RTCW for Warpos

[Cowcat]

Just a video, hopefully coming next year


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[nexus]

real nice waiting to test

[DanyPPC]

Which hardware it requires ?

A4000/PPC, A1200PPC, Warp3D, How much ram ?

[trixster]

It’ll need a least a sonnet and a lot of ram (maybe more than the sonnet has )

[Cowcat]

Which hardware it requires ?

Around the same that could run Q3.

Actual problems are the memory allocation, that is slightly changed from other Q3 engines and that code originally causes big havoc eating lots of ram and never being recovered: Talking about half giga ram going out in seconds.
The other main issue is sound that is totally missing.

A workaround is done on latest build that keeps memory from going crazy to a point to complete levels with same ram needs like Q3, but not specially stable on starting game or closing it: But playing is pretty much rock solid once you get there.

[Valken]

Color me impressed...

[DanyPPC]

I played it on MorphOS/Macmini G4, so an A1200/4000 with a standard Blizzard/CyberStormPPC are not enough

[grelbfarlk]

It runs with 256MB of PPC RAM, and runs pretty well on my A4000, but it is still in Alpha Test version. Looks quite good as well, most settings are maxed out, getting a low of 15FPS and a high of about 25FPS.

[DanyPPC]

I have 256MB of Ram on Blizzard, so I imagine the game runs at about 12fps on my configuration.

[Hedeon]

Don't count on it. L2 cache/faster memory can make a big difference. And is your bppc 400MHz?

[Cowcat]

Finally.

Procedure: Put the exec and main/ dir somewhere.

Put inside main from original game: pak0.pk3, sp_pak1, 2, 3 and the newer one sp_pak4 obtained from here: https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw/releases patch-data-141.zip

Don't touch wolfconfig: That one got less memory requirements and some stuff unneeded.

I expect a lot of complains

...but even comes with working sound and is much better than last Predator movie.

Update release 2:

[nexus]

im on it

[Cowcat]

Soon a re-upload with fixed sound failure. Yeah.....

Edit: Re-upload above !!

[trixster]

Video of level 2!

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[Cowcat]

@trixter Looks great isn't it ?

[trixster]

It does, and plays well too. It doesn’t feel as slow as 14/16fps. Hopefully some of your optimisations will improve things. I need to have a look at the config and see if stuff like primitives etc can be changed to get some more speed.

The vid is with a 950mhz g3 Ragnarok and a Voodoo3

As Wrangler reported, some textures like fire and water have strange shimmering vertical lines running through them, and on the first level the bench with the guy getting electrocuted and the sinks have missing textures which are rendered bright white.

Other than that it’s looking good!

[Cowcat]

r_primitives 0 = single glDrawElements.
r_primitives 1 = Multiple glArrayElements "the Cowcat way."

Both use glLockArrays/Unlock same way as Q3 (hardcoded).

Not really to be called "Alpha": Fact is, this is the actual 2018 iortcw github source with the touch needed for Amiga Classic. The only important change is the use of old jpeg6 code instead of newer one (8), that didn't work properly. And some optimized stuff (not all) taken from Q3 Amiga version.

Other than that, is the major help from Hedeon fixing gcc for MOS (for me).
The reality is memory failures were not an issue for original warpos machines.

strange shimmering vertical lines

I saw some kind of those when using primitives 0 just before applying lockarrays but didn't see any now, but there are some colored squares when you see the lake. No problems here with any texture...

Maybe a 603e compiled version does something for G3.

[kikems]

Awesome for WarpOS.

[Hedeon]

Originally Posted by Cowcat

@trixter Looks great isn't it ?

AMAZING JOB!

[nexus]

yes sorry on not testing earlier but i had to reball my voodoo 3000 and now waiting on epoxy to cure on the heatsink
so hate no holes for mounts on PCI version