Not sure if this has been posted in the old forums (can't remember now). Some people might find this useful as hardware scaling is much faster than software
OpenGL-HQ is a video "driver" for SDL that uses your graphics hardware to scale the output to any size you want. It was originally written for 2D games/emulators like dosbox, scummvm or exult.
For Windows: all you need to do to get ScummVM working with it is to copy the custom SDL.dll and overwrite the original SDL.dll in the ScummVM directory (keep a backup of the original one first!) and then create a couple of environment variables in a batch file or in the System properties (more instructions in its readme). I'm not sure about other operating systems
Or even better, could you state examplary what to do here?
I really like to use this SDL version to get my TabletPC pen to work with ScummVM in fullscreen mode.
Oh, how MUCH I LOVE those incompatibilties, especially between TEXTFILES.
This is so great, hopefully this will never change because all sides agree that the other side is totally wrong and if anything should change, it has to be the other side.
And please don't tell me that those differences make ANY sense.
I know what the difference is in the technical way. It still does not make any sense to me to keep TEXTFILES incompatible.
joachimeberhard wrote:Great, this ReadMe has *nix linefeeds.
The command-line version of Unzip has an option for automatically converting newlines to the native format, but I don't know if that's a standard feature of all unzipping programs. (WinZip seems to have an option for doing it with TAR archives.)
Also, many text editors understand both forms of newlines. Unfortunately, Notepad is not one of them. You may want to try WordPad instead. I believe both are included with Windows by default.
There won't be any difference if you just copy the modified dll over the normal one. You'll have to tell it to use its enhanced functions. That's why you need to create the batch files (have a look at the readme file of the library)
md5 wrote:There won't be any difference if you just copy the modified dll over the normal one. You'll have to tell it to use its enhanced functions. That's why you need to create the batch files (have a look at the readme file of the library)
GUN wrote:hm .. I think my Hardware is much to old ...
What are the specs of your system?
One thing comes to mind: if you're running under Windows, you may be using the generic graphic driver from Microsoft, which doesn't have hardware-accelerated OpenGL support -- hence it falls back on software OpenGL which is everything but fast. Make sure you've got the latest drivers from your board's manufacturer.
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don't forget to set "--force-1x-overlay" for scummvm in the Batch. ScummVM activates a scaler itself, which ist not allowed for Opengl-HQ.
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well I think the new gui with a plain 2x scaler and after it the hq scaler over it looks better than the old version.