Tweaked GAPI driver - Page 3

bersca · 11-08-04, 07:44 PM

Tested on Warfare Inc. which I have had problems with using my X50v. Before using the new GAPI driver, gameplay was choppy at times and slow. Now it is smooth and fast, but the graphics keep changing between normal and something similar to the previous post. This is looking very promising. Get this issue solved and you're a hero!

11-08-04, 07:45 PM

i get the same results with 1.02

11-08-04, 07:47 PM

i guess i should disable the active process checking...

morphgear will be a problem because it uses GDI drawn toolbar...

emulamer · 11-08-04, 07:48 PM

It actually seems to be an issue with one of these toolbar things that I reinstalled after the hard reset. 1.02 is correct after power off/on. If you'd rather (up to you, it's the same to me) you can get me on AIM as emulamer.. if you want a faster response :)

11-08-04, 08:13 PM

Originally Posted by emulamer

If you'd rather (up to you, it's the same to me) you can get me on AIM as emulamer.. if you want a faster response :)

No, no, not AIM ... it's facinating to follow the development here. Let's keep it public ;)

11-08-04, 08:14 PM

Originally Posted by mpbasher52

this is getting kind of confusing....

do you use the toolbar with morphgear? how did you open the rom file, didn't toolbar got trashed when you started morphgear?

i won't be able to solve the problem fully because morphgear uses GDI toolbars and menus. later if i can use accelerated scaling i could make the original gapi driver faster with GDI compability.

emulamer · 11-08-04, 08:17 PM

I thought morphgear had gone to using getrawframebuffer anyways.

Ranma13 · 11-08-04, 08:19 PM

Just out of curiosity, if I want to learn how to program, what language is the best to start off with, and any recommendations for good books?

11-08-04, 08:20 PM

Originally Posted by emulamer

I thought morphgear had gone to using getrawframebuffer anyways.

that wouldn't be a good idea with gfx chip vga devices (hx4700,e800,x50v)

emulamer · 11-08-04, 08:25 PM

If you don't know the fundamental stuff of programming, I would say visual basic. It's easy to make something go without knowing a whole lot, and the syntax is alot like english. As for books, you can always go buy them, but Google search is also a good way to find learning resources (http://www.vbtutor.net/vbtutor.html is the first one it came up with). As for learning the kind of stuff that picard is able to do... let me know if you find out ;)

emulamer · 11-08-04, 08:28 PM

Originally Posted by picard_beta

that wouldn't be a good idea with gfx chip vga devices (hx4700,e800,x50v)

Based on some stuff in the forums over there, it looks like that's what he's doing. Also, it looks like he disabled wm2003se's compatibility mode, and I'm not sure what that would do to gapi even if it were still using it. I'm guessing that he's still using GAPI for something though, or it wouldn't have kicked off your driver in the first place, would it?

11-08-04, 08:33 PM

Originally Posted by Ranma13

Just out of curiosity, if I want to learn how to program, what language is the best to start off with, and any recommendations for good books?

Visual Basic if you want the most easy way.
C++ for the hardest.
Delphi/Pascal if you want best of both world's.

Programming is as hard as you make it. The more advanced feature's you want, the harder it get's. A lot also depends on your development enviroment when you first start programming.

11-08-04, 08:34 PM

im not entirely sure of what i did. to open the rom, im pretty sure i went through morphgears toolbar, which got back to normal after i took the special screenshot using getmypdascreen....dont know sh*t about programming so i cant really put it in more technicle terms than that

11-08-04, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by picard_beta

that wouldn't be a good idea with gfx chip vga devices (hx4700,e800,x50v)

You can find more information here what he is going with morphgear.

http://www.morphgear.com/forum/forum...d=1312&start=1

tsaimelv · 11-08-04, 08:44 PM

Originally Posted by emulamer

If you don't know the fundamental stuff of programming, I would say visual basic. It's easy to make something go without knowing a whole lot, and the syntax is alot like english. As for books, you can always go buy them, but Google search is also a good way to find learning resources (http://www.vbtutor.net/vbtutor.html is the first one it came up with). As for learning the kind of stuff that picard is able to do... let me know if you find out ;)

I haven't done any PPC programming, but i've done plenty of win32 and MFC programming using C++ (and, being a DSP hardware consultant and a grad student in EE/CS, I know about 15+ assembly languages and 4-5 HLL's). Also some palm programming. I never recommend people learn VB as their first language. I know it's easy, but you will be handicapping yourself if you ever want to get into linux programming etc. But to each his own.

My favorite book for Visual C++, which also has a good intro to 'regular' C++, has always been Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++. Highly recommended.

This GAPI fix is awesome stuff... I just looked at the code. Can someone explain to me why there is a ThreadProc() that is continually looking at the foreground process and is setting or unsetting QVGA mode over and over?