D3D7 support

Hello Crosire,
do you plan to support D3D7 as well?
I find the existing -> OGL wrappers rather unstable and to combine two wrappers at the same time is not unlikely to introduce further issues.
A D3D7 -> 9 ReShade wrapper would be a great thing, then one could also use high resolutions in games like Gothic 2.

Thanks!

Edit: Not sure if this is the right section. Feel free to move it correspondingly.

And with Soul Reaver Legacy of Kain haha Would be lovely.

This is something I'm currently discussing with Lucifer, yes.

Made me giggle.

Cool!

Since I'm currently only with a 9600 GT (there was something about the 970 ), I've also just had to find out that I can't use the OGL version since the card doesn't support OGL 4.3.
So more users with outdated hardware could use ReShade with old games.

I wanted to say that I have several games that use ddraw(directx1-7) and would be very happy if Reshade one day supports it.

"Black & White" and "Shadow Man" are a couple games I would like to use shaders. Also, there are several Shoot 'em up(SHMUP) type games on steam that are using ddraw.


In my opinion, it is way beyond cool to add bloom lighting to games that never had it.

I would love to use shaders for the black & white game too.
Such an fantastic game.

All those old games (especially Gothic 1&2) are also my motivation to work on this. I checked out quit a few attempts already. However, there are a few other things on the to-do-list for me so do not expect too early progress

i'd love to play "Starlancer" with reshade, i think it's using directx 7a...!

it has some really (!) ugly banding artifacts on all those graphic cards that aren't super old, and i hope these could be removed with some reshade filters...

so please don't forget the old games , because many moden games already have effects like DOF, AO and Lensdirt anyway...

DDraw don't have native 3d support. Games do all work with animation and shading, DDraw only paints a three-colored triangle. DDraw don't store the mesh.
But, you can do 2d effects on DDraw as good in OpenGL. Just search for DXGL in Google.

www.dege.freeweb.hu/
I've been using dgvoodoo 2 wrapper to use reshade on some older games, like sacrifice. Has been working great for me. It is an unauthorized dll file though, so it throws a false virus positive when you try to download the newest version. I, as a random person you don't know on the internet, assure you it is a false positive and the file is completely safe, but you'll have to decide for yourself. Anyway, it directdraw and directx 1-7 and outputs directx 11. Also wraps glide to directx 11 if that interests you. I've been getting a kick out of playing through the sacrifice campaign again with all kinds of fancy lighting effects.

How can you assure it's false positive? Do you have the source code? Did you run it in Sandboxie to see what it does besides what it's supposed to? Or did you just not notice any malicious things caused by it?

Marty McFly wrote: How can you assure it's false positive? Do you have the source code? Did you run it in Sandboxie to see what it does besides what it's supposed to? Or did you just not notice any malicious things caused by it?

I can assure you its a false-positive.
AVG doesn't say nothing about it on my PC, and dgVoodoo is also my glide/D3D Wrapper of choice, there's lots of others, but dgVoodoo is waay much more customizable than them.
Oh, it also makes ReShade work with some Glide games.

Ederer wrote: i'd love to play "Starlancer" with reshade, i think it's using directx 7a...!
it has some really (!) ugly banding artifacts on all those graphic cards that aren't super old, and i hope these could be removed with some reshade filters...

imsoenthused wrote: www.dege.freeweb.hu/
I've been using dgvoodoo 2 wrapper to use reshade on some older games, like sacrifice. Has been working great for me. It is an unauthorized dll file though, so it throws a false virus positive when you try to download the newest version. I, as a random person you don't know on the internet, assure you it is a false positive and the file is completely safe, but you'll have to decide for yourself. Anyway, it directdraw and directx 1-7 and outputs directx 11. Also wraps glide to directx 11 if that interests you. I've been getting a kick out of playing through the sacrifice campaign again with all kinds of fancy lighting effects.

No way, it really works with Starlancer And it removes the ugly color-banding by itself, i don't even need the reshade debanding effect!
Honestly, i searched everywhere on the net, and many people were looking for a fix or sth. to remove the banding, and NOBODY had any solution... And here it is
Thanks for the link!
I hope, since it's wrapped to dx11, i can use reshade now as well. i didn't try it yet
Btw., no antivirus popup appeared. But i used the directx dlls inside the game folder; the glide dlls seem to be put inside the system folder, maybe that would be a "problem"...

They are only placed there so you don't need to keep setting up lots of configs and copying lots of dlls unless you want tidferent configs.

As I said Marty, I'm just some guy you don't know on the internet. If you want to believe what I say, then I'll tell you that I am an IT professional with years of experience, including keeping thousands of computers running in a large government institution, and that I did in fact sandbox the dll to assure myself it wasn't doing anything hinky. I'd also say that I have used dege's wrappers for years at home, starting with running some of my favorite old glide games on the Kyro 2 card that I bought to replace my Voodoo 3, and I trust him, so when he makes comments like:

www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&p=42306...790714fc13d8#p423067

I believe him.

You, again, have to make decisions for yourself. It's either worth the risk for somebody, or it's not. If you want to be really safe, you don't listen to people you don't know on the internet and test the thing yourself. After all, that's what I did.

No further progress regarding D3D7 support now?

No need for it. There is www.dxgl.info/Main_Page .

dgVoodoo also works for some games (Direct3D/DirectX7)

I actually helped add Harry Potter 2 to the compatibility list by using dgVoodoo plus dxgi.dll, it's a game that uses Direct3D/7.