Shapeshifter - getting direct mode to work with my Voodoo

[Angus]

Hi,

Can anybody offer advice on how I can get Shapeshifter to allow me to use a Direct graphics mode on my 1200 060 Mediator/Voodoo system.

I tried using the Cardtrick External Video Driver, but whenever I selected Direct, it failed to open a screen, and told me so.

I found an old article where somebody said the the p96 driver (which works) that comes with Shapeshifter DOES use Direct mode, but apparently there is some doubt about if this is actually correct.

Can anybody help?

Cheers.

[Angus]

I understand its not just a problem for Mediator/Voodoos....

Anybody?  

[Angus]

by motorollin on 2006/9/6 8:57:47

>>ISTR having the same problem. I'll check when I get home to see whether I resolved it. In the end I think I had to use Fusion though.

Thanks Moto, that would be very kind.

I used to do a bit of emulation with Shapeshifter and Fusion a few years ago, and on my AGA system it seemed easier to setup.   :-/

[Angus]

I'm not really the person to answer this but its something like Direct mode writes directly to the memory on your graphics card rather than using graphics.library and Amiga ram, thus speeding up the operation considerably.

....I think.    


There's some discussion about it here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Amiga-Mediator/messages/2301?viscount=100

[Angus]

>>P96 internal is by far the fastest; about 1.8 times compared to Quadra 605 in all tests.

That's some very useful data. Thanks a lot.

Moto, did you get a chance to revisit your config?

And do you use a Mediator? I can't seem to get Fusion to start at all since I've had mine.