Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "pal" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: new game (kinda) Date: 26 Apr 2003 10:51:14 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 40 Message-ID: <01c30bdf$c89c39c0$8500a8c0@portable-pal> References: <01c2ed94$01b55940$8500a8c0@pal-s-omnibook> <01c3032d$7c2f6b80$8500a8c0@portable-pal> NNTP-Posting-Host: amontsouris-108-1-16-98.abo.wanadoo.fr X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Matt Verran wrote in article ... > Do you have a Voodoo3 graphics card? More specifically can your gfx card > handle textures that are bigger than 256x256? I don't really know for sure what's in my box (it's actually only a borrowed computer, not quite mine). From inspection by eye and software all I can tell is that I don't have a dedicated graphics card, just an Intel 82815 controller. I'm not competent on hardware stuff so maybe I've missed something though (still, it's pretty obvious that the only card plugged into the motherboard is the network adapter). I installed the latest drivers for said chip but couldn't identify my motherboard. DirectX 9.0a is installed and says that 'Direct3D isnt available'... DirectDraw works, but 'not accelerated'. I must admit I've not tested any demanding game yet. But from the screenshots I wouldn't expect MarioPac to be unable to run. Mame works fine (with eg Dimahoo, 1944...). I've been having problems running most of the videogame stuff I've written for the PC; it seems related to my forcing a specific vsync rate. >There is a new version of SMP in the works that will use DX7 rather than DX8.1 Great! I may be able to try it on yet another computer though. But that will certainly enlarge your audience. > Would you mind testing future versions for me, seeing as you have a machine > that it definately doesn't work on and I know you can be trusted? Yeah, I would be happy to put my computer's crappiness to good use ;) -- no problem. However, I wouldn't want to see 'IP-able' features before their release if you see what I mean. pal