SoftGPU - successor to VBEMP with 2d/3d (software) acceleration

[SweetLow]

14 minutes ago, reboot12 said:

cause Windows Protection Error on VMware Workstation 8 and on real iGPU Haswell

Check your Windows installation then and get BOOTLOG.TXT for the usual first step of course.  And may be it is Windows 95 related problem. The last working case I checked - iGPU on Intel Core Gen 8.

[reboot12]

On other old laptop Lenovo IdeaPad S10e driver 2D works OK, after run tray3d.exe, detect modes then possible set native resolution 1024x576 :-)

[the solutor]

3 hours ago, SweetLow said:

It is only YOUR model of using this software. Bare 2D vmdisp9x in VESA mode now works better than VBEMP on the real hardware for example. Not ideally of course, some bugs exist still.

Obviously is MY mode of doing things and not Mikey Mouse's one, and my mode told me that the 2D VGA support was good enough in VMware since when I rewiewed it in august 2000, I generally care relatively little of VBox that has been always behind and only recently started to be usable (especially on Linux hosts).

Perhaps it's called SoftGPU and not SoftVGA for a reason. 3D is the focus, then if it's brings 2D advantages as a byproduct they are welcome.

Assuming that talking of 2D only makes sense today like it did in '98, given a lot of modern "2D" features are really rendered as a flat 3D surfaces (the optput settings of MPC-HC exposes a real world example of that)

 

 

[the solutor]

2 hours ago, reboot12 said:

Both 2D (vmdisp9x-1.2025.0.119b-driver-2d) and 3D (vmdisp9x-1.2025.0.119b-driver-3d-win95-min) versions cause Windows Protection Error on VMware Workstation 8 and on real iGPU Haswell

You need at least VMware 15.x.x or VBox 7.xx to use the driver at its best, older versions may work or not with progressive lack of functionality

[reboot12]

58 minutes ago, the solutor said:

You need at least VMware 15.x.x or VBox 7.xx to use the driver at its best, older versions may work or not with progressive lack of functionality

I don't want to use it in a virtual machine, but on a real PC with a Haswell iGPU.

[the solutor]

3 hours ago, reboot12 said:

I don't want to use it in a virtual machine, but on a real PC with a Haswell iGPU.

Ok but you mentioned VMware 8, I didn't dream about it.

 

About real HW, I guess it all depends on the vesa implementation in the BIOS.

 

Perhaps the author of SoftGPU seem vanished since July or so, I hope he is well.