If anyone has swShader and could send it to me, i'd be very thankfull.
Thanks. Alpar

I got it (the latest V0.40 I think) and some Demos (Quake Model Animation Demo, Phong Demo, Car Shader Demo)

I'll temp. upload it later today, so you can grab it. (about 40MB in total I think)

Yuppi! If you have the time, you can send me or upload just the dlls. They should be small and as far as I know that is all that concerns its functionality.
Thanks. Alpar

Hm, I've checked the Archives and did not find any .dll's in them (?)

Could it be that I only got the Demos ?

I rechecked :
"swShader" contains the MD3/Quake Model Animation Demo
Otherwise, I got the PhongCar Demo and StencilShadow Demo.

Chances are I'm out of luck and actually didn't download the File you need :-/

Most probably. It used to be a free software from SourceForge but Transgaming has bought it, so I cannot find it anywhere. I checked your archive before posting. Nothing. Transgaming has a downloadable demo of now called Swiftshader, but that is incredibly slow, and ofcourse demo, so i thought I give the original swShader a try. But... It's gone...

Using the WayBack machine  (www.archive.org), I was able to at least recover the Filenames you possibly need :

DirectX8-DLL.zip
swShader-0.3.0.zip

Archived Page that might help you :
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://sourceforge.net/projects/sw-shader

Unfortunately SourceForge blocked the WayBackMachine to also Archive Files, so a direct Download is not possible.

May take some time to search, but I'm sure you'll be able to find them.

Hint :
http://www.falconfly-central.de/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?action=mlletter;letter=c

c0d1f1ed (Author) is registered in the Forum, haven't seen him in a long time, but he might be able to help if you contact him via EMail.

Thanks for your help. I allready contacted "codified" and the other guy from the project. I hope i'll get an answer.
Alpar

http://www.transgaming.com/license.php?swiftshader=1
dunno what yer problem is.

SwiftShader is not identical to swShader.

my bad.

I've got swShader DirectX 9 DLL Demo, which was distributed with unmodified ShadowVolume DirectX 9 SDK sample.
Upped it to my server: http://r21vo.id.lv/tmp/ShadowVolume.zip
It contains swShader's d3d9.dll.

Thanks for your help. This one i also found in the sourceforge archive, but i really appreciate you uploading it for me.  All i need now is DirectX8-DLL.zip. Any donors?  ;D

To all of you interested: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sw-shader .

wrote on 08.03.06 at 21:47:01:

SwiftShader is not identical to swShader.

Whats the difference?

Swiftshader is newer and can only be found as a demo version. swShader was its free predecessor. A concrete difference is that 3dmark 2001 runs with swiftshader(it is terribly slow but you can run dot3 bumpmapping, nature test, and pixel shader test) and does not run with swShader. If you want to know more, just download them yourself and play with them.
Regards, Alpar.

Does it work in games? For example in Morrowind, or similar? Did somenone try it out?

It is kinda' slow. Very slow!

Even in 640x480?
I tried only demos (Q4 model, Phong and DX9 API demo) on my laptop P4-M 1.4Ghz with and without "real" hw (Radeon mobility 9600) and... well... in 640x468 soft-hw is about 20fps, where real hw is about 300 :(

Did someone try it in a "real" application? Mikulaish, what CPU do u use?