Ok, so lots of people were happy with the dll's I hacked together, but there are always people finding new resolutions, so here is a little program to hack your own rasterizer dlls

Read the readme for instructions...

edit: .zip reuploaded 02/Jun/2008. Hope it's the same one!

Thanks Phil.

Thanks Master of GPL

Wicked. Thanks

Thank you Phil !!! Great job as usual !!! We all owe you one ... more

Again the Guru of GPL brings another wonderful program to the table!

Top Job Phil!

Thank you Guru works like a champ. After 2 yr without GPL it looks so good on my plasma monitor, I think Ill go drive some more

Thanks agin
Motor

I'm impressed: 128 downloads, no complaints, you're saying it works, and.... I didn't test it ! Woohoo

If tested or not ;-) I just d'loaded it an will give it a try, it can't be bad!

Thanks a lot

Rolf

Thanks for this. Should solve solve any issues with those peky widescreen formats that are appearing.

Guru

I must live in a cave (or the Northwest Territories!), but I just discovered this thread, thanks to Shutaro.

Well, I guess that's "weird resolution problems solved"! This will help take GPL even farther into the future, given the rapid outbreak of LCD screens of various types. I'm contemplating a 30-inch Sharp LCD TV which has a native resolution of 1366x768. Seems I won't have to worry now.

Tons of thanks.

Cheers!

Chris

Guru - Thanks for doing this. I'm looking forward to trying it out when I get the opportunity.

I've been looking at big (50"-60") lcd projection tv's lately, but I have yet to find a sales person who knows diddly about hooking up a computer to one of these things. Standard answer: "Sure you can do it, absolutely. How? I don't know."

I've seen both DVI and VGA inputs on the various sets - will these work with a Radeon 9800's similar outputs?

Given the work you've done with widescreen resolutions, do you (or anyone else here) know how well this works? I've read through the long original thread on your .dll hacks, but this particular idea is just touched on there.

I don't want to hijack the thread, but i've had this on my mind and presto! here it was.

Thanks for any response.

Bill

I know exactly what you're talking about. Sales folks seem to know nothing about hooking up a computer to their supposedly computer-attachable TVs, whether they be of the projector, plasma, or LCD variety. I've even talked to techno folks at various companies producing these things, and rarely have I ever talked with anyone who knew much about using one of these TVs as a computer monitor.

Even if they knew that their TV could be hooked up to a computer, none of them knew for sure what resolution would appear on the screen in monitor mode. They knew a lot about what resolution the TV function would display, but they seemed not to have even thought about someone actually hooking up a computer to it. It's as if the designers had made the TVs computer-attachable and put the connection plugs in the back, but nobody had bothered to actually try it out with a computer before it went out the door. Very strange.

I would suggest very strongly trying out one of these TVs to see what resolution it will actually produce with a computer (preferably yours!) attached before buying. One thing I've noticed is that the resolution one of these machines will give on TV function (advertised as "native resolution"?) won't necessarily be the same resolution it will give in PC function, so that's why I suggest trying a TV out with computer attached first before buying.

I'm still looking and trying. Haven't decided yet.

Cheers!

Chris

Great work as always, Phil.

I was wondering if rastd3d7 could be entirely decompiled and rewritten for DX9 to support nowadays features. What do you think? What would it take to do this?

Don't you think that if it was easily possible, someone would have done it?

You're right, that's what I think. My question was, what would it take to do it. I know that Phil's quite a hacker and want his opinion. If he says "it can be done", I'll try and give it a go myself. If he says "no chance", I'll forget about it. Simple as that.

Joachim

I think this is a very worthy question.

You say you "wonder if rastd3d7 could be entirely decompiled and rewritten for DX9 to support nowadays features." What sort of "nowadays features" do you have in mind? One feature I'd love to see is to get better than 1920x480 resolution on 3 screens with a Matrox Parhelia graphics card, because I've been told that it's the way GPL was written that is the limitation on better resolution with 3 screens, not necessarily the Parhelia itself. Is that the sort of thing you're talking about?

Cheers!

Chris

Sure, it's possible. I wouldn't know where to begin, but it's not the biggest file, and there must be some way of figuring out the function calls that GPL makes to the .dll, and creating your own .dll to replicate that functionality, with a dx9 core...

As I have no idea what to do with all this I can only imagine I'm using mk1 of this tool now (because I race GPL) and judging by the enthausiastic reactions so far mk2 must be quite good. So thanks for the work you put in Guru

Even DX8 functionality would be good. I don't think many DX9 features could be added to GPL easily if at all but DX8's T&L should take the strain off the CPU.

Actually, you do

Oh yeah...go ahead you tease, me with my 17 inch CRT

Later Chriso

Nya nya nya nya nyaaa!

Actually, it's a 32-inch...

Yes, you can hook a computer up to a wide-screen TV's DVI or VGA inputs, and yes, I've done it. I suppose the people who work in a strictly home-entertainment store may not know how, but at the CompUSA where I work, I've hooked PCs up to 50-inch plasmas and LCD-projections.

How? Plug it in. Set the TV display to VGA (or DVI). That's that.

Now then, you want to make sure your video card is sending out a widescreen resolution. Most modern cards are capable of that, and it's pretty obvious which resolutions are widescreen (though only two are truly 16:9). If you're set at 4:3, you simply get the same stretched look that you'd get when viewing a standard 4:3 television signal. And yes, I've done that too -- I'd come into the store and someone would have set up a new computer to demo on the Pioneer plasma TV, but had stupidly left the thing at 1024 x 768 (a 4:3 resolution), so it looked all stretchy and lame. So I'd change it to 1280 x 720, which is 16:9.

Your other 16:9 resolution native to an HDTV would be 1920 x 1080.

Now, if you have a 16:10 monitor, there are more resolutions available to you, but your HDTV is going to be 16:9, so the only correct aspects will be at those two resolutions.

Keeper

It's good to hear that hooking up a PC to one of the new generation TVs shouldn't be any sweat. But if I'm going to spend that kind of money, I'd still like to try out some of them before buying to make sure everything works as intended. I just hope that people at the stores in question know how to operate the things like you do, so I can get a look at GPL on the screen of my dreams before I lay out a few large!

Cheers!

Chris

Thanks for this tool Guru. i've been using your hack resolutions dlls to play in a 3 monitors parhelia set for some months now.You made it possible
So after reading your posts about hack the dll's to play gpl in a dx8 or 9 support i just... ,it would be great to play GPL in 3072x768 resolution, im looking foward this 1
Thanks again

Bye

Miguel Rodrigues

(sorry for my english)