Another title support n-patches is hellforces

Another title support n-patches is hellforces

It's using the same engine as BorderZone. What a small world :).

Hell forces have many graphic options, a few similar with tomb raider angel of darkness launcher (many graphic options)

and n-patches option appear but dont possible activate in my case

Are there any wrappers for openGL tesselation? I know DgVoodoo2 can do the dx8, 9 tesselation but after googling for hours, I haven't found any solution for opengl games.

If modern OpenGL drivers no longer support/expose the needed extensions (ATI_pn_triangles IIRC), I'm not entirely sure how that could be addressed to be honest.

Maybe open a Mesa issue asking for the extension to be implemented? Zink and/or RadeonSI might do it.

Wasn't tessellation supposed to be the glorified modern version? Even then, cpu emulation is probably fast enough today.

Anyway, what are the odds? Just yesterday I was reading this.
https://web.archive.org/web/20011218111826/http://www.ati.com/na/pages/faq/truform_faq.html
Too bad I couldn't find the npatch/pntriangles samples anywhere (a wine dev discussed it here but nothing more).

There are some open source OpenGL samples here as well (along with TruQuake/TruQuake2): https://github.com/seishuku/NitroGL-Demos/tree/master/TruForm

I tried enable ATI Tesselation(I suppose it is the TruForm?) on a old MMORPG action game(d3d9) with DXVk 2.4.1(emulate a amd card), the games just crash after launch. I suppose it's not supported yet in dxvk?

I suppose it's not supported yet in dxvk?

No, and we don't even advertise support for it, so it shouldn't even be selectable, unless the game doesn't check that at all.

the games just crash after launch.

Hmmm, that shouldn't happen, unless it's the game that crashes, not dxvk. As far as dxvk is concerned it should work just fine, just that no tessellation will happen.

Btw, just for the sake of posterity, which game is this?

I suppose it's not supported yet in dxvk?

No, and we don't even advertise support for it, so it shouldn't even be selectable, unless the game doesn't check that at all.

the games just crash after launch.

Hmmm, that shouldn't happen, unless it's the game that crashes, not dxvk. As far as dxvk is concerned it should work just fine, just that no tessellation will happen.

Btw, just for the sake of posterity, which game is this?

It's continent of the ninth seal. I'm using client from a private server. The option is not in settings but can be enabled by manually change config file.
So I decompiled the game. It seems if you are ati/amd card(or with emu amd) and enabled the option then it just goes that way without further check.
Also I traced the crash with windbg. It DID crash at d3d9(dxvk in this case) though.

Also I traced the crash with windbg. It DID crash at d3d9 though.

Interesting. That shouldn't happen. Please open a separate issue about it and get a trace of the game as per the issue template, and I'll look into it. Ideally two apitraces would be nice: one of the game working and one of it crashing when you fake report an AMD/ATI card.

Also I traced the crash with windbg. It DID crash at d3d9 though.

Interesting. That shouldn't happen. Please open a separate issue about it and get a trace of the game as per the issue template, and I'll look into it. Ideally two apitraces would be nice: one of the game working and one of it crashing when you fake report an AMD/ATI card.

How do you fake GPUID? Did apitrace also support this?

How do you fake GPUID? Did apitrace also support this?

You can capture an apitrace of the game using dxvk (so dxvk would do the faking, as usual) if you're on Linux, just by dropping the apitrace dll next to the game executable. It will be loaded first and will hook the dxvk dll (which sits in system32/syswow64 on your Wine prefix).

How do you fake GPUID? Did apitrace also support this?

You can capture an apitrace of the game using dxvk (so dxvk would do the faking, as usual) if you're on Linux, just by dropping the apitrace dll next to the game executable. It will be loaded first and will hook the dxvk dll (which sits in system32/syswow64 on your Wine prefix).

"Advanced capturing via hooking the game exe" seems should work for windows. I'll try it.

How do you fake GPUID? Did apitrace also support this?

You can capture an apitrace of the game using dxvk (so dxvk would do the faking, as usual) if you're on Linux, just by dropping the apitrace dll next to the game executable. It will be loaded first and will hook the dxvk dll (which sits in system32/syswow64 on your Wine prefix).

Unfortunately, the game seem does not like apitrace dll, no trace file are generated. Also tried inject with apitrace.dll but it also fail.

Unfortunately, the game seem does not like apitrace dll, no trace file are generated. Also tried inject with apitrace.dll but it also fail.

No worries, thank you for trying. I guess simply don't use n-patches/tesselation with it on dxvk then. Was curious to see what causes the crash, but then again it's not like we support it anyway.

It's like a piece of me is missing. I think TruForm support will fill that void inside.

@eebssk1 If you're still around and still play that game, it would be interesting to give it a go with this build: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/actions/runs/16695952914/artifacts/3673856380. I think the crashes with ATI Tesselation enabled should be resolved (hopefully).