Ross Scott

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on March 7th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Apologies for not having more videos, LOTS of things been going on, will have updates. FM2 Episode 13 is done except for sound effects, been working on FM2 Episode 14 + movie + big side video. Also, there's a chance that the chat may have to get pushed to the 8th, but I'll make an announcement if so. This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

Hey, I just want to recap what I'm doing here, since I'm not sure how many of the suggestions apply to what I'm testing. So here it is: I'm going to be testing many 3D accelerated older games from the late 90s to late 2000s and besides seeing which I can get running, also see if I can force "real" antialiasing on. (Either SSAA or mixed mode MSAA + SSAA for alpha textures). These are going to range from DirectX 5 - DirectX 9 most likely. If you're talking about enhancements beyond that, that's interesting, but that's beyond the scope for what I'm looking at this point. Manoa: Several notes: -I have an old AMD card that's slower than the 770, but I originally wrote AMD off, since my understanding was they got rid of the option to force AA in games at the driver level on Linux. In other words, they removed the option to force AA (it had to be supported by the game itself), so I wasn't considering them for my test. Has that changed? -I don't plan to be testing demanding games performance-wise. My most recent game will probably be from 2009. Is a Geforce 770 really not enough muscle to run 15-20 year old games on Linux? -I'm not interested in shader based AA methods for this test. Many of these older games are resolution-locked, so AA becomes the only method of cleaning up the image. Shader based ones can help somewhat, but don't attack the worse elements of aliasing like shimmering and pixel-level flicker. They mostly just smooth easily defined edges. The idea behind this test is I'm trying to see if it's possible to get the games to look at good now as they could have in say, 2008. -I have to definitely disagree with your claim that SSAA can't be done on a 770 with a playable framerate as I've literally done that on WINE with playonlinux last year. Remember, I'm talking about a lot 15-20+ year old games, the polygon count just isn't that high. -A sharpen filter could be of use if SSAA is working, but is blurry I'm getting the feeling that you're trying to be helpful, but you may not be understanding the parameters of what I'm trying to test here. cgalves: -I'm not worried about integer scaling for this test, I figure that's something separate from game compatibility. In other words, if it works, it can work on basically any game. -Same for force feedback, I actually have that turned off on my own steering wheel anyway. -I'm not going the custom resolution route that can send rates that the monitor can be incompatible with. If the scaling can be done on the card / OS itself and it's downsampling the image to be sent back at native resolution, great. If it involves forcing a monitor to try and take a higher resolution, I'm not doing that. In addition to necessarily being good for the monitor, that's not a reliably reproduceable solution, it's too dependent on the monitor itself. -You're honestly confusing me with what I should be running now. Say I have a DirectX 8 game and a DirectX 9 game that's not in any Linux game database. What steps would you recommend I take for: 1. Getting each game to run 2. Attempting to force antialiasing on said games. For step #1, if it's the sort of thing where I should try method A first, then if that doesn't work, try method B, that's fine, but I'm a little lost as to the suggested path now. In the past, I was using what I mentioned in the first post in this thread. Apparently that's outdated now, so I'm trying to get my bearings.

I'm late seeing this, but thanks a bunch for this post, I was wanting to find something exactly like the maps that were posted.

Another question: I've found a way to essentially have 2x2 SSAA for many old games on Windows. If the game will run with dgvoodoo, I can force it at higher resolutions than it will normally run. If I combine that with Nvidia's DSR (dynamic scaling resolution), I can pump the resolution higher than what my monitor runs at, essentially creating downsampling on the game and getting a cleaner image that way. Is there anyway to specify Linux or WINE to run at a resolution higher than the native one and then downsample to the native one? In other words, if you had a 1080p monitor, could you tell a game to render at 4k, but then downsample the output back to 1080?

February chat with fans. I somehow screwed up and turned off video recording 3 minutes in, so this was pulled from the twitch stream instead. I felt like this one made a little more sense than usual, but maybe it didn't. This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

I've just been super busy, I plan to take another crack at it soon.

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on February 1st at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Been working on multiple things! This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

Here's the latest Freeman's Mind! This was delayed MUCH more than I planned. There were actually some good excuses related to the delay, but not enough for it to be delayed this much. Expect 13 out faster! This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

January chat with fans. It felt like it made sense while I was doing it, but then I started feeling more crazy immediately afterwards. Freeman's Mind coming soon! This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on January 5th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Freeman's Mind will either be shortly before or after this, don't know yet! This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

In a rush, have to head out and am posting video before Youtube's processed it, should appear before too long. Have a good Christmas! This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

GOG recently reached out to me to offer to give some games away on a stream as a way to promote their winter sale. I usually try to give you guys free games when convenient, so I accepted. As for the stream, I thought I would use this an excuse to attempt a "stunt stream" where I'll see if I can beat the last level of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter on serious difficulty using only one life. At the end of it, I'll giveaway games to people in the stream. There will be 20 games total (10 game, 2 copies each). They gave me a list to pick some out from, so I tried to guess and pick the ones I thought fans would most want to play. This will be happening at 5PM UTC on December 26th on twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. If you only want to show up for the games, I don't know when that will be, but it will probably take me at least an hour to get through the level, if I can do it. Christmas episode will be out before then! This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

I meant to post this a couple days ago, Youtuber The Great Berate reached out to me wanting to interview me about various topics. It's largely stuff I've covered in the other videos before, so there's no secret info in this or anything (that I remember), but I'm posting it here if anyone's interested. This was recorded before I got sick, still going in and out of that, but Christmas video is coming! This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »