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Fantasma Full Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 176 Gender:	change the d3d driver to opengl 04.12.03 at 18:39:32 Anyone knows how to change the d3d device of a game to a opengl device driver?
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Fantasma Full Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 176 Gender:	Re: change the d3d driver to opengl Reply #1 - 04.12.03 at 22:25:45 ok, a game which suppossedly only can run in d3d can be changed to opengl?
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Re: change the d3d driver to opengl
Reply #2 - 04.12.03 at 22:40:09

Hm, there used to be so called Wrappers, that allowed to intercept and re-route Commands from one API to another.

However, most work was done to Glide Wrappers, and not in the field OpenGL > Direct3D or vice versa.

There still is a development Alpha for an Direct3D > OpenGL Wrapper, but it was not suitable for real-life use yet, when I saw it last time.

(is still linked with the Project HomePage somewhere on voodoofiles.com I believe)

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Rolo01 Full Member Offline Posts: 191	Re: change the d3d driver to opengl Reply #3 - 04.12.03 at 23:11:22 There is an D3d->OpenGL wrapper over at www.3dfxzone.it, with that I was able to start Bloodrayne on my V5...
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P200 Junior Member Offline Viva Chile Mierda!!! Posts: 54 Santiago, Chile Gender:	Re: change the d3d driver to opengl Reply #4 - 06.12.03 at 00:33:07 Direct3D 8 to OpenGL Wrapper for Win32 by realtech VR http://www.realtech-vr.com/directx
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Fantasma Full Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 176 Gender:	Re: change the d3d driver to opengl Reply #5 - 06.12.03 at 12:03:04 Thanx to all Unfortunately I couldn´t get the game to work
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Rolo01 Full Member Offline Posts: 191	Re: change the d3d driver to opengl Reply #6 - 06.12.03 at 20:16:14 If you tell us which game doesnt run, someone may be able to help...
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Fantasma Full Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 176 Gender:	Re: change the d3d driver to opengl Reply #7 - 06.12.03 at 22:40:04 It´s splinter cell.
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hunter1001 YaBB Newbies Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 1	Re: change the d3d driver to opengl Reply #8 - 10.12.03 at 04:44:47 Quote: Anyone knows how to change the d3d device of a game to a opengl device driver?
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Re: change the d3d driver to opengl
Reply #9 - 10.12.03 at 09:38:43

A thing to remember: Voodoo is not fully Opengl 1.1 even compatible. Even if the wrapper would work perfectly, the game would still be unable to run, since the Voodoo card itself don't fully support neither DX8, nor OpenGL.

These wrappers had a chance to work only if the final rendering platform used to emulate (DX for Glide games, OpenGL for DX games), is fully supported. Even then, the wrapper might not implement everything needed to translate the calls from the emulated platform, to the real one...

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Fantasma Full Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 176 Gender:	Re: change the d3d driver to opengl Reply #10 - 10.12.03 at 18:24:14 I know, I only wanted to try it and with no success. Anyway, the wrapper supports the 90% of directx 8 so no luck
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