What is the state of getting Quartz Extreme to work?

Zenith432 · January 9, 2011

BTW What version of VLC are you using, becuase I get a white screen on VLC 1.1.5....

I'm using VLC 1.1.5, so the problem is not with VLC. If you're seeing white, it means the texture isn't being attached to the drawing context, so it's only drawing the vertex diffuse color, which is white. This could be for two reasons

1) A problem in the driver that causes the attachment of the texture to fail.

2) VLC expects the [host] GPU to support YUV 4:2:2 textures. These texture formats are supported by Direct3D without a pixel shader, so I use them directly. If the GPU isn't capable of drawing YUV 4:2:2 textures, then VLC won't work. I don't support pixel shaders yet, so that's not an option for now.

So the questions are:

1) Are you running on a Windows host?

2) did you make sure the guest vram requirement is met?

3) Can you upload the movie showing up as white so I can test it?

4) What's your host GPU?

Thanks.

PS

As for the driver's other limitations, any GL app that uses a single 2D-texture stage with diffuse color, and doesn't try to read back rendered pixels, should work. All depth buffering, alpha blending on the render target and stencil ops are supported.

ataxy · January 9, 2011

VMsvga2 1.3.0d1 Development Preview Edition
with hardware OpenGL support.

Host Requirements

VMware Workstation 7.x with 3D Acceleration and Screen-Object enabled. Set your guest vram size to at least 32MB.

Don't ask me if the GL driver works on Fusion or Workstation/Linux. Test it yourself. I don't have those platforms set up. VMware's SVGA3D API is modeled on Direct3D, so it works fairly smoothly. On other platforms, it's implemented using an OpenGL host driver, and some features may not map well.

The VMware host must have a Direct3D or OpenGL driver that provides access to the GPU. If you run a standalone VMware kernel without a host OS, I don't think 3D Acceleration is available [someone correct me if I'm wrong].

Guest requirements

OS 10.6.3 or Above.

AppleIntelGMA950GLDriver.plugin must be installed in /System/Library/Extensions [This is normally the case].

Applications Tested

VLC Video Player. Seems to have everything it needs and works 100%.

Preview for OS 10.6.x. Seems to have what it needs. Uses pipeline fences occasionally which aren't implemented. All fence waits return immediately, so it doesn't hang.

Apple's Finder works. It uses OpenGL for its icon and "Cover Flow" views. In fact, it does some tricky depth-buffering and alpha-blending in the "Cover Flow" view, which helped quite a bit in figuring things out.

Flash Prayer 10.1r102 works. It calls CGLQueryRendererInfo(), rejects the renderer and then proceeds to render in software

QuickTime X works. It also rejects the renderer and proceeds to render in software.

iTunes works. Uses legacy IOQTCompoments for video which uses YUV overlay. No GL.

Chess - the only 3D game I tried. The initial board is drawn, although lighting and mipmapping detail is missing. The game itself doesn't play due to unimplemented GL features.

The WindowServer's GLCompositor (aka QuartzExtreme) - not even close. The screen is all-black. It's also quite a stress test, as it creates about 50 textures right off the bat. The system responds to keystrokes and mouse clicks, so it can be shut down safely if you know the sequence. QE also uses a couple of untested texture types, and whatnot. A lot of work still to do for that.

I also tried some 3D sample from Apple's OpenGL sample collection, and it worked in part, failed in part due to missing features.

Notes

You may notice the screen flashes occasionally. Everytime this happens there's a message in vmware.log "detaching from window system... connecting to window system". This happens after the driver creates its first Direct3D9Device (in response to the first application to use GL), or after the driver destroyes its last D3D9Device when the last GL application closes. The MKS backend switches between rendering with GDI to rendering with Direct3D and vice versa. This causes a brief blank window.

Kernel Flags

"-vmw_no_gl" disables the GL driver. VMsvga2 will still operate as in version 1.2.x.

