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webdesigner97 wrote:Which advantages does DirectX have?

Calinou wrote:

webdesigner97 wrote:Which advantages does DirectX have?

You mean Direct3D and not DirectX here. It's usually slightly faster, but does not support GLSL shaders and is Windows-only.

BlockMen wrote:(...) The builds have GetText, cURL, TTF, LuaJIT and DirectX support.(...)

webdesigner97 wrote:

Calinou wrote:

webdesigner97 wrote:Which advantages does DirectX have?

You mean Direct3D and not DirectX here. It's usually slightly faster, but does not support GLSL shaders and is Windows-only.

Ok, thx for the explanation Oh and BlockMen said:

BlockMen wrote:(...) The builds have GetText, cURL, TTF, LuaJIT and DirectX support.(...)

That's why I also said Directx

cHyper wrote:How must the minetest.conf file look like?

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video_driver = direct3d9

is this correct?

BlockMen wrote:

webdesigner97 wrote:

Calinou wrote:
You mean Direct3D and not DirectX here. It's usually slightly faster, but does not support GLSL shaders and is Windows-only.

Ok, thx for the explanation Oh and BlockMen said:

BlockMen wrote:(...) The builds have GetText, cURL, TTF, LuaJIT and DirectX support.(...)

That's why I also said Directx

"Microsoft DirectX is a collection of APIs [...] on Microsoft platforms."
"Direct3D is part of Microsoft's DirectX API." -> so DirectX support is not wrong

And yes, its faster and runs smoother. Unfortunately Minetest has currently only shaders for OpenGl, so when using Direct3D you have to disable shaders.

LionsDen wrote:I noticed a couple of issues.

1. I use the technic mod and when I click the button to show the bags, none of the bags have a name on it's button. I was/am using PilzAdam's latest 7-24-2013 version and occasionally the button name would disappear but it was only on one or two of them and they would come back the next time I clicked the bags button. On yours, all of them were missing and never came back and I played for hours and even restarted the game once in that time.

2. After I was done testing, I copied the world back to PilzAdam's version and it wouldn't let me open the file. I don't remember the exact error but it wouldn't load the world. I don't know if it was a problem with your copy or PilzAdam's version that was causing this. Luckily, I had a backup from before I took the world over to yours and was able to restore my world.

BlockMen wrote:

LionsDen wrote:I noticed a couple of issues.

1. I use the technic mod and when I click the button to show the bags, none of the bags have a name on it's button. I was/am using PilzAdam's latest 7-24-2013 version and occasionally the button name would disappear but it was only on one or two of them and they would come back the next time I clicked the bags button. On yours, all of them were missing and never came back and I played for hours and even restarted the game once in that time.

2. After I was done testing, I copied the world back to PilzAdam's version and it wouldn't let me open the file. I don't remember the exact error but it wouldn't load the world. I don't know if it was a problem with your copy or PilzAdam's version that was causing this. Luckily, I had a backup from before I took the world over to yours and was able to restore my world.

Thanks for giving feedback.

First issue: I have tested and noticed, that labels in formspecs are not shown, so its not related to technic. It may be caused by TTF, i'm gonna check this.

2nd issue: This is caused by commits that have been merged into the game, which are already included in my build, but not in PilzAdam's last build. Because of that the game is not able to read the mapdata. You can ask PilzAdam to make a new build, then you can open the world you have used in my build.

PilzAdam wrote: woowoowwow, hold on. Do you just said that we broke world format with a commit?

22:46:28: ERROR[main]: ServerError: World data version mismatch in MapBlock (-1,-2,1)
22:46:28: ERROR[main]: ----
22:46:28: ERROR[main]: "ERROR: MapBlock format not supported"
22:46:28: ERROR[main]: See debug.txt.
22:46:28: ERROR[main]: World probably saved by a newer version of Minetest.

Inocudom wrote:

BlockMen wrote:

webdesigner97 wrote: Ok, thx for the explanation Oh and BlockMen said:

That's why I also said Directx

"Microsoft DirectX is a collection of APIs [...] on Microsoft platforms."
"Direct3D is part of Microsoft's DirectX API." -> so DirectX support is not wrong

And yes, its faster and runs smoother. Unfortunately Minetest has currently only shaders for OpenGl, so when using Direct3D you have to disable shaders.

There are a few questions that would have to be asked concerning shaders for DirectX 9:
1-Does DirectX 9 even support shaders at all?

Inocudom wrote:2-Is there anybody skilled enough

Inocudom wrote: and willing enough to write shaders for DirectX 9?

Inocudom wrote:3-If shaders were successfully written for DirectX 9, would they ever be added to Minetest?

BlockMen wrote:Fixes formspecs issue, labels are now displayed correct

PilzAdam wrote:

BlockMen wrote:Fixes formspecs issue, labels are now displayed correct

What was the problem?

Inocudom wrote:Add a setting for HighPrecisionFPU (fixes #763)... What effect does this have on DirectX 9? It sounds like it would make it smoother, but does it?

# Makes DirectX work with LuaJIT. Disable if it causes troubles.