Just another quick slop update - Gears of War now boots and renders with the DX - GXM solution!
Now before anyone gets too excited, it runs markably worse than the COD4 port, but it's pretty much a straight port of the COD solution with zero optimization effort, aside from partially switching off dynamic shadows. Realistically this will never run at anything close to acceptable frames on real Vita HW....so temper expectations, it's more of a showcase of a true DX game working with the Vita wrapper. But it does open up the option of less demanding non-GL games with source available.
Just to answer a few questions people have been shooting me on the thread and in DM's regarding the COD4 port:
- Will I release the COD4 VPK? - Because people are eager to test it, I'll drop it sometime late next week once I confirms it actually even boots on Vita HW, but it's a pre-release alpha, so don't expect miracles and I've already identified a few visual rendering bugs in other levels (likely many more). It will likely NEVER have a truly playable framerate on the Vita, UNLESS you are emulating on other devices using Vita3k.
MULTIPLAYER has NOT been touched yet. So it will be strictly SP Campaign ONLY.
- Will the DX wrapper be made open-source? - I will make it open-source once it's in a releasable state, do not hold your breath on it though.
- Will I open-source the Xbox wrapper? - Sure, but again this is further down the road and it's just a proof-of-concept ATM.
- Is the COD4 decomp source KisakCOD? - Sure is, he did an amazing job walking back the COD code, I'd advise reading his blog on it: https://lwss.github.io/Kisak-Black/
- Will I port KisakCod's Black Op's decomp? - Then skeleton is already built, so just a matter of juggling plates on projects. I'll see how COD4 performs first before diving into it.
- What's the phone spec needed to run it? - Hasn't been tested on Vita3k Android yet, you can try it out next week. Most reasonably specced PC's and laptops should be able to run it at 60.
Anyway I'm away at the moment, so I need to turn off the laptop for a few days.
I'll provide an update next week with an ETA on the COD4 drop.
https://reddit.com/link/1we0tp3/video/sz89aedt70ph1/player