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by Bart
Tue Feb 11, 2025 5:19 am
Forum: The Dark Room
Topic: Magical Truck Adventure - country check
Replies: 1
Views: 1080

Re: Magical Truck Adventure - country check

That's an awesome discovery! I always wondered about that. Really odd that they put the country check in there. IIRC the sound ROMs aren't any more accessible than the PowerPC CROM EPROMs. I wonder why they chose to put the country code there.
by Bart
Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:37 pm
Forum: The Catwalk
Topic: How powerful is Model 3?
Replies: 2
Views: 33128

Re: How powerful is Model 3?

This is really hard to say! It wouldn't be that hard to instrument the code to print out the number of polygons processed each frame to at least determine what Model 3 games were throwing around. I don't think there were any substantial modifications to the Pro-1000 ASICs used on Model 3 boards. The...
by Bart
Sun Jan 05, 2025 7:06 pm
Forum: The Catwalk
Topic: My Scorpio 3D model WIP
Replies: 2
Views: 7650

Re: My Scorpio 3D model WIP

Nice work! What modeling tool are you using?
by Bart
Sun Jan 05, 2025 12:45 am
Forum: The Fitting Room
Topic: Supermodel 0.3a-svn-860 (or above) exits if controller connected
Replies: 1
Views: 36849

Re: Supermodel 0.3a-svn-860 (or above) exits if controller connected

This looks like a crash. If you are able to build in debug mode, can you also try running it in gdb? In my case, I have to type "bin64\supermodel roms\scud.zip", and to do the following with gdb: gdb --args bin64\supermodel roms\scud.zip Then type "run". C:\projects\Supermodel>gd...
by Bart
Fri Dec 27, 2024 2:53 am
Forum: The Fitting Room
Topic: Framerate Issues and Random Sound Effects
Replies: 3
Views: 7118

Re: Framerate Issues and Random Sound Effects

I don't think the legacy engine changed at all since the earliest 0.3a snapshot so it's possible you were not actually using it? To ensure it was being used, check Supermodel.log afterwards. The entire runtime configuration is dumped there (look for the New3DEngine setting). Over time, I believe Sup...
by Bart
Thu Dec 26, 2024 10:23 pm
Forum: The Fitting Room
Topic: Framerate Issues and Random Sound Effects
Replies: 3
Views: 7118

Re: Framerate Issues and Random Sound Effects

I've heard the cat meowing thing lately as well. I'm not sure when this change occurred but I suspect it has something to do with recent changes to the sound board communication code.

As for perf issues, your graphics card is probably too old to handle the new engine performantly.
by Bart
Mon Dec 23, 2024 10:17 pm
Forum: The Fitting Room
Topic: OpenGL Issue
Replies: 8
Views: 12803

Re: OpenGL Issue

I guess the proprietary closed-source Windows drivers are able to achieve GL 4.3 compatibility by emulating features not directly implemented in hardware. IIRC, Mesa drivers are open source, and if the GPU wasn't designed for GL 4.3, presumably those open source drivers implement only what they read...
by Bart
Sat Dec 21, 2024 8:43 pm
Forum: The Fitting Room
Topic: OpenGL Issue
Replies: 8
Views: 12803

Re: OpenGL Issue

Your GPU is older than Supermodel's first public release, which was April 2011 :) Unfortunately, I think you are stuck with either using the legacy engine or trying to use a version of Supermodel's new engine from several years ago. The legacy engine is certainly far less accurate than the new engin...
by Bart
Sat Dec 21, 2024 6:52 pm
Forum: The Fitting Room
Topic: OpenGL Issue
Replies: 8
Views: 12803

Re: OpenGL Issue

I'm not really sure but I know this problem has come up before. Sadly the archived forum is not searchable. Have you tried debugging with Claude or ChatGPT? This is not an uncommon issue.

I think what's happening is that by default, Mesa is creating an OpenGL 2.1 context. How old is your GPU?
by Bart
Sat Dec 21, 2024 7:10 am
Forum: The Fitting Room
Topic: OpenGL Issue
Replies: 8
Views: 12803

Re: OpenGL Issue

Ah, Linux. The gift that keeps on giving. Try also exporting: MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=450 It sounds like, for whatever reason, the Mesa drivers were providing an OpenGL 2.1 interface but that's not sufficient. If you run Supermodel with -legacy3d, it will likely work as is, but you don't want to ...