"-vmw_qe" enables QuartzExtreme. QE doesn't work, but if you want to see for yourself

This driver is still a work in progress. There are many unimplemented GL features - FBOs, pipeline fences, mipmapping, cube-maps, volume textures, fog, misc render states, pixel shaders, etc. If an application attempts to use them, it may fail in part or in whole. The driver hasn't been fully optimized yet either, so some things don't work as efficiently as they can be made to.

As for the guest vram requirement - the driver supports VMware's GMRs, which means it can do memory transfers to or from host vram from anywhere in guest memory, not just the vram. I plan to eventually rid the driver of all dependence on guest vram, so it will work with the minimum allowed of 16MB guest vram. Right now the driver still needs some extra guest vram for buffering render targets and vertex arrays. Textures [which can be quite big] are not buffered in guest vram - which reduces guest vram requirement quite a bit.

Where to get it?

An installation package can be found here (SnowLeopard only). I'll update the development version occasionally as it proceeds.

just tryed the beta driver, divx now loads video while before it use to give me an error but video is not displayed but i get sounds also movies that use to play well in quicktime are now laggy and slow probably due to the same thing as ''You may notice the screen flashes occasionally''

this is the system-

asus p5n-d

intel C2Q 8400

4gig ddr2 800

nvidia gtx 275

win7 ultimate 32bit

vmware workstation: 7.1.2 build-301548

Osx 10.6.6

so all in all this seems to be on the good path to a usable 3d driver

ps: chess is better gfx wise then before but while i use to be able to play before now the game runs but i am no longer able to play

Zenith432 · January 10, 2011

just tryed the beta driver, divx now loads video while before it use to give me an error but video is not displayed but i get sounds also movies that use to play well in quicktime are now laggy and slow

Ok, thanks. I tried divx, and it uses several OpenGL features that aren't implemented yet, so it can't work for the time being. As for QuickTime, you're right about the slowdowns, and I don't have a clue why. It's doing all the video rendering in software. When I disable the GL driver, QT still experiences the slowdowns. When I disable the accelerator completely and work in "VMwareGfx" mode, the slowdowns go away. I'll look into it when I have time.

Correction: I tried several more times. QuickTime experiences slowdowns even with the accelerator disabled and also with VMsvga2 v1.2.3. Looks like it's caused either by excessive paging or by the software video renderer not being able to sustain a smooth time-flow inside the VM. :rolleyes: I don't use QT much so I hadn't noticed it before.

PPS: the slowdown issue with QT is intermittent. Sometimes you play the movie again shortly after it happens and it plays fine.

Rob_Quads · January 10, 2011

So the questions are:
1) Are you running on a Windows host?

2) did you make sure the guest vram requirement is met?

3) Can you upload the movie showing up as white so I can test it?

4) What's your host GPU?

I'm also seeing the same so will answer the questions

Vmware Workstation 7.1.2

VRAM is 128MB looking at System Information

The videos I have been testing are all 700MB+

Host GPU is NVidia Quadro FX 880M

ataxy · January 11, 2011

Ok, thanks. I tried divx, and it uses several OpenGL features that aren't implemented yet, so it can't work for the time being. As for QuickTime, you're right about the slowdowns, and I don't have a clue why. It's doing all the video rendering in software. When I disable the GL driver, QT still experiences the slowdowns. When I disable the accelerator completely and work in "VMwareGfx" mode, the slowdowns go away. I'll look into it when I have time.

Correction: I tried several more times. QuickTime experiences slowdowns even with the accelerator disabled and also with VMsvga2 v1.2.3. Looks like it's caused either by excessive paging or by the software video renderer not being able to sustain a smooth time-flow inside the VM. I don't use QT much so I hadn't noticed it before.

PPS: the slowdown issue with QT is intermittent. Sometimes you play the movie again shortly after it happens and it plays fine.

humm thats weird on my computer with VMsvga2 v1.2.3 it does not lag as long as the window is not to big (6xx X 2xx) but on the 1.3.0.1 beta it basically lag no mather what but anyway still a beta is a beta so i am pleased with the possibility of seeing a full or almost full support of gl in the futur

vampirnata · January 11, 2011

First of all a huge thank you to Zenith! I dream of one day being able to comprehend how to even start a project like this.

