 carset at 30 fps:
https://youtu.be/bbrGdIRTOFA

Detroit Downtown HQ at a rock solid 30 fps with replay:
https://youtu.be/6aww5RbtniA


The optimisations are incomplete.

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This is an extremely alpha release, but it appears to be stable on both my machines with discrete GPUs. Integrated GPUs are completely no go with this release, at least for Nascar and ICR2. The priority of Dosclient is set to be the same as dosbox and dosbox configures itself as being 'in focus' (even though dosclient is) on video mode change.

Performance feedback for this build would be useful, on my Sandy Bridge based i7 (2600) with a GTX660, ICR2 and Nascar Racing 1999 is stable. The framerate isn't always 30 though, it dips with other cars. So feedback on stability and performance would be very nice. On faster machines a full framerate is possible.

https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 01.001.zip
MD5: b1f1c3fc896cb5e300b2ce01fa98032f

- Significant performance improvements on machines with discrete GPUs (with dosbox-rendition, staging is only partially modified).
- Dosbox-rendition achieves vQuake performance parity with dosbox-staging-rendition.
- Rebel Moon should run at a solid 60 fps, all the time.
- Dosbox-staging-Rendition has some performance tweaks, but could be unstable. The stability fixes are not in place yet. This shouldn't be tested yet as the changes are incomplete.
- Keys being held down within dosbox on app exist *might* be fixed.

Whether this build lives or dies depends on your feedback. So please post your results.

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This build adds two new options:

https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 003.004.7z
MD5: 89bfd9f38babf0e3b90ac3cf841bd882

[rendition]
highperformance = true|false (default:true)
picdma = true|false (default:false)

highperformance allows the new fast mode and picdma makes it threadsafe (but at the expense of performance).

[EDIT:October 8, 2024] Setting
[sdl]
priority = normal, normal
in dosbox.conf might be necessary
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I would recommend testing it with highperfornance = true and picdma = false. If there're any stability issues in ICR2 or Nascar 1999, setting picdma = true to gauge performance would also be useful. (picdma = true is a death sentence for weaker CPUs).

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Rebel Moon at a rock solid 60 fps (playthrough of the first level and part of the second):
https://youtu.be/_2MIBSVaza8

Two things:

The controls seem a bit laggy and I had a lock up partway through.

Need to retest this quite a few times. Having software video capture running at the same time also seems to affect it.

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Eurofighter 2000+ (Rendition Renderer) stable in FIFO mode:

https://youtu.be/eIFL1FQfe-Q

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EF2000 All rendering defects fixed:
https://youtu.be/ZSwOFEeIq14