I'm testing on "regular" GTX 750 not "Ti". My card has 1GB RAM. Vendor is Gigabyte.

[quote name=deadwood post=12696]@deadwood - So I have 1 month to get 3D acceleration working in stable way ^^

Can you remind me what NVidia card you have right now?
Can you purchase GTX 750 or GTX 650 card?[/quote]

I have the 8400 plus the GTX970.

I'll have a look on ebay for a 750 or 650. I'll also pop into my IT department at college see if they've one being thrown out. The amount of e-waste just because Microsoft says 'too old' is terrifying...

Cheers,
Nigel.

P.S. Thinking ahead, where would I find Doom3 64 bit? I can't see it on AROS Archives. Many thanks.

@ntromans
Doom3 for 64bit is here https://archives.arosworld.org/?function=showfile&file=game/fps/adoom3-1.5.3.x86_64-aros-v11.zip

@ntromans

If you have GTX 970 then hold off on getting other card unless you can get it for free. I'm now going to look into firmware loading to get the GTX 9xx series booting. If this fails then 7xx is your best bet,

[quote name=deadwood post=12705]@deadwood - @ntromans

If you have GTX 970 then hold off on getting other card unless you can get it for free. I'm now going to look into firmware loading to get the GTX 9xx series booting. If this fails then 7xx is your best bet,[/quote]

Thanks, I'll hold off getting anything else for the moment. I did ask at work but unfortunately they ae not doing any age disposal this year.

Cheers,
Nigel.

[quote name=Deremon post=12704]@Deremon - @ntromans
Doom3 for 64bit is here https://archives.arosworld.org/?function=showfile&file=game/fps/adoom3-1.5.3.x86_64-aros-v11.zip[/quote]

Many thanks. I did see that but I thought an upload back in '24 was too long ago for current 64 bit developments. I guess it was ahead of it's time ;-)

Cheers,
Nigel.

[quote name=ntromans post=12713]@ntromans - [quote name=Deremon post=12704]@Deremon - @ntromans
Doom3 for 64bit is here https://archives.arosworld.org/?function=showfile&file=game/fps/adoom3-1.5.3.x86_64-aros-v11.zip[/quote]

Many thanks. I did see that but I thought an upload back in '24 was too long ago for current 64 bit developments. I guess it was ahead of it's time ;-)

Cheers,
Nigel.[/quote]

We have stable ABI and stable API for Mesa and Mesa hides driver details from application so everything works as expected.

@ntromans

Please try booting your GTX 950 with this driver. Note: driver is UNSTABLE, but it is good enough to boot my GTX 950 into Wanderer.

[url]https://axrt.org/development/nouveau.hidd-20260702-49.1.zip[/url]

To use the driver you will have to first install NVidia firmware:

[url]https://axrt.org/development/NVidia-firmware.zip[/url]

NVidia directory goes into DEVS:Firmware

[quote name=deadwood post=12731]@deadwood - @ntromans

Please try booting your GTX 950 with this driver. Note: driver is UNSTABLE, but it is good enough to boot my GTX 950 into Wanderer.

[url]https://axrt.org/development/nouveau.hidd-20260702-49.1.zip[/url]

To use the driver you will have to first install NVidia firmware:

[url]https://axrt.org/development/NVidia-firmware.zip[/url]

NVidia directory goes into DEVS:Firmware[/quote]

It's alive :-) Boots in Wanderer with no fuss and I can change screen modes although the machine quickly locks up after this (but you did say it is unstable). Thank you!

By the way this is a GTX 970.

Cheers,
Nigel.

Good, thanks for tests. I'll focus on solving the instability now. Please also try if 3D is working for you (keep the original 1024x768 resolution). 3D games should starts ~50% time.

[quote name=deadwood post=12738]@deadwood - Good, thanks for tests. I'll focus on solving the instability now. Please also try if 3D is working for you (keep the original 1024x768 resolution). 3D games should starts ~50% time.[/quote]

I gave Tilt 'n' Roll a go - it worked really well with o grphical glitches and I was able to play several rounds, although the machine did lock up after I exited the game.

Cheers,
Nigel.

P.S. gears runs at over 3800 FPS. Oddly though teapot runs vey slowly - just 8 FPS.

@ntromans

I fixed a kernel bug that caused general instability in software (and especially in software playing audio - like games). I'll produce a fixed kernel for you for the presentation. Can you tell me if you 64-bit AROS installation for the presentation will be based of 20250418 + U3 or from a nightly build?

[quote name=deadwood post=12864]@deadwood - @ntromans

I fixed a kernel bug that caused general instability in software (and especially in software playing audio - like games). I'll produce a fixed kernel for you for the presentation. Can you tell me if you 64-bit AROS installation for the presentation will be based of 20250418 + U3 or from a nightly build?[/quote]

I think I've seen that bug on 32 bit - the machine will ocasionally lock up when playing audio with no particular pattern to the crash. Great to hear it's been squished :-)

I'll be using the releae which had the first version of the 64 bit Gallium driver, i.e. the one from [url]https://arosworld.org/infusions/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=1966&rowstart=0#post_11925[/url].

Cheers,
Nigel.

@ntromans

Here is update kernel for 64-bit: [url]https://axrt.org/development/tmp/kernel.gz[/url]

It should work with your installation (backup original in boot/pc/ and the copy this one there)

If it doesn't work for some reasong, please install 17.07 nightly on your demo machine.