K4sum1 wrote: *

24 Dec 2022, 18:00

So I went and tested 6801 first as it's different, and found Intel drivers are black screen and AMD drivers are code 43.

K4sum1 wrote: *

24 Dec 2022, 20:12

So I went to 7000, and had both the weird font and pixelated blur issues on both AMD and Intel, however OGL, DX9, and DX11 work perfectly fine on heaven in my testing.

K4sum1 wrote: *

23 Dec 2022, 01:03

Back when I was friendly with win32 and co I heard from one or more of them that 7, when paired with a WDDM 1.1 driver and a capable card, uses DirectX 11 for Aero. I think they would know their shit. Could test with the AMD driver and deleting the DX11 dll on 7.

blueclouds8666 wrote: *

25 Dec 2022, 14:57

At the uncertainty of making a new thread or not, i'll be replying you here:

I have analyzed DWM's function calls and it does seem rendering is entirely comprised of D3D10.1 calls (namely D3D10CreateDevice1 for initialization, ID3D10Buffer::Map, ID3D10RenderTargetView::Release, ID3D10Texture2D::Release, ID3D10ShaderResourceView::Release for rendering & other related tasks). While i have observed a very few D3D11 calls, they seem to be used exclusively for checks, only done at the beginning and not used ever again after this initial phase of the compositing engine. I am also not aware of any kind of interoperability between DX10 and 11 that allows running ID3D10 functions inside a D3D11 context. (Likely) There is no 9Ex fallback mode on Win7, as it is probably not even needed. Direct3D10.1 can run on feature level 9_1 hardware providing the renderer code was programmed accordingly (not using hardware features not available in feature level 9_1), which this is the case, so it can run on the same hardware as Vista, providing the driver vendor wasn't lazy enough to forget to implement D3D10.1 on their WDDM drivers for their legacy GPUs (if i'm not mistaken, GeForce 5 FX WDDM drivers never implemented D3D10 so there is that (there is a chance those can only run aero under vista, unless something escapes my knowledge)(further research needed), intel probably neglected some of their older GPUs as well).

Vista also uses exclusively 9Ex. Tests with RivaTuner further confirm my findings (attached images).
Read the latest blog post at my website for all the technical details:
http://neonfloppy.sytes.net/blog/2022-12-25/

com.android.systemui wrote: *

25 Dec 2022, 06:44

K4sum1 wrote: *

24 Dec 2022, 20:12

So I went to 7000, and had both the weird font and pixelated blur issues on both AMD and Intel, however OGL, DX9, and DX11 work perfectly fine on heaven in my testing.

Can you open the Intel HD Graphics control panel, play mp4 videos on Windows Media Player (especially 1080p videos), and play Chess Titans?

K4sum1 wrote: *

25 Dec 2022, 17:01

com.android.systemui wrote: *

25 Dec 2022, 06:44

K4sum1 wrote: *

24 Dec 2022, 20:12

So I went to 7000, and had both the weird font and pixelated blur issues on both AMD and Intel, however OGL, DX9, and DX11 work perfectly fine on heaven in my testing.

Can you open the Intel HD Graphics control panel, play mp4 videos on Windows Media Player (especially 1080p videos), and play Chess Titans?

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K4sum1 wrote: *

28 Dec 2022, 22:07

Could try build 7000 d3d9, or maybe a slightly earlier build's d3d9 just to test with?

K4sum1 wrote: *

29 Dec 2022, 07:38

Seeing as how those are a bunch of 2 functions, you could probably remove the 2 and see if it works

• Open the Intel HD Graphics control panel

• Play video files using Windows Media Player

• Play Chess Titans by running the chess.exe file located in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Chess folder

• Use screen savers (except Ribbons, crashes with code 0xc00000fd)

• Play D3D9 casual games

• and other light 3D rendering activities that are done by the D3D9 API

• Use the Windows Aero theme

• Run DxDiag

• Perform D3D9 benchmarks

• Open Games from the Start menu (this might be a bug)

• Play D3D9 demanding games

• and other heavy 3D rendering activities that are done by the D3D9 API

• The video playback sometimes slowing down and not syncing with the audio in Windows Media Player if the video resolution is higher than 480p or if the Windows Media Player is maximized

• Windows Explorer crashes upon closing the Windows Photo Viewer

• Some fullscreen games don't revert the screen resolution when exiting fullscreen mode, going to desktop by pressing Windows logo key, or switching between windows. They only revert the screen resolution after quitting the game