N64 Emus... quickie question

[Fla Flash]

I've just started fooling around with N64 emus and with my system (AMD Duron 1000 mhz, 768mg ram, 64 meg GeForce MX440 video card) have somewhat happily settled on Project 1964 (version 0.9.9) after joyfully installing Rice's most recent vid plugin.
Is it just me, do I need a glide wrapper, or are some of the games just going to not want to run correctly? I'm talking about vid problems.
Any help would be much appreciated.

[shawn]

I believe Nvidia Gforce cards run without a wrapper and the wrappers were required because of the way 3DFX graphic cards ran.

BTW any staff might like to know I had to use a google search result to get to the N64 page because the ZD homepage link to the windows/dos emulators and the next 2 or 3 links below that have links addresses that just read when I hold my mouse over them www.zophar.net (http://www.zophar.net).

[Montie2k]

Hmm, all the links look (and function) fine to me.

[The 9th Sage]

I believe Nvidia Gforce cards run without a wrapper and the wrappers were required because of the way 3DFX graphic cards ran.


3DFX cards run using a 3D protocol called Glide. Modern video cards don't support Glide, so they would need a Glide Wrapper, something that sits between the game (or whatever) and the card and translates Glide to DirectX or OpenGL.

[Iconoclast]

You can tell once you have tried emulation.
Get no later than Rice's Video Plugin 6.1.0, and you're good most of the time. In fact this plug-in will work better than all with some games.

RiceVideo can use DirectX or OpenGL, but GLIDE is rendered on the 3DFX cards. On other cards a GLIDE wrapper is supplied to map the functions for emulation, but this is inapplicable with a plug-in not using it.

[The 9th Sage]

It's really only good if you are using SupraHLE (which if you have a decent computer, why would you?), or the Glide64 plug-in (chances are you are probably better off using whatever is native to your system). Anyway, if you really do need a glide wrapper for something, a good one I used to use once in a while is called eVoodoo.

[Iconoclast]

Actually a lot of people say Glide64 is the best graphics plugin, and that uses GLIDE.
Of course almost no one in those areas actually have 3DFX cards; they all use Hacktarux's wrapper for the plugin that mudlord worked on. It was designed specifically to emulate Glide64 for most people, and it has worked very well. It is one of the few parts of development in emulation of the N64 still active to present, so perhaps not many people here at Zophar's are up-to-date on this.

But RiceVideo is the major plug-in that took approach into supporting older graphics cards although the big components in this development were eventually dropped long before version 5.9.9. Glide64 did the opposite and introduced many fixes the other plug-ins didn't and expected appropriate setups. Jabo's Direct3D still does things the other plug-ins don't, but what's new.

[The 9th Sage]

Actually a lot of people say Glide64 is the best graphics plugin, and that uses GLIDE.
Of course almost no one in those areas actually have 3DFX cards; they all use Hacktarux's wrapper for the plugin that mudlord worked on. It was designed specifically to emulate Glide64 for most people, and it has worked very well. It is one of the few parts of development in emulation of the N64 still active to present, so perhaps not many people here at Zophar's are up-to-date on this.

Ah, I hadn't tried it, so I didn't know it was considered to be such a good plug-in. Maybe I SHOULD try it. :)

[Iconoclast]

Well I didn't either. I have Windows Vista.