Second, everything seems to be working as you reported except for one thing:

The finder window has some minor problems. The text seems a little blurry and I can't click on files and folders in the finder. What I have to do is click drag into the icon, then it gets selected. Hope that is clear enough.

Upon further investigation it seems to be icon rendering related (strange). If I change the view to "in a list" or "column" then I can click the folders.

Other issues:

App Store flashes when you move the mouse over various icons.

How do I use the kernel flags to disable opengl. I want to do this and then recheck all the above.

TheGreatDeceiver · January 12, 2011

Zenith, this is terrific. thank you for the audio and vga updates!

Zenith432 · January 12, 2011

becuase I get a white screen on VLC 1.1.5....

I found another likely cause of this which is that I used an incorrect formula to do the color blend in VLC. I didn't notice it at first. It may be that on my GPU the wrong formula works anyway, and on other GPUs it draws white. I'll have this fixed in the next upload. I've also got DivX working, but I need to tie up a loose end before another public build.

The finder window has some minor problems. The text seems a little blurry and I can't click on files and folders in the finder. What I have to do is click drag into the icon, then it gets selected. Hope that is clear enough.

There are two issues

The blurry text is "by design" because Finder enables dithering. I noticed this and considered disabling dithering in the driver, but this will disable dithering for all applications. I'm not sure why the software renderer doesn't show dithering. Either I'm doing something out of order, or the software renderer doesn't support dithering, or Finder only enables dithering with the hardware renderer.
Icon-click doesn't work - is because Finder uses FBOs and some other feature I haven't yet implemented. So it's a bug and will [hopefully] get fixed once the driver is feature-complete. In the meantime, as a workaround, if you click on the icon text it will select the icon

App Store flashes when you move the mouse over various icons.

That's an AppStore feature unrelated to the driver

It flashes even with the accelerator fully disabled.

How do I use the kernel flags to disable opengl. I want to do this and then recheck all the above.

In the bootloader, press "enter" to stop the boot while it's counting down, and then type "-vmw_no_gl" on the command line, then press "enter" to boot.
In com.apple.Boot.plist, there's a "<Kernel Flags>" entry where you can add permanent kernel flags.

humm thats weird on my computer with VMsvga2 v1.2.3 it does not lag as long as the window is not to big (6xx X 2xx) but on the 1.3.0.1 beta it basically lag no mather what

I'm not sure what's up with this. It could be due to excessive paging because of a memory shortage. QT renders everything in software, and the only "use" it makes of the GL driver is to query the renderer at the start [once] and then reject it. It's not calling the GL renderer in a loop. With no GL apps running, the driver doesn't use any more memory than it did in v1.2.3. So the only thing that could be an issue is I broke some of the existing code. I did make some changes, but when I test, I get QT slowdowns with similar frequency with v1.2.3...

PS: I fixed a bug where the driver was allocating too much memory for textures, and it'll be in the next build, but again - this only matters if GL is in use, so I don't know whether it'll help QT...

Update I uploaded a fresh build v1.3.0d2 and updated the link in post #23.

Changelog for v1.3.0d2

Added mipmapping support.
Added a canned collection of pixel shaders needed for VLC, Chess, DivX. Generic pixel-shader support is still on the to-do list. [i'd be happy if someone volunteered to help - I need a shader bytecode translator for this.]
Fixed a problem with the color blend for VLC. It still requires the host GPU to support packed YUV422 textures.
Chess board now displays correctly. The game still doesn't play (it uses glReadPixels which remains unimplemented.)
DivX works (at least for me ) Seems to require less YUV support from the GPU, as it uses unpacked YUV with its own supplied pixel-shader (and now I have a YUV->RGB conversion shader thanks to DivX LOL).
Due to the use of pixel-shaders, the host GPU is now required to support D3D pixel-shader model 2.0. This is the oldest model I could use, so I think it should be ok (unless you have a really ancient GPU.)
Fixed an excessive memory allocation (3x) for textures.

user515 · January 12, 2011

just wanted to say Thank you !

What you are doing is GREAT !

