msxyz
06-01-07, 01:25 PM
Hi guys,
These days I'm busy gravedigging some old tech demos for old hardware.
I've come across a few demos made for the Kyro II cards they won't start on anything else giving me the error "This demo runs only on Kyro cards",
Since these demos appear to be based on plain DirectX it seems it's just a case of the program performing an DeviceID check. Doaes anybody want to give them a try and see if it can run them ?
http://www.hwsw.hu/letoltes3.php3?path=/old/kyro/Techdemos
The topmost demos are really old and will run on any card supporting embm, dot3 and multitextureing (some demos will require a card capable of applying up to 8 textures in a single pass (!) which was a distinctive feature of the PowerVR architecture since the days of the Dreamcast) but the last were released around 2001-2002 for the ill fated Kyro II-Se
I recall having seen the demo "Kyroenergy" in action and it was really cool. Too bad it won't work on my GF card for the said problem.
These days I'm busy gravedigging some old tech demos for old hardware.
I've come across a few demos made for the Kyro II cards they won't start on anything else giving me the error "This demo runs only on Kyro cards",
Since these demos appear to be based on plain DirectX it seems it's just a case of the program performing an DeviceID check. Doaes anybody want to give them a try and see if it can run them ?
http://www.hwsw.hu/letoltes3.php3?path=/old/kyro/Techdemos
The topmost demos are really old and will run on any card supporting embm, dot3 and multitextureing (some demos will require a card capable of applying up to 8 textures in a single pass (!) which was a distinctive feature of the PowerVR architecture since the days of the Dreamcast) but the last were released around 2001-2002 for the ill fated Kyro II-Se
I recall having seen the demo "Kyroenergy" in action and it was really cool. Too bad it won't work on my GF card for the said problem.