ATI and the latest R4's (just a mention)

[teleguise]

[Rovastar]

[rabidhamster]

[teleguise]

[Splash]

[Guest]

[Rovastar]

[rabidhamster]

[teleguise]

Damn, that was a good one 'Rova(rock)star' even though you put it in BOLD I still had to scroll back to my message and see if I actually typed that or not!

(Brief ramble)
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(End Ramble)

[Talesin]

Whew... I go all secluded to deal with finals, and I miss three builds.

Most everything looks good under v13 with Catalyst 3.10, with a couple of minor exceptions (that had been happening under 3.9 with build 10). An added bonus, the issue that was slowing down Point Snakecube seems to have been fixed in the driver.

The 'Watery Tunnel' scene seems to be the only predefine that's bunged up (Textures look to be misrendering/applying somehow), and the plasma mask fades (hard and soft edge, as well as rainbow) and magic blend R4 fade either fade to black or blink to black and fade into the new scene, respectively.
The Stop fade no longer causes a crash, though the Square Twister scene is flickering like all get-out.

Similarly, almost definitely an ATI driver issue, whenever VSync is forced on the framerate cuts in half when a scene change comes up. As well, the framerate seems to drop to arbitrary values on a number of scenes.. the Chessmania series reliably sticking at around 40fps, and shooting up well over 120fps when VSync is turned off.

Definitely looking good; especially love the new overlay modes.

[Splash]

As a note, I have a nice new Chaintech GeForceFX 5200 128m in the mail on it's way here. I'm looking forward to throwing R4 at it

[rabidhamster]

good man. hopefully the FX will be pretty bug-free :p

I'd forgotten about the Mask - that really sucks. I may try and do a non-multitexture version of mask - i could do a radial blur while i'm at it i guess.

And the water tunnel scene was a mistake - it shouldn't have been in the distro

- Gordon

[Talesin]

New plasma masks and magic R4 seem to be working just fine in v14 (though you left the 'watery tunnel' scene in the ATI-safe distro again. ).

Oh, and just noticed the 'Sound Check' overlay. Regardless of if there's music or not, it pops up a 'No sound detected' graphic for a split second, which fades out a second or so later. Can only assume it's supposed to fade out if it detects sound... so might be picking up a little bit of static from the sound card when the music's off.

As well, the 'net control' pages seem to be pretty dead; the pages look to have gotten mis-parsed both under Mozilla and IE. After poking around, tried the telnet login with R4<enter>, but it didn't seem to be listening to terminal commands either.

(Oop.. and just noticed that the new Slimetunnel preset appears to be a bit off; there's no scene screenshot to compare against though.)

[teleguise]

Best I can tell 'slime tunnel' looks the same. Actually the ATI version looks better , most likely due to the fact that its on a bigger/better screen otherwise identical.

So not sure exactly what might look off... Could be cuz your cards tooo fast 'Talesin' since Im only getting 30-45fps full screen

[Talesin]

Just seems to be the same thing that's been happening all over... weird texturing artifacts. Generally minor stuff, but noticable if you're looking for it. Seems to happen in all of the tunnels (though not the biotunnels), that there are certain points that 'snap' back to full value. Like the textures are a gradiant, when it snaps from the end of the grade to the strongest point.

Tempted to just buy Gordon a R9200 and ship it over to him.. they're about thirty bucks off the shelf, and would simplify testing a lot.

Hmm. If speed might be the cause, I'm tempted to manually set R4 to 1600x1200 with 6xFSAA and 16x Aniso. See if that'll chug it enough. But with most scenes popping along happily upward of 200-300fps with vsync off (and some hammering at the RAMDAC frequency.. 500 or 600fps), I dunno how effective it'd be. :b