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[Geri]

TitaniumGL is a multiwrapper to your application, targetted game developers who are developing C/B category games. (like Indie developers, and persons who are make games to casual gamers, etc) TitaniumGL is an expansion to your OpenGL based game, that detects the system graphics driver's configuration. If OpenGL acceleration is available, it just leave to redirect the API commands to OpenGL. If OpenGL acceleration is not available on the system, TitaniumGL emulates it with hardware DirectX acceleration. TitaniumGL is also capable, to render your game with multicore cpu rendering. With TitaniumGL you can easilly maximalize the compatibility of your game engine. TitaniumGL comes with your game: no separate installation needed. You just only need to copy TitaniumGL to your application's .exe directory.

Why this is good?

FIRST CASE:
Currently, the most built-in drivers in Windows has no OpenGL acceleration, only D3D. Most end-users does not even know, what is a ,,driver'. With TitaniumGL, you can reach them easilly. Most of end-users are not informaticans, and cant install device drivers. They does not even know, what video card they have. If you want them to install some drivers to run your game, or just showing them strang error messages, they would get dissapointed about your software, and they will not use your software. Built-in windows drivers has Direct3D acceleration. Reach them easilly with TitaniumGL!

SECOND CASE: Some end users has very low-end and old VGA card (old integrated intel, Neomagic, old SiS, 3dlabs or S3 vga-s), and they does not even support OpenGL, or they are using newer operating system that does not contains OpenGL acceleration to it anymore (like some Intel IGP-s, etc...). Probably the power of these systems are enough to your game to run - TitaniumGL solves this issue.


TitaniumGL is developed carefully, a lot of games are tested with it: quake3, wolfenstein, quake2, xmoto, several scene demos, several indi-games...

TitaniumGL offers the folowing driver quality in d3d (and even in soft-rendering mode):

Vendor: LegendgrafiX
Version: 1.4 v2009-2010/05/08 ©Kovacs Gergo
Renderer: TitaniumGL/4 THREADs/6x86 | http://LegendgrafiX.tk

GL_ARB_multitexture
GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar
GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix
GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
GL_EXT_abgr
GL_EXT_bgr
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine
GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_bgra
GL_EXT_blend_logic_op
GL_EXT_cmyka
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements
GL_EXT_generate_mipmap
GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays
GL_EXT_rescale_normal
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine
GL_EXT_texture_object
GL_EXT_vertex_array
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap
WGL_ARB_extensions_string
WGL_EXT_extension_string
WGL_EXT_extensions_string
WGL_EXT_swap_control
GL_EXT_texture_env_add

more informations can be found on webpage:
http://TitaniumGL.tk

some screenshots:
http://legend.uw.hu/...L/gal2/wolf.jpg
http://legend.uw.hu/...GL/gal2/hl1.jpg
http://legend.uw.hu/.../gal2/alice.jpg

price is 11 EUR

(trial version can downloaded from webpage. use download manager!)


Greetings!

[/rant/]

While I greatly appreciate the concept behind your work, I think it is worthwhile mentioning that virtually none of the end-users who actually play games are using the built-in drivers of Windows. The majority will be using their video card manufacturers' (AMD, NVidia, ...) drivers - which of course provide full OpenGL acceleration, and in newer versions of Windows, will be downloaded automatically using Windows Update. Your First Case is therefore not nearly as important as it seems to be...

Btw, what's up with that spam?

[Nick]

/rant/ said:

I think it is worthwhile mentioning that virtually none of the end-users who actually play games are using the built-in drivers of Windows.

That's not quite correct. There's a huge market for casual gaming, but almost none of those people have even the slightest idea what a driver is let alone how to update it properly. They simply want to run a game and expect it to work. If it doesn't run, they either never buy your stuff again, or your support team will have to spend half an hour trying to figure out the graphics card type, and assisting them to install the right driver.

This is one of the main reasons why Google decided to run WebGL on top of Direct3D 9, instead if OpenGL 2.0.

[imerso]

Nick, just out of curiosity, I took a look at the "people" tab over the Angle project, and I see people from Google, Chromium, and Transgaming.

I am guessing Transgaming has a nice dev contract (read: money) with Google for this project? What about Linux, are the Linux users supposed to have OpenGL running properly?

Not my business I know, just curious about that. =)

[Geri]

Oh thanks for the responses. About the compatibility, Nick and vrnunes alreday told the correct informations, so i will not repeat them.

Next release will mostly has bug fixes related to opengl lighting functions and some texture format fixes.

[Geri]

TitaniumGL for gamers has been released (its free).

If somebody want his game to optimised with the driver, or has bugs, contact me.

[carli]

Interesting point.

We have exactly those problems you're talking about.
ATIs OpenGL Drivers are really crappy, they do not support new GL extensions.

Does TitaniumGL wrap GLSL? (best would be with geometry shader..)

[Geri]

Game developers. Comrades. Friends.

,,TitaniumGL for gamers'' now has thousands of happy users, so:

If you got an OpenGL based game, that runs buggy with the driver (check the last free driver to check your game) or it maybee crashing for some reason, tell the problem to me. If you sending the bugreport to me, that will be good both of us, becouse:

-TitaniumGL users expanding, at the end of year, it will be probably 15.000 useres. So if your game software is compatible with TitaniumGL, you will be compatible with this lot of old vga cards. I can even put your game into a showcase on the site, where users can download it after a click that redirects to your website.

-I am also winning on the thing, becouse a software with big compatibility and less bugs results more users.

To download the gamer edition click here:
http://legend.uw.hu/...ree_2010_09.zip

To make a connection with me, its simpyest to pick me up on msn, so we can rapidly ask the questions from each other: gerilegend -at- freemail -dot- hu
Maybee i will not recive/unable to reply if you send a mail to that address, so if you are possible, pick it up on msn. i also has skype: geri_lgfx

[Geri]

new version released:
-Extension added: GL_ARB_map_buffer_range
-Extension added: GL_OES_matrix_get
-Color buffer writemask support has been added
-Speed-up around matrix calculations
-Thread handle leaking fixed
-Strange protch has been fixed in windowed rendering
-Number of acessible TMU's incared from 3 to 4
-Added a bounch of missing texture formats, like 4_4_4_4, 10_10_10_2, etc...
-Added fixed-point support
-Added experimental OpenGL ES 1.x support and ES context creation
-glPushAttrib was broken
-Fixed some bugs with Tuxracer
-Fixed some bugs in Tuxkart
-Default variables around light handling was broken
-Fixed missing colors with porrasturvat
-Fixed crash with stepmania
-Some fixes around lighting and material handling
-Fixed display list drawing when texturing is disabled
-Improved multi-cpu support
-Added some missing parameters to glGet
-Added some missing caps to glIsEnabled
-Improved SEGFAULT protection in VBO data mapper
-Added multisampling support under linux
-Scissoring now affects clear
-Big data blocks can now processed on multiple cpu cores
-Default viewport is fixed with SDL's buggy window init
-A small speed improvement in vertex processing
-A matrix calculation bug fixed with some complex matrixes
-Direct access to Directx's Hardware T&L pipeline in some situations
-Texture loading time improved for big textures.
-Perspective vertex flickering fixed
-Around total 50-300% speed-up.

[Geri]

TitaniumGL for linux (32bit) has been released today.