MiniGL 2.3 released !

A new version is availible, this is the changes:

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Grab it on OS4Depot, upload section

Excellent work Hans.

Tried SuperTux Kart, it seems a bit faster but i'm not completely sure, i'll test other games ...

@samo79

I have looked at some YouTube videos of SuperTux on Linux kart its not where there.

So maybe the game its not so much optimized or maybe the video was from a Linux box used default kernel drivers, and not the optimized ones from ATI or Nvidea.

@LiveForIt

I tested right now SuperTuxKart 0.6.2a (the same version which i port to os4), on friends win32 computer, which have:

IntelCelereon 1.1ghz
256mb of ram
Radeon7000 with the latest drivers (03.05.2006) with 64mb of memory.
WinXP

And that version of SuperTuxKart works visually faster in 2-2,5 times if compare with aos4 version on my peg2/1ghz/1gb of ram/radeon9250 (256mb).

Menu btw are even slower if compare with os4 version. But game tracks - faster in 2-2.5 times.

Of course x86 (even with celeron, and even so old) a bit faster that pegasos2 hw (not sure through on which % faster), but difference imho pretty big to referring only to HW.

Of course game itself not so light, but 1ghz and our radeons are pretty enough for be playble if our opengl will works not over warp3d.

@kas1e

i dont think that a 1.1ghz celeron would be faster than a 1ghz g4 with altivec.
the windows 3d driver are however for sure faster than the os4 3d driver.

@Hans

Thanks for this new version

AOS4 allways have the hope to see their 3D as fast as MorphOS.

Thanks to amiupdate for the verry easy update via amiupdate.

@Mrodfr

+ 1

@Samo79

yesteray (yes my sam is back thanks Acube ;)) i tried Quake 2 and 3 and they seem smoother but i don't know if it was me or if this new opengl that were bug fixed, improves the speed too..

OT

if you are online go msn i need to talk with you ;)

/OT

@nubechecorre

Ok, wait me

@kas1e

Just tried some games already installed in my HD, Quake II and III, PrBoom GL and others but to be honest i didn't note any speed difference between this and past release (2.2), yep maybe we need some specific benchmark instead or just playing with it.

Maybe games needs to be recompiled ?

Aniway for now we can be happy for the fix, waiting for the new future OS4 updates

@samo79

Why you think that there should be any speed differences ?:) New version its only about adding some stuff, without of which, some games/demos just do not works.

Its the same version of libs which i put all the time in topics. I just ask Hanz to make it public, for all the users who annoing from time to time, that os4depot have not latest version.

@kas1e

Ah ok LOL, now its clear

BTW, is there any public site where watch the daily progress of this lib ?

I remember that some times ago source code was hosted and visible on the Hyperion site or similar

@samo79

You cant see it in "easy way", but you can download it via SVN:
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There all the current source code, readmes, change logs and so on. But in last time progress going pretty slow, just because its already have all the "more or less need it stuff", and Hanz works on new HD drivers hardly.

@kas1e

Thanks it's exactly what i need ehm .. for fulfill my curiosity

Good to see progress here. I do hope they can soon start to work on a replacement for this warp3d.

@samo79

Good to see progress being made, simple update too thanks to AmiUpdate.

Thanks.

@Daniel
I really should try AmiUpdate sometime... (Problem is that like kas1e, I'm a control freak who likes to know exactly what is getting installed/replaced, and where, cos I don't trust installers written by random people. Ideally all the installers changes would get stores in a "sandbox" until I approved them!)

@samo79
I also tend to have the impression some minor improvemt took place, must be a placebo effect

@ChrisH

with AmiUpdate you are not forced to install the updates,
you can choose to download only