The prettiest OpenGL demo I've seen yet.

[The Rock]

http://www.glexcess.com

Go there NOW amd amaze your eyeballs. This may make Matrox cards puke at higher settings, but this is such a QUALITY demo that I had to pimp it here. I swear 3DMark 2001 is gonna be a letdown visually compared to this one.

Bart

[alessandro]

Try also the VulpineGLMark demo ( 55.6Mb) .
And how about this Wonder of programing the Fr-08 (64Kb) that uses dX8.....

[Nuno]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">System Requirements:
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- Pentium II or higher (Pentium III recommended)processor

- 64 MB RAM

- Any video card FULLY (when I say FULLY I mean no Matrox cards please...) supporting OpenGL acceleration

- Sound Blaster 16 or compatible audio card (SBLive! with 4 point speakers recommended)

- 40 MBytes of free hard disk space</font>

Now, I think it runs good enough on the G400 (for a demo coded ONLY on and for Nvidia cards), but it´s not flawless. I´m seeing missing polygons on several parts of the demo, specially on those sea scenes. That is with 5.51 Win2k. 32bit z makes no difference.

[DuRaNgO]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">nVidia owners: For best visual quality please select "Use
-------------- block transfer" as "Buffer flipping mode"
in your OpenGL Settings. This will prevent
your screen from flickering on some scenes.</font>

hehe, and he's talking about Matrox cards

[dZeus]

the funny thing is that the demo will flicker with Matrox cards in Block Transfer mode, and if you switch to Page Flipping/Always On, it will not flicker any more

It's the fade-mode bug (or whatever the official name should be)

[The Rock]

The Vulpine one isn't as nice (but still looks great), but it does allow you to benchmark, which is always a plus for the boasting nerdiness in us all. Now if only I could find an SMP-enabled one.

Bart

[Maggi]

yeah, looks awesome !!!



http://www.vulpine.de/ also just released a new OGL demo, check it out !

Cheers,
Maggi

[Nuno]

Gee, the Vulpine demo runs like sh*t with the G400. Pretty, but something like 2 fps at highest settings

[The Rock]

UPDATE: an FPS counter has been added to GLexcess for the benchmark horny.

http://www.glexcess.com

Bart

[Maggi]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by The Rock:
UPDATE: an FPS counter has been added to GLexcess for the benchmark horny.

http://www.glexcess.com

Bart</font>

Great !

not that it makes me horny though ...

[SteveC]

Just thought I'd let you know that S3 savage 4's can't even run the demo (but Savage 2000's and geforces run it perfectly with no missing polygons... )

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[The Rock]

Unfortunatly, GLexcess was developed on Nvidia cards, but there's a blurb on the web site about Matrox cards:

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">I found a new driver at matrox homepage (v 6.50) and I just wanted to tell you it fixes almost every bug, the flare scene problems and the blending looks much better, thou there's still some problems w/ the scene w/ water and the heightmap scene. Still very slow on wireframe rendering, else all other scenes ran very well.</font>

And another Matrox related one:

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">I run an older driver set, but a new OGL ICD. Pain in the a** to set up. Ya gotta install PowerDesk(Matrox driver set) 6.10, save the G400icd.dll, uninstall (with matrox uninstall to make sure you get rid of it all) re-boot, set up default drivers 640x480x16colours, like in safe mode. Then you install powerdesk 5.52 and copy over your saved 6.10 ICD to your windows/system dir. 5.52 is a lot faster in D3D than 6.xx. But if only OGL is your concern, then just uninstall whatever driver you have now, (with matrox's uninstaller) and install latest powerdesk.</font>

Too bad this thing wouldn't work properly on Matrox cards, as its some seriously sweet eye candy. Almost makes me glad I gave up my G400 for a GF2.

Bart