I've been trying to get Mac OS in 3 different machines, but decided to stop because none of their graphic cards are supported, I couldn't even get native resolution.

Now thanks to your work, we can enjoy this OS (or get our job done) with much less hassle.

keep going !

vampirnata · January 12, 2011

It is really so refreshing to actually hear back from developers

You rock! Keep it up! And thank you for your answers.

ataxy · January 13, 2011

thx great job so far

QT is back at been usable it even plays movie in a bigger resolution then before

divx is still a no go for me i get the sound but the vid window remains black

TheGreatDeceiver · January 13, 2011

10.6.6, Vmware 7.1.3, Windows 7 64 bit, i7 920. vram=128Mb, 3D graphics acceleration enabled. AppleIntelGMA950GLDriver.plugin installed.

installed the latest VMsvga2_v1.3.0d2. I see the occasional flashes of the screen. However, video is not working. avis I open in vlc are black, sound works. chess opening but I cannot play.

host PC has ATI Radeon 3850. OpenGL on host as far as I can tell from graphics settings is working.

one part I don't understand is "Screen-Object enabled". Could that be the problem?

thank you

xbc · January 13, 2011

Well tested last version, and I now get a black screen on VLC on avi, divx, xvids, and mkv

My info is: Windows 2003 Server (with all the 3d stuff on), VMWorkstation 7.1.3, vram 128, ATI RADEON HD 5450 512MB

Same problem with chess as previous poster, maybe it has to do with Radeon Cards?

Zenith432 · January 13, 2011

Let's sort this out

Video Issues

Those having problems with any video app - VLC/DivX, whatnot - give me a few days, I'll write a small host-side program that you can run and will list the necessary GPU capabilities. Then I can figure out whether the video is not working due to the driver doing something wrong, or due to the driver using unsupported host GPU features. If it turns out to be due to unsupported GPU features, I won't be able to solve it overnight, but I may find alternative "downgrade" solutions for video later on.

Non-Video Issues

Is anyone still having problems with non-video apps like

Preview

Chess board display [i [i]know[/i] the game doesn't play...]

Finder [other than the couple of issues mentioned in post #31]

iLife, FincalCut or whatever other app you may have tried that I didn't test.

Thanks.

one part I don't understand is "Screen-Object enabled". Could that be the problem?

Not likely. The GL driver doesn't really need screen-object, I just listed that because I haven't tested the alternative code I wrote for when screen-object is unavailable

If your guestos is one of the "darwin..." types, then screen-object is enabled by default.

If your guestos is one of the "freebsd..." types, you need to enable screen-object by putting

svga.enableScreenObject = "TRUE"

in your vmx file.

QT is back at been usable it even plays movie in a bigger resolution then before

Good, it was probably the memory allocation. Finder creates some huge textures, and they remain resident all the time [because Finder is always running in the background].

Zenith432 · January 14, 2011

Ok, here we go.

Uploaded v1.3.0d3.

I added GPU feature detection.

Install v1.3.0d3 and boot the system.

Open vmware.log.

Scroll and look for the lines

IOAC: start
IOAC: Screen Object On
IOAC: SVGA3D On, 3D HWVersion == 2.0
IOAC: GPU Feature Detection

Below that you'll find a dump of GPU capabilities.

First, check "Pixel Shader Version". It should be at least 2.0 [ps_2_0]. If you see anything less, please msg me. Microsoft deprecated PS versions earlier than 2.0 around the time Vista came out, but I may be able to down-version some of the simpler pixel-shaders I used.

Now, for VLC, look for "UYVY Caps". It should say "Texture", and also "ConvertToARGB" under it (not sure the "convert" is needed.) If you can't find this, or can't find anything about UYVY, VLC won't work.

For DivX, look for "L8 Caps", it should say "Texture" under it. It's actually simpler than the UYVY format that VLC needs. It's hard to believe any GPU doesn't support this format.

I also fixed some bugs and changed one of the settings to take the GPU capabilities into account. This may or may not have an effect on the ability to display video.

I tested that there is no regression [at least on my setup] - Preview, Chess, Finder, VLC & DivX still work as before (with the known issues.)

