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Re: Why does Warcraft 3 list the Nvidia TNT, Ati Rage 128, Voodoo3, Intel i810 as minimum spec cards but requires D3D8?

Some technical anecdote regarding a worse video card vs newer DX: Some of the screenshots in the PowerVR Fun Thread involve a "DirectX 3" 3d card (PCX2) running some DirectX7+ games. The card hasn't had seen drivers newer than May 1998 (just before the launch of DX6) so there's a lot of driver …

Re: What game are you playing now?

in Milliways
You need to play Real RTCW. It's RTCW, the way it was meant to be played. Critical helpful steam reviews say otherwise (i.e. drastically altering the gameplay balance neccessating the need for a 'classic mod'), which is a fair expectation of overambitious fan patches plugged around like the best …

Re: What game are you playing now?

in Milliways
Compression tweaks. There's no redbook (it's all Interplay ACM) Also available hard drives at the time (4gb-13gb~) absolutely could install the whole thing and is recommended to do so for multiplayer.

Re: Why does Warcraft 3 list the Nvidia TNT, Ati Rage 128, Voodoo3, Intel i810 as minimum spec cards but requires D3D8?

Half-life 2 was a D3D9 game, but its early versions could run even on a TNT. Half-Life 2 launched with a DX6.1 backend! Running it on cards like Kyro would get you that. Okay. It would be interesting to know what features of d3d8 were used for WC3 and what would be cut if a d3d7 or older card was …

Re: Q(uick)Basic Screen Modes

in Milliways
Before anyone on the internet finds this and mistakes it for an officially supported mode list (as the thread title currently implies), QBASIC only supports up to mode 13. There is no 5 or 6. The following table summarizes screen modes: ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄMDPA, CGA, Hercules, Olivetti, EGA, VGA, or MCGA …

Re: Dark Forces Remastered

in Milliways
i don't know if my heart is ready for Star Wars Dark Forces Special Edition Remaster'd Vader isn't as moving, and I think fullbright colors and weapon lighting aren't implemented yet

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