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Hardware Only?

Started by Ultraken, November 20, 2009, 12:56:40 AM

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Red Devil

Would keeping it help in porting it to other OS's?
What box???

AHadley

Would losing it help with the W7 issue?

Ultraken

Quote from: AHadley on November 26, 2009, 04:29:36 AM
Would losing it help with the W7 issue?
It would, though only indirectly.  The software renderer imposes a lot of constraints, and removing it would make a lot of things easier.

Quote from: Red Devil on November 25, 2009, 06:51:19 PM
Would keeping it help in porting it to other OS's?
I doubt it, since large portions of the software renderer are tightly-wound assembler code.  :)

Red Devil

In that case, all I can say is.....Killllll it!  :lol:
What box???

Ultraken


Red Devil

Heh :-)  *puts more wood in fireplace*
What box???

Nielk1


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AHadley


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technoid

If there is still some small fraction of a conscious conflict about keeping the software mode, why not fix a little bit of its code as best as possible, leave it aside, then make a totally separate exe/compile for the hardware-only, which then becomes the main file(s)?   Perhaps that could be a little better than having a new hardware mode update, and also the original/prior BZ1 release that isn't upgraded?  That would make it 3 separate versions (old, updated & updated h/w mode only), but you get the best of all worlds. If that will cause trouble in networking, then I don't know.  Does BZI have version-checking like in BZII?

Firestorm29

A thought just occurred to me, would the 1.5 exe be able to play with players from 1.4? If so, then that could act as a 2nd exe allowing older PCs to still be able to play with newer ones. Would there be anything that could keep that from happening like bug fixes?

Zero Angel

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Ultraken

I'll keep the original renderer in a separate branch just in case.

Vid

I wouldn't think we'd need the software mode anymore, unless for some reason onboard graphics chipsets couldn't handle hardware mode.  However video cards are pretty cheap. 

Commando

Intel video cards have been problematic when it came to the graphics rewrite for bz2 so I'd watch out for those type of cards.