Link to download in the original post.

xbc · January 14, 2011

This is the report for a ATI Radeon 5450

Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC: SVGA3D On, 3D HWVersion == 2.0
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC: GPU Feature Detection
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Lights 8
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max FFP Texture Stages 8
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Clip Planes 6
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Vertex Shader Version vs_3_0
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Vertex Shaders Yes
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Pixel Shader Version ps_3_0
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Pixel Shaders Yes
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Render Targets 4
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   S23E8 Textures Yes
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   S10E5 Textures Yes
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Fixed VertexBlend 4
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Occlusion Query Yes
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Texture Gradient Sampling Yes
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Point Size 256
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Pixel Shader Textures 20
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Texture Width 8192
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Texture Height 8192
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Volume Extent 16384
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Texture Repeat 8192
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Texture Aspect Ratio 8192
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Texture Anisotropy 16
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Primitive Count 5592405
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Vertex Index 16777215
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Vertex Shader Instructions -1
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Pixel Shader Instructions -1
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Vertex Shader Temps 32
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Pixel Shader Temps 32
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Texture Ops 0x3ffffff
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   X8R8G8B8 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SameFormatRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 DisplayMode
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 3DAcceleration
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 ConvertToARGB
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SRGBRead
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 MemberOfGroupARGB
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SRGBWrite
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   A8R8G8B8 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SameFormatRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SameFormatUpToAlpha
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 ConvertToARGB
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.810: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SRGBRead
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 MemberOfGroupARGB
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SRGBWrite
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   A2R10G10B10 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SameFormatRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 ConvertToARGB
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 MemberOfGroupARGB
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   X1R5G5B5 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SameFormatRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 ConvertToARGB
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 MemberOfGroupARGB
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   A1R5G5B5 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SameFormatRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SameFormatUpToAlpha
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 ConvertToARGB
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 MemberOfGroupARGB
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   A4R4G4B4 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SameFormatRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SameFormatUpToAlpha
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   R5G6B5 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SameFormatRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 DisplayMode
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 3DAcceleration
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 ConvertToARGB
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 MemberOfGroupARGB
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   L16 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   L8A8 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   A8 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   L8 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Z_D16 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 ZStencil
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 ZStencilArbitraryDepth
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Z_D24S8 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 ZStencil
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 ZStencilArbitraryDepth
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Z_D24X8 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 ZStencil
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 ZStencilArbitraryDepth
Jan 14 13:34:12.826: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   DXT1 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SRGBRead
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   DXT2 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SRGBRead
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   DXT3 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SRGBRead
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   DXT4 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SRGBRead
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   DXT5 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SRGBRead
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   BUMPX8L8V8U8 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 BumpMap
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   A2W10V10U10 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 BumpMap
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   BUMPU8V8 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 BumpMap
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Q8W8V8U8 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 BumpMap
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   CxV8U8 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 NoFilter
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 NoAlphaBlend
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 NoTexCoordWrapNorMip
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   R_S10E5 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SameFormatRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   R_S23E8 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SameFormatRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   RG_S10E5 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SameFormatRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   RG_S23E8 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SameFormatRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.841: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   ARGB_S10E5 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SameFormatRenderTarget
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   ARGB_S23E8 Caps
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenRenderTarget								  
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SameFormatRenderTarget								 
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Vertex Shader Textures 4							 
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   Max Simultaneous Render Targets 4						
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   V16U16 Caps								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 BumpMap								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   G16R16 Caps								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenRenderTarget								  
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SameFormatRenderTarget								 
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   A16B16G16R16 Caps								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 Texture								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VolumeTexture								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 CubeTexture								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenRenderTarget								  
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 SameFormatRenderTarget								 
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 VertexTexture								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   UYVY Caps								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 ConvertToARGB								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 NoFilter								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 NoAlphaBlend								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 NoTexCoordWrapNorMip								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:   YUY2 Caps								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 ConvertToARGB								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 OffscreenPlain								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 NoFilter								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 NoAlphaBlend								   
Jan 14 13:34:12.857: vcpu-0| Guest: IOAC:	 NoTexCoordWrapNorMip

So I have Pixel Shader Ver 3

For the UYVY: I do not have Texture but do have ConvertToARGB

For L8 Caps: I do have Texture

So I guess that is why BlackScreen on the VLC, but working on the Divx. My radeon card doesn't seem that old not to have the feature, but maybe it is the Radeon brand, or my Win2k3 setup. Who knows, maybe wait till others chime in with their results on Radeon cards.

