OpenGL or Direct3D support?

[KillerMiller]

Hello, i found this site via random by searching for Sonic Stuff an i am pretty amazed about the fact that a Doom Engine can become one of the best Fanmade Sonic games.

I just wanna know if you can run this game with 3D Accelerator support.
I have a Radeon 9600.
In the ingame menue of Sonic there is a option for 3D Cards but it always say "You are in Software mde".
I searched the cfg. for activation of 3D but only found "Voodoo compatibility" wich didnt made a difference.

Could someone help me about that?

(P.S. I am from Germany and my English maybe sounds funny lol)

By the way, my Mother is an artist an made a Sonic Painting, look here:

 

[Digiku]

You want SRB2 to run in OpenGL mode. If you just click on its icon, it will only run in Software mode.

To run SRB2 in OpenGL mode, you have a few options. One is trying out the launcher, which is available at the site's Addons page. I don't use it myself, though, so I can't help you there.
Another is using Start > Run. Type in "X:\SRB2DIR\srb2win.exe -opengl". The -opengl parameter executes SRB2 in OpenGL mode.

Nice painting, btw :P.

 

[KillerMiller]

Allright, I got it with the Launcher, thx.

 

[Bigboi]

Cool painting.

 

[Blitzzo]

Yes, the software renderer is very slow, and hardware acceleration is miles faster. I prefer Direct X over OpenGL, though. Here are my main beefs with OpenGL:

- The Windows version doesn't support screen fades for some odd reason.

- It adds annoying darkened edges to all textures, so things like the scrolling sky and the talking Sonic at the end of the demo look a little bad.

- It has very, very poor Z-buffering precision. When you are looking at a waterfall or another shape that overlaps another polygon, it messes up and look odd.

- It doesn't support skinning and messes up the positions of my maximized windows.

- On my computer, it's slower than Direct X.

Fortunately, there are many things you can do in OpenGL rendering that can't be done with the software engine:

- The fact that it's hardware-accelerated, so you can jack up your resolution to make the game look real good.

- Dynamic lighting from shields, projectiles, Eggman's ship, and emeralds. It's not exactly real lighting but it looks nice. Only thing is that it makes the walls look unnaturally shiny.

- You can use anti-aliasing and anistropic filtering, which improve the quality of the overall image.

- Decent looking semi-transparencies.

- Actual texture filtering! Unfiltered pixels are ugly, especially in 256-color mode.


And that's about it. Oh yeah, and there's a bit of a glitch in OpenGL that lets you see some objects that are in rooms which aren't currently being rendered- in fact, this is how I found Tails' GFZ1 emblem and others like it.