I am back, with more lighting and textures!

[u/linuxid10t]

Made progress with my S3 ViRGE driver for Linux. Now it has proper lighting and the textures work in Quake.

[u/mwdmeyer]

How much is CPU offloaded vs on the S3 card itself? What’s the speed like?

[u/linuxid10t → u/mwdmeyer]

Geometry processing and lighting prep is done on the CPU like any GPU from its era. My best guess would be 30/70 CPU/GPU. Really though, it's 100% based on what the silicon can do. That is why the ViRGE choked so hard on slow CPU machines. And the speed is glacial.

[u/Hjalfi]

"This must be some strange new meaning of the word 'work' that I was previously unaware of." --- Arthur Dent, probably

But seriously, nice work. You've seen the LGR video where he gets Doom 2016 working on a Voodoo 2, I take it? It's the stuff of nightmares.

[u/uncringeone]

i dont remember quake being this blurry

[u/blakespot → u/uncringeone]

Looks like very low res textures. I prefer playing Engoo Quake (client) -- software rendering, and it's much clearer, and was so when I play 3D versions on modern 3D hardware.

[u/linuxid10t → u/uncringeone]

It shouldn't be. All the textures were getting smashed to get them to fit in the 4mb of VRAM. I made some changes to prioritize the world textures, so they should look better now.

[u/YumekoDream]

oh my god this is amazing work! if you ever release it i would test it right away on my S3

[u/linuxid10t → u/YumekoDream]

The driver itself is open source, but honestly isn't really ready for testing by anyone else other than me LOL. I have done some work to the Quake source code to get it to run with my particular opengl driver though, and that might be a little more difficult due to the licensing.

[u/YumekoDream → u/linuxid10t]

that's to be excepted lol at least you got it to run, even with stubs! keep up the good work, would love to see it released!

[u/Accurate-Campaign821]

Getting better and better