TheGreatDeceiver · January 14, 2011

ATI Radeon HD 3850

dump attached.

Pixel Shader Version ps_3_0

UYVY Caps

ConvertToARGB

OffscreenPlain

NoFilter

NoAlphaBlend

NoTexCoordWrapNorMip

L8 Caps

Texture

VolumeTexture

CubeTexture

OffscreenPlain

VertexTexture

according to this info vlc should not work (missing texture), but divx should. I will install, test and report back.

tgd

edit1: installed divx 7. behaves very strangely when I open the player. it dims the screen, maybe a feature. it tries to go full screen no matter what I try to tell it to do. it even hides the dock. it plays my avi videos. vlc does not play the same files as expected.

edit2: quicktime plays the avi files as well. not sure how I missed that earlier.

edit3: pngs are opening fine in preview

just as advertised. thank you Zenith

IOAC.txt

ataxy · January 15, 2011

ATI Radeon HD 3850
dump attached.

Pixel Shader Version ps_3_0

UYVY Caps

ConvertToARGB

OffscreenPlain

NoFilter

NoAlphaBlend

NoTexCoordWrapNorMip

L8 Caps

Texture

VolumeTexture

CubeTexture

OffscreenPlain

VertexTexture

according to this info vlc should not work (missing texture), but divx should. I will install, test and report back.

tgd

edit1: installed divx 7. behaves very strangely when I open the player. it dims the screen, maybe a feature. it tries to go full screen no matter what I try to tell it to do. it even hides the dock. it plays my avi videos. vlc does not play the same files as expected.

edit2: quicktime plays the avi files as well. not sure how I missed that earlier.

edit3: pngs are opening fine in preview

just as advertised. thank you Zenith

i am getting exactly the same here also b2 offered better performance in QT the b3

hw gfx is nvidia gtx275 892mb

here is the vid part of my log

1.txt

Zenith432 · January 16, 2011

Ok, thanks for the GPU cap uploads.

If Radeons support UYVY CovertToARGB but not Texture, then VLC won't work at present, since it attaches the UYVY data as a texture. However, it's definitely good news that Radeon supports Convert UYVY to ARGB, since I can do an alternate implementation by loading the UYVY to host vram, then converting it there to ARGB, and then attach the ARGB. I'll implement this later for VLC. It's not first on the to-do list [sorry...].
If L8 Texture is supported, DivX should play video. DivX seems like a rather heavy app. I don't know why it's insisting on fullscreen in one setup (not doing that on my setup.) I've noticed that it hangs if started when there's no internet connection.
As I mentioned, QT renders fully in software. It should be able to play all formats. The only "use" it makes of the GL driver is to load it once then reject it.
I've implemented FBOs, and it resolved the icon-click problem in Finder. I'll hold off on posting it, to add some other things. If someone considers the icon-click problem critical and wants it solved ASAP, please mention it, and I'll publish a new build resolving it.

ataxy · January 16, 2011

Ok, thanks for the GPU cap uploads.

If Radeons support UYVY CovertToARGB but not Texture, then VLC won't work at present, since it attaches the UYVY data as a texture. However, it's definitely good news that Radeon supports Convert UYVY to ARGB, since I can do an alternate implementation by loading the UYVY to host vram, then converting it there to ARGB, and then attach the ARGB. I'll implement this later for VLC. It's not first on the to-do list [sorry...].

If L8 Texture is supported, DivX should play video. DivX seems like a rather heavy app. I don't know why it's insisting on fullscreen in one setup (not doing that on my setup.) I've noticed that it hangs if started when there's no internet connection.

