Hi, I'm about to buy a FX 5600 or 5700 (or maybe the ATI 9600 equivalent) to have a VS/PS 2 card. The seller tolds me I have to install dx9 to have it working properly. But I'm working with dx8.1 and I'm not ready to change all my work to dx9. Is he true? I think it must work with any dx version, isn't it? maybe depending on a driver to install? thanks pb
FX 5600 DX8.1 compatibility question
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I'm a programmer for a living, but noob at game development. So, if this seems elementary, please be gentle. :) I have an anti-aliased background image that I'd like to partially perform a flood fill. Naturally, when I do the flood fill, the edges of the area being filled don't fill because they're different colors due to the anti-aliasing. Is there any way to get around this, like a "smart" flood fill? I'm using DirectX (DirectDraw) 9. If not, what is a good alternative? I've tried not using an anti-aliased image, but the jaggies look terrible. In my game (yet another Risk implementation for educational purposes), I have the game map as a background image and was planning on painting the background image. Is there a better way? Thanks, Kevin - 2. Problem cleaning up after using vertex buffer.
Ok.. so I tried to take my first step to create a 3D object with VertexBuffers but I have a problem cleaning up. For some reason, after I do CreateVertexBuffer call and I try to exit the application, it keeps saying "reference count for D3D object is non-null". I am releasing the vertex buffer before I exit the application, and I'm using D3DPOOL_MANAGED for vertex buffer. Am I missing an important step here? Tutorial doesn't really have any special clean up either but it works fine for tutorials and samples. If anyone can give me few pointers or things to watch out for, I would appreciate it. Or if anyone can tell me what I"m doing wrong, that would even be better. ^^; Thanks. - 3. texture coordinates for cubemap
What should be texture coordinates for cube map imitating light illumination ( lets say that there is a point light inside a glass box which has something painted on it and it projects it all over the scene, something like that monster illuminated by rotating cube in Unreal engine 3.0 presentation ) thx for any anserw, ----------------------------- Kryst(ian) gg 2217642 "If you can't make it good, make it big. If you can't make it big, make it shiny."
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FX 5600 DX8.1 compatibility question
by cGhpbEI » Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:36:06 GMT
Re: FX 5600 DX8.1 compatibility question
by Lynn Harrison » Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:29:24 GMT
Phil, The person selling you the card has it wrong. The hardware should run fine with code written against older versions of the SDK. -- Lynn Harrison SHAMELESS PLUG - Introduction to 3D Game Engine Design (C# & DX9) www.forums.Apress.com have a VS/PS 2 card. The seller tolds me I have to install dx9 to have it working properly. But I'm working with dx8.1 and I'm not ready to change all my work to dx9. Is he true? I think it must work with any dx version, isn't it? maybe depending on a driver to install?
Re: FX 5600 DX8.1 compatibility question
by Eyal Teler » Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:33:23 GMT
You might need DX9 installed to have the drivers installed -- I'm not sure. That will likely lose you the debug runtime if you continue to use the DX8.1 SDK, but otherwise you should be able to run your app fine. As another option, you should be able to develop DX8.1 apps with the DX9 SDK. Eyal
Re: FX 5600 DX8.1 compatibility question
by cGhpbEI » Fri, 23 Jan 2004 02:16:10 GMT
Hi again thanks, that's what I was thinking of. And another remark, but maybe I should ask nvidia Will checking the caps of the FX 5200 on the site I had seen that it is supporting VS/PS 2.0 in DX9 and 16 thexture per pass. Two days ago I had tested it with my machine in DX8.1 (to be sure it works on my old agp port) and the caps viewver reports VS 1.1 and PS 1.4 (don't remenber the txpture per pass) Is there something not correct on the site (because data are near the same has the FX 5600/5700 which is curious to me) or a driver for DX9 may support VS/PS 2.0 and for the same card we can have a driver for DX8.1 supporting lesser shader version p
Re: FX 5600 DX8.1 compatibility question
by Eyal Teler » Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:18:18 GMT
DX8.1 doesn't know about any shader versions over 1.1 for vertex shaders and 1.4 for pixel shaders. DX9 introduced shaders 2.0 and higher, so you need it to be able to use them. Eyal
Re: FX 5600 DX8.1 compatibility question
by Eyal Teler » Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:38:16 GMT
It took me about a day to move a pretty big program from DX8.1 to DX9, so if you're thinking about it, I think that you shouldn't worry about it too much. Eyal
Re: FX 5600 DX8.1 compatibility question
by cGhpbEI » Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:06:05 GMT
Hi eyal what I'm worrying about is particularly skinmesh, because I'm using it for my characters. I spend several weeks some time ago to "digest" it. I have added clonning facilities and time table animation to the basic demo. A big work for me. Of course I've seen all that is now integrated in the new dx9b animations demos. I was expecting this to happen one day.. That said, I have the FX5600 running now in dx81 Just for curioisty, I had check the dx9 samples. In particular, I ran the lightning vs demo. Results are ok. Then I try, again for checking purpose, to recompile it from its source code. And the apps cannot create the shader version in pure or hwvp, only in swvp with a very low rate. I had not take any look to the code, so I don't know the shader version, but I suppose it's 2.0 This s a little curious As I have a AMD 700, Win98 system, maybe the driver is not fully correct as it is not WHQL for 98. But the sample browser demos are working??? pb
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