v0.5.2024.29-alpha2

Bugfix and stability release:

• ! Wine works on Windows 95
• ! OpenGlide works with MiniGL wrappers
• Driver: VIDEOPARAMETERS support
• SVGA/Mesa: added GMR cache (require 1024 MB RAM)
• Mesa: fixed page fault with llvmpipe/softpipe
• Wine: fixed creating shader object (even if no shader support)
• Wine: better restore screen after game/app quit
• OpenGlide: disabled fog (and problems with it)
• OpenGlide: restore screen after quit
• OpenGlide: SSE and MMX optimized format conversion
• Increased compatibility list

checksum

MD5:

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SHA-256:

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v0.5.2024.24-alpha2

New features release

• ! fixed the most of mouse cursor bugs
• ! limited RAM memory usage
• ! fixed some setup GUI bugs (introduced in 0.4.2023.18)
• vGPU10 finaly works
• DirectDraw HAL (2D only)
• Driver: reduced usage of 16bit RING-3 code (increase stability and speed)
• Driver: command buffers disabled for vGPU9 deviced (FIFO usage looks stable and faster)
• Wine: replaced window proc daisy chain with hooks (increase compatibility by a lot)
• Wine: report no shader support for vGPU9 devices (they didn't work anyway)
• Wine: DX 8 + D9 implementation switcher
• Wine: DLL version is set to 4.9.0.904
• OpenGlide: fixed multi-thread rendering
• Mesa: optimized driver
• Mesa: various rendering fixes
• Mesa: Nine support (experimental)
• Mesa: 8-to-9 wrapper for Nine (experimental)
• Mesa: vGPU10 - OpenGL version 3.3
• QEMU: QEMU-3Dfx OpenGL ICD driver

checksum

MD5:

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softgpu-0.5.2024.24.zip: 31b4308268fb277fed99df0cee48cbf7

SHA-256:

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v0.4.2023.19-alpha

This is bugfix release:

• (!) fix for virtual GPUs without CB (VBox <= 6.1)
• (!) fixed GMR allocation pool (introduced in 0.4.2023.13)
• (!) enabled direct rendering (introduced in 0.4.2023.18)
• (!) fixed direct rendering in window mode
• optimized locks
• driver configuration in registry
• specific tunes for VirtualBox/VMware

v0.4.2023.18-alpha

New features release

• (!) fixed some stability issues in CRT (malloc, strndup, ...)
• (!) More stability on non-SSE guests (introduced in 0.4.2023.13)
• Virtual GPU gen. 10 supported!
• Mesa: 23.1.6
• Mesa: faster rendering
• glchecker: fixed startup crash
• glchecker: fixed missing textures on OpenGL 2.x
• Wine: some stability issues
• Wine: support for GPU gen 10
• Driver: SVGA - HW cursor is supported and enabled (32 bpp only)
• Driver: QEMU - stability (open DOS window, shutdown problem on KVM/WHPX)

v0.4.2023.14-alpha

This is bugfix release:
! fixed race condition in FIFO access: causes freezing (introduced in 0.4.2023.13)
! fixed race condition in when is calling blit function: causes BSOD (introduced in 0.4.2023.13)
! fixed not well working screen memory zeroing: randomly rewrites driver memory (introduced in 0.4.2023.4)

v0.4.2023.13-alpha

• QEMU display driver works
• Mesa 21.3.8
• VMware HW 3D support (see README)
• optimalizations in VMware SVGA driver
• frame buffer fixes (fewer black screens when switching color depth)
• fixed memory allocator
• SIMD95 is disabled by default
• optional sets of resolution above FullHD

v0.4.2023.11-alpha

• R5G6B5 surface workaround - fixed black screen on (mostly) NVIDIA GPUs
• large Wine9x/DirectX update

v0.4.2023.9-alpha

This release mainly fixes Glide: it adds a working Glide3x and fixes some issues in Glide2x games

v0.4.2023.6-alpha

Quick fix - fixed black screen in VirtualBox 6.1 (vmwsvga + vboxsvga)

v0.4.2023.4-alpha

First public release.

Please note that this is a alpha release. So far, compatibility has been tested mostly on VirtualBox. All builds include debugging symbols for better debugging.