Darkwind - Viewing Topic: Windows Vista x64 and OpenGL

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I got a new computer with Vista Ultimate x64 and found that DarkWind runs really choppy on my new system.

I found an article about how OpenGL is crippled in Vista x64 and is written as a compatibility layer over DirectX.

Anyway, my question is does DarkWind use OpenGL exclusively and is there a way for me to configure an option to make it use DirectX/D3D instead?

If not, I may have to abandon Vista and move to XP x64 instead.

Thanks.

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Posted Jul 8, 2007, 4:03 am

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Darkwind and thus Torque Game Engine, is using Open GL as well as D3D.

Edit: The game was previously Open GL only. D3D is available now for PCs.

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Posted Jul 8, 2007, 7:23 am	Last edited Oct 16, 2007, 11:45 am by viKKing

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I managed to get Dark-Wind to run much better under Vista x64:

For my new laptop, HP provides drivers that are many builds older than the latest NVidia universal ForecWare drivers and the drivers that NVidia provides on their website do not include the PCI definitions for the 8600M card and will not install for that card.

The following is unsupported by HP or NVidia - USE AT YOUR OWN RISK:
I downloaded the latest NVidia universal driver and manually updated the nv_disp.inf file to include the PCI signature for the 8600M GS card.

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%NVIDIA_G86.DEV_0425.2% = nv_NV3x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0425&SUBSYS_30CC103C
%NVIDIA_G86.DEV_0427.2% = nv_NV3x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&SUBSYS_30CF103C
%NVIDIA_G86.DEV_0427.3% = nv_NV3x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&SUBSYS_30CC103C

NVIDIA_G86.DEV_0425.2 = "NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS"
NVIDIA_G86.DEV_0427.2 = "NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS"
NVIDIA_G86.DEV_0427.3 = "NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS "

The newest driver installed just fine and appears to be working much better, especially for Dark-Wind due to better OpenGL support in the newer driver.

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Posted Jul 8, 2007, 8:22 pm	Last edited Jul 8, 2007, 8:25 pm by Atomic Punks

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So, Darkwind still runs really slow on Vista x64 with my NVidia 8600M GS card.

I have decided to go back to Windows XP x64 - Darkwind is super fast and even runs great at 1600x1050 resolution.

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Posted Jul 14, 2007, 3:02 am