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by ruthan
May 23rd, 2025, 7:43 pm
Forum: DXGL Bug reports and suggestions.
Topic: Any chance to support Windows NT4 for retro gaming, its limited to DirectX3/5, OpenGL is working fine?
Replies: 15
Views: 162450

Re: Any chance to support Windows NT4 for retro gaming, its limited to DirectX3/5, OpenGL is working fine?

What problem you have exactly? Are older drivers working fine?
You can always ask here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=103915
Virtualization is not great for NT4, i mean not real 3D drivers written and there are some successful reports for old mesa - there are links for details in thread ...
by ruthan
May 17th, 2025, 8:41 am
Forum: DXGL Bug reports and suggestions.
Topic: Any chance to support Windows NT4 for retro gaming, its limited to DirectX3/5, OpenGL is working fine?
Replies: 15
Views: 162450

Re: Any chance to support Windows NT4 for retro gaming, its limited to DirectX3/5, OpenGL is working fine?

Great thanks a lot, could you confirm that OpenGL 2.0, is working with Geforce 6200 and NT4? Because one thing could be drivers claims and second reality, i had not time to test it yet.

BTW i found the great tool to diagnose OpenGL on NT4 and other more modern operation systems Glview - https ...
by ruthan
May 12th, 2025, 9:36 am
Forum: DXGL Bug reports and suggestions.
Topic: Any chance to support Windows NT4 for retro gaming, its limited to DirectX3/5, OpenGL is working fine?
Replies: 15
Views: 162450

Re: Any chance to support Windows NT4 for retro gaming, its limited to DirectX3/5, OpenGL is working fine?

Every improvement count, if you will make it working with OpenGL 2.0, maybe other developer could help with OpenGL 2 to 1.x downgrading.
by ruthan
May 3rd, 2025, 11:06 pm
Forum: DXGL Bug reports and suggestions.
Topic: Any chance to support Windows NT4 for retro gaming, its limited to DirectX3/5, OpenGL is working fine?
Replies: 15
Views: 162450

Re: Any chance to support Windows NT4 for retro gaming, its limited to DirectX3/5, OpenGL is working fine?

Its great that its pure C++ not, .NET it would make things easier.

OpenGL support is fine on NT, its first Microsoft to support it, only difference is that beside standard ICD OpenGL driver model, its supporting MCD driver model which used for first OpenGL card, where part of functions could be ...
by ruthan
April 18th, 2025, 9:32 pm
Forum: DXGL Bug reports and suggestions.
Topic: Any chance to support Windows NT4 for retro gaming, its limited to DirectX3/5, OpenGL is working fine?
Replies: 15
Views: 162450

Re: Any chance to support Windows NT4 for retro gaming, its limited to DirectX3/5, OpenGL is working fine?

Thanks for reply.
Im just occasional coder so it say you much details, but Visual studio version should not be issue, through project settings, downgrading .Net version i managed to run some of my programs written in VS2010 or VS 2012 on Windows 98 fine. VS 2002 is the first with .Net support.
Im ...
by ruthan
April 12th, 2025, 3:19 pm
Forum: DXGL Bug reports and suggestions.
Topic: Any chance to support Windows NT4 for retro gaming, its limited to DirectX3/5, OpenGL is working fine?
Replies: 15
Views: 162450

Any chance to support Windows NT4 for retro gaming, its limited to DirectX3/5, OpenGL is working fine?

Hi,
any change to support WinNT4?
Im asking because Windows NT4, is the last retro gaming unconquered land.. and its supporting only Direct3D 3 officially and Direct3D 5 somehow unofficially. So make Direct3D to OpenGL wrapper to work would be big thing.

As i checked DXGL description is OpenGL 2 ...