RReady Rendition Verité Wrapper

[sharangad]

And one more boring old vQuake video with d_mipscale 0 and a_mip 0. A playthrough of the first 2 (or 3) levels:

https://youtu.be/PXfvbG0FBQA

There is a quite of bit of slowdown, but before with only 4 MB of VRAM it was unplayable.

[sharangad]

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RReady Alpha, January 10, 2025 (Untested Store Release candidate)
This will be undergoing testing shortly
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https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 110.001.7z
MD5: 7a07f529eade3ed5aae43a6a5c0c8724

- Tomb Raider 1 video cutscenes should now render on Win11 24H2 with Nvidia hardware and possibly on most Intel integrated GPUs.
- ICR2 by default disables Rendition anti-aliasing which makes the game runnable on GPUs with less VRAM, such as Intel HD graphics. It also provides a significant performance boost on such systems.
- ICR2 – RLauncher now offers control over fogging, bilinear filtering and low res mirrors (original game resolution). Additionally options to disable line drawing and Rendition Anti-Aliasing are available. The latter two are turned off by default as custom carsets have issues with this, even on original hardware. They can be turned back on for purists.
- Whiplash original low res mirrors can be enabled.
- SDK Demo Ucube.exe should now once again render correctly in full screen mode.


@gplaps review of the wrapper can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV7kTvOS_t0

[sharangad]

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RReady Alpha, January 13, 2025 (Fully tested stable build)
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https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 113.001.7z
MD5: 2bdc27f53bbc7ad5b7a0eb3a484ee706

Fixes:
- Tomb Raider 1 video cutscenes should now render on Win11 24H2 with Nvidia hardware and possibly on most Intel integrated GPUs.
- ICR2 by default disables Rendition anti-aliasing which makes the game runnable on GPUs with less VRAM, such as Intel HD graphics. It also provides a significant performance boost on such systems.
- ICR2 – RLauncher now offers control over fogging, bilinear filtering and low res mirrors (original game resolution). Additionally options to disable line drawing and Rendition Anti-Aliasing are available. The latter two are turned off by default as custom carsets have issues with this, even on original hardware. They can be turned back on for purists. Rendition if enabled from RLauncher, can be disabled in game by pressing [ALT+A].
- Whiplash original low res mirrors can be enabled.
- SDK Demo Ucube.exe should now once again render correctly in full screen mode.
- Dosbox-Staging-Rendition now uses dosbox-staging-rendition.conf as its setting file. If an older version was installed, run dosbox-staging-rendition, close it and then copy the old dosbox-staging.conf settings into the newly created dosbox-staging-rendition.conf.
- Should allow for enabling frame interpolation/generation on more GPUs such as the AMD RX7900 series and GT 330 M.
- Window positioning/centering controls in RLauncher with support from the wrapper.
(Note: Position (0,0) is the top left of the primary monitor. Anything to the left/top of the primary will have a negative x/y coordinate or possibly both.
- Better support [ALT+TAB], [ALT+ENTER] commands when switching between Dosclient.exe and the desktop. It should no longer maximise the Dosbox console and leave Dosclient locked out of keyboard and mouse input.


This should be available on the Microsoft Store shortly.


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[sharangad]

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RReady Alpha 20250114
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https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 114.001.7z
MD5: c9e475f9f2a3b8296f4f14dea1131895

- Corrects lockup when resuming a race/season in ICR2.
- Brake balance adjustment for ICR2 should work on UK keyboards. They `/~ functionality might not work properly on US keyboard. In the dosbox-rendition.conf (or dosbox-staging-rendition.confg) adding

[rendition]
keyboard = US


The default setting (when missing) is
keyboard=generic

will restore that key, but might break it for everyone else. They keyboard mapping might have to be rehandled at some point using the locale.

I will aim to roll out those two fixes by the end of the week and any other reported bugs.

[sharangad]

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RReady Alpha, January 14, 2025 Build #002 (untested alpha build)
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https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 114.002.7z
MD5: 48d1e0041a6c803bdffab34cea656d07
- Corrects lockup when resuming a race/season in ICR2.
- All OEM keys on keyboards are now handled correctly depending on locale, should work correctly for all keyboard language settings.

[sharangad]

Integer Scaling for RReady:
https://youtu.be/ZDgl9zrlhg8

[sharangad]

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RReady Alpha, January 14, 2025 Build #002 (Fully tested build)
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https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 114.002.7z
MD5: 48d1e0041a6c803bdffab34cea656d07
- Corrects lockup when resuming a race/season in ICR2.
- All OEM keys on keyboards are now handled correctly depending on locale, should work correctly for all keyboard language settings.
Identical to previous untested alpha.
(This should be live on the store.)
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[sharangad]

Upcoming update (Alpha hopefully today): Intege scaling and Moveable Window.

https://youtu.be/JUJlwvtavXk

[sharangad]

RReady Alpha, January 20, 2025

https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... ideoFix.7z
MD5: a2a172df9b128577260b34ea9e55c757

- Integer scaling
- moveable window
- Descent II video should render better on weaker h/w. The game still doesn't work properly.

[sharangad]

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RReady Alpha, January 23, 2025
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https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 123.007.7z
MD5: caaf34fc942b6848427112024a747e9a

- Both versions of dosbox allow selection of joystick devices. This is done with:
[joystick]
usejoystickids=true
joystickids= id1|[,id2]

id1 and id2 are numbers from 0 to the number of joysticks -1. The id2 and the preceding , can be omitted to use just a single joystick. This defaults to 0,1 when usejoystickids=false. The logfile %localappdata%\dosbox-staging-rendition lists all available devices along with joystick numbers.

On Windows 11 for some reason SDL2 (32 bit) seems to go bonkers and with dosbox-staging-rendition (which is currently a 32 bit app) returns garbage axis and button readings on Win11. The 64 bit version, which isn't part of RReady doesn't seem to be affected.

Dosbox-staging-Rendition has all the joystick changes from Dosbox-staging 0.82 incorporated, but my Logitech gamepad doesn't work in Dosbox-staging-Rendition. It would be nice if someone with a wheel could test this out and see if nothing's broken.