RReady Rendition Verité Wrapper

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One final tweak, thick lines:
https://youtu.be/1tv574bxoM4
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For ICR2 fans, the upcoming Arlington track running with RReady, it's currently incomplete:
https://youtu.be/OexDpTVjA0w

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And finally an obligatory vQuake performance improvement video:
https://youtu.be/1AqPS1_1qKs

The reason the now abandoned embedded codepath ran so well (for vQuake and everything else ran the same or slowed down) was because Dosclient was embedded into Dosbox, so the app had focus. It's explained in the video description.

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Untested RReady Alpha October 20, 2024

https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 020.001.7z
MD5: 3eee5ef432ec73c43c2454719d7b710e

- Initial support for Eurofigher 2000+ in FIFO mode( DMA mode does not currently work reliably)
- Performance increases across the board by two new settings:
[rendition]
Highperformance=true
Picdma=true
And
[sdl]
Priority=normal, normal
(Previous DMA performance can be restored by setting both these to false. Threadsafe=true only has an effect if both these are set to false).
The new high-performance mode is extremely CPU intensive and might not work on older CPUs and might introduce audio static (random occasional pops).
- Custom car sets in ICR2 should be usable on most modern quad core or better systems.
- RebelMoon should sustain a solid 60 fps right throughout.
- RebelMoon chroma keying fixes: particle impact cloud sprites should render fully and not be clipped.
- FIFO mode memory write tweaks to support EF2000 in FIFO mode.
- Dosbox-Staging-Rendition has a full set of config settings under [rendition]. It also has performance improvements in ICR2. However it may have stability issues with Nascar Racing 1999R and possibly other apps. It does not currently support per-app config files.

This will be tested over the next 2 weeks and released to sourceforge and the Microsoft Store. Independent testing by a few other users would be useful. Just because it works for me doesn't mean it'll work for anyone else.

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RReady Alpha October 23, 2024 (Fully tested release)
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https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 023.001.7z
MD5: 4538bc2b544cc8aa42a0769bf2975ab0

19 October 2024
- Initial support for Eur*figher 2000+ in FIFO mode( DMA mode does not currently work reliably)
- Performance increases across the board with two new settings:
[rendition]
Highperformance=true
Picdma=true
And
[sdl]
Priority=normal, normal
(Previous DMA performance can be restored by setting both these to false. Threadsafe=true only has an effect if both these are set to false).
The new high-performance mode is extremely CPU intensive and might not work on older CPUs and might introduce audio static (random occasional pops).
- Compatible custom car sets in ICR2 should be usable on most modern quad core or better systems.
- R*belMoon should sustain a solid 60 fps right throughout.
- R*belMoon chroma keying fixes: particle impact cloud sprites should render fully and not be clipped.
- FIFO mode memory write tweaks to support EF2000+ in FIFO mode.
- Dosbox-Staging-Rendition has a full set of config settings under [rendition]. It also has performance improvements in ICR2. However it may have stability issues with N*scar Racing 1999R and possibly other apps. It does not currently support per-app config files.
- N*scar Racing 1999 improved stability with Dosbox-Rendition.
- Dosbox-Rendition vQ*ake performance parity with Dosbox-Staging-Rendition.
- T*am Apache may have compatibility issues with cutscenes with the October updates to Windows 11/nvidia drivers.
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For ICR2 and Nascar



Frame interpolation test:
Try this:
https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 024.002.7z
MD5: 2d1314b5161dcab85ca3cb6969351aec
[ignore this one]
https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 024.001.7z
MD5: 6ea2798dec38f18a517e4fe6d8ac04c0
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In the Dosbox folder rendition.cfg file add
interpolate=1



You may have to disable AA by hitting [ALT+A] in ICR2

Nascar Racing 1999 60 fps:
https://youtu.be/XWPUictfR3w
ICR2 60 fps:
https://youtu.be/8FZCbh_tfS0

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Intermediate frames. OBS seems to have an issue with 60 fps capture.

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The new windowed mode with sizing and aspect ration controls for all Rendition apps:

https://youtu.be/B-mqRt-XSlU

Frame generation at 60 fps, better capture with ShadowPlay, the frame rate does dip below 60 fps with it at time:
https://youtu.be/PVKElUBSDL8

The intermediate frame should be visible in while advancing frame by frame.

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CGL (Creative Graphics Library) Battle Arena Toshinden (intro and menus only);
https://youtu.be/U5IWAKY-s9A

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RReady Alpha November 19, 2024 (Fully tested release)
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https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 119.001.7z
MD5: 9f10a82d3bd689044ff1407c019b1931

19 November 2024
-Frame Generation support for select 30 fps DOS apps to run at 60 fps. (interpolate=1 in Rendition.cfg)
-Windowed mode support (this will allow alternate frame generation through "Lossless Scaling" (Steam, not-supplied) when a custom resolution less than the screen is used. Knocking one pixel off the horizontal resolution (i.e. 1919x1080x60 for 1080p) will work without any scaling artifacts in Lossless Scaling.
- Restores generic VESA support for non-Rendition apps in Dosbox-Rendition, such as setup.exe in TR1, for audio config.
-Adds Rendition 32 bit mode VESA support for CGL demo “21s Century Digital Boy.” The CGL 3D sections do not work currently.