As I mentioned, QT renders fully in software. It should be able to play all formats. The only "use" it makes of the GL driver is to load it once then reject it.

I've implemented FBOs, and it resolved the icon-click problem in Finder. I'll hold off on posting it, to add some other things. If someone considers the icon-click problem critical and wants it solved ASAP, please mention it, and I'll publish a new build resolving it.

good to know it helped you if there is anything else you would want tested let me know

TheGreatDeceiver · January 16, 2011

Ok, thanks for the GPU cap uploads.

If L8 Texture is supported, DivX should play video. DivX seems like a rather heavy app. I don't know why it's insisting on fullscreen in one setup (not doing that on my setup.) I've noticed that it hangs if started when there's no internet connection.

I will uninstall divx7 and install an older version and see if it still acts up. I think the new version has too much gui stuff that leads to problems. It even tries to do too many fancy things on Windows7 with the latest version, I've noticed (sliders, blending etc.). I for one hate it when they do that. It's like bloatware, instead of focusing on the core of the program they try to dress it up. In this respect vlc is much better.

edit1: uninstalled, tried a few things after reinstall, nothing worked. would always freeze when I opened the player. only right click on video file would open the player and play the clips. then I had to force quit it to close.

uninstalled v7.3 and installed an older v7.0 - voila, everything is working fine. doesn't freeze anymore.

Zenith432 · January 17, 2011

I uploaded VMsvga2 v1.3.0d4 (Link in post #23)

Changelog for v1.3.0d4

Implemented pipeline fences and FBOs.
Icon-click problem in Apple Finder is resolved (solved by FBOs.)
Implemented alternate support for UYVY video by copying [converting] to ARGB. Please let me know if VLC works on Radeons now. [On GPUs that support UYVY textures, it's still done directly without intermediate conversion.]
Looks like I'm not going to be able to make Chess work. It wants to read depth-buffer data back from the render target [and one pixel at a time no less ] Turns out Direct3D9 doesn't support reading back depth-buffer data. More precisely, there are a couple depth formats that can be read back, but they only work on selective hardware; the VMware backend doesn't provide access to these [lockable] formats, and anyhow they don't have a stencil buffer, which Chess want as well
So guess I'm going to have to figure out some way to "black-list" specific apps like Chess, and prevent them from using the hardware renderer... since Chess does work with the software renderer. Hmm...
On another note I tried disabling dithering in Finder, and the text is a little blurred even without dithering. Not sure why that is. I left dithering on for now, but maybe will add a kernel flag to disable it.
I hope this version is stable enough to hold for awhile.

vampirnata · January 17, 2011

You never cease to amaze me! Awesome work.

Will get back to you about VLC on radeons in a few minutes.

EDIT: Nope, I'm afraid I get sound only (a little stuttery btw) and a black screen in VLC. I'm using a Radeon 4890 on Windows 7 x64 host.

Zenith432 · January 17, 2011

EDIT: Nope, I'm afraid I get sound only (a little stuttery btw) and a black screen in VLC. I'm using a Radeon 4890 on Windows 7 x64 host.

Could you upload the part of your vmware.log under "UVYV Caps"?

TheGreatDeceiver · January 18, 2011

You never cease to amaze me! Awesome work.

Will get back to you about VLC on radeons in a few minutes.

EDIT: Nope, I'm afraid I get sound only (a little stuttery btw) and a black screen in VLC. I'm using a Radeon 4890 on Windows 7 x64 host.

same here. black screen, sound working.

Jan 17 19:25:13.517: vcpu-3| Guest: IOAC: UYVY Caps

Jan 17 19:25:13.517: vcpu-3| Guest: IOAC: ConvertToARGB

Jan 17 19:25:13.518: vcpu-3| Guest: IOAC: OffscreenPlain

Jan 17 19:25:13.518: vcpu-3| Guest: IOAC: NoFilter

Jan 17 19:25:13.518: vcpu-3| Guest: IOAC: NoAlphaBlend

Jan 17 19:25:13.518: vcpu-3| Guest: IOAC: NoTexCoordWrapNorMip

divx still works

What is the state of getting Quartz Extreme to work?

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