Can't Run Dawn Demo with 3.7?

I haven't been constantly checking whether the nvidia Dawn demo was still
able to run with each update to the catalyst driver, but all I do know for
sure is that I was able to run it before with the opengl wrapper that allows
it to be executed on an ATI card. But I can't run it now, and the wrapper
is still in the Dawn\bin folder with the executable. I recently upgraded to
catalyst 3.7 and have a Radeon 9700 Pro card. Does anyone else have this
problem now with the 3.7 driver?

"Porcupuff" <> wrote in message
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> I haven't been constantly checking whether the nvidia Dawn demo was still
> able to run with each update to the catalyst driver, but all I do know for
> sure is that I was able to run it before with the opengl wrapper that
allows
> it to be executed on an ATI card. But I can't run it now, and the wrapper
> is still in the Dawn\bin folder with the executable. I recently upgraded
to
> catalyst 3.7 and have a Radeon 9700 Pro card. Does anyone else have this
> problem now with the 3.7 driver?
>
Yes. I never ran it before 3.7 anyway, but I can't run it either, tried both
wrappers....

Porcupuff said...
> I haven't been constantly checking whether the nvidia Dawn demo was still
> able to run with each update to the catalyst driver, but all I do know for
> sure is that I was able to run it before with the opengl wrapper that allows
> it to be executed on an ATI card. But I can't run it now, and the wrapper
> is still in the Dawn\bin folder with the executable. I recently upgraded to
> catalyst 3.7 and have a Radeon 9700 Pro card. Does anyone else have this
> problem now with the 3.7 driver?

Yep. It ran fine with Cat3.6, but won't run with 3.7.

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"methylenedioxy" <methylenedioxy@*thecork*ntlworld.com> wrote
in news:V6J8b.1494$:

>
> "Porcupuff" <> wrote in message
> news:5VI8b.183785$ .net...
>> I haven't been constantly checking whether the nvidia Dawn
>> demo was still able to run with each update to the
>> catalyst driver, but all I do know for sure is that I was
>> able to run it before with the opengl wrapper that
> allows
>> it to be executed on an ATI card. But I can't run it now,
>> and the wrapper is still in the Dawn\bin folder with the
>> executable. I recently upgraded
> to
>> catalyst 3.7 and have a Radeon 9700 Pro card. Does anyone
>> else have this problem now with the 3.7 driver?
>>
> Yes. I never ran it before 3.7 anyway, but I can't run it
> either, tried both wrappers....
>
>


As posted by Bob Knowlden in a previous thread, this link'll
sort you out.

http://tinyurl.com/n95w

Quick summary is ATI have removed a certain functionality
from their drivers, copying the relevant dll from an old
release to the dawn bin folder will sort it. There's a link
to the file in the forum thread.

"Lithurge" <> wrote in message
news:Xns93F5C9FACF551xasd23dsf@130.133.1.4...
> "methylenedioxy" <methylenedioxy@*thecork*ntlworld.com> wrote
> in news:V6J8b.1494$:
>
> >
> > "Porcupuff" <> wrote in message
> > news:5VI8b.183785$ .net...
> >> I haven't been constantly checking whether the nvidia Dawn
> >> demo was still able to run with each update to the
> >> catalyst driver, but all I do know for sure is that I was
> >> able to run it before with the opengl wrapper that
> > allows
> >> it to be executed on an ATI card. But I can't run it now,
> >> and the wrapper is still in the Dawn\bin folder with the
> >> executable. I recently upgraded
> > to
> >> catalyst 3.7 and have a Radeon 9700 Pro card. Does anyone
> >> else have this problem now with the 3.7 driver?
> >>
> > Yes. I never ran it before 3.7 anyway, but I can't run it
> > either, tried both wrappers....
> >
> >
>
>
> As posted by Bob Knowlden in a previous thread, this link'll
> sort you out.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/n95w
>
> Quick summary is ATI have removed a certain functionality
> from their drivers, copying the relevant dll from an old
> release to the dawn bin folder will sort it. There's a link
> to the file in the forum thread.

Cheers, now running properly, although it is pretty crap compared to ati
flavourings......
If you lot are into demo's heres one of the best I have ever seen:
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=9450

"methylenedioxy" <methylenedioxy@*thecork*ntlworld.com> wrote
in news:7_K8b.933$:


> Cheers, now running properly, although it is pretty crap
> compared to ati flavourings......
> If you lot are into demo's heres one of the best I have
> ever seen: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=9450
>
>

To be fair ATI have yet to produce a 'human' skin texture demo
though. We have to turn to hacked NV ones for that

Can't fault the impressiveness of the chimp demo though for fur.

not true:
http://www2.ati.com/misc/demos/ATI-8...-Demo-v1.1.exe (its in the
Raedon 8000 area)



"Lithurge" <> wrote in message
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> "methylenedioxy" <methylenedioxy@*thecork*ntlworld.com> wrote
> in news:7_K8b.933$:
>
>
> > Cheers, now running properly, although it is pretty crap
> > compared to ati flavourings......
> > If you lot are into demo's heres one of the best I have
> > ever seen: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=9450
> >
> >
>
> To be fair ATI have yet to produce a 'human' skin texture demo
> though. We have to turn to hacked NV ones for that
>
> Can't fault the impressiveness of the chimp demo though for fur.

"Thomas GEORGE" <t_george_of_spam,@club-internet.fr> wrote in
news:3f63a333$0$20953$:

> not true:
> http://www2.ati.com/misc/demos/ATI-8...-Demo-v1.1.exe
> (its in the Raedon 8000 area)
>
Ok.

I'll rephrase it.

ATI haven't produced a human skin demo that will show off the
most recent hardware using DX9

I've even found some of the older demos won't work on the 9700
Pro, I'll have a go with this one, but suspect it won't look as
good as Dawn.

In article <7_K8b.933$>,
methylenedioxy <methylenedioxy@*thecork*ntlworld.com> writes
>If you lot are into demo's heres one of the best I have ever seen:
>http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=9450

Pretty though that one is, I still think *the* most impressive demo
produced is ATI's Pipe Dream.
--
Toby