d3d8to9

crosire
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9 years 2 weeks ago - 4 years 11 months ago #1 by crosire d3d8to9 was created by crosire

ReShade's Direct3D8 to Direct3D9 component, a pseudo-driver module that intends to improve compatibility and stability in games using Direct3D8 for rendering by converting all API calls and lowlevel shaders to equivalent Direct3D9 ones, is now open source under the terms of the BSD 2-clause license.

I decided to go down this route in the hope for it being useful to the community and to improve it together, since it's still one of the most problematic parts of ReShade. Any contributions to the project are highly welcomed

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Source: github.com/crosire/d3d8to9
Download: github.com/crosire/d3d8to9/releases

Last edit: 4 years 11 months ago by crosire.

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lowenz

9 years 2 weeks ago #2 by lowenz Replied by lowenz on topic d3d8to9

Thanks man! We owe you so much for this!

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ScarecrowDM

8 years 5 months ago #3 by ScarecrowDM Replied by ScarecrowDM on topic d3d8to9

I must be blind or my google skills are failling me, but can you please link the binaries?
Thanks in advance!

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crosire
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8 years 5 months ago - 8 years 5 months ago #4 by crosire Replied by crosire on topic d3d8to9

ScarecrowDM wrote: I must be blind or my google skills are failling me, but can you please link the binaries?
Thanks in advance!

It's part of the ReShade binaries. A standalone binary is not provided, you would need to build it from source code if you want one.

Last edit: 8 years 5 months ago by crosire.

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ScarecrowDM

8 years 5 months ago - 8 years 5 months ago #5 by ScarecrowDM Replied by ScarecrowDM on topic d3d8to9

I see.
I remember of previous versions being shared by CeeJay on Guru3D, but I realize now that maybe was a different thing.
I'm wanting to test some DX8 games under Wine using it.

No worries though, thanks for the reply!
I'll sure take a look on github later.

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lowenz

8 years 3 months ago - 8 years 3 months ago #6 by lowenz Replied by lowenz on topic d3d8to9

Related (to wrapping)

graphics.stanford.edu/~mdfisher/D3D9Interceptor.html

Last edit: 8 years 3 months ago by lowenz.

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ScureHD

8 years 1 month ago #7 by ScureHD Replied by ScureHD on topic d3d8to9

Any news on better DX8 to 9 conversion? No one used the sources?

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lowenz

8 years 2 weeks ago #8 by lowenz Replied by lowenz on topic d3d8to9

There's still a lot of work to do.
Same old Z-fighting issues with version 2.0.3 (dege found a way to solve this problem in dgvoodoo2, but dgvoodoo2 wrap to d3d10.1/d3d11 not d3d9):

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lowenz

8 years 2 weeks ago #9 by lowenz Replied by lowenz on topic d3d8to9

Another bug (Chrome): see the tree shading issue just moving the mouse (camera) a little bit

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crosire
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8 years 2 weeks ago #10 by crosire Replied by crosire on topic d3d8to9

The project is open source. Anybody is welcomed to send in changes. I personally don't have the time to continue, it works well enough for me.

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lowenz

7 years 6 months ago - 7 years 6 months ago #11 by lowenz Replied by lowenz on topic d3d8to9

Good news!

The *complete* DXSDK is not really needed.
This subset is enough: github.com/hrydgard/minidx9

You can simply
1) copy the "include" folder files in crosire project "source" folder
2) modify: #include <d3dx9shader.h> -> #include "d3dx9shader.h" (<> -> "")
3) copy the "lib\x86" folder files in crosire project root folder
4) retarget the solution to your SDK (mine is Win10SDK + MSVC 2015 CE)
5) compile&link and you're good to go!

Last edit: 7 years 6 months ago by lowenz.

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Devil Master

7 years 4 months ago - 7 years 4 months ago #12 by Devil Master Replied by Devil Master on topic d3d8to9

I just tried the Direct3D 8 to 9 wrapper with the GOG version of Red Faction 1, the PureFaction update, and of course, ReShade. It crashes with an error, saying it cannot find msvcp140.dll. I googled the name and discovered it's part of the Visual C++ redistributable for Visual Studio 2015. But the download page at the Microsoft site has 2 available versions: 32 bit and 64 bit. Which one is correct?

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crosire
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7 years 4 months ago #13 by crosire Replied by crosire on topic d3d8to9

32 bit. There are no 64 bit DirectX 8 games.

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Devil Master

7 years 4 months ago - 7 years 4 months ago #14 by Devil Master Replied by Devil Master on topic d3d8to9

Okay, I got it working. But does it grant ReShade access to the depth map?
I'm asking because I tried it with the SuperDepth3D.fx shader (to play Red Faction in stereoscopy) and all depth maps are either completely black or completely white, with no depth effect whatsoever (at most, the whole flat scene is pushed forward with white depth maps).

EDIT: maybe it's the game's fault The same thing (no access to depth maps) also happens with dgVoodoo.

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lowenz

7 years 4 months ago #15 by lowenz Replied by lowenz on topic d3d8to9

Downloaded and compiled the lastest version:

Pure D3D8:

With the wrapper:

!!!!!!!!!!!!

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lowenz

7 years 4 months ago - 7 years 4 months ago #16 by lowenz Replied by lowenz on topic d3d8to9

15.000 points of difference @1920x1080 with MSAA 4x and uncompressed textures.....it's awesome.
And the wrapper works really well in UT2004 (32 bit) too.

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lowenz

7 years 3 months ago - 7 years 3 months ago #17 by lowenz Replied by lowenz on topic d3d8to9

Lastest version with a GeForce 1050 Ti:

Pure D3D8:

Crosire D3D8to9:

The "no pixel shader" case shows an impressive gain with the wrapper and the pixel shader case (Nature) shows a perfect match in performance with the native Nvidia implementation.

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lowenz

6 years 6 months ago #18 by lowenz Replied by lowenz on topic d3d8to9

Tested the lastest (1.5) version.
Is there a way to disable the forced VSync ? (it seems so to me)
Maybe provide a simple options configuration file like others wrapper?

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tsilliev

4 years 11 months ago - 4 years 11 months ago #19 by tsilliev Replied by tsilliev on topic d3d8to9

crosire wrote: ReShade's Direct3D8 to Direct3D9 component,
Source: github.com/crosire/d3d8to9
Download: reshade.me/d3d8to9

download is page 404

Managed to download it from github, I open readme, no install info....,I just unpack at the game's dir, then pray and play?

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crosire
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4 years 11 months ago - 4 years 11 months ago #20 by crosire Replied by crosire on topic d3d8to9

Yes, it is pretty straight forward. The d3d8.dll has to be next to the game executable.

Last edit: 4 years 11 months ago by